Collegiate Day of Prayer Global: 40-Day Prayer GuideSample

Day 11: Make Us One: Racial Reconciliation

By Niko Peele (Niko is the founder and director of Ignite Movement, a collegiate and young adult ministry that establishes and advances Christian communities on college campuses and in cities.)

“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 the nations, and it is Jesus—seen through the public witness of the multi-ethnic and multi-cultural Church. In John 17, Jesus cried out not only for a vertical reconciliation (between us and the Father), but also a horizontal reconciliation (between the people of God). It is through the Church’s oneness with God and each other that 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 personal biases and prejudices. We must get real with God and allow Him to deeply clean our hearts. 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 unity so powerful will burst forth, bringing the world into the knowledge and saving grace of God!

PRAYER POINTS:

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

Excerpts from Make Us One, compiled and edited by Niko Peele and Jon Graf.