WEEK 7

Rebuilding The Walls Of Unity In Churches and Restoring God's Glory


THE ONLY UNANSWERED PRAYER OF JESUS IS, 'THAT THEY MAY BE ONE'.
How should we feel when we read this unanswered prayer today?  What emotions should flood our heart?  In John 17, Jesus prayed that we would 'be one' just before the final journey to His hideous death.  This prayer was and is His 'last will and testament'.  This is God's desire but it is held captive by humanity.  Our disbelief and our stubborn insistence on our rights and personal agendas are shackles binding God's desire to our limitations.  Jesus is still praying this same prayer over us today.  DISUNITY COSTS US OUR CREDIBILITY.  Jesus prayed that we would become one, so that the world would believe that God, the Father sent Jesus, His Son.  There is no reason for the world to believe we are from God if we are disunited.  Jesus has given the Church the same glory that God, the Father has given Him.  Let us be one with Him and see His glory restored fully to the Church.  (Adapted from God's Dream Team by Tommy Tenney)


Pray for -

• The confession and renunciation of our pride, our insecurity, our independence and our need for control.  Pray and ask God to clothe us with humility and grace to work with others for the extension of His Kingdom.
• The Holy Spirit to convict us of gossip, rebellion, murmur, slander, dissension, strife, envy and covetousness.  Pray for healing, restoration and reconciliation in every broken relationship and that love and forgiveness will prevail in the Church.  
• Inter-DENOMINATIONAL unity amongst the Malaysian Churches that they will come together as ONE, with one focus and purpose to fulfil His plan for this nation.
• Inter-GENERATIONAL unity and that all generations will support and complement one another, recognising the uniqueness of each generation and empowering it to play its God-given role for the destiny of the nation.
• An awareness of the enemy's strategies to disunite the church and that every assignment of disunity will be broken over the Church.
• The restoration of God's glory upon His church.  Declare Isaiah 60:1 over the nation.  'Arise, shine for your light has come and the GLORY OF THE LORD rises upon you!'