The Sermon Prayer (Part VI) Jesus' Prayer For Us by David McGee
Mar 04, 2012
Prayer (Part VI) Jesus' Prayer For Us (31:44)
Referenced Scriptures: John 17:20-26
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John 17:20-26
20) Neither for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word,
21) that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
22) The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;
23) I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
24) Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
25) Righteous Father, the world didn‘t know you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
26) I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them."
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John chapter seventeen John chapter seventeen in all women speaking about prayer and I have no thought about going through many of the prayers that have been outlined in the Scripture, but this prayer is one negative that this whole chapter is chapter prayer because Jesus is telling us Oryx and giving expression to his prayer to the father, and then part way through it. Jesus prays for his disciples. Beginning in verse six, and then, Jesus prays for future believers. Verse twenty. So in chapter seventeen. Beginning in verse twenty. This is the prayer to Jesus prays for you and I thought we talked about how that we look at prayer how that we have spoken up the reasons why we pray. We talked about the threshold of prayer entering into God 's presence repentance of our sins. Asking for forgiveness and move in getting into the presence of God in worship and making our statements, whatever's on our hearts. Speaking at the God addressing at the God we we talked about the attitudes we need to have the attitude towards God and all the relational experiences we have with others of you have lots or against someone you have a problem with someone you go and make it why are gamers, you have been forgiven. We've spoken about faith, but today we look at Jesus, his prayer for you and sometimes we were going to be reading from the message Bible. So we haven't good John chapter seventeen. Beginning in verse twenty eleven read through verse twenty six I'm praying not only for them but also for those who will believe in me, so not all program referring back to the previous verses in which he was praying for his disciples, he said I'm not only praying for them by praying for the future for those who will believe that you are not because of them and their witness about me. The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind. Just as you father are in me and I in you, so they might be one heart and mind with us that the world might believe that you in fact sent me the same glory you gave me. I gave them so they'll be as unified and together as we are I in them and you and me then they'll be mature in this oneness and give the godless world evidence that you sent me and love them in the same way you want me, father, I want those you gave me to be with me right, for I am, so they can see my glory display that you gave me having loved me long before there ever was a world righteous father, the world was never has never known you, but I have known you and these disciples know that you sent me on this vision. I major your very being known to them who you are and what you do and continue to make it known, so that your love for me might be in, then exactly as I am in them so you see whatever we are praying when I'm trying to try and get the attention of God, you were trying to get his attention might somehow we got to do something to make got interested in us that the and in and in the young Elijah whenever he was on the mound Mount caramel, there were the profits on bail and God the largest presented a a confrontation between the prophet, the Bell and the God of Israel. Joe was representing the God of Israel, and the prophets of Balboa representing Jezebel and her her foreign gods on bail. Okay, so what happened was they step contest and I was. I was on my trip to Israel two years ago we went to Mount caramel, and they have a big monument there were Elijah brought a help. I like and is the situation took place and what happened was the prophets of Vail. They were counting themselves. They were screaming and yelling and yelled, blinded him, though everything were just trying almost sacrificed themselves in order to get Bell's attention. Of course, you are just saying one baby is asleep and I started pumping them out and fell to sleep you need to wake in the something you need to scream louder. Or maybe Bell needs something lessons I'm not a sky riding in the whole time about their their false God and man when the time comes, it's over for the province of mail their dime. To start, so Elijah saves the people got over the hill, which is this a long way down, down to the Craig down the river below and a child in the brain water up and dump on the sacrifice is only dug up a dog of a moat around the being sacrifice and around the stone where the sacrifice was was placed and he got been the rundown over the hill and get this water and bring it up and dump on the sacrifice and get barrels of and dumping on the sacrifice, and then Elijah pray God and God sends fire from heaven concerns the sacrifice concerns the styles and so the water that was a monumental moment when God manifests himself to bring his bring attention to enlarge ahead to what she was trying to proclaim and then he lied to set out and he killed all the prophets bear while in any of their life. The bad thing to do while was the batting one way because they are killed always people, but they were killing all the other prophets, and any like to the point that Elijah felt he was the only one left that was serving. So we're not trying to get the attention of God. We already have his attention. We are actually the focus of his