Posted by Jesus Christ on December 13, 2009 at 2:28am
I Pray for My Disciples6"I have revealed you[a] to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. 7Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 8For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 9I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 10All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. 11I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one. 12While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. 13"I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. 14I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 15My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17Sanctify[b] them by the truth; your word is truth. 18As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.I Pray for All Believers20"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that 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. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: 23I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world 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. 26I 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."
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With God there is hardly a drive through or fast food service: God made seasons so that they can bring God's purpose to fruition. Leaves fall in Fall may be to fertilize the soil, Winter is probably there to cool off the earth so that we don't reach umbearable temperatures and to purge the land of some destructive bacterias; all this to work together to make Spring ready for seed sowing so that we can enjoy the fruit in Summer.
God has made everything beautiful in its proper time. This is something we must understand when God is doing something in our own life or lives of those close to us. We must learn to wait on God by not going ahead or before Him. In the meantime there are plenty of work to be done in every season and many fun things of life we can do in season waiting for harvest. In the meantime also we can adjust our defensive and offensive spiritual weapons to fight effectively and be victorious within each season. But in all we do we must avoid what the children of Israel did in the wilderness: complain! Rather we must rejoice because God is surely bringing deliverance and we can only enter our promiseland by faith or we may die in the wasteland. So friend trust in the Lord always and rejoice!
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