A gentle summons to the heart, is a call to be intentional, not just about avoiding conflict, but about actively pursuing peace and building one another up. It’s not passive; it’s a spiritual strategy. This speaks to your advocacy, our work to restore, protect your community, and educate others about wrong. Not just resisting injustice; chase peace with purpose. Prayer and action in motion. Acts of edification. Lift others, even when you’re weary, even when the world feels heavy. Being deliberate in how we speak, act, and respond, especially when tensions rise. Choosing gentleness over judgment and understanding over assumption. Building up rather than tearing down, even when we feel weary or wronged. To be care-full in the truest sense: full of care, full of intention, full of grace.
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
–Â Romans 14:19
Father God, of mercy and restoration, teach us to follow after the things that make for peace. Not the fleeting quiet of avoidance, But the deep, deliberate peace that heals injustice, that restores what was stolen, that lifts the weary and shelters the vulnerable. Make our words gentle and our actions bold. Let our prayers be bridges, our hands be healing, our hearts be homes for those cast aside. Help us edify one another, to speak life into broken places, to build with truth, compassion, and courage. Let our advocacy be worship, our justice, seeking be love in motion. We trust You to guide our steps, to breathe peace into every storm, and to make our lives a testimony of Your grace. Love You, thank You, praise You and give You all the honor and glory in Jesus Precious Name Amen and Amen.
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