One New Testament scholar said it this way: “To pray in Jesus’ name . . . means that we enter into Jesus’ status in God’s favor, and invoke Jesus’ standing with God.”37 So for those of you thinking, I can’t interact with God in this kind of a back-and-forth way, like a friend or a coworker helping God build out his world. I’m no Moses, and I’m definitely not Jesus!—true, that makes two of us. But if you’re a follower of Jesus, then when you come before God, you come in Jesus’ name. You invoke his status with God. You come, not as a beggar off the street, but as a royal daughter or son of the
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