PRAYER FOR TODAY TUESDAY 16TH MAY 2023 – A PRAYER TO EMBRACE GOD’S LOVE

DAILY PRAYER AND SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY.

Engage these Daily Prayer and Scriptures for today. Take to God all that you desire in prayers, while you watch restfully as he steps into situations to bring out beauty and colour in your live. Today, as you commune with God, know that God has settled all that concerns you, Just believe and pray with faith in your heart. Remain blessed in Jesus name, Amen.

Today’s Prayer is Authored by: Kristine Brown

Prayer Focus For Today 16th May 2023: A Prayer to Embrace God’s Love

“This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and send His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” – 1 John 4:10
Growing up, I had a wonderful father who made me feel loved. All of my life, I was confident of his love for me. Because I did have his love, it hasn’t been difficult for me to believe God, my heavenly Father, loves me, too. Sadly many individuals don’t grow up with the kind of fatherly love I experienced. Countless men and women grow up without an earthly father’s presence, much less his love, so the thought of God as Father and His loving them is difficult for them to believe, receive, and accept.

God Is Love’s Only Source
There is nothing we can do to earn God’s love. It’s not based on who we are or what we do or don’t do. It’s all based on who God is, and He is love (1 John 4:16). Despite what the world may tell or try to convince us, God loves everyone. No matter what our culture promotes, there is no other source of love on earth. Therefore, everyone and everything else claiming to be love is a counterfeit. The enemy of God goes to great lengths to make us think He doesn’t love us. The devil does this by lying to us about God, and if we don’t know the truth about Him, we’ll believe those lies. John 8:44 describes the nature of the devil and of those who believe his lies.  
 
“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
God’s Word Reveals the Truth
We can only know who God truly is and His thoughts toward us through God’s word. His words tell us exactly who He is and what we mean to Him. As the saying goes, talk is cheap, but God hasn’t just said He loves us. He has gone out of His way to prove His great love for us. We are of such great value to God that He gave His only Son to die and cover the cost of our sins (John 3:16). 

 
“But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
God’s love is so great for us that He was willing to sacrifice so that we might live forever with Him. As 1 John 1:9 explains, “This is how God showed His love among us. He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.”

PRAYER FOR TODAY.

Let’s pray:
Dear Father,
I ask You to open my heart to receive Your perfect love. Forgive me for believing the enemy’s lies and for the times I’ve willingly turned away from You. Free me from earthly hurts and wounds that keep me from drawing close to You. O Lord, You are the only source of love in this world because You are love. Give me a tender and grateful heart towards You for loving me first while I was still dead in my trespasses. 

Thank You for Your gift of Jesus, our atoning sacrifice, which washes away my sins with His blood and reconciles me to You. Help me today and every day to come to You and receive Your unconditional love in my life. Soften my heart and teach me to believe and receive Your tender love. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

This Is the Assurance of Answers to Your Prayers – Matthew 7:7-11

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will YOUR FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN GIVE GOOD THINGS TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM!