PRAYER DIRECTED TO THE FATHER RECEIVES

 “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.”—John 16:23

 

There is a key to prayer that will unlock the doors and windows of heaven and grant your every need.  Without this key we can not get an answer to our prayers. This key is found in John chapter 16: “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.  Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full” (vs. 23-24). 

 

Jesus is our Mediator, Intercessor, Advocate, and Lord.  He stands between us and the Father.  There is no where in Scripture that it is ever recorded that Jesus told His disciples to pray to Him.  They were always told to pray to the Father in Jesus’ Name.  Therefore if we want to be sure our prayers reach Heaven and the throne of God, we pray according to what is written in the Word of God.  Jesus said to ask the Father in His Name.  This is the key that will unlock heaven in our behalf.

 

Prayer should be addressed to the Father in Jesus’ Name.  This is the key to seeing our prayers answered.  You see Jesus’ Name is exalted above every name in heaven, in earth, and under the earth.    “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2: 9-11).  So whatever we ask in Jesus’ Name, our hearts are assured that the Father hears and answers.

 

Prayer—Father I thank You that my heart is assured—has confidence because You have given to me the key that unlocks heaven’s answer when I pray in Jesus’ Name.  Amen.