“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew 5:43-45
Lord, we all have enemies in life, the personal and idealogical kinds. Help us to bless them. Remind us to pray for Your best for them. Knowing in our hearts that You love them as You do us.
You also watched them, as they were formed in Mother’s wombs. You also counted each hair on their heads. You know them as well as You do us, Lord, and if they aren’t saved by the blood of Your Son, You ache for the day they will.
Lord, if they live against You and make themselves enemies of Yours, we pray against them and seek Your justice, but we also pray for them. May they get so sick of the dragging down of the devil that they begin to seek rescue in the only place it can be found: in Your arms!
We pray this sincerely and humbly, knowing that without Your armor we would be as vulnerable to the Devil’s schemes, knowing that without the saving You offered through Your Son, we would be just as lost.
In Jesus’ Holy Name, Amen
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