Whatever We Ask In Jesus Name 

John 15:7 & 16~ “7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you... 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.” 

Does God grant us whatever we ask for 

 Sometimes we feel  

Disappointed 

Disillusioned 

Dumbfounded 

When God doesn’t give us what we’ve asked for 

We quote Jesus’ promise 

Whatever we ask for in Jesus’ name will be given us

Why hadn’t God granted us speedily what we’ve  

Asked for 

Requested 

Demanded 

Expected 

Wished for 

Is He not a God of His words 

Does God break His promises 

Are God’s promises fickle 

Upon closer examination 

We notice 

Conditions 

Contexts 

Timing 

Types of answers 

God grants us 

 YES 

NO 

WAIT 

Is God our God 

Or is He our genie   

A genie is obligated to grant us at our bidding 

God however 

Is the One in control 

The Sovereign One

Whose ways are not our ways 

Whose thoughts are not our thoughts 

God grants us our prayers when 

His Words remain in us 

When we abide by  

His words 

His truth 

His heart 

His desire 

His delight 

When we abide  

In Him 

When we have  

Active 

Living 

Loving 

Obedient 

Relationship  

With Him 

When we have been  

Chosen by Him 

Appointed by Him 

To bear fruit 

Lasting fruit 

He then grants us whatever we ask 

Because our desires 

Are in alignment with 

His words 

His truth 

His heart 

His desire 

His delight  

Whatever we ask 

For God desires that  

We desire 

What He desires 

We get to join  

The Triune God 

In His circle of fellowship 

One God in Three 

Three in One 

In complete union  

In complete communion 

Now also united with us 

Us with Him 

In Truth 

In heart 

In desire 

In delight 

One with God 

His desires are ours 

Our desires are His 

In unity 

In unison 

In completion 

Our desires are granted 

For they are God’s desires 

Homegoing

One day we will all return home

We will go to our 

Eternal

Heavenly 

Home

Where

God the Father

Jesus the Son

Holy Spirit the Comforter

Await us

To embrace us into His arms

God along with 

The heavenly hosts 

All the angels

Our loved ones who have gone before us

Wait for us at the gate of heaven

To welcome us

Home

For us believers

When we take our final breath here on earth

Our next breath is an eternal breath

And we are in God’s presence

Immanuel when we were on earth

Immanuel becomes reality

As God is with us

And we are with Him

Then and forever 

Heaven is our eternal home

Where there are no more 

Tears

Fears

Anxieties

Struggles

Sadness

Sickness

Loneliness

Helplessness

Hopelessness

Powerlessness

Heaven is where there are boundless

Joy

Peace

Love

Health

Togetherness

Companionship

Contentment

Fulfillment

Rest

As long as we are still in our corporal body

We experience struggles and sufferings 

There are difficulties numerous

They can feel endless

However

They are momentary 

In light of eternity

For now we only see in part

Then we shall see face to face

As we look into His 

Beautiful

Loving

Perfect 

Countenance

All our quandaries will be resolved

All our questions answered

In His

Tender

 Gentle

Comforting

Understanding

Accepting

All loving 

Eyes

and

Embrace

Christ’s arms stretched out for us in love on the cross

God’s stretched out arms welcoming us in heaven

These arms 

Embrace us

Enfold us

As God the Father 

Gives us a unique name

Tells us that we have

Ran the race

Finished the course

Completed our assignments

“Good and faithful servant” 

He’ll say

“Come into My rest”

And welcome us 

Into His 

Eternal 

Home

"When We All Get to Heaven" by Matt Redman

Our Abundant God

God is the Creator of all things

Every living thing that moves or sways

Everything that grows and dies

The universe

Every system expansive and minute

From the cosmos to the bacteria

Visible and invisible

Things in heaven and things on earth

Spiritual and corporeal

God is the Sustainer of all things

God has not set up the universe and walked away from it

God isn’t twiddling His thumbs waiting for the world to come to an end

God is actively involved in every detail of our lives

The middle 

Between the beginning and the end

is just as important as the beginning and the end

For

God has us in the palms of His hands

God collects all our tears and prayers

God knows the number of strands on our heads at every moment

God knows our every moment and is present with us in each

The Holy Spirit intercedes for us with wordless groans

Jesus is interceding for us at the right hand of God

God is attentive to us 

His eyes watch us wherever we go

He is ever with us

Ever present

God has gone before us

God is besides us

He is above us

Below us

Behind us

All around us

God is in us

All things will come to an end 

God will welcome us home

Welcome us into His loving embrace

He will declare that we have completed our journey

He will crown us with His glory

He will give us a unique name only known to Him and to us

This GOD

The One who is 

From everlasting to everlasting

He truly has the whole world in His hands

What could we possibly need?

