I am so excited to be doing this prayer challenge. If you ever wonder how I prepare for these prayer challenges, let me share with you. I pray about what God wants me to be intentional in prayer about, and then when He reveals something. I research it and consider how to best go to Him in prayer. Then once I get an idea, I actually do a Bible Study/Prayer Time with my children each day. I take the thoughts and ideas from that time with my children and turn it into a blog post, and prayer.
Then once I get them written, I invite the Facebook group to pray through them intentionally day by day. So, I actually pray each prayer twice, once when I write them, and once when I go through them with the group. It has been a huge blessing to me to see Yehovah God work in my life and answer so many prayers.
Today, my children and I read Luke 6 and Titus 3. I hope you will take time to read and ponder both these chapters too. They actually go together so well.
We then took time to pray for God to fill us with His Kindness. We discussed how Kindness isn’t given because it is deserved, but because God freely gives it to all. We also discussed that kindness and compassion are often found together in Scripture. Some passages on Kindness that really spoke to us are:
Luke 6:35 Kindness to our enemies
Titus 3:4-5 Undeserved Kindness of God
Ephesians 4:32 Kindness and Compassion
Colossians 3:12 Kindness and Compassion
We took some time and looked at the Greek of this word. Tomorrow, we will look at the word goodness, which is hard to understand if there is a difference between these two words.
But, in Greek, today’s word is an action that we take towards other people regardless if they deserve it. It is an act of integrity. We do unto others as we want others to do unto us. This is because God has done good to us even though we do not deserve it. Kindness is a gift given to even our enemies.
Tomorrow, we will look at the difference between kindness (chrēstótēs) and goodness (agathōsýnē). A hint, kindness is about the person receiving the gift, and goodness is about the person giving the gift.
Prayer:
Yehovah God,
We thank you for your undeserved Kindness. We thank you for your Kindness in that even when we were in our sin You saw fit to send Your Son to Save us.
We ask that you would always help us share that same kindness with those who are unkind, rude, ungrateful, even mean to us. Let us bring Your Kindness to the World, by doing good to those who don’t deserve it.
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