So to pray in Jesus' name means that you invoke his status before God. When we come before God to ask, we do not come as beggars off the street, we come as adopted royal sons and daughters, princes and princesses in the kingdom of God. And so the second layer there is to pray in line with Jesus' nature, like in the ancient world, your name and your nature were almost synonymous. So when I pray, Lord, you know, cause that person who just cut me off to get in a terrible accident, that's not praying in Jesus' name. When I pray, Lord, help that person to be preserved and kept safe as they drive crazy down the freeway or whatever, that's closer to praying in Jesus' name. Jesus also teaches us that we are to ask like a child, we're to keep asking and not give up and we're to ask in faith that prayer really does make a difference, even though most people don't believe that. And of course, that broaches the like very divisive topic in the modern church of kind of providence and sovereignty on one side versus free will and openness on the other side, most recently in theological controversy between kind of Calvinism and Arminianism. And that's just a massive area where followers of Jesus don't agree. We agree about most things, but that's an area where there's a diversity of thought globally, historically, in different streams of the church, where some streams of the church and some Christians emphasize more what they would call the sovereignty of God, God's kind of ordination of the events and affairs of human life, and others would emphasize more kind of other wills of the enemy or human beings or the environment or whatever it is. And is there a way forward? And you know, Tyler, learning a lot from you recently, you reminded me of Eugene Peterson's whole thing on prayer in the middle voice. And he was a scholar of both Greek and Hebrew. And he writes about how in modern English, we only have like an active voice and a passive voice in grammar. Like active is when you the speaker take the initiative and you do the action, like I punch Tyler in the face. I don't know why that analogy came to mind. Yes. Passive is when somebody else does the initiative, Tyler punches me. I am punched. I am punched by Tyler in the face. Yeah. But Greek has this tense that we don't have in English called the middle voice, where someone else initiates the action and then you join and participate in it with them. And the best way to make sense of prayer, in particular, petition and intercession or asking is in the middle voice. That God in the spirit, God is always the initiator, has initiated this action in the kingdom of God that is breaking through and all these crevices and crannies through our life and our world. And when we pray, we are joining with and participating in the movement of God in the world. So prayer is both something that we are doing with God and something that God is doing in us. And that's

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