How Do You Pray for Your Brothers and Sisters in Christ?

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Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere (Ephesians 6:18).
In the verses immediately preceding this one, Paul admonishes the church at Ephesus to be strong in the Lord, and to be clothed with the full armor of God. Then he asks two simple things: that they pray for each other, and that they pray for Paul to fearlessly proclaim the gospel.

If you have ever wondered how to pray for other believers, you need look no further than the Bible for your inspiration. Consider the following:
  • Fill us with the knowledge of Your will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding (Colossians 1:9).
  • Help us to live lives worthy of You, pleasing You in every way and bearing fruit in every good work (Colossians 1:10).
  • May we grow in the knowledge of God, and be strengthened with all power according to His glorious might (Colossians 1:11).
  • Help us have great endurance and patience, and joyfully give thanks to the Father (Colossians 1:12).
  • Grant us the spirit of wisdom and revelation so we may know You better (Ephesians 1:17).
  • Enlighten the eyes of our hearts (Ephesians 1:18).
  • Help us to 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 (Ephesians 1:19).
  • Strengthen us with power through Your Spirit in our inner being (Ephesians 3:16).
  • May Christ dwell in our hearts through faith (Ephesians 3:17)
  • Grant us the power to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ (Ephesians 3:18).
  • Help us to be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:19).
  • May our love abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight (Philippians 1:9).
  • May we be able to discern what is best, and be pure and blameless until the day of Christ (Philippians 1:10).
  • Fill us with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus (Philippians 1:11).
These are very powerful prayers that Paul employed for the believers in Colossae, Ephesus and Philippi. I encourage you to utilize them as you pray for others in the family of faith.