Father, the ‘gift of God’ of this passage is multi-faceted and deep. It comes because of your mercy. It brings your great and unconditional love. It results, upon my acceptance by faith, in my salvation that makes me alive in Christ. It seats me with my Savior in the heavenly places so I may experience your immeasurable grace and blessing through Christ in me. You uphold me and help me walk in the good works You lay before me for your good pleasure. You bless me with your presence. You equip me with your wisdom. You bolster me by your steadfast love. I worship You in gratitude in the name and authority of Jesus, according to your good and perfect will, Father. Be glorified in the outcome. Amen.
“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2: 4-10 ESV)