Day 12: Loving Neighbor: A Bigger Circle

5/31/2019

Day 12: Loving Neighbor: A Bigger Circle

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Scripture:
For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light— for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true. Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what such people do secretly; but everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” - Ephesians 5:8-14
Reflection Questions:

Do you have attitudes toward groups or a person that are hindering your ability to love?
What are you hiding from the world?

Prayer:
God, reveal to me the ideas or biases that prevent me from greater love of you and my neighbor. Instill in me a willingness to grow, to stretch, and allow your Light to transform my darkness. Amen

Challenge:
To let go of previously held ideas that keep you away from greater love.

Author

Over the next 21 days, Aldersgate UMC is invited into an intentional time of prayer for ourselves and our community, You will be receiving a daily email (FaceBook blasts too!) with scripture, questions, prayer, and a daily challenge to use during your personal prayer and devotional time. The prayers used will come from a new resource by Justin LaRosa, a UMC Deacon from Hyde Park UMC in Tampa FL. The resource is called “the Jesus Challenge” - 21 Days of loving God and Neighbor. Some other prayers will be adapted to include specific prayers for our Aldersgate community.
I pray that you engage in these days of prayer as a time to go deeper in your relationship with God and in prayer for the Aldersgate UMC and the community of East Brunswick! I look forward to hearing about your experiences on Pentecost Sunday!!
Blessings Pastor Erica

21 DAYS OF Prayer