SOME ADAPTED NEW TESTAMENT PRAYERS (NIV)
I pray that ____ will love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our strength and with all our mind; and love our neighbor as ourselves.
(adapted from Luke 10:27)
I pray that ____ will watch and pray so that we will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak. (adapted from Matthew 26:41)
I pray that all of us may be one, Father, just as You are in Christ and He is in You. May the Father and Son also be in ____ so that the world may believe that the Father has sent Jesus. He has given us the glory that you, Father, gave Jesus, that we may be one as You are one: Jesus in us and God in Jesus. May we be brought to complete unity to let the world know that God sent Jesus and has loved us even as the Father has loved the Son. (adapted from John 17:21-23)
Grace and peace to ____ from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank you, God, because of Your grace given us in Christ Jesus. For in You we have been enriched in every way--in all our speaking and in all our knowledge--because Christ’s testimony was confirmed in us. Therefore we do not lack any spiritual gift as we eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. You will keep us strong to the end, so that we will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. Father, you who have called us into fellowship with Your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, are faithful.
(adapted from 1 Corinthians 1:3-9)
I am asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give ____ the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so we may know Him better. I pray also that the eyes of our hearts may be enlightened in order that we may know the hope to which You have called us, the riches of Your glorious inheritance in the saints, and your incomparably great power for us who believe.
(adapted from Ephesians 1:17-19)
I pray that out of the Father’s glorious riches he may strengthen ____ with power through his Spirit in our beings, so that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith. And I pray that we, 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 we may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
(adapted from Ephesians 3:16-21)
And this is my prayer: that the love of ____ may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that we may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ--to the glory and praise of God. (adapted from Philippians 1:9-11)
Dear Father, please fill ____ with the knowledge of Your will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And I pray this in order that we may live lives worthy of You and may please You in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of You, being strengthened with all power according to Your glorious might so that we may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. (adapted from Colossians 1:9-12)
pray for ____, that our God may count us worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may fulfill every good purpose of ours and every act prompted by our faith. I pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in us, and we in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. (adapted from 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12)
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved ____ and by his grace has given us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage our hearts and strengthen us in every good deed and word. (adapted from 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
May the Lord direct ____ hearts into God's love and Christ's perseverance.
(adapted from 2 Thessalonians 3:5)
Now may the Lord of peace himself give ____ peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with each of us. (adapted from 2 Thessalonians 3:16)
May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip ____ with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. (adapted from Hebrews 13:20-21)
