The Lord’s Other Prayer

In John 17, Jesus prays what is probably his most powerful prayer in all of scripture. While perhaps less known than the model prayer He teaches his disciples when they ask him — the prayer we often call the “Lord’s Prayer” — the prayer he prays here is far more personal, and powerful even than that!
This morning, we look at John 17:1-5, where Jesus speaks to the Father in a way quite unlike anything else we see in scripture. We see Jesus praying not merely as a man, but the divine second person of the Trinity, and what he asks for is something God has vowed never to share — his glory! We unpack the significance of these words, and think about what this means for both our conception of Jesus, and God’s glory itself.