What is the significance of praying in Jesus’s name?

Thomas R. Valletta

“When we use these sacred words, ‘in the name of Jesus Christ,’ … [w]e are on holy ground. … We are using a name most sublime, most holy, and most wonderful—the very name of the Son of God. We are now able to come unto the Father through His Beloved Son. What power and reassurance and peace come when we really pray in His name. This conclusion to the prayer may, in many ways, be the most important part of the prayer. We can appeal to the Father through His victorious Son with confidence that our prayers will be heard. We can ask and receive, we can seek and find and subsequently find the open door” (Brown, “Pray unto the Father in My Name,” 79).

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