Pray for Families (Peace through Love)

Greetings Prayer Warriors,

[Lord,] reach out your hand from on high; deliver me from the many waters; rescue me from the hands of foreign foes. Their mouths speak untruth.  Psalm 144:7-8

Recently while in a cab, the driver started bemoaning all the violence happening in the world, especially the most recent terrorist shooting in California.  ‘I did not hate until 9/11,’ he shared with me.  “I hated those terrorists and now I hate those who killed the people in San Bernardino.”   I understood his anger, but I don’t agree that hating is the answer.  Hate begets hate. Will we eradicate terrorism if we encourage hate and adopt the heart of an evildoer?   Conversely love begets love. Loving your enemy is a radical concept.  Jesus, taught that we should lead with love not weapons, a most difficult concept to understand both then and now. 

[His] “kingdom is not founded on power and domination, on triumph and oppression as is often the case of earthly kingdoms."  It is a place of "piety, tenderness, goodness, grace and justice."  The Lord is "gracious and merciful, slow to anger." –Emeritus Pope Benedict

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. Matthew: 5:43-45

Pray for your family, pray for your enemies, love unconditionally, and pray for the grace to love those who persecute. Pray that we may all learn to love as the Heavenly Father loves us. Make a commitment to perpetuate love, especially when you don’t feel loving.  Encourage others to lead with love, so that others may come to know Christ through us.  Only then will we be an instrument of change in the world, one heart at a time.

Peace, Joy, and Love,

Janet

Be a warrior.  Slay others with His love. Pass it on!