Praying for me...you...

Praying for me...you...

I was again struck by John 17:20-26,   Jesus praying for those who are coming ...me...you...our children...our friends...those who are in Him...

20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 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. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24 “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. 25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 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

It is a comfort beyond words that we have an advocate, we have the ultimate prayer warrior...Jesus, the very son of God...praying on our behalf...as well as the Holy Spirit who utters words when we can't even pray...

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
Romans 8:26-27

What a powerful love...a Father who listens....His Son, who prays for us and died to save us...a Spirit who intercedes in accordance with God's will, comforts and lives in us as a seal of that love...

Thank YOU....beyond measure, infinite love....

 

¹⁰ Though the mountains be shaken

    and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
    nor my covenant of peace be removed,”
    says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
 Isaiah 54:10