If then in prayer, this, to me, is saying that Jesus will be involved in doing what is asked because He is in the Father and the Father in Him when a request is answered. It doesn't say to address Jesus in prayer and addressing the Father is the proper address as Jesus taught how to pray, imo.Valerie wrote: From what I understand, He was talking about in prayer- consider the passage in context:
10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
Now wouldn't you conclude that this would be referring to prayer? Noting that He is speaking about when He goes to the Father? The footnote in my Bible says:
To pray in Christ's name does not simply mean to attach the phrase "in Jesus' name we pray" to the end of prayers. Rather, to pray in His name means to pray according to His will. Just as an emmisary of a king can only be said to be speaking in the king's name if he says what the king would want him to say, so also we can only be said to be praying in the name of Christ when we pray according to what He wants. The purpose here is not to get God to do our will, but for us to learn to pray properly, according to God's will (Matthew 6:10)
Interesting text if taken alone as it suggests anything we ask in Jesus name will be done. And yet in another scripture it says anything we ask according to His will, He hears us. Some have used this text as commanding God to do their will. Name it and claim it folk.
In one sense we believers are all sons of God and as sons it would seem more logical to me to address our prayers to the Father even though the Trinity makes up the One God.