Join us as we read the scriptures and a daily devotion written by Don Crisp. We pray these messages will bless us all at this time.
Day 23 – John 16:22-27
Categories: Don’s Daily Devotions
Read John 16:22-27:
V22: First, their sorrow will turn to great and lasting joy when they meet the Risen Lord. This joy, both for these first disciples and all Christ’s redeemed people, cannot be taken from them, it will be eternal joy, with Him! Do we know the joy of the Lord, whatever our outward circumstances, and is it our strength? ( Nehemiah 8:10 )
V23: “That day” – after the Resurrection, and the coming of the Holy Spirit, they will pray to the Father with full assurance that He will hear and answer, for now they truly know Him as Father, through Jesus -and the work of the Spirit of adoption! ( Romans 8:15-16 ) Do we pray in this same assurance?
V24: They have not yet known what it is to pray like this, to know what it is to ask in the name of Jesus, and to receive. In this too He wants them to know a fullness of joy. Do we know what it is to pray like this, in this spirit – and in THE Spirit?
V25: This ‘plain speaking’ is surely His living Word in the Scriptures, the full revelation of God, illuminated by the Spirit. The NT was revealed first to, and in .some cases through, these first disciples. Now the Lord speaks through it to all who, by grace, have ears to hear.
V26-27: They (and we) can now pray confident of the Father’s willingness to hear and answer our prayer, for the Father’s love is fixed upon His people, known and called by grace, and trusting in the Saviour,