John 14:13 Meaning Whatever You Will Ask in My Name

To ask in a name is to assume the nature that name carries, for a name is what a thing is, not a label you attach. You do not beg in this name. You wear it. When you take on the feeling of the state you desire, you have asked in its name. The awareness of being that you are does the rest and brings it forth.

The Father is that awareness, the I AM within, and the Son is the state it produces, the fulfilled desire made visible. The Father is glorified in the Son when the inner assumption shows itself outwardly, when what you claimed to be reveals itself as your life. So the asking and the doing are one movement in you. You become the thing in feeling, your own awareness gives it form, and the unseen power is honoured in the seen result it has borne.

A request made in his name is a request made from his settled certainty, and that certainty is what carries it through. The words "in my name" mark the state a person is asking from, not a phrase tacked onto the end. When someone pictures the outcome with the same trust that governs him, the goal-striving machinery inside goes to work and moves toward what was pictured.

The promise runs to its last clause. What returns to the asker is meant to shine back on the source that answered, the way a healed patient becomes living proof of the surgeon's skill. A man who asks in doubt asks in a different name and gets a different result. When he asks from the felt assurance that it is already so, the answer arrives and glorifies the power that produced it.