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1 Corinthians chapter 13, verses 4 through 7.

Love is patient and kind.

Love does not envy or boast.

It is not arrogant or rude.

It does not insist on its own way. It is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way. It is not irritable or resentful. It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all

things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

This is one of the most famous passages maybe in all the Bible, certainly in First Corinthians,

this description of love, of Christ-like love, and it is famous for a reason. It's beautiful.

This portrait of love is majestic. And the more you meditate on it, the more you just kind of

read it and soak it in, the more beautiful it becomes. And so I just want to, I want to pray for these things for us.

Like, just to lead us to pray for this kind of love, a kind of love that comes from God that is

so different from even some of the misconceptions we might have about love in this world.

So let's pray for love according to God's word in our lives and our relationships in the church

and the way we love the loss, those who are not in Christ around us.

God, we pray for your love to be evident in us,

to be a reality in us. We want to experience a life that is saturated with your love,

with love that is patient. God, make us patient. We pray. Help us to be patient today.

Help us to be kind. We pray for kind love in our lives. May the fragrance of kindness be evident to all around us today, we pray.

We pray that you would keep us, guard us, from envy or boasting.

God, we pray for humility. We pray for humble love that is not looking to advance ourselves but that is looking for the good

of others that is not looking to exalt our own name but that is looking to exalt your name god we pray

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