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What does it mean to pray in Jesus' name?

Glenn — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:21:00 -0500

Question: "What does it mean to pray in Jesus' name?"

Answer: Prayer in Jesus’ name is taught in John 14:13-14, “And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.” Some misapply this verse, thinking that saying “in Jesus’ name” at the end of a prayer results in God’s always granting what is asked for. This is essentially treating the words “in Jesus’ name” as a magic formula. This is absolutely unbiblical.

Praying in Jesus’ name means praying with His authority and asking God the Father to act upon our prayers because we come in the name of His Son, Jesus. Praying in Jesus' name means the same thing as praying according to the will of God, “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him” (1 John 5:14-15). Praying in Jesus’ name is praying for things that will honor and glorify Jesus.

Saying “in Jesus’ name” at the end of a prayer is not a magic formula. If what we ask for or say in prayer is not for God’s glory and according to His will, saying “in Jesus’ name” is meaningless. Genuinely praying in Jesus' name and for His glory is what is important, not attaching certain words to the end of a prayer. It is not the words in the prayer that matter, but the purpose behind the prayer. Praying for things that are in agreement with God’s will is the essence of praying in Jesus’ name.

Pentagon Sees a Threat From Online Muckrakers

Glenn — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0400

By Stephane Strom

NY. Times

To the list of the enemies threatening the security of the United States, the Pentagon has added WikiLeaks.org, a tiny online source of information and documents that governments and corporations around the world would prefer to keep secret.

The Pentagon assessed the danger WikiLeaks.org posed to the Army in a report marked “unauthorized disclosure subject to criminal sanctions.” It concluded that “WikiLeaks.org represents a potential force protection, counterintelligence, OPSEC and INFOSEC threat to the U.S. Army” — or, in plain English, a threat to Army operations and information.

WikiLeaks, true to its mission to publish materials that expose secrets of all kinds, published the 2008 Pentagon report about itself on Monday.

Lt. Col. Lee Packnett, an Army spokesman, confirmed that the report was real. Julian Assange, the editor of WikiLeaks, said the concerns the report raised were hypothetical.

Walter Cronkite - Dies July 17,2009 "Glad to stand at the right hand of satan"

Glenn — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:36:00 -0400

Walter Cronkite - Walter Cronkite - Once The Most Trusted Man In America - Who Sold Out To The Elites NWO Agenda -

The Face of Godless Politics (Rev. 13)

Glenn — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:32:00 -0400

The Face of Godless Politics

(Revelation 13)

By Dr Roy Clements

There are two subjects that one is never supposed to introduce into the conversation at any polite dinner-party: religion and politics. This chapter is all about both; or to be more precise, it is about the religion of politics. The Bible does not discuss politics in the categories of Conservative and Socialist or Republican and Democrat; instead, it speaks of the spiritual alignment of those who exercise political power. Political rulers are either for God or against him, and it is the purpose of Revelation 13 to warn us that, in the period between Jesus' first coming and his second coming, we must expect periods when godless politics manifests itself in particularly vicious ways.

First, the chapter portrays the characteristics of godless politics (1-6); then the techniques of godless politics (11-18); and finally, it presents us with what the Christian response to godless politics ought to be.

1. The characteristics of godless politics

I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns, and on each head a blasphemous name (1)

It is important to read this chapter against the background of what is said in the rest of the New Testament about civil government. In Romans 13, Paul argues that the purpose of government is to reflect the just rule of God within human society. He insists it is perfectly possible for government to exercise power in a way that pleases God, indeed God himself has ordained it in order to maintain justice within a fallen world. Civil government is meant to be God's servant for the good of human society. Paul was of course aware that often civil government did not fulfil its God-given purpose. Indeed, in 2 Thessalonians 2, he anticipates a future time of political and moral rebellion when the "man of anarchy" would set himself up against God and his people; and in this passage from Revelation, John seems to be describing that same eschatological personification of antichristian tyranny. The early church called him "the Antichrist". John here calls him "a beast".

As with all apocalyptic symbolism, John's imagery is not meant to be visualised so much as decoded. In the Old Testament, Daniel had a very similar vision, except that he saw not one "beast" coming out of the sea, but four. The first was like a lion, the second like a bear, the third like a leopard, and the fourth was a hideously powerful carnivore unlike any animal he had ever seen. In Daniel 7 we are told these four beasts represented successive world empires - probably Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome. So what John seems to have done is to fuse together these four symbolic animals of Daniel to make one composite monster representing the sum total of all the godless tyrannies the world had ever known.

For John, most immediately, the monster represented Roman Imperialism; to Christians, ...