attention. The one we are praying to is the one who is already looking at us. You see his thoughts are constantly towards us. The Scripture says he ever lives to make intercession for us. So God has a purpose for your life, our life and he wants his well accomplished at last, and his focus is upon us as an individual. Now I know it, and we have a hard time grasping this because we try to make God like us know how they ask you how many you can focus on about ten things at the same time, all you ladies raise your hand if you can multitask men can't write it all knew that, right we won't go there. Okay, so we call multitasking. I thought we were able to multitask and so they were able to do more than one thing at one time, God ours rulers destroy this individual, and he again I don't put a lot of stock in people who say they've died and then to have men in combat, but if you know if it matches up with the Scriptures. I believe okay, matches up with the word of God. It's a good thing well this one individual, and I heard a number of years ago. He said it was in the presence of God and aliens, and he was killed in an accident or whatever, and that he was in heaven before God, and that I wasn't with God, and he was talking to God they will say anything. He was thinking is not sent any was happy how he and he was aware of his thoughts on where God response to his thoughts and then Missy was there. He said this, I was aware of that of the place. Why was there was a multitude of people more than I can ever account for imagine and they all worry communion with God, and then I was finished I was aware on all the people upon the art praying and God was given to each one of them is undivided attention and is thought at that moment was brought on how can I have your undivided attention when there is so many around me and so many honorary praying to and the thought that came to him was at that moment was the God said there's enough of me that if everyone who has ever lived. I can give to each one of them my undivided attention because he is God is up with his all-knowing, all-powerful, he is God. So we can make God in our image. We want to recognize that we are understanding who he is. So God knows our thoughts and his thoughts are constantly towards us as individuals. So we're not trying to get his attention. We are we are free. We are praying and praying our thoughts to him and our needs to him, because his thoughts are always towards us. Jesus starts off by saying I'm praying not only for men not only for the disciples, but also I pray for those who will believe everybody saying one that's me, that means that that's me right, that's me, that's a Jesus praying for, because I am one of those who, in the future. From this point of Scripture being written will believe that's namely Jesus is talking about. And Jesus given us his Word. If you ask himself, and he is the revealer of God is the litany is the word made flesh and dwelt among us, and it is his. It is his word. It is Christ in us the hope of glory. It is the word of God to give us an understanding of what who God is and what God wants to accomplish in our life, and he says I'm praying for me for all of those who will believe and you see the Holy Spirit within the Holy Spirit makes this really wants is important that we we understand that I can't know. I held my head I can know George Washington. I can know about George Washington George Washington is that I can read about the history books and read about his character, things like that but I can never know George when speaking to them. I never know George black because he's gone, but I can know Jesus because his spirit is with me, and the Holy Spirit has come to reveal the word to us, and that Jesus is that I will never leave you nor forsake you. So in that understanding that God is with us and Jesus is praying for us. Anything that is in the spirit of God is his speaking to a hearts about the word and as for his kingdom. God 's kingdom that we pray Lord, your kingdom come, the Lord 's prayer. Your kingdom condo will be done. Jesus is praying for us, that we might behold the kingdom of God that we are part of that kingdom, and we are builders of that kingdom, and that our work and our service to God is above that kingdom. So, I is focused on our lives to help us accomplish the good things in our lives to not only build our life we see as we are building our life. We are building the kingdom of God is not just about me building a little kingdom. It's about you and I are doing our part as we are doing our part or something worse of something that is bigger than us. We are part of the body of Christ. We are part of the kingdom of God and our lives in our nation that we as a church. It's more than just taking care of our little community here in Weber, but it's about how that we have an impact upon our lives in the allies of our community and help our friends and family, but were part of something greater than us, which is the kingdom of God. So whenever I am praying about needs in my life. I'm realizing that the needs and wildlife are greater than my own little kingdom thereby became. And Jesus is praying for me as praying for me that he is. I will allow his will be done in my life. His kingdom come in me and that I am on a mission that is greater than myself think I prejudice on Thursday night. Whenever we were meeting the practice with the required length choir. Our choir. I remember turning round years ago and spoke to the choir here is my fifteen empty chairs back here and never did it in anybody that sang while we have a group we went wonderful group were going to keep growing and growing the group, but I may so Thursday night that whenever I'm confronted with doing things that are way beyond what I feel I'm capable of doing always member Esther and whenever she is know when and whenever she is confronted who