In His Name part 5
Whatsoever we ask for in His name... His Father (OUR heavenly Father) will give us. Because whatsoever we ask for in His name--in His nature, and authority, and character--He has already given us. This isn't about rubbing the bottle and hoping the genie pops out in order to give us whatever we want. This is knowing what we need (love), and knowing that we have what we need (because God is love and He loves us). Once you know that you have what you need... that's when you can do what you were created to do. Receiving and releasing the love of God is our entire purpose on this earth, in this life. We were created to be loved by God and to love Him back by loving each other with that same love. To, again, receive it and release it. That is the Divine Order of things, because you can't give what you don't have, and you can only give what you do have. You can't give when you think you don't have anything. You will, instead, run around like a chicken with it's head cut off trying to get what you think you don't have. Trying to fill a God-shaped (love-shaped) void with everything and anything else. But you can only fill a God-shaped (love-shaped) void... with God. With love. And we already have that. So when we're trying to enter into the sheepfold any other way but the door--whose name is Jesus--we are robbing ourselves (and each other) from what we already have. Guys. We have no lack because our God has no lack. It's that simple. Everything He is and everything He has... is ours. It's available to us. The ultimate truth of the universe is found in John 3:35, "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." We are the Son. Our true identity is Jesus, the beloved Son of God. As He is, so are we in this world. Jesus is God in the flesh, love in a body. He is God in OUR flesh, love in OUR body. So we see that God has given all things into OUR hand. We don't need to ask for anything. We simply need to know--and use--what we've got. We have been equipped and empowered to do all the works Jesus did... and greater works! Because HE is living in us. And through us. And as us. So instead of asking in His name, we need to start acting, or operating, in His name. We need to start using OUR authority as kings and priests on this earth. We need to stop trying to be someone we're not, and simply be who we are. By knowing and believing that we are who God says we are. By knowing and believing that we have what God says we have. And then giving what we've got. Receiving it... and releasing it. Letting what's inside come out, by knowing and believing that it's in there. It's too big to keep inside anyway. What is inside WILL come out. Or, I should say, what you BELIEVE is inside will come out. Faith is so powerful and so important. You can't believe what you don't know. Faith comes from hearing and hearing from the Word (Jesus, love) of God. But once you hear it, you need to be a witness to what you've heard. What you've seen. What you've felt and experienced. Stop living life as if you don't have something you need. Or as if you aren't who you're supposed to be. And start living... in His name! Start experiencing His abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of love by letting Him live it in you, and through you, and as you!