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John 14:1-4

When Christ ascended to
heaven, the sense of His presence was still with His followers. It was a

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personal
presence, full of love and light. Jesus, the Saviour, who had walked and talked and prayed
with them, who had spoken hope and comfort to their hearts, had, while the message of
peace was still upon His lips, been taken up from them into heaven, and the tones of His
voice had come back to them, as the cloud of angels received Him--"Lo, I am with you
alway, even unto the end of the world." Matthew 28:20. He had ascended to heaven in
the form of humanity. They knew that He was before the throne of God, their Friend and
Saviour still; that His sympathies were unchanged; that He was still identified with
suffering humanity. He was presenting before God the merits of His own precious blood,
showing His wounded hands and feet, in remembrance of the price He had paid for His
redeemed. They knew that He had ascended to heaven to prepare places for them, and that He
would come again and take them to Himself.

As they met together after
the ascension they were eager to present their requests to the Father in the name of
Jesus. In solemn awe they bowed in prayer, repeating the assurance, "Whatsoever ye
shall ask the Father in My name, He will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My
name: