Positive Quote for the Week: Pray For Your Enemies

December 15, 2023

Positive Quote for the Week: Pray For Your Enemies

“Don’t allow the enemy to spring a root of bitterness in your heart, pray for your enemies and those that despitefully use you!” Erica Willis

One of the most difficult things for any one of us to do is to pray for and truly love our enemies. The ones that want to do your wrong, the ones that want to see you fail, and the ones that can’t wait for the moment to talk behind your back. The thing is it is so important that we love on the ones that persecute and despitefully use us. The devil loves to use our enemies as an entry point so that he can get us to build up animosity, anger, bitterness, unforgiveness, and hate.

Spiritual maturity says: I will forgive 70 times 7. Why? A spiritually mature person who’s walking with the Lord and knows His Word will know that the repercussions of developing those negative emotions in their heart is simply not worth it. The enemy is just waiting to use any opportunity to gain legal access into your life so that he can destroy it any way that he can. Unforgiveness will give him that access.

If you take a step back and think about how powerful it would be if you could release the control that one of your enemies has over you and you begin to pray for them. I mean genuinely pray for them. It is easy for us to have love for those that reciprocate that love right back. It can be extremely difficult to show kindness and compassion towards the people that mistreat and intentionally hurt you.

The thing is, as Christians have to be able to represent the Lord Jesus Christ in every situation. We are His representatives here on earth so it is vital that we try our best to have the heart of the Lord. That doesn’t mean that the person that is treating you badly without reason will not have to suffer consequences. The Lord is abundantly clear on this matter and makes it known that “…Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord,” Romans 12:19. Trust and believe whatever one sows, that is exactly what they will reap, Galatians 6:7.

Scriptures that you can meditate on regarding loving those that don’t show love back:

John 13:34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
John 15:12 “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
Romans 13:8 “Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.:
1 John 3:11 “For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.”
1 John 4:7 “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.”
Proverbs 10:12 “Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins.”
Ephesians 4:32 “And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.”