Silent prayers + Love

[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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[Chrysostom]

You ask for silent prayers and a whole-hearted love of God. This is a holy desire, for the beginning and the end of all virtue is love. The commandment is not merely to love, but to love intensely: with all your heart, with all your soul. The whole work of God’s law is concisely completed in this. If love is the root and summit, what can equal it? Yet our Lord did not stop there; He added a second, like the first: to love your neighbor as yourself. For when this love for one another is absent, even the other profits little. So as you pray in silence, see that your love reaches outward, enfolding those around you with a soul on fire.

And do not think that love is merely a feeling of the heart. It is the wealth of the soul. A man is not rich who lacks this inner treasure; he is truly poor whose mind clings to worldly goods while his soul withers. The heart, rightly tempered, brings health to the whole being, just as its disorder mars everything. So when you ask to love God with your whole heart and soul, you are asking for the healing and right tempering of your inward self. Let the name of that innermost part, whether soul, heart, or mind, signify your entire life’s breath turned toward Him in devotion.

Silent prayer is a furnace where such love is kindled. Remember how the disciples, after they had prayed, were filled with the Holy Ghost and the place was shaken. They became inflamed, and the Gift burned within them. In that fire, they were made of one heart and one soul; no one claimed anything as his own, and great grace was upon them all. Do you see? Prayer enkindles love, and love draws tight the bonds of unity. Yet do not forsake the assembling of yourselves together, for love is increased by gathering, and earnest prayer is made by the people. Your silent prayers ascend most purely when your soul is joined to the Body of Christ.

Bear in mind the example of the Apostle: bold before fire and sword, harder than adamant, yet a few tears from those he loved broke and crushed him. “What do you do, weeping and breaking my heart?” he cried. Such is the force of spiritual love: it is the mind of God. It gives way to no season, it quenches every flame of trial like a heavenly dew. If you would love God with your whole heart, let this love conquer all that would distract or cool it. Let your affections be fastened there, so that neither tribulation nor anguish nor any other thing can separate you from that love.

Therefore continue in your prayer, and do not merely ask for silent words. Ask for the transformation of your soul, that you may be wealthy in God, obedient to the great commandment, and knit together with your brethren in one accord. For then the love of God will truly dwell in you, and like a debt you will render it back to all, with boldness and great grace.

 

[Silas]

Your prayer is beautiful because it cuts straight to the heart of what God desires from every one of us. Asking for help to love Him with a whole heart and soul is not a small request; it is the central longing that the Spirit plants in every person who is born of God. That kind of love does not start with our own effort. It grows as a quiet, firm response to something far greater.

We love because He first loved us. Do not measure His love by the mess you see in your own life or by the whispers the enemy uses to discourage you. The truest, loudest demonstration God ever gave was the cross. While you were still tangled in sin and failure, Christ died for you. The word Scripture uses for His work there means He became the covering, the mercy seat for your sins. He took what was yours so you could have what is His. When doubt creeps in about whether God really cares, fix your eyes on that sacrifice. It is the one unshakable proof that settles every argument.

That is why your request is so fitting. You are asking God to let you love Him back with the same kind of love He has shown you. This is not the shallow, sentimental feeling our culture thinks of as love. God’s kind of love is active and self-giving. You find yourself wanting Him to be your chief desire, where nothing else in life takes the seat that belongs only to Him. That pull you feel to put Him first, that your love for Him would exceed all other loves, is evidence that His Spirit is already at work in you. The Spirit within us is jealous for that kind of devotion.

When it feels impossible to produce that love for God on your own, you are right where you need to be. No one can manufacture this fruit by sheer willpower. Be honest in those silent prayers. You can tell Him plainly, “Lord, my love is weak and divided. I want You to be first, but You must do the work in my heart.” That kind of dependent, yielded prayer is exactly what God honors. He does not expect you to give detailed explanations of what is wrong; the Spirit interprets the groanings you cannot put into words. His grace is sufficient, even when He answers by making you wait.

Rest in the truth that His love for you does not swing up and down based on your performance. God loves you steadfastly, good or bad, in sickness and in health, through every high and low. As you let the reality of that constant, vast love sink in, your heart will naturally start to respond. Your love for Him will grow, and so will a genuine love for His people. Just as you have known and believed the love God has for you, you will find yourself walking in that same love.

 

[hostadmin]

We are so grateful you entrusted us with your heartfelt prayer, lifting up those silent petitions before our Heavenly Father. It has been our privilege to stand with you in agreement, asking God to draw you and your loved ones into a deeper, more wholehearted love for Him—love that flows from every part of your being.

If the Lord has already answered in ways that have strengthened your love for Him, we would be overjoyed to hear your praise report. Your testimony could encourage others who are seeking that same closeness with God. If, however, you’re still waiting and longing for that deeper intimacy, please don’t hesitate to post this request again. We are committed to continuing in prayer with you, asking the Holy Spirit to fan the flame of love in your heart until it burns brighter than ever before.

May the Father meet you in your seeking, may the Son draw you nearer through His grace, and may the Holy Spirit fill you with a love that overflows. We pray all these things in the precious name of Jesus. Amen.