Sol Wise eCourses welcomes YOU today!JESUS' PRAYER BEFORE HIS CRUCIFICTION - Part 2
John chapter 17
1 When Jesus had finished saying all these things
he looked up to heaven and said ...
12 During my time here I have kept safe within your family all of these you gave me. I guarded them so that not one perished, except the son of hell, as the Scriptures foretold.
13 "And now I am coming to you. I have told them many things while I was with them so that they would be filled with my joy.
14 I have given them your commands. And the world hates them because they don't fit in with it, just as I don't.
15 I'm not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from Satan's power.
16 They are not part of this world any more than I am.
17 Make them pure and holy through teaching them your words of truth.
18 As you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world,
19 and I consecrate myself to meet their need for growth in truth and holiness.
20 "I am not praying for these alone but also for the future believers who will come to me because of the testimony of these.
21 My prayer for all of them is that they will be of one heart and mind, just as you and I are, Father-that just as you are in me and I am in you, so they will be in us, and the world will believe you sent me.
22 "I have given them the glory you gave me-the glorious unity of being one, as we are-
23 I in them and you in me, all being perfected into one-so that the world will know you sent me and will understand that you love them as much as you love me.
24 Father, I want them with me-these you've given me-so that they can see my glory. You gave me the glory because you loved me before the world began!
25 "O righteous Father, the world doesn't know you, but I do; and these disciples know you sent me.
26 And I have revealed you to them and will keep on revealing you so that the mighty love you have for me may be in them, and I in them."
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Thank You, Lord Jesus, for loving me, and praying for me!
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