
Reflections:
Jesus Speaking:
‘I pray that they may all be one. Father!
May they be in us, just as you are in me and I am in you.
May they be one, so that the world will believe that you sent me.
I gave them the same glory you gave me, so that they may be one, just as you and I are one:
I in them and you in me, so that they may be completely one,
in order that the world may know that you sent me and that you love them as you love me. ‘
John 17:21-23
Jesus said, in essence, “The glory that you gave me, Father, I have given to them.” What is this glory that was given to Christ, and how do our lives reveal that glory? It is not some aura or emotion; it is unimpeded access to the heavenly Father. What an amazing thought!
JESUS made it easy for us to access through the cross to the Father.
“He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near.
For through him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father”
Ephesians 2:17-18
We have the right and privilege of speaking to the King at any time!
Let us have confidence, then, and approach God’s throne, where there is grace. aa
There we will receive mercy and find grace to help us just when we need it.
Hebrews 4:16
Jesus did nothing on His own. He did what the Father told Him.
So Jesus answered them,
“I tell you the truth: the Son can do nothing on his own;
he does only what he sees his Father doing.
What the Father does,
the Son also does.”
John 5:19
Make no mistake.
Like Jesus, we’re to pray often and fervently, waiting on the Lord.
In response, The Holy Spirit reveals to us the mind and will of The Father.
~ David Wilkerson
The Glory of Jesus Christ