<x-tad-bigger>Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
There’s a prayer that Jesus prayed that you and I can pray, and we’ll
be happier for praying it. It was just before He worked the greatest
miracle of His ministry--when He raised the dead Lazarus to life
again. He wanted to be sure that the Father would hear Him, for
everything depended on this prayer being heard and answered. “Father,
I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear
Me” (John 11:41, 42). We can know this, too.
No “voice from heaven” came this time to reassure Him; the heavens
were as silent as before. He staked His entire ministry on His
publicly expressed confidence that the Heavenly Father would honor Him
before the people and before the world by granting His request. He
poured out His soul in that loud voice when He commanded the dead man
inside the tomb: “Lazarus, come forth!” And you know what happened:
Lazarus did.
Whether Jesus in His human nature needed the personal encouragement
that an answered prayer could bring Him we do not know; but you and I
need the assurance that when we pray, the Father hears us. When He
commanded the dead man to “come forth,” He spoke as our
Representative. “Most assuredly, I say to you whatever you ask the
Father in My name He will give you. . . . Ask, and you will receive,
that your joy may be full” (16:23, 24).
He is not making empty promises; obviously He intends that we know
what He means when He says to “ask in My name.” All egocentric
motivation has become outgrown so that we are caught up in His
motivation, not ours; we are “in Him.” We have “overcome” our childish
prayers for a crown and now are concerned that the Lamb receive His
reward. We want “the Lamb’s wife” to “make herself ready” so that “the
marriage of the Lamb” may be no longer delayed century after century
(cf. Rev. 19:7, 8). What we now live for is to have a tiny part in
crowning Him “King of kings and Lord of lords.” Thus our “joy” becomes
“full.”
reconciliation with God, oneness of heart with Christ.
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