After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.
I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.
My prayer is not for them alone. 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. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."
What does Jesus pray for?
Who does Jesus pray for?
Why is unity so important to Jesus?
Sunday, September 14, 2008
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So how are you? You quiet ones need to jump in and speak this week! ha ha
How did you come out in the storm?
I have no email right now and may not until Wednesday. I can get on the 'net finally. I didn't realize how dependent on email I am!
The storm was wild! I loved watching the wind blow. I don't recall anything like it before.
I wonder if that was what Pentecost was like?
Verse 24 is cool!
Jesus wants us to be where he is.
Where would Jesus be in our world today? In the slums, hospitals and nursing homes I believe. Where people are hurting and in need. I have to ask myself if I am there with Jesus enough... now always,
Pat A.
In that last comment I meant to say NOT always, pat
A few thoughts about the passage:
Jesus is glorified in the community (10b) as his identity is known through them/us through/by love.
Jesus entrusts the future of the faith community to God. The church’s future is God’s not ours.
We get to overhear the Son talking to his Father. Wow.
There is no self-seeking in Jesus’ prayer for himself; it is for God to work fully in and through him.
“Glory means the presence of God in power. Now that divine presence is found in the community of faith by virtue of Christ’s exaltation. Hence, the glory perceived in the incarnate word (1.14) is now perceptible in the church! Because of that divine presence, the church can communicate the revelation to the world.” Kysar
I am working on a Honduras Mission trip for us next summer. I am working with Terry Reeves at TORCH Missions. If you go their site, be sure and click on the video. You may be able to access it Here, but I'm not sure.
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