Pray for your Enemies

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May 30, 2025, 7:34:42 AM5/30/25

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PRAY FOR YOUR ENEMIES

Mt 5:44,45 But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

"God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Rom 5:8 And "if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!" Rom 5:10 But realize also that most of God's enemies never come to appreciate God's love, and that the manner in which he demonstrated His love is not something that most of God's enemies recognize as love. So also in the Christian life. Love your enemies, but don't expect them to appreciate your acts of love. In fact, just like with God's love, a Christian's love for his enemies is often viewed as hatred by them.

Concerning those who persecute you, remember that the apostle Paul formerly persecuted the church. But later he came to believe. So pray for your persecutors that "they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will."2Tim 2:26

In fact Paul himself gives us an example of praying for those who persecute you in the very first prayer we started off in this series Rom 10:1 "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved."