Today on Summit Life, Pastor J.D. Greer talks about priorities in prayer.

The church, you see, is God's plan A for working in the world.

Therefore, it is the main thing that Jesus prayed for on the last night of his life.

When we pray for our world, the main thing we ought to pray for is the spiritual vitality of believers in the world.

Thank you. is the spiritual vitality of believers in the world. Welcome to Summit Life, the Bible teaching ministry of pastor, author, and

apologist J.D. Greer. As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovich. Of course, as Christians, we all know that prayer is important.

And yet, sometimes it feels like just another item to check off our to-do list.

Or maybe we want to pray more, but we aren't sure what to say.

Or maybe we pray a lot and nothing seems to ever change.

Well, today, Pastor Jady is reminding us of the ultimate

purpose of prayer and why it matters. And trust me, when we catch sight of this vision, it'll give

us a fresh excitement for prayer like never before. Pastor Jady originally preached this message

shortly before the 2016 presidential election, but the principles apply to us at any time.

Pastor Jady titled today's message, Jesus' final wishes.

John chapter 17, if you have your Bibles, this is the last recorded prayer that Jesus prayed.

He prayed it on the night right before he died.

If you knew that you were going to die and you had chance for one prayer, what would you pray?

This is what Jesus prayed in the last prayer he made publicly before he died. It's what he asked for you.

And let me just say this as we get into it. There are some things that

Jesus prays in this prayer that belong uniquely to him. He was the son of God. He was the second

member of the Trinity. And so not everything he says in this prayer is going to apply to us.

But a pastor named Louis Giglio down in Atlanta points out that there are three major things that

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