Joyful in the house of prayer

¹² "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. ¹⁷These things I command you, so that you will love one another. John 15:12-14 New American Standard

Friend I read the passages above as God commanding me to pray because through prayer I am loving others, by giving of my life for others and I can bear fruit by praying in the Father's name so He may answer those prayers.  

⁶"And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD,
to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD,
and to be his servants,
everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,
and holds fast my covenant—
⁷these I will bring to my holy mountain,
and make them joyful in my house of prayer;
their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
will be accepted on my altar;
for my house shall be called a house of prayer
for all peoples."       Isaiah 56:6-7 New American Standard

This critical verse explains Jesus will come to save Gentiles as well as Jews and goes on to say (paraphrasing) He will make us joyful in His house of prayer! Appropriately, Harvest's third pillar: 
3. Believing firmly in the power of prayer
"Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints." Ephesians 6:18 
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