Praying with Paul

PassageRomans 6:1-5

PrayerDear Father, God of grace,Shall I continue in sin that grace may abound? Never, never, never! May I never presume that being under grace is a license to sin.How can I live in sin when, through baptism into Christ, I have died to sin? If I have been baptized into his death, should I not walk in newness of life, even as Christ did when he was raised from the dead by your glory? If I have died with Christ, I will also live with him.Thank you for the confidence...

 

PassageRomans 5:18-24

PrayerDear Father, bestower of eternal life,How amazing that, even though one man's disobedience leads to condemnation, the obedience of Jesus acquits us, makes us righteous and leads to life!Thank you that, whereas law increased the trespass, your grace abounded all the more! Sin reigned in death, but your grace reigned through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.Thank you, Father in heaven. Thank you, thank you, thank you! In the...

 

PassageRomans 5:12-17

PrayerDear Father, creator of good and righter of wrongs,You created a good and wonderful environment for mankind. But for our first mother and father it was not enough. Sin came into the world through them, and death through sin, and so death spread to all, because all sinned.Your free gift was not like the trespass. It was greater! If many died through one man's trespass, how much more will your grace abound! How much more will that free gift abound for the...

 

PassageRomans 5:6-11

PrayerDear Father, gracious God,Thank you, dear Father, that while we were helpless, Christ our Savior died for the ungodly. You showed your love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ your Son died for us.Since therefore we are justified by Christ's blood, much more shall we be saved by him from your wrath! For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to you by the death of your Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his...

 

PassageRomans 5:1-5

PrayerDear Father, giver of your Holy Spirit,Thank you for justifying me through faith, so that now I have peace with you through the Lord Jesus Christ.How grateful I am that I have access to your grace! I rejoice in the hope of sharing in your glory.More than that, my God, I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake. I know that suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character, and character produces hope.How I bless you for this wonderful hope that I have...

 

PassageRomans 4:22-25

PrayerDear Father, our Savior,Thank you for Abraham's example of a faith credited as righteousness. And thank you that these words are written not only for Abraham's sake, but for ours as well - that faith will be credited as righteousness to those who believe in you, the God who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was put to death for our misdeeds and was raised for our justification.Thank you for so wonderful a salvation, precious God.In the name of Jesus...

 

PassageRomans 4:17-21

PrayerDear Father, promise keeper,Thank you that Abraham's faith was held up for us to see. He became the father of us all because you said to him, \"I will make you the father of many nations.\"You are the God in whom he believed, hope against hope, that he would become the father of many nations, as he had been told, \"Your descendants shall be as numerous as the stars, and like grains of sand on the beach.\"You are the God who gives life to the dead and calls...

 

PassageRomans 4:13-16

PrayerDear Father, father of the faithful,Thank you for the marvelous promise made to Abraham and his seed, that they should inherit the world. Thank you that it depends on faith, so that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only those who are adherents of the law but to everyone who shares the faith of Abraham, who is father of us all. Praise be to you, beneficent God, that I can be a descendant of Abraham, not by being...

 

PassageRomans 4:6-12

PrayerDear Father,Thank you that the words your servant David spoke apply to us: \"Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him\" (Psalm 32:1-2).Thank you that you blessed Abraham before he was circumcised, (while he was a Gentile!) so he could be the father of all who believe. Thank you that he is the father not only of those who are circumcised but of those who...

 

PassageRomans 4:1-5

PrayerDear Father, friend of Abraham,Thank you for the wonderful relationship you established with Abraham. Through him you have blessed the world. Through that relationship you have blessed me. Thank you, Lord, that through it you will bring even more blessings, now and for ever.Thank you that Abraham's relationship to you was not something he earned; it came because \"Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.\"To one who works, wages are...