Scriptures to Pray for Spiritual Growth

Praying the Bible is one of the best ways to pray. When we pray out scriptures, we pray exactly how God would have us pray with respect to different aspects of our lives. This is because the Bible is from God; it is completely inspired by Him, and it speaks to us the mind of God.

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God…” – 2 Timothy 3:16.

So, when we pray the scriptures, we pray the mind of God over us.

That said, below are some scriptures you can pray for your spiritual growth. I have found them very useful in guiding prayers over my life and God’s purpose through me at different stages of my growth and walk with Him. I pray you find them useful too.

1. Ephesians 1:17-19

Dear Father, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, I pray that you grant me a spirit of wisdom and revelation of insight into mysteries and secrets in the deep and intimate knowledge of you. I pray that the eyes of my heart will be flooded with light, so that I can know and understand the hope to which you have called me, and how rich is your glorious inheritance in the saints. I pray that I can know and understand what the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of your power is in and for me (and everyone) who believes in you, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

2. Ephesians 3:16-19

Dear Father, I pray that you grant me out of the rich treasury of your glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the Holy Spirit Himself indwelling my innermost being and personality. I pray that Christ through my faith may actually dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in my heart. I pray that I will be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, and that I may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth of it. I pray, Dear Father, that I will really come to know – practically, through experience for myself, the love of Christ which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience; and that I may be filled through all my being unto all the fullness of God. I ask that I may have the richest measure of the divine Presence and that I become wholly filled and flooded with God Himself. Amen.

3. Colossians 1:9-12

Dear Heavenly Father, I pray that I will be filled with the full, deep ,and clear knowledge of your will in all spiritual wisdom, in comprehensive insight into the ways and the purposes of God, and that you will help me to understand and discern spiritual things. Father, I pray that you will help me to walk (living and conducting myself) in a manner that is worthy of you, O Lord; that I will be fully pleasing to you and desire to please you in all things. I pray that you work in me to bear fruit in every good work, and that I steadily grow and increase in and by the knowledge of you with fuller, deeper, and clearer insight, acquaintance, and recognition. I pray, Dear Father, that I will be invigorated and strengthened with all power according to the might of your glory, to exercise every kind of endurance and patience, perseverance, and forbearance with joy. I give you thanks, Dear Father, for qualifying and making me fit to share the portion which is the inheritance of the saints of God in the Light, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

4. Philippians 1:9-11

Dear God, I pray that my love for you and for others may abound yet more and more and extend to its fullest development in knowledge and all keen insight; that my love may display itself in greater depth of acquaintance and more comprehensive discernment, so that I may surely learn to sense what is vital, and approve and prize what is excellent and of real value, recognizing the highest and the best, and distinguishing the moral differences, and that I may be untainted and pure and unerring and blameless, so that with a heart sincere and certain and unsullied, I may approach the day of Christ not stumbling nor causing others to stumble. I pray, Father, that I may abound in and be filled with the fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God, that His glory may be both manifested and recognized, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

5. Philippians 3:10

Dear Jesus, I pray that I may know you, that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with you, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of your Person more strongly and more clearly, and that I may, in that same way, come to know the power outflowing from your resurrection which it exerts over believers, and that I may so share your sufferings as to be continually transformed in spirit into your likeness even to your death. Amen.

6. 2 Peter 1:5-8

Father, I pray that through your work in me, you will help me to add diligence to the divine promises and employ every effort in exercising my faith to develop virtue, excellence, resolution, and Christian energy, and that in exercising virtue, I develop knowledge and intelligence. I pray that in exercising knowledge that I develop self-control, and that in exercising self-control, I get to develop steadfastness, patience, and endurance, and that in exercising steadfastness, I develop godliness, and that in exercising godliness, I develop brotherly affection, and that in exercising brotherly affection, I develop Christian love. I recognize, Dear Father, that as these qualities are mine and increasingly abound in me, they will keep me from being idle or unfruitful unto the full personal knowledge of my Lord Jesus Christ. This I pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

7. 2 Peter 3:18

Father, I pray that I grow in grace (spiritual strength) and recognition and knowledge and understanding of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (the Messiah). Amen.

8. Hebrews 12:1-3

Dear Father, I come to you stripping off and throwing aside every unnecessary weight and sin which so readily, deftly, and cleverly, clings to and entangles me. By your strength, God, I run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before me. I look away from all that will distract me to Jesus, the Leader and the Source of my faith and also its Finisher, bringing it to maturity and perfection. I learn from Jesus, who for the joy of obtaining the prize that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. He endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself, so that I may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting in my mind. For this reason, I keep eyes and focus on Jesus who will see me through in this my Christian race. Amen.

Will you begin to pray these scriptures?

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