Ephesians 3:20 Meaning — Exceeding Abundantly Above All We Ask

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. Ephesians 3:20 stretches our sense of what God can do until it nearly breaks.

Watch the escalation. God is able to do above all we ask. More than that, above all we ask or think. More still, abundantly above. And Paul piles on one final word: exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. It is language straining to describe a God bigger than our biggest prayers.

And this power is not distant but at work in us. The God who can do far more than we imagine is already active within his people. When our prayers feel small, this verse reminds us that the limit is never his ability — so we can ask, and think, and expect greatly.