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Cedar Grove Methodist Church
May 9, 2027Next Sunday

Jesus Prays for His Friends

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Scripture

John 17:6–19

World English Bible · Public domain

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Big Idea

Jesus prays for us by name and asks God to keep us close together.

Memory Verse

“Holy Father, keep them through your name.” — John 17:11

Object Lesson

Pass a basket and let each child drop in a stone as they say someone they want to pray for. Jesus prayed for his friends just like that — one by one.

Craft

Prayer Stone Basket: Decorate a smooth stone with a name or heart, then keep it in a pocket as a reminder to pray.

Materials

Smooth stones, Paint pens or markers, Small basket, Wipes, Ribbon

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Scripture Reading

6I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word. 7Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you, 8for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. 9I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 10All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are. 12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves. 14I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. 17Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth. 18As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. 19For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

John 17:6–19 · World English Bible (public domain). Read this passage in the NIV

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