JUNE "prayer-starters" DAY 13

DAY 13—Crowding Out Our Love For the World

Today we’re going to ask the Lord to release His Love in us to such a degree that it will crowd out our Love for the world. Misdirected Love for the World will pervert the pure Love from God that could be flowing through us to others in need. The Lord Loved the world, but it was a redeeming kind of Love. It was that kind of Love by which one gives of himself to set others free. That kind of Love toward the world can also work in us.

I John 2:15—Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man Love the world, the Love of the Father is not in him. NIrV—Do not Love the world or anything in it. If you Love the world, Love for the Father is not in you.

I John 3:1—Behold, what manner of Love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. NIrV—How great is the Love the Father has given us so freely! Now we can be called children of God. And that’s what we really are! The world doesn’t know us because it didn’t know Him.

LORD, please help me see the emptiness of what the world offers. I lay my heart, with all its affections and desires, before You. Please set my heart, and my mind, in order. I want to be useful in Your Kingdom. Draw these to Yourself that I now bring before Your Throne. Place in them that deep desire for Your Kingdom that will result in their becoming free from the world, and from its pull on them.

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Ephesians 3:14-19 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; That ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
DAY 13—Crowding Out Our Love For the World Today we’re going to ask the Lord to release His Love in us to such a degree that it will crowd out our Love for the world. Misdirected Love for the World will pervert the pure Love from God that could be flowing through us to others in need. The Lord Loved the world, but it was a redeeming kind of Love. It was that kind of Love by which one gives of himself to set others free. That kind of Love toward the world can also work in us. *I John 2:15—Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man Love the world, the Love of the Father is not in him.* NIrV—**Do not Love the world or anything in it. If you Love the world, Love for the Father is not in you. *I John 3:1—Behold, what manner of Love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not.* NIrV—**How great is the Love the Father has given us so freely! Now we can be called children of God. And that’s what we really are! The world doesn’t know us because it didn’t know Him. LORD, please help me see the emptiness of what the world offers. I lay my heart, with all its affections and desires, before You. Please set my heart, and my mind, in order. I want to be useful in Your Kingdom. Draw these to Yourself that I now bring before Your Throne. Place in them that deep desire for Your Kingdom that will result in their becoming free from the world, and from its pull on them.
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