Colossians 3:5-17Dear Father,Help me put to death certain things in my life that are earthly - inward evils ranging from impurity to covetousness.Most of all, may I be rid of covetousness, wanting the applause and possessions of this world, which is really idolatry.May I extinguish all outward evil ranging from anger to slander and foul talk.Keep me from everything that is false. Don't let a lie come to my mind or my lips.In the name of Jesus. Amen.Ⓒ 1996-2024 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 3:3-4Dear Father,My God, I know that I have died and that my life is hid with Christ. He holds the outcome of my life wholly in his hands; he is my life.Grant that I may wait patiently yet expectantly, knowing that when he appears, I will also appear with him in glory.Father, I thank you for this blessed hope. Let the joy of it fill my life every day as I sojourn here on this earth.Let me put the things of this world in perspective through the victory that Christ brings.In the name of Jesus I ask. Amen.Ⓒ 1996-2024 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 2:20-3:2Dear 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.Ⓒ 1996-2024 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.Ⓒ 1996-2024 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.Ⓒ 1996-2024 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.