knows with you become the kingdom of God. Such times. This, that there is something greater. I now here I am, I'm confronted with this, it is a situation that is bigger than who I am, but there's nobody else wrong to do it but me. So therefore, I believe that God has brought me to this point because I'm here for his kingdom not from a so therefore I must develop who I am and and continue to grow go. I am to continue to meet the need of where and and and and working with people and working in situations that I I don't feel that qualified sometimes or are done. Have the training to do. But again, I know that God has me therefore, purpose, and that Donna continues to give me the the understanding or the insight that I need to help people where they are at and they are. They are help because they they go to believe that they tell me in the works. The fruits of what we've been able to do as is evident. So in our lives where we are confronted with these things. We know that Jesus is praying for us and that we are part of his kingdom and his kingdom and honest is greater than ourselves, and if we were never challenged greater than we are right now where would we have stop. We are all challenged to be greater than who we are well challenged to grow beyond where we are at. We are all challenged in attitude and actions in an education and experiences, and if they were all challenge and whenever we try to give up on the challenge we can't lose our place to live our direction, but God has lost his direction. It is changing directions for God has a new challenge for us. God has a new chalice is bringing into our life. And who knows whether God has brought you to this place at this moment of time to open our hearts and minds to the new challenge that he wants to do in a NL in school you removed it at different rates in different age of the new draft gone through college are drawn to secondary education of some sort. But you're always going on and challenge in an and in an interview after you graduate. You're always being challenged. When you go onto tray schools are working in a job or working with people you're always child because he always needs immediate skews me, he always made individuals who have it always be people who need more and don't know what they need more, the something or other ninety seven got a clue so. But anyhow, God is challenging us always to grow and change in the MoveOn and grow on in our lives and our prayers then are not simply about us, but our prayers are about the kingdom of God, for you see the answer to our prior is affects more than just us. It affects all the people around the flight, we are to be people of prayer and e-mail in a designee that we are hours. We are momentary, bringing our requests to God. God have a problem with this dynamic. This is a need in my life is the need I see in someone else's life in our life. There are so many challenges and sometimes we are so simplistic that our prayers are not about us. Therefore, the kingdom of God, thy will be done in us. I will be done in us as it is in heaven. One heart and one mind. Jesus says in an apex. The goal is for all of them at the prayer not only for them but also for those who will believe in me because of them and their witness about me. The goal is for all of them to become one heart and one mind. The goal is for all of them to become one heart and one mind all the people in one congregation are all the people in the world or part of the body of Christ them one heart and one mind, one mission. The goal is for all of them to become one heart and one mind to be concerned for others as Christ is concerned for them. There is a unity among the believers based upon the believers unity with Christ and with the father we pray for one another, forgive us as we have forgiven brightness together interconnection the interconnectedness of life that we are connected, not when I got one out of our little island by ourselves that we are in this we bear one another's burdens, so that they might be one heart and one mind. Jesus wants us to know that there is a oneness not just that there is a oneness among believers, but there was a oneness between God and I between God and us. There is a oneness there is a there is a place in this relational. It very so we have not that God is one with us that we were thinking about falling in love with God, and I thought about in this message that he really loves me. He really Jesus really loves me falling in love of God being in a relational experience were. I know that he loves me and he seeks only my highest good. And then he is praying for me in the same glory you gave me. Jesus, as I gave them the same glory that you gave me, I give to them that there is a there is a relational place in with us that exist between the guy wants to exist between us. That is a place of glory, the glory of being the ambassador, the glory of working gods miracle working God 's miracles greater things than these shall you do, because I go to the father, Jesus says, and the glory of God working in us, and one is the glory of God. I dig of the glory of God is speaking, speaking the truth in love and create something creates hope where people don't have hope that where you speak the word of God and people are encouraged where they have not been or felt encouraged before that you can say something that will bring life to people who feel like they are dead on the inside the miracle of giving hope to someone who doesn't have, I believe in God I picture how can you bring home to the people. The third individual who doesn't have hope only that but there is where there is life in your words, because there is life in God and God 's word is in you, you'll have a profound experience. You have a profound impact upon people the glory of working America was the glory of God 's gifts. The glory of God through the front of the Spirit is love and joy and peace and patience. I me. Sometimes I'm why King and some gifts and fruits not sometimes many times, but I felt we still have that connectedness in which they will grow that he is in us. We are unified. We are together in the glory of God. I'm confident the glory of God 's agreement, the glory of God, contract not kingdom come, thy will. They got in us, and God is praying that this would happen in us. Jesus is praying we might have all of this in our life that we are never alone. There is nothing a possible with God. Then there is faith to build our lives on why get how can we build who we are. We build we are by the glory of God and the power of God, in the presence of God strength to do the will of God. Jesus is praying that we might have this in us and goes on to say, so they will be as unified and together as we are. Jesus says that they you and I with God, with Christ would be as unified as Jesus is with the father as Jesus is unified united with the father, so he wants us to be united with him. Then they will be maturing this one this sure is a worldly character, the character that is anti- God sent people in odds against each other that we're in competition, but in the kingdom of God. The maturity of the Christian is that we are not in competition. We are here to complement and to build each other up to be in the greatest encourager to speak the word of whole FA and that you can do this if you have the abilities we have the character and we have the abilities of the winged god in time penetrate those things and taken to a different level. God 's kingdom is working for divine good. There's no contest in the kingdom on the compliments and access to help for we are to give godly evidence to a godless world that God has sent us how to do that by their love shall all men know that you are God 's children, Jesus declares to us in this prayer that you and I God sent to me, and loved them in the same way you love me. God is saying that telling us that God loves us in the same way that God loves, loves Jesus and we live in that empowerment. We live in that place. By this it will appear that God has loved us. If we love one another. Verse twenty four father, I want those you gave me to be with me right or I am this is the other fellow somewhere. We just have to be here with God in our life in our law is not in our present situation, Jesus is with us and I was not in the is with me and goes on to say, I have no new I have made you, for I made your very being known to them who you are what you do. Jesus prays. I have known you I made your very being known to them. Lots goes on to say and continue to make it known its ongoing that this relational experience that we have with God is an ongoing experience. So let your love for me might be, and then exactly as I have in them. And this is the concluding phrase exactly as Christ is in us grow you are and what you do and continue to make it known, so let your love for me might be in, then exactly as I have, and then exactly as Christ is in us salt to that. How much we continue to grow and to believe and to accept and to excel because we can't give up what we don't have. We fill our lives with Christ. I know uses understand what you not catch monkeys member that got catchy monkey to put the barrel out there. They drill holes in it, and you put something inside the monkey once, and what happens the hand in their grab hold of it and is caught why he doesn't know enough to let go. That's how the catchment, but if you're gay. I told the story one someplace where he was at his as yet. It's always the developing and decision are alive when we learn to let go of our sin. Our failures. We escape from the cash of our sin and we open our hearts and lives to Christ to be receptive. That's why we raise our hands. We open them up, it's like I'm I'm ready to receive and so we are depicted as receiving and is the more we receive Christ, the more we're able to understand about forgiveness and love doing the work of God. The mission of God. The purpose of God. The will of God, so, God filled me with your presence and fill me up. Lord with your love and the exact amount of what I have allowed for Christ to come into my life is the amount of which I'm able to believe being the be able to change my life and be able to go on with the work that God has called me to for he has called us to the kingdom of God for such a time as this, and he ever lives to make intercession for us. He prays for us. We're not trying to get his attention evening we have his undivided attention. So while we're offering our prayers. We are offering up the hope that is already in there given to us by Christ, it's like God has given this to us. We take it in. We excel we understand it, and we pray back to God. And in that cycle of thing we have that we are refreshed, we are educated we are changed. We are becoming the image of Christ as his spirit flows through us and changes us and the more we know of his word, the more we pray it and the more we expected and the more we expected, the more his presence comes and changes us in the Moorish presence comes and changes us. The more we offer up to God, and it's likely become were becoming in this process of coming in becoming and changing in God 's Spirit is working in us as we come together to celebrate our faith. We give our ties and offerings. We are giving them to God and God 's plan were planting seeds in the kingdom of God and God is going to bring the harvest harvest were given that we give a portion of the harvest back to God and God brings more harvest and brings him no more fruit and seasons while I we love people. We forget people and the more we would love and forgive the more we are. We recognize we are forgiven and I I'm forgiven because of my sins and my sins are forgiven, so I forgive others, and as I forgive others is coming back down to