A Passion Night's Prayer

My Father, now the hour has come,

The time to glorify your Son

This thing that only you can do

That I might glorify you too

You’ve giv’n the Son authority

O’er all of this humanity

And life eternal to command

For those you’ve placed within my hand

Eternal life in knowing you

The only God, the one, the true

And Jesus Christ whom you have sent

For sinners will my life be spent

That I may finish all your will

I spoke your Word. My blood I’ll spill

That they might know I come from you

Your cup of wrath I’ll finish too

And now I bend my knee in prayer

For these you’ve put within my care

Oh Father, as I come to Thee

Preserve them in your name ‘s my plea

While I was here I kept them all

Except the one ordained to fall

But now I leave them in the world

And Satan’s darts will sure be hurled

They’ve heard your Word and hold it true

Protect them till they come to you

Please separate them as your own

Until you bring them safely home

Nor do I ask but for these few

But for the ones who’ll come to you

Believing what they preach of me

The Gospel of my Cross receive

And Father, still I ask you more

That they may have the fullest store

To see my glory beaming bright

Dispelling all of sin’s dark night

They, one in Me as I’m in you

The World to see this wonder too

That loving them as you loved Me

Such joy be their’s eternally

The World is lost not knowing you

But these, your Gift, they know it’s true

They know I’m sent from up above

Now fill them, fill them, with your love