The Power Of Continuous Prayer Part 3

I will do it! That’s what Jesus is saying!

You do not receive answers to your prayer, if you pray in Mary’s name, or in Buddha’s name, or an Allah’s name.

You receive an audience in heaven, by using the name, that’s above every name, the name of Jesus Christ!

The power that’s in the name of Jesus is more powerful than you can ever know.

He continues right on to say that these greater things are the result of prayer.

“Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do.”

These verses have been so misunderstood.

A great many people have picked this up like a dog picks up a bone and runs with it.

They say they prayed and God just didn’t answer their prayer.

I’ve had Christian people tell me that they took that verse at face value.

They prayed and God didn’t answer their prayer.

They ask me what is wrong.

I tell them that they are reading something into the verse that is not there at all.

They need to keep on reading.

This is all tied into one package.

If ye love me, keep my commandments

[John 14:15].

Now let us consider what all three of these verses say.

What does it mean to ask in the name of Christ?

To pray in His Person means to be standing in His place.

It means to be fully identified with Him, joined to Christ.

It means that you and I are pleading the merits of His blessed Son when we stand before God.

We have no standing of our own before God at all.

He does not hear my prayer because I am Ed Pruitt, and He does not hear your prayer because you are who you are.

He hears our prayers when they are in the name of Christ.

This is not just a little phrase that we tag on to the end of our prayer closing with “in Jesus’ name.”

Praying in His name is presenting it in His merit and for His glory.

“That will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”

A prayer that will enable God to be glorified in the Son is the prayer that He will answer.

So, when we pray in the name of Jesus and for the glory of God, we are not praying for something selfishly for ourselves.

We are praying for Him.

We are praying that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Also it depends on our obedience to Christ.

This promise is given to those who love Him, and the evidence of their love is the keeping of His commandments.

Love will be demonstrated by obedience to Christ.

An undisciplined Christian cannot say that he loves the Lord Jesus.

How are you doing in that area, friend?

Do you love Him?

Are you keeping His commandments because you love Him today?

We all need to recognize, friend, that obedience to Him is the evidence of our love for Him, and this promise is given to those who love Him.

Thirdly, We do not ask according to God’s will!

First John 5:14 says, now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His Will, He hears us.

Some people think that God’s will is mysterious.

It’s not!

Isaiah said, the way of the Lord is so simple a fool cannot err therein.

See Isaiah 35:8

God’s will is clearly stated in the Bible, and His will is consistent with his word.

Let’s examine God’s will in several different instances from His description of Himself in the Bible.