In God's Power of Love

John 14:13-- And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

In suffering we often feel we are under attack. In suffering we might think about God, we might even want to contact God, but our consciousness in suffering is so pre-occupied with the pain, we often find contact with the love of God is nearly impossible when we hurt. The keywords "in my name" have a deep and profound meaning in our text verse when we are in suffering. These words, "in my name", do not mean just uttering the sounds of Christ's name with our vocal chords. These words mean "in my love," or "in the love that I and the Father and the Holy Spirit really are." Christ Loves you. The word "ask" means "opening your heart, mind, spirit, soul, and body to the love we call God. The word "ask" means opening all of our being to this love. When we understand "in my name" means "in God's power of love" we can easily see how using His name can cast out demons. In fact, anything we ask "in His love or in His name", Christ will do. Although we are told "whatever you ask", these words do not mean we can get anything because when we are in Christ's love, we have His Light and wisdom, so we ask what He would have us ask, not what we want to ask. We are perfectly tuned to His will. We are then profoundly humbled. Asking is then put aside in favor of our adoration and worship of His love and majesty.