Day 6

Scripture to Read: John 17:20–22

As Jesus prayed for His eleven disciples, He also included everyone through the ages who would surrender to Him as Lord. Jesus prayed in John 17:20–21, “I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; 21 that they may all be one; even 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 sent Me.” As Jesus petitioned God the Father, He made sure to include everyone who will ever believe in Him through the message of the apostles and others who have gone before us. Jesus desires that all of us be one just as God the Father and Christ are One. The Father is in Christ and Christ is in the Father. Jesus asks the Father that we all may be in them, for when we are united with Christ the Father through the Spirit that is when the world will take notice and many more will believe that Jesus is God the Son sent by God the Father. Then, Jesus prayed in John 17:22, “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one.” Jesus gave the disciples the glory the Father had given to Jesus so they could be one with them and each other. The Holy Spirit would come to dwell in the disciples, uniting them with Christ and the Father and uniting them as followers of Christ as He continues to do today.

Challenge & Application

• What is the most encouraging thing in Christ’s prayer in John 17:20–22 and why? • Knowing we are one with God the Father and God the Son through God the Spirit, how are you representing your King daily?

Don’t forget to pray using the A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) method!

Devotionals from this week

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Day 1

Jesus had just finished speaking to His disciples in John 16, and then He began to pray openly to our Heavenly Father. Jesus knew His time had come to go to the cross. Before this time in Scripture, Jesus knew that His time had not yet arrived (John 2:4; 7:8; 7:30; 8:20). But since the perfect time was ordained by God the Father, Jesus said i...

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Day 2

Jesus then said to God the Father in John 17:4–5, “I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do. 5 Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.” Jesus brought glory to God the Father by walking in complete obedience to the Father’s perfect...

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Day 3

Jesus knew the eleven disciples had always belonged to God the Father and that God the Father gave them to Jesus. Jesus said in John 17:6, “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.” Jesus had revealed God the Father to the eleven disciples,...

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Day 4

Jesus prayed very specifically just for the eleven disciples in John 17:9–12. Jesus said, “I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours; 10 and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11 I am no longer in the world; and ye...

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Day 5

Jesus continued His prayer for His eleven disciples. Jesus prayed this in John 17:13–19, “But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. 14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I do not...

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Day 6

As Jesus prayed for His eleven disciples, He also included everyone through the ages who would surrender to Him as Lord. Jesus prayed in John 17:20–21, “I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; 21 that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be...

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Day 7

Jesus finished His prayer by praying (in John 17:23–26), “I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me...

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