If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you — the condition for prayer is established: abiding in Jesus and his words abiding in the disciples create an alignment of desire such that what they ask for is what Jesus would ask. Prayer becomes not petition from distance but the voice of one who has internalized Jesus' values and seeks what serves the kingdom. Such prayer is answered because it flows from the vine and thus participates in the vine's vitality.

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