Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

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 9, 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 my family in my mind. I've got

co-labors 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 would be full of knowledge,

that it would not be foolish, but that it would be discerning love.

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

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