Personal Prayer
Praise “God, who is rich in mercy” (Eph. 2:4). Give thanks that, in that great mercy, God has made you alive with Christ even when you were dead in transgressions (2:5). Confess situations where you’ve been unwilling to let God’s mercy flow through you to someone who has wronged you. Commit to being merciful, knowing that this is where you also are shown mercy (Mt. 5:7). Ask God for the love and strength to be a merciful person.

For Your Family and Friends
Pray that your home will be a place dominated by compassion rather than severity. Ask God to cause his mercy to overflow from your home to your friends’ homes.

For the Church
Pray for missionaries who are introducing people to the God who saves, not because of righteous human actions but because of his mercy (Titus 3:5). Ask God to make his mercy-bearing believers merciful to one another.

For the Kingdom
Pray for Christian relief workers and agencies showing compassion in the name of Christ. Ask for their safety in the midst of sometimes dangerous circumstances.

For People to Know Jesus
Pray that such forgiveness and compassion will prevail in the church that the world will know that Jesus has come with God’s supernatural love (Jn. 17:23). Ask God to draw the unsaved to himself through that love.