To ask in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is certainly to present His name to the Father as the only ground of being answered, and of being answered, too, according to His estimate of that infinite and all prevailing name. It surely is the ground of true confidence in prayer and supplication; and when we consider it, it is no marvel that the Son should have said,
It is, however, to be observed, that it was after Jesus had taken His farewell of Jerusalem, and thus Jewish things were virtually over, that the Lord (who had before taught them a prayer), on His now going to the Father as the accomplisher of redemption, and to send down the Holy Spirit, should have given an entirely new order of things as to prayer. He said,
There was not a sound of it in the so-called Lord’s prayer. The Lord, therefore, went on to say, “ask,” that is, in My name, “and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.”
No doubt those who plead His precious name will know the Lord Himself as dear to their hearts, and will have it on their consciences not to deny His name. Hence they will avoid such things as they cannot truly associate with the name of the Lord Jesus, and delight in those things which will be for His glory. We are therefore told,