Couple questions - Leviticus / Galatians

[indianabob]

excellent topic and thread here brothers.

My question is: HOW do we love (agape) PRAY FOR and DO GOOD to our enemies who PURPOSELY use is?  I know how to love (Phileo), pray for, and treat well those who my friends are, but, it's difficult for me to respect those that use me up... 

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God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
As it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
If I surrender to His Will;
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with Him
Forever and ever in the next.

[loveroftruth]

Hi Bob, thank you for that quick answer. I DO practice those very things on a daily basis, especially the Serenity Prayer. so I guess I am doing the right things, I'm just getting impatient with the worldly people. messing things up...  it's also called LONGSUFFERING, right?  LOL, I have done plenty of that  

I do find myself just praying that HE do HIS will for them, when I do not know exactly what to pray for them, since these individuals are the one's who are not learning from their mistakes and they keep coming to me to fix them when they are broken, but they disregard what I tell them prior to them getting into a bind. ..