Healing Prayer
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Healing Prayer
Heart Work: How Loving Your Neighbor Transforms Your Faith
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Have you ever struggled with loving someone who's hurt you? That familiar command to "love your neighbor as yourself" sounds simple until that neighbor becomes the person who betrayed your trust or speaks poorly of you behind your back.
Today's powerful prayer session dives deep into Matthew 22:37-39, where Jesus identifies the two greatest commandments: loving God with everything we are and loving our neighbors as ourselves. We confront the reality that truly loving others – especially difficult people – requires supernatural strength beyond human capability.
What makes Christ's teaching on love so revolutionary is how it directly contradicts our culture's accepted wisdom. While the world tells us it's perfectly fine to cut toxic people from our lives, Jesus modeled something radically different. Consider how He sat at the same table with Judas, fully aware of the betrayal to come, yet continued loving him anyway. This divine example challenges us to examine our own conditional love and asks: are we willing to love beyond what feels reasonable?
Many of us carry wounds from past relationships that make loving others feel impossible. Our prayer acknowledges the very real pain of betrayal, disappointment, and heartbreak while asking God to heal these broken places. Only through this healing can we regain the capacity to love and trust again. We don't minimize the difficulty – instead, we honestly ask for divine help: "God, help us to love those that get on our nerves... help us to love those that we know are talking about us."
This prayer session reminds us that loving difficult people isn't just about what we do for them; it's about who we become through the process. Each act of supernatural love transforms us more into Christ's image. His grace proves sufficient even when our love feels inadequate.
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Scripture Reading from Matthew 22
Speaker 1Good morning and welcome to Morning Prayer. Today is September 24th 2025, and we are here this morning thanking the Lord for another day. Today, our scripture for the day is Matthew, the 22nd chapter, verses 37 through 39 in the New International Version of the Bible. It reads Jesus replied love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment, and the second is, like it love your neighbor as yourself, amen. And so today we are praying that the Lord will help us to love our neighbor, to love those that might not always be the most lovable. Amen. And we're going to go into prayer. Father, we exalt and praise your name. We thank you because there is none like you in all the earth. We thank you because there is none like you in all the earth. We thank you because there is none like you in all the heavens. Lord, we thank you, we thank you, we thank you. Your name is lifted and exalted right here. God, oh God. Your name is lifted and exalted here, father, oh, we give you praise. Hallelujah, hallelujah. We give you all of the praise, god. We give you all of the praise, god. All the glory belongs to you. All the honor belongs to you. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, yahweh, we praise your name, yahweh, we praise your name. I am Messiah. Oh, hallelujah, yahweh, we praise your name. Lord, coming into your presence, giving you thanks, oh God, we submit ourselves before you, father. We pray that if anything in us is not like you, that you take it out in the name of Jesus. Oh God, forgive us of our sins. Jesus, oh Lord, the blood of Jesus wash and cleanse us right now, oh Lord, cleanse us, god, from all unrighteousness. Cleanse us, god, oh Lord, for the thoughts and the inward things. Oh God, oh Lord, we ask even now, lord, that you'll create in us a clean heart and renewal, right spirit, in the mighty name of Jesus. Oh God, I thank you, we thank you, lord, that today is a new day. We thank you that yesterday is gone. Oh God, the failures of yesterday are yesterday. Oh God, today is a new day and, father, we come to you now for strength for the day, in the name of Jesus. Oh God, if you give us strength, god, we won't fall. Oh God, if you give us strength, lord, hallelujah, we'll do your will. Oh God, we thank you and we ask you for strength, oh God. Strength, god, Strength to stand, oh God, strength, lord, to be accountable, oh God, strength, god. Hallelujah in the name of Jesus. Oh, somebody is feeling weak in their body. Oh God, we thank you for strength. We thank you for strength, oh God. We thank you for strength. In the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1Oh God, help us, lord, lord, to love our neighbors, as you told us in Matthew, in Matthew 22. Oh God, help us, help us, god. Oh Lord, we understand, hallelujah, that the type of love that you have for us. It's consistent. Oh God, it doesn't change, lord, regardless of what we do, what we say, how we act, you continue to love us. Oh God, you have an unconditional type of love, oh God, a love that this world doesn't know much about. God, oh Lord, I ask, even today, that you'll help us, help our love to be a little bit more like yours, god, in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1Oh God, help us, lord, to love, because you commanded us to love. Oh God, despite how we feel. God, help us in your word to pray for those, hallelujah that despitefully use us and say all manner of evil against us. Oh God, you knew, you knew, god. You knew that we'd face challenges. You knew we'd face people, hallelujah, that make it difficult to love them. Oh God, you knew. But God, you told us anyway to pray for them. To pray for those that despitefully use us, oh God, to pray for those that we've been good to and they haven't been good to us. To pray for those that have used us up, oh God, intentionally, oh God. To pray for those that have used us up, oh God, intentionally. Oh God, to pray for those, hallelujah, to pray for them. Oh, you told us not to return evil for evil, god. But Lord, you told us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. Oh God, help us, help our love to be stronger, help our love to be more Christ-like.
