The question perhaps for us is how do we pray in the name of Jesus?
What does this mean? We must look to the meaning of oneness in order to understand how this can be possible and that is clearly revealed in John17. For Jesus asks that we might be in the Father and the Son in the same way as they are one in each other. This is an incredible request that spans time and space, heaven and earth and all eternity. It is awesome in magnitude and unquantifiable. It is almost beyond understanding.
Yet this is how we find that we can come to know the Father and the Son and flow in the Spirit, to truly pray in the name of Jesus Christ. The awe with which we should approach such power then is vast and huge. The magnanimity of such a gift is beyond description. Thus as we come to know the Father and the Son, so we come to the true realisation of our relationship with each and we begin to live and pray in a new way, with new confidence, for we are truly one with them, as they are truly one. How can such prayer then not be answered?
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