How does one obtain the privilege of having powerful prayers?
The answer is, If you remain in me and my words remain in you. Here are the two feet by which we climb to power with God in prayer. Beloved, the first part of our text tells us that we are to remain in Christ Jesus our Lord. It is taken for granted that we are already in him. Can it be taken for granted in your case too, dear listener? If so, you are to remain where you are. As believers we are to remain tenaciously clinging to Jesus, lovingly knit to Jesus. We are to remain in him, by always trusting him, and him only, with the same simple faith which joined us to him in the beginning. We must never admit any other thing or person into our hearts confidence as our hope of salvation, but rest alone in Jesus as we received him at the first. His divinity, his manhood, his life, his death, his resurrection, his glory at the right hand of the Father–in a word, Jesus himself must be our hearts sole reliance. This is absolutely essential. A temporary faith will not save: a continuing faith
