Therefore He is able also to save completely through all time and eternity those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. Hebrews 7:25.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
A saint is someone who knows how to love. But I am not speaking of what the world calls love but of divine love that can only be acquired through joining with My Spirit so that My love can flow into you like as from the vine to the branch. A saint is a partaker of My divine nature. A saint knows how to love by abiding in and drawing out My love from within– the wellspring leaping up to eternal life within their spirit overflowing to their soul and body. Only I can make a saint but only you can cooperate. I call and you can answer or walk away.
But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. John 17:13-21.
At the night of that Last Supper, Jesus prayed to Me in a prayer in which He included all of you so you could have insight into His intercession and empowerment. So you can join with Him and know what you have been freely given. Jesus is praying to Me for you to be sanctified and set apart, consecrated and holy united with Me and other believers in a union of glory even though you are in a dark, sin-infested, curse-filled world. You are in the midst of what sin has done, but you are no longer of it, but above it, as sanctified in My Son. And this makes your life one of joy unspeakable filled with glory. Above and not beneath, the head and not the tail, pursued and overwhelmed not by evil but by My blessings even in the midst of famine. You have been born again a new creation in Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ; and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls. 1 Peter 1:3-9.
And this is what partaking in the body and blood of Jesus does when received and conceived within. It joins you in a new and everlasting Covenant of union between the divine and the human in one seamless life of perfect love. You can grieve the Holy Spirit and hinder the flow, or you can be filled up to all the fullness of the Godhead, like Jesus when He emptied Himself and took on your humanity, I filled Him with My divinity.
For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete. Colossians 2:9-10.
And it is the flow and knowledge of My love that fills you up to My fullness for love perfects and increases you. When you experience divine love, which is the true love that all are searching for though if they do not know Me they do not find it, it changes you. When you know love you too will become love, it will give life to not only your spirit, but your soul and body as well.
So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:17-19.
It will make your life sweet, and not just sweet but powerful to raise you up from death to life forever.
Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21.
And He came to show you the way, the new and living way, so conformed to Him you become like Him in this world. Partakers of the divine nature. Transformed and transforming from faith to faith, from glory to glory. And that is wonder working power for the benefit of all.
Jesus always lives to make intercession for you, but this is a continuation of what He was doing while on earth. Some nights He spent the entire night praying with Me. Jesus prayed without ceasing, just as I have told you to do. He was in constant communication with Me. He lived under an open Heaven. And as His body on earth, so do you. For your head is in Heaven and where He is so are you.
If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him. John 12:26.
My Son loves you and has released you from your sins by His blood and made you a kingdom, priests unto Me. Revelation 1:5-6. And He is your great High Priest. And you and Jesus are anointed with the same anointing by the King and Priest Melchizedek, who is the Holy Spirit in His royal priesthood. He is another paraclete, one just like Jesus.
And the Holy Spirit prays with and makes intercession with you.
In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. Romans 8:26-27.
And you know that the Spirit is always witnessing and testifying of Jesus so what He is doing is joining you with the intercession that Jesus is making to the uttermost unto Me.
And the night of the Last Supper, He prayed a prayer that encompassed His heart’s desire for all believers as they live on in the world after He had ascended back to My right hand. He was leaving His disciples physically to be with them by the Spirit and He wanted them to be shielded from evil and kept from failing in their life of faith and love. He wanted all in the strong tower of My Name that I have given Him. His farewell prayer was for you to be sharing His glory, love, and in One with us. He prayed for your faith, protection, sanctification, direction, and unity as partakers of His glory, in complete oneness with Me and other believers in the body of My Son, the Church. And I heard and answered that prayer as completely expressing My Will.
This prayer and all He asked for in it applies to your life for Jesus made a point of letting each one of you know that He prayed it not only for those present with Him in the upper room that night but also for all those who would believe in Him through their words. And you are still reading and receiving revelation from their words and the words of those who heard them down the generations until this very day and beyond. And you thus should take great comfort in reading what He prayed for you and know you are completely covered with divine protection and empowered with divine love. That you are in the world but not of the world. Nothing can take you down or away from Me. Nothing can take away My love from you.
Take advantage of so great a revelation by considering with Me His prayer.
And so He began:
Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father,”
Just stop there a moment. Jesus had been speaking to His disciples about His departing to come back to Me and of the amazing gift they would receive of the Holy Spirit to guide them to all truth and tell them of the things to come. He talked about the joy they would soon have when He came back to them that no one could take that joy from them. He spoke of My great love for them who had loved Jesus and how I was open to them praying directly to Me because of their love for Him. And He concluded with a word of encouragement, “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33.
He then turned His attention off them and lifted up His eyes to Heaven and addressed Me as right there with them, “Father.” Thus He is teaching you to pray. You must lift your eyes off the troubles, trials, and circumstances to another level, My level, to see in the Spirit and know what you need to know for a life of perfect protection, provision, and peace. Put your mind above at Kingdom level and things on earth will get much clearer and in a much better perspective.
Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. Colossians 3:1-4.
When Lot took what looked like the best land and gave Abraham the hill country, I told Abraham to lift his eyes and look about. I told him all He saw was his. Eyes off the temporal and on to eternal promises.
And Jesus continues:
. . . the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life. This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do. Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.” John 17:2-5.
My glory in you reflects back to Me. My authority in you accomplishes My plan in the earth. It is Jesus who gives you eternal life, but you can turn and give it to others by guiding them to Jesus and leading them in the prayer of salvation.
And Jesus gives you the ultimate definition of the core of eternal life—it is knowing Me and knowing Jesus. It is the joy of divine fellowship and partnership of a life lived as one in purpose, love, and power. A fruitful life of glory. When you are attached to love, you bear the fruit of love and you know love. And love gives you joy.
