Jesus’ Prayer For All✨

Many don't realize the importance of, nor the power of prayer. I've always been curious. Once I learned that God sent his only Son Jesus Christ to die for ALL our sins, I wanted to know more about Him. His unconditional love and sacrifice are unmatched. I don't just know it from studying His Word, but feel it every time I wake up--Jesus didn't have to wake me up!

I have a great love for my family and my children; my friends, church family and work family. But there's no greater love than the agape (no strings) Love God has for all of us. He sent His Son to fix what man could not since the Fall in the Garden of Eden (see Genesis 3).

The most powerful prayers are the one that Jesus teaches us in His Word. He also prayed for Himself, His disciples and All believers....before we were born, without ever seeing Him, He loved us and covered us in prayer. Some may not grasp the magnitude of this selfless act, but it brings a warm the to my heart, soul and Spirit when I read.

Jesus was fully man and fully God; part of the Holy Trinity that created all things; yet before He was brutally beaten and crucified on a cross, He stopped to pray. Please meditate on that for a while.

Then read John 17 aloud...it may take a few times.🙏🏾

Jesus Prays For Himself

(John 17:1-5)

“Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

Jesus Prays For His Disciples

(V6-19)

“I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You. For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me. “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

Jesus Prays for All Believers (v20-26)

“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.””

‭‭John‬ ‭17‬:‭1‬-‭26‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

https://bible.com/bible/114/jhn.17.1-26.NKJV

Be Blessed and Seek Him First.✨