Disciple of Jesus! Here yo have the first lesson in your work of priestly inter cession, to be learned from the example of your great High Priest. To pray in the Name of Jesus is to pray in unity, in sympathy with Him. As the Son began His prayer by making clear His relation to the Father, pleading His work and obedience and His desire to see the Father glorified, do so too. Draw near and appear before the Father in Christ. Plead his finished work. Say that you are one with it, that you trust on it, live in it. Say that you too have given yourself to finish the work the Father has given you to do, and live alone for His glory. And ask then confidently that the Son may be glorified in you.
This is praying in the Name, in the very words, in the Spirit of Jesus, in union with Jesus Himself. Such pray has power. If with Jesus you glorify the Father, the Father will glorify Jesus by doing what you ask in His Name. It is only when your own personal relation on this point, like Christ’s is clear with God, when you are glorifying Him, seeking all for His glory, that like Christ , you will have power to intercede for those around you.
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