me that there is love in my heart for people I don't even know. So I pray for them. I pray for people I don't even know that what happens today is more grace is given into my life and I'm changing, and I'm letting go of things that don't have place in my life, and Jesus is constantly praying for and I am worshiping him as I worship him. I find his presence coming into shouldersJohn chapter seventeen John chapter seventeen in all women speaking about prayer and I have no thought about going through many of the prayers that have been outlined in the Scripture, but this prayer is one negative that this whole chapter is chapter prayer because Jesus is telling us Oryx and giving expression to his prayer to the father, and then part way through it. Jesus prays for his disciples. Beginning in verse six, and then, Jesus prays for future believers. Verse twenty. So in chapter seventeen. Beginning in verse twenty. This is the prayer to Jesus prays for you and I thought we talked about how that we look at prayer how that we have spoken up the reasons why we pray. We talked about the threshold of prayer entering into God 's presence repentance of our sins. Asking for forgiveness and move in getting into the presence of God in worship and making our statements, whatever's on our hearts. Speaking at the God addressing at the God we we talked about the attitudes we need to have the attitude towards God and all the relational experiences we have with others of you have lots or against someone you have a problem with someone you go and make it why are gamers, you have been forgiven. We've spoken about faith, but today we look at Jesus, his prayer for you and sometimes we were going to be reading from the message Bible. So we haven't good John chapter seventeen. Beginning in verse twenty eleven read through verse twenty six I'm praying not only for them but also for those who will believe in me, so not all program referring back to the previous verses in which he was praying for his disciples, he said I'm not only praying for them by praying for the future for those who will believe that you are not because of them and their witness about me. The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind. Just as you father are in me and I in you, so they might be one heart and mind with us that the world might believe that you in fact sent me the same glory you gave me. I gave them so they'll be as unified and together as we are I in them and you and me then they'll be mature in this oneness and give the godless world evidence that you sent me and love them in the same way you want me, father, I want those you gave me to be with me right, for I am, so they can see my glory display that you gave me having loved me long before there ever was a world righteous father, the world was never has never known you, but I have known you and these disciples know that you sent me on this vision. I major your very being known to them who you are and what you do and continue to make it known, so that your love for me might be in, then exactly as I am in them so you see whatever we are praying when I'm trying to try and get the attention of God, you were trying to get his attention might somehow we got to do something to make got interested in us that the and in and in the young Elijah whenever he was on the mound Mount caramel, there were the profits on bail and God the largest presented a a confrontation between the prophet, the Bell and the God of Israel. Joe was representing the God of Israel, and the prophets of Balboa representing Jezebel and her her foreign gods on bail. Okay, so what happened was they step contest and I was. I was on my trip to Israel two years ago we went to Mount caramel, and they have a big monument there were Elijah brought a help. I like and is the situation took place and what happened was the prophets of Vail. They were counting themselves. They were screaming and yelling and yelled, blinded him, though everything were just trying almost sacrificed themselves in order to get Bell's attention. Of course, you are just saying one baby is asleep and I started pumping them out and fell to sleep you need to wake in the something you need to scream louder. Or maybe Bell needs something lessons I'm not a sky riding in the whole time about their their false God and man when the time comes, it's over for the province of mail their dime. To start, so Elijah saves the people got over the hill, which is this a long way down, down to the Craig down the river below and a child in the brain water up and dump on the sacrifice is only dug up a dog of a moat around the being sacrifice and around the stone where the sacrifice was was placed and he got been the rundown over the hill and get this water and bring it up and dump on the sacrifice and get barrels of and dumping on the sacrifice, and then Elijah pray God and God sends fire from heaven concerns the sacrifice concerns the styles and so the water that was a monumental moment when God manifests himself to bring his bring attention to enlarge ahead to what she was trying to proclaim and then he lied to set out and he killed all the prophets bear while in any of their life. The bad thing to do while was the batting one way because they are killed always people, but they were killing all the other prophets, and any like to the point that Elijah felt he was the only one left that was serving. So we're not trying to get the attention of God. We already have his attention. We are actually the focus of his attention. The one we are praying to is the one who is already looking at us. You see his thoughts are constantly towards us. The Scripture says he ever lives to make intercession for us. So God has a purpose for your life, our life and he wants his well accomplished at last, and his focus is upon us as an individual. Now I know it, and we have a hard time grasping this because