CHAPTER SEVENTEEN This is one of the most precious Chapter s of the Fourth Gospel. Here the Incarnate Son pours out His divine heart in prayer for Himself, for His intimate friends and for all believers. He prays for you and for me. This is really the Lord's Prayer. The prayer in Luke 11:1-54 common... [ Continue Reading ]
PRAYER FOR HIMSELF _Text: John 17:1-5_ 1 These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the hour is come; _glorify thy_ Son, that the Son may glorify thee: 2 even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that _to all_ whom thou hast given him, he should give e... [ Continue Reading ]
PRAYER FOR THE DISCIPLES _Text: John 17:6-19_ 6 I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee: 8 For the words which... [ Continue Reading ]
PRAYER FOR ALL BELIEVERS _Text: John 17:20-26_ 20 Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word; 21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send... [ Continue Reading ]