Bible Lesson: Prayers Of Jesus:
Jesus Did Not Seek Deliverance, But The Glorification Of The Father.
Location: Jerusalem's Temple.
Lesson: In
All Things, It Is Our Duty, To Give Thanks And Praise To The Father
In Heaven.
Bible Text:
John 12:27,28 NLT
27 “Now My
soul is deeply troubled. Should I pray, ‘Father, save Me from this
hour? But this is the very reason I came!
28 Father,
bring glory to your name.” Then a voice spoke from heaven,
saying, “I have already brought glory to My name, and I will do so
again.”
Also:
John 13:31,32 NLT
31 As soon as Judas left the room,
Jesus said, “The time has come for The Son Of Man to enter into His
glory, and God will be glorified because of Him.
32 And since God receives glory
because of The Son, He will give His own glory to The Son, and He
will do so at once.
Philippians 1:20,21 NLT
20 For I fully expect and hope that
I will never be ashamed, but that I will continue to be bold for
Christ, as I have been in the past. And I trust that my life will
bring honor to Christ, whether I live or die.
21 For to me, living means living
for Christ, and dying is even better.
Facing the cross,
Jesus prayed “Father, bring glory to your name.”
Then a voice spoke from heaven, saying, “I
have already brought glory to My name, and I will do so again.”
(John 12:28 NLT)
In Christ's
intercessory prayer, He prayed...
John 17:4 KJV
I have glorified thee on the
earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest Me to do.
I Peter 4:11 KJV
If any man speak, let him speak as
the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the
ability which God giveth: that God in all things may
be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion
for ever and ever. Amen.
“That God in all things may be
glorified,” And in sorrow and
sufferings?
I Thessalonians
5:18 KJV
In every thing give
thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning
you.
Psalm 37:23 KJV
The steps of a good man are ordered
by The Lord: and He delighteth in his way.
Romans 8:28 KJV
And we know that all things work
together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called
according to His purpose.
Jesus lived to
bring glory to The Father.
John 14:13 NLT
You can ask for
anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring
glory to the Father.
Jesus calls us
to bring glory to The Father.
Friends, whether in
good times or bad, it is our Lord's will, that we bring glory to The
Father in heaven!
Psalm 22:23 KJV
Ye that fear The Lord, praise Him;
all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify Him; and fear Him, all ye
the seed of Israel.
Matthew 5:16 KJV
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which
is in heaven.
John 15:8 KJV
Herein is My Father glorified,
that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples.
Romans 15:6 KJV
That ye may with one mind and one
mouth glorify God, even The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I Corinthians
6:20 KJV
For ye are bought with A Price:
therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are
God's.
Galatians
1:21-24 NLT (The Apostle Paul.)
21 After that visit I went north
into the provinces of Syria and Cilicia.
22 And still the churches in Christ
that are in Judea didn’t know me personally.
23 All they knew was that people
were saying, “The one who used to persecute us is now preaching the
very faith he tried to destroy!”
24 And they praised God because
of me.
II Thessalonians
1:12 KJV
That the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in Him, according to the
grace of our God and The Lord Jesus Christ.
