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Our seventh session in John 17, the only chapter in Scripture capturing Jesus' prayer moments before His arrest, brings us to the last group of people He prayed for:

Us.

This is the conventional conclusion of the Farewell Discourse, but over the next month or so we're going to follow the story through Jesus' betrayal, arrest, crucifixion, and Peter's failure—and restoration on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.

Listen to Part 20: His Blood-Bought Prayer List now

“Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.”
‭‭John‬ ‭17:17-19

Meditate with us on these words and The Word, The Truth: Jesus of Nazareth. May we be washed in the water of His Word this week.

DURATION: 40 minutes

"I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name that You have given Me, so that they may be one as We are One. While I was with them, I was protecting them by Your name that You have given Me. I guarded them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture may be fulfilled. Now I am coming to You, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have My joy completed in them."

Meditate on this passage with us this week. Listen to "Kept & Coming Home," Part 18 of The Better Farewell now.

DURATION: 38 minutes

In Part 17 of our journey through the Farewell Discourse, we find ourselves—still—solidly in John....17. Fate?

"I have manifested Your name to them...."

What does this mean? Jesus' prayer moments before His arrest, recorded by His beloved friend and brother John, is loaded with magnificent and mighty language: "eternal life," "glory," "sanctify," "truth," "given," "kept," and more—but perhaps we are meant to hear it all through the manifestation of His name through the shining face of Jesus, the Messiah. "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious...."

The Name declared to Moshe in the cleft of the rock so long ago is in fact the "Rock of ages, cleft for" you, and cleft for us.

We pray this week's conversation edifies you as it has edified us. May He keep us in His name, and may we bear it faithfully.

We've made it to verse 4 of John 17: "I have glorified You on earth, having accomplished the work that You gave Me to do."

Marinate in this power-packed prayer with us.