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Master Key For
Miracles
Jesus’ Name Is The Master Key For Your Miracle
Helen Calder
“I tell you the
truth, anyone who has faith in Me will do what I have been doing. He will do
even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in My Name,
so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.”
In Matthew 16:19, Jesus said, “I
will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth
will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in
heaven.”
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When I was an administrative team member at our church, I had a ring
of keys.
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Over the years that I was on staff, the number of keys grew, enabling
me to enter the multiple buildings and offices belonging to our church.
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Eventually
I had so many keys on the ring, I could not remember what some of the keys were
for!
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I had authority and access that I was ignorant of.
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How often do we come up against locked
doors of impossibility in our lives, or in the lives of others, but we forget,
or are ignorant of, the spiritual authority that we have?
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Are we standing helplessly, looking at a problem
or an obstacle, when God says, “That is a door—and I have given
you the key”?
The Master Key of Jesus’ Name
The Bible teaches us that we have many keys that enable us to partner
with God for breakthrough and miracles.
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These
include prayer, praise, and hearing and obeying God in our intimate
relationship with Him.
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Recently,
I had a vision in a meeting of God giving keys to people. But these keys were
not held in the hand but in the mouth.
The power of God is released when we pray, speak and declare in
agreement with God’s purposes.
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That is why praying in accordance with, or declaring Scripture is so
powerful.
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When we have an intimate relationship with God, we can hear what
His ‘now’ purposes are in any given situation.
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“Father, I have this door, right here. This door that stands against
me, shut tight. This locked door that is obstructing my destiny—or the destiny
of others. Which key
do you want me to use?”
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The Name
of Jesus is the master key that unlocks doors and enables us to enter the realm
of the miraculous.
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And yet sometimes we use the Name of Jesus as a kind of an
afterthought to our prayers. We make our request and we add, “In Jesus’ Name”
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It’s more like rote, like a habit, a formula, an
addendum to a request we hope God will answer, or (let’s be honest) the main
time some of us use the words, “In
Jesus’ Name” is at the close of saying a prayer of
thanks at a mealtime.
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It is like
the key on our key ring that we have forgotten what it is there for.
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Rediscover the Power of Jesus’ Name
The context of Jesus’ saying, “Ask in
My Name” comes from John chapter 14.
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Jesus is saying to His disciples:
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“I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in Me will do what I
have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going
to the Father. And I will do whatever you
ask in My Name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.”
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And what do we see from there on … what was the precedent and example
in the New Testament of Christian believers using the Name of Jesus?
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· In Acts 3:6, Peter cries out to a
lame man… ‘Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you. In
the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.’
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The Bible
tells us that as Peter took a hold of the man’s hands and lifted him, instantly
his feet and ankles became strong.
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· In Acts 4:30, the prayer of the
church community is ‘Stretch out you hand to heal and perform
miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.’
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The Spirit
came and shook the place and empowered the believers to speak boldly.
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· In Acts 16:18, Paul speaks to the demonic
spirit in a woman and says to the spirit, ‘In the
name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!’ And
it says, ‘At that moment’ the spirit left her.
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This is the
Biblical precedent of using Jesus’ Name: the lame walk, the bound are set free,
the Spirit empowers God’s people, miracles break loose, and lives are brought
into God’s Kingdom!
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Yet it is as though many Christians today have forgotten what the key
is for.
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Every now
and then we pull out our key ring and wave the key around.
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But how often do we stand in front of a locked door of
impossibility, or brokenness, or sickness and get the key of the Name of Jesus
out and say, ‘Door, open now… in Jesus’ Name!’
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The Name of Jesus gives us access to the realm of Heaven, the realm of
the miraculous.
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When we
pray in the Name of Jesus, we are reminded that we do not have authority in our
own name, but in His powerful Name—the Name that is above every name!
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“‘For the
Son of God, Jesus Christ … was not ‘Yes’ and ‘No,’ but in him it has always
been ‘Yes.’ For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in
Christ. And so through him the ‘Amen’ is spoken by us to the glory of God.” (2
Corinthians 1:19-20)
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