The Lord's Prayer For his Own

The Lord's Prayer For his Own

A Poem by Jack Carver

"Father, the hour has come
Glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you
since you have given him authority over all flesh 
to give eternal life to all whom you have given him
And this is eternal life that they know you the only true God
and Jesus Christ whom you have sent
I glorify you on earth
having accomplished the work that you gave me to do
And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed
I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world
Yours they were,
and you gave them to me
and they have kept your word
Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you
For I have given them the words that you gave me
and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you
and they have believed that you sent me
I am praying for them
I am not praying for for the world but for those you have given me
for they are yours
All mine are yours
and yours are mine
and I am glorified in them
And I am no longer in the world
but they are in the world
and I am coming to you
Holy Father, keep them in your name
which you have given me
that they may be one
as we are one
While I was with them
I kept them in your name
which you have given me
I have guarded them
and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction
that the Scripture might be fulfilled
But I am coming to you
and these things I speak in the world
that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves
I have given them your word
and the world has hated them because they are not of the world
I do not ask that you take them out of the world
but that you keep them from the evil one
They are not of the world
just as I am not of the world
Sanctify them in the truth
your word is truth
As you sent me into the world
so I have sent them into the world
And for their sake I consecrate myself
that they may also be sanctified in the truth
I do not ask for them only
but for them who will believe in me through their word
that they may 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 I have given them
that they may be one even as we are one
I in them and you in me
that they may become perfectly one 
so that the world may know that you have sent me and loved them even as you love me
Father, I desire that 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."

© 2021 Jack Carver


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Jack Carver
Jack Carver

Bemidji, MN



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