Praying with Paul

Galatians 2:11-21



Dear Father,
Help us understand that in Christ we are dead to law; we have been crucified with Christ so that we might live unto you.
Let Christ live within me. Let the life that I now live in the flesh be a life that I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Don't ever let me believe anything, espouse anything, do anything that might nullify your grace or imply that Christ died in vain.
Let me today, this day, and every...

 

Galatians 2:11-21



Dear Father, peacemaker among brethren,
When good people within your church find themselves differing on issues, may we take comfort in knowing that even Peter and Paul had their differences.
Help us, like them, follow a path of integrity, confronting each other in a spirit of love. Help us, like them, be willing to admit when we are wrong.
We are human; we need your help, guidance, and grace to overcome our lack of goodness and good judgment.
Instill...

 

Galatians 1:16-2:10



Dear Father,
Today, Father, may the Lord Jesus meet us on our Damascus Road. May he disclose himself to us for who he is, the Lord of Glory. May he disclose to us the mission which he wants us to carry out as we seek to live for him. May we defend the purity of his gospel, that we are freely justified by his grace through faith apart from works of law. May we defend the liberty that your children have in Christ. May we never for one moment submit to...

 

Galatians 1:16-2:10



Dear Father,
Thank you for calling Saul of Tarsus to be your apostle to the non-Jews, and for making him known to us with his new name, Paul. Thank you for revealing to him that righteousness comes by your grace through faith without works of law and that we who are not Jews can become members of the household of faith without assuming the yoke of the law.
Thank you for the integrity and courage Paul showed in defending this position in the early...

 

Galatians 1:1-16



Dear Father,
Thank you that the revelation given through your apostles was not concocted by human minds. May I never turn to "another" gospel nor to a distortion of your gospel. May I never desert the grace of Christ and become accursed. And may I never seek the favor of men. I desire your favor. I want to be your servant, to please you and you alone.
Grant that I may understand the revelation you gave through Paul - of salvation by grace through faith...

 

2 Corinthians 12:11-13:4



Dear Father,
Help me to gladly spend and be spent for my brothers and sisters in Christ. Help me not to burden them nor to seek what is theirs, but rather to carry their burdens and to give them what is mine. Help me to do everything for their upbuilding.
Remove all quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit and disorder from your people, that there be no cause for mourning in your church.
Help us all to seek truth and to...

 

2 Corinthians 13:5-14



Dear Father, God of love and peace,
Help me to examine myself, to test myself, to see whether I am holding to my faith. Help me to realize that Jesus Christ is in me - unless I should fail the test.
Help me not to do anything wrong, to do nothing against the truth. Help me stand for Christ and for what is right and true.
Let my life - my attitude and my deeds - show constant improvement. Help me mend my ways, agree with my fellow believers, and live...

 

2 Corinthians 12:9-10



Dear Father,
Your grace is sufficient for me. Your power is made perfect in weakness.
When I am weak, Christ's power can assist, shine through, lift me up. Please let this happen!
For Christ's sake help me to be content with whatever you let come my way - weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities - for when I am weak, then I am strong!
Let me be strong with your strength even when beset by my own weaknesses.
In the name of him who...

 

2 Corinthians 12:1-10



Dear Father,
Put your hand over my mouth to keep me from boasting about myself. Even if I were to have visions and revelations about you or to be caught up to Paradise and hear things too sacred to be told, let me boast only of my weaknesses.
If you limit me, inflict pain on me, cause me to struggle and cry out for relief, let me come back to trusting you.
Your grace is sufficient for me. Your power is made perfect in weakness.
In the name of him...

 

2 Corinthians 11:29-31



Dear Father, almighty God,
"Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant? If I must boast, I will boast of the things which show my weakness."
My God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, blessed one, ever-living, bear witness to the truth that you are teaching me. Thank you for showing me that my finiteness, my weakness, is part of your will. You have graciously set limits around me, so that I must depend on you. Isn't...