Daily Prayer for October 6th, 2018
Good morning, God—thank You for another sunny day! :o)
You continue in Your faithfulness—loving me with an everlasting love. You are love.<3
Like You, help me to love my enemies and pray for those who persecute me. Let me love my neighbor as myself. In Jesus name. Amen.
Matthew 5:43-48 English Standard Version (ESV)
Love Your Enemies
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Mark 12:29-31 English Standard Version (ESV)
29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Jeremiah 31:3 English Standard Version (ESV)
3 the Lord appeared to him from far away.
I have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.
1 John 4:8 English Standard Version (ESV)
8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.