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Praying Like Jesus

Praying Like Jesus. Praying Like Jesus Jesus: "I pray for these followers, but I am also praying for all those who will believe in Me because of their teaching.” John 17:20 ( ncv ). Praying Like Jesus

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Praying Like Jesus

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  1. Praying Like Jesus

  2. Praying Like Jesus Jesus: "I pray for these followers, but I am also praying for all those who will believe in Me because of their teaching.”John 17:20 (ncv)

  3. Praying Like Jesus Prayer principle 1: Spiritual maturity is evident when I pray about the priorities Jesus prayed about

  4. Jesus’ 1st priority: our relationship with God Jesus: “They belong to You.” John 17:6 (niv)

  5. Jesus’ 1st priority: • our relationship with God • That I might have the assurance of salvation • “This is the way to have eternal life – to know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one You sent to earth.” John 17:3 (nlt)

  6. Jesus’ 1st priority: • our relationship with God • That I might have the assurance of salvation • “My purpose in writing is simply this: that you who believe in God's Son will know beyond the shadow of a doubt that you have eternal life, the reality and not the illusion.” • 1 John 5:13 (msg; compare John 20:31)

  7. Jesus’ 1st priority: • our relationship with God • That I might have the assurance of salvation • 2. That I might experience God’s love intimately • “I made You known to them, and I will continue to do so, in order that the love You have for Me may be in them.” John 17:26 (tev)

  8. Jesus’ 1st priority: • our relationship with God • That I might have the assurance of salvation • 2. That I might experience God’s love intimately • “Your love is always there for those who pray to You.”Psalm 86:5 (cev)

  9. Jesus’ 1st priority: • our relationship with God • That I might have the assurance of salvation • 2. That I might experience God’s love intimately • 3. That I might know Christ’s joy continually • “I pray these things while I'm still in the world so that they will have the same joy that I have.” • John 17:13 (gwt)

  10. Jesus’ 1st priority: • our relationship with God • That I might have the assurance of salvation • 2. That I might experience God’s love intimately • That I might know Christ’s joy continually • “I have told you these things so that you will be filled with My joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!” • John 15:11 (nlt)

  11. Jesus’ 2nd priority: our mission in the world Jesus: “In the same way that You gave Me a mission in the world, I give them a mission in the world.” John 17:18 (mes)

  12. Jesus’ 2nd priority: our mission in the world 4. That I might grow mature spiritually “Your word is the truth. So let this truth make them completely Yours.” John 17:17 (cev)

  13. Jesus’ 2nd priority: our mission in the world 4. That I might grow mature spiritually “I'm not asking You to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one.” John 17:15 (nlt)

  14. Jesus’ 2nd priority: • our mission in the world • 4. That I might grow mature spiritually • That I might connect deeply with believers • “My prayer for all of them is that they will be one, just as You and I are one, Father – that just as You are in Me and I am in You, so they will be in Us, and the world will believe you sent Me.” • John 17:21 (nlt)

  15. Jesus’ 2nd priority: • our mission in the world • That I might grow mature spiritually • That I might connect deeply with believers • 6. That I might serve Christ effectively • “Make them ready for Your service through Your truth; Your teaching is truth.” • John. 17:17 (ncv)

  16. Praying Like Jesus Prayer principle 1: Spiritual maturity is evident when I pray about the priorities Jesus prayed about! Prayer principle 2: When I pray Jesus’ prayers after Him, I receive what I’ve been looking for all along!

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