Praying with Paul

Ephesians 4:17-21



Dear Father, righteous and holy God,
Help me never to be tempted to live as worldly people live: futile in their thinking - darkened in their understanding - alienated from you because of the ignorance within them - hard-hearted and calloused -given over to licentiousness - greedy to practice every kind of uncleanness.
I did not learn of a Christ like this! I learned of a righteous and holy Christ.
Help me ever to aspire to live as your holy people...

 

Ephesians 4:14-16



Dear Father, Giver of life and growth,
We bless you, Father, because what you want for each of us your children is that we may no longer remain immature children but become grown-up children, no longer tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of strange teachings, by the cunning of men with their crafty and deceitful schemes.
Thank you, Father, rather for calling us to speak the truth in love and to grow up in every way in him who is the...

 

Ephesians 4:1-4



Dear Father,
You have called me to your kingdom and glory! Help me to live a life worthy of the calling I have received from you.
Help me live the same life style that King Jesus lived. Let me live with humility and submission, with patience.
Help me to forbear others out of love for them.
Help me to be eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit.
Help me to be bound to my brothers and sisters in peace.
By Jesus' authority and in his name I boldly come to...

 

Ephesians 4:8-13




Dear Father, giver of lasting gifts,
Thank you for the gracious gifts bestowed by your Messiah on us when he descended into the depths for us and ascended into the heights to reign with you.
He gave us, his church, lasting gifts - apostles and prophets, evangelists, and shepherd/teachers for the equipment of the saints, for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ.
Thank you for these gifts given until we all attain the unity he intends...

 

Ephesians 4:5-7



Dear Father,
Thank you, Father, for the unity you have provided for us: the one body, the one Spirit, the one hope that belongs to our calling, the one Lord, the one faith, the one immersion - and the one God!
For you, our God, are the one and only God and Father of us all. You are above all and through all and in all!
Thank you, holy God, for the measure of grace that you have given to me that I should be part of your universal fellowship.
How gracious...

 

Ephesians 3:20-21



Dear Father, transcendent in knowledge and wisdom,
Grant that I may know the love of Christ, a love which surpasses knowledge, that I may be filled with the fullness which is yours.
Now to you, my God, who by the power at work within your people are able to do far more abundantly than all I can ask or even imagine - to you be glory in the congregation of your holy people and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.
In the name of...

 

Ephesians 3:14-19



Dear Father, transcendent in power and fullness,
I bow my knees before you, Father, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.
According to the riches of your glory strengthen me with your might in my innermost being, that Christ may dwell in my heart through the trust I have in him.
Root me and ground me in love so that I may have the power to comprehend - along with all your holy people - what is the breadth and length and height and...

 

Ephesians 3:1-13



Dear Father,
Thank you for all the prayers Paul prayed for the Christians whom he brought to you in his day and for those who came to you through their preaching.
Thank you for the impact that Paul has had on so many great churchmen through the ages.
Thank you for the pure waters that I, even I, have drunk from the well of his teaching.
Thank you, Father, for making provision to spread the Good News about Jesus over the whole earth, to every nation and...

 

Ephesians 3:9-12



Dear Father, who gives wisdom so generously,
How thankful I am that the congregation of your people has become the channel through which your multi-faceted and many-splendored wisdom will be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places. It thrills me to know that it was your purpose eternally to realize this in Christ Jesus my Lord.
Thank you that through him we have confident and bold access to you.
Help me, help all of your...

 

Ephesians 3:1-8



Dear Father,
Thank you for the great apostle Paul and for his life of magnificent service. I know that it was through your graciousness that he was called. It demonstrated the working of your great power to turn a human life from rebellion to obedience.
Thank you for such a man, who could count himself as the very least of all your people. Thank you for such humility. He boasted not of himself but of you! My Father, let me imitate him completely in this...