Prodigal Prayer Day 2026: Transformation—Love

As we move toward our June 2 Worldwide Prodigal Prayer Day, we prepare our hearts to fight for our loved ones, but also to surrender to the work God is doing in our lives. We are considering five words from Jesus that can transform us and our prodigals. Last week we considered Thank. This week we look at Love.

God loves you more than you can comprehend

“Long ago the Lord said to Israel: ‘I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.’” (Jeremiah 31:3, New Living)

“And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38-39, New Living)

The whole Bible is the story of God’s love for us—of His relentless pursuit of relationship with us: He became like us. He died for us. He keeps loving even when we blow it.

Your response: to be a channel to flow His love to people in your life and even those you don’t like.

Matthew 22: 37-39: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. This is the first and most important commandment. The second most important commandment is like this one. And it is, ‘Love others as much as you love yourself. Love God with your whole being. Love others as yourself!’“ Yet there’s more.

John 13:34-35: ”But I am giving you a new command. You must love each other, just as I have loved you.”

What does it look like to love like Jesus loved?

What love is/does: patient, kind, honest, protects, trusts, hopes, perseveres.

Love never fails.

“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another ….as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”

The Love Chapter:  1 Corinthians 13.  I am always grateful for this description of what God’s love is like.  But I am greatly challenged—and dependent on the Holy Spirit—to live out this kind of love on a daily basis.

Love is: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. (v 4-8)

So as we anticipate engaging the enemy of our souls—and of our loved ones—may the love of God live in us, transform us, and flow through to our prodigals.

With His love,

Judy

c 2026 Judy Douglass