PRINCIPLES OF PRAYER
The Love By Which We Become Beloved
August is Discernment Month
| Knowing God in the Darkness |
| A Discipline Enhanced by the Holy Spirit |
| The Love By Which We Become Belovd |
HEAVENLY FATHER, Please give these ones for whom I pray the knowledge and discernment to make right decisions in the matters before them. Let a clear understanding of what you want guide them in expressing love toward others. Let sound judgment work in all their relationships with others so they won't become trapped in situations outside of Your will. Work into them the right way of responding to all of those with whom they are involved,
In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ….
Love, especially as it works in the human heart, tends toward emotional responses. If love is over balanced with emotions, it can lead a person into making wrong judgments and harmful decisions. It can bring about situations and associations that are regrettable and that open the way for pain and sorrow.
Those in whom certain kinds of love are freshly moving often make unwise decisions. They find themselves entrapped in regrettable situations. Sometimes misguided love leads into a circumstance with no human solution. Often, in cases like this, praying that releases a miracle from the Holy Spirit is the only thing that can provide an answer.
John, the “beloved” lets us know in clear terms that Love is to abound yet more and more flowing like a spring of living water from God. We will see this as we study and pray this month from I John.
These passages from I John and those indicated as
“My Interpretation” are my own as studied from
the Received Text of the New Testament.