March 23, 2026
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Reading along with us in our Lenten readings from “The Life of Jesus”? Here’s today’s reading:
Lent 2026 – Day 19 in the Book: “The Life of Jesus“
The Week Jesus Dies
Read Sections 5.38 through 5.40 (pages 167-169)
This book is an account of Jesus’ life and teachings told in chronological order from the four Gospels to create one continuous story.
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What a beautiful prayer this is. Jesus first talks to His Father showing the closeness of their relationship and the understanding Jesus has of what He has been called to do and how He needs the Father’s help to finish the mission: to make a relationship with God available to all who will believe. He then prays for His disciples and recognizes the nature of His relationship with them and their relationship with Him. They are the ones who have believed and followed, but now they will need to face the world and satan without Jesus being present. He prays for their protection and strength in facing the rejection that Jesus has faced. Then Jesus prays for those who will believe from the disciple’s testimony. He prays mostly that we will be one. If God and Jesus are one and we are with them, then we should be one as well. He prays also that we would understand Him for who He is, in all His glory and majesty because that is how we fall in love with Him and then follow and represent Him better. He knew exactly what we would need and prays those things for us.
How is it we get to listen to a conversation between Jesus and His father: the definition. of life, that we may bring glory to God by being ourselves and finishing the work that He gave us to do. John 17:4. reading this chapter, it’s a reminder that the world is a tremendous battleground, without the protection from God we would be sifted like wheat. Also such an important reminder: one of Jesus’s greatest desire is that we are one to be unified in the body of Christ, the church, to build each other up working together, being humbled, like Jesus himself, not being sidetracked by small divisive matters. That we may be one. With Jesus and our father. Anything better than that!?!!
Jesus prays that those who believe in Him will be one, as He and the Father are one. The unity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is complete. It is profound to consider that we are included when we are in Christ, not just included but indwelt by the Holy Spirit Himself.
What an amazing thing to have Jesus pray for us. He prays not only for His disciples but also for all that will believe on Him, that is us! Humbling to think He would take time to pray for us and a powerful example to show us that no one is too important to pray for someone else. If Jesus can take His time to stop and pray for us, we should also be takinng time to pray for each other. His pray is one of unity, that we will be one, like He and His Father. Jesus wanted us to be unified under the truth of the gospel, not divided over the details of it. We should stand firm as one church and one people here to live His truths and to bring Him glory!
Lent Day 19
Jesus prayed to the Father for his disciples and for all believers. He is in us and guides us offering protection in this fallen world. Praise God!
I especially like Pastor Peter’s sermon re Jesus’s activities on Tuesday of Holy Week.
Thank you, Michael!
Yes, Mike, Pastor’s sermon was wonderful.
Day 19, 5:38-5:40
Psalm 95; 2 Kings 25; The Life of Jesus 5.38-5.40
Lent 2026-Day 19
Day 20 & 21
Jesus states that eternal life happens when a person believes in the only true God and Jesus his Son. And Jesus intercedes for us because we believe. In fact, he makes it a point to say that he is not only praying for his disciples, but he prays for us too. “They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. I pray for them…Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one…Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.” And the words of his prayer reflects how much he loves us. John 17