Week 8. Monday: No Longer PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: Ephesians 4:17-18 17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. UNDERSTAND: get a deeper understanding of the key words Insist (Greek: martyromai): to a

Week 7. Saturday: Prepare for Sunday REVIEW: Take a few minutes to make a list of what you’ve learned this week. PRAY: Ask God to use this time to help you get familiar with Sunday’s scripture passage. READ: Ephesians 4:17-32 17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in

Week 7. Friday: Growth in Every Way PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: Ephesians 4:15-16 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. UNDERSTAND: get a deeper understanding of the key words Speaking the Truth in Love (Greek

Thursday: No Longer Infants PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: Ephesians 4:14 14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. UNDERSTAND: get a deeper understanding of the key words Infants (Greek: nēpios): a metaphor for being childish, untaught, unstable Paul said the Corinthians were worldly and childish (1

Wednesday: Serving Others PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: Ephesians 4:11-13 11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. UNDERSTAND: get a deeper understanding of

Week 7. Tuesday: Complete Unity PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: Ephesians 4:4-10 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 7 But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. 8 This is why it says: “When he ascended on high, he took many captives and gave gifts to his people.” 9

Week 7. Monday: Live Worthy of Your Calling PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: Ephesians 4:1-3 1 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. UNDERSTAND: get a deeper understanding of the key words Live a Life Worthy (Greek: peripateō axiōs): to

Week 6. Saturday: Prepare for Sunday REVIEW: Take a few minutes to make a list of what you’ve learned this week. PRAY: Ask God to use this time to help you get familiar with Sunday’s scripture passage. READ: Ephesians 4:1-16 1 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond

Week 6. Friday: More Than You Think PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: Ephesians 3:20-21 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. UNDERSTAND: get a deeper understanding of the key words Able (Greek: dynamai): perfectly able, beyond able Immeasurably More (Greek: hypere

Week 6. Thursday: The Fullness of God’s Love PRAY: Ask God to speak to you from His Word. READ: Ephesians 3:18-19 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. UNDERSTAND: get a deeper understanding of the key words Power (Greek: exischyō): to have full strength, to be eminently