What blessings does Paul connect with Christ?

Writing as an apostle of Jesus Christ by the sovereign will of God, Saint Paul greets the holy and faithful believers residing in Ephesus with apostolic blessings of divine grace and peace. He opens his epistle with an exalted hymn of praise to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has showered believers with spiritual blessings within the heavenly realms through Christ. Before the very foundation of the cosmos was laid, God chose His people in Christ so that they might live holy and unblemished before Him in love. According to the benevolent design of His divine will, the Father predestined believers for adoption as His true children through Jesus Christ, all to the praise of His glorious grace with which He graciously favored them in His beloved Son. In this divine Savior, believers possess redemption through His sacrificial blood, receiving the complete forgiveness of their sins in accordance with the boundless riches of His grace, which has superabounded toward them in all heavenly wisdom and prudence. God has revealed the once-hidden mystery of His sovereign purpose, purposed in him: that when the fullness of the appointed times arrived, all created reality in heaven and upon earth would be reunited and recapitulated under Christ as the supreme head. Within this divine design, believers have been designated as God's heritage, predestined according to the purpose of Him who accomplishes all things in conformity with His sovereign counsel, so that those who first placed their hope in Christ might exist to the praise of His glory. The recipients, having heard the truthful message of salvation and believed in Christ, were marked with the promised Holy Spirit as a sign, who serves as the pledge of their eternal inheritance until the final redemption of God's purchased possession, to the praise of His glorious majesty.

Having learned of the Ephesians' steadfast faith in the Lord Jesus and their generous charity toward all the saints, Paul offers unceasing thanksgiving, continually remembering them in his prayers. He petitions the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, to grant them an enlightened spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of Him. He prays that the spiritual eyes of their hearts may be illuminated so that they may comprehend the glorious hope to which He has summoned them, the magnificent riches of the inheritance He reserves among the saints, and the immeasurable greatness of His power operating within those who believe. This almighty power corresponds to the divine might that God deployed in raising Christ from the dead and enthroning Him at His right hand in the heavenly places. God exalted Christ far above every cosmic principality, sovereign authority, virtue and dominion, and every name named not only in the present temporal age but also in the world to come. Furthermore, the Father placed all created things in subjection beneath Christ's feet, appointing Him as supreme and undisputed head over the Church, which is his body and the fullness of him who is filled all in all. The edition allows heavenly things as an alternative to heavenly places, and explains acquisition as a purchased possession.