Jesus said ask and you shall receive10/6/2023 ![]() This leads us to wonder about the word “ask” used in this verse and in verse 14:13: The same principal about asking in Jesus’s name applies, but this is clearly a prayer promise. This one is a promise about asking the Father for “whatever” in Jesus’s name. Instead, he says to ask the Father in his name, and the Father will give to you. ![]() Here, Jesus says that we are to “ask” him nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.” (John 16:23 NKJV) “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Other passages clearly confirm that the promise in John 14:13 is not about praying our will to Jesus it is about us doing, commanding, and working miracles in his name: In the Bible, we read that he has instructed us to preach his gospel, heal the sick, cast out demons, etc. If we hear from him via the Holy Spirit to step up and perform an instruction, a request, or a miracle, we do it in his name. Jesus wants us to use his name in both of these ways. If we do these even while she is asleep on the other side of the world, we are doing them in her name, because it is her will for us to do them as long as we are in her house. She leaves us written instructions for feeding the animals, bin night, maintenance, and mail collection, etc. For example, Rosanna and I occasionally look after my sister’s house and pets while she is away. It would also refer to permanent or longstanding written instructions. So here in this passage, Jesus is saying that he wants us to articulate on earth the things he is “asking” from heaven. You are merely the mouthpiece to carry it to the intended audience. Primarily, it implies that the one in whose name you are asking is the one initiating the request. However, the more I have thought about this, I have realized that asking in someone’s name means a lot more than that. When I was a new Christian, the common belief in our circles was that this meant: pray what you want, and just add the phrase, “in Jesus’s name,” on the end. This makes it less likely that he means asking him to do random things for us.Īs we have seen, our amazing Lord says that he will do whatever we ask in his name. As verse 13’s promise is part of the same speech, it indicates that when he says, “ask in my name,” he is probably talking about healing, miracles, signs and wonders, etc.-power demonstrations. In the verse prior to this promise (verse 12), Jesus said that whoever believes in him will do greater works than himself. Let’s begin by looking at the immediate context. To make this discovery, we will have to do a few things: look at the meaning of words in the original language look at the context of this promise compare it with other passages on the same or similar topics and ask, “What does he mean by the phrase, “in my name”? We need a true understanding of this verse so we can have it work for us in the way Jesus intended. ![]() ![]() So this simply cannot be the meaning of this promise. But this makes him sound more like a slave than Lord. And then as long as we tack on “in the name of Jesus” at the end of our sentence, he will say, “Yes sir!” After which, he will respond immediately to fulfill our will. In verse 13, Jesus gave his friends an amazing promise: “Whatever you ask in my name, that I will do.” Wow! When he says this we could mistakenly hear him say that we can ask him to do for us anything that we like. (14) If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. (13) And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. (John 14:12–13 NKJV) “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also and greater works than these he will do because I go to My Father.
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