The Daily Fountain Devotional of the Church Of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) 18 February 2025 — Jesus Prays For All Believers
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TOPIC: Jesus Prays For All Believers
READ: John 17:20-26 (NKJV)
- ” I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word;
- “that they all may be one, 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.
- “And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one:
- “I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
- “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
- “O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me.
- “And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare [it,] that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
THE MESSAGE:
Jesus prayed for His disciples, but He also had the heart and the vision to pray for those who would come to faith by the testimony of the disciples (verse 20). He therefore prayed for us. He knew His intercession for the disciples as well as for us, would prevail. Jesus went to the cross knowing His work would endure. He left His earthly work full of confidence in the work of God through the disciples. The entire tone of His departure prayers was built on the conviction that after the resurrection, the disciples would renew their faith and carry on a new ministry in the power of the Holy Spirit. The Lord expects us to walk in the same grace and power of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus prayed that the disciples would rise above their different backgrounds and understand their unity – that they may all be one (verse 21). There would be countless others who would also become disciples, through the rest of history, from different nations, races, cultures, languages, classes, statuses, ages and social levels (Revelation 7:9). Jesus had prayed, “Father, make them one.” We are to be faithful to the truth; and we are not to be of a contentious spirit. Separating ourselves from those who are living members of the one and indivisible body of Christ. Let us cultivate at once the love of the truth and the love of the brethren. Our unity will make the world believe in Jesus. Unity founded in love is life.
PRAYER: Dear Jesus, please make us one, even as You and the Father are one. Amen!
PRAYER POINTS ON TODAY’S DAILY FOUNTAIN DEVOTIONAL
DATE: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2025
TOPIC: JESUS PRAYS FOR ALL BELIEVERS
- Father in the name of Jesus, thank You for the grace to see this day, the forty-nineth day in year 2025 in good health, sound mind and in joy
- Father, thank You for the special gift of life, many wished to see this month, but they couldn’t.
- Thank You Jesus for being there for us, Your children.
- Thank You Lord for Your plans for me this year. They are plans of good, not of evil, to give me a good and successful end.
- Father, please forgive me all my known and unknown sins, and let no sin reign over my life this year, in Jesus’ name.
- Thank You Jesus for praying ahead for all believers. I receive grace to walk according to Your intercession for me, in Jesus’ name.
- Lord, help me to walk in the same grace given to the direct disciples of Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit, in Jesus’ name.
- Father Lord, help Your Church to rise above our different doctrines that divide us and unite us, that we may all be one, in Jesus’ name.
- Help us, Lord, to be faithful to the truth, and not to be of a contentious spirit, in Jesus’ name.
- Holy Spirit, help the Church of Christ to cultivate the love of the truth and the love of the brethren, that our unity may make the world believe in Jesus Christ, in Jesus’ name.
- LORD, help me to get my life right this year, and let Your perfect will be enforced on me, in Jesus name
- LORD, help us to get it right in Nigeria, and let Your perfect will be enforced on us in Jesus’ name.
- Heavenly Father, let Your peace continue to reign in every part of this country,
- Whether the devil likes it or not, I will make heaven and receive my eternal rewards in Jesus’ Name.
- This is the day the Lord hath made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.
- Personal and family prayer requests.
- Confession: God bless the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), God bless the Universal Church, and bless our country Nigeria -1 Chronicles 17:27.
- Thank You Lord for answered prayers, in Jesus’ Mighty Name we pray. Amen.
