Day 36

Today's Scripture is suitable to use with Lectio Divina or imagine you are listening to Jesus praying to the Father about you.

Stilling: Come into the presence of God and use a stilling exercise to quieten yourself.

Grace: Pray that we shall be filled with the utter fullness of the Holy Spirit.

Prayer Suggestion: Imagine you are listening to Jesus praying to the Father about you.

John 17:1-11 HCSB

Jesus Prays for Himself

Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said:

Father, the hour has come.

Glorify Your Son so that the Son may glorify You,

for You gave Him authority over all flesh;

so He may give eternal life to all You have given Him.

This is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God,

and the One You have sent—Jesus Christ.

I have glorified You on the earth by completing the work You gave Me to do.

Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with that glory I had with You before the world existed.

Jesus Prays for His Disciples

I have revealed Your name to the men You gave Me from the world.

They were Yours,

You gave them to Me,

and they have kept Your word.

Now they know that all things You have given to Me are from You,

because the words that You gave Me, I have given them.

They have received them and have known for certain that I came from You.

They have believed that You sent Me.

I pray for them.

I am not praying for the world but for those You have given Me,

because they are Yours.

Everything I have is Yours, and everything You have is Mine,

and I have been glorified in them.

I am no longer in the world,

but they are in the world, and I am coming to You.

Holy Father, protect them by Your name that You have given Me,

so that they may be one as We are one.

Conversation: Have a talk with Jesus about what has struck you during this meditation, does it have implications for you?

Finish with a final prayer such as the Lord's Prayer/Our Father

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