Episode 390: Love

Today's Prayer Meditation is on Love

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but don't have love, I'm just making noise. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but don't have love, I'm nothing. 

Love is patient and kind. It isn't envious of others. It isn't proud and doesn't toot it's own horn. Love honors others and treats them with respect. It isn't self-seeking. Love doesn't have a short fuse and it doesn't hold a grudge. Love doesn't delight in evil, but it rejoices in truth. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. 

Let me live my life in such a way, Father, that I am in debt to no man except the continuing debt to love others. For through love, the law is fulfilled. Jesus said that the most important commandment was to love you, Father, with all of my heart and with all of my soul and with all of my mind and all of my strength. And the second is to love my neighbor as myself. There is no greater commandment than these two. All the law and the prophets are fulfilled in these commands. Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. 

Help me to live a life worthy of the calling I have received. Make me humble and gentle; patiently bearing with my brothers and sisters in love. I make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 

I love my enemies and pray for those who persecute me, for I am your child. You cause the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and send rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. So I strive always for perfection, Father, as you are perfect. 

I do not love with words or speech only but with actions and in truth. 

Father, your love is better than life. My lips will glorify you always. 

Love covers over all wrongs. So, above all, I love others deeply, because that love will cover a multitude of sins. 

I remain in your love, and I keep your commands. I love my brothers and sisters just as you have loved me. I love at all times, not just when it's convenient and pleasant, but even in times of adversity. 

Everything I do, I do in love. My love is sincere. I hate what is evil and cling to what is good. I am devoted to my brothers and sisters in love and honor others above myself.  

I do not let love or faithfulness leave me. I bind them around my neck, and write them on the tablet of my heart. And I win favor and a good name in your sight and in the sight of men. 

Love is one of the fruits of the Spirit. If I abide in you and you in me, Love is the natural result. Love comes from you, Father. I love because I know you, I have been born of you. You are love. 

You showed your faithful love for me by sending your one and only Son, Jesus, into the world that I might live through him. You sent your Son to die in my place so that I could believe in him and have eternal life. Jesus died for me even though I was a sinner. He took the penalty I deserved so that I could live. 

This is how I know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for me. And so I ought to be willing to lay down my life for my brothers and sisters. 

What great love you have lavished on me -- you even call me your child, and that is what I am! 

I am more than a conqueror through Christ who loved me. I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate me from your love that is in Christ Jesus my Lord. 

You are the Lord my God. You are the faithful God. You keep your covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love you and keep your commands. 

Because of your great love for me, and because of your unfailing mercy, you made me alive with Christ even when I was dead in transgressions-it is by your grace that I have been saved. 

You are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. You love me with an everlasting love. You drew me in with unfailing kindness. Your love has been poured out into my heart through your gift of the Holy Spirit. 

My lips will forever glorify you, for your love is better than life. 

So be it. 

Until next time, be blessed and be a blessing. 

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1 Corinthians 13:1-2; 1 Corinthians 13:4-8; Romans 13:8; Mark 12:28-32; Matthew 22:36-40; Romans 13:10; Ephesians 4:1-4; Matthew 5:43-48; 1 John 3:18; Psalm 63:3; Proverbs 10:12; 1 Peter 4:8; John 15:9; Proverbs 17:17; 1 Corinthians 16:14; Romans 12:9-10; Proverbs 3:3-4; Galatians 5:22; 1 John 4:7-9; John 3:16; Romans 5:8; 1 John 3:16; 1 John 3:1; Romans 8:37-39; Deuteronomy 7:9; Ephesians 2:4-5; Psalm 86:15; Jeremiah 31:3; Romans 5:5; Psalm 63:3 

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