Sermon: When You Wish Upon a Star

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Today's sermon looks at John 17. The sermon peeks into God's heart to see what kinds of things he wishes and desires for his children.

When You Wish Upon a Star comes from Disney's Pinocchio. In the sermon I mistakenly say that the song was written in 1957. (I'm not sure how that year stuck in my head and got associated with the song...) It was actually written in 1940.

At the end of the sermon, the new lyrics I sing to the above tune are as follows.

When God's Son came to the world,
Show His Father's glory did.
Through His love and sacrifice,
He gives us life.

If your heart is for God's love,
No request is too extreme.
When you ask in Jesus' name,
You will receive.

God is love,
With him He wants us be --
That is His heart's desire --
For all eternity.

When God's Son prayed for us all,
He prayed that we all be one.
Just as He and Father is,
We too may be.