And
whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be
glorified in the Son. John 14:13
How wonderful is the link between our prayers
and Christ’s glorifying the Father in heaven! Much prayer on earth brings Him
much glory in heaven. What an incentive to pray much, to intercede incessantly!
Our prayer is indispensable to the glorifying of the Father.
During His last night on earth, Christ’s
desire was so deep for His disciples to learn to believe in the power of His
name, and to take hold of His promise of a sure and abundant answer, that we
find the promise repeated seven times. He knew how slow men are to believe in
the wonderful promise of answer to prayer in His name. He desires to rouse a
large and confident faith, to free our prayers from every shadow of doubt, and
to teach us to look upon intercession as the most certain and most blessed way
of bringing glory to God, joy to our own souls, and blessing to the perishing
world around us.
If the thought comes to us that such prayer is
not easy to attain, we only need to remember what Christ told His disciples. It
was when the Holy Spirit came that they would have power to pray in power. In
order to draw us on to yield ourselves fully to the control of the blessed
Spirit, He holds out to us the precious promise: “Ask, and ye shall
receive, that your joy may be full” (John 16:24). As we believe in the
power of the Spirit working in us in full measure, intercession will become to
us the joy and the strength of all our service.
When Paul wrote, “And whatsoever ye do
in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus” (Colossians
3:17), he reminded us how, in daily life, everything is to bear the signature
of the name of Jesus. As we learn to do this, we will have the confidence to
say to the Father, “As we live in Your name before men, we come to You with the
full confidence that our prayers in Your name will be answered.” Our lives
lived among men are to be lived in communion with God. When the name of Jesus
rules everything in our lives, it will give power to our prayers, too.
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