we try to make God like us know how they ask you how many you can focus on about ten things at the same time, all you ladies raise your hand if you can multitask men can't write it all knew that, right we won't go there. Okay, so we call multitasking. I thought we were able to multitask and so they were able to do more than one thing at one time, God ours rulers destroy this individual, and he again I don't put a lot of stock in people who say they've died and then to have men in combat, but if you know if it matches up with the Scriptures. I believe okay, matches up with the word of God. It's a good thing well this one individual, and I heard a number of years ago. He said it was in the presence of God and aliens, and he was killed in an accident or whatever, and that he was in heaven before God, and that I wasn't with God, and he was talking to God they will say anything. He was thinking is not sent any was happy how he and he was aware of his thoughts on where God response to his thoughts and then Missy was there. He said this, I was aware of that of the place. Why was there was a multitude of people more than I can ever account for imagine and they all worry communion with God, and then I was finished I was aware on all the people upon the art praying and God was given to each one of them is undivided attention and is thought at that moment was brought on how can I have your undivided attention when there is so many around me and so many honorary praying to and the thought that came to him was at that moment was the God said there's enough of me that if everyone who has ever lived. I can give to each one of them my undivided attention because he is God is up with his all-knowing, all-powerful, he is God. So we can make God in our image. We want to recognize that we are understanding who he is. So God knows our thoughts and his thoughts are constantly towards us as individuals. So we're not trying to get his attention. We are we are free. We are praying and praying our thoughts to him and our needs to him, because his thoughts are always towards us. Jesus starts off by saying I'm praying not only for men not only for the disciples, but also I pray for those who will believe everybody saying one that's me, that means that that's me right, that's me, that's a Jesus praying for, because I am one of those who, in the future. From this point of Scripture being written will believe that's namely Jesus is talking about. And Jesus given us his Word. If you ask himself, and he is the revealer of God is the litany is the word made flesh and dwelt among us, and it is his. It is his word. It is Christ in us the hope of glory. It is the word of God to give us an understanding of what who God is and what God wants to accomplish in our life, and he says I'm praying for me for all of those who will believe and you see the Holy Spirit within the Holy Spirit makes this really wants is important that we we understand that I can't know. I held my head I can know George Washington. I can know about George Washington George Washington is that I can read about the history books and read about his character, things like that but I can never know George when speaking to them. I never know George black because he's gone, but I can know Jesus because his spirit is with me, and the Holy Spirit has come to reveal the word to us, and that Jesus is that I will never leave you nor forsake you. So in that understanding that God is with us and Jesus is praying for us. Anything that is in the spirit of God is his speaking to a hearts about the word and as for his kingdom. God 's kingdom that we pray Lord, your kingdom come, the Lord 's prayer. Your kingdom condo will be done. Jesus is praying for us, that we might behold the kingdom of God that we are part of that kingdom, and we are builders of that kingdom, and that our work and our service to God is above that kingdom. So, I is focused on our lives to help us accomplish the good things in our lives to not only build our life we see as we are building our life. We are building the kingdom of God is not just about me building a little kingdom. It's about you and I are doing our part as we are doing our part or something worse of something that is bigger than us. We are part of the body of Christ. We are part of the kingdom of God and our lives in our nation that we as a church. It's more than just taking care of our little community here in Weber, but it's about how that we have an impact upon our lives in the allies of our community and help our friends and family, but were part of something greater than us, which is the kingdom of God. So whenever I am praying about needs in my life. I'm realizing that the needs and wildlife are greater than my own little kingdom thereby became. And Jesus is praying for me as praying for me that he is. I will allow his will be done in my life. His kingdom come in me and that I am on a mission that is greater than myself think I prejudice on Thursday night. Whenever we were meeting the practice with the required length choir. Our choir. I remember turning round years ago and spoke to the choir here is my fifteen empty chairs back here and never did it in anybody that sang while we have a group we went wonderful group were going to keep growing and growing the group, but I may so Thursday night that whenever I'm confronted with doing things that are way beyond what I feel I'm capable of doing always member Esther and whenever she is know when and whenever she is confronted who knows with you become the kingdom of God. Such times. This, that there is something greater. I now here I am, I'm confronted with this, it is a situation that is bigger than who I am, but there's nobody else wrong to do it but me. So therefore, I believe that God has brought me to this point because I'm here for his kingdom not from a so therefore I must develop who I am and and