Prayer of Jesus
Prayer Of Jesus – Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoKRdVy6B00
Prayer Of Jesus – Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr0n9cGAbco
Matthew 6:8 “Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.”
John 5:19 “Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does”
Jesus knew some things that we are still learning:
- Prayer wasn’t giving God new info.
- Not trying to remind God of things that he has forgotten.
HERE ARE THREE BIG QUESTIONS
- Does God care?
Isaiah 43:2 “When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze.”
Isaiah 41:13 “For I am the Lord your God
who takes hold of your right hand
and says to you, Do not fear;
I will help you.”
- Does God see and know?
Proverbs 15:3 “The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and good.”
Hebrews 4:13 “Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.”
- Does God have the ability to do something?
Matthew 19:26 “Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Ephesians 3:20 “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us”
John 17:6-8 “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. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 8 For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.”
John 17:9-19 “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 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 that 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 than 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, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.”
Two primary things in this prayer to the disciples:
- Protect them by the power of your name
- So that they may be one as we are one.
John 17:20-26 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in 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 the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one – 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.”
“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 not 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.”
Jesus’ prayer shows us God’s desire for:
- Us to be in unity with each other.
- Us to be in right relationship with God.
