Jesus’ Name Is The Master Key For Your Miracle
Helen Calder
In Matthew 16:19, Jesus said, “I will give you the
keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in
heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
When I was an administrative team member at
our church, I had a ring of keys.
Over the years that I was on staff, the
number of keys grew, enabling me to enter the multiple buildings and offices
belonging to our church.
Eventually
I had so many keys on the ring, I could not remember what some of the keys were
for!
I had authority and
access that I was ignorant of.
How often do we come
up against locked doors of impossibility in our lives, or in the lives of
others, but we forget, or are ignorant of, the spiritual authority that we
have?
The Master Key
of Jesus’ Name
The Bible
teaches us that we have many keys that enable us to partner with God for
breakthrough and miracles.
These
include prayer, praise, and hearing and obeying God in our intimate
relationship with Him.
Recently,
I had a vision in a meeting of God giving keys to people. But these keys were
not held in the hand but in the mouth.
The power of God is released when we pray,
speak and declare in agreement with God’s purposes.
That is why praying in accordance with, or declaring
Scripture is so powerful.
When we have an intimate relationship with
God, we can hear what His ‘now’
purposes are in any given
situation.
“Father, I have this door, right here. This
door that stands against me, shut tight. This locked door that is obstructing
my destiny—or the destiny of others. Which
key do you want me to use?”
The Name of Jesus is the
master key that unlocks doors and enables us to enter the realm of the
miraculous.
And yet sometimes we use the
Name of Jesus as a kind of an afterthought to our prayers. We make our request
and we add, “In Jesus’ Name”
It’s more like rote, like a habit, a formula, an addendum
to a request we hope God will answer, or (let’s be honest) the main time some
of us use the words, “In Jesus’ Name” is at the close of saying a prayer of
thanks at a mealtime.
It
is like the key on our key ring that we have forgotten what it is there for.
Rediscover the
Power of Jesus’ Name
The
context of Jesus’ saying, “Ask in My Name” comes from John chapter 14.
Jesus is saying to His disciples:
“I tell you the
truth, anyone who has faith in Me will do what I have been doing. He will do
even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in My Name, so that the Son
may bring glory to the Father.”
And what do we see from there on … what was
the precedent and example in the New Testament of Christian believers using the
Name of Jesus?
·
In Acts 3:6, Peter cries out to a lame man… ‘Silver
or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ
of Nazareth, walk.’
The Bible tells us
that as Peter took a hold of the mans hands and lifted him, instantly his feet
and ankles became strong.
·
In Acts 4:30, the prayer of the church community
is ‘Stretch out you hand to heal
and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant
Jesus.’
The Spirit came and
shook the place and empowered the believers to speak boldly.
·
In Acts
16:18, Paul speaks to the demonic spirit in a woman and says to the
spirit, ‘In the name of Jesus Christ I
command you to come out of her!’ And it says, ‘At that
moment’ the spirit left her.
This is the Biblical precedent of using Jesus’ Name: the lame walk, the
bound are set free, the Spirit empowers God’s people, miracles break loose, and
lives are brought into God’s Kingdom!
Yet it is as though many Christians today
have forgotten what the key is for.
Every
now and then we pull out our key ring and wave the key around.
But
how often do we stand in front of a locked door of impossibility, or
brokenness, or sickness and get the key of the Name of Jesus out and say,
‘Door, open now… in Jesus’ Name!’
The Name of Jesus gives us access to the
realm of Heaven, the realm of the miraculous.
When
we pray in the Name of Jesus, we are reminded that we do not have authority in
our own name, but in His powerful Name—the Name that is above every name!
“‘For the Son of God, Jesus Christ … was not ‘Yes’ and ‘No,’ but in him it has always been ‘Yes.’ For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ. And so through him the ‘Amen’ is spoken by us to the glory of God.” (2 Corinthians 1:19-20)
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