🙏🏾 Sharing the Gospel of Peace (Part 1)

Foundational Scripture: Romans 12:1–18 (KJV)
Supporting Scriptures: Acts 4:32–37; Romans 5:1–5; Galatians 6:2–5;
Philippians 4:6–9; Isaiah 41:10

Word on My Heart: Empathy

Word Within My Heart: Love

Central Revelation: For peace to endure among us we need each other, but we should pray for a way use Your✝️ Love among us for it to endure.

Father✝️ in Heaven,
As I pray today

in the name of Jesus Christ✝️,

👍🏾our⚖️ Only ✝️ Way,

may Your✝️ Holy Spirit

continue to remind 👍🏾us⚖️

of the peace

You✝️ have given

through 👍🏾our⚖️ Savior

who has risen,
Jesus Christ✝️!

Our Father✝️,
Our Lord✝️,
and Friend✝️,
We extend our hands to Thee✝️
as we come before You✝️

with thanksgiving.

May we remember
that the peace we seek
in this week and those to come

is not simply without

the absence of trouble,

but the presence
of Your✝️ Love

working within 👍🏾us⚖️

and among one another.
Through my ⚖️ sister, my 👍🏾 brother
Sharing all you’ve taught
Towards peace for those suffering
Those whose spirits’
in this world are traumatized,
bothered!

Father✝️,

Your✝️ Word reminds 👍🏾us⚖️

in Romans 12:2

to be transformed

by the renewing

of 👍🏾our⚖️ minds.

So, as we consider

the condition of this world 

in 👍🏾our⚖️ times,

help 👍🏾us⚖️ understand

what it means

to think soberly,

to live humbly,

and to recognize

the value You✝️

have placed

within each of 👍🏾us⚖️
That leads us to a greater sense
of Your✝️ Love and trust.

What we need of each other
Such encouragement for those
Who are abused
by substance
which gives the illusion
of taking the pain away,
not realizing meanwhile
That abusive substance
has no desire to leave
And without the help of Your✝️ Spirit
It will stay, day after day
after day after day after day
Then Sunday turns to Saturday
And Saturday turns the next day into a year
Year of fear on the inside that never leaves
And calm becomes temporary
While peace seems to tarry
And February laughs at us
Just as the plants running lapse
For us, in us, and arounds
Until ashes turn to ashes
And dust to dust.

God✝️!
Lord Jesus✝️!
We need each other!

Because as well humility
from such a lifestyle is only temporary.
Hence the help sent
With Roman gifts of Love meant
To encourage us
To lead us
To teach us
To reach us personally
with an experience love
Meant to show
And give something
we never could on our own,
The absolute truth of who God✝️ really is
For us in the moments
when we feel alone.
When life humbles us
unexpectedly leaving us crust
Someone has to uplift us
through the Only ✝️Love known
To the Christian we can trust
That something given from above
Intrinsically gifted in all of us.

This reflections Lord✝️,
Is real, for we know
that life is hard
and some burdens
are seen.

Others remain hidden.
Some may even be written.
And surely “it is written”
That in this world we shall
Suffer persecution.
So Lord✝️, we as for wisdom
That only comes from you
Because the one made comes
from two the question intensifies
Even the more
What do we, because a vow of any kind
Takes a lifetime to fulfill
While still
Some hearts
are grieving.

Some minds
are troubled.

And some among 👍🏾us⚖️

are simply tired from a struggle

while trying
to remain strong.

Yet Father✝️,

Your✝️ Word reminds 👍🏾us⚖️

in Isaiah 41:10

not to fear,

for You✝️ are with 👍🏾us⚖️.
You✝️ strengthen.

You✝️ help.

And You✝️ uphold.

So teach 👍🏾us⚖️, Lord✝️,

not to mistake

the struggles of the mind

for the absence of faith.

Not to confuse

emotional pain

with spiritual failure
Or fake faith,
Or not to measure

the value of another

by the burdens

they are carrying,
Because perilous times
Can tend to make life
Very scary or leave one weary
Of well doing
Even while pursuing
A Godly Lifestyle
Towards the mark
Of heaven after-while

So Father✝️,

since You✝️ know 👍🏾us⚖️
personally and intimately
👍🏾we⚖️ are asking for wisdom
According to this prayer
So that as members one of another
We can learn to care and be there
For each other.

In Jesus Christ✝️name
This is my prayer
I pray to You✝️ and give thanks

Amen.