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Philippians chapter 1 verses 9 through 11 is another one of these places in scripture

where we see Paul praying in one of his letters to a church for

the people in that church and so we have a model prayer so to speak of how we can pray for people around us. So this is the

prayer he prays. He says in verse nine it is my prayer that your love may

abound more and more with knowledge and all discernment

so that you may approve what is excellent and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness

that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

So let's pray that prayer for people around us. Let's just

walk through it and pray specifically for people around us. I've got in my mind

I've got I've got my family in my mind. I've got co-laborers that I'm serving

alongside. I've got the church that I'm a part of in my mind as I'm praying this. You put those kind of people in your

mind. Let's pray this together. It is our prayer, oh God, for these brothers and

sisters in Christ, for these people in our minds, oh God, may your love

abound more and more to them, so that your love may abound more and more through them.

God, may they know your love, and may they grow in your love

with knowledge and discernment. God we pray that their love would not be

ignorant, but that it would be full of knowledge, that it would not be foolish, but it would be discerning

love, that they would know you as they grow in love for you, and they would know how best to love others, that you would give them discernment to know how best to love others.

May their love abound more and more with knowledge and all discernment so that they may approve what is excellent.

Oh God give them eyes for that which is excellent. Turn their eyes we pray away from that which is not good. From that

which is not pleasing to you. Help them to see that which is pleasing to you.

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