The Why of the Book

THE WHY OF THE BOOK

SEVERAL years ago I was holding meetings in a city in Tennessee. One afternoon, while giving an address on “The Name of Jesus” a lawyer interrupted me, asking:
“Do you mean to say that Jesus gave us the `Power of Attorney’ the Legal Right to use His Name?”

I said to him, “Brother, you are a lawyer and I am a layman. Tell me, did Jesus give us the `Power of Attorney?’
He said, “If language means anything, then Jesus gave to the church the Power of Attorney.”

Then I asked him, “What is the value of this Power of Attorney?”
He answered, “It depends upon how much there is back of it, how much authority, how much power this Name represents.” Then I began the search to find how much power and authority Jesus had.

Then This Book Came

The measure of His ability is the measure of the value of that Name, and all that is invested in that Name belongs to us, for Jesus gave us the unqualified use of His Name.
John 16:24, “Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name ask, and ye shall receive that your joy may be made full.”

Jesus, here, not only gives us the use of His Name but He also declares that the prayer, prayed in His Name will receive His special attention. “Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My Name, Ha will give it to you.”

Jesus says, “You ask of the Father in My Name; I will endorse that, and the Father will give it to you.” This puts prayer on a purely legal basis for He has given us the legal right to use His Name.

As we take our privileges, and rights, in the new Covenant and pray in Jesus’ Name, it passes out of our hands into the hands of Jesus; He then assumes the responsibility of that prayer, and we know that He said, “Father, I thank Thee that Thou Nearest Me, and I know that Thou hearest Me always.” In other words, we know that the Father always hears Jesus, and when we pray in Jesus’ Name, it is as though Jesus Himself were doing the praying- He takes our place.

Prayer a Business Proposition. This places prayer not only on legal grounds but makes it a business proposition. When we pray, we take Jesus’ place here to carry out His will, and He takes our place before the Father.

He said that it should not only cover our prayer life but it also can be used in our combat against the unseen forces that surround us. “And these signs shall accompany them that believe,” or literally `the believing ones’-every child of God is a believing one-“In My Name, they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”

Here, He is revealing His part in the Great Commission. In that great document, He says, “All authority has been given unto Me in heaven and on earth. “I am sending you out to make disciples of all nations. “Lo, I am with you always.”

He is with us in the Power and Authority of His Name. What does the Name mean to the Father, to the Church, and to Satan?

To the Father, it must mean more than our hearts or minds will ever grasp, but we can suggest a little of the wealth that the Father has stored in that Name. First, He inherited a more excellent Name than any of the angels as the First Begotten Son.

Second, God gave to Him a Name above every name that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow in the three worlds. Third, by His conquest over sin, Satan, disease, death, hell, and the grave He acquired a Name that is above all names.

When Jesus gave us the legal right to use this Name, the Father knew all that that Name would imply when breathed in prayer by oppressed souls, and it is His joy to recognize that Name.

So the possibilities enfolded in that Name are beyond our understanding, and when He says to the Church, “Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My Name,” He is giving us a signed check on the resources of heaven and asking us to fill it in.

It would pay the Church to begin an exhaustive study of the resources of Jesus in order to get a measurement of the wealth that Name holds for her today.

The Wonderful Name of Jesus – E. W Kenyon
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