John 17:6-12a (Amplified Bible Classic Edition--AMPC) I have manifested Your Name [I have revealed Your very Self, Your real Self] to those whom You gave Me out of the world. They were Yours and You gave them to Me and they have obeyed and kept Your Word. (John's record of Jesus' extensive prayer on the evening before His arrest at the Last Supper continues and reveals to us the truest embodiment of the Lord's prayer. As He talks to His Father, He clearly asserts His work was to reveal the Father to those He met. Our job is the same, to allow people to see Jesus in us through our attitudes and words and actions. The Lord has given us divine appointments today to reach out to people He has put in our lives. The very ones with whom we rub shoulders today are the ones to whom the Lord asks us to reveal God's love today.) Now [at last] they know and understand that all You have given Me belongs to You [is really and truly Yours]. For I gave them the Words You gave Me and they accepted them.(New International Version--NIV) They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me. (In the same way Jesus relied on God's strength and truth, we also stand on the truths of God's Word, believing Him, believing He is Who He says He is and making people know with certainty that we show forth Jesus.) I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those You have given me, for they are Yours. (What an awesome thought, that Christ Himself prays for us!) All I have is Yours, and all You have is Mine. And glory has come to Me through them. (Who and what we are belongs to God our Father. All the blessings in our lives come directly from His Hand. Even the trials in our lives are allowed by our loving Father as He grows and matures us, and, as we live out our dependence on the Father, we bring glory and honor to the Lord Who has saved us
through His Own personal and costly sacrifice.) I 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. While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that Name You gave Me. (Jesus knew He was about to die an excruciating death, but even in this time of preparation for that suffering, His thoughts were focused on His friends, His followers, on you and me. He still provides protection and provision for us and still focuses His thoughts on us today, and part of His desire for us is that we remain devoted to Him and that we love each other with the same kind of love that reflects the oneness of Jesus and His Father.)
