29 July 2020
The Divine Foundation of Prayer
When
we pray in the name of Jesus we impersonate him. Jesus said that after his
resurrection he wouldn't have to pray for us any longer (John 16:23,24,26). By
this he meant that he wouldn't be a third party standing between his Father and
us, but because we were so closely united with him in faith that he lived in us
through our love of him, our prayers would be his prayers. This means that we
can now approach our heavenly Father as if we were Jesus himself and claim all
his blessings for ourselves. It also means that our heavenly Father regards and
treats us just like his beloved Son. He loves us and hears us as he loves and
hears his Son. We are, in fact, as inseparable from Jesus as the head is from
the rest of the body. God the Father does not consider us as we are in
ourselves any more, but only as we are in Jesus.
John W Kleinig, The Gift of Prayer, p4
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