There's an almost unlimited number of prayers you can adapt and personalize from Scripture. It's a great way to pray.
Here's a few of my favorites along with the Scripture that helped inspire them. I hope these will inspire you.
Father, I accept the payment Jesus made for my sin debt when He died on the Cross. Lord Jesus, I turn my life over to You.
John 3:36, Amplified Bible
He who believes and trusts in the Son and accepts Him [as Savior] has eternal life...í
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Father, You are the Potter, the Creator and ultimate Owner of everything. I'm your clay for You to do with as You wish. I exist for the fulfillment of Your hopes and dreams.
Isaiah 64:8 NKJV
But now, O Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter...
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Father, I present my remaining time on this earth to you. Do whatever You want; I trust You. Transform my way of thinking and living so that I can walk out your plans for this life.
Romans 12:1-2 NIV
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
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Father, please work in me to love You with everything I have and am. I love You but I need to love You more. I want to care far more about what's important to You and far less about everything else.
Mark 12:30 NKJV
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.
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Father, please help me to keep my heart tender before You. Remove any hardness You may find. Let me never be someone who honors you with my words but has a heart that is far from you.
Ezekiel 36:26, NIV
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Matthew 15:8 NKJV
These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me.
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Father, please let me be a true worshiper, a person who touches Your heart in song and prayer with a loving embrace. May my worship always be for You and about You, whether anyone is around or not.
Ephesians 5:19 NIV
...speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord...
2 Samuel 6:14 NKJV
Then David danced before the Lord with all his might...
2 Corinthians 3:17 NKJV
Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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Father, please work in me so that I may always have a contrite heart that is quick to respond, always ready to be changed by You.
Isaiah 57:15, NIV
...For this is what the high and exalted One says—he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.
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Father, please teach me Your ways and the right way to honor You. Work in me from the inside out.
Psalm 86:11, Amplified Bible
Teach me Your way, O Lord. I will walk and live in Your truth; Direct my heart to fear Your name [with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder].
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Father, according to Your Word, please write Your laws -- Your way of thinking, feeling and acting -- on my heart and mind. Turn me into a factory of Your goodness.
Hebrews 10:16. NIV
“This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds."
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Father, please complete the good work You have started in me.
Philippians 1:6. NIV
...being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
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Father, please work in me to always choose and do what pleases You. I want You to be happy with my life.
Philippians 2:13 NKJV
For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
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Father, according to Your Word, prepare Your path before me so that each part will be ready for me when I get there.
Psalm 138:8 NKJV
The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.
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Father, I need you to rescue me from every weakness that leads to sin, from every plot of darkness, and from the evil of this world.
Isaiah 46:4 NIV
Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you. I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
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Father, please let Your Presence work in, through and around me. Give me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You. Fill me with Your Spirit. Let me stand strong and make a strong stand for Your Kingdom.
Ephesians 1:17 NKJV
...that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him...
1 Corinthians 1:7-8 NIV
...you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Father, I’m depending upon you to keep me from falling. According to Your Word, I’m asking You to present me faultless before Your throne.
Jude 24-25. NIV, aka The Doxology
To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy— to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen
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Pray this with me:
Father,
Whatever You do, don't leave me the way You find me now. For Jesus' sake, cleanse me from all sin and unrighteousness. Let me represent You well.
Father, the one thing I MUST have is this: fulfill your heart's plans no matter how it feels to me in my time on this Earth. I know it won't take more than a moment in your Presence to make every difficulty of this life immeasurably more than okay.
1 Corinthians 2:9. NKJV
But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
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