Colossians, two; and 2 Timothy, three references.

Dunamai To be able.  Ephesians, five references.

Philippians, one reference,

and three references in 2 Timothy.

Dunatos To be able.

One reference, namely, 2 Timothy 1:12.

In the prayer of Ephesians 1:15-19, we meet with a threefold petition:

firstly, that we `may know what is the hope of His calling'; secondly, what is

`the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints'; and thirdly, `what

is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the

working of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ'.  Here, we not only

have dunamis `power' but energeia `working', kratos and ischus `mighty power'.

This tremendous display of power, links the believer with the risen and ascended

Lord.  Paul prayed that he too may know `the power of His resurrection' (Phil.

3:10) and here, in Ephesians 3, this same mighty power is necessary if the

prayer `that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith' is to be realized.

It is no light thing to entertain Royalty, what preparations are necessary

before the Mansions of the great are considered worthy.  What preparation

therefore must there be when the Lord Himself is expected to come and dwell with

such as we were by nature and are even now by grace:

The `inner man' is prepared `by His spirit'.

The `heart' is indwelt by Christ Himself, by faith.

We must not therefore stay too long, looking at the outside of the dwelling

place thus being prepared.  He is concerned mainly with that which is within

`The inner man'.  The outward man perishes, whether it be the body of the

believer or the unbeliever, but the inward man of the believer is renewed day by

day (2 Cor. 4:16).  This inward man, the apostle associates with the `mind'

(Rom. 7:22), and is somewhat the same as `the hidden man of the heart' of 1

Peter 3:4.  Only in the new man created (Eph. 4:24) or renewed (Col. 3:10), or

as the apostle puts it here in the central prayer `the heart' can Christ

conceivably dwell by faith.  This being the spiritual equivalent of the `temple'

of Ephesians 2:19-22 from which this prayer originates.  In the Revised text of

Ephesians 1:18 the word `understanding' is replaced by the word `heart'.  The

first prayer being that the eyes of the heart be enlightened.  Here in Ephesians

3:17, the second prayer desires that that heart become the dwelling place of

Christ.  Colossians supplements by saying, `Let the peace of God rule in your

hearts', or as the word literally means `act as umpire'.  From the moment of

faith, when a man believes in his heart (Rom. 10:9,10) and when the earnest of

the Spirit is given therein (2 Cor. 1:22), on to the gracious privilege of

saying Abba Father, by reason of the gift of the spirit of His Son in our hearts

(Gal. 4:6), we are led to this climax blessing `that Christ may dwell in your

hearts by faith'.  What of this term `dwell'?  This idea is expressed in the New

Testament by different words, oikos, a house, supplies one set of terms, meno

`to abide' and skenoo `to tabernacle or dwell in a tent' supply the other

aspects of the term.  Skenoo giving us skene `a tent', suggests a temporary

dwelling place, e.g. as we read of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob dwelling in tents

because they looked for the heavenly city.  Meno `to abide' stresses the idea of

staying, continuing or remaining, somewhat in contrast with skenoo which is

temporary.  The derivatives of oikos, translated `dwell' are oikeo, katoikeo and

enoikeo.  This word is used in Romans 7 and 8, of sin dwelling in the believer,

and of the spirit of God dwelling in the believer (Rom. 7:17,18,20; 8:9,11).  On