Prayer

Colossians 2:20-3:2Dear Father,Help me to realize that I have died and have been resurrected with Christ. Break the attachments of my old life and its bondage.Don't let me live as if life were a matter of keeping regulations - don't touch, don't taste, don't handle - but let me live out of a deep sense of love and loyalty to my Savior.Don't let me grasp for that which has merely an appearance of wisdom and which might make a show of religiosity but not really do anything to separate me from the pride and lusts of my fleshly nature.Rather let me seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at your right hand. Let me set my mind on the things that are above, not on things that are on the earth.In the name of Jesus I ask. Amen.Ⓒ 1996-2025 Heartlight, Inc. This material may not be reproduced in part or whole for commercial use without written consent. Heartlight appreciates Eldon Degge and Meridian Publishing for permission to make this available on our website. Praying with Paul is also available as a book.

Colossians 2:13-19Dear Father,Thank you for redeeming us. You took us out of deadness and gave us life. You made us alive together with Christ. You cancelled the debts that we owed you because of our sinfulness.You disarmed the powers that work against us, triumphing over them in Christ for our sake.How gracious and wonderful you are. To you we owe eternal praise.Help us to withstand anyone who might seek to disqualify us, seeking to bind us to any principle of action at all except faith in Jesus Christ, for he is the head, and he determines how the body will grow.Help us to hold fast to Christ, who is our head, in whose name I pray. Amen.Ⓒ 1996-2025 Heartlight, Inc. This material may not be reproduced in part or whole for commercial use without written consent. Heartlight appreciates Eldon Degge and Meridian Publishing for permission to make this available on our website. Praying with Paul is also available as a book.

Colossians 2:10-12Dear Father,Thank you, Father, that we have been joined with Christ in his life, death, and resurrection.Make us realize that we put off the body of flesh in his circumcision, were buried with him in his baptism, and were raised with him in his resurrection.Give us the faith to see your hand at work in all this and to see ourselves in what happened to him.Help us to hold fast to Christ, who is our head, in whose name I pray. Amen.Ⓒ 1996-2025 Heartlight, Inc. This material may not be reproduced in part or whole for commercial use without written consent. Heartlight appreciates Eldon Degge and Meridian Publishing for permission to make this available on our website. Praying with Paul is also available as a book.

Colossians 2:8-9Dear Father,May I never be impressed with the philosophy and empty deceit that comes out of human traditions which do not agree with Christ.Keep me from being enticed by teachings that root their knowledge in the elemental spirits of the universe, the laws of nature, and in scientism, but not in Christ.Help us to understand what it means that the very fullness of deity dwells in our LORD bodily and that we have come to the fullness of life in him and that he is the head of all rule and authority.Help us to hold fast to Christ, who is our head, in whose name I pray. Amen.Ⓒ 1996-2025 Heartlight, Inc. This material may not be reproduced in part or whole for commercial use without written consent. Heartlight appreciates Eldon Degge and Meridian Publishing for permission to make this available on our website. Praying with Paul is also available as a book.

Colossians 2:4-7Dear Father, my rock,Help me to think clearly with discernment. Keep me from being taken in by the beguiling speech of deceivers.Give me great joy in manifesting good order in my conduct and being absolutely firm in my faith.As I received Christ Jesus as the LORD, grant that I may live in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith.Grant that I may do this with great praise and thanksgiving!All praise, thanksgiving, honor, and glory to you, our Father, for what you have done for me through Jesus Christ, in whose name I pray. Amen.Ⓒ 1996-2025 Heartlight, Inc. This material may not be reproduced in part or whole for commercial use without written consent. Heartlight appreciates Eldon Degge and Meridian Publishing for permission to make this available on our website. Praying with Paul is also available as a book.