Praying with Paul

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2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1

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Dear Father, worthy of my undivided loyalty,May I never be yoked to any person or organization that does not have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. For what partnership does righteousness have with iniquity? What fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? What agreement has your temple with the temple of idols?I am your temple, the temple of the living God! For you have said, \"I will live in them, and move among them...

 

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2 Corinthians 6:1-11

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Dear Father, blessed bestower of grace,As your servant I commend myself to you as your will may require: Through great endurance, if need be - afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, staying awake, hunger! Through goodness - purity, knowledge, forbearance, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love, and truthful speech. Through the power of God - with weapons of righteousness for the right hand and the left. In...

 

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2 Corinthians 6:1-11

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Dear Father, blessed bestower of grace,Let me work together with you to entreat people not to reject or ignore your offer of grace, or to accept it in vain.Since today is the acceptable time, since today is the day of salvation, may I never-nor anything about me-be an obstacle in the way of someone else's acceptance.Let my mouth be open to all who will listen. Help my heart be as wide as all humanity.In the name of Jesus, whose compassion reached...

 

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2 Corinthians 4:16-5:21

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Dear Father, invisible but absolutely real,May I be compelled by the love of Christ, convinced that he died that I might no longer live for myself but for him, the one who died for me.So let me not regard Christ from a worldly point of view. I am in Christ. I am a new creation. The old has gone, the new has come!I am reconciled to you, my Father, through your Son Jesus. Thank you for what you did for me - through him!In the name of Jesus I...

 

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2 Corinthians 4:16-5:21

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Dear Father, invisible but absolutely real,Let me not lose heart. I know from your word that my light and momentary troubles are working for me an eternal weight of glory that far outweighs them all.Help me fix my eyes not on the things that are seen, but on the things that are unseen, for what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.Help me to live by faith and not by sight. I want to trust you completely.In the name of Jesus I...

 

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2 Corinthians 4:13-15

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Heavenly Father, giver of life and faith,Thank you for the spirit of grace which enables me to believe.May I have the same spirit of faith as he who wrote, \"I believed, and so I spoke.\" I believe too, and so let me speak!I believe (I know!) that you, the God who raised the Lord Jesus, will also raise me with Jesus and bring me into his presence.As your grace extends to more and more people may they pour out their thanksgiving - to your glory!In...

 

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2 Corinthians 4:7-12

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Dear Father, powerful sustainer,Thank you for putting your treasure in a cracked clay pot like me so that it will be evident that the treasure is from you, the transcendent and powerful God, and not from me, the container.Thank you for upholding all who serve you. When I am afflicted in every way, I am not crushed; when perplexed, I am not driven to despair; when persecuted, I am not forsaken; when struck down, I am not destroyed.Reveal your...

 

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2 Corinthians 4:1-6

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Dear Father, powerful sustainer,You have called me to minister your mercy to the world, so let me never lose heart or give up! May I renounce disgraceful, underhanded ways in all forms and refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with your word.Let me state truth plainly and thereby commend myself to every one's conscience in your sight. Even if the message of Good News is veiled to some, it is veiled only to those who are perishing! Open the eyes...

 

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2 Corinthians 3:17-18

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Dear Father, transformer of my life,Lord God, I thank you for your Spirit, for the Lord, and for the freedom I have in them. Thank you that I, with unveiled face, can look freely and intently on the glory of the Lord, and be changed into his likeness, from one degree of glory to another.Help me remember that such transformation comes, not by my inherent wisdom or efforts, but only from the Lord who is the Spirit.Make me like Jesus! Help me want...

 

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2 Corinthians 3:7-16

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Dear Father,What a glorious splendor Christ's gospel has! It is a dispensation of glory! And why shouldn't the dispensation of the Spirit be attended with greater splendor than that of the letter! How much more splendid than the temporary glory of Moses is the permanent, new covenant, the dispensation of righteousness through faith by your grace!I am so full of hope because of what you have done! I have such boldness!For in Christ the veil of...