{"id":750,"date":"2015-04-05T16:37:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T20:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/?p=750"},"modified":"2020-03-22T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T17:38:57","slug":"day-14-of-40-days-of-discipleship-in-jesus-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/day-14-of-40-days-of-discipleship-in-jesus-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 14 of 40 Days of Discipleship: In Jesus&#8217; name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John 14:13-14<br \/>\n<i>And I will do whatever you ask\u00a0in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.\u00a0You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.<br \/>\n<\/i>Why do we say \u2018In Jesus&#8217; name\u2019 when we finish a prayer? Does any prayer suddenly becomes acceptable because we add \u2018in Jesus name\u201d at the end?<br \/>\nSaying \u2018In Jesus name&#8217; when we pray is a reminder that we are asking what we think Jesus wants and deserves in that situation. We are asking according to his worthiness and victory on the cross. He died to make such a prayer answerable. So we think about that when we ask.<br \/>\nIn some countries children go to a corner store and make purchases on their parents\u2019 account. If they ask for a quart of milk or a loaf of bread they get it. If they ask for 5 kilos of candy they don\u2019t. By asking in their parents\u2019 name, the store owner gives then what their parents would want.<br \/>\nWhen we read the Bible, we find out what God wants, and this guides us to ask in Jesus\u2019 name.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/40-days-app\/\">Instructions<\/a>\u00a0on how to\u00a0subscribe to the 40 Days of Discipleship \u00a0APP in GoTandem, with audio, on your smart phone or computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 14:13-14 And I will do whatever you ask\u00a0in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.\u00a0You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. Why do we say \u2018In Jesus&#8217; name\u2019 when we finish a prayer? Does any prayer suddenly becomes acceptable because we add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4,29,28,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobilediscipleship.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}