3/1/2024 0 Comments Unity church prayer requestsPour out Your love into all hearts by the Holy Spirit, who is the fire of love, so that we may know the unity of love. We long to have the iron bars and bronze shackles broken from our hearts. We long to experience the height and depth of Your Son’s love. We long to experience the love You had for Your Son. As a result, our hearts stay rooted in pride, envy, hatred, and shame.Ĭome and free us. Instead of being rooted in that love, we continue to place our trust in our best efforts or in our money or in our leaders. As we experience Your love for us, we will then be empowered to love those around us, even those who are very different from us.įather, we confess that we often don’t know how to receive Your love, that we live as orphans and not as your beloved sons and daughters. We are in fact so loved by You that You submitted to torture and death so that we could be set free from our sins. Jesus, You know the only way true unity can happen is if we first see ourselves as deeply loved by You. A Prayer for All to Experience the Love of the Father and Son Photo Credit: ©GettyImages/monkeybusinessimagesĢ. In light of how Jesus prayed for unity, here are four prayers for unity among all people: …that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you (John 17:21). What is the one thing He prays for? Wisdom, peace, love? No. Finally, He prays for all who will believe in Him throughout history. In John 17, He first prays for Himself and then His disciples. The best way to see this is to look at a part of the prayer He spoke right before His death. When Jesus appeared, He set a course in history that will take the human race into true unity. I believe the unity of the human race is not just a possibility but the whole trajectory of redemption. So, how do we know that the longing for unity is a real possibility and not just some utopian dream? More importantly, there is the expressed hope that this will lead us toward unity among those nations.Īnd as we face racial unrest together, the push toward justice has also been accompanied by hopes and prayers for unity. Here’s another example: Every time the Olympics come around, there is always conversation about the wonder of seeing all the nations competing. It’s our collective desire to survive it together with others. How many times have you heard: “We will get through this together.” It’s not only our hope to survive the pandemic. Think for a moment about the pandemic through which we are maneuvering. It can be dismissed, ignored, or corrupted, but the drive toward oneness remains a rock-solid reality. The longing for unity is written into the soul of every human being.
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