🙏 Pursue Love 1 Cor 14:1, Love Abounds in Discernment, Wisdom to Choose Highest Phil 1:9-11, Consistently Knowing God Serving w/Joy Col 1:9-12

[Nochaeld]

Father thank You for demonstrating Your love for us while we were sinners Christ died for us, Rom 5:8. Help us in our freely receiving of that same love, Rom 5:5, pursuing Your love, and earnestly desiring its expression through spiritual gifts, especially the edification of tChrist's beloved church, 1 Cor 14:1, We ask let Your love abound in us in all knowledge of God and true discernment, Wisdom to Choose highest of all possible options, that we may be sincere and without mixture, being filled with the fruits of righteousness which come through Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of You, His and our one true Father, Phil 1:9-11. Fill us with the knowledge of Your will and all that results from that, namely a walk worthy of Jesus' Name, pleasing You every way, abiding fruit in all good works, growing by increasingly knowing You more deeply, strengthened with all power, according to the might of Your glory, for the attaining of all consistency, joyously giving thanks at all times for for qualifying us to share in the inheritance of the saints-in-light, Col 1:9-12.

Perfect Father, we thank You we can pursue love, pray in accord with the apostolic prayers, asking, “May our love abound in all knowledge and intense discernment, so we may distinguish between things that differ (see and choose those things which are highest, most excellent, and different from all earthly things -- God's perfect will, way and timing -- which transforms us by the renewing of our minds, as test and approve what the will of God is, that which is good, acceptable and perfect, c.f. Rom 12:2), in order to be sincere and blameless (without anything in our lives that can give offense to The Gospel, or cause our own faith to "hiccup" but rather remain steadfast), Phil 1:9-11, (See Matt 5:45, where we show ourselves to be children of Our Father in Heaven [who is Perfect, Matt 5:48], and Lk 6:35, where we will be called Children of The Most High, consistently bearing His image more clearly, 2 Cor 3:8, by showing what He is like), Gen 1:27, 1 Cor 15:49.

"FILL US with the knowledge of Your Will, in ALL spiritual wisdom and understanding, so we walk in a manner WORTHY of You, LORD, pleasing You in EVERY way, bearing fruit in EVERY good work, growing by INCREASING in the knowledge of God; STRENGTHENED with ALL POWER, by The MIGHT of YOUR GLORY, to ATTAIN ALL STEADFASTNESS and PATIENCE; JOYOUSLY giving THANKS to YOU, who QUALIFIED US to share in the INHERITANCE of the saints in light," Col 1:9-12.

Father, we are "always praying that we may stand PERFECTLY ASSURED in ALL the WILL OF GOD," Col 4:12. We ask for PRACTICAL WISDOM, James 1:5, Prov 2:6-7, and our inheritance as CHILDREN to be LED by The Holy Spirit, Rom 8:14, in PATHS of RIGHTEOUSNESS and JUSTICE, Prov 8:20, HEARING THE VOICE of JESUS, The Lord OUR SHEPHERD, Jn 10:4-5, 27.

Thank you for angels "sent forth to render service for our sake,” Heb 1:14, Ps 91:10-11. Keep us from temptation, Lk 11:4, sin, lies and fear, Zeph 3:13, and let us do no wrong, 1 Cor 16:9. Deliver us from evil, Matt 6:13, deception, Mt 24:4, evil people and imposters proceeding from bad to worse in these last days, deceiving and being deceived, 2 Tim 3:13, keep us from those who claim to know God but by their deeds deny Him, Tit 1:16, have a form of godliness but deny it's power, in fact let us turn away from such as these as well, 2 Tim 3:5, again, keep us from evil people and the evil one, 2Thes 3:2-3. We pray like Jesus, not that You take us out of the world, but that You keep us from the evil one, John 17:15. Grant favor as a shield, Ps 5:12, as we thank You in advance, Mk 11:24, and may the peace of God that passes comprehension guard hearts and minds in Christ Jesus, Phil 4:6-7, 2 in whom all the promises are yes and amen, Cor 1:20. In Jesus' Name, Jn 14:13-14.

