Day 5 His Prayer

Over 2000 years ago today, our Savior had the last supper with His disciples. He knew His time was drawing near, the time when He would become our punishment, the time when He would be separated from His Father, the time of His death. Jesus then does something that still amazes me and thrills my soul. He prays. Not just for God to be glorified and for His disciples; He prayed for ME! All believers. Reflect on that for a moment.....Jesus prayed for all believers BEFORE the crucifixion. Oh how He loves us! God has uses several passages of scripture to speak to my heart. In Luke 22:7 the word says "then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the Passover Lamb had to be sacrificed". Yes the day had come for the Lamb to be sacrificed. The final Lamb, the perfect Lamb, the payment for Sin. Also in Luke 22:39(a), the word tells us "And He came out and went, as was His custom..". If prayer, being alone with the Father, was important enough for Jesus, shouldn't it be just as important for us that follow Him? Then in John 17:20-26 some of the most beautiful words are written down for us to read. I would encourage you to read the whole chapter of John 17, but today, I am reflecting on the prayer for me.
"I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that may become perfectly opne, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. Father, I desire thatthat they also, whom you have given me , may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them".

Join me this fifth day of Holy Week in praising Jesus for praying for us.

How humbled I am sweet Jesus that You would pray for me. I love you and can't wait to see You face to face, kiss You, hug You, laugh with You, talk with You, be with You always.