The Bible makes clear that God really wants us to pray and that He really wants to answer our prayers. But when it comes down to it, what do we really pray for?
Typically we pray concerning that which is in front of us, the temporal, the physical, the tangible. We pray for safety, we pray for health, we pray for guidance. We pray for things we need, things we want, things that we think we deserve. To be clear, that’s not wrong, because God wants us to present all our requests to Him. But we see Paul pray differently.

"And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment."
He is praying for their love to grow. Out of all the things that he could wish for, out of all the temporal things he could pray for, Paul prays for their love to abound. He is praying for a love for God and love for each other. Paul has a high view of love here. He is not simply referring to a feeling, receiving kind of love. Paul has in view a love that resembles Christ’s love.Heb. 12 kjv Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Read or listen to 1 Cor. 13: