Learning to Pray from the Apostles Prayers (Romans 15:33)

As mentioned in my initial post for this series, I intend to blog through a number of New Testament texts where the Apostles are either praying or reflecting on their prayers. In noting how the Apostles prayed, it will help us to conform our prayers so that they are more biblical.

Today's text is Romans 15:33:

May the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Prayer Focus: God would draw so close to us so that we would know peace intimately

Hendriksen writes in the New Testament Commentary, "When the apostle now expresses the prayer-wish that this God of peace be with those whom he addresses, he means that his inner desire—a desire to be realized in all who love the Lord—is that this God of peace may come so close to them that they may experience his peace in their lives, may meditate on it, possess it, rejoice in it."