He loves us so much that

He saw our unformed bodies before the foundation of the world was set

He knit us together in our mother’s womb

He knew our 

Every moment

Every thought

Every word

Every action

Before any of them came into being

We are the apple of His eyes

He loved us so much that

He gave His One and Only Son

To live among us

Immanuel

To experience what we experience

The Great High Priest

To empathize with us

To die for us

To rise from the dead

To save us

He gifted us with His Holy Spirit

To succor us

To comfort us

To live within us

To teach and convict us

To give us life from within

Enabling us to live new life

This very same God

How would He not also 

Graciously give us all things in Christ Jesus

This abundant God

The God of abundance

What else could we possibly need

What else could we possibly ask for

Nothing

None

Zilch

Scarcity be gone

For there is no lack in God

And through Christ

We can do all things

According to the wonderful will of God

The Alpha and the Omega

The Beginning and the End

Every beginning middle and end

God is with us

God is for us

God is in us

This God of abundance

Is 

Our 

God

"God of Abundance" by Ayo Davies

Submitting One to Another

“We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19); 34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another”(John 13:34-35);  “…in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others (Philippians 2:3b & 4); “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ” (Ephesians 5:21).

Jesus told us to keep His command:

To love one another as He has loved us 

How do we love others the way Jesus loved us

We follow Jesus’ lead

Jesus stepped down from His exalted throne

And became a helpless baby 

to identify with us

Our fragilities

Our limitations

Jesus considered our needs

Laid down His own needs

Went on the cross to die for us

Jesus laid down His life because of His love for us

Jesus tells us to 

Also 

Love one another by

Laying down 

Our will

Our desires

Our mindset 

Our opinions

Our concerns

Our own wants

Our preferences

Our perspectives

Imagine 

Each of us 

Every single one of us

All of us

Choosing to

Lay down our own

Ideas

Opinions

Insistences

preferences

Self-righteousness

To serve others

To submit to one another

Not to participate in sin

Nor to condone sin

But submitting to one another when it has to do with

The methods

The means

Others’ preferences

As long as they do not conflict with God’s principles

To genuinely desire to 

Bring out 

Tease out

Seek out

Find out

the 

Ideas

Opinions

Preferences

Of others

Over our own

If every single one of us does this

The world would 

See the Gospel displayed 

In action

We would become

The Bible others read

We would become

The fragrance of Jesus others smell

The world would have to admit that

God is in our midst

Truly God is real

For they have

Seen

Tasted

Smelled

Witnessed

The love of Christ

In our lives

In our genuine and willing 

Submission 

To 

One another

Receiving Same Rewards in Heaven

“ Whoever welcomes a prophet as a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever welcomes a righteous person as a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward” (Matthew 10:41).

As Jesus sent out His 12 disciples

He told them 

Whoever receives or welcomes them

Will receive the same reward God gives to 

Them

The disciples

The laborers

God’s laborers

The pastors

The teachers

The preachers

The evangelists

The missionaries

The parachurch workers

All those who have been 

Sent by God

Into the field

Will receive their reward

For their obedience

Jesus says those who

Receive

Welcome 

Show hospitality

To those who have been sent

Will also receive 

The same reward

As those who have been sent

The sender

The laborer

Those who welcome them

The very same rewards the laborers will receive

For their faithfulness in going

For their toils in the field

We get to receive as well

The senders

Whether it be through prayers

Or financial giving

The supporters

Whether it be showing hospitality

Prayer support

Practical support

Emotional support

While the laborers are in the field

We get to receive the same reward

Without  having to 

Leave our work

Our home

Our family

Our comfort

Disrupt our schedule much

Just show hospitality

To God’s people who have been sent

When Jesus sends us out into the world

To preach the Gospel

To baptize the believers

To teach believers to obey God

It requires different actions from us

To pray for God to raise workers

To send workers into the harvest

To go and make disciples ourselves

To financially support workers who have left their lives behind

To pray for those who are in the field 

To receive them into our homes

To welcome those in the field

Whether it be 

The worker

The sender

The welcomer

We all receive the same reward from God

The rewards waiting in heaven for the

Laborer

Will also be given to us who

Send them

Welcome them

Receive them

Support them

"Thank You" by Ray Boltz

Jesus is Preparing a Place for Us

“ 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am” (John 14: 2-3).

