Make us one #2

Romans 15:5-6
May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, so that with one heart and mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Mike's Thoughts
Jesus is our endurance and encouragement. The life he led and the death he faced for all of us is my motivation to endure and be encouraged in this life. It's the reason I can be thankful and still fight the difficult times and the reason I am thankful and not proud in the easy times. Our J10 life is found when we can connect with Jesus and find our endurance and encouragement. The same way Jesus provided endurance and encouragement through his death, he also provides us with unity. Unity with others who endure and are encouraged in this life. Unity that is born out of a savior who died for us and loves us. Unity not for our sake, bur for God's sake. Unity so God can be known. We are to make God known to the world. Today, let your prayers be for unity of the church so we can make God known.

Our Prayer
God, make us one. Thanks for the life you died for us to have. Thanks for the church you died to establish. Thanks for the endurance and encouragement we get through the life and death of Jesus. Thanks for the spirit of unity that comes out of the life and death of Jesus.

God, we want to be an answer to Jesus' prayer to be ONE. We want to be a group that endures and is encouraged in this life. We want to be a group that is unified in our hearts and mouths. Help us all connect with Jesus and find that endurance and encouragement.

Our prayer of unity is not for us. It's so people will know who you are. Today, as we endure and are encouraged, remind us of all the other Christians who you empower to do the same. Let there be in us, a spirit of unity.
In Jesus name, Amen