Weekly Prayer:
O God, thank you for valuing me, even when I struggle to value myself. Help me to love myself as you have loved me. Give me contentment in being the person you’ve made me to be, and in serving you and others the ways I am gifted to do. Then, help me to love my neighbor as I love myself. I thank you that your ways are so much higher and greater than mine. Amen.
Prayer Tip:
Two kinds of prayer are the essential weapons in the battle against our natural inclination toward envy: thankfulness and intercession.
To help us treasure our lives and all the blessings we have been given, it is important to offer praise and thanksgiving for those things–the large and the small. Begin a list in your prayer journal or calendar. List at least five things you are thankful for every day. These can be anything from your loved ones to the beauty of a single flower outside your window. Each day, as you thank God for the blessings and gifts in your life, you will look less and less at other lives in envious comparison.
The second weapon against envy is prayer for others. Who do you envy? Pray for that person or persons every day. Ask God to help you see that person the way God does, with the kind of love that never keeps score, full of kindness and delight in the good things in their life. When we pray for others God helps us share God’s love with them–the kind of love we can never come up with by ourselves.
–Jennifer Creager, Resurrection Prayer Ministries
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