I have nothing deposited there, I have absolutely no credit there, and if I go in my own name I will get absolutely nothing but Jesus Christ has unlimited credit in heaven, and He has granted to me the privilege of going to the bank with His name on my checks, and when I thus go, my prayers will be honored to any extent. So it is when I go to the bank of heaven, when I go to God in prayer. You have no money in this bank.”īut if I should go to the First National Bank with a check for $5,000.00 made payable to me, and signed by one of the large depositors in that bank, they would not ask whether I had money in that bank or in any bank, but would honor the check at once. If, for example, I should go to the First National Bank of Chicago, and present a check which I had signed for $50.00, the paying teller would say to me: If, however, I go to a bank with somebody else’s name signed to the check, I am asking IN HIS NAME, and it does not matter whether I have money in that bank or any other, if the person whose name is signed to the check has money there, the check will be cashed. If I have money deposited in that bank, the check will be cashed if not, it will not be. If I go to a bank and hand in a check with my name signed to it, I ask of that bank IN MY OWN NAME. If one will go through the Bible and examine all the passages in which the expression “in My name” or “in His name” or synonymous expressions are used, he will find that it means just about what it does in modern usage. But there is nothing mystical or mysterious about this expression. Many explanations have been attempted that to ordinary minds do not explain. There is a fragrance in the name of Christ that makes acceptable to God every prayer that bears it.īut what is it to pray in the name of Christ? He hears Him always, and He also hears always the prayer that is really in His name.
God is well pleased with His Son Jesus Christ. Prayer in the name of Christ has power with God. If ye shall ask anything in My name, I will do it.” It was a wonderful word about prayer that Jesus spoke to His disciples on the night before His crucifixion, “Whatsoever ye shall ask IN MY NAME, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.