John 14:15-31 - And a Prayer I Wrote

"If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."    


Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?" Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.


"These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, forthe Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

Our Father, 
we praise you for the peace 
            that you have left with us 
            and given us in Christ Jesus.
We thank you
            for your love manifested in Christ
   making a way for us to come to you
   and giving us truth that we may remember your works. 
   and for bestowing on us true life. 
We praise you, O Father, for sending us the Helper,
            the Holy Spirit, 
  who dwells in us,
  who will be with us forever. 
We rejoice in the coming again of your Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ. 
We worship you and we pray 
            that your glory would be manifested through your church to all nations
            so that the world may know that we love you.
Help us in this,
            that we may keep your commandments  
            that we may keep your word. 
Strengthen us to endure.
Teach us to love one another,
  even as You have loved us. 
Lord of peace, 
Give us your peace 
            and be with us.