Praying with Paul

Hebrews 10:26-39



Holy God, who has promised to return,
How foolish I would be to keep on sinning after coming to the knowledge of your truth. Give me the strength to forsake whatever sin I become aware of in my life. I submit myself to your examination and ask to see myself as you see me.
In the face of suffering or ridicule, I want to stand strong in truth, always aware that confidence and perseverence will be richly rewarded in the life to come.
May I not be among...

 

Hebrews 10:19-25



Dear Father,
Thank you for the confidence I can have to enter your sanctuary. May I draw near to you in faith, full of assurance, with my heart cleansed from a guilty conscience and with my body washed with pure water.
Grant that I may hold fast to the confession of my faith, without wavering, since I know that you, the one who promised, is faithful. May my enthusiastic expression of faith stir up fellow Christians to good works.
Let me not neglect...

 

Hebrews 8:1-13



Dear Father, the Majesty of heaven,
Thank you that in Jesus we have a totally understanding and merciful High Priest. He has your authority, seated at the right hand of the throne of your majesty in heaven, a minister in the sanctuary and true tabernacle which was set up by you, not men.
Thank you that the new covenant we have through him is superior to the old covenant in that it is written on our hearts and minds.
I want to know you, O God. I want to...

 

Hebrews 6:13-7:28



Dear Father, King above all rule and authority on earth,
Thank you for your holy and sure promises. Your oath is immutable. In these things in which it is impossible for you to prove false, we who have fled to you for refuge find strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us. Thank you for the sure and steadfast anchor you have given our lives, our hope that enters into the inner shrine behind the curtain.
There Jesus has gone as a forerunner on...

 

Hebrews 5:11-6:4, 9-12



Dear Father,
I am eager to be a good learner. I want to get beyond needing milk meant for babies. I want to digest the solid food of your word. I want to be skilled in righteousness, able to distinguish good from evil.
Let me move past the elementary teachings of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance. Help me to lay hold of those "better things" that belong to salvation.
Thank you, God, for remembering the work...

 

Hebrews 5:7-10



Dear Father, Eternal God,
Thank you for a high priestly Savior, who in the days of his flesh, offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to you who were able to save him from death.
Thank you that you heard him for his godly fear, but that you answered him by raising him from death, rather than saving him from dying. Otherwise we would have had no sacrifice for our sins.
Thank you for Jesus' sacrificial death. Thank you for his...

 

Hebrews 4:14-5:6



Dear Father, Eternal God,
Enable us to hold fast to our confession of Jesus as our great High Priest. We adore him, for even though he passed through the heavens to enter your sanctuary, he is able to sympathize with our weaknesses, because in flesh like ours he was tempted just as we are. But unlike us, he bore up under it without sinning. Through his victory, enable us to draw near to your throne of grace, in order that we may receive mercy and find...

 

Hebrews 4:13



Dear Father, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent,
Help me to follow your teachings and live my life according to your will even in unusual or seemingly unimportant circumstances. O Lord, from you nothing is hidden; all things are open and laid bare before your eyes, and to you we give an account of our actions.
Let my inmost thoughts and my most secret deeds, which you see and judge anyway, be done in righteous adherence to your teaching, and with a pure...

 

Hebrews 3:7-4:11



Dear Father,
I long to enter into your rest - into creative work that is effortless, into joyous activity in which there is no fatigue, into glorious praise of which I will not tire! Thank you for the Good News that there remains a Sabbath Rest for the people of God.
Keep me from being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. May I not focus on the glittering things of this world and lose sight of the glorious eternity that awaits me.
Let me not fall away...

 

Hebrews 3:1-6



Dear Father,
Keep my eyes focused on Jesus. Help me carefully consider him.
Let me see his faithfulness. Let me see his worthiness to be honored.
Let me see him as the apostle and high priest of my confession.
Let me see him as the one who has called me to a heavenly calling.
Let me see him as the very Son of God, faithful over God's household, and let me see myself as part of that household of faith, and let us hold fast our confidence and our pride in our...