1 Corinthians 13 - Praying God's Word

Please read 1 Corinthians 13.

Meditate on verse 11.

When I was a child, I used to speak like a child,

think like a child, reason like a child;

when I became a man, I did away with childish things.

As Paul wrote this letter to Christians in Corinth, he was burdened by their lack of maturity in Christ (1 Corinthians 3:1-2). God is concerned about the same thing in your life. Are you putting away childish behaviors and speaking and acting like Christ?

It was not by accident that God had Paul write about love and maturity in the same section of this letter. When you let the love of Christ rule your life, you will grow up in Him.

Pray 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7). Insert your names in the place of the word love.

 “LORD, may this describe ________ and me.

__________ is patient;

____________is kind and is not jealous;

___________ does not brag and is not arrogant,

does not act unbecomingly;

_____________ does not seek their own,

 is not provoked,


does not take into account a wrong suffered,


does not rejoice in unrighteousness,

but rejoices with the truth;

bears all things, believes all things,


hopes all things, endures all things.

 ____________never fails.

Because of You, Jesus~”

The WATCHMAN on the WALL ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell