John 14:14. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
But there is a deal of praying that never reaches to the name of Christ. Even to pray for Christ’s sake does not reach to the point of praying in Christ’s name. If I go and transact business in the name of such a person, that is a different thing from merely asking to be allowed to do my own business for the sake of that person. But when you are authorized to use the name of Christ - as it were, to write his signature to your cheques - oh! what power there is in prayer at that time! "If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it." But you cannot ask everything in that name. You are obliged to draw back from some prayers, and say, "No; Christ would never authorize me to put his name to that." You see there is a blessed cheques upon the universality of prayer - a most necessary and useful cheques - for we would not dare to ask some things in that wondrous name.
John 14:14. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
But there is a deal of praying that never reaches to the name of Christ. Even to pray for Christ’s sake does not reach to the point of praying in Christ’s name. If I go and transact business in the name of such a person, that is a different thing from merely asking to be allowed to do my own business for the sake of that person. But when you are authorized to use the name of Christ - as it were, to write his signature to your cheques - oh! what power there is in prayer at that time! "If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it." But you cannot ask everything in that name. You are obliged to draw back from some prayers, and say, "No; Christ would never authorize me to put his name to that." You see there is a blessed cheques upon the universality of prayer - a most necessary and useful cheques - for we would not dare to ask some things in that wondrous name.