John 14:14 · World English Bible
John 14:14 Meaning If You Will Ask Anything
If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
What does John 14:14 mean?
The name is not a word tacked onto a prayer. The name is I AM, the awareness of being that you already are.
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The name is not a word tacked onto a prayer. The name is I AM, the awareness of being that you already are. To ask in that name is to ask from the feeling of already being the thing you want. Asking is not begging an outside power. It is assuming the state and speaking from within it as an accomplished fact. Whatever a person claims while resting in that sense of being, the same power carries out, because the I AM is the only doer.
The I will do it is not a promise from a distant helper. It is the way imagination works: what you feel yourself to be, it produces, without exception and without your effort to force it. The whole of it turns on where a person asks from. Asked from wanting, wanting is confirmed. Asked from the settled feeling of already having, having is what appears.
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Live John 14:14 today
- Before you ask for anything today, out loud or in your head, check where you are asking from. If it feels like lack, pause and settle into having first.
- When you ask someone for help, ask like a person who expects a yes, warm and plain, not apologizing in advance.
- Under pressure, when you catch yourself silently begging for things to go well, switch the inner sentence to how it feels when they already have. Then carry on with the task.
Am I speaking from wanting, or from having?
The same truth in other traditions
Yoga Vasistha
The mind takes the shape of what it rests in, and the world answers that shape. Rest in lack and lack is confirmed.
Zen
You cannot reach a mountain you insist you are far from. Stand where you want to be, and the walking takes care of itself.
Sufism · Rumi
What you long for is already longing for you. The wanting and the having are two ends of one thing.
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