Can I ‘Name It and Claim It’?

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

God can do far, far more than we can think to ask. But that doesn’t mean whatever we wish lines up with his sovereign plans to bring us good.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Eric. I'm a designer in Seattle. I've been a ministry partner with Desiring God for 12 years.
0:07.4	You are listening to the Ask Pastor John podcast with John Piper.
0:14.8	Oh, thank you, Eric. We're gonna talk with Eric at the end of the episode.
0:18.4	But first today's question is from a listener named John. John writes in to say hello, Pastor John. Thank you for this podcast.
0:25.2	Recently out of curiosity, I read a name and claimant book in it. John 15, seven,
0:30.5	resurfaced over and over again. It's the place where Jesus tells us followers. If you abide in me and
0:35.8	my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish. And it will be done for you. It's a bold and
0:41.2	open-ended promise based on this promise. The book said that Christian should not be timid, but boldly
0:46.1	name and claim whatever you wish. And it will be done for those who ask in faith. Is such a world
0:53.0	view theologically sound? Is it biblical? How do you respond to the name and claimant theology?
0:59.9	And how shall we understand Jesus' promise in John 15? Seven.
1:04.5	My guess is that Christians who blow off such promises like ask whatever you wish and it will
1:12.1	be done for you. Those who blow that off have an uneasy conscience that they're not really taking
1:20.2	Jesus seriously. Something's amiss. And my guess is that those who build their whole approach to
1:28.9	prayer and life around that promise as if any failure to get what we wish is owing to a failure
1:38.8	of obedience on our part also have an uneasy conscience that they really are taking seriously
1:47.2	other parts of the Bible that call such a view into question. So I don't want to treat Jesus'
1:55.3	words as though they were not a radical call to go beyond where I, we presently are in our
2:05.9	experience of prayer. I want to get closer into the heart of Christ than I've ever been. And I
2:13.6	don't want to treat the totality of Scripture, not just that verse, but the totality of Scripture
2:20.5	as though this were the only verse. And if you like it, we'll hand full of verses like that,
2:27.2	which inform the way I think about answers to prayer. So let's look more closely just for a moment
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