Daily Prayer for December 17th, 2020
Good Thursday morning, God—thank you!! 😊
I have a strong desire to bear with others’ failings—build them up—live in harmony with everyone in accord with Christ Jesus, just like I would want them to do for me. No one is perfect. But I am not content with haters who continue to talk wicked nonsense about me. It has worn on me even knowing who I am in you. But you always bring joy! You lift me and protect me from my adversary. Since your Spirit (the Holy Spirit) is about loving you and others, help me always be fruitful, but please distance me from my enemies who want to destroy and attack me with lies. God bless them, all! In Jesus’ name. Amen.
4 More in number than the hairs of my head
are those who hate me without cause;
mighty are those who would destroy me,
those who attack me with lies.
What I did not steal
must I now restore?
5 O God, you know my folly;
the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
Love Your Enemies
27 “But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
28 A dishonest man spreads strife,
and a whisperer separates close friends.
14 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.