Thanking God for His forbearance with us and asking God to help His people be forbearing with each other
What does forbearing mean? Showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment; seemly and forbearing...yet strong enough to resist aggression; able to bear patiently in the face of suffering
So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm. - Joel 2:13 NIV
Take a moment and pray with us. Click today's Prayer Podcast to get you started in thanksgiving, prayer and intercession.
Praise - Father God we thank your forbearance with us. That you demonstrated through your Son, restraint and did not retaliate. That Father you have been patient with us when we try to learn to follow your ways. You express longsuffering over us when we sin over and over and you help us get back up over and over, knowing the struggles we face and the temptations and the warfare. Thank you for modeling true love that suffers long and never gives up.
Pray - for people who know you, including ourselves, to put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering, bearing with one another. Help us to restrain from retaliation, fighting back, getting upset over such petty things and instead forgiving one another and moving on. Help us to demonstrate your love to others as you have loved us. Help us to be patient and never give up.
Intercede - For the soul of the person whose on our heart/mind today, we pray they would hear the words of the hymn as if they were coming directly from your mouth O Lord: Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling-- Calling for you and for me; Patiently Jesus is waiting and watching-- Watching for you and for me! Come home! come home! Ye who are weary, come home! Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, Calling, O sinner, come home!
Scriptures:
Colossians 3:12 NIV - Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.
Ephesians 4:2-3 - with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Exodus 34:6 - And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth
Romans 2:4 - Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
Romans 3:25 - whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,
Numbers 14:18 - ‘The LORD is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’
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