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A.W. Tozer

On our farm in Pennsylvania there were cherry trees which were attacked by little parasites of some sort. A parasite would get into a little branch, pierce the bark and exude a gum. Then the branch would get a knot on it and bend. All over the trees were those little bent places with gummy knots. After two or three years, those cherry trees would not bloom. If they did, the blooms usually dropped early and the cherries did not come to fruition. If the blooms did not drop early, the cherries...

Bible Verses: John 17

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A.W. Tozer

Two other considerations may help us here. One is that our Lord did on at least one occasion pray for sinners. "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing," was a request made to God on behalf of evil men. Is it not reasonable that if Christ prayed for sinners once, He may be expected to pray for them again" Also we must remember that Jesus was a Son of man and frequently referred to Himself by that title. As such, He had and has a relationship to the whole human race. Is...

Bible Verses: John 17

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A.W. Tozer

The glory of God has not been revealed to this generation of men. The God of contemporary Christianity is only slightly superior to the gods of Greece and Rome, if indeed He is not actually inferior to them, in that He is weak and helpless while they at least had power.

If what we conceive God to be He is not, how then shall we think of Him" If He is indeed incomprehensible. . . how can we Christians satisfy our longing after Him" The hopeful words, "Acquaint now thyself with...

Bible Verses: John 17:5John 17:24-26

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A.W. Tozer

The doctrine of the divine indwelling is one of the most important in the New Testament, and its meaning for the individual Christian is precious beyond all description. To neglect it is to suffer serious loss. The apostle Paul prayed for the Ephesian Christians that Christ might dwell in their hearts by faith. Surely it takes faith of a more than average vitality to grasp the full implications of this great truth. Two facts join to make the doctrine difficult to accept: the supreme...

Bible Verses: John 14:23John 17

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Selwyn Hughes

For Reading and Meditation:     John 20:19-30

Dr. W. E. Sangster tells the story of following three children out of church. One remarked to the others: "I can't understand all this 'Three in One and One in Three' business." "I can't either," said another child, "but I think of it like this: my mother is Mummy to me, she is Mabel to Daddy, and Mrs. Douglas to lots...

Bible Verses: John 20:19-30Matthew 28:192 Corinthians 13:14John 1:1-14John 8:58John 10:30John 17:5

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Selwyn Hughes

For Reading and Meditation:     2 Timothy 3:12-17

We continue from where we left off yesterday in saying that persecution is one of the proofs that we are true disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. Many Christians find great difficulty in coming to terms with this issue of persecution, and because they have never understood that those who reject Christ will also...

Bible Verses: 2 Timothy 3:12-17John 17:1-26John 15:20John 16:2

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Selwyn Hughes

For Reading and Meditation:     Hebrews 6:1-20

Out of all the aspects of truth that surround the fact of our Lord's ascension, one of the greatest is surely this - Christ is our Precursor. A precursor is really a forerunner - an advance runner - and that is precisely the term which our text for today applies to the climactic ministry of our ascended Lord. The NIV...

Bible Verses: Hebrews 6:1-20Hebrews 2:10John 17:24John 17:1-26John 1:12Galatians 4:71 Corinthians 15:39-44

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William MacDonald

Twice in His great high priestly prayer, our Lord prayed that His people might be one (verses 21 and 22, 23). This prayer for unity has been seized as Scriptural support for the ecumenical movement - a great organizational union of all professing Christian churches. Unfortunately this ecumenical unity is achieved through abandoning or reinterpreting fundamental Christian doctrines. As Malcolm Muggeridge wrote, "By one of our time's larger ironies, ecumenicalism is triumphant just when there...

Bible Verses: John 17:21John 17:1-26Acts 2:45-47Acts 4:32-35

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T. Austin-Sparks

Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. (John 17:5)



I think it is quite clear that the Lord Jesus
carried in His heart a great longing and a prayer for the glory that He once
had. This is where I think John touches this matter very closely. In the
seventeenth chapter of his gospel, he records that great prayer of the...

Bible Verses: John 17:5

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