Day 4 (March 4)

“Lord, make us a community of love.”

Daily Direction

• We can’t give away what we don’t have. We are called to love the world around us, but we can’t love the world around us if we are not loving each other. Jesus said the world would know us by our love, and so today we are asking that God would mold us into a community that is known for our love. As we are learning to love one another we are simultaneously being sent out by God to reach our city with his love.

• The greatest power a group of people has is unity, and it is in the love of the Spirit that Christians are unified. We are crying out for the love of God to invade every part of who we are as a local community. God is love by nature, and we are made in his image; we are called to be the bearers of God’s love to our families, our workplaces, our schools, and our neighborhoods. We are asking the Lord to form us into a people that is defined by love.

Daily Devotion

• “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May then also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.” John 17.20-22

Daily Help

• Be listening! As we open ourselves up before the Lord we know from Scripture, and experience for many of us, that God is a God who is faithful to speak. As you spend time with him, be open to what he wants to speak to you, and it might be a great idea to keep a notepad to take notes of what God is speaking to you. He may speak things for you personally, he may give you words for other people, and he may give you words for the whole community.