What does it mean to pray in the name of Jesus?

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<p>What does it mean to pray in the name of Jesus?</p>

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Derek Morris

The Name of Jesus

How thankful we are, our Father in Heaven, for this Sabbath day.

As my brother has said, we have been greatly blessed to be together with you and with each other.

We're thankful for the ministries that are represented here as part of OCI.

And for the much broader movement that you have called us to, preparing our world for the soon coming of Jesus.

Thank you for the sweet Spirit of Jesus in our midst.

And I pray now that as I share from the Word of Jesus, that your Holy Spirit would speak to each of our hearts.

May we be encouraged with the great gift that you have given to us.

And bless your name and thank you in the name of Jesus.

I still remember the day that I met Yasmin Sultana.

I knew something was different about her because as she came walking down the hallway in Blumfontein South Africa she was literally shining.

I was a bit startled by her appearance and it wasn't just the setting Sun reflecting on Frank's face over there.

The text that flashed into my mind was in Acts chapter 6.

And it says they looked at the face of Stephen the deacon and his face was shining like the face of an angel.

That was the text that came to my mind as I saw this young woman walking down the hallway towards me and I thought I need to meet her.

I walked up to her, I introduced myself, she said my name is Yasmin and I didn't want to be impolite and say why is your face shining?

She shared with me that she was born in the city of Kolkata, India and grew up in an Orthodox Muslim family.

And I thought I need to know what happened to her.

That she has come to know the Savior and her face is shining with a holy light.

So I asked her, I said, Jasmine, could we meet later today?

It would not have been something I could have imagined, but I heard it that night with my own ears.

For some reason that she only can now ascribe to providence Sydney you talked about the providence of God early in your life she can only say the providence of God that her Muslim parents would send her to a Christian day school.

It was not a school where she learned about the Bible.

They said the Lord's Prayer every day, and they had a play once a year about Jesus.

But that was all she knew about Christianity.

But everything would change when she was 16 years old.

She had been taught to pray her Arabic prayers 5 times a day.

She was told you don't need to understand what they're saying.

She spoke Bengali, but you pray them in Arabic.

You don't need to understand what they're saying.

And she was also led with a teacher through the reading of the Qur'an starting when she was 8 years old.

She would stop and say, what does this mean?

And the teacher would say, you don't need to understand what it means.

So there is this longing in her heart for more.

When she was 16 years old, she finished some of her high school studies And they had several weeks of holiday before she would continue her studies before going to university.

And she and some of her friends decided that they would go shopping in the city of Kolkata.

Now, she had never been outside of the city before.

In fact, she was even escorted from her home to school and back home in the evening.

So she was a fairly reserved young woman, 16 years old.

But this day, she and her friends were walking along on Park Road in Kolkata, India, and she saw a sign on a building with her friends.

Now she had no idea what revival meant, but underneath it said free lunch.

And she turned to her friends and they said you know we could save our lunch money if we went to this meeting and then we could watch a movie this afternoon.

They went into the road there, the building there on Park Road, and the man was talking about ancient history and she said I really didn't understand what he was saying but but then they had the free lunch.

Now she believed that these were sacred writings, and she even believed that Jesus was a prophet, but not the last and greatest prophet, and certainly not the Son of God.

But the teacher, he began to show her from the Bible prophecies that had been fulfilled in every detail.

How Babylon would be destroyed and never be rebuilt, how Tyre would be demolished, and it was fulfilled according to the prophecy.

Well when the lunch was over, her friends turned and said, let's go now, let's go shopping.

But Yasmin said, no, I think I'm going to stay and listen to the teacher.

She was taking notes, actually, listening to the teacher.

And at the end of the afternoon session, she was walking out of that place.

And as she was walking out, someone greeted her in the lobby and said, thanks for coming, see you tomorrow.

Her friends contacted her and said, shall we go shopping again today?

She said, I think I want to go back to the to the meeting.

Oh, they said you just want more free food She said well the food was okay How do you describe a hunger in your soul?

I'm so glad that Jesus said Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

And the teacher talked about the Bible and talked about Jesus.

It wouldn't have been possible except it was this break in her studies.

At the end of the week, the teacher said, we're going to have a quiz to see if you've been paying attention.

Would you like to guess who got the highest score on the quiz?

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