If you’re like me, you sometimes struggle for the words to pray. One of the most powerful and personal ways to pray is to pray prayers from the Bible. We can express the depths of our hearts by personalizing the prayers of the Apostle Paul. Here are two of those prayers that Shirley and I have been praying together: Ephesians 1:15-23 and Ephesians 3:14-21.
Ephesians 1:15-23
Father of Infinite Glory,
We pray that You would give us the Spirit’s wisdom and revelation
so that we may know You better—more deeply, richly, and personally.
We pray that You would enlighten the eyes of our hearts:
in order that we may more fully know the future eternal heavenly blessed hope to which You have called me;
in order that we may more fully know the endless riches of Your glorious inheritance in the saints—all that we will forever enjoy as a joint-heirs with Jesus;
and in order that we may more fully know Your incomparably surpassing, exceeding, mega-great dynamic power for us who believe
—that working, energizing power is the same as the mighty infinite ruling and overcoming power—the working of Your mighty strength—that You exerted when You raised Christ from the dead
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