Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Quiet Time today--John 17:20-26

 
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John 17:20-26
Jesus Prays for All Believers

    20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
   24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
   25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you[a] known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”
Footnotes:
  1. John 17:26 Greek your name
vs 20: The prayer for us is that we will be united in God. There have been, and still there is, ample examples of how Satan has attacked each of us individually and caused this to be difficult even amongst ourselves. Hence the importance of daily prayer for one another, just as Jesus has done and will be doing for us. 

The essential thing is our daily talk with God. I'm reminded of the need for it and how concern for people can be portrayed best through prayer. We can better develop a heart for them. Nissi was looking at how vs 21 could and should make ourselves more conscience of our one-ness with God. Our actions and words have to reflect that too, so that the world can see that we are in Christ and that he is a real God. Her app was to "seek God in all things with humility". At the moment the both of us are facing difficulties contacting girls whom we've met through evangelism. So SMSing them and coming up with the right responses, we have to totally rely on God for that.

APPLICATION: To keep my prayers for dying to self and also for sisters.