Pray John 17: Learn how to Thrive in Your Relationship with Jesus

By Cindy Warner

Do you want to pray like Jesus and learn to become the answer to Jesus’ prayer? This devotional will take you through 15 days of praying through John 17.

* Imagine connecting with the Father like Jesus, just think how much you will come to know the Father.
* What if you could pray from your heart, how much more joy you would experience.

* Why not be the answer to Jesus’ Prayer, you will have no better teacher.

* What if you could grow in two-way communication with God? Just think, no more monologues but a real tangible experiential relationship in which you have direct access to God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cindy Warner
• Release date: Feb 2, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370504565

Cindy Warner

Cindy Warner is passionate about giving her readers a devotional book sure to connect their hearts with the lover of their souls. A pastor’s wife for 40 years, she has been a children’s Sunday school teacher, adult Bible teacher, worship leader, and women’s ministry director. She raises up personal intercessors for Dick and other leaders as she teaches on the value of prayer in the local Church. Cindy and Dick make their home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

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Pray John 17: Learn how to Thrive in Your Relationship with Jesus

Pray John 17: Learn how to Thrive in Your Relationship with Jesus

Cindy Warner

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Pray John 17: Learn how to Thrive in Your Relationship with Jesus Copyright © 2016 by Cindy Warner.

Contents

Copyright Page

Acknowledgements

Day 1 Introduction

Day 2 Becoming

Day 3 Knowing

Day 4 Revealing

Day 5 Believing

Day 6 Union

Day 7 Protected

Day 8 Filled

Day 9 Separated

Day 10 Sanctified

Day 11 Commissioned

Day 12 Oneness

Day 13 Agape

Day 14 Love

Day 15 Life

Appendix 1 Eternal Life

Appendix 2 A Guide To Praying His Prayer

Appendix 3 Union/Unity

Appendix 4 The Passion Translation

Notes

About the Author

Copyright Page

Pray John 17

Learn how to Thrive in Your Relationship with Jesus

By Cindy Warner

Copyright © Cindy Warner 2016

Cover Design by Cindy Warner

Unless otherwise stated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New International Version Bible, copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1977, by the Lockman Foundation.

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Acknowledgements

Thank you to the following individuals who without their contributions and support this book would not have been written:

My first acknowledgment is to the man I know best, my husband, Dick. Honey thank you, for all you have taught me about Christ in you and for loving me with God’s agape love. I am who I am today because of you. I love you!

To New Hope Church (my church family), I couldn’t have finished this project without your prayers.

To Dottie (Sis) Warner and Jack Nace, thanks for helping to proofread my devotional and for your encouragement, patience and wonderful suggestions.

To Bill (Doc) Kronenberg.  Thank you for taking time to read, review, and for your honest critique. Your help was appreciated.

To Pressbooks. Without your help I could not have self-published my book. Thank you!

Day 1 Introduction

Priority of Your Prayers – John 17:1-26

Maybe you’ve spent enough money on books that tell you what you must do to have a deeper life of prayer. You might question; do I need another book on prayer to make me feel guilty?

Don’t worry, that’s not my aim in writing Pray John 17: Learn how to Thrive in Your Relationship with Jesus."

Jesus reassures you when he says, Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me, watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly. Matthew 11:28-30 The Message Bible

Pray John 17 leads you through the prayer of Jesus in John 17. As you pray along with Jesus, it will empower you to pray for yourself, your family, friends, and the world.

Jesus’ prayer brings with it transformation of your heart – transformation will come – Christ Jesus promised it!

More and more believers I know hope to experience daily dialog and face-to-face friendship with the living God and with others.

You were always created for intimate fellowship with the Father in the here and now.

Transformation will come – Christ Jesus promised it!

Prayer

Dear Father, enlarge my capacity to spiritually understand how I can be the answer to Jesus’ Prayer in John 17.

Day 2 Becoming

Bringing Many Sons to Glory

I believe John intended for John 13-17 to be the whole section of what we know today as the upper room discourse.

It begins, Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. John 13:1

And ends this way, And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them. John 17:26

John starts out showing the love Jesus has for His disciples and ends with Jesus praying for them. He loved them and wanted them to love each other.

My focus, will be on John 17, and taken from John’s eyewitness account of this last evening with His disciples. Here Jesus is discussing with the disciples how to live after His resurrection and furthermore, this same message is for the church today – for disciples throughout all time.

Jesus models what it means to live in close fellowship with God, what eternal life looks like for all disciples of all time. He is the best disciplemaker I know! This last evening with His disciples is His most important disciplemaking session in all of His ministry. As Jesus reveals his heart to His disciples and to you, in John 17, may you find comfort and courage to stand.

I call it,