Ask in my name; Father and Son give as one God

…for he was taken up into heaven. But as God he promises to fulfill the requests of those who pray, if they make their petitions in his name. Then: to whom would it be more fitting to fulfill the prayers of the saints and grant their requests, except to the one who alone is by nature and truly God?

“You did not choose me, but I chose you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.” See how everywhere he shows that he works the same things with authority as God the Father. For he had said, “If you ask in my name, I will do it”; but now he says, “Whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.” So then — does the Father give on his own apart from the Son, and the Son separately give his share apart from the Father? Would the saints’ prayer-requests then come from two gods? Not so — God forbid. For there is one God, the Father, and one Lord Jesus Christ. The Father distributes the good things in the Son, in the Spirit. Yet the asking in prayer is in Christ Jesus, and the Lord Jesus who became human is understood as the one who is also named Word.

“And on that day you will ask me nothing. Truly, truly I say to you, if you ask my Father anything, he will give it to you in my name. Ask and you will receive, that your joy may be full.” This too will sit briefly in the same sense as what is above, and what follows likewise. It runs thus: “On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father…”