OUR FATHER WHO IS KNOWN BY JESUS

The book of John chapter 17 verses 20 - 26 records Jesus' tender prayer to the Father on behalf of all the believers of that time and all those who would come subsequently.

Jesus told His Father that He wanted those who believed in Him to be with Him where He was so that they may see the Glory He Had before the creation of the world. 

Jesus also prayed that His people would stand out from the rest of the world because of the unity and love that they carried as they reflected Him.

20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 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. 

22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

24 “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.

25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 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."

The Lord Jesus prayed to His Father saying that He has let His followers know about Him and would continue to do so in order that the same love the Father had for Jesus would be upon those who followed Him and that Jesus Himself would be in them.

Amen.

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