Questions and Answers: Can Our Prayers be Empowered by the Blood of Jesus

Obey your flesh and descend into darkness

How can we know anything about anything

To try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald

Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible?

NO!

That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about.

Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us?

How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences?

We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers.

Why is that?

How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read.

Why is that?

Same scientific facts. Different answers.

Same Bible. Different answers.

Why is that?

The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible?

How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible?

How do we analyze what we have seen and read?

How do we interpret what we have seen and read?

We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly.

An example might help.

Question: Why do you believe in evolution?

Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact.

Question: Why do you believe your science teacher?

Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read.

Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice.

If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts.

When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from?

There are three possibilities.

things that we make up, pulled from the air
demonic lies
divine revelation

Question: Why do you believe in creation?

Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him.

See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved.

In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same.

Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us.

The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan?

The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know.

Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me"

The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem.

Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." *

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 *

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God.

How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver

Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32)

"If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it"

Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay.

"[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31).

"There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48)

That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own.

"When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19)

Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true.

In another case of just listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations.

They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, "I guess I'm making the whole thing up." It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn't want God to rule over him.

Question: I heard a sermon this week entitled "Empowered by the blood of Jesus." I only got a portion of it, but from what I got, it seems as though you can make your petitions to God through the Blood of Jesus, the same way we ask in the Name of Jesus.

Answer: There is power in the blood. The only reason we can approach the throne of God at all is because of the blood of Jesus. Often times, we will use the phrase, "the blood of Jesus," in a prayer. We know that God is aware of the effectiveness of the blood of Jesus, so we don't have to remind Him. We do have to remind ourselves of the power and effectiveness of the blood of Jesus. We are certainly aware that it is not anything about ourselves that is effective. It is not the length of our prayer. It is not the "good works" that we may have done. It is not the eloquence of our words that make our prayers effective. It is because of the blood of Jesus. And it is good that we remind ourselves of this.

It is the prayer of faith that is answered. Some have tried to work up a great faith inside themselves knowing that the prayer of faith is answered. The trouble with this is that faith is not something we can work up in ourselves. Faith is a gift because of the blood of Jesus. Faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by, literally, an utterance of God (Romans 10:17). And whatever is not of faith is sin (Romans 14:23). So, there are prayers that are sinful and that won't be answered--those that are for our own desires (James 4:3). Prayer that God does not ask you to pray is not of faith. We are to pray for the things that God leads us to pray for. These are the prayers He will answer. And we can know God's will if we have a relationship with us. Because of the blood of Jesus, God speaks to us in many ways. Our spiritual senses can be exercised by reason of use to hear God's voice. Our destiny is in finding God's will for us and entering into that.

One other major point on prayer is the fact that sin separates us from God and hinders our prayers. Willful sin is a disaster. Bitterness and failure to forgive will keep us out of the presence of God. Repentance, humility, and obedience (http://seekfind.net/Wisdom__Righteousness___Reality.html) bring us right into the presence of God. Respectful praise brings us into His presence.

So, there is no prayer that will be answered that is not empowered by the blood of Jesus. And Jesus answers that prayer of faith.

Here are some additional Scriptures:
"… that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." (Hebrews 2:14)
"He has delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins." (Colossians 1:13) (Redemption here is apolutrosis which meand a releasing effected by payment of ransom 1a) redemption, deliverance 1b) liberation procured by the payment of a ransom )(forgiveness is not what you would think: 859 afes?? aphesis af’-es-is 1) release from bondage or imprisonment 2) forgiveness or pardon, of sins (letting them go as if they had never been committed), remission of the penalty)
"Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it." (Colossians 2:15)
"For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil." (1 John 3:8)
"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death." (Revelation 12:11)
"For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins." (Matthew 26:28) Remission is the translation of the Greek word that means 1) release from bondage or imprisonment 2) forgiveness or pardon, of sins (letting them go as if they had never been committed), remission of the penalty
"In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace." (Ephesians 1:7)
"But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been made near by the blood of Christ." (Ephesians 2:13)
"For the life of the flesh is in the blood … for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul." (Leviticus 17:11)
"Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick." (Luke 9:1)
"For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in POWER, and in the Holy Spirit …" (1 Thessalonians 1:5)
"For the kingdom of God is not in word but in POWER." (1 Corinthians 4:20)
"… in mighty signs and wonders, by the POWER of the Spirit of God …" (Romans 15:19)
"And with GREAT POWER the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all." (Acts 4:33)
"I CAN DO ALL THINGS through Christ who strengthens me." (Philippians 4:13)
"Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over ALL the power of the enemy, and NOTHING shall by any means hurt you." (Luke 10:19)
"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."(Acts 2:38)
"And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood." (Rev. 1:5)
"Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."
He wrote of the redemptive work of Christ through the shedding of His blood on Calvary. II Corinthians 5:21 "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (Hebrews 10:19-22)

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