Dear Lord,
Because of Your love for me, I love You and the people You have put in my life.
If I could speak all the languages of the earth and the languages of angels but didn’t love others, my efforts would be nothing more than a clang of a bell.
If I had a supernatural gift of prophecy and understood all Your secret plans, if I possessed all knowledge, and if I had the faith to pray and see the mountains move but didn’t love others, I would be of no value.
If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body but didn’t love others, I could not boast because my sacrifice would have gained nothing.
Help me to be patient and kind and not jealous or rude, demanding my own way. Help me to love others more, for love never gives up. Love never loses faith and is always hopeful. Love endures through every circumstance.
Keep me aware of Your love so that I will not be irritable or keep a record of wrongs. When I have more of Your love, am aware of Your love, and learn to flow in Your love, I become like a river pouring from the throne of heaven, anointing others.
Help me to endure through every circumstance so that Your river of love will flow from Your heart to my heart, then from my heart to the world.
In the name of Jesus, amen.
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
1 Corinthians 13:1–7 NLT
Lord, you’re so kind and tenderhearted
to those who don’t deserve it
and so patient with people who fail you!
Your love is like a flooding river
overflowing its banks with kindness.
Psalm 103:8 TPT