Praying with Paul

2 Timothy 4:9-22​

Dear Father,
Help me not to be in love with this present world. Enable me to live for the sake of your everlasting kingdom.
Help me come to the defense of those who are attacked wrongly or who need defending for your sake.
Stand by us, dear God, and give us the strength to live for you and to proclaim your word fully, as it deserves.
Rescue us from the lion's mouth. Rescue us from every evil and save us for your heavenly kingdom.
Be with our spirits. Grant...

 

2 Timothy 4:7-8​

Dear Father, warrior against evil,
Help me to fight the good fight. Help me to finish the race. Help me to keep the faith, so that I will receive the crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award me on that Day, and not to me only but to all who have loved his appearing.
Teach my arms to war. Teach my legs to run. Teach my lungs to pump air. Let me be a furious and fast warrior in your army of faith. Let me be absolutely immovable in the...

 

2 Timothy 4:1-8​

Dear Father, source of our strength,
Be with every disciple, especially with your preachers. May they be urgent in season and out of season. Empower them to convince, rebuke, and exhort. Help them to be unfailing in patience and persistent teaching.
Guide them all to be steady, to endure suffering, to do the work of evangelization, and to fulfil the ministries you have given them.
Let them all, and all of your people, so live that we can say with Paul, "I have...

 

2 Timothy 3:10-17​

Dear Father,
Help me adhere to right teaching, proper conduct, the right aim in life and faith. Help me hold on patience, love, and steadfastness, even when I am opposed and persecuted for doing so. When evil people and impostors go from bad to worse, keep me from giving up in the face of their persecution and opposition.
May I continue in what I have learned and firmly believe, knowing that your Word is able to instruct me for salvation through faith in...

 

2 Timothy 3:1-9​

Dear Father, Savior,
Undergird me with your grace during the days of stress that are present in these last times.
Keep me from going in the direction that people of the world are going. Don't let me be a lover of self, a lover of money, proud and arrogant, abusive, disobedient to parents. Don't let me be ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, a slanderer, profligate, fierce, a hater of good, treacherous, reckless. Don't let me be swollen with conceit, a lover...

 

2 Timothy 2:22-26​

Dear Father,
Help me to escape evil passions and to aim at righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with all who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.
Give me the wisdom to avoid stupid, senseless quarrels and controversies. Help me to be kind and forbearing toward everyone, teaching and correcting with gentleness any who may oppose your doctrine.
My God, grant those who are estranged from you in mind to be persuaded by the truth and turn in repentance...

 

2 Timothy 2:14-21​

Dear Father, firm foundation,
Help me to avoid disputes about words, which does no good, but merely ruins the hearers.
Help me do my best to present myself to you for your approval, a workman who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling your word of truth.
Your firm foundation stands sure, bearing a seal which says two things: "The Lord knows those who are his." "Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity."
You in your sovereign power...

 

2 Timothy 2:11-13​

Dear Father, ever faithful God,
Thank you for my Savior, Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, as preached in the gospel of your grace. Help me endure all things for the sake of that glorious message. May my words and deeds be a clear witness. May I endure everything for the sake of your elect, that they may obtain salvation and eternal glory.
Thank you that I have died with Christ and will also live with him. May I endure, so I might also reign with you. May I...

 

2 Timothy 2:8-13​

Dear Father,
Let my remembrance and my devotions be set upon Jesus Christ, a descendant of David according to the flesh but an heir of your riches according to his resurrection from the dead.
Let me obtain the salvation which in Jesus Christ goes with eternal glory.
Instill within me the meaning of your true saying: If we have died with him, we shall also live with him; if we endure, we shall also reign with him; if we deny him, he will also deny us; if we are...

 

2 Timothy 2:1-7​

Dear Father,
Make me strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. Help me pass your word on to others who also will share it.
Help me take my share of suffering as a good soldier of Christ. Help me avoid "civilian" entanglements that would dilute my loyal obedience to Christ, my commander.
Help me be a disciplined athlete for you. Help me to be a hard-working farmer who tills in your vineyard, patiently waiting for the harvest that comes from you.
In the name of...