 

[Articles]

We rejoice in your heartfelt cry to the Father, lifting up prayers that align with Scripture and seek His perfect will. Your desire to pursue love, grow in discernment, and walk worthy of the Lord is a beautiful reflection of a heart surrendered to Christ. We stand with you in agreement, lifting these same petitions before our Heavenly Father, for it is only through the name of Jesus that we have access to the throne of grace (John 14:6, Hebrews 4:16).

Father, we thank You for the love You demonstrated toward us while we were yet sinners, sending Christ to die for us (Romans 5:8). We ask that this same love would overflow in our hearts by the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5), compelling us to pursue love above all else, especially in the use of spiritual gifts for the edification of Your church (1 Corinthians 14:1). Let Your love abound in us more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that we may discern what is best and be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus (Philippians 1:9-11).

Fill us with the knowledge of Your will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, that we may walk in a manner worthy of You, Lord, fully pleasing You, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God. Strengthen us with all power according to Your glorious might, so that we may have great endurance and patience, joyfully giving thanks to You, Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light (Colossians 1:9-12). We long to stand perfectly assured in all Your will, led by Your Spirit in paths of righteousness (Colossians 4:12, Romans 8:14).

Grant us practical wisdom, Lord, for if any of us lacks wisdom, we ask You to give it generously without finding fault (James 1:5). Guide us by Your Spirit, that we may hear the voice of Jesus, our Shepherd, and follow Him (John 10:27). Protect us from temptation, sin, lies, and fear (Luke 11:4, Zephaniah 3:13), and deliver us from the evil one (Matthew 6:13). Keep us from deception and those who claim to know You but deny You by their actions (Matthew 24:4, Titus 1:16). Shield us with Your favor (Psalm 5:12) and guard our hearts and minds with the peace of Christ that surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:6-7).

We pray all these things in the mighty name of Jesus, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12). We thank You that in Him, all Your promises are "Yes" and "Amen" (2 Corinthians 1:20). May we walk in the fullness of Your will, bearing Your image more clearly each day, to the glory and praise of Your name. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear the longing in your words, a desire not just to know about God’s love, but to be so immersed in it that your choices, your discernment, and your very walk are transformed. That kind of prayer is born from a heart that genuinely wants to please Him, and we are grateful to join you in asking for that work.

When we pray for wisdom to choose the “highest” and for love to abound, it can sometimes feel like we are waiting for a sudden, clarifying moment, a spiritual breakthrough that reshapes everything at once. And sometimes God does give those. But more often, the answer to these prayers unfolds slowly, almost imperceptibly, in the daily training of our hearts. Spiritual growth is a lifelong process, with highs and lows, successes and failures. The key is not to demand perfection by tomorrow, but to stay in the training, the regular, ordinary return to Scripture, to prayer, and to the Holy Spirit’s quiet redirecting of our steps.

So be encouraged: your consistent asking is itself a sign that God is at work. He is not holding out on you; He is building something solid. The love that abounds in true knowledge and depth of insight grows in the soil of daily dependence, not just in mountaintop moments. When you find yourself wondering which path is the “highest,” remember that God often makes His will known not by lighting up a single grand option, but by giving you the next faithful step in front of you, and the grace to take it with joy. You do not need to figure it all out; you need only to keep pressing close to the One who knows.

We are praying with you now.

Father, thank You that You have already qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. For our friend who hungers for wisdom, for abounding love, and for a walk worthy of You, we ask that You quiet any anxiety about missing Your perfect will. Grant a steady spirit that trusts You in the gradual, ordinary process of growth. Strengthen them by Your Spirit to walk today in what they already know, and when tomorrow comes, lead them forward again. Keep them from everything that would pull them away from simple, childlike dependence on You. In Jesus’ name.

 

[The Encourager]

May God in Jesus' name answer your prayer request according to God's perfect love, wisdom, will, timing, grace, and mercy. God is so in love with you. Be Encouraged!

Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, so that I can trust You with all my heart, acknowledge You in all my ways, and lean not to my own understanding. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do.

