Testimonials
"I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people." Psalms 35:18

     
"Praise the Lord for His work in and through you!!! We are enjoying and growing in the "Soldiers of the Sanctuary" series..."
                          - Constance, Tennessee

"Calvery greetings may reach to you as many as the sea sand. Thank you very much Pr. John Skeete. On behalf of the Fiwagoh Mission Oprhanage Ministries, I thank Our God for this great blessing He sent to us through you and the Sanctuary lessons. They were amazing and we are teaching other pupils and even church members. We will continue to pray for you and your wife and the whole ministry..."

  - Joshua, Nairobi Kenya

  "Thank you for your good work. I will be praying for your progress..."

  - Samuel, Nairobi Kenya

"Meeting the needs of body, mind, and spirit is so important in these days with diseases, drugs and immorality pounding the human species. I am thankful you are doing your part to make a positive difference..."

                                 - Sylvia, Michigan

  "I really appreciate what you all were able to do to help me, may God continue to bless you..."
                                 - Tee, California

  "Thank you so much. Power packed presentation. I learned so much. What I will focus on is to die to self daily. I want Jesus & God to be King of my life, my heart, my mind...I need to get His character, seek His face, so it may reflect in me...All glory to the Lamb & to the Father! And thank you for all your diligent study! Keep shining & showing His character!
                                  - Theresa, Wisconsin
Praying in the Name of Christ

"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 14:13, 14


Prayer in the name of Christ gives man power with God. God is well pleased with His Son Jesus Christ. He hears Him always, and He also always hears the prayer that is sincerely in His name. There is a fragrance that ascends in the name of Christ that makes every prayer that bears it acceptable.

But what does it mean to pray in the name of Christ? 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. If I go to a bank and hand in a check with my name signed to it, I ask that bank for something in my own name. If I have money deposited in that bank, the check will be cashed; if not, it will not be. 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. I will not be asked whether I had money in that bank or not, the check would be cashed at once.

So it is when I go to the bank of heaven, when I go to God in prayer. 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 go, my prayers will be honored to any extent.

To pray then in the name of Christ is to pray on the ground, not of my credit, but His; to renounce the thought that I have any claims on God whatsoever, and approach Him on the  ground of God's claims. Praying in the name of Christ is not merely adding the phrase "I ask thee these things in Jesus' name" to my prayer. I may put that phrase in my prayer and really be resting in my own merit all the time. But when I really do approach God, not on the ground of Christ's merit, not on the ground of my goodness, but on the ground of the atoning blood (Heb. 10:19) God will hear me. Much of our modern prayer is vain because men approach God imagining that they have some claim upon God whereby He is under obligations to answer their prayers. He is under no obligation to us, but we on the other hand are under obligation to do His will, and pray in the name of Jesus to have our prayers answered.




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