DAY 18: Make Us One - Racial Reconciliation

By Niko Peele (Ignite Movement)

“I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”
— John 17:20-21 (NIV)

There is only one true answer to healing the racial divide in our nation, and it is Jesus, seen through the public witness of the multi-ethnic and multi-cultural Church. In John 17, Jesus was crying out for a vertical reconciliation (between us and the Father) and a horizontal reconciliation (between the people of God). Through the Church’s oneness with God and each other, the world will know that Jesus is the Son of God, sent to redeem mankind.

Jesus invites all believers into the ministry of reconciliation and healing (2 Cor. 5:18) — and how critically it is needed in this hour. This work begins by first confronting our own biases and prejudices. We must get real with God and allow him to clean our hearts deeply. We must ask Him to anoint our eyes to see and love His image in every human being.

Jesus knows that when we move past our personal biases and preferences and begin to love one another with His heart, a powerful unity will burst forth, bringing the world into the knowledge and saving grace of God!

PRAYER POINTS:

• Pray for yourself that God would reveal any personal biases you’re unaware of and give you His heart for all people.
• Join with Jesus’ prayer for the rest of the Church by praying John 17:20-21.

[Excerpt from Make Us One, Compiled & Edited by Niko Peele & Jon Graft]