Title: Is this A Prayer You Would Pray?
Text:
Philippians 1:9-11 (HCSB)
9 And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment,
10 so that you can approve the things that are superior and can be pure and blameless in the day of Christ,
11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that ⌊comes⌋ through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
Observation:
This is not only a prayer that I would pray for you, but it is a prayer that I desire that you would pray for me.
This prayer has two huge petitions. The first, in verse nine, is for a growing love. This love is agape love; the love that benefits others, and glorifies God. He prays that this love will be accompanied by growth in knowledge and discernment.
The second petition, in verse ten, is a request for a growing Christlike character. O how I cherish the blessing of being pure and blameless in the eyes of our heavenly Father. And, it is possible because of Christ Jesus our Savior.
Let's pray for one another that all of us who are in Christ Jesus, and He is us would walk in love, and this verse would be evident by the fruit of our lives.
Philippians 1:11 (AMP)
11 May you abound in and be filled with the fruits of righteousness (of right standing with God and right doing) which come through Jesus Christ (the Anointed One), to the honor and praise of God [that His glory may be both manifested and recognized].
Prayer:
Father, hallowed be Your name. Father, help us to work out more and more of the love of God that You have poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit that You have given to us.
Father, we desire this so that You will be glorified, and that others will be blessed. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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