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•A Prayer of Love from 1 Corinthians 13•By Anthony Valente👉 “Love never fails….”(1 Corinthians 13:8)Known as the Love Chapter, 1 Corinthians 13 is one of the greatest reminders to us today of what real love looks like. And what it doesn’t look like. Widely read at weddings or written all over love notes, these words may become so familiar over time; they can almost lose some of their important message.As we read this portion of Scripture today, let’s ask God for help in soaking in every truth as we pray His powerful words back to Him. Let’s ask for the freshness of His Spirit to bring His message of love alive within our hearts and flowing through our lives. We can’t do it on our own. We’d never be able to muster enough strength within us. It’s only possible through Him. And more than ever before, our world needs to see what true love looks like. We can do a lot of good things in this life, we can give gifts, and even make notable sacrifices for others. But if we do not have Christ’s love within us, compelling us, filling us, every moment of every day, “it profits me nothing.”His words of truth and love:“If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never fails…. But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.” (From 1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13)Let us pray.✝️ Dear God,Thank You that You are a loving, gracious God. Thank You that You’ve offered us forgiveness and the gift of new life in You. Thank You that Your love is perfect, it never fails, and that nothing can separate us from Your love.We pray that our lives would be filled and overflowing with the power of Your love so we can make a difference in this world and bring honor to You. We ask for Your help in reminding us that the most important things are not what we do outwardly, it’s not based on any talent or gift, but the most significant thing we can do in this life is simply to love You and to choose to love others.Lord thank You that Your love is patient. Help us show patience with those around us.Lord thank You that Your love is kind. Help us to extend kindness to others.Lord thank You that true love is not jealous. Help us cast aside feelings of jealousy or hatred towards others.Lord thank You that Your love does not brag and is not arrogant. Help us not to live with pride or arrogance, but to choose to walk with humility and grace.Lord thank You that true love does not act unbecomingly. Lord help us to extend kindness instead of rudeness towards others. Help us to lay aside the critical tone and tearing down with our words, so that we can truly walk in peace.Lord thank You that true love does not seek its own. Lord help us not to live selfishly, looking only to our own interests.Lord thank You that true love is not provoked. Lord help us not to become easily angered. Help us not to be so quickly reactive, but instead slow to speak and slow to become angry.Lord thank You that your love does not take into account a wrong suffered. Lord help us not to hold grudges, but to choose to forgive, even when it’s difficult.Lord thank You that Your love does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. Lord help us to love Your words of truth, may we walk in your freedom and wisdom. Let it be what drives our lives and choices every day.Lord thank You that Your love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things, thank You that Your love never fails.Help us to love as You love. Fill us with Your Spirit so that we can choose what is best. We are weak Lord, but we know also, that even when we are weak, you are strong within us. Thank You that it’s not all up to us. Thank You that You equip us to face each day with the power of Your love, Your forgiveness, and Your grace.We love You Lord with all of our heart, mind, body, spirit, soul and we need You today, and every day.In Jesus’ Name,AMEN 🙏 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.(John 3:16)Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.(1 John 4:8)Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.(1 Peter 4:8)And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.(Colossians 3:14)A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”(John 13:34-35)Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.(John 15:13)We love because he first loved us.(1 John 4:19)Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.(Proverbs 10:12)Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.(Ephesians 5:25)So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.(1 John 4:16)But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.(Luke 6:35)Owe nothing to anyone—except for your obligation to love one another. If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill the requirements of God’s law.(Romans 13:8)For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight.(Colossians 1:19-22)And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.(Ezekiel 36:26)(pic verse)But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”(Matthew 19:14)Artist 👨‍🎨 I Am With You Always - David Delfeld