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NASB | John 14:14 "If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 14:14 "If you ask Me anything in My name [as My representative], I will do it. |
Subject: What does "In the name of Jesus" mean? |
Bible Note: Whether one prays strictly formulaically or ad libs; whether he is careful always to end his prayer with the phrase "in Jesus' name, amen"; whether he prays while standing, kneeling, or driving a car; whether he prays in a church building, a barn or a tree house -- all these things and more are mere trappings and do not constitute real prayer...... What did Jesus teach about prevailing prayer? In Matthew 6:9-13, our Lord provided us some wonderful insights to aid us in our prayer life. The prayer begins with OUR FATHER...as a child talking to his father, so we must be born into the family of God to have the right to call God our Father... We are told to pray YOUR KINGDOM COME, YOUR WILL BE DONE ... telling us immediately that prayer has one major purpose: to seek and secure the will of God. Prayer is answered only when it is in the will of God. Prayer is not some exercise by which we seek to bend God's will to fit our own..... GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD ... surely we may ask for our needs. Nothing that is big enough to concern us is too small to concern Him. FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS ... daily forgiveness, confession and repentence ... "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear." [Psalm 66:18]... DELIVER US FROM THE EVIL ONE ... The devil, the roaring lion, seeks to devour us ... the prayer for deliverance from evil and temptation is good preventive medicine... and finally, praise: YOURS IS...THE GLORY FOREVER... Jesus' model prayer begins and ends on a note of praise. One must pray in faith, and praise is man's highest expression of faith. So in this model prayer that has no equal, praise and petition are perfectly blended and welded together inseparably into a power than which no other human activity has a more effectual counterpart. --Hank |