Pray Like Jesus: The Pattern
Pray Like Jesus: The Pattern
1) Jesus prays to be ___________________________________________________.
“Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.”
John 17: 3-5 NIV
2) Jesus prays to __________________________________________ His church.
“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.”
John 17:11 NIV
3) Jesus prays for His church to be ___________________________________.
“Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.”
John 17:17 NIV
“For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.”
John 17: 19 NIV
4) Jesus prays for those ________________________________through the message of the disciples.
“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.”
John 17:20-21 NIV