Prayer

Scriptural Prayer :
Spiritual growth
(one of five)

• God would work powerfully in ____'s  life and change _____.  1 Corinthians 3:6:  I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

• God would fill _____ with the knowledge of God's will so that he/she may live lives worthy of God that bear fruit.  Colossians 1:9-12:  For this reason since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding.  And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you will have great endurance and patience, and joyfully give thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.

• ______ would know God better.  Ephesians 1:18-19:  That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of reverence in the knowledge of Him.  I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe.

• ______ would delight in God's word and live a fruitful life.  Psalm 1:2:  But his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.  He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.  Whatever he does prospers.

• God would protect and sanctify ______.  I also pray that they will have intimacy with Jesus and live lives of unity with other believers.  John 17:15-17,20-21, 24:  I do not ask that Thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.  They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.  Sanctify them in the truth: Thy word is truth.  I do not ask in behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word: that they may all be one: even as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us: that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me.  Father, I desire that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with me where I am in order that they may behold my glory, which Thou hast given Me: for Thou didst love Me before the foundation of the world.

• That Christ may dwell in ______'s heart and that _____ would know the dimensions of God's love for them in Christ.  Ephesians 3:16-19:  I pray that out of His glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.  And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge- that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

• _____ would see that the study of God is the most meaningful pursuit in life.  Jeremiah 9:23-24:  Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom, or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these i delight.

The Word

• The Word of God will dwell richly in _____'s life.  Colossians 3:16-17:  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sings psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your heart to you to God.   And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

• _____ would build their life upon God and His Word.  Luke 6:49:  But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete."

• God's Word would have its way in _____'s life.  2 Timothy 3:16, 17:  All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

• ______ would correctly handle the Word of God.  2 Timothy 2:15:  Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

Perseverance in "Running The Race"

• _____ would run the race with perseverance.  Hebrews 12:1-3:  Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a cloud of witness, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and run with perseverance the race marked out for us.  Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.  Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, and that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

• _____ would continue on in the race toward maturity.  Philippians 3:12-15:  Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.  Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining towards what is ahead, I press on towards the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenwards in Christ Jesus.  All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.

• _____ would run the race to win.  1 Corinthians 9:24:  Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.

• _____ would not give up but keep walking in faith.  Galatians 6:9:  Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.