Praying scripture

I have a group of friends who meet on a weekly basis. Every Tuesdays, I have one member of the group who often will text me a specific prayer request for that group's meeting. I sent my normal question to my contact and did not get a response but was drawn to start praying anyway. Without the words to know what to say this time, I directed the beginning of my prayer to the Spirit to ask that he interceded for me and provide the words that needed to be said to the Father for this group. I was led to John 17...

"My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as Christ was not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent Christ into the world, He has sent them to our city. For them Christ sanctified himself, that they too may be truly sanctified. My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in Christ through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in Christ and He is in you. May they also be in you so that the world may believe that you have sent Him. Jesus gave them the glory that you gave him, that they may be one as you and he are one— Him in them and you in Christ—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent Christ and have loved them even as you have loved him. Father, I want those you have given us, our church, our city to be with Jesus where he is, and to see his glory, the glory you have given him because you loved him before the creation of the world. Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, Christ know you, and they know that you have sent him. Jesus made you known to my friends, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for Him may be in them and that Jesus himself may be in them.”