Some biblical prayers I'm asking the Holy Spirit to help me keep coming back to again and again this year:
#1 Lord, help me to love You with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength.
Psalm 119:10 With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!
Mark 12:30 ...you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
#2 Open my eyes so I can truly see the marvelous things in Your Word!
Psalm 119:18 Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
Ephesians 1:17,18 ...that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints...
#3 Lord, help me to fully love others with my thoughts, words, and actions.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
James 1:27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
#4 Jesus, teach me humility & meekness - that I may please You and be great in Your eyes.
Isaiah 66:2 All these things my hand has made... declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
#5 God, help me to grow in receiving Your amazing love and believe that You delight in me.
Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Ephesians 3:17-19 ...that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
#6 Lord, make Your name to be the praise of ALL the earth, for You are worthy of nothing less!
Psalm 96 ...Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength! Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts! Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth!
#7 Holy Spirit, strengthen me to be steadfast (pleasing to You) in difficulty.
Matthew 24:13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
James 1:12 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love Him.
#8 Jesus, help me to grow in trusting Your leadership; loving Your ways in my life and in the earth.
Proverbs 3:5,6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Luke 7:23 And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.
#9 Help me to be quick to repent and receptive of Your grace to help me obey You.
2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him.
Psalm 51:12 ...uphold me with a willing spirit.
Psalm 119:133 Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.
#10 May I be pure in heart, that I may see You.
Psalm 24:3,4 Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart...
Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
#11 Come, Lord Jesus! Things are not right here on earth without YOU!
Titus 2:13 ...waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ...
Revelation 22:17;20 The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come." And let the one who hears say, "Come." And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price... He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
