Prayer Focus: For The Wesleyan Church to have the Spirit of unity and peace as one church, pursuing God’s mission into the future.
Scripture: John 17:20-23
“I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one …” (vv. 20-21)
The only way we stay united in mission as one church is through the power of the Holy Spirit. He alone provides the ability to be united and offers peace despite any circumstance. He alone is unity and peace for all people, families, churches, ministries and organizations. Jesus’ great desire for his disciples was that they would become one. The main reason was so they would be a great example and powerful witnesses to a world that continues to be tragically discombobulated.
While being questioned as a potential juror recently, a defense attorney inquired of me, “What’s the biggest problem in society today?” “The worship of self,” I answered. We are either chasing after God or we are chasing whatever we think we can do ourselves. There is no sidestepping Jesus’ prayer that we would be focused on him and that we would be one as he and the Father are one. Why? So “… that the world may believe that you (God) have sent me” (v. 21).
Pray. Stop critiquing everyone and everything. Put your spoon down and resist what I call, “spoons disease” — the constant need to stir. Build the other person up in Christ. Work together on eternal things and don’t sweat earthly things. Exalt Christ in decisions as well as in lifestyle choices, never getting close to being a potential stumbling block. Spend and be spent on Christ’s mission to save the lost, reach the unreached and assist the least. Preach Christ alone. Speak Christ alone. Live in Christ alone. Commit to oneness in the things God craves instead of the things that so easily distract and divide us.
Prayer Prompt: Lord, help us to be one in you so that the whole world may believe in you! Amen.
Jim Dunn
*This entry is part of the “EMPOWERED: 15th General Conference Prayer Initiative,” created to guide Wesleyans in 30 days of intentional prayer for The Wesleyan Church and its 2026 General Conference.
Used by permission. Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®.
