Praying with Paul

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...

 

Hebrews 2:14



Dear Father, King of all,
How full of grace you and your Son are for our sake! You let Jesus share in flesh and blood, partake of our nature, that he through his death might destroy the Devil, who held the power of death, and deliver us from lifelong bondage. Thank you for making Jesus so like us that he can now be a merciful and faithful high priest in our behalf, to make expiation for our sins. Thank you that, because he has suffered and has been tempted...

 

Hebrews 2:5-13



Dear Father, King of all,
Thank you for subjecting the world to come to our Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you that Jesus was willing for a time to be made lower than the angels and to taste death for every person, according to your grace.
Thank you for raising him up and crowning him with glory and honor because of his willingness to carry out your will.
I am so thankful that the Lord Jesus was willing to pioneer our salvation, thankful that he was made perfect...

 

Hebrews 2:1-4



Dear Father,
Help me to pay close attention to all of your teaching, lest I drift away from it. How shall I escape if I neglect so great a salvation?
Thank you for your message of hope. Thank you for the teaching of repentance and the kingdom that was proclaimed by the Lord himself and then passed on by his emissaries to the world, and then to my generation, then to me.
Thank you for the signs, wonders, miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit by which you...

 

Hebrews 1:1-14



Dear Father, father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Thank you for speaking through the prophets of old, bit by bit, in first one way, then another. Help me not to be slow of heart but to believe all they have said. Thank you most of all for speaking to us through your Son. You made him heir of all things and through him you created the world. We give glory to you because this one who shines forth with your glory and bears the very stamp of your nature. He...

 

Titus 3:4-15



Dear Father,
Thank you that your goodness and loving kindness have appeared. Thank you for saving me, not because of my righteous deeds, but in virtue of your own mercy, totally undeserved, by the washing of regeneration and the renewal of the Holy Spirit. You richly poured it out on me through Jesus Christ, my Savior.
Thank you for doing all this so that I might be justified by your grace and become an heir in hope of eternal life! Thank you that I can be...