Magnificent Prayer #308
Magnificent Prayer #308
Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 14:13 KJV
What is it to pray in Christ’s name? There is nothing mystical or mysterious about this expression. If one will go through the Bible and examine all passages in which the expression “in My name” or “in His name” or synonymous expressions are used, he will find that it means just about what it does in modern usage. If I go to a bank and hand in a check with my name signed to it, I ask of that bank in my own name. If I have money deposited in that bank, the check will be cashed; if not, it will not be.
If, however, I go to the bank with somebody else’s name signed to the check, I am asking in his name, and it does not matter whether I have money in that bank or any other if the person whose name is signed to the check has money there, the check will be cashed…So it is when I go to the bank of heaven, when I go to God in prayer. I have nothing deposited there, I have absolutely no credit there, and if I go in my own name I will get absolutely nothing; but Jesus has unlimited credit in heaven, and He has granted to me the privilege of going to the bank with His name on my checks; and when I thus go, my prayers will be honored to any extent.
R. A. TORREY
Prayer takes the people to the Bank of Faith, and obtains the golden blessing. Mind how you pray! Pray! Make real business of it! Never let it be a dead formality! People pray a long time, but do not get what they are supposed to ask for, because they do not plead the promise in a truthful business-like way. If you were to go into a bank and stand an hour talking to the clerk, and then come out again without your cash, what would be the good of it?
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Pray About It: Our access to God is founded upon the principle of covenant, which is simply another word for “testament.” When we believed, we entered into God’s covenant wherein we secure certain “legal” rights God established, one of which is prayer. We pray in Christ’s name because that’s part of the covenant. The words themselves aren’t magic, but they represent our standing before God on the basis of (or in the name of) Christ.
Today, enter into the Bank of Faith and withdraw what is rightfully yours in the name of Christ. When we do, we are, in a very real sense, about our Father’s business.
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