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Not our human loving, fragile and intermittent, but God’s supreme love. Lord, teach us then to love one another. Apr 26, 2012. Prayer is our naming of God; it is also Maybe I have had some difficulty during the past few days in believing that Jesus was really thinking of me during this prayer to his Father – maybe he was only praying for the disciples who were with him at that time? When I work or talk with them, or love them, or serve or pray with them, your grace is at work in us. for the freedom I need. We could be sure then that they would get to heaven without any difficulty! Let me put it, if I may, in other words. Every contact is to be marked by a readiness to help, to share, to listen, to pray, a willingness to bear one another's burdens in the Lord and so fulfill the law of Christ. Call to Worship Prayer We fix our eyes on you Jesus, our Lord, our Savour and King. I am drawn in to the vast immensity of God’s project in Christ, the Cosmic. 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. 26 I have made you 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.”. Are you ready now to say, in order to reach the world around about us, "Lord, teach me to give up my prejudices, these separations, this withdrawal, these sub-Christian attitudes toward my fellow brethren in Christ, and make me willing to love them and to show it, for Christ's sake?". A number of years ago a British Army major taught me the three essentials of military planning: an objective, a strategy, and tactics. No, this prayer has been answered ever since the Day of Pentecost. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: 23I in them and you in me. This is the prayer of Jesus for his followers through the ages. John 17:20-26: Thursday of the Lord's Supper; Shepherd; Reconciliation, Atonement, … believe in Jesus. Prayer for Unity: John 17 Here’s a prayer for unity based on John 17, Jesus’ high-priestly prayer. Well, what will do it? He told us that he was embittered against the church. The church is here to be God's instrument by which human life in every area and at every level is penetrated by the transforming gospel of Jesus Christ, that men may see that in Jesus Christ there is the authentic voice of God to men; that in him is the ultimate issue of human destiny, and in him we come face to face with all that is important in human affairs. It is not to plan a campaign of a few years or a decade or two, but it encompasses the entire age in which we live, from the first coming of Christ to the second coming. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or, Christ is the world’s light, he and none other. Jesus draws me into life so that I may give witness. He was committed in his life to bad habits which he recognized were not acceptable in Christian circles. This is why Jesus, gathering here with his disciples in the Upper Room, in one final word said, "A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another," (John 13:34 KJV). Jesus to help me to let go of anything that holds me back from accepting this Can it be possible for twenty centuries to roll by before God the Father begins to fulfill this last request of Jesus? I ask When we put our finger on that we come to the divine tactics by which God intends to implement his strategy. Thuma mina, ... 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I accept now the Someone has pointed out that, judging from what goes on in the world today, the Christian answer to world crisis is to fill up a ship with Christians and go on a cruise in the Caribbean and listen each morning to a Bible teacher giving prophetic messages! This “oneness” is something much greater and deeper than uniformity, than people professing the same faith and observing the same religious practices. I have resolved that there is at least one heart in the world which is ready to love every person, without exception, in whom I sense a love for Jesus Christ, the Son of God, regardless of his denominational label, or lack of it, and despite any theological differences of viewpoint. But the thing that impressed me was that, as they gathered together, there is a wonderful sense of oneness, of unity in the Lord, a glorious, heavenly atmosphere. Even take time to This business of making all Christians one does not depend upon us, it depends upon the Spirit of God. Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous, and give thanks to his holy name! It is not that; it is not something used to disguise a dagger of dislike. (Matthew 5:47 RSV). The Scripture says, "let love be unfeigned" Romans 12:9); that is, let it be genuine. It is simply hogwash to speak of loving another Christian to whom you will not speak. The life of Jesus Christ in the Body of Christ is an invisible thing. There it is, "that they may become perfectly one." (B) May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. As far as I know he was the only one. You can see this in these six verses, if you look closely: Twice in these six verses, Jesus states precisely the great objective which was ever before him as he lived his own life on earth, and now that he is leaving he is committing to the disciples. Whatever this may mean in terms of our personal circumstances, teach us, Father, to love one another. These are the tactics by which the divine strategy is implemented to reach the great objective "that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." He asks that I may be united with him and with the Father. But this artificial union, this joining together in an organization, is this the answer to Jesus' prayer here? RayStedman.org/permissions. Note the strategy by which God intends to accomplish his objective of reaching the world: that they may be brought to complete unity. which I am called to witness. Jesus wants me to be drawn into the life he shares with his Father. Jane was in her sixties, looking forward to the time when her husband finally retired and they could begin to do more things together. Twice he outlines specifically what God intends to accomplish: The latter part of Verse 21 "...so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me," and again in the latter part of Verse 23, "...so that the world may know that thou hast sent me." There are those who tell us that this prayer of Jesus concerning the church, "that they may be one," must now begin to be answered, that it is now time to answer this prayer after twenty centuries of it remaining unfulfilled, that we must now forget all the differences and distinctions that have separated us into various denominations and sectarian groups through the centuries and join together in one great organization or union. Website © 2020 by Ray Stedman Ministries. (K), 25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you,(L) I know you, and they know that you have sent me. Ministry Matters™ is a community of resources for church leaders. Love wants to share all that is best with the beloved.