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Jesus said in John 16:23, “And in that day, ye shall ask me nothing…” This means “You shall not pray through me or to Me.” I know there are some Bible translations that render this verse as, “you shall not ask many questions,” but that falls shot because it doesn’t fit within the context. They had been asking Jesus a lot of questions. But when you read further, you’ll discover He wasn’t talking about questions, He was talking about prayer.

Here the Lord Jesus lets us know there’s a new kind of prayer for a new kind of people – the New Testament folk! And he tells us, “You’ll not have to pray to me, because whatever you ask the father in my name, He will give it you.”

Some people don’t bother praying, because even when they do, they don’t expect answers. If you don’t have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ, that is you’re not born again, you shouldn’t expect answers because He wouldn’t even hear you. However, if you’re God’s child, you have the a right to expect answers when you pray; but to have those answers consistently, you must pray according to God’s Word revealed concerning prayer in the New Testament.

The book of Hebrews lets us know that Jesus is our great high priest before the father (Hebrews 2:17, 3:1, 8:1, 9:11). He is also our advocate (1 John 2:1). His ministry as our great High Priest and advocate however doesn’t include praying the father for us. I’ve heard a lot of people say Jesus Christ stands in the gap between the Father and us, but what the Bible teaches is that Christ Jesus is the Mediator between God and men, not between God and the Church. So He stands between God and sinners, not between God and His Church.

At many family alters they come together to ‘say’ their prayers, but in a dispensation of the church where we’ve been born again and filled with the Holy Ghost, we don’t ‘say’ our prayers we pray! God hasn’t called us into religion; Christianity is not one of the religions of the world. Christianity is the pulsating life of the resurrected Christ in the Spirit, soul and body of a human person. It’s the divine life of God imparted into the human spirit here on earth. It’s God’s life at work in a man. The Christian doesn’t look for God because he has already found him.

Through prayers we can prevail on circumstances. God has shown us in His word that we can change anything, including things that were divinely destined to be. This may sound incredible to you but it’s in the Bible! God may have said you’re going to have it one way, but if you discover you don’t want it that way, you can change it, It’s amazing, but true. There are several accounts in the scriptures of men who changed the mind of God from what He had determined to do. One of such accounts is in Exodus 32:7-14 where we read of how Moses stood between God and the children of Israel. God had determined to destroy them for their rebellion and stubbornness and rise a new generation from Moses, but Moses prevailed on God and prevented Him from as He had proposed.

Some people don’t bother praying, because even when they do, they don’t expect answers. If you don’t have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ, that is you’re not born again, you shouldn’t expect answers because He wouldn’t even hear you. However, if you’re God’s child, you have the a right to expect answers when you pray; but to have those answers consistently, you must pray according to God’s Word revealed concerning prayer in the New Testament.

Jesus is the man who came to die for us, when the Holy Spirit came upon him He became Jesus the Christ and our savior, and as far as God was concerned He was our representative, He took our place so He could save us. After He was crucified in our place, He died as our savior and was buried. And because He lives in us, when He was crucified we were crucified because we were in him, when he died we died because He was our representative. When God raised him from the dead, we were raised from the dead in the mind of God, because in the mind of God, we were with him when He was crucified. In john 14:2 Jesus said “… I go to prepare a place for you …”, that place is not heaven, because heaven was there all the time. So what place did He prepare for us?

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