Many believers are saved and still wonder who they should pray to. The basis for our prayers today has changed from what is was and will be for Israel.

PRAYER THEN:

In Old Testament Times and in the Gospels, prayer was based upon Israel’s a covenant relationship with God, or it was an appeal to His revealed nature as merciful, gracious, etc.

But, with our Lord’s departure from this world in view, He told His Jewish disciples:

I [Jesus] am the way, the truth, and the life: No Man Cometh Unto The Father But By Me (John 14:6).

“Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name [Jesus’ name]… AT THAT DAY YE SHALL ASK IN MY NAME: and I say not unto you that I WILL PRAY THE FATHER FOR YOU, for the Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved Me…” (John 16:24-27).

Jesus said, “AT THAT DAY,” after Jesus’ death burial and resurrection His Jewish remnant of believers were to PRAY TO JESUS and HE WOULD PRAY THE FATHER FOR THEM, AS THEIR MEDIATOR.

This above does not apply today, for we have a new and better way.

ONE MEDIATOR:

Today Christ is our “one mediator” (1Tim. 2:5). But we know also that He by His One sacrifice of Himself for us, obtained “eternal redemption” for us through the work of His cross. Now we can pray directly to Father God. (There has never been dead saints or Mary functioning as mediators.) Paul wrote;

“For there is one God, and ONE Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;” (1 Timothy 2:5)

Our lives are now “hid in Christ.” (Col. 3:3) Today as believers we “live and move and have our being in Christ” … we are now “one with Him.”

We operate and pray through Him, that is … by His life operating in and through us. The word “both,” (Ephesians 2:18, below), speaks of our union with Him as our life.

“But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” (1 Corinthians 6:17)

“Christ, who is our life” (Colossians 3:4)

PRAYER NOW:

Today, in the age of God’s grace for the Gentile “body of Christ,” is based upon the redemptive work of Christ, whose death opened the way for us into the Father’s presence.

“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: ² By whom also We Have Access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” (Romans 5:1-2)
 

This is why today, during this age of “the dispensation of the grace of God,” We Pray DIRECTLY TO THE FATHER IN THE NAME OF THE SON.