Our needy prayers, our opportunity to behold the Glory of God
John records our Lord’s words in John 14:13. "Whatever you shall ask in My Name, that will I do, that the Father may be Glorified in the Son. If you shall ask anything in My Name I will do it." In this section of John, it's as though our Jesus is drawing back the curtain a bit and allowing us to view the Glorious riches of the Eternal Relationship that is the One God in Three Persons, Father, Son, and Spirit. John 14:23 teaches us that any fellowship with this Glorious Relational God depends upon our hearing and believing the words of Christ, loving him, and keeping His words. It is through this faith in His Son that the Father manifests His Love toward us and establishes His Abiding Presence within us by placing Christ in our hearts through the operation of His Spirit Whom He has sent us in Jesus name. (Jn 14:23-26; Ephesians 3:24-22)
What I am saying is this, that all of our earthly need has an Eternal Trinitarian purpose. And if we rightly understand that our new birth is the outworking of our adoption as children into the Father’s Family(Ephesians 1:3-5, 3:14-15) we can begin to understand that our need is for the purpose of the revelation of our Father who Knows what we have need of before we ask Him(Mt. 6:8). And I think that's why the apostle Paul in Romans 8:14-28, surrounds prayer with the groaning of all creation. And this we see in Rom. 8:26-27, it is the Spirit of God Who takes the groaning of our world locked prayer, and turns it into a Glorious Testament to the Father’s Love, for He Loves us with the same Love with which He has Loved the Son for all Eternity. Turn your groaning’s over to the Spirit of God, His Groaning’s are much more effective that yours!!!
Our needs are God’s tutor to teach us the Eternally Sufficient Love of our Heavenly Father through the Mediation of His Beloved Son from His Victorious Throne of Grace where we find abundant Mercy and Grace in our time of need. And it is the prayer-perfecting Spirit, God’s Comforter of Love (John 14:25; Rom.5:5; Eph. 3:16-19), that encourages our hearts as we wait for His perfected answer to our prayers. Beloved, pray continually to see the Father Glorified in the Son in your requests. Do not doom the answer to your prayers to just an earthly fix! Behold the glory of God in them!!! Behold His Eternal Wisdom in His answers!!! Consider also these verses: Matthew 6:8, 30-34, 7:7; John 15:7, 16:12-15, 23-24; Acts 17:24-25 Revelation 4:11.
John records our Lord’s words in John 14:13. "Whatever you shall ask in My Name, that will I do, that the Father may be Glorified in the Son. If you shall ask anything in My Name I will do it." In this section of John, it's as though our Jesus is drawing back the curtain a bit and allowing us to view the Glorious riches of the Eternal Relationship that is the One God in Three Persons, Father, Son, and Spirit. John 14:23 teaches us that any fellowship with this Glorious Relational God depends upon our hearing and believing the words of Christ, loving him, and keeping His words. It is through this faith in His Son that the Father manifests His Love toward us and establishes His Abiding Presence within us by placing Christ in our hearts through the operation of His Spirit Whom He has sent us in Jesus name. (Jn 14:23-26; Ephesians 3:24-22)
What I am saying is this, that all of our earthly need has an Eternal Trinitarian purpose. And if we rightly understand that our new birth is the outworking of our adoption as children into the Father’s Family(Ephesians 1:3-5, 3:14-15) we can begin to understand that our need is for the purpose of the revelation of our Father who Knows what we have need of before we ask Him(Mt. 6:8). And I think that's why the apostle Paul in Romans 8:14-28, surrounds prayer with the groaning of all creation. And this we see in Rom. 8:26-27, it is the Spirit of God Who takes the groaning of our world locked prayer, and turns it into a Glorious Testament to the Father’s Love, for He Loves us with the same Love with which He has Loved the Son for all Eternity. Turn your groaning’s over to the Spirit of God, His Groaning’s are much more effective that yours!!!
Our needs are God’s tutor to teach us the Eternally Sufficient Love of our Heavenly Father through the Mediation of His Beloved Son from His Victorious Throne of Grace where we find abundant Mercy and Grace in our time of need. And it is the prayer-perfecting Spirit, God’s Comforter of Love (John 14:25; Rom.5:5; Eph. 3:16-19), that encourages our hearts as we wait for His perfected answer to our prayers. Beloved, pray continually to see the Father Glorified in the Son in your requests. Do not doom the answer to your prayers to just an earthly fix! Behold the glory of God in them!!! Behold His Eternal Wisdom in His answers!!! Consider also these verses: Matthew 6:8, 30-34, 7:7; John 15:7, 16:12-15, 23-24; Acts 17:24-25 Revelation 4:11.
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