Correct. So why continue in sin. Repent and be whole. That is God's promise. Joel 2:32, Romans 10:8-9. Then you can ask anything in His Name, He will do it for the glory of the Father, John 14:13-14.
Ask anything in His name?
IN His name being the primary thing .
It does not mean we can ASK anything ................ in His name.
I want a new merc a bigger car to be rich or anything that will fill my own lusts . As some have made it.
It means anything I ask that I SEE and understand IN Christ that is needed, that is from Gods perspective .
There were very few people who the Lord said to them "what would you have me do ...."
and by that they could have asked anything and the lord would have done it for them.
Yet when the Serophonecian woman who he said that too told him what she wanted .
He replied on the face of it in the negative .
"I have come to the lost sheep of the house of Israel " it is not meet that I give the childrens bread to the dogs"
Rather than reject his words she embraced them and said "true Lord but even the dogs eat from the crumbs that fall from ther table" The Lord replied "..great is thy faith...." and she received what she wanted .
There are only two people in the Gospels that the lord said had "great faith" and they were both gentiles .
Why then did they have great faith and peter who walked on water TO the lord and came back WITH Him to the boat also walking on the water he said "ye of little faith"?
Because the womans faith reached from one dispensation (to the lost sheep of Israel) to the next one .(to the gentiles .
and in doing so the <Lord was able to give what she desired for her daughter.
But before she uttered those words she received nothing .
For when she called upon the Lord "Son of David have mercy upon me " He did not answer her ,because she despite her faith at that time asked amiss. For beign a gentile she could not call upon Him as Son of David .
It was when she lost all an called Him Lord have mercy upon me that she got her first response. Or answer.
God is a God of order.
if you ask in MY name says the lord .
THAT is a HIGH order.
True it is we may boldly enter into the Holy of Holies . But I would argue it is still only ONE that does .
But now it is the one of "OUR Father"
It is the ONE of "that they might be one even as we are one"
it si the one of "they that are joined to the Lord are of one spirit "
It is the one that is of the "unity of the faith"
For before you may enter into the Holy of holies ye must put off the worldly or old man and put on Christ .
Even as the priests of the old tabernacle had to put on their robes to do so .
and before you can after that ye must needs wash your hands (work) and feet(walk) at the place of washing that was after the place of sacrifice and before the tabernacle of God.
Most people do not are unwilling or have not been taught that before you ascend the hill of the Lord you must have a clean hands (towards men) and a pure heart (towards God)
They are taught not that God is Holy and we too then must be Holy .
They are taught about the POWERR!!!!!!!!!! but not that if you want to excersise authority you have to be in submission to that authority .
When you climb a hill as you do so you see more than you did when you are at the bottom of the hill.
To climb the hill of the Lord as you do so the more you see things form HIS perspective.
and less of yours .
When we pray in or from the outer court we see things only from the light of the sunb as it were by the natural light .
But in the holy of Holies there is no light ,Save by the light of the 7 branched oil lamp that speaks of the Holy Spirit on the one hand and on the other the shew bread that speaks of the Word of God.
He we walk by faith not by sight in harmony with the Word of God and the Spirit of God.
in the outer court many believe God is their servant for he provides for them as fathers do their little children.
But in the Holy place we find out that we are Gods servant and while we may and should bring upon our hearts that which we see outside .Here in Gods presence above all we find that God has things to say and do also .
For what we see outside in the world (but not of it) we see those things in their true perspective before God.
David saw the prosperity of the wicked and he confessed to God "acted like a beast towards him" which was the truth .
Yet in the presence of God saw things in their true perspective.
When the 10 faithless spies saw what was what in then promised land they walked by sight .
The faithful spies saw the same things but in the true light of what God had alreasdy done in the last 40 DAYS who it was who was with them and what God had promised for the future.
and in THAT light the true light spoke in faith that we could go in and possses the land.
What a lot of people call faith is not faith at all very often it si presumption. at worse or hope at best /.
Faith sees or understands things as yet unseen or as it were afar off.
But are promised.
and acts or asks accordingly.
It is not then I who brings those things into existence for how then are they promised?
For it is not I who made the promise .
Then the glory and the power is to Him that promised not to him that prayed accordign to the promise.
in Christ
gerald