This Sunday is the Global day of prayer.

Many of us struggle with prayer. As John Hughes writes “Prayer is that part of the Christian journey that can be both wonderfully awesome and amazingly frustrating’ But today we invite you to unite with Christians all around the world as we join together to intercede for our world. As you do so you may like to reflect on this prayer offered by Jesus 2000 years ago on our behalf.

I’m praying not only for them but also for those who will believe in me because of them and their witness about me. The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind– just as you, Father, are in me and I in you, so they might be one heart and mind with us. Then the world might believe that you, in fact, sent me. The same glory you gave me, I gave them, so they’ll be as unified and together as we are– I in them and you in me. Then they’ll be mature in this oneness, and give the godless world evidence that you’ve sent me and loved them in the same way you’ve loved me. (John 17:20-23 MSG)

Andrew