When Jesus went back to the Father after His resurrection

He went to prepare room for us 

In God’s dwelling place

Where

God the Father

Jesus the Son

The Holy Spirit 

Live together as the Triune God

In that perfect community

Like the Jewish families

When a son is getting married

He’d build an extension to his father’s house

The groom and the bride would live in that dwelling place

With the groom’s family

Jesus is the Groom and the Church is His Bride

The Church is everyone redeemed by Christ’s blood

We are the bride

We are Christ’s bride

Our Groom has gone before us 

Returned to His

Home

Dwelling place

To prepare room for us

That we might join Him 

In His dwelling place

Like an expectant groom

Excited in anticipation

For his bride to join him

To become one with his Intended to

Live

Dwell

Do life 

Together 

Christ is eagerly awaiting His Bride

The Church

You and me

To join Him

At that dwelling place

Where we get to 

Live

Enjoy

Daily 

Constant

Intimate

Relationship with our Groom

As He ushers us 

Into the Trinity

The Perfect Community

Prefect Family 

Of 

The Triune God

We will become

Family

Community

With 

Jesus our Groom

God Our Father

The Holy Spirit our Succor

God’s Triune Community

Expands 

To include us

The sweet and intimate Triune Community

Will be

Filled with us

God’s precious possession

God’s masterpiece

God’s beloved

For we

Are 

His 

Beloved

His

Intended

His 

Bride

The Triune God’s plan all along

Everlasting communion 

With us

We get to live 

For-ever 

In God’s presence

With all the redeemed

Living in perfect harmony

Everlasting peace

Everlasting joy

Forever 

AMEN

"One Day (When We All Get to Heaven" by Saddleback worship

"Hymn of Heaven" by Phil Wickham

"Jesus Promised Me a Home Over There" by Jennifer Hudson

Granting Us the Desires of Our Hearts

Jesus has promised us over and over

Whatever we ask for in His name He will grant

One might take this promise as a free for all offer

Whatever we ask for?

Sometimes we ask for

Being able to perform well at school or at work

Being able to be successful

The bank account we want

The relationship we crave

The respect we yearn

The status we covet

The house we wish

The job we desire

The car we like

Good marriage

Good health

No worries

Good kids

Visible blessings

Does a loving parent grant their children everything they ask for

It would be a very indulging parent

Who loses sight of the long term good for their children

Good parenting is a combination of

Nurturance and frustration tolerance

When we only give nurturance

Giving our kids whatever they ask for

Rushing to sooth every cry and discomfort

The child is not prepared for the realities of life

Where there are pain and frustrations

The child develops unrealistic expectations of life

And become entitled

Unable to cope with life

When the parent only provides restrictions and corrections

The child experiences 

Harshness

Scarcity

Rejection

Dejection

Joylessness

Hopelessness

Abandonment

When a loving parent pays

Attention to the needs of the child

Such that the child feels

Seen

Heard

Understood

Accepted

Loved

Coupled with

Sharing and enforcing 

Age appropriate and realistic expectations

Corrections

Limit setting

The child feels safe

Whatever they desire 

The responsibilities of life

Are not only on their shoulders

The child gets to be a kid

With adults around 

Who are responsible for them

The buck stops with the parent

Not with the child

The child can be free 

To ask for anything

Knowing the parent will grant 

Only what’s best for them

Since their parent knows and loves them

Knows what’s best for them

Will consider the request

In light of what’s best

Our Heavenly Father 

Knows us 

Thoroughly

Completely

Intimately

After all

He’s the One Who created us

He formed us in our mother’s womb

He saw our 

Every thought

Every day

Before one word was completed as a thought

Before one day came into being

He knew our every 

Inclination

Proclivity

Foible

And He still created us

He formed us after His own image

Called us His

Masterpiece

Precious children

Beautiful image-bearers

When we align our desires with God’s desires

Our hearts are molded into God’s heart

Our desires are no longer corporal but heavenly minded

When we seek first

God’s Kingdom

God’s Righteousness

God’s Will

God’s desires

When our hearts and lives are

Melded with God’s

Will and desires 

For the world

For others

For us

He will grant us 

The desires of our hearts

For these desires are no longer

Ours

Short-sighted

Temporary

Limited

But 

Broad

Wide

Expansive

Far-reaching

Beyond imagination

Desires

Of 

God

When we pray 

In accordance with the

Will of God

He will grant us

The desires of our heart

His heart

His desire

His good and perfect will

"Blessings" by Laura Story

"I Am Not My Own" by the Gettys