Sunday, June 7, 2015

Jesus is glorified. 6/7/15


Day 156 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/John.17

John 17

Jesus Prays to Be Glorified
After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:

“Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4 I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.

Jesus Prays for His Disciples
6 “I have revealed you[a] 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. 9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. 11 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[b] your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by[c] that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.

13 “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. 14 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. 15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17 Sanctify them by[d] the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.

Jesus Prays for All Believers
20 “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. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 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.

24 “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.

25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you[e] 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.”

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

June 7th An atmosphere of freedom

“I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart.” PSALM 40:8
The very nature of God’s move has nothing to do with the realm of coercing. It has everything to do with a group of people participating in the life of another Person who is absolutely willing — “I delight to do Your will, O My God” (Psa. 40:8; cf. Heb. 10:7). Willingness is not merely what is described in a dictionary — wanting to do something. No, that is the shell. The kernel and life- content of willingness is Christ. Just as all the virtues of the fruit of the Spirit are Christ, so also willingness is Christ. So whenever willingness is in you, you have met Christ in your being. You have met Him in the form of His disposition of willingness. That is His life. It is the nature of His life within us. It is the way He feels. In the Old Testament, when the tabernacle was being constructed, it was done only by those who had a willing heart. Exodus 35:5 says, “Take from among you an offering to the LORD. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, and bronze.” To offer something to the Lord is not merely an outward act. “Whoever is of a willing heart” reveals the nature of the people’s offering and the nature of God’s corporate testimony. This is what makes God known on the earth. This is the way He is made known. He is not made known in a forced environment, but in an atmosphere of freedom, an atmosphere where willingness can spring forth. This is because love cannot exist without an atmosphere of freedom. Love freely gives. Love freely goes out. Love freely serves. If you put me under a demand to love by telling me, “You must love me” — that does not express an atmosphere of freedom. That expresses the law of Moses: “Thou shalt.” It is the law. What expresses God is an atmosphere of freedom, willingness, and love. This atmosphere characterizes our relationships in the church life.
Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)
Anna, Ariana,Ariel, Rene, and Willie.

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Praise Alert
Anna is out of the hospital.

National
Conflict between citizens and  police officer. 

International
Israel and Palestine
Iraq
Syrians
Ukraine
Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.
Families of slain Kenyans.
Families of all the recent plane crashes.

Song(s) of the Day.
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