Let us move on.
“I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You; for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.” John 17:6-8.
In seeing Jesus you see Me in action among you. My Word is living and active, working at all times in you and around you to achieve the purpose for which I sent it, which is always to heal, prosper, and deliver in some manner. And in seeing Him you see the revelation of My Name—the LORD your healer, the LORD your shepherd, the LORD your provider, the LORD your peace, the LORD your savior, the LORD your righteousness, the LORD your sanctifier, and many other Covenant promise Names that Jesus fulfills for you in your daily life. And the appropriate response is to keep My Word and to receive it as from Heaven, meant to give you abundant life. Each day you should be busy about keeping My Word and you will find your life becomes an edifice of glory.
I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours; and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. John 17:9-10.
Here you see Christ’s care of those who are His body, those who make up His glorious bride, the Church. He is glorified in His body, the Church, by your faith, hope, and love, bearing fruit in the good works I prepared for you in advance that you should enjoy them.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body. Ephesians 5:25-30.
He is not asking this intimate relationship of nourishment, care, and glory for a world that has rejected Him, He is asking it on behalf of you who have heard the good news of salvation and believed in Me and the One I sent. I then seal those who believe and receive Him as Lord in Him with the Holy Spirit as a pledge of your eternal redemption of spirit, soul, and body. The redemption of possession as His body and bride.
“I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are. While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.” John 17:11-12.
There is only one Name given among men by which you must be saved, Acts 4:12, and it is the Name I named My Son before the world was made. Yeshuah. This Name is The Name above all other names. You call Him, “Jesus,” but you miss the meaning. “Yeshuah” is Hebrew, and it means “salvation.” Literally. Because He saved you from your sins and all the evil that goes with sin. He is the solution in every situation. Salvation.
Jesus called His Name My Name. He inherited it from Me. I am the author and Father of your salvation. It was My plan of shalom for you and Jesus carries out and fulfills My plan to rescue you from the realm of darkness into the Kingdom of My beloved Son. I was in Christ reconciling you all to Myself by way of accounting all your sins and the punishment due them to Him and thus setting you free and making you righteous with My own righteousness. He won you back and kept you, now He give you to Me. In His hand, you are in My hand, and He gives you eternal life so that you will never perish, and there is no snatching out of My hand. Jesus and I are One. And through and in Jesus, I invite you into that relationship. And what is the result of this relationship? Joy. A joy no man, demon, or circumstance had take from you for it is eternal joy. It is blessed assurance and it comes from the relationship we have together in Jesus. Sins gone the celebration is on.
But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. John 17:13.
And what is it that Jesus gave you from Me that sustains and holds you in this joy? My Word. For I am My Word and I am Love and Light so when you have My Word abiding in you and you are abiding in My Word you are living in the true love the enlightens your life for My Word sanctifies you and sets you apart from the darkness and evil in the world.
I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. John 17:14-19.
The worldly set their minds on the flesh in which there is only death. But with minds set on the flesh they cannot see into the spirit, these things seem foolish to them. My Word separates you from those whose minds are set on their flesh and its cravings and desires because it is of a higher realm where righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit are the flow and the mindset. But Jesus did not ask Me to take you out of the world at this time, but to keep you from the evil one that Adam gave his authority to by submitting to his lies and jurisdiction. But you are to be His witnesses in saving souls back to Me and planting the Kingdom on earth by taking territory from the devil and undoing his works.
Jesus walked free of sin and overcame the devil sanctified by My Word. And it is still the same for you. My Word cleanses you, sanctifies you, and sets you apart as holy for My Word is pure truth. And Jesus sets Himself apart for you and you in Him apart for Me. And as I sent Him, so He sends you. I sent Him to seek out and save the lost, to heal the broken hearted, to set the captives free, to undo the works of the devil and declare a year of favor from Me. It is the Jubilee—all debts cancelled (nailed to the Cross) and slaves set free by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of your testimony.
“I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.” John 17:20-21.
And here you see that all are included in this wonderful prayer who believe in Jesus. And not just included but put right in the center of the Oneness that is the body of My Son, the Church on earth and in Heaven. A united glorious Church of the firstborn shining like bright lights in the world holding forth the Word of life with a cloud of witnesses surrounding you and cheering you on as you run towards the goal—your high calling in Jesus Christ to My own Kingdom and glory. And unless you eat His body and drink His blood this life is not in you.
“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.” John 17:22-23.
The glory makes us One. What is the glory? My goodness, My presence, and My power. My love shining into your heart and shining out of your heart into the darkness around you until all becomes light. And Jesus is My glory and gives that glory to you. I am everywhere but when My glory manifests it is power for miracles of healing, provision, deliverance, and protection beyond what the world calls possible to the impossible that I call possible. And when you show up with My glory, love is tangible and all will see My love for you changing them as well. Love is stronger than death and beautiful beyond compare.
And Jesus finishes the prayer asking Me to seat you in Heaven with Him when I raise Him in glory to the throne of the Son of Man at My right hand.
“Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.” John 14:24-26.
And I granted that. You are there now with and in Him.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:4-7.
Where He is, His servant will also be. Intercede with Him for souls and for nations as My royal priesthood. I have qualified you, sanctified you and set you apart as saints in light. Remember, a saint is someone who knows how to love with divine love.
I love you and the love with which I loved Jesus is in you and Jesus is in you, for I have poured My love into your heart by My gift of the Holy Spirit through Jesus. Saints.
Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured forth this which you both see and hear. Acts 2:33.
Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light. For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:11-14.