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John chapter 15, verse 7.

If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

This is the verse that's really the core of this whole podcast of every single one of these

episodes reading God's word and then praying God's word why do we do that because Jesus said

if you remain abide in me and my words are abiding, remaining in you, then ask whatever you

wish and it will be done for you. So the key to prayer is the word of Jesus abiding in us.

The key to experiencing what God wants us to experience in prayer,

to receiving. What we ask for in prayer is asking according to His Word. So the beauty here is

and where this whole podcast is designed to do is to say, when we ask for things according to God's word,

we can know we have what we've asked for.

Ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you.

Clearly not a promise that you just ask for anything you desire,

anything that comes to your mind and it'll be done for you.

Like God is a genie who will just grant whatever you wish.

Like, no.

But the picture is when His Word is abiding in us, when we're asking for things according to God's Word

or asking for what we want based on God's word grounded in what he

has said then we have freedom to ask and confidence that he will answer confident that we can ask

whatever we wish when we are when our wishes align with Word, and it will be done for you.

So, so we pray. God, teach us to pray like this. Teach us to experience all that you have for us in prayer.

Help us to abide in you. And we pray that your words would indeed abide in us. Oh God, help us in a Joshua 1 kind of way

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