Peter Howard
Our Need for Prayer
“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Luke 11:9,10
God loves it when we talk with Him. God loves it when we engage with Him. God loves it when we share ourselves with Him and are intimate with Him. That’s what Jesus wanted for the disciples. Jesus knew the disciples would soon be on their own without His physical presence to comfort and support them. Jesus prayed that His disciples would have what He had – that they would be able to see and understand their Father in heaven. Jesus was not only praying for his disciples, but for each of us. It is only through our relationship with Jesus that we are able to love one another as God has loved us.
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. John 17:20-23