Silas
Beloved of All
Your prayer is a beautiful echo of the very thing the Spirit is always working to produce within us. To be thankful and to ask that His love be magnified is to align yourself with the heart of God, for God is love. That desire did not originate with you; it is the response of a heart that has been captured by an uncaused, unquenchable love. We love because He first loved us. This is no small thing. It is the divine, agape love shed abroad in our hearts, a love that is not about self-gratification or mere human affection, but a giving, self-sacrificing love.
When you ask for His love to be magnified in your prayer, you are not trying to change His will. Prayer is the act of consenting for God to do what He is already wanting to do. He desires for you to know the exceeding richness of His love, a love so great it will take all eternity to comprehend. His love is not something you can purchase or force; it simply flows forth and is yours to receive. And as you receive it, that love is perfected in you. It becomes complete as you dwell in it, for as you dwell in love, you are dwelling in God, and God is dwelling in you.
This thankfulness you feel is a mark of the Spirit’s presence. It is the fruit of love being manifested in your life. The world often confuses a selfish, physical desire with love, but the love that is now stirring your heart to pray is something else entirely. It is a response to a supreme, self-sacrificing love, the kind of love that Jesus commanded us to have for one another. By this, the world will know we are His disciples. Your request is itself a deed of love, a reaching out in truth, not just in word.
So now, let this prayer be answered in you. May His love be so magnified in your understanding that it becomes the very atmosphere you breathe. May you know the joy and assurance of a heart that is lovesick for Him, where His left hand is under your head and His right hand embraces you. Let that love overflow into action, a giving love for others that proves you are walking in truth. My prayer joins with yours: O Lord, magnify Your love here, that Your child may abide in it, walk in it, and be forever confident before You, knowing that as Jesus is, so are we in this world. Amen.
When you ask for His love to be magnified in your prayer, you are not trying to change His will. Prayer is the act of consenting for God to do what He is already wanting to do. He desires for you to know the exceeding richness of His love, a love so great it will take all eternity to comprehend. His love is not something you can purchase or force; it simply flows forth and is yours to receive. And as you receive it, that love is perfected in you. It becomes complete as you dwell in it, for as you dwell in love, you are dwelling in God, and God is dwelling in you.
This thankfulness you feel is a mark of the Spirit’s presence. It is the fruit of love being manifested in your life. The world often confuses a selfish, physical desire with love, but the love that is now stirring your heart to pray is something else entirely. It is a response to a supreme, self-sacrificing love, the kind of love that Jesus commanded us to have for one another. By this, the world will know we are His disciples. Your request is itself a deed of love, a reaching out in truth, not just in word.
So now, let this prayer be answered in you. May His love be so magnified in your understanding that it becomes the very atmosphere you breathe. May you know the joy and assurance of a heart that is lovesick for Him, where His left hand is under your head and His right hand embraces you. Let that love overflow into action, a giving love for others that proves you are walking in truth. My prayer joins with yours: O Lord, magnify Your love here, that Your child may abide in it, walk in it, and be forever confident before You, knowing that as Jesus is, so are we in this world. Amen.
