Gleanings for April 1

JESUS PRAYER (for us)

John 17: 3 NJKV: “And this is eternal life: that they may KNOW YOU, the only true God, and JESUS CHRIST whom YOU have sent.”

Faith Confessions taken from the prayer of Jesus written in the 17^th Chapter of the Gospel of John:

PERSONALIZED PROMISE BIBLE:

“Jesus has manifested the Father to me as He truly is. I belong to my Father and He has placed me under Jesus’ legal guardianship. Jesus alone, through mighty deeds, including the sacrifice of His own life, has earned for me the right to stand in the Father’s presence without any sense of guilt or inadequacy.

“My life is in Him and I keep His Word faithfully. I know and understand that I belong to my Father—that He has made Jesus my substitute and has placed me in His care. All of the Words that Jesus has given me came directly from the Father. I have received and accepted them, and know of a certainty that Jesus came forth from the Father and that the Father did send Him.

“Jesus is continually praying for me because I belong to the Father and have been made a part of His royal family. I am fully secure under the guardianship of my elder brother (Jesus).

“All that belongs to Jesus is the Father’s. I belong to Jesus and He is glorified in and through me. I am kept (held secure) in my Holy Father’s name and just as the Father and Jesus are One, I also am one with my brothers and sisters in Christ.

“Jesus keeps me and preserves me in the Father’s name. I shall never be lost. I am continually guarded and protected, and I shall never perish. The joy of Jesus is fulfilled in me. He has made me to experience continual joy, gladness, and heavenly bliss, for I am now a born-again child of God and an eternal heir together with Jesus.

“I hold fast to the Word even though the world despises me for it. It is through the Word that I have become a partaker of God’s divine nature. I am no more of this world than Jesus is. I am a true, reborn and regenerated son/daughter of the living God.

“I am guarded and protected against the schemes of the evil one. There is nothing that he can do that can harm me in any way. I have come into a new class of being and am no more of this world than Jesus is. I am sanctified (set apart from the ways of the world) through the Word. God’s Word is my reality.

“Just as the Father sent Jesus into the world, Jesus has sent me into the world. My mission is the same as His: to proclaim the present fact of the kingdom. Jesus sanctified Himself so that I may be sanctified through the Word.

“I have come to know and rely on Jesus through the teaching of His disciples; I do all that He taught them to do. All that He declared they had is now mine as well, I have become one with the disciples of 2000 years ago, and in truth, I have become one with 6000 year’s worth of believers. Just as the Father is in Jesus, and Jesus in the Father, we all are one in them so that, through us, the world may be convinced that Jesus was sent from the Father.” Those words inspired by the prayer of Jesus help us to know:

THE JOY OF THE LORD IS OUR STRENGTH!