Collegiate Day of Prayer Global: 40-Day Prayer GuideSample

Day 33: Love One Another

By David Kim (David and Audry Kim give leadership to Contend Global. They also serve as directors of the SAFA school.)

“I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all people will know that you are My disciples: if you have love for one another.”
— John 13:34-35 NASB

Jonathan Edwards wrote that one of the great evidences of true revival is that the heart’s affections are warmed towards God. This is the primary aim of revival because it is the primary command of all of Scripture: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind” (Luke 10:27). Jesus declares that the second greatest commandment, however, is “to love your neighbor as you love yourself” (Matt. 22:39). Or, as He defined it later during the Last Supper, “to love one another as I have loved you.”

Words fail to describe this kind of brotherly love. Our highest ecumenical efforts, our unions, and our networks on our campuses—great as they are—are infantile compared to this kind of love. This kind of love does not have unity as its goal—it has love as its goal. And this kind of love is the only path to true unity. This kind of love has love for God and His Lordship and His Word as its highest priority and thus is the only kind of love that produces true agape love towards our brothers and sisters. This kind of love thinks nothing of self, agenda, or gain, for it “does not seek its own.” This is the kind of love that will be the fabric of the Church in the age to come.

This kind of love is born in a manger. This kind of love hid an eternal crown to bring other sons to glory. This kind of love, through God, became a man for all of eternity. This kind of love washed the feet of His disciples—even the one who would betray Him. This kind of love did not come to be served but to serve and give His life as a ransom for many. It is not the world’s definition of love: the cheap, humanistic version of tolerance and selfish kindness. It is His definition of love: “for God so loved the world that He gave His only Son” (John 3:16).

PRAYER POINTS:

• Pray for believers to love one another as God loves us.
• Pray for love to abound between campus ministries, churches, leadership, and believers on campus.
• “Father, we ask that You give us the love that You have for us, for one another. We confess our bitterness, comparison, criticism, and our general negligence towards one another. We confess that we cannot love one another as we ought. Lord, produce it in us in these days of fasting and praying. Do a supernatural work in Your Body on our campuses. Let this kind of love abound among the brethren! Jesus, we ask that Your love would transcend racial barriers, denominational lines, and movements. For Your Name, amen.”