Praying with Paul

Colossians 3:5-17​

Dear Father,
Help me put to death certain things in my life that are earthly - inward evils ranging from impurity to covetousness.
Most of all, may I be rid of covetousness, wanting the applause and possessions of this world, which is really idolatry.
May I extinguish all outward evil ranging from anger to slander and foul talk.
Keep me from everything that is false. Don't let a lie come to my mind or my lips.
In the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Ⓒ 1996-2020...

 

Colossians 3:3-4​

Dear Father,
My God, I know that I have died and that my life is hid with Christ. He holds the outcome of my life wholly in his hands; he is my life.
Grant that I may wait patiently yet expectantly, knowing that when he appears, I will also appear with him in glory.
Father, I thank you for this blessed hope. Let the joy of it fill my life every day as I sojourn here on this earth.
Let me put the things of this world in perspective through the victory that...

 

Colossians 2:20-3:2​

Dear Father,
Help me to realize that I have died and have been resurrected with Christ. Break the attachments of my old life and its bondage.
Don't let me live as if life were a matter of keeping regulations - don't touch, don't taste, don't handle - but let me live out of a deep sense of love and loyalty to my Savior.
Don't let me grasp for that which has merely an appearance of wisdom and which might make a show of religiosity but not really do anything to...

 

Colossians 2:13-19​

Dear Father,
Thank you for redeeming us. You took us out of deadness and gave us life. You made us alive together with Christ. You cancelled the debts that we owed you because of our sinfulness.
You disarmed the powers that work against us, triumphing over them in Christ for our sake.
How gracious and wonderful you are. To you we owe eternal praise.
Help us to withstand anyone who might seek to disqualify us, seeking to bind us to any principle of action at...

 

Colossians 2:10-12​

Dear Father,
Thank you, Father, that we have been joined with Christ in his life, death, and resurrection.
Make us realize that we put off the body of flesh in his circumcision, were buried with him in his baptism, and were raised with him in his resurrection.
Give us the faith to see your hand at work in all this and to see ourselves in what happened to him.
Help us to hold fast to Christ, who is our head, in whose name I pray. Amen.

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Ⓒ 1996-2020...

 

Colossians 2:4-7​

Dear Father, my rock,
Help me to think clearly with discernment. Keep me from being taken in by the beguiling speech of deceivers.
Give me great joy in manifesting good order in my conduct and being absolutely firm in my faith.
As I received Christ Jesus as the Lord, grant that I may live in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith.
Grant that I may do this with great praise and thanksgiving!
All praise, thanksgiving, honor, and glory to...

 

Colossians 2:1-3​

Dear Father, encourager,
Encourage our hearts and knit them together in love with the heart of Jesus and the hearts of every other child of yours!
Give us all the riches of knowing and understanding of what you had formerly kept secret, the Good News about Jesus Christ, for in him you have hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Give us firm assurance in him.
Whatever new dimension or unfolding of your grace that shall come, it will be, I am...

 

Colossians 1:28-29​

Dear Father, source of our energy,
We do hope in you because our Lord lives his life through us and blesses others through the genuine love which he gives.
Grant us to proclaim him, warning and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we can present people mature in Christ.
Grant that we may strive for this with all the energy which you mightily inspire within us.
All good things are from you. There is no blessing except by your grace. We live and rejoice...

 

Colossians 1:24-27​

Dear Father,
Help us have the attitude of Paul, who could rejoice in suffering for the sake of your body, the church, seeing his own suffering as an extension of Christ's suffering.
May the members of the body of Christ make your word fully known, the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations but is now made visible to your holy people.
How great among the nations is the wealth imparted to them by the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in us, the...

 

Colossians 1:23​

Dear Father,
Help me to continue in the faith by holding on to what you have given and by being stable and steadfast.
Don't let anything move me away from the hope of the Good News which I heard, which was proclaimed throughout the whole creation under heaven.
You make my endurance possible by filling me with your Spirit. Fill me more and more! And thank you for being my Father.
In the name of Jesus and by his authority I ask. Amen.

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Ⓒ 1996-2020...