Jesus had been with His disciples some three years. And yet we hear Him say this:<\/p>\n
“Have I been so long time with you, and yet has thou not known me, Philip?”<\/span> (John 14:9).<\/p>\n I’ve been with Him longer than that. I find it very heart-searching to realize I should know Him far better than I do.<\/p>\n Let that become the primary driving passion in my life!<\/strong><\/p>\n The more I know Him, the better I can pray in His name:<\/p>\n “And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son”<\/span><\/b> (John 14:13).<\/p>\n Whatever I ask and for whomever I ask it!<\/p>\n Overcoming anger, defeating depression, denying self, loving a child, casting down temptation — I need to ask!<\/p>\n Inner peace, interpersonal peace, conflict resolution, forgiveness, freedom from bitterness — I need to ask!<\/p>\n Physical healing, emotional restoration, moral purity, spiritual strength, long-haul commitment — I need to ask!<\/p>\n “Whatsoever . . . will I do.”<\/span><\/b> Jesus said it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How long have you known Jesus? How well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[96,51,78],"class_list":{"0":"post-263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-john","7":"tag-aspiration","8":"tag-discipleship","9":"tag-prayer","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-4f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}