Praying with Paul
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Christian maturity is marked by an increasing dependence on the Lord. And this dependence expresses itself in prayer. Today, Joel Kim identifies four elements of the Apostle Paul’s prayers to instruct our own prayer life.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
Joel Kim is president and assistant professor of New Testament at Westminster Seminary California.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | For those of us who are in Christ Jesus, the older we get, the wiser we get, we come to recognize we don't know as much as we think we do. |
| 0:10.7 | We're not as wise as we once thought that we were. |
| 0:14.5 | We can't do as much as we thought we could, and the more we age, we become ever more dependent. |
| 0:22.8 | And as believers, the marker of maturity for Christians is not independence away from the |
| 0:28.8 | Lord, is greater dependence upon the Lord. |
| 0:43.9 | And how is that dependence, often evidenced in our lives, by our prayer lives? |
| 0:54.3 | This is the Thursday edition of renewing your mind as we continue Joel Kim's new study in the book of Colossians titled Everything in Christ. |
| 0:58.2 | As we heard yesterday, Jesus Christ is Lord. |
| 1:04.2 | Because He is Lord, we can trust him, and we are to depend on him in prayer. |
| 1:09.6 | So what can we learn from the Apostle Paul's prayer life and the content of his prayers? |
| 1:15.8 | Here's Reverend Kim. I'm blessed to be born into a believing family and also into a pastor's family. And so I'm what they call a P.K. A pastor's kid. |
| 1:23.9 | And one of the characteristics of my parents, even to this day, is that they pray. They pray. And when I hear |
| 1:30.2 | words like this from D.A. Carson, when he talks about the introduction to Paul's letters, where prayer is |
| 1:36.8 | included in the introductions, this is what he says about his parents. In the ranks of ecclesiastical |
| 1:43.4 | hierarchies, my father is not a great man. He has never |
| 1:47.7 | served a large church, never written a book, never discharged the duties of high denominational office. |
| 1:54.9 | Doubtless, his praying too embraces idioms and stylistic idiosyncrasies that should not be copied. |
| 2:02.6 | But with great gratitude to God, I testify that my parents were not hypocrites. |
| 2:08.6 | That is the worst possible heritage to leave with children, high spiritual pretensions and low performance. |
| 2:15.6 | My parents were the opposite, few pretensions and low performance. My parents were the opposite, few pretensions and disciplined performance. |
| 2:21.8 | And sometimes when I look at my own children, I wonder if, should the Lord give us another 30 years, |
| 2:28.2 | they will remember their father as a man of prayer, or think of him as someone distant who was away from home rather a lot, |
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