God Pours His Love into Our Hearts

Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. For when we were still without strength, in due time (Margin = the right time) Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:5-8

 

Father in heaven, thank You that You gave Your only begotten Son to die once for all our sins, past, present and future. This is proof of Your great love and value for each of us.

Please right now pour out Your love into our hearts and cast out all our fears – the fear of abandonment and rejection. Heal our broken hearts -the lonely waste spaces, the dark places, the festering wounds. 

Shine the light of Your love and truth into the false beliefs and images of ourselves we have gathered up over the years- the beliefs that we are inadequate, ugly, stupid, failures, worthless, undeserving, hopeless and helpless. Heal any traumatic memories, generational tendencies and the roots of our obsessive, compulsive, impulsive and addictive behaviours.

Perhaps unforgiveness, a root of bitterness, is holding us back from the fulness of healing. Please give us the mind of Jesus to forgive others for without Him we can do nothing. Keep pouring Your love into our hearts until they overflow with Your very presence and Your love pours over onto and into all the people we live with, work with and encounter- especially the unloving, unlovable and the unloved.

We ask this in the merits of Jesus’ name. Be it unto us according to Your word. Thank You for this outpouring of love. AMEN

 

 

 Supporting Verses

For the death that He died, he died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Romans 6:10

 

For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. Hebrews 10:14

 

The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart,

And saves such as have a contrite spirit.

He heals the brokenhearted

And binds up their wounds.

Psalm 34:18; 147:3

 

In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it….And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:4,5,14

 

Looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled. Hebrews 12:15

 

Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” Luke 23:34

 

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. John 15:4-5