Acts 2:7,8 – I will declare the decree: the LORD has said to Me, You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession.
This verse gives us a glimpse into the glorious day of Victory when Jesus took His place at the Father’s right hand and began to pray. The first prayer and immediate answer was Jesus receiving for man the Promise of the Father promised to Jesus in eternity. He received this gift as He took His place on the throne.
THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER
Acts 2:33 – This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses. Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.
As Jesus took up His ministry of prayer I can hear the echo of His prayer for His chosen ones that He prayed in Gethsemane. He was praying that we could enter together into the oneness He experienced with the Father from eternity.
THAT THEY MAY BE ONE
Jn.17:11 – Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.
As Jesus continued His High priestly prayer in Gethsemane we see the very center of His plea, that we could experience the fullness of joy that He enjoys by His relationship with the Father.
THAT THEIR JOY MAY BE FULL
Jn.17:13 – But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.
This joy overflows with the Lord’s cry for the nations, ‘Ask of Me and I will give you the nations for your inheritance’.
THE NATIONS FOR YOUR INHERITANCE
Jn.17:20,21 – I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
Finally He prays that we could behold His glory. This is the source of our life and our highest joy, to behold the glory of the Lord.
THAT THEY MAY BEHOLD YOUR GLORY
Jn.17:24 – Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
We are the answer to His prayer, He asked and now we too can behold the glory of the Father.