Heavenly Father,
We come before You today on behalf of [Name], asking You to open their heart fully to the boundless love that flows from You. May they embody the commandment You gave us in Mark 12:30-31, to love You, Lord, with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love their neighbor as themselves. Let this love not be merely in words, but in actions and in truth, as 1 John 3:18 teaches us.
Grant [Name] the grace to see others through Your eyes, extending kindness, patience, and forgiveness, just as Colossians 3:12-13 encourages us to clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another if any has a grievance against someone. Remind them of the love You have poured out onto them, so they can overflow with that love to others (Romans 5:5).
Open their ears to hear Your voice, their eyes to see Your work in the world, and their hands to serve those around them. May [Name] reflect Your love in every interaction, remembering that by this everyone will know that they are Your disciple, if they love one another (John 13:35).
Strengthen [Name]'s faith, that they may abide in Your love, just as John 15:9-10 suggests, by keeping Your commandments and remaining in Your love, so that their joy may be complete. Let them be a vessel of Your peace, where there is hatred, let them sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith, echoing the prayer of St. Francis.
We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior,
Amen.