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What it Means to Pray in Jesus’ Name
Just before the end of Jesus’ life on earth He began teaching His disciples to pray in His name. Before this time the concept was unheard of. Prayer was always to the Father but never in Jesus’ name. But all that changed. And it was not a teaching that was taught nonchalantly or casually. In fact, He repeated the teaching over and over again, as to emphasize its importance. Six times, recorded in the gospel of John, He taught the disciples to pray in His name. And each time the teaching was with the promise that they could pray for anything, or for whatever they wished, and their prayer would be answered (Jn. 14:13,14; 15:16; 16:23,24,26). If this was true then, and is still true today (which it is), then there is great power in the right use of His name. We certainly need to know how to pray in…
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8 Teachings of Jesus on Prayer — Teaching #5
Jesus taught that prayer must be in His name (John 14:12-14; 15:7, 16; 16:23, 24).
In these verses Jesus teaches clearly that if we expect to receive what we ask for we must ask for those things in His name. What does that mean? Well, in the first passage (Jn. 14:10-14), Jesus shows us that praying in His name is praying in oneness or in unity with Him—that just as Jesus is one with the Father, we demonstrate that we are one with Jesus (and the Father) when we pray in His name. For when Jesus ascended to the Father, the Holy Spirit came to us and united us with the Father and Son. And so when we pray in His name we demonstrate our oneness with Him, because we pray in unity with the Son who is one with the Father. And we do it by the Spirit. Then…
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