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Pray for the Support and Comfort you Need in your Afflictions

Petition 3.35 | NIV

I must pray for the effectual support and comfort under all the crosses and afflictions that I meet with in this world.

I know that I am born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward; Job 5:7(NIV) but in six calamities be pleased to rescue me, and in seven let no harm befall me. Job 5:19(NIV)

Let the eternal God be my refuge, and underneath be the everlasting arms; Deuteronomy 33:27(NIV) so that the spirit you have made may not grow faint before you, Isaiah 57:16(NIV) nor the soul that you have redeemed. Psalm 71:23(NIV)

Let me be strengthened with all power according to your glorious might so that I may have great endurance and patience and joy. Colossians 1:11(NIV)

Let your decrees be the theme of my song wherever I lodge; Psalm 119:54(NIV) and let your statutes, which are my heritage forever, be always the joy of my heart. Psalm 119:111(NIV)

When I am hard pressed on every side, yet let me not be crushed; and when I am perplexed, let me not be in despair; 2 Corinthians 4:8(NIV) if sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; if having nothing, yet possessing everything. 2 Corinthians 6:10(NIV)

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Pray for Grace to Make you Wiser and Better Every Day

Petition 3.34 | NIV

I must pray for grace to make me wiser and better every day than another.

Lord, give me to grow with God-caused growth; Colossians 2:19(NIV) to grow in the grace and knowledge of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; 2 Peter 3:18(NIV) to hold to my ways; and, having clean hands, to grow stronger. Job 17:9(NIV)

Let my path be like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day. Proverbs 4:18(NIV)

I have not yet obtained, nor have I already been made perfect; Lord, grant that therefore, forgetting what is behind, I may strain toward what is ahead, toward the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:12-14(NIV)

Be like the dew to me that I may blossom like a lily and send down my roots like a cedar of Lebanon; that my shoots may grow and my splendor may be like an olive tree. Hosea 14:5-6(NIV) And let the sun of righteousness rise upon me with healing in its wings, so that I may go out and leap like a calf released from the stall.Malachi 4:2(NIV)

Malachi 4:2(NIV)

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Pray for Grace to Assist you that you may be Universally Conscientious

Petition 3.33 | NIV

That I may be universally conscientious.

O that I may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured. Colossians 4:12(NIV)

O that my ways were steadfast in obeying your decrees! Then I would not be put to shame when I consider all your commands. Psalm 119:5-6(NIV)

Teach me, O LORD, to follow your decrees; then I will keep them to the end. Give me understanding, and I will keep your law and obey it with all my heart. Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight. Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain. Psalm 119:33-36(NIV)

I pray that out of your glorious riches you may strengthen me with power through your Spirit in my inner being, so that Christ may dwell in my heart through faith; and that I, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that I may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God, Ephesians 3:16-20(NIV) and may participate in the divine nature. 2 Peter 1:4(NIV)

And let Christ’s love compel me to no longer live for myself but for him who died for me and was raised again. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15(NIV)