In Jesus' Name

In His Name

"Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Fathes for anything, He will give it to you in My name. Until now you have asked nothing Tin My name; ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full."

Our Father Who art in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, as it is in heaven, so also on earth. Father, only through the hand of Your Only and Beloved Son will Your name be hallowed, Your kingdom come, and Your will be done in heaven and on earth. For to Him alone has been given all authority in heaven and on earth. For only He possesses the knowledge, the wisdom, and the perfect love to carry out Your will. Only He is worthy to take the scroll and break its seals. For He was slain and redeemed us by His blood from every kindred, tongue, people, and nation.

Only He has the potential to establish Your kingdom and completely overcome all the powers that have resisted it for so long. We know that this victory must pass through the deepest valley of tears in history. But how else would the scriptures of the prophets be fulfilled? Father, the time has come. We see it in everything around us. The time of His victory and glorification is fast approaching. As in heaven, so on earth—His glorification, Your will.

He prayed to You on the night that He was betrayed and He presented His will to You: 'that they whom You have given Me may be with Me, so that they may behold My glory which You have given Me'. Father, You glorified Him shortly after His suffering, but this prayer of His has remained unanswered. Father, in the garden, which He entered shortly after praying about His glory, He completely submitted to Your will, however heavy it was for Him.

He then endured the deepest conceivable humiliation for our sake and for the glory of Your name. Father, please hear His prayer now and send Him so that He may transport us to the Father's house and we may behold Him in His glory, the glory He had with You before the world was. It is the great desire of His heart, and of ours as well. Therefore, we pray to You in His name that He may bring us into His glory so that He can then devote Himself to preparing for His great revelation to the ever-darkening world. Amen.

Holy Spirit

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him: for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless; I will come unto you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, and ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Judas, not Iscariot, saith unto him, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest himself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If any man love me, he will keep my words: And My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

John 14:16-23

Pentecost, the feast on which the Holy Spirit came. Jesus fulfilled what He promised His disciples in the upper room. Jesus called the Spirit "another Comforter." Who, then, is the first Comforter? That is Jesus. The disciples had had Him for about three years, and He had guided and nourished them. But Jesus went to the Father. And so, another Comforter was needed. The word for "Comforter" in the original text is "Parakletos," literally "one called in," someone you call upon for help. The meaning is also often: advocate or advocate. Both the Lord Jesus and the Spirit take on this task; Jesus does so in heaven and the Spirit on earth.

In heaven: "Who will condemn?" It is Christ who died, and what is more, who was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. (Romans 8:34) On earth: “Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” (Romans 8:26) We see Jesus and the Holy Spirit in the image of Moses, who prays with the staff in his hands for the warring nation of Israel. (Exodus 17:8-16) With the staff uplifted, Israel prevails. But if the staff falls, Amalek prevails. It is Joshua and Hur who support Moses’ arms. Jesus and the Spirit support the Christian in his earthly struggle.

The Spirit never leaves us: “that He may abide with you forever,” says Jesus. And: “For He abides with you and will be in you.” Paul would later elaborate on this in his letters. Several times we read that the Holy Spirit dwells in believers: "But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Him. But if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you" (Romans 8:9-11).

This refers to our natural condition as sinful people. We cannot live on our own to the glory of God. "The body is dead because of sin." But through the working of God's Spirit in us, God can bring new life into that sinful body, from which fruit springs forth for Him. This is not about the resurrection of the dead, but about the working of the Spirit in our bodies, which are naturally dead and barren because of sin. Jesus also speaks about this when he and his disciples are on their way from the upper room to Gethsemane. As is his custom, he uses object lessons. They walk through gardens in the upper city, where vines are already in leaf. Jesus points to the branches and calls himself the vine. He compares his disciples to the branches. They can only bear fruit if they remain in the vine. But if anyone does not remain in him, they wither. There will then be no fruit. "The body is dead because of sin." We read what that fruit is in: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control" (Galatians 5:22).

Paul writes that the Holy Spirit has lived on earth since Pentecost. This applies to each individual believer: “Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?” (1 Corinthians 6:19). This also applies to the church as a whole: “Don't you know that you (Greek: plural) are God's temple and that the Spirit of God dwells in you (Greek: plural)?” (1 Corinthians 3:16).

The time will come when the opposite of Pentecost will happen. Then the Holy Spirit will return to heaven. However, the Spirit doesn't depart alone. He takes a vast multitude of believers to heaven. Those who have fallen asleep in Christ are resurrected. Living believers are changed. And together, with the Holy Spirit within them, who is with them and in them forever, they go to meet the Lord in the air. A power vacuum then briefly arises on earth. Therefore, the rapture of the church is a judgment for this world. The positive influence that has restrained the unfolding of evil for approximately 2,000 years is taken away. (2 Thessalonians 2:6,7).