International Economist Adrian Salbuchi- On The Current Global Economic Meltdown

Glenn — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:08:00 -0400

The Global Ponzi Scheme pt.1/2

Barack Obama CFR info

Glenn — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:28:00 -0400

Keyes: Stop Obama or U.S. will cease to exist

Glenn — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:27:00 -0400

Gordon Brown Announces 'New world order is emerging' At G20 with Obama

Glenn — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:00:00 -0400

The Obama Deception - Full Length Google Video - A MUST SEE!!!

Glenn — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:30:00 -0400

Military Industrial Complex

Glenn — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:39:00 -0400

Military Industrial Complex / IKE / JFK / Ron Paul

Glenn — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:09:00 -0400

Obama's New World Order speech- Sky News Report we are all World citizens now

Glenn — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:28:00 -0400

Obama in Berlin - CNN

Barack Obama Speech from Berlin, Germany in full

An Examination of Obama’s Use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in His Speeches

Glenn — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:19:00 -0500
Get the 66-page, extensively footnoted but unsigned article in PDF here.

Eustace Mullins presents: The World Order and Murder By Injection

Glenn — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:40:00 -0500

The World Order

Murder By Injection

The Money Masters - How International Bankers Gained Control of America

Glenn — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:46:00 -0500

Get video here: the Money Masters

Alberto Rivera and Others speak of Jesuit (Jesuits) Infiltration - Full Version

Glenn — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:26:00 -0500

Nazi Germany - A Creation of the Vatican and Jesuits

Glenn — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:54:00 -0500
Nazi Germany - A Creation of the Vatican and Jesuits

Media hails Obama’s Speech As Call For “New World Order”

Glenn — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:20:00 -0500

Barack Obamas New World Order speech Berlin, Germany July 24, 2008 at the Victory Column

Full script of Obama's speech

Excerpts from The International Herald Tribune:

“I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before,” Obama said, confronting the delicate issue of campaigning abroad. “Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen — a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.”

Obama was warmly embraced by the German press, which frequently referred to his aura, or as the newspaper Bild put it in Thursday’s paper, the “political pop star.”

“Yes, there have been differences between America and Europe,” Obama said. “No doubt, there will be differences in the future. But the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together. A change of leadership in Washington will not lift this burden. In this new century, Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do more — not less. Partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice; it is the one way, the only way, to protect our common security and advance our common humanity.”

Obama New World Order Speech in Berlin hailed by SKY News

History Of Sin - On Luther and the word effemenent and the Roman Catholic church.

Glenn — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:44:00 -0400

History Of Sin
November 3rd, 2004
By VL Carey
Biblical Dots

The reigning pope in 1520 was the Medici, Leo X. Under his reign the papacy reached its greatest height.(a)

Martin Luther writes in 1520 in his “An Appeal to the Ruling Class” this is about the pope and the papacy:

“[The Pope] claims to be the the head of the Christian Church, although he is a barefaced liar letting the Evil One dominate him… You can find there a buying and selling, a bartering and bargaining, a lying and trickery, robbery and stealing, pomp, procuration, knavery, and all sorts of strategems bringing God into contempt, till it would be impossible for the Antichrist to govern more wickedly… This kind of morality flows like a tide into all the world. Such people rightly fear a reformation, or an unfettered council.”

“[T]he pope has built a market-house for the convienience of all this refined traffic, viz.: the house of the datarius in Rome… [If] you bring money to this ecclesiastical market… one can pay and then legally charge interest on loans of any sort. You can get a legal right to goods you have stolen or seized. Have vows anulled; here monks receive liberty to leave their orders; here marriage is for sale to the clergy; here bastards can become ligitimate, and any form of dishonour and shame can achieve dignity; all kinds of iniquity and evil are knighted and ennobled. Here a marriage is permitted which is within the forbidden degrees, or which is otherwise objectionable. O what a jagglery and extortion go on here! Until it would seem that all the laws of the canon were only given to produce gilded nooses, from which a man must free himself if he would become a Christian.”

“For to describe what they have stolen in all counting and are still stealing, and extorting, by indulgences, bulls, letters of confession (1), butter letters (2), and other confessionalia (3) – to describe all this is work for the odd-job man, and is like playing pitch and toss with the devil in hell… If we are right in hanging theives and beheading robbers, why should we leave Avarice of Rome unpunished? Here is the greatest thief and robber that has ever come or is likely to come on earth, and the scandal is perpetuated in the holy name of Christ and St. Peter. Who can go on tolerating it or keeping silence? Almost all he possesses has been got by theft and robbery. Everything recorded in the histories tells the same story. The pope has never bought properties so great that his income from his ecclesiastical offices should amount to ten hundred thousand ducats, apart from the mines of treasure as already described, and his landed estates. Neither is it that which Christ and St. Peter bequeathed to him, nor that which anyone has given or loaned to him; nor has it been acquired by prescription or ancient right. Tell me where he got ...