Praying with Paul

Galatians 4:8-5:1​

Dear Father,
Keep us from turning back to any weak and beggarly things. Help us to live in the glorious freedom brought by the Son of God. Let Christ be born in our souls, even if through great travail. Let him be the reality of our lives, hour by hour and day by day.
Let us live as children of the free woman, the new Jerusalem which is above, not as children of the bondwoman. Make us the children of promise.
Since it was for freedom that Christ set us free...

 

Galatians 4:1-7​

Dear Father,
Thank you for delivering us from slavery and immaturity. Thank you for sending Jesus Christ at just the right time, in just the right way, that he might redeem those under the law, and that we might all receive the adoption as sons.
Thank you for sending the Spirit of your Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father," so that we are no longer slaves but sons.
In the name of Jesus I pray. Amen.

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Galatians 3:15-29​

Dear Father,
Thank you, Father, for giving your holy law to Moses and for the role it played in bringing people to Christ.
Thank you even more that Christ has come as our real teacher and that we have been delivered to him, that we might be justified by faith.
Thank you for making us your sons through faith, for making it possible to put on Christ by our baptism into Christ.
Thank you that in him there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female...

 

Galatians 3:1-14​

Dear Father,
Thank you for giving us your Spirit, not through works of law but through faith in our hearts. Even Abraham was saved by faith, for he believed you, and you counted it to him as righteousness.
Thank you that Christ actually became the curse so that he could redeem us from its power, that the blessing of Abraham might come upon all nations, Jews and non-Jews, and that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Make us ever aware of...

 

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 day of...

 

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 within...

 

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 programs...

 

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 church...

 

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 apart...

 

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 in...