A Prayer For You!

Do you want to know one of the best things about prayer? A person doesn't even have to believe in Christ to be the beneficiary of a prayer. All over the world on any given day I promise you there are multitudes of prayers being delivered on behalf of those who don't yet know Christ. As parents, we pray for our young ones long before they are born again. As peers we pray for those in our lives who are going through difficult or trying times, or maybe those whom we know are struggling with any of a variety of ailments, addictions, or diseases.

Isn't it comforting to know that, in the darkest times of your life, there were very likely people praying to God on your behalf? People have prayed for you in good times and in bad times, when you were young and even today. People even prayed for you before you were born. In fact, Jesus himself said a prayer to God right before he was arrested, and part of that prayer was for you! Check it out:

"My prayer is not for them (the disciples) alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them." -- John 17:20-26 NIV

I know you just read it, but come back and read it again and again. Jesus cared enough to pray for us, all of us, to come together "that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me". Let's pray together about all things in Jesus' name, just like He asked.