To know God is to become a pipeline for his word and His ways.
Scripture: John 17:4-9
What is the emphasis Jesus brought to the Father in this HighPriestly prayer? He is crying specifically for the Father to reveal Himself to all that have been given as disciples expecting they will enter into the same relationship He has had with the Father. Notice verses 7 and 8 as the center of the heart-cry over this issue, “Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You. For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You, and they have believed that You sent Me.” To know God is to become a conduit
for His word and His ways. Jesus, because of knowing Him intimately, became a pipeline for His word and His ways. Jesus\’ expectation revealed in this prayer is for you and me to become the same kind of pipelines in our generation that He brought in His because we would know God in the same intimacy.
PRAYER- Israel
During this month, Israel and the people of Jewish extraction are in the season of three weeks of mourning. It commences on 17 of Tammuz (16th July) with a fast. Read Isa 6.8-13 Joh 12.40, Acts 28.26, Rom 11.8- 26 Israel may have been cut off for a season so that all other nations may be grafted into the Kingdom of GOD.
ØThank the LORD for His generous love to all the gentiles that even before Jesus died, Israel was already laid down as a price so that gentiles could be grafted into the kingdom.
ØPray that as the times of the gentiles come to its fullness, many Jewish brethren will receive an opening of their blind eyes and unstopping of their ears to see and hear their Saviour and Kinsman Redeemer Jesus.