The Lord's Day Morning September 11, 2005 Ephesians 1:15-17 “Giving Thanks for Faith and Love” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one. We resume our study of this great letter together. We have said several times that almost the whole of Ephesians 1 is prayer: verses 3-14 constitute a single prayer of adoration to God in which Paul blesses God for who He is and what He has done for us; verses 15-23, the remainder of the chapter, constitute together a single prayer of intercession in which God reports to the Ephesians and to you and me what is the desire of his heart as a pastor, as a shepherd appointed by the Lord Jesus Christ, to happen in the hearts and lives of the congregation. In this prayer he prays…