Prayers for individual spiritual growth
Prayer from Ephesians 3:14-15
I bow down my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and my Father,
from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.
Prayer from Colossians 1:9-13
Father I pray in the name of Your Son Jesus that You will fill me with the full, deep and clear knowledge of Your will in all spiritual wisdom having a complete insight into the ways and purposes of You and be able to understand and discern the spiritual things so that I may walk (live and conduct myself) in a manner worthy of You, and to fully please You in everything. Please create in me a deep desire to please You in everything.
Help me to bear fruit in every good work and to steadily grow and increase in and by the knowledge of You with a fuller, deeper and clearer insight.
Father I pray that You will strengthen me with all power according to the might of Your glory, to exercise every kind of endurance and patience with joy, always giving thanks to You.
Father I thank You for qualifying and making me fit to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in the Light. I also thank You for delivering me and drawing me to Yourself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and for transferring me into the kingdom of Your beloved Son Jesus Christ.
Prayer from Ephesians 1:16-19
Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, I pray that You will grant me the spirt of wisdom and
revelation in the deep and intimate knowledge of You.
I pray that
You will enlighten my eyes of understanding to know and to understand the hope
to which You have called me and to know how rich is Your glorious inheritance
in the saints of which I am a part.
Father I
pray that I will be able to know and understand the immeasurable and unlimited
and surpassing greatness of Your power that is available in and for us who
believe which worked in Christ Jesus when You raised Him up from the dead.
Prayer from Ephesians 3:17-19
Father God,
I pray that You will grant me according to Your riches in glory that You will
strengthen me with might in my inner man through Your Holy Spirit and that
Christ may dwell in my heart through faith.
I pray that
I will be rooted, grounded and established in love and with all the saints I
will be able to understand what is the width and length and depth and height of
that love experiencing it and to know practically the love of Christ that
surpasses all knowledge that I may be filled with all fullness of You.
Father, I
praise You and give You glory for You are able to do exceedingly abundantly
above all that I ask or think or above all my desires and hope, according to
Your power that You work in me.
Prayer from Philippians 1:9-11
Father I
pray, that my love may abound still more and more in knowledge and in all
discernment, that I will be able to approve the things that are excellent,
that I may be sincere and without offense till the day of
Christ, being filled with the fruits of
righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and
praise of You.
Prayer from Colossians 2:6-7
Father I
pray that I will be able to walk in Christ rooted and built up in Him,
established in the faith and to abound in thanksgiving.
Prayer from Colossians 4:12
Father I
pray that I will be able to stand perfect and complete in all Your will
.
Prayer from James 1:5
Father God I
pray that You will grant me wisdom for I lack wisdom and I praise You are a God
who gives to all liberally and without reproach to those who ask You.
Prayer from 2 Corinthians 10:4-5
Father in
heaven, help me to pull down the strongholds, and to refute and cast down all
arguments and theories and reasonings and every
proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the true knowledge
of God and to bring every thought and purpose captive into the obedience of
Christ.
Prayer from Philippians 4:8
Father I pray that You will help me
to meditate, think and fix my eyes on whatever things are true, whatever
things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever
things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever
things are of good report, things of virtue and things that are
praiseworthy.
Prayer from Hebrews 13:20
Father of
peace who brought up Christ Jesus from the dead, I pray that You will equip me
in every good thing to do Your will, working in me to accomplish which is
pleasing in Your sight, through Jesus Christ. Let Your name be glorified
forever and ever.
Prayer from 3 John 1:1
Father God I
pray that I will prosper in all things and be in health, just as my soul
prospers.
Prayer
from Isaiah 11:2 and 2 Tim 1:7
Father I
pray in the name of Your Son Jesus that the Spirit of the Lord will rest upon
me, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might,
the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the
Lord, and the Spirit of power, and of love and of sound mind.
Prayer
from Isaiah 11:3
Father I
pray that I will be of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord and I will delight
in the fear of the Lord and I will not judge by what I see but according to
what You show me and I will not make any decisions by what I hear with my
natural ears but by what You tell me.
Prayer
from Isaiah 50:4,5
Father God I
pray in the name of Your Son Jesus that You will give me the tongue of the
learned that I shall know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary.
Awaken me morning by morning to hear as the learned. Open my ears to hear, eyes
to see and open my understanding. Give me grace not to be rebellious by to be
obedient, and not to turn away but to yield to You.