Open My Heart and Help Me to Love

Album: Pray for Peace  •  About NECM

“Open My Heart and Help Me to Love” is a sincere prayer for God to soften the heart and fill it with true agape love. It asks for kindness, freedom from harmful thoughts, greater love for God and neighbor, and eyes that recognize our shared humanity. Remembering Christ’s compassionate ministry, sacrifice, and resurrection, the song calls us to love as Jesus first loved us.

Scriptures Connected to This Song

Short quotations from the public-domain King James Version. Select a reference to read the exact passage in a new tab.

“This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”

“We love him, because he first loved us.”