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- The Name of Jesus is “living and effective” (Hebrews 4:12). When we speak Jesus’ Name, there is true divine efficacy: We give honour to the Name of Jesus, not because we believe that there is any intrinsic power hidden in the letters composing it, but because the Name of Jesus reminds us of all the blessings we receive through our Holy Redeemer.
- The Name of Jesus reminds us of Who He is and who we are. When we pray with or speak Jesus’ Name, we recall both His identity as a Member of the Trinity and His relationship with us.
- Devotion to Jesus’ Name is present in Sacred Scripture. In Philippians 2:6-11, St. Paul talks about Christ’s sovereignty, born of His humility, in accepting crucifixion
- Formal devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus was established hundreds of years ago. If you’ve ever seen the letters IHS, you’ve seen a monogram of the Name of Jesus.
- In The Name of Jesuslink
- Five Reasons We Pray in Jesus’s Namelink
- As Human, He Sympathizes with Our Weaknesses.Link
- As A Sufferer, He Knows Human Pain.Link
- As Our Sacrifice, He Paid All We Owed.Link
- As Our Forerunner, He Opened Heaven For Us.Link
- As Our Priest, He Brings Us to God.Link
- Let Us PrayLink
Jesus himself instructed his disciples to “ask the Father in my name” (John 15:16; 16:23, 26). The apostle Paul spoke of Christians as those who “call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 1:2), and give thanks “to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Ephesians 5:20). Praying in Jesus’s name is just one act among m...
Praying in Jesus’s name aims at his glory, and the Father’s glory in him. “Whatever you ask in my name,” he says, “this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son” (John 14:13). When we pray with others, and they hear our prayers, invoking Jesus’s name redounds to his fame, his praise, his glory. Our prayers honor Jesus when we appeal t...
We pray in the name of one who shares in our humanity. He is our brother in nature, and the weaknesses this nature carries. “We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). To identify fully with us, “he had to be made like his br...
Again, he “has been tempted as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). Hebrews 2:18 makes the connection between temptation and suffering: “because he himself has sufferedwhen tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.” Jesus not only took to himself our full humanity, but also the unavoidable reality of life in a fallen world: suffe...
Hebrews 10:19 claims, “We have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus.” He took our humanity, and shared in our suffering — to the point of shedding his own blood — that he, being without sin, might “make propitiation for the sins of the people” (Hebrews 2:17). Jesus is our substitute. He died the death we deserved for our sin. T...
If his sacrifice on the cross is the most remembered aspect of Jesus’s name (his substitution), the next might be the most overlooked: his ascension, procession, and session. So far, what we’ve highlighted about Jesus has been “down here”: his humanity, his suffering, his sacrifice. But how do our prayers get from down here to “up there” in heaven ...
We pray in Jesus’s name because in him “we have a great high priest” (Hebrews 4:14; also 10:21). Just as the high priest alone could enter the very presence of God in the earthly tabernacle (and only once a year), so Jesus is greater, entering God’s own presence in heaven. And he gives us this superior access, bringing us with him— and without end,...
When we Christians pray in Jesus’s name, we do not invoke some kind of magic spell or incantation that makes our prayers effective. “In Jesus’s name” is no mere tagline, added at the end of our prayers to make them Christian. We pray in Jesus’s name because he is our brother, our fellow human, our fellow sufferer, our sacrifice and substitute, and ...
To sing our intercessory prayer elevates the importance and dignity of what we do as a baptized priesthood. The Kyrie and Lamb of God are litanic prayers that were always sung in the ancient church. Litanies tend to feel more graceful and beautiful when sung.
Jun 15, 2019 · Be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 5:18–20)
Sep 12, 2023 · We celebrate the feast of Jesus’ holy name in order to foster a deep love for His name. If we pray the name of Jesus continually in this life, then it will be His name that we pronounce when we meet our Savior face to face.
Jan 3, 2024 · YOUR NAME is oil poured out (Song 1:3), says the Song of Songs, referring to the Bridegroom. Indeed, the name of Jesus is like an aroma spreading its perfume throughout the house. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux points out that oil possesses three qualities that apply to the name of Jesus.
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We pray in Christ’s name because he is the one who made it possible to come before the Father with his death. Prior to this, a high priest had to prepare himself to enter in past the veil into the Most Holy Place.
