“Whoever Is Not With Me Is Against Me”
Help those of us who follow Jesus, O God, to see what you are doing; give us discernment to know how you are working in the world to change lives and to set people free. Protect us from refusing to see how the Spirit inspires works of grace and love and from refusing to share in such Spirit-inspired works.
Help those around us who do not follow Jesus, O God, to see what you are doing; give them discernment to know how you are working in the world to change them and to set them free. Enable them to see how the Spirit inspires works of grace and love on their behalf and to be able to open their lives up to what the Spirit is doing for them.
Help those of us who follow Jesus, O God, to be led by the Spirit to work alongside Jesus in doing works of grace and love on behalf of hurting and lost people.
Help those of us who do not follow Jesus, O God, to be led by the Spirit to accept what Jesus and Jesus’ followers are being led by the Spirit to do for us to touch us with grace and love.
Amen.
“Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. Therefore I tell you, people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.” (Matthew 12:30-32)
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