The Power in Prayer
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Does prayer change the situation or does prayer change you while you are in the situation.
Does prayer change the situation or does prayer change you while you are in the situation.
Lets look at what God’s word says....
But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the preaching ministry.”
In other words, I will separate myself to God and God alone. In doing this I will do the will of God even if it cost me my friends, cost me my family, cost me me…Cost me my life. So we benefit through Christ Salvation for us and be sanctified continually as we get to know the Word
But if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
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to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.
Ephesians 5:26
Jesus is requesting of us absolute unity He makes this request 5 times (v 11, 21-23) This was to convince the world that He had been sent of God. Verse 21 be one in us) This verse has a comparative and a causative force here. heavenly unity is both the model and source of the unity of believers. The Father and Son unity is the same type that should exist among believers. This view point is captured from what happened at the last supper, so this began in chapter 13.
So does prayer change the situation or does prayer change you while you are in the situation ....
Now I am coming to You,
and I speak these things in the world
so that they may have My joy completed in them.
I have given them Your word.
The world hated them
because they are not of the world,
as I am not of the world.
I am not praying
that You take them out of the world
but that You protect them from the evil one.
John 17:13-
Father leave them in the situation, just don’t let the situation remove from them the word. Don’t let the situation remove their faith, don’t let the situation remove their power in being kept by us.
How do we know this is what he meant....
I have given them the glory You have given Me.
May they be one as We are one.
Jesus has not retained the glory that the Father has given him, but has passed it on to his own: the knowledge of his Father, so that they may so we may be unified by faith. There were Christians who thought they could live for God only in solitude, only in isolation from others. But for John who may have been an isolated thinker the community, in which the unity of the Father with the son was reflected was indispensable.