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Daily Devotions

  • Sunday, May 16: Scripture – John 17:17-19


    17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth. Prayer Focus: You are sent into the world. You have been…

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  • Saturday, May 15: Scripture – John 17:14-16


    14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 15 I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. 16…

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  • Friday, May 14: Scripture – John 17:11-13


    11 And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I protected them in your…

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  • Thursday, May 13: Scripture – John 17:9-10


    9 I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them.   Prayer Focus: Jesus now makes a request. He asks…

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  • Wednesday, May 12: Scripture – John 17:6-8


    6 “I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; 8 for the words that you gave to me I have…

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  • Tuesday, May 11: Scripture – John 17:4-5


    4 I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do. 5 So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.   Prayer Focus: In his prayer, Jesus says that he has glorified the Father by finishing…

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  • Monday, May 10: Scripture – John 17:1-3


    1 After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this is eternal…

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  • Sunday, May 9: Scripture – John 15:17


    17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another. Prayer Focus: Once again we hear the command. Love one another. I’m not sure there is more to say than that. Love one another. Love one another. Love one another. (And it’s Mother’s Day, so give thanks for your Mom and…

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  • Saturday, May 8: Scripture – John 15:16


    16 You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.   Prayer Focus: This text follows the passage we considered a few weeks ago about Jesus as the…

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  • Friday, May 7: Scripture – John 15:14-15


    14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.   Prayer…

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