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Forgive and Heal


Colossians 3:12-14 12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. 14 But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. 


Gracious God, as we enter the new year, let us extend love and mercy to everyone; just as You extend it to us. Today we pray for more patience, compassion and kindness. Please take away the critical and harshly judgmental spirit that illuminates other’s faults while minimizing and forgetting our own. Please take away the narrow lenses that make us define people by: race, age, gender, size, achievement, status and other factors that tend to divide us from one another. Our spiritual character and heavenly view are diminished by such preoccupations as they tempt us to ignore Your divine directive to “love one another.” 


Merciful Father, we pray for Your patience and gentleness as we interact with the most difficult of persons; in the most challenging circumstances. Let us seize every opportunity to put Your grace on display; sow seeds of reconciliation and unity; and extend forgiveness without hesitation. And over all our virtues, let us “put on love, which binds our good deeds together in perfect unity” (Col. 3:14). 


Thank You oh Lord, for calling and leading us. And thank You for the Holy Spirit who gives wisdom, courage and direction; moving us to love like Jesus loves, walk in humility as He walked and serve as He served.  Lord, we want to be a reflection of Jesus in a world that desperately needs to see Him. In 2025, please make us Your agents of love and peace. All for the sake of Your name.  Lord, please let it be so.   In Jesus Name we pray and give thanks. Amen.

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