continue to grow go. I am to continue to meet the need of where and and and and working with people and working in situations that I I don't feel that qualified sometimes or are done. Have the training to do. But again, I know that God has me therefore, purpose, and that Donna continues to give me the the understanding or the insight that I need to help people where they are at and they are. They are help because they they go to believe that they tell me in the works. The fruits of what we've been able to do as is evident. So in our lives where we are confronted with these things. We know that Jesus is praying for us and that we are part of his kingdom and his kingdom and honest is greater than ourselves, and if we were never challenged greater than we are right now where would we have stop. We are all challenged to be greater than who we are well challenged to grow beyond where we are at. We are all challenged in attitude and actions in an education and experiences, and if they were all challenge and whenever we try to give up on the challenge we can't lose our place to live our direction, but God has lost his direction. It is changing directions for God has a new challenge for us. God has a new chalice is bringing into our life. And who knows whether God has brought you to this place at this moment of time to open our hearts and minds to the new challenge that he wants to do in a NL in school you removed it at different rates in different age of the new draft gone through college are drawn to secondary education of some sort. But you're always going on and challenge in an and in an interview after you graduate. You're always being challenged. When you go onto tray schools are working in a job or working with people you're always child because he always needs immediate skews me, he always made individuals who have it always be people who need more and don't know what they need more, the something or other ninety seven got a clue so. But anyhow, God is challenging us always to grow and change in the MoveOn and grow on in our lives and our prayers then are not simply about us, but our prayers are about the kingdom of God, for you see the answer to our prior is affects more than just us. It affects all the people around the flight, we are to be people of prayer and e-mail in a designee that we are hours. We are momentary, bringing our requests to God. God have a problem with this dynamic. This is a need in my life is the need I see in someone else's life in our life. There are so many challenges and sometimes we are so simplistic that our prayers are not about us. Therefore, the kingdom of God, thy will be done in us. I will be done in us as it is in heaven. One heart and one mind. Jesus says in an apex. The goal is for all of them at the prayer not only for them but also for those who will believe in me because of them and their witness about me. The goal is for all of them to become one heart and one mind. The goal is for all of them to become one heart and one mind all the people in one congregation are all the people in the world or part of the body of Christ them one heart and one mind, one mission. The goal is for all of them to become one heart and one mind to be concerned for others as Christ is concerned for them. There is a unity among the believers based upon the believers unity with Christ and with the father we pray for one another, forgive us as we have forgiven brightness together interconnection the interconnectedness of life that we are connected, not when I got one out of our little island by ourselves that we are in this we bear one another's burdens, so that they might be one heart and one mind. Jesus wants us to know that there is a oneness not just that there is a oneness among believers, but there was a oneness between God and I between God and us. There is a oneness there is a there is a place in this relational. It very so we have not that God is one with us that we were thinking about falling in love with God, and I thought about in this message that he really loves me. He really Jesus really loves me falling in love of God being in a relational experience were. I know that he loves me and he seeks only my highest good. And then he is praying for me in the same glory you gave me. Jesus, as I gave them the same glory that you gave me, I give to them that there is a there is a relational place in with us that exist between the guy wants to exist between us. That is a place of glory, the glory of being the ambassador, the glory of working gods miracle working God 's miracles greater things than these shall you do, because I go to the father, Jesus says, and the glory of God working in us, and one is the glory of God. I dig of the glory of God is speaking, speaking the truth in love and create something creates hope where people don't have hope that where you speak the word of God and people are encouraged where they have not been or felt encouraged before that you can say something that will bring life to people who feel like they are dead on the inside the miracle of giving hope to someone who doesn't have, I believe in God I picture how can you bring home to the people. The third individual who doesn't have hope only that but there is where there is life in your words, because there is life in God and God 's word is in you, you'll have a profound experience. You have a profound impact upon people the glory of working America was the glory of God 's gifts. The glory of God through the front of the Spirit is love and joy and peace and patience. I me. Sometimes I'm why King and some gifts and fruits not sometimes many times, but I felt we still have that connectedness in which they will grow that he is in us. We are unified. We are together in the glory of God. I'm confident the glory of God 's agreement, the glory of God, contract not kingdom come, thy will. They got in us, and God