01/23/2025
Hey Canvas Family!! Today is Day 18 of our time of prayer and fasting. Today’s focus is LOVE!! Today, lets pray and take action!!
*Pray for a heart that is tender and compassionate towards others, asking Him to help you see them through His eyes. Ask God to remove any hardness of heart and replace it with genuine love. That He will help you love others without expecting anything in return, just as He loves them!
*Pray for patience to understand people’s struggles, and the grace to be slow to anger and quick to forgive. Ask for the strength to forgive those who may have hurt or wronged you, so that you can truly love them.
*Pray for the ability to think of others before yourself, the ability to serve with a humble spirit and that you would be able to enter into the lives of others, sharing in their joys and sorrows, and that you would respond with genuine empathy.
Pray for the strength to love even those who are hard to love, or in difficult relationships, and to trust God with the challenges.
*Pray that your love for others would be a reflection of Christ’s love, drawing others closer to Him and for the strength to love those that are hard to love.
*Pray for the Lord to highlight times to show love in tangible ways, whether through acts of kindness, words of encouragement, or standing with someone in need and the courage to do it.
*Ask for the Holy Spirit to produce more of the fruit of love, joy, peace, and kindness in your life, so that others may experience God’s love through you!
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
â€â€1 Corinthians‬ â€13‬:â€1‬-â€13‬ â€ESV‬‬