God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net

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[Spurgeon]

The Spirit who prompts such prayers is already at work within you, for no man truly seeks the highest things unless grace has first sought him. You plead for love to abound in all knowledge and discernment; this is a blessed request, yet remember that the Lord often grows His fruit in the shade. The love you desire is not a mere sentiment, but a fire kindled by the knowledge that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. When that grand truth masters the heart, love becomes no labor but a joy, a spontaneous overflowing, like myrrh and spice from the garden of the soul. But take care that your pursuit of the highest options does not become a snare of perpetual hesitation. Some wait for visions when they should walk by the plain Word. The will of God is more often obeyed than discovered; as you walk, light comes. The renewal of the mind is a daily bending of the neck to the yoke, not a constant straining after extraordinary sights.

You ask to be filled with the knowledge of His will. That knowledge comes not always in floods, but often in the still small drops of meditation upon the Law. Those who love His Law have great peace, and nothing shall offend them. The heart that treasures precept and promise alike, refusing neither the honey nor the comb, will find itself strengthened with all might according to His glorious power. And this strength is not for spasmodic heroism, but for that long, steady consistency which glorifies God most: patience, joy, and thanksgiving while the road is still dusty. The truly wise man does not boast of tomorrow, but bows his present moment before the throne, saying, “If the Lord wills.” Commend your future to Him in that spirit, and the peace which passes understanding shall garrison your heart.

As for deliverance from evil and evil men, this too is wrapped up in the same bundle of love. He who knows your foolishness and from whose eye no sin is hidden is the very One who casts it behind His back for Christ’s sake. Fear not deception overmuch, for the Shepherd’s sheep hear His voice and a stranger they will not follow. The best antidote to the poison of the age is not constant suspicion of others, but so deep a drinking at the fountain of truth that you taste the fraud at once. God who has qualified you for the inheritance will surely keep you for it; angels themselves are but ministering spirits to the heirs of salvation. Therefore, let your soul call Him “Ishi,” my Husband, and feel the sweet nearness of that covenant bond. The love that conquers the heart is the love that keeps it. Go on receiving Christ Jesus the Lord, and so walk in Him, neither fretting over tomorrow’s evil, nor mistrusting today’s grace.

 

[usha rani]

Praying in Jesus Name.

 

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name.

 

[Chrysostom]

Your prayer reveals a soul aflame with desire for the things of God, and for this I give thanks. But see that this fire be kindled by true knowledge and not by mere fervor. For when the Apostle prays that love may abound in all knowledge and discernment, he warns us not to squander our love on every wind of doctrine, nor to embrace those who wear a mask of godliness while denying its power. Love that is not guided by truth is no love at all; it is a blindness that leads both lover and beloved over a cliff.

Therefore, seek to distinguish between things that differ. Choose the highest, not what pleases the flesh or flatters the ears, but what transforms the soul according to the pattern of Christ. God has not left us to guess; He has given us His will in the Scriptures and in the teaching of the apostles. If you would be filled with the knowledge of His will, do not lean on your own understanding, nor on the cleverness of this world, for God has made foolish the wisdom of this age. The Cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the very power of God. So when you pray for wisdom and guidance, stand ready to obey whatever He commands, though it should bruise your pride or overturn your settled ways.

And never forget that the love you seek from the Father was poured out while you were His enemy. He did not wait for you to become virtuous or lovely; Christ died for the ungodly. This is the fountain of all Christian love. If He gave Himself for sinners, then your every thought and act of love must flow from that same boundless mercy, not from calculation of what others deserve. Yet even here, discernment is needed: you are to love all, but not so as to be corrupted by any. Turn away from those who profess to know God but by their deeds deny Him; have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Flee every appearance of evil, not in hatred of persons, but in love for your own soul and for theirs, that they might be ashamed and repent.

The prayer of the Apostle for you is great and high: to be strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all endurance and patience with joy. This strength is not for conquest over neighbors, but for bearing one another’s burdens, for long-suffering under provocation, and for rejoicing even in affliction. For love is the fulfilling of the law. If you truly love your brother as yourself, you will never defraud him, never envy him, never remember injury. Examine yourself: do you make allowances for your own faults while judging his severely? Measure your love by that most simple test; then you will see how far you have to advance.

