Pray or Be Prey: The War for Peace

Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so he can give glory back to you.  For you have given him authority over everyone. He gives eternal life to each one you have given him. And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.  I brought glory to you here on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.  Now, Father, bring me into the glory we shared before the world began." 
John 17:1b-5 NLT

Jesus' Prayer Proves I am meant to have. . . 


1.  Peace with God.

“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.  For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.”  
John 17:6-8 ESV

2.  Power in the warfare.

"I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me."
John 17:20-21 ESV

"But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world." 
John 17:13-14 ESV

"I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world." 
John 17:15-16 ESV

3. Purpose for the world.

"As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world." 
John 17:18 ESV

I AM SENT TO: ________________________________