THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN

Chapter 14

 

Heavenly Father, right now please send Thy Holy Spirit mightily upon me to impart unto me a full understanding of all Thy Holy Scriptures recorded in this chapter of the Gospel of John.

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.” (Verse 1)

Heavenly Father, please perfect my faith in Thee. Please perfect my faith in Thy Son, The Lord Jesus Christ. Please enable me to fully trust in God the Father and in Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world. Save me from all doubts, fears, worries, and anxiety. Keep my heart perfectly in Thy Peace to prevent it from being troubled. 

“In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” (Verse 2)

Lord Jesus, I believe that Thou doest prepare a mansion in Heaven for each human soul who trusts in Thee. Please prepare a place in Heaven for me.

“And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” (Verse 3)

Lord Jesus Christ, I believe Thou wilt come again to this earth to receive Christian believers unto Thyself in Heaven so that we may forever be with Thee in Heaven. Please give me an earnest desire to be with Thee in Heaven. Give me an earnest desire for Thee come right now to receive us believers unto Thee.

“And whether I go ye know, and the way ye know.” (Verse 4)

Lord Jesus, please teach me most clearly whether Thou hast gone. Please teach me the way and guide me perfectly into Thy Way. 

“Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?” (Verse 5)

 Lord Jesus, teach me clearly whither Thou goest. Please cause me to know Thy Way fully.

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (Verse 6)

Lord Jesus Christ, I confess that Thou art the One and Only Way To God’s Eternal Heaven. Please take me to Heaven to be with Thee forever. I confess that Thou art God’s Eternal Truth. Please teach me all of Thy Truth. Lord Jesus, I confess that Thou art Eternal Life. Please become my Eternal Life.  

“If ye had know me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.” (Verse 7)

Lord Jesus, I desire to know Thee to the fullest extent possible during this life on this earth. Please reveal Thyself fully unto me. I also desire to know all I can possible know of God the Father. Heavenly Father, please teach me of Thyself. I desire to see Thee, Heavenly Father. Please reveal Thyself fully unto me.  

“Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.” (Verse 8)

Lord Jesus Christ, please show God the Father unto me. Please teach me and reveal unto me all that God the Father hath ordained that I know about Him while I am here on this earth.

“Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?” (Verse 9)

Lord Jesus, please be with me just as Thou wast with Philip. Please enable me to know Thee to the fullest extent possible. Please show Thyself unto me. I desire to see Thee, Jesus. I confess that the soul who hath seen Jesus Christ hath thus seen God the Father also. 

“Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.” (Verse 10)

Lord Jesus Christ, I believe that Thou art in God the Father. I believe that God the Father is in Thee, His Son. I believe that Thou doest not speak of Thyself. I believe that God the Father that dwelleth in Thee, he doeth the works.  

“Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.” (Verse 11)

Lord Jesus, I wholeheartedly confess that Thou art in God the Father. I confess that God the Father is in Thee, His Only Begotten Son. I also believe Thee, Lord Jesus, for the very works’ sake. I believe all the wondrous, miraculous works done by Thee while Thou was on this earth. I fully believe the Bible record of each and every work it records that was wrought by Thee.  

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” (Verse 12)

Lord Jesus Christ, I confess that I believe on Thee as my Saviour, my Lord, my God, my ALL. Please perfect my faith in Thee. Please give me unwavering faith to fully believe Thy Most Wonderful Promise in this verse. I earnestly desire to do the works that Thou doest do. I aspire to do greater works than those, all for Thy Great Glory. Right now, please grant unto me this heart’s desire of mine. I confess that Thou didst go unto God the Father in Heaven. 

“And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” (Verse 13)

Lord Jesus, please perfectly teach me how to pray unto God the Father in Thy Precious Name. Please perfect my praying so that I always pray according to Almighty God’s Perfect Will. I pray that God the Father will be glorified in God the Son by the things I ask in prayer to God the Father in Jesus Christ’s High and Holy Name.

“If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.” (Verse 14)

Almighty Lord Jehovah God, I praise Thy Great Name for this most wonderful promise given unto me by God the Son. Please perfect my faith to fully believe this promise. Please guide and teach me to come boldly before Thy Throne of Grace in prayer. Please always guide me perfectly to pray God’s Divine Will. Please teach me perfectly how to ask of God the Father in the Name of God the Son Jesus Christ. Holy Father, I now ask Thee in Jesus’ Name, that Thy Will be done in my life as it is done in Heaven. I ask Thee in Jesus’ Name, that God’s Will be done in all the earth, as it is done in Heaven.  

“If ye love me, keep my commandments.” (Verse 15)

Lord Jesus Christ, I profess that I love Thee. Please enable me to love Thee with all my heart by enabling me to keep all Thy Commandments perfectly. I do not have that ability within my weak self. By Thy Almighty Power, please impart into me from Heaven on High the Power and Ability to perfectly obey Thee.

“And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever;” (Verse 16)

Heavenly Father, please clearly teach me that this Comforter is God the Holy Spirit Who comes into a person’s spirit when that person trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ. I desire to be indwelt by God’s Holy Spirit. I thank Thee, that The Holy Spirit abides with me forever. Please fill me full of the Holy Ghost’s Power for the purposes of me living a victorious life and for serving Thee in Thy Great Power while I am on this earth. 

“Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.” (Verse 17)

Heavenly Father, I confess that God the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth. I confess that the people of the world cannot receive the Spirit of Truth because they are children of the devil. Heavenly Father, I confess that I am Thine. I desire to see and to know the Spirit of Truth. Please fully reveal the Spirit of Truth unto me. I desire for the Spirit of Truth to dwell with me and to be in me. Please grant these desires of mine.

“I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”(Verse 18)

Lord Jesus, I thank Thee for this wonderful promise of Thine, that Thou wilt not leave me comfortless. Thank Thee for sending God’s Holy Spirit to dwell with me and to be in me to comfort me. Thank Thee, Lord, for Thy promise that Thou wilt come to me. Please come today to take me to Heaven.

“Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.” (Verse 19)

Lord Jesus Christ, please give me Spiritual vision to look on things that are unseen. I desire to see Thee, Precious Lord. I desire to daily behold Thy Wonderful Face. Please enable me to do so. I confess that Jesus Christ is The One Eternal God Who lives forever. I confess that Jesus Christ is my Eternal Life.

“At that day, ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.”(Verse 20)

Heavenly Father, I confess unto Thee that my faith is in the Lord Jesus Christ. I confess that God The Son Jesus Christ is in God the Father. I confess that I am in Christ Jesus and that The Lord Jesus Christ is in me. I rejoice in this most marvelous work of Thine. I thank Thee that Thou hast received me. Filled with joyful hope from God, I gladly await the day when I shall come to fully know these most glorious Truths.  

“He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” (Verse 21)

Lord Jesus, I confess that I have all Thy commandments in Thy Holy Bible. Please stir up my heart to daily read and study them much. Please send Thy Holy Spirit to clearly teach me the full meaning of each of Thy commandments. Help me to keep Thy commandments and thus to love Thee. I desire to love Thee, Lord Jesus, and to be loved of Thy Father in Heaven. I desire for Thee to love me and to manifest Thyself unto me. Please grant these desires of my heart.

“Judas saith unto him, not Is-cari-ot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?” (Verse 22)

Lord Jesus Christ, please teach me how that Thou doest manifest Thyself to us who believe on Thee, and not unto the world.

“Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” (Verse 23)

Lord Jesus, please help me to love Thee by keeping Thy words. I thank Thee for this promise that God the Father will love me if I keep Thy words. Heavenly Father, please come unto me and make Thy abode with me. Lord Jesus, please come unto me and make Thy abode with me.

“He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.” (Verse 24)

Lord Jesus, I confess that the word I hear from Thee is not Thine, but rather that the word is God the Father’s Who sent Thee. Please empower me to keep all Thy sayings and thus to love Thee.

“These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.” (Verse 25)

Lord Jesus, thank Thee for each and every word that Thou doest speak unto me, thru Thy Eternal Scriptures in Thy Holy Bible and also thru God the Holy Spirit Who dwells in my spirit. Please enable me to always hear and discern Thy Glorious Voice and to always obey Thy Words to me.

“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” (Verse 26)

Heavenly Father, I confess that God the Holy Ghost is the Comforter Whom Thou hast sent in the Name of Jesus Christ. I thank Thee that the Holy Ghost shall teach me all things, and bring all things to my remembrance, whatsoever Thou hast said unto me. I confess that I earnestly desire this. 

“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” (Verse 27)

Lord Jesus Christ, I confess that Thou art the Prince of Peace. Thank Thee for filling my heart with Thy Wonderful Peace that passeth understanding. I confess to all Thy creation that I have no need to be troubled or to be afraid because I am trusting in The Prince of Peace. I confess that this world cannot give true peace to anyone.

“Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.” (Verse 28)

Lord Jesus, please clearly teach me how that Thou hast gone away from this earth unto God the Father in Heaven. Help me to firmly believe Thy Promise that Thou wilt come again to take me Home to Heaven. Help me to truly love Thee. Help me to truly rejoice because Thou hast gone away unto God the Father. I confess that God the Father is greater than God the Son, Jesus Christ.

“And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.” (Verse 29)

Lord Jesus, I confess that all Thy words are Almighty God’s Eternal Truth. I confess that all things Thou doest proclaim unto us in the Bible shall come to pass. I confess that I believe all the words in The Holy Bible. Please perfect my faith in Thee, My God, and in The Holy Bible, Thy words to me.

“Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.” (Verse 30)

Heavenly Father, please teach me clearly that the devil, Satan, Lucifer, is the prince of this world. Teach me that he is Thy archenemy. Lord Jesus, please train me as a soldier of Thine to stand, in Thy High and Holy Name, against the prince of this world. I confess that the prince of this world hath nothing in Thee, Lord Jesus. Save me from his power. I pray that he would have nothing in me.

“But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.” (Verse 31)

Lord Jesus, please teach me fully of Thy Love for God the Father. Please enable me to follow Thy Example of Perfect Obedience to God the Father. Please help me to always do exactly as God the Father gives me commandment to do. Lord Jesus Christ, I will arise and go hence with Thee. Whithersoever Thou doest lead me, I will follow Thee. Please daily lead me clearly in Thy Perfect Will for me. I love Thee, Sweet Lord Jesus.

Our Father which art in Heaven, I pray all these wonderful prayers for each and every human soul now alive on this earth. I ask all these things of Thee in the Name of Thy Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. I pray in faith believing that Thou wilt answer each and every prayer in accordance to Thy Divine Will and for Thy Great Glory. Amen.

Chapter 15

 

 

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