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The name of Jesus is not
a magical formula or an esoteric manipulation. We do
not use His name to put pressure on His Father or to
under gird our own unbelief. The sole use of the
name of Jesus must reflect an equal absolute
surrender to His redemption and His Lordship over
our lives. To try to use His name while pursing our
own will, life, and conduct is selfishness and
greed. It’s like claiming the bank’s president as
your father at a teller’s window when you cannot
even pronounce his last name.
At the same time, a
devoted believer that has forsaken all to follow
Jesus Christ is wealthy in his household. There
isn’t any need or burden that a child of God cannot
claim as their portion in the family. This is not a
“name it, claim it” bazaar, but it is a life in the
covenant of His blood. Our Father, His Son, and the
Holy Spirit have adopted us in the Father’s family,
where there are perfect provisions. Our God is a
covenant-keeping God and has even sworn by His own
name to keep every promise.
This covenant is a
blood-covenant - His Divine blood without the stains
of Adam’s sin. Because God’s Son was born of a
virgin and conceived by the Holy Ghost, no guilt was
reflected in this offering of His blood. Divine
blood cannot corrupt because only the sin nature or
the act of sin can cause death. Both the Son of God
in His earthly tabernacle and the blood sacrifice
are forever preserved. The blood is on the altar in
the Heavenly Temple. The golden temple of Solomon
was only an earthly counterpart. The Son of God,
with the scars of every wound inflicted, is seated
at the Father’s right hand. It’s a perfect covenant
that is based on perfect blood from a perfect
Kinsman Redeemer.
Apostle Paul spoke of
this covenant and its active manifestations of the
blood. “And to Jesus the
mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of
sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of
Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For
if they escaped not who refused him that spake on
earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn
away from him that speaketh from heaven”
(Hebrews 12:24-25).
The Father testified
that He heard Abel’s blood speaking from the ground;
yet, that blood was far inferior to the blood of our
covenant. What must the Father hear when He listens
to His precious Son’s divine blood when it is
sprinkled in the sacrifices of surrender and
worship. It is a living sacrifice that will never
need to be offered again.
Now, we can see the
unfailing foundation of our prayers when they are
offered in Jesus’ name. We are not using a formula
of praying but a covenant of praying. The total
sacrifice of His cross and the shedding of His blood
are bound up “In His Name.” He said,
“Verily, verily, I say unto
you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do
shall he do also; and greater works than these shall
he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever
ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the
Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask
any thing in my name, I will do it” (John
14:12-14).
This is the hidden
secret of unanswered prayers. There is probably more
praying - if we can call it that - with fewer
results than ever in church history. Look at Peter
and John at the temple in Jerusalem. They were two
ordinary men that were totally immersed in the power
of His name. They did not manifest one doubt about
the authority of this supernatural name.
“Then Peter said, Silver
and gold have I none; but such as I have give I
thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise
up and walk. And he took him by the right hand, and
lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle
bones received strength” (Acts 3:6-7).
When the crowd wanted
to attribute the miracle to these two saints, they
declared, “And his name
through faith in his name hath made this man strong,
whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him
hath given him this perfect soundness in the
presence of you all” (Acts 3:16). It’s a
simple matter of learning afresh who He was, what He
did, and who He presently is. Then, we can live “In
His Name.” The blood is alive, He is alive, and we
are invited to live within the fellowship of His
family. He possesses all things in Heaven and on
earth, and He holds the title deed of all.
The covenants of the
Holy Scripture are just as immersed in His blood as
if it was dripping from your fingers as you hold the
Book. When you say, “In His Name,” yell it out loud
if need be until your soul is saturated with faith.
When you fast and pray, do it to purify and fill
your soul with His righteousness. His righteousness
is filled with His faith. He will fill you with both
if you give up on yourself and depend only on Him.
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