Prayer & Love John 17:20–26 My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just...
Prayer & Identity John 17:13–19 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. I...
We’re learning to pray from the way Jesus prayed in the longest recorded prayer of his we have. But we’re also learning from the prayer itself how to grow in our love for the Savior.
John 17 records for us the only extended prayer of Jesus, and it’s the prayer that stands at the precipice of the parting of the ages. He’s completed all the works his Father gave him to do; he’s prepared his disciples for his departure; the only thing that remains, monumental as it is, is the cross.