JESUS DID NOT SAY ASK IN MY FATHER’S NAME. OR IN ANY OTHER NAME {JOHN 14:13-17}
THE CALLED & UNIQUELY FAVORED:
KNOWING THE GOD YOU’RE SERVING GOES A LONG WAY IN TRUSTING SUCH GOD IN TIMES OF DIFFICULTIES AND IN TIMES OF NEED.
MOST BELIEVERS DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS ONE PARABLE OF JESUS CHRIST THAT UNLOCKS THE MYSTERY OF BOTH TESTAMENTS IN THE BIBLE.
“NO ONE PUTS NEW WINE INTO OLD WINE SKINS, OR ELSE THE WINE SKINS BREAKS.” [MATTHEW, 9:-17]
FROM GENESIS TO MALACHI WAS THE ERA OF MOSAIC LAW [THE OLD WINE] AND AFTER THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST COMES THE ERA OF GRACE.
[THE NEW WINE]
BUT MOST OF THE DENOMINATIONS ARE STILL IGNORANT OF THE FACT THAT GRACE PREVAIL OVER MOSAIC LAW.
SALVATION IS NOW AVAILABLE TO ALL THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS AND NOT THROUGH ADHERENCE TO THE MOSAIC LAW.
THIS IS A CONTRAST TO THE OLD TESTAMENT ERA, WHICH FOCUSED ON LAW AND SACRIFICE. [EPHESIANS, 2:-8-9]
ROMANS, 6:-14, THIS VERSE SIGNIFIES THAT BELIEVERS IN CHRIST ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE CONTROL OF SIN’S POWER OR THE CONDEMNATION OF THE LAW, BUT RATHER THEY ARE UNDER THE FREEDOM AND FAVOR OF GOD’S GRACE.
IF HIGHLIGHTS OUR NEW IDENTITY IN CHRIST JESUS, WHERE WE ARE EMPOWERED TO RESIST SIN THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD.
FASTING ALL YEAR LONG LIKE A SNAIL IN THE DESERT OR HAVING COUNTLESS NIGHT VIGILS BY THE SEASIDE WILL NOT MAKE YOUR PRAYERS ANSWERED, BUT BY THE POWER AND GRACE OF HIS RESURRECTION, YOUR PRAYER REQUEST WILL BE APPROVED.
HEAR WHAT THE LORD SAYS, “ASK ANYTHING IN MY NAME.”
HE DID NOT SAY ASK IN MY FATHER’S NAME. [JOHN, 14:-13-17]
IN CONCLUSION: SOME OUT OF IGNORANCE ARE STILL ASKING IN THE NAME OF GOD THE FATHER, AND IN THE NAMES OF ANGELS, AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOD OF THEIR DENOMINATIONAL FOUNDERS.
IGNORING THE BASIC STEPS OF ASKING IN JESUS’ NAME.
THERE IS ORDERLINESS IN HEAVEN.