JOHN CHAPTER SEVENTEEN!
JOHN CHAPTER SEVENTEEN!
Father, the Hour is come; Glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may
Glorify Thee: As thou hast given Him Power over all flesh, that He should give Eternal
Life to as many as Thou hast Given Him.
And this is Life Eternal, that they might know Thee
the Only True God, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou Hast Sent. I have Glorified Thee
on the Earth: I have Finished the Work which Thou gavest me to do.
And now, O Father, Glorify Thou me with thine Own Self with the
Glory which I had with Thee before the World was. I have manifested Thy Name
unto the men which Thou Gavest Me out of the World: Thine they were, and Thou Gavest
them Me; and they have Kept Thy Word.
Now they have known that all things whatsoever Thou
hast Given Me are of Thee. For I have given unto them the Words which Thou Gavest me; and they have received them and have known surely that I came out
from Thee, and they have Believed that Thou didst send me.
I Pray for them: I Pray not for the World, but for them which Thou
hast Given Me; for they are Thine. And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine;
and I am Glorified in Them.
And now I Am no more in the World, but these are in
the World, and I come to Thee. Holy Father, keep through Thine Own Name those Whom
Thou hast Given Me, that they May be One, as We Are.
While I was with them in the World, I kept them in Thy Name: those
that Thou Gavest Me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the Son of Perdition;
that the Scripture might be Fulfilled.
And now come I to Thee; and these things I speak in
the World, that they might have my Joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given
them Thy Word; and the World hath hated them, because they are not of the World,
even as I am not of the World.
I Pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the World, but that
Thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the World, even as I am
not of the World. Sanctify them through Thy Truth: Thy Word is Truth.
As Thou hast Sent Me into the World, even so have I
also Sent them into the World. And for their sakes I Sanctify Myself, that they
also might be Sanctified through the Truth. Neither Pray I for these Alone, but
for Them also which Shall Believe on Me Through their Word.
That they All may be One; as Thou Father, art in Me, and I in Thee,
that they also may be One in us: that the World may believe that Thou hast Sent
Me. And the Glory which Thou Gavest Me I have Given Them; that they May Be One,
even as We Are One:
I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made
perfect in one; and that the World may know that Thou hast Sent Me, and hast Loved
Them, as Thou hast Loved Me.
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast Given Me, be with me
where I am; that they may Behold my Glory, which Thou hast Given Me: for thou Lovedst
Me Before the Foundation of the World.
O Righteous Father, the World hath not known Thee: but
I have Known Thee, and these have known that Thou hast Sent Me. And I have Declared
unto them Thy Name and will Declare it: that the Love wherewith thou hast Loved
Me may be in them, and I in Them.
You cannot be a
Christian and claim to have a Fellowship with the Father, if you do not know
how to pray. Jesus said, When you stand praying, do not imitate the Scribes and
the Pharisees, who pray in public in order to be noticed and heard by men.
But go ye inside your closet and close the door behind:
and God who sees in darkness; will hear your prayer! It is not how loud and how
long you pray, but how deep you believe God in your heart!
Finally, Brethren, whatsoever things are True, whatsoever things
are Honest, whatsoever things are Just, whatsoever things are Pure, whatsoever
things are Lovely, whatsoever things are of Good Report, if there be any
Virtue, and if there be any Praise, think on these things!
It really doesn’t matter how long and how much; we
resist the Father’s Call to Prayer… even if it takes one man to pray for the
whole World: God will accomplish His Will on Earth through that one man!
I exhort therefore that, first of all, Supplications, Prayers,
Intercessions, and Giving of Thanks, be made for all men!
Prayer and Intercession is the heartbeat of every
Believer! Pray without ceasing… whisper a prayer to God, in the morning, at
noonday and at night…
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