3 PRAYERS OF JESUS

change must begin from within

everyone must be transformed, have the profile of Jesus

Jesus is fully God, but fully man.. and was tempted like anyone

as a perfect man, Jesus is our perfect example

something always happen we we pray

transformation by the spirit when we pray

3 prayers of Jesus (prayers we must pray if we want to take up the cross)

1. Father, not my will but Yours be done

when faced with temptation, pray!

-prayer is not changing God's will for our fantasies, but our alight our desires with God's will

-surrendering our wrong thoughts to God, submitting to God

though we have the right and choice on what we want

but is it beneficial, constructive, and good to others

2. Father, forgive them

on the cross, Jesus was thinking abt and prayed for the soldiers who crucified Him

Stephen's last prayer is for his enemy

when we got confronted, God wants to be involved.. by just praying

prayer for others like how we want others to pray for us.. this is how we should pray for our enemies

3. Father, into Your hands i commit my spirit

every failure in life is a death

when we commit our life, destiny into the Father's hand, no one nor power can snatch from the Father's hand.. we are safe and protected

LOVE LIKE JESUS

-to love like Jesus, theres no other than apostle John, apostle of love

   -transformed from someone angry, explosive to someone who is known to love

when we do reflective thinking, God will show us another side that God wants to add into us

only when we recognize and admit that tt area needs to change only then we can change

John realized tt his temperament needs to be controlled through reflective thinking

-to love does not come naturally to John

-anger is a learned behavior

-not only John is the son of thunder, his brother James behaves the same

   -surely something they learned from something / surrounding

from the story of adultery women, John learned

1. love is a balance of grace and truth

-John is a man of conviction and absolutes

   -right means right, wrong means wrong.. tts no middle ground

   -cant take injustice

-if Jesus were to forgive the women and let her go, John will be so disappointed with Jesus' leadership

John defend truth

John displayed narrow-mindedness

-Jesus didnt punish her nor degrade her but ask her to sin no more

-Jesus knows tt the women suffered shame, but did not degrade her

-John realized that truth must be accompanied by grace

2. love is a balance of forgiveness and restoration

-Peter denied Jesus, and John was there standing next to Peter witnessing

   -Peter was the Jesus' favorite disciple and John being a man of absolute and full of conviction... John witnessed Peter denying Jesus

-John witnessed Jesus forgave Peter and restore him completely with love

   -Peter cancelled himself out but Jesus restore Peter's ministry back to him, no diminishing factor

      -we may disqualified ourselves, God will not..

-John learnt.. love is not only forgiveness but also restoration

-all the disciples left Jesus when he was crucified

-John was there till Jesus died.. he witnessed the greatest love

-John witnessed the worst injustice.. Jesus is innocent, just, holy, loving, done no wrong.. He was accused and suffered

   -John cant reconcile injustice, but Jesus forgave