Women of Grace Spring Semester ‘04

With the Master in the Upper Room

Homework for Lesson Twenty Two: John 17:1-5

The High Priestly Prayer

Your Homework is Not Only to Sharpen Your Understanding of the Bible but a Ministry to Others in Your Small Groups! Be Faithful to Give Careful Thought to Each Answer with the Expectation of Sharing with Others What You have Discovered.

 

Memory Work-John 17:1

 

1) (a) Read John 17 and write down all the petitions that are in the Lord's Prayer to the Father.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) How do these compare to the petitions that are in your prayers?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2) Compare the Lord's prayer in John 17 to the Lord's prayer in Matthew 6:9-13, listing the similarities and the differences.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3) (a) What does Jesus lifting His eyes to heaven to pray teach you?

 

 

 

 

 

(b) Look up the following verses to see who prayed and what their posture was in prayer.

Numbers 16:20-22

 

 

I Kings 19:1-4

 

 

II Chron. 7:1-3

 

 

Psalm 4:4

 

 

Psalm 134:2

 

 

Daniel 6:10

Matt. 26:39

 

 

Mark 11:25

 

 

Luke 22:41

 

 

John 11:41

 

 

I Timothy 2:8

 

 

 

 

(c) What do these verses teach you about praying?

 

 

 

(d) Are you judgmental of people whose posture in prayer differs from yours?

 

 

 

(e) In what unusual postures and/or places have you prayed?

 

 

 

4) (a) Read the following verses and write down when, where, why, and for what or whom Jesus prayed (if it is stated).

Matt. 11:25-27

 

 

 

Matt. 27:46

 

 

 

Mark 1:35

 

 

 

Mark 6:45,46

 

 

 

Luke 3:21,22

 

 

 

Luke 5:16

 

Luke 6:12,13

 

 

 

Luke 9:18

 

 

 

Luke 9:28,29

 

 

 

Luke 23:34

 

 

 

Luke 23:46

 

 

 

John 11:41-44

 

 

 

John 12:26-29

 

 

 

(b) What things have you prayed for this week?

 

 

 

(c) How necessary is it for us as finite creatures to pray?

 

 

 

5) Jesus says in John 17:4 that He has finished the work which God gave Him to do.

(a) What works has God called you personally to do?

 

 

 

(b) What works have you neglected that would cause you to have regrets if this were your last day? (i.e. – making restitution, sharing the gospel with one who is lost, etc.)

 

 

 

6) Jesus says in John 17:4 that He has glorified God while He was on the earth.

(a) How did Christ bring glory to God while on earth? Prove your answer from the Word.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) In what ways is your life bringing glory to God?

 

 

(c) In what areas of your life are you not bringing glory to God?

 

 

(d) How will you work on those? Why not find someone who will pray for you and hold you accountable in those areas?

 

 

 

7) (a) What are the strengths and weaknesses of your own prayer life?

 

 

 

(b) What changes would you like to see as a result of studying the high priestly prayer the next few weeks? Write it down in the form of a prayer request.

 

 

Lecture Notes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Come with a request so that we might pray for you.