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John chapter 17

verses 20 through 24.

This is Jesus prayer for the church as he prepares to go to the cross and man just

reading these verses just a heavy on my heart so I I just want to I want to read them I want us to

hear Jesus praying for us as the as the church and then I'm just going to go right in to praying precisely according to what he prayed.

He said, I do not ask for these only, which talking about his disciples that he was praying

for right before this this but also for those who will

believe in me through their word which means he's he's praying for us right here

that they may all 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 me, I have given to them, that they may be one, even as we are one. I and them and you and me,

that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved

them even as you loved 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.

So God, we pray together right now

in each of our churches and in all of our churches collectively as your church that you would make us one in the same way,

father that you and the son are one, what an awesome picture that we would experience

in the body of Christ a oneness that is comparable to the oneness in the Trinity.

God, we ask for that, please give us that, please guard us from division.

Please guard us from disunity,

from not living in the oneness that you have created for us so that the world might believe

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