"Accountability"

"But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom." (Psalms 35:13) Officially, when you pray for your enemies, your prayer is to be prayer as unto yourself; in other words, you pray as though you are praying for your own welfare towards them; otherwise, you are really not praying for your enemies, but are pretty much just praying for yourself. Prayers that go something like, "Lord, cause my enemy to see things my way", are not really prayers for your enemies sake, but are for your own; instead, you might say, "Lord, I pray that you bless their life, and that you bring them into your perfect will"; such a prayer does not consider what you think or feel, but more about what is best for them. Taking into account what might be involved between you and your enemy in the area of opinions, it is not for us to try and figure out how to change their opinion of us, but rather, how they might be brought into a closer relationship with God. It is up to God to change their heart, not us; so don't waste too much time thinking about that; a closer walk with God is the most important thing for all of us, meaning that we should never consider ourselves as the one who is closer to God, so don't try and work that into your thinking, because we are all children stricken by sin. Therefore, you are not to pray for your enemy to be closer to God because that's where you are; doing so will just cause your heart to be hypocritical and your own prayers will not be answered. When it comes to humility, God takes the heart of the matter very serious; you really don't want to assume yourself to be superior over anyone else, as though you are right and they are wrong, or as though you are good and they are bad; because we all have fallen short and need God's mercy... "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." (Isaiah 53:6)