{"id":12789,"date":"2022-02-08T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12789"},"modified":"2022-02-08T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T15:04:00","slug":"in-jesus-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12789\/in-jesus-name\/","title":{"rendered":"In Jesus Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have a question from last Tuesday\u2019s meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I think what your father was saying was that the ministers he spoke of could not ask anything in Jesus\u2019 name because they were not born again?\u00a0 They had not taken his name (been converted).\u00a0 Sinners cannot ask in Jesus\u2019 name, can they?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thanks for your answer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Margaret<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Hi, Margaret.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>My father was speaking of born-again men who had not been anointed by God and sent to heal the sick.\u00a0 &#8220;In Jesus&#8217; name&#8221; means &#8220;by the power of the Spirit&#8221;, and those men had no power to heal the\u00a0sick, even though they had been born again.\u00a0 What my father was pointing out to me is that merely adding the words, &#8220;in Jesus&#8217; name&#8221;, to the end of a prayer does not make that prayer a prayer in Jesus&#8217; name.\u00a0 For a prayer to be\u00a0in Jesus&#8217; name, it has to be inspired by the Spirit.\u00a0 And when the Spirit empowers a man to lay hands\u00a0on the sick, the sick will be healed because that deed will be &#8220;in Jesus&#8217; name&#8221;\u00a0<strong>whether he says those words\u00a0or not.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>As for your final\u00a0question, no sinner can pray in Jesus&#8217; name because\u00a0no sinner has the Spirit.\u00a0\u00a0Only what is done in the Spirit is done in Jesus&#8217; name.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>I hope that makes what I said clearer for you.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I have a question from last Tuesday\u2019s meeting. I think what your father was saying was that the ministers he spoke of could not ask anything in Jesus\u2019 name because they were not born again?\u00a0 They had not taken his name (been converted).\u00a0 Sinners cannot ask in Jesus\u2019 name, can they?\u00a0 Thanks for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}