Hey there Beloved.

comeupfromthewilderness:

Jesus says over and over again in the gospels to ask the Father for things, “In My name”. Do you know what it means to ask for something in Jesus’ name?! It means that I recognize that I am without something, that I need something and that I have no other way of receiving it than through Jesus Christ. Asking the Father for something in Jesus’ name does not mean we tack a few words on the end of our prayers as magic words and suddenly God hears us (He hears us anyway; He’s looking at our hearts), but that we understand that we cannot do anything at all out of our own power to get what we need, and that we cannot work for what we need or convince God to give it to us, that we recognize our desperate state, and with joy understand that in Jesus is everything we need”