"I have manifested your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world; yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you; for I have given them the words which you gave me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you did send me. I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are mine; all mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me; I have guarded them, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves."
O Lord, I thank You that You have prayed for me. You gave glory to Your Father for giving You the disciples who have kept Your Word. You ask that the Father would keep Your disciples in Him and thus preserve them till the end. I pray that I would be numbered with them, O Lord, confident in Your love and living in Your Hope. Surely, it is eternal life to know God the Father and Jesus Christ, whom He has sent.
Keep me in Your Name, this day, I pray, Amen.
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