21 Days of LOVE Prayer
"A focus on representing Jesus"
1 Thessalonians 3:12 ERV
We pray that the Lord will make your love grow. We pray that he will give you more and more love for each other and for all people. We pray that you will love everyone in the same way we love you.
Week 3 Focus: Understanding the Capacity to Love
Day 18: "When Love Requires Distance"
Day 18 Scripture:
Proverbs 22:24-25 AMP
Do not even associate with a man given to angry outbursts; Or go [along] with a hot-tempered man, Or you will learn his [undisciplined] ways And get yourself trapped [in a situation from which it is hard to escape].
Confession:
I am developed in the fruit of God's Spirit.​
People get the overflow of my relationship with God! When I see people, I am genuinely the embodiment of love to them. I am patient and do not make people feel unimportant. Kindness is my natural response. I do not envy anyone, nor am I jealous of anything anyone has. What God has for me is for me and I am sincerely elated for others' successes and blessings. I live selflessly... always seeking to bless others above myself. I always tell the truth. I run to truth and away from gossip, rumors and lies. I choose not to be easily angered and I release any angry emotions to God before the end of the day. I am quick to forgive and I only allow my mind to meditate on good thoughts. God has filled me with hope, renewed my dreams and caused me to believe beyond what I see. I have enduring faith and I will see the manifestation of God's Goodness in my life because I willingly and wholeheartedly obey Him, in Jesus' name.
Day 18
PRAYER
Father,
We thank You for Your wisdom.
Thank You for the clarity in Your instruction. Thank You for teaching us to love... how to love... when to love... who to love and why to love.
I confess that this process of engaging this world with Your love has challenged me to my core.
Father, help me to be stronger than what my flesh desires and not to put my limits on love; but to discern when YOU are holding me back to manifest Your perfect will in my life and in the lives of others.
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I pray to You to help me
Know when love is best realized from afar.
Give me the strength of character to stand by Your standard and not to bow to what may be easy. Help me to be anchored in integrity when the way You instruct me to love is difficult.
Show me how to put the necessary distance in the necessary places to produce the harvest You intended to come from love.
Help me NOT TO STAND IN THE WAY of someone's God-ordained appointment with real love. Help me to be tough enough to do what's hard, but necessary for love to produce Your perfect will in another, in Jesus' name. Amen!
