PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH
Beloved Father, dwelling in the heavenly realms, may the glory of Your name be the center on which my life turns. Manifest Your kingdom realm, and cause Your every purpose to be fulfilled on earth, just as it is in heaven. I acknowledge you as my Provider of all I need each day. Forgive me the wrongs I have done as I forgive those who have wronged me. Rescue me every time I face tribulation and set me free from evil. For You are the King who rules with power and glory forever. Amen. [Matthew 6:9-13]
For God did not give me a spirit of fear. He gave me a spirit of power, love, and of a sound mind. [2 Timothy 1:7]
I always pray that the Father of glory, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would impart to me the riches of the Spirit of revelation to know Him through my deepening intimacy with Him. I pray that the light of God will illuminate the eyes of my imagination, flooding me with light, until I experience the full revelation of the hope of His calling that is, the wealth of God’s glorious inheritance that He finds in me, His holy one! I pray that I will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of God’s power made available through my faith. Then my life will be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through me! This is the mighty power that was released when God raised Christ from the dead and exalted Him to the place of highest honor and supreme authority in the heavenly realm! And now He is exalted as first above every ruler, authority, government, and realm of power in existence! He is gloriously enthroned over every name that is ever praised, not only in this age, but in the age that is coming! And He alone is the leader and source of everything needed in the Church. God has put everything beneath the authority of Jesus Christ and has given Him the highest rank above all others. And now we, His church, are His body on the earth and that which fills Him who is being filled by it! [Ephesians 1:17–23]
So, I kneel humbly in awe before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect Father of every child in heaven and on earth. And I pray that He would unveil within me the unlimited riches of His glory and favor until supernatural strength floods my innermost being with His divine might and explosive power. Then, by constantly using my faith, the Life of Christ will be released deep inside me, and the resting place of His love will become the very source and root of my life. Then I will be empowered to discover what every holy one experiences–the great magnitude of the astonishing love of Christ in all its dimensions. How deeply intimate and far–reaching is His love! How enduring and inclusive it is! Endless love beyond measurement that transcends our understanding–this extravagant love pours into me until I am filled to overflowing with the fullness of God! I never doubt God’s mighty power to work in me and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than my greatest request, my most unbelievable dream, and exceed my wildest imagination! He will outdo them all, for His miraculous power constantly energizes me. [Ephesians 3:14–20]
I pray that I may be filled with the full, deep, and clear knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom in comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God and in understanding and discernment of spiritual things. That I walk and live in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him and desiring to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and steadily growing and increasing in and by the knowledge of God with fuller, deeper, and clearer insight, acquaintance, and recognition. I pray that I may be invigorated and strengthened with all power according to the might of His glory, to exercise every kind of endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified and made me fit to share the portion which is the inheritance of the saints in the Light. The Father has delivered and drawn me to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred me into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in Whom I have redemption through His blood, which means the forgiveness of my sins. [Colossians 1:9–14]
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]
For my determined purpose is that I may know Him that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly, and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection which it exerts over believers, and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed in spirit into His likeness even to His death, in the hope that if possible I may attain to the spiritual and moral resurrection that lifts me out from among the dead even while in the body. Not that I have now attained this ideal, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus has laid hold of me and made me His own. I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own yet; but one thing I do it is my one aspiration: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the supreme and heavenly prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling me upward. [Philippians 3:10-14]
I am not anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, I present my requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard my heart and my mind in Christ Jesus. [Phil. 4:6–7]
I have an anointing from the Holy One, and I know all things. [1 John 2:20]
I am joyful in hope, patient in affliction, and faithful in prayer. [Romans 12:12]
I belong to God, and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world. [1 John 4:4]
In this union and fellowship with Him, love is completed and perfected, so I have confidence on the day of judgement, because as He is, so also am I in this world! [1 John 4:17]
I am strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. I put on the whole armor of God that I may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For my fight is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore, I take up the whole armor of God that I may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. I stand therefore, having my waist girded with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, having my feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace, and above all, taking the shield of faith, with which I will be able to extinguish all the fiery arrows of the evil one. I take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. With every prayer and petition, praying at all times in the Spirit. [Ephesians 6:10-18]
I have been raised to new life with Christ, I set my sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. I think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. For I died to this life, and my real life is hidden with Christ in God. [Colossians 3:1-3]