Prayer for February 17-23, 2019
Sermon Text: Luke 6:27-38
That we may expand the scope of our love
God of expansive
love, enable us to live as your children by expanding the scope of our love.
Enable us to be daring by loving our enemies and others whom we have not
typically perceived as likely or desirable recipients of our love.
Help us not to be
judgmental or condemn those who respond in different ways than we do or who
make our lives difficult. Teach us to discern when resistance is not a faithful
response to difficult demands. Help us not to retaliate or seek vengeance when
others have wronged or taken advantage of us. Help us not to calculate a way to
gain advantage, but to be extravagantly generous and merciful to those who have
shown neither generosity nor mercy to us. Enable us to act toward every person
in the way we want others to act toward us.
God, what we ask is
not easy for us. We trust in the guidance and energy of your Spirit to make
daring love possible for us. Amen.
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