Speaker 1In the name of Jesus. Oh God, we understand that the world tells us that it's okay, it's okay to just walk away, it's okay to cut people off, it's okay, hallelujah. But, god, that's not what your word says, oh God, that's not who you've called us to be. Oh God, that's not in the hallelujah image of Christ. Oh God, help us, lord, help us, father, to love those that get on our nerves. God, in the name of Jesus, help us to love them, help us to love them, help us to do everything we can for them.
Praying for Strength to Love Others
Speaker 1God, in the name of Jesus, oh God, help us to love those hallelujah that we know are talking about us. Oh God, help us to love them anyway. In the name of Jesus, oh God, I thank you, lord, that if we live right, that heaven belongs to us. I thank you, god, that you are the rewarder of those that diligently seek you. Oh God, I thank you because, god, I know, I know in my sanctified soul that if we do what you told us to do, if we love like you told us to love, that you will open up the windows of heaven and pour us out a blessing that we have not room to receive. Oh God, I thank you to receive. Oh God, I thank you, oh God, help us, lord, to be a Christ example, even in the way that we love.
Speaker 1In the name of Jesus, touch our hearts, god, help us, father. Oh God, we're thanking you for healing and deliverance, oh God, from all trauma. Oh God, from all trauma. Oh God, from all things. Oh God, that broke our hearts. God, we thank you, lord, for healing. Oh God, healing of the heart, god, healing of the emotions.
Speaker 1Lord, in the name of Jesus, oh God, some of us have been in battle, some of us have been tried, some of us have gone through it, god, oh Lord, some of us have been let down by those that we trusted explicitly. Oh God, I pray, I pray, god, that you'll take that pain away, that you'll take that heartache away. Oh God, lift the burden, father. In the name of Jesus, we thank you God. You're a heart fixer. We thank you God, you're a heart fixer. We thank you God, you're a heart fixer. Oh God, and you're a heart fixer. Another busia, oh god. And you're yet the mind regulator. And we thank you, god, and we thank you god, and we thank you god.
Speaker 1Oh God, heal our hearts, god, and give us to love again. Oh God, heal our hearts, god, and give us to trust again, oh God. Help us, lord, oh God, to get past the things that the enemy has meant for evil. Oh God, turn it around for our good, turn it around for our good, turn it around for our good. In the name of Jesus, oh Lord, I ask, lord, that you'll allow your love, lord, to overtake ministries, to overtake churches.
Speaker 1In the name of Jesus, oh God, give people to feel the love of God when they walk into the church In the name of Jesus, god, when they walk into the church in the name of Jesus, oh God, give people to feel the type of love that draws them in. In the name of Jesus, oh God, I pray. I pray, lord, that, even though you give us discernment, oh God, that you'll help us to do what it is you told us to do. Rachel, help us to do what it is you told us to do In the name of Jesus. Oh God, we can discern, we can see the motive, god. But, lord, help us to not hate them, god, for what they're doing. Oh God, help us to love them anyway. Help us to love them anyway. In the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1Oh God, it's so hard to understand how you could sit at dinner, hallelujah, sit at the Lord to betray you with a kiss, oh God, you knew everything that Judas was getting ready to do, but you loved him anyway, oh God. You knew everything that he was going to do, oh God, but you decided, lord, to allow the will of God, hallelujah, to take precedence over how you might have felt. In the name of Jesus, god, I pray. I pray that you'll help us to be more like you. In the name of Jesus. Oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God, help us, help us, help us, help us, help us. God, in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1Oh Lord, we ask this morning that you'll continue, lord, to watch over us and protect us. Oh God, we're asking that the blood of Jesus would prevail over our homes, over our families, over our loved ones. In the name of Jesus, oh God, we cancel the assignment of the enemy today. In the name of Jesus, oh God, every plot, every trick, every entrapment, oh God, whatever it may be that the enemy has planned, we rebuke it now in the name of Jesus. Oh, the blood of Jesus prevail over it. In the name of Jesus, oh, the blood of Jesus prevail over it. In the name of Jesus, we bind every retaliating force.
Speaker 1In the name of Jesus, oh God, I thank you, lord, for fighting our battle. Oh God, we fight in the spirit. This morning, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, hallelujah and spiritual wickedness in high places. Oh God, we come against every opposing spirit. In the name of Jesus, oh God, I thank you this morning. I thank you for your people. Oh God, pushing and pressing. God, I thank you for giving them grace, god, oh Lord, where we're human, god, where we're tired, god, oh God. I thank you for grace, oh God. Your grace is yet sufficient for us, oh God. Sometimes we want to be perfect, oh God, but your grace is sufficient for us. Help us to walk in your grace, help us to walk in your favor. In the name of Jesus, the blood of Jesus prevail.
