"Ask in My Name"

 Chapter 6: Number 5: "Ask in My Name" — Jesus Gives You the Authority of Heaven 

Number five, ask in my name, Jesus gives you the authority of heaven.

 When Jesus said, "Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it," he was not giving his disciples a spiritual shortcut. 

 He was not handing out a magic phrase or a ritual formula. 

He was inviting them, inviting you into a level of relationship and authority that was previously unimaginable. 

 To ask in his name means to come from his heart, stand under his authority, and carry his mission. 

It means praying as someone who belongs to him. 

Someone who carries the identity he purchased. 

 Someone who walks under the covering of his power and presence. 

Jesus did not say this casually. 

 He said it as the One who had all power in heaven and on earth. 

 He said it as the One who knew the Father always hears him. 

He said it as the One who was giving His disciples the right to pray with heaven's backing. 

 Think about that for a moment. 

 You do not pray as a stranger knocking on a closed door. 

 You pray as a child walking into the Father's room with your saviour beside you. 

 When Jesus says, "Ask in my name," he is inviting you into boldness, confidence, faith that moves mountains, a relationship where heaven responds because you belong to the King. 

 And then Jesus adds something even more powerful. 

That the Father may be glorified in the Son. 

That means your prayers are not fragile hopes tossed into the sky. 

They are opportunities for God to reveal His goodness, hyis love, His strength, His presence in your life. 

Every answered prayer becomes a testimony. 

Every breakthrough becomes a light. 

Every miracle becomes a message that Jesus is alive and working in you.

But Jesus wasn't just giving you permission to ask. 

He was giving you the assurance that he listens. 

The assurance that your prayers matter. 

 The assurance that heaven hears every whispered request, every tearful cry, every silent plea.  

 You may not see the answer immediately. 

You may not understand the timing. 

 You may not know the path God chooses. 

 But when you pray in His name, something moves in the unseen, something shifts in the spiritual realm. 

 Something begins that you might not recognize until the moment God reveals it. 

 Praying in His name is not just about receiving what you ask for. 

 It is about stepping into the identity He gave you. 

It is about remembering that you are not powerless. 

You are not forgotten. 

You are not praying alone. 

 When Jesus said these words, he meant every syllable.

Jesus wanted his disciples and you to know that when you speak with faith, heaven bends low to listen. 

So don't hold back. 

Don't shrink your prayers. 

Don't pray small prayers because you fear disappointment. 

Pray boldly, confidently, courageously,  not because of who you are, but because of the One whose name you carry.

Chapter 7: Number 6: "I Will Not Leave You Orphans" — The Holy Spirit as Your Helper, Counselor, and Comforter

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John 14:

⁹ Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 

¹⁰ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 

¹¹ Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 

¹² Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 

¹³ And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 

¹⁴ You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.