Praying with Paul

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 act...

 

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 is my...

 

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 who is my...

 

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...

 

2 Corinthians 11:6-10​

Dear Father, whose power is made perfect in weakness,
Even though certain things are true, keep me from saying them if they would not be received in the right way-if people would think me out of place, perhaps mad, or if they might think more of me than I deserve. Sometimes there are things that I want, but one thing you have taught: Your grace is sufficient for me. Your power is made perfect in weakness.
Help me therefore to boast in my weaknesses, that...

 

2 Corinthians 11:16-21​

Dear Father, to whom our pure devotion is due,
When someone seeks to make slaves of us, to prey upon us, to take advantage of us, to put on airs, or to strike us in the face, help us know that such a person does not represent you. For your emissaries don't do such things.
Help us look to the examples of Paul, Peter, John, Barnabas, and others like them, who submitted themselves as servants. Help us be like them.
In the name of Jesus, our greatest example...

 

2 Corinthians 11:1-15​

Dear Father, to whom our pure devotion is due,
Thank you for the divine jealousy that Christ feels for us, his church. How wonderful to know that we have been betrothed to him as a bride to her one husband. We wait with longing for the great wedding celebration that is to come.
Help us not to be like Adam's bride, Eve, and be led astray by Satan's cunning. Help us have a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
Help us avoid false apostles, deceitful workers...

 

2 Corinthians 10:15-18​

Dear Father,
Let me have pride in what I do, not in claiming someone else's work. Grant me to be active for you in new endeavors or new places, not boasting of work done in another person's field.
Father, increase my faith, so that the sphere of the influence of your Good News may be greatly enlarged through me and passed on even to other lands. Let me boast, not of what I do, but of what you do through me. "Let him who boasts boast of the Lord."
What I...

 

2 Corinthians 10:7-14​

Dear Father, source of our joy and our pride,
Sometimes we are blind. We don't see what is right before our eyes. Help us to look that we may see, listen that we may hear.
Thank you, Father, that Christ has purchased me and that I belong to him. Thank you for the authority I have in him to build others up. Never let me do anything that would tear down or destroy.
Help me to be entirely honest. Let what I say about others in their absence be the same as I...

 

2 Corinthians 10:1-6​

Dear Father, teacher of spiritual soldiers,
Thank you for the example of the meekness and gentleness of Christ. If I must show boldness or be abrasive in any way, let it be for the good of others. Keep me from having the manners of the world or living at all in a worldly fashion. For though I live in the world, I am not carrying on a worldly war. The weapons of my warfare are not worldly but have divine power from you for destroying strongholds and...