Welcome to the first day of this prayer plan! We are happy that you chose to embark on this journey with us. Back to the Basics is all about returning to our first love for God. Maybe you feel like you are far away from God, You turned away from Him or you disobeyed His will and are struggling to find your way home. Then this is the right plan for you. On the other hand, maybe you feel like your life is great: You love Jesus, go to church, pray, read your Bible etc, and you wonder if this plan is relevant for you. Remember that sometimes we might not intentionally turn away from God, but we might simply drift away, little by little, without noticing, unless we actively self-examine ourselves. We invite you to do just that with us throughout this prayer plan. 

In His letter to the Church in Ephesus, Jesus says,

“Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place” -Revelation 2:4-5 

Jesus is warning a church that He just commended for its patience and endurance, a few verses above (Rev 2:2-3). Though they are believers, part of Christ’s body, they drifted away. Jesus says that they have forsaken the love they had at first, implying that they were still active and doing things, but not in the right way, nor with the right posture of heart. As Paul says in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, doing things without love amounts to nothing. They also stopped doing the good things they did at first. Maybe they got caught up in the worries of this world and its riches, busy with work, captivated by selfish ambitions, and like the seed that fell in thorns (Matthew 13:22), they stopped bearing fruit for God’s glory.

“The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.”. -Isaiah 29:13

Today, let us repent before God for drifting or turning away from Him. Let us ask the Holy Spirit to show us where we have drifted away and to lead us back to the basics of His love.

Prayer points for today

• Ask the Lord for forgiveness for turning/drifting away from Him.
• Ask God to restore the love you have for Him, as He is the perfect Love.
• Pray that you can love God with your whole being every single day, with the help of the Holy Spirit.
• Pray that everything that you do stems from the love for Him.