Prayer for Protection of Children
Speaker 1I pray for protection for our children, specifically, oh God. Grandchildren, lord, oh God God. Children, lord, oh God. The little ones, oh God. The teenagers, lord, oh God. The little ones, oh God. The teenagers, lord, oh God. The young adults, oh God. Cover them, cover them, god, in the name of Jesus. Oh God, they are precious in your sight. Oh God, I pray that you'll cover and protect them in the name of Jesus. Protect them, lord, from pedophiles. Protect them, lord, for those that are online, oh God, trying to speak to them, trying to lure them. Oh God, I pray that you'll protect them, god. Protect them, god, oh Lord, even from things and people that we can't see, that we won't come in contact with. Oh God, I thank you. Thank you that you're so omnipresent, oh God. Thank you that you see all of it, el Roy. You see all of it. And, god, I pray even now.
Speaker 1We block the plan of the enemy against our children in the name of Jesus, and we cancel his assignment over their lives. In the name of Jesus, oh God, I thank you. I thank you, god, I thank you that under the sound of my voice, oh Lord, that there is life. Oh God, you said that we shall live and not die, and declare the wonderfulness, the works of the Lord. Oh God, we are here this morning. Hallelujah, we rebuke death in the name of Jesus. Oh God.
Speaker 1Untimely death, oh, we come against it in the name of Jesus, oh God, even over the lives of our children. Oh, thank you, god, though the enemy come to kill, steal and destroy. God, you came that we might have life, oh God, you came that we might have life, oh God, and that more abundantly. We thank you for abundance. We thank you for walking in more than enough. We thank you, god, for having everything that we need. We thank you, lord hallelujah, for you have given us the triumph this morning. You've given us the triumph in your name, oh God, I bless you, we praise your name.
Speaker 1We thank you in advance. We thank you in advance, oh God. We thank you in advance, you in advance, oh God, we thank you in advance. We thank you in advance. We thank ya. Ya da ba si ya. We thank you in advance, god, I thank you. I thank you, lord. We thank you, god, for the blessing of obedience being upon our lives in the name of Jesus. Oh God, that blessing of being the lender and not the borrower, the blessing of being above only and not beneath, oh God, the blessing, hallelujah, of our basket in our store, our storage places being full, oh God, the blessing of obedience, blessings on our children and hallelujah, the fruit of our body, oh God, even healing. Oh God, lord, we thank you for the blessing of obedience. Oh God, in Deuteronomy, the 28th chapter, god, let that be upon your people today, every place that their foot shall trod. Oh God, I thank you, I thank you for giving them to command the atmosphere. In Jesus' name, we pray, Thank God, and amen, amen, amen, hallelujah. We thank the Lord this morning for prayer.
Speaker 1You know, as I was looking at our prayer point today and our devotional today, you know I was thinking I'm like this is such a teaching that we teach children when they're young. We teach it in, you know, the Sunday school classes and things of that sort. Love your neighbor. But I have to say that it's such a difficult concept, hallelujah especially in a world that tells you that that is not necessary, when the word of God clearly spells it out for us what it is that we have to do, what it is that we ought to do, amen. And so, going into our devotional today and reading the description of the devotional, it reads as this Jesus replied love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it Love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew. The 22nd chapter, verses 37 through 39.
Reflection on Loving Our Neighbors
Speaker 1In the New International Version of the Bible, loving God means loving people Even when it's hard. Let his love flow through you today. Amen. And that is the description of today's devotional. You can read the entirety of it on our Facebook page, on our Instagram page, at HealingWord C-O-G-I-C. Amen.
Speaker 1That's a tall order for us this morning. It's a tall order but with the help of God, with the help of God, we're able to do it. Amen, we're able to do it. He wouldn't ask us to do it if we were incapable of doing it and so, in the strength of God, with the grace of God, we will conquer this thing. Amen, amen, all right, and so I thank the Lord for each of you that tuned in this morning, those that will pick up the broadcast through podcast. Amen, thank God for all of you, and I thank the Lord for Pastor Mark Raymond Jr, thanking God for him, the pastor of Healing Word Ministries, that has pretty much been the visionary and allowed us to push forward in this prayer vein that we're in. We also thank the Lord for Healing Word Family, for those of the ministry that we call the Healing Word Family. Amen, all right.
Speaker 1So today is Wednesday, so we will be back actually on the prayer line today. We'll be back here at 7 pm Eastern Standard Time for prayer. We will have prayer. We'll have intercessory prayer tonight. Amen. We do have a guest prayer warrior. We thank God for them tonight and, if the Lord is willing, we'll be back tonight. We'll be back tonight in prayer and then, for this particular part of prayer morning prayer we'll be back tomorrow at 6 am Eastern Standard Time, if the Lord's delay is coming. All right, god bless you. Have a beautiful day.