Praying for Spiritual gifts
1Corinthians 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
The context is spiritual gifts. What should you pray for? Pray for Love.
2 And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Lord I pray for love that is beyond what we could ask or think, I pray for love that lifts burdens.
3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
Lord I pray for love for the poor and love that sacrifices itself for others.
4 Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Lord I pray for love that suffers long, love that doesn't envy others, love that doesn't boast about itself and is not proud.
5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;
Lord I pray for love that doesn't behave in an ugly way, that isn't self centered, that doesn't get provoked and that doesn't keep a record of all the evil done to me.
6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;
Lord I pray that I would have a love that would rejoice in the truth.
7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Lord I pray for such a love.
8 Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 10 but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
Lord I pray for an eternal love.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. 13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Lord I pray for a mature love that reflects you truly.