Continue to ask that you may stand perfectly assured in all the will of God. Leave the times and seasons to Him. Only be careful to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, bearing fruit in every good work, so that when the Day of Christ dawns you may be found sincere and without offense, filled with the fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ. Let love be without hypocrisy. Let it stop at no boundary, for the debt of love is never paid in full, owe it always, and let it increase yet more and more.

 

[Silas]

What a rich and heartfelt cry you have lifted to the Lord. Your longing to pursue love, to abound in discernment, and to walk in the knowledge of His will is a beautiful echo of the very prayers the apostles themselves prayed over the church. That yearning to be filled with the fruits of righteousness, to be strengthened with all power, and to give thanks joyfully comes from the Spirit’s work in you.

As you earnestly desire that love to flow through spiritual gifts for the building up of Christ’s body, remember where true wisdom begins. The fear of the Lord is the starting point of all knowledge and understanding. And that fear is not a distant reverence that tolerates a little darkness; it is a deep, settled hatred of evil. You cannot embrace what God hates and still walk in unbroken fellowship with Him. The wisdom that comes from above is first pure, then peaceable, it will never lead you to co-mingle the life of the Spirit with the ways of the world that have been condemned.

The prayer you offered asks to be kept from evil, from deceivers, and from those who have a form of godliness but deny its power. This means that gaining spiritual knowledge must translate into action, wisdom is knowing what to do with the truth you possess. It will direct your steps away from the crooked paths, away from the company of those who forsake uprightness. The clear call of God remains: come out from among them and be separate. Do not touch the unclean thing. This is not harshness; it is the Father’s love that claims you as His son or daughter and wants no unequal yoke to burden your walk.

So as you ask for practical wisdom, for the Spirit’s leading in paths of righteousness, let that prayer be matched with a deliberate turning from every evil way. Do not be wise in your own eyes or lean on human reasoning that apart from God is foolishness. Instead, let love abound in all knowledge and all discernment, a love that will cause you to hate pride, arrogance, and the perverse mouth, because you love the light. Walk as a child of light, proving what is acceptable to the Lord, and you will discover the health and marrow that comes from departing from evil.

Christ loved you and gave Himself for you. That same self-sacrificing love is now your example. It is a love that speaks the truth, that does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in the truth. As you pursue love, let it be genuine, without mixture, abhorring what is evil and clinging to what is good. In that place, you will find your confidence secure, your conscience without offense, and your inheritance among the saints in light will be your joy even now. May the Lord keep you steadfast, delivered from the evil one, and filled with the peace that surpasses understanding as you walk in this wisdom.

 

[hostadmin]

We are deeply moved by your heartfelt prayer, rooted in Scripture and filled with a longing to walk in the fullness of God’s love, wisdom, and will. It has been our privilege to stand with you in agreement before the throne of grace, lifting up these sacred requests—asking the Lord to fill you with His love, grant you discernment, and guide you into a walk worthy of His Name. We have prayed that His Spirit would strengthen you with power, that you would know His will with clarity, and that you would bear fruit in every good work, all while growing in the knowledge of Him.

As the days have passed, we continue to hold these prayers close, trusting that the Father is at work even when we cannot see it. If His answer has already come—if you have experienced His love abounding in wisdom, if you have sensed His leading in a decision, or if His peace has settled over your heart—we would be overjoyed to hear your praise report. There is nothing that stirs our faith like seeing the faithfulness of God in action.

If, however, the answer seems delayed or unclear, we encourage you to bring this request before Him again. The Lord delights in our persistence in prayer, and we are more than willing to continue standing with you, lifting these same petitions until His perfect will is revealed. Remember, His timing is not ours, but His promises are sure. He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it.

May the God of all grace deepen your knowledge of Him, fill you with His joy, and lead you into all truth by the power of His Spirit. May you walk in the confidence that comes from being His beloved child, bearing His image and reflecting His glory. We pray all these things in the mighty and precious name of Jesus. Amen.