February 12, 2021

 Topic: Prayer and Praise

Another important part of prayer

Confession and Intercession (Petitioning God)

Ps 12: 6-9

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May those who love you be secure. May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels. For the sake of my family and friends, I will say, "Peace be within you." 

Jn 17 6-26 

JESUS PRAYS for his disciples

I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They know with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, 

but for those you have given me, for they are yours. All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And the glory has come to me through them. I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. 

Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by the name you gave me. 

None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that scripture would be fulfilled. 

I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more that I am of the world. 

My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, send them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified. 

Jesus Prays for the Believers 

My prayer is not for them alone. I  pray also for those who will believe on me through their message, 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. 

I have given them glory that you gave me, that they maybe one as we are one-in them and you in me-so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you have sent me and you loved them even as you have loved me. 

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. 

Righteous Father, though the world does know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 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.

• Becoming one in unity
• Revealing the Father to the world
• The world does not know God. They do not know what he wants or what he expects

Time Do your prayers grow old and fade away? Are they wash away? No God is created of the earth and he has our prayers and tears safe. Your prayers will be honored years and years later because God is faithful. 

God still honors his pray light years later

Time is different for God

Ps 27 7-12

Hear my voice when I call Lord; be merciful to me and answer me. My heart says to you, "Seek his face" Your face, Lord I will seek. Do not hide your face from me, do not turn your servant away in anger, you have been my helper. 

As believers we seek his face can you image how much the world does not know or understand God. But the bible states for God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son. However not everyone will believe. God made it simple but sadly believer is very hard for some. God is very different from us mere humans. 

Have a great day!