Praying with Paul

2 Corinthians 3:3-6​

Dear Father, all-sufficient God,
Let me be a letter from Christ written to people who need to hear the Good News, written not on paper with ink but on hearts with my loving attitudes and actions.
I claim no self-sufficiency, but I believe the sufficiency of your grace qualifies me to serve as a spokesman for your new covenant. I hope through Christ that you might use me this way. Grant me this sufficiency as I rely totally on you.
Thank you that the covenant...

 

2 Corinthians 2:17-3:3​

Dear Father,
Thank you, Father, that I am not just a peddler of your word, but that I am commissioned by you and that I speak in Christ.
Let everyone who comes to a knowledge of your will through what I teach be a living letter of recommendation, written on that person's heart, to be known and read by everyone.
Let that person be a letter from Christ to the world, delivered by me, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets...

 

2 Corinthians 2:14-16​

Dear Father,
Let the incense which is my life and my prayers arise as a sweet fragrance to you.
Thanks be to you, my God, that you always lead me in triumph, and through me, spread the fragrance of the knowledge of Christ everywhere. Thank you that you have appointed Christians to be the aroma of Christ to yourself among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. To the one we are a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance...

 

2 Corinthians 1:23-2:11​

Dear Father, God of forgiveness,
Father, help me, when someone sins, to encourage him or her to repent, then to forgive and comfort that person in your love.
Help all Christians to affirm such loving forgiveness and to comfort each other so that Satan will not gain the advantage over us, for we are not ignorant that his designs are that we should be unforgiving.
In the name of Jesus and in full confidence of salvation through him I ask all these things...

 

2 Corinthians 1:23-2:11​

Dear Father, giver of great joy,
I hope that in my effort to get others to live for you that I will never lord it over their faith.
Help me work with them for their joy. Let them stand firm in freedom in their faith.
Help my contacts with them not cause pain, but let my joy be their joy, and let their joy be my joy! Help us to work together in a common goal in the Lord. Help us work for each other's upbuilding in holiness.
In the name of Jesus and in...

 

2 Corinthians 1:20-22​

Dear Father,
Thank you, my God, that you utter Yes to me. You establish and affirm my very being through Christ, and not only me but all your elect people.
Thank you for putting your seal of approval on me and giving me your Holy Spirit in my heart as your guarantee.
Thank you for saying Yes to me! Yes in yourself, yes in Christ, yes through the Spirit!
Thank you, Father, thank you. How I love you! How I praise your name on earth in hope that I may someday...

 

2 Corinthians 1:12-20​

Amen! Yes! Abba, Dear Father,
Let me find pride in this - that my conscience testifies that I live my life in this world with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by your graciousness.
Help me not to vacillate as I make my plans. Don't let me be like those who are worldly, ready to say "Yes" and "No" at the same time, talking out of both sides of their mouth.
As surely as you, God, are faithful, let me act in good faith toward others...

 

2 Corinthians 1:3-11​

Dear Father, great and gentle one,
When I am utterly, unbearably crushed so that I despair of life itself, when I feel as if I have received the sentence of death, remind me that I am to rely not on myself but on you, the God who raises the dead.
It is only you who can deliver from deadly peril. I have set my hope on you. You deliver me again and again and again. How faithful you are!
I pray for my many brothers and sisters in Christ throughout the world...

 

2 Corinthians 1:3-11​

Dear Father, great and gentle one,
Blessed are you, God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. You are the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort.
You comfort us in our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort others who are in affliction with the same comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by you.
You enable us to know that as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we shall share abundantly in comfort too.
Thank you...

 

1 Corinthians 16:13-20​

Dear Father,
In watchfulness, may I stand firm in faith, be courageous, and be strong. Let everything I do be done in love. Help me to subject myself to those in your church who have devoted themselves to serving all the saints and to refreshing the spirits of your servants. May I be a true fellow worker and sincere laborer in your vineyard, always extending joyous greetings and sincere blessings to brothers and sisters in Christ.
Most of all, help me to...