His prayer for us...

Every night, whether the girls are awake or asleep, focusing or climbing and flipping all over the bed, I pray out loud for them.  A lot of times, I don't think they're listening.  But sometimes, the next day, Lily will ask me about something she heard me pray on her behalf.  

It's on her mind.  It's changed her perspective.  It's making her think more about who she is and why she's here.

I trust that letting her in on my prayers for her will impact her little life, and grow her in relationship with our Father.

Maybe Jesus trusted the same thing.  

Eavesdrop into this prayer with me...Jesus, praying to God, for US.

But now I come to You

and these things I speak in the world 

so that they may have My joy made full

I have given them Your word;

and the world has hated them,

because they are not of the world,

just like I'm not of the world.

I do not ask You to take them out of the world,

but only to keep them from the evil one.

Sanctify them in the truth;

Your word is truth.

As You have sent me into the world,

I have sent them into the world.

I do not ask on behalf of these alone, 

but for those also who believe in Me because of their word;

that they all may be one;

even as You, Father, and I are one.

The glory You have given Me,

I have given them,

that they may be one, just like us.

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 love them, even as You have loved me.

O righteous Father, though the world has not known You,

I have known You;

and these have known that You sent Me

and I have made Your name known to them,

so that the love which You loved Me 

maybe in them.

John 17: 13-26