Joyful Moments in Christ

A Prayer for Showing Kindness

A Prayer for Showing Kindness

A Prayer

Dear Heavenly Father,

You are a God of endless kindness and compassion. Your word tells us that your kindness leads us to repentance, and your love is expressed through your care and provision for us each day. You show kindness in both the smallest details and the greatest gifts, including the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ.

I confess that I often fail to show kindness in my words, actions, and thoughts. I can be quick to judge, slow to help, or indifferent when others need encouragement or support. Please forgive me for the times I have missed opportunities to reflect your kindness to those around me. I especially pray that you will help me to be patient with all of the Christians around me that I disagree with. Help me to set aside selfishness and pride so that I can truly care for others as you do.

Thank you for the kindness you have shown to me, even when I have not deserved it. Thank you for your patience when I falter, for your provision in times of need. Thank you for the people in my life who have modeled your kindness through their love and support. Help me to be like them!

Lord, I ask you to cultivate the fruit of kindness in my life. Teach me to see others through your eyes and to respond to their needs with compassion and grace. Let my words be uplifting and my actions reflect your love. Help me to be a light in a world that often feels cold and unkind. I want to point others to your goodness through the kindness I show! Please help my life bring honor to you as I strive to follow your example.

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

Respond

Please pray a prayer about showing kindness.

If you aren’t sure where to begin, you can use the ACTS method: Adoration, Confession, Thankfulness, and Supplication:

  • Adoration: Praise God. Does this topic bring any specific characteristics of God to mind?
  • Confession: Tell God that you are sorry for specific sins. Does this topic bring any specific sins to mind?
  • Thankfulness: Show gratitude towards God. Does anything from this topic inspire gratitude?
  • Supplication: Make requests for yourself and for others. Does anything from this topic inspire a prayer?

If helpful, you can use a prayer journal template.

A Prayer for Showing Kindness
Ephesians 4:32 (ESV): Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Colossians 3:12-13 (ESV): Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Titus 3:4-6 (ESV): But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior.

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