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Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Praying in Christ‘s Name
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Air Date: 10 19 21
Praying in Christ’s Name Tuesday October 19, 2021
Praying in Christ’s name means coming in prayer on the basis of Jesus merit, not ours. Christ’s full name is the Lord Jesus Christ, which means Jehovah, the Savior, God’s Anointed. That is the name of the One whose merit we depend on for access to God. We cannot think in any way that God will hear us because of our virtue. We cannot come to him in our own name. As the opening verse of the Sermon on the Mount tells us, poverty of spirit is the basis upon which we come to him (Matthew 5:3). If we come in poverty of spirit, relying on Christ and not ourselves, we can expect our prayers to be answered.
The second requirement of praying in Jesus’ name is that we must pray in correspondence with Christ’s character and objectives. Praying in Christ’s name is His saying to ask anything in His nature. This simply means that we are to ask for what Christ would want, not just our own spontaneous desires. Prayer is a means by which we get God to do what we want as we are led into conforming to what God wants. The idea of prayer is not in order to get answers from God: prayer is perfect and complete oneness with God. This happens when we are filled with the Holy Spirit and our hearts are so in tune with the Lord’s that we pray for those things He desires for us.
The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will. (Romans 8:26–27)
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