Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me

Good morning. Now a verse that seems incredibly impossible. He who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. I think we would settle for works much less than Jesus did – forget about greater ones. Jesus had to go away. If he had not, He would’ve only been able to be in only one place at any one time. He had to ascend to the Father so that He could send the Holy Spirit in order that we could do greater works than He did. Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it. If you love Me, you will keep My Commandments. That seems pretty clear; but why are we not doing it? We do the first part all right – ask in His name; but why doesn’t He do what we ask? We are all looking for some little formula that will make everything work. So we ask Him for something in His name, and nothing happens. If that were all that there was to it, then we wouldn’t need to trust in Him – we would just simply ask and everything would be all right. I think I told you before about Kenneth Hagan praying for a relative to be healed, and he wasn’t healed. He asked God why not, and God said, that’s between him and Me – it’s none of your business. If God doesn’t tell us specifically why some prayer was not answered, all we can do is guess – and that’s usually wrong. And if someone else has a prayer that is not answered, we start looking for some sin that they did to be the reason why the prayer was not answered. Before we leave these verses, look at the last one; if you love Me, you will keep My Commandments. We demonstrate our love for Jesus by keeping  His commandments. It’s easy to say I love You Jesus; but it’s a lot harder to do what He says to do. Father thank You that You love the reader, and he/she loves You. Help him/her to demonstrate his/her love for You every day to everyone.