In Jesus Name: Ask Anything In My Name

John 14:5-14 (New International Version)
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, 
so how can we know the way?”

6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

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.

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Matthew 18:20 (New International Version)
For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”

Mark 9:37 (New International Version)
“Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”

Mark 9:41 (New International Version)
41 Truly I tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the Messiah will certainly not lose their reward.

John 1:12 (New International Version)
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God

John 20:31 (New International Version)
But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

…to do something in the “name” of God, or another person, was to do it in compliance with that person’s character.  It meant to do something just as that person would do it, and in a way that honors the reputation of that person.

of Jesus
(We do what Jesus would do)

His Words

In with His words

Mark 16:15-19 (New Living Translation)
15 And then he told them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone. 16 Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved. But anyone who refuses to believe will be condemned. 17 These miraculous signs will accompany those who believe: They will cast out demons in my name, and they will speak in new languages. 18 They will be able to handle snakes with safety, and if they drink anything poisonous, it won’t hurt them. They will be able to place their hands on the sick, and they will be healed.”

19 When the Lord Jesus had finished talking with them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand.

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