Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

First Corinthians chapter 13 is known as the love chapter, this supernatural,

spirit-inspired picture of love. And I just want to read these verses and pray them over our lives as I read them.

So instead of just reading them and then talking about and then praying, let's just pray them.

This is one of those places in God's Word where it's just so easy just to read and pray

simultaneously because there's not a lot of

explanation needed.

So let me pray this over us, straight from God's word.

Oh, God, we praise you for the picture of love that you've given us in 1st Corinthians

13.

And we pray that all of these attributes, characteristics, and expressions of love

that we read here would be evident in our lives today. God, we pray that you would help us to be

patient and kind. Help us not to envy or boast. Deliver us from pride, oh God. We pray for the

humility that comes with true love for you and others. We pray that you would keep us from being

arrogant or rude in any way. God, we pray for

humility and kindness. We pray that today you would keep us from insisting on our own way. God,

help us to yield to your ways above all. And God, help us to serve others and what is good for

them. God, we pray that you would keep us from being irritable or resentful. Oh, God, guard us in every

moment in our minds, in our thoughts, and our desires, and our words,

and our actions keep us from being in any way irritable or resentful.

God, we pray that we would not rejoice at wrongdoing, but that we would rejoice with the truth. We pray that we would grieve over evil

and run from temptation to sin and rejoice, experience life in truly walking with you according to your

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