is praying that this would happen in us. Jesus is praying we might have all of this in our life that we are never alone. There is nothing a possible with God. Then there is faith to build our lives on why get how can we build who we are. We build we are by the glory of God and the power of God, in the presence of God strength to do the will of God. Jesus is praying that we might have this in us and goes on to say, so they will be as unified and together as we are. Jesus says that they you and I with God, with Christ would be as unified as Jesus is with the father as Jesus is unified united with the father, so he wants us to be united with him. Then they will be maturing this one this sure is a worldly character, the character that is anti- God sent people in odds against each other that we're in competition, but in the kingdom of God. The maturity of the Christian is that we are not in competition. We are here to complement and to build each other up to be in the greatest encourager to speak the word of whole FA and that you can do this if you have the abilities we have the character and we have the abilities of the winged god in time penetrate those things and taken to a different level. God 's kingdom is working for divine good. There's no contest in the kingdom on the compliments and access to help for we are to give godly evidence to a godless world that God has sent us how to do that by their love shall all men know that you are God 's children, Jesus declares to us in this prayer that you and I God sent to me, and loved them in the same way you love me. God is saying that telling us that God loves us in the same way that God loves, loves Jesus and we live in that empowerment. We live in that place. By this it will appear that God has loved us. If we love one another. Verse twenty four father, I want those you gave me to be with me right or I am this is the other fellow somewhere. We just have to be here with God in our life in our law is not in our present situation, Jesus is with us and I was not in the is with me and goes on to say, I have no new I have made you, for I made your very being known to them who you are what you do. Jesus prays. I have known you I made your very being known to them. Lots goes on to say and continue to make it known its ongoing that this relational experience that we have with God is an ongoing experience. So let your love for me might be, and then exactly as I have in them. And this is the concluding phrase exactly as Christ is in us grow you are and what you do and continue to make it known, so let your love for me might be in, then exactly as I have, and then exactly as Christ is in us salt to that. How much we continue to grow and to believe and to accept and to excel because we can't give up what we don't have. We fill our lives with Christ. I know uses understand what you not catch monkeys member that got catchy monkey to put the barrel out there. They drill holes in it, and you put something inside the monkey once, and what happens the hand in their grab hold of it and is caught why he doesn't know enough to let go. That's how the catchment, but if you're gay. I told the story one someplace where he was at his as yet. It's always the developing and decision are alive when we learn to let go of our sin. Our failures. We escape from the cash of our sin and we open our hearts and lives to Christ to be receptive. That's why we raise our hands. We open them up, it's like I'm I'm ready to receive and so we are depicted as receiving and is the more we receive Christ, the more we're able to understand about forgiveness and love doing the work of God. The mission of God. The purpose of God. The will of God, so, God filled me with your presence and fill me up. Lord with your love and the exact amount of what I have allowed for Christ to come into my life is the amount of which I'm able to believe being the be able to change my life and be able to go on with the work that God has called me to for he has called us to the kingdom of God for such a time as this, and he ever lives to make intercession for us. He prays for us. We're not trying to get his attention evening we have his undivided attention. So while we're offering our prayers. We are offering up the hope that is already in there given to us by Christ, it's like God has given this to us. We take it in. We excel we understand it, and we pray back to God. And in that cycle of thing we have that we are refreshed, we are educated we are changed. We are becoming the image of Christ as his spirit flows through us and changes us and the more we know of his word, the more we pray it and the more we expected and the more we expected, the more his presence comes and changes us in the Moorish presence comes and changes us. The more we offer up to God, and it's likely become were becoming in this process of coming in becoming and changing in God 's Spirit is working in us as we come together to celebrate our faith. We give our ties and offerings. We are giving them to God and God 's plan were planting seeds in the kingdom of God and God is going to bring the harvest harvest were given that we give a portion of the harvest back to God and God brings more harvest and brings him no more fruit and seasons while I we love people. We forget people and the more we would love and forgive the more we are. We recognize we are forgiven and I I'm forgiven because of my sins and my sins are forgiven, so I forgive others, and as I forgive others is coming back down to me that there is love in my heart for people I don't even know. So I pray for them. I pray for people I don't even know that what happens today is more grace is given into my life and I'm changing, and I'm letting go of things that don't have place in my life, and Jesus is constantly praying for and I am worshiping him as I worship him. I find his presence coming into shoulders