Today’s Verse:
"Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God." Romans 15:7
Prayer for Today :
Heavenly Father,
There was this story about an African-American family who inherited an handsome amount of US$100,000 from their father's insurance. Both the mother, the son and the daughter wanted the money for their own purposes. The sum went to the son who wanted to do business with friends but at the end, he was betrayed and robbed by them. As the sister tongue-lashing her brother, the mother said "I thought I taught you to love him. There's always something left to love. Have you cried for that boy today? For what he's been through and what it done to him?"
Father, we can never choose our family, but we can choose to love them unconditionally or just walk away. Father, teach us how to treasure our family, our own flash and blood. Father, teach us how to love and cherish our family. Father, give us the most sincere heart to forgive them, for whatever they have done, just like the father who welcomed his son into his arms, in the prodigal sons parable.
Father, we have always wondered when it would be the time we should love somebody the most. When they done good? When they showed kindness and love? Then, we love them back? No, no, no! Father we should really love somebody and show them compassion (from Latin: "co-suffering") when the persons were at their lowest, when the persons can't even believe in themselves, when the persons were lost in the midst!
Father, we love our family. Father, we are commanded to love our neighbours as ourselves, hence, let us extend our love and good heart to the brothers and sisters around us.
In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
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