Dear Lord,
Help! I’m in the middle of a love deficit.
I’ve tried to stretch my patience, but annoyance pulls me tight like a rubber band and I snap.
I ask that You remind me of Your love for me. In fact, I open my heart to receive more of Your love, because when I recognize Your love for me, Your love fills my heart, creating a love reserve that covers all irritating people.
When I have Your love flowing to me, then through me, I have patience. I am kind. I’m never jealous, haughty, arrogant, or rude. I am able to think of others without annoyance. I stop keeping my list of their wrongs. I am even able to encourage and care for those I tried to dismiss, ignore, or avoid.
But the best part? I don’t run out of patience and never give up on others because Your love supply never ends.
Your love makes me beautiful with gentleness. Your love clothes me with a good attitude and helps me to bear with those You have put in my life, even to the point of forgiving them.
Keep my heart filled with Your love so I can stretch and never snap.
In the name of Jesus, amen.
Your beauty should be a gentle and quiet spirit. In God’s sight this is of great worth and no amount of money can buy it.
1 Peter 3:4 NLV
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love isn’t jealous. It doesn’t sing its own praises. It isn’t arrogant. It isn’t rude. It doesn’t think about itself. It isn’t irritable. It doesn’t keep track of wrongs. It isn’t happy when injustice is done, but it is happy with the truth. Love never stops being patient, never stops believing, never stops hoping, never gives up. Love never comes to an end.
1 Corinthians 13:4–8 GW
Above all, love each other warmly, because love covers many sins.
1 Peter 4:8 GW
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Colossians 3:12–13 NIV