I am not asking solely for their benefit; this prayer is also for all the believers who will follow them and hear them speak. Father, may they all be one as You are in Me and I am in You; may they be in Us, for by this unity the world will believe that You sent Me.

John 17:20-21 (The Voice)

Jesus is our High Priest, and He never tired of serving us.

In His High Priestly Prayer, Jesus prays that we are one with God as He is with the Father. God, of course, answered His Son’s plea through His perfect work on the Cross. We are no longer strangers to God or fall short of His love and forgiveness because of Christ. As a result, we can have a genuine and fulfilling relationship with God.

Being made one with the Father means that you can never be any closer to God than you are now. The sad truth is that many of our prayers and Christian songs express a longing for God to accept and embrace us, which is something He has already done in Christ. When we pray and worship from a place of unbelief, we will feel and act more like spiritual orphans than God's chosen sons and daughters. We jeopardise our relationship with God if we do not learn to walk in the truth.

When our prayer or worship becomes a function to get closer to God, then we are not walking by faith. However, when our prayer and worship flow from our oneness with God and are inherent to our relationship with God—we will experience this radical sense of confidence and interconnectedness that prompts us to stay secure and strong. When you know you will be loved by God no matter what, then there is no fear of failure, punishment or rejection because perfect love casts out fear.

Your fullness and freedom come from your oneness with God because all fear of being separated from the Father has already been removed by Christ. When you know that you are now the dwelling place of God's perfect love, the reality of being perfectly loved by God becomes personally real.

You must understand that God's love for you is not determined by how much you love Him or how much you are prepared to sacrifice for Him. If this is the case, God's love is a reaction rather than an initiation. We love God because He first loved us, and our love for God is founded on a profound revelation and knowledge of His immense and incredible love for us.