Let’s pray that He will give us His mind and His heart

Freely ye have received, freely give. (Matthew 10:8)

 Let’s make a commitment to pray daily for Jesus to fill each of us with His love so that we can pour His healing balm on all we meet and so that we can do to others as we would want them to do to us.
 Let’s pray that He will give us His mind and His heart, which are loving, caring, compassionate, understanding, concerned, kind, and sacrificial for the well-being of others.
 Jesus said, “I came to seek and save that which is lost”. The little sheep that is lost in the brambles may be any one of your brothers, sisters, friends, acquaintances, co-workers, or neighbors who may be lost in discouragement, lost in confusion, lost in condemnation, lost in doubts, lost in weariness, lost in pain.
 Can you take up Jesus’ commission to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead? Heal the sick in body and spirit by your loving words, cast out doubt and condemnation through your understanding love, raise the “dead” whose hope has died by expressing faith and confidence in them. Cleanse the “lepers” who feel unclean, undeserving, unrecognized, unwhole, by your unconditional love and acceptance. —Maria Fontaine [1]

 Prayer: Dear Lord, may we have love that never stops caring, love that never lets go, love that holds on through the tough spots. Love that pulls others through, looks beyond. Love that bears, that carries, that heals. Love that never runs out, that knows no boundaries. Amen!

[1] Anchor A Call to Compassion