Good morning my friends. Welcome back. It is time for the morning mindset once again.

Yesterday's passage was quite challenging, wasn't it? If you haven't listened to the episode we published yesterday from

John chapter 14, I encourage you to go back and do so. We talked a lot about what it

takes to believe the things that Jesus says when they don't square up with preconceived ideas that we have.

It's a very important step in our faith to be able to let God to let Jesus be God and

to express what he expresses with the extreme words he expresses and

then learn to align our hearts with that and to open our minds to greater understanding

that really is part of the challenge of Christian growth.

In today's passage is no different. Today we're looking at the very next verse

we're in John chapter 14 verse 13 and this one in my view is one of those verses that sounds so

specifically categorical I guess is the phrase that is hard to swallow at times because reality as I have

experienced it doesn't seem to line up with it. And so it's another of those

difficult passages. Let's just read the passage and I think you're

immediately going to understand what I'm talking about. Now contextually

remember Jesus is on his way to the cross. I mean literally so. It's the night

before he is crucified and he is speaking with

his disciples kind of preparing them for all of the things that are about to happen and ultimately

for his departure from the earth.

And he says to them here in verse 13, whatever you ask in my name, this I will do that my father

may be glorified in the son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

All right now do you see what I mean? Just such a direct clear instruction that feels a little I don't know for me it feels a little hard to

believe because it sounds too good to be true.

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