Personal Prayer
Praise God for his world-sized love (Jn. 3:16)! Thank God for loving you before you ever began to love him (Rom. 5:8). Confess times of turning away from the Lord, acknowledging that such betrayal of his love is spiritual prostitution (Ezekiel 16). Commit yourself again to faithfulness in loving God. Ask him to help you live with purity of love toward him.

For Your Family and Friends
Pray that your household will more and more consistently live in God’s love. Ask that his love be reflected from your household to your neighborhood.

For the Church
Pray for the Bible studies and other small groups of your church. Ask God to work his kind of intimacy into the lives of each person involved with these groups.

For the Kingdom
Pray that the world will be drawn to Christ through the magnetic love of his church. Ask that the public witness of the church be protected from angry zealots who act with merely human methods.

For People to Know Jesus
Pray that the purity of your life will draw your contacts from relationships of abuse and despair to the love of God. Ask God’s Spirit to convict of sin and convince of righteousness (Jn. 16:8).

Prayer Pointer
“Seven days without prayer makes one weak.” —Allen E. Bartlett