The Lord's Prayer For his OwnA 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."
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Added on February 24, 2021 Last Updated on February 24, 2021 AuthorJack CarverBemidji, MNAboutHow do Christians know what they do not know when they do not know it that they might even think of it? more..Writing
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