July 2 Petition Mission

“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all” (2 Cor 13:14).

Only the Lord knows how many times this request has been borrowed to pray over the people of God. And no wonder! It is marked by succinctness, being just one sentence long. It is expressed in exactness, including Christ, His Father, and His Spirit—the totality of the Godhead. It is couched in completeness, for it is a prayer for “all” His saints. And it exudes such fullness that we could never exhaust its infinite resources.

The grace of our Lord Jesus speaks of the means of God’s blessings to us in the perfect work of Christ; the love of God points to the source of that blessing in the matchless character of God; and the fellowship we have in the Comforter explains the enabling power of the Holy Spirit to make good these blessings in our lives. You could do no better today than to pray this mighty blessing down on every believer in your town or city.