“Ask me for anything in my name.” Pastor Adam takes it at full strength, then asks why so few pray as if it were true, naming guilt, unbelief and competing passions as three routes to the same silence, and refusing to dodge whether God has ever disappointed you in prayer.

“I will not leave you as orphans” only means something if the condition is real. Pastor Adam inventories what an orphan actually lacks, name, history, belonging, legitimacy, and argues Jesus is naming a spiritual condition that shows up in people whose households were fine.

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