“In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf; for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father. - John 16:26–27 (NASB)
Here is a promise with a bit of clarification. If you have believed that all your requests to God made in Jesus’ name must go to the Father through the Son, Jesus says here that is not so. We have direct access to God and that means to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit when we are praying. When Jesus says “you will ask in My name,” it means in His nature. Praying “In Jesus Name…” is not a magic word and we do not invoke the name of Jesus in that way. We know that this is not a promise that our lives will be free from external complications and challenges. Because we know the Father Himself loves us with perfect love, when we pray it is the ministry of the Holy Spirit to intercede on our behalf. When we do not know how or exactly what to pray for due to the limitations, we have in knowing God right now, the Spirit of God presents our needs to the Father just as they should be presented. (Romans 8:26-27) We can be in such a relationship with the Father that we are in sync with His perfect sovereign will.
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Some of this is
from “The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers "My Utmost for His Highest”, Dodd, Mead
& Company (1935)
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