Apostolic Prayer: Sanctification

Jesus taught us to pray for God’s Kingdom to come and will to be done on earth as in heaven. For the people of God to live this out in the world, they must be different than the world. So in John 17 Jesus prayed that all his people would be sanctified (holy, set apart, different) in the truth. Jesus then died on the cross so that his people would be sanctified, not conformed to the pattern of the world, but transformed from the inside out.