Living and Thinking Radically Different

 PRAYER MASTERCLASS 6

Well, we’ve spent many days going through the tender and beautiful prayer Jesus prayed to His Father not long before He died for us.  This is our final day of looking at it.  Let’s hear Jesus’ heart as He prays.

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.

John 17:24

From the beginning of time this has always been Your heart, Heavenly Father.  You’ve always wanted us to be with You, to see Your glory, and to enjoy Your love forever.  It’s why Jesus was willing to endure what He did on our behalf.  How can we ever thank You enough or understand even a bit how much love You have for us.

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.

John 17:25-26

Lord, we hear Your heart both for those who have received You and those who continue to reject You.  You long for them to be in right relationship with You so they can experience the love You have for them. 

They don’t know all the love that’s available to them but we pray today that this will be a day of openness and receiving so the love of the Father, expressed in the gift of Jesus – his death and resurrection – might be their experienced gift today.

So, help us to live our lives in unity with You – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – and to express that tender love with everyone we meet today regardless of their political, religious, ethnic or economic stance in life.

It’s a tall agenda to love people who live and think and believe radically different from what we know to be true but God, we know You are up to the challenge of helping us make all the moves that we are responsible for in this agenda of loving unity.  Amen

Well friends, let’s stay focused on the heart of what makes life life today:  to glorify God today and enjoy Him forever.  Let’s have a great day doing just that.