JESUS PRAYS FOR ALL BELIEVERS.....
"FATHER, the hour has come. Glorify YOUR SON, that YOUR SON also may glorify YOU. YOU have given HIM authority over all flesh, that HE shall give eternal life to as many as YOU have given HIM.
I have manifested (revealed) YOUR NAME to those whom YOU have given ME out of the world. They were YOURS, YOU gave them to ME, and they have heard Your Word.
"Now they have known that all things which YOU have given ME are from YOU. For I have given unto them the words which YOU have given Me, and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from YOU; and they have believed that YOU sent ME.
"I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who believe in ME through their word...that they may be one, as YOU, FATHER, are in ME, and I in YOU, that they also may be one in US, that the world may believe that YOU sent ME.
"And the glory which YOU gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as WE are ONE. (John 17:1...22).
"I in them, and YOU in ME; ...that they may be made complete in one, that the world may know that YOU HAVE SENT ME, AND HAVE LOVED THEM AS YOU LOVE ME." (John 17:23).
FATHER, I desire that they also whom YOU gave ME may be with ME where I AM, that they may behold MY glory which YOU have given ME, for YOU have loved ME before the foundation of the world." (John 17:24).
In this chapter (John 17) JESUS declares THREE (3) times that we are to be ONE IN HIM. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From the book "Numerics in Scripture" by E. W. Bullinger/Kregel Publications: "All things that are specially complete are stamped with the number three (3), GOD'S attributes are three (3); Omniscience-(All-Knowing- Psalm 139:1-24). Omnipresence - ("with us always" (Psalm 139:1-12/Matt. 28:20). Omnipotence - "I am Almighty" (Genesis 17:1). THREE Persons in the GODHEAD: FATHER, SON, HOLY SPIRIT. THREE DENOTES Perfection."
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THE Vital Importance of gathering together: "Then those who Revere (hold in AWE) the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD listened and heard them; So a book of remembrance was written before HIM for those are reverent to HIM and who meditate on HIS NAME.
"They shall be MINE says the LORD of HOSTS, on the day that I make them MY special treasures. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him." (Malachi 3:16-17).
"And let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for HE WHO promised is faithful.
"And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much more as the DAY (of JESUS RETURNING) approaches." (Hebrews 10:23-24).
"O Righteous FATHER! The world has not known YOU, but I have known YOU; and these have known that YOU sent ME." (John 17:25).
O!!! That it may BE SO in our lives!!!!!!!!!
AMEN.
