"In that day you will ask in My name . . . for the Father Himself loves you . . ."
In that day...
Yesterday our devotional was about "that day." That day when you come to the realization that you no longer want to—or need to—keep asking God questions. Because you know in your heart that when it is time, God will reveal to you all that you need to know.
Now Chambers takes us one level deeper into that day and tells us on that day we are going to pray in Jesus' name. Not because we are using his name like a magic word at the end of our prayer to get what we want from God—even though Jesus said, "Whatever you ask the Father in my name, He will give you." But because we are already praying in His name whenever we pray. We are praying in His nature, by the power and enabling baptism of the Holy Spirit within us. We have become one with God.
And here is the beautiful part — the part I am living right now: When the Holy Spirit brings you into this place of surrender and union, the promises of God stop sounding like spiritual jargon. They stop feeling like verses meant for someone else. Suddenly, “I will carry you… I will sustain you… I will rescue you” becomes truth you recognize because you have lived it. The Word matches your experience. The promises land as reality, not poetry. You begin to see that God has already done in your life exactly what He said He would do.
And this is where it becomes almost strange and wonderful — because before surrender, none of this was happening. Before I laid down my will, I was still trying to carry myself, maintain myself, and support myself. But once the will is surrendered, you suddenly find that God is doing for you what you could never do for yourself. You feel held. You feel kept. You feel sustained. And you realize it is not your strength holding you up anymore — it is His.
And this is where the Father’s love becomes more than a verse on a page. When Jesus says, “the Father Himself loves you,” it stops sounding like a distant truth and becomes something you actually feel holding your life together. His love is not an idea — it is the reason you are carried, sustained, and rescued. It is the steady, quiet reality underneath everything the Holy Spirit is doing in you.
When the surrendered believer is living a surrendered life before God, he has the power of the Holy Spirit maintaining the unceasing prayer relationship with God—keeping our surrender for us, maintaining our spiritual life for us, controlling our "self," "sin," and "will" for us, (because we can't), and carrying us because the surrendered believer no longer has to carry themselves.
~ Quil
Teach me what it means to pray in Your name,
Let Your Spirit keep my heart surrendered, steady, and open to Your leading.
Carry what I cannot carry.
Hold what I cannot hold.
Keep me in the flow of Your life, Your will, and Your peace.
I rest in the truth that I am Yours, and You are enough.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
Inhale: Your Spirit sustains me Exhale: Your life flows through me
🌿SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
1. “Praying in His name… not as a formula, but as union.” John 14:13 — “Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do.” 1 Corinthians 6:17 — “He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.” Romans 8:26 — “The Spirit Himself makes intercession for us…”
2. “We pray in His nature, by the enabling of the Holy Spirit.” Galatians 4:6 — “God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.” Ephesians 2:18 — “Through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.” Jude 1:20 — “Praying in the Holy Spirit…”
3. “The Holy Spirit maintains our surrender, our spiritual life, and our walk.” Philippians 2:13 — “It is God who works in you both to will and to do…” Galatians 5:25 — “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” Psalm 55:22 — “Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you.”
4. “The surrendered believer no longer carries themselves.” Isaiah 46:4 — “I will carry you… I will sustain you and I will rescue you.” Matthew 11:28 — “Come unto Me… and I will give you rest.” Psalm 23:3 — “He restores my soul; He leads me…”
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