Saturday, February 20, 2010

Jesus Prays for All Believers

Ezekiel 39:21-29
Philippians 4:10-20
February 20, 2010

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.” - John 17:20-26

Jesus said to pray – for believers and non-believers. He wants everyone to know that He is your Savior and that God sent Him to die on the cross to take away your sins. Jesus loves everyone and wants everyone to love Him and everyone else. He forgives all sins and died for us. God loved everyone before the world was even creat3ed or thought of. Good knew what was going to happen on the earth before it was made. He knows what will happen in ten years from now and what you are thinking about as you read this. He loves you and me and wants us to know that He died for us. God wants us to savor ever second of our lives because each second is a gift from God.

Kayla Johnson

O God, who seest that we put not our trust in anything that we do, mercifully grant that by Thy power we may be defended against all adversity; through Jesus Christ our Lord.[1]

[1] Collect for Sexagesima Sunday The Lutheran Hymnal © 1940 Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis

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