God, I read Matthew 23 just now. Your words spoken to your followers cause my heart to swell in its desire to be true to You.
Oh Lord my God, how much I admire your love for us!
Yet your words to those who lead others away from you through religious piety, cause me to scrunch my face and chuck judgment stones at them. This is my truth. May I pray in its place…
You are so bold in your Truth. You are so in love with your followers. And you are so disgusted with pharisaical hypocrisy.
Love speaks truth to its hearers. Oh, how you speak truth in this chapter!
Oh my God, that we will sit under your words of love that we refuse to follow the likes of eye-service behaviors. Father, I pray our adoration of your love will seep from our words and hands and feet this day.
I pray our hearts will be equal to yours. I pray our thoughts and prayers will be so intertwined that there is not a scale to measure our minutes in prayer, for we are in prayer all the day long.
Father, I pray I will love you in response to the love you bestowed first upon me.
Father, I pray the freedom of salvation will wash over the modern day pharisee today. I pray you will speak truth to their ears. I pray they will be strong enough to listen. I pray scales will be removed from their eyes. I pray they will be wise enough to see. I pray their feet will take a step closer to you. I pray they will be humble enough to draw nearer.
Oh, Jesus Christ, I pray your blood will wash free the soul bound by religious hypocrisy. I pray your resurrection will bring life to their dead theology. This prayer for salvation I lay at your feet.
In the name of Jesus Christ I pray,
Amen
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