The Power of the Blood of Jesus by Andrew Murray

Author:Andrew Murray
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: *Updated*
Published: 2013-08-20T00:00:00+00:00

III. The Power to Procure Blessing for Others Is What Gives to Nearness to God its Full Glory

In Israel the priests were the mediators between God and the people. They carried into the presence of God the sins and needs of the people: they obtained from God the power to declare the pardon of sin and the right of blessing the people.

This privilege now belongs to all believers, as the priestly family of the New Covenant. When God permitted His redeemed ones to approach Him through the blood, it was that He might bless them, in order that they might become a blessing to others. Priestly mediation; a priestly heart that can have the needed sympathy with those who are weak; a priestly power to obtain the blessing of God in the temple, and convey it to others; in these things, intercourse, the drawing near to God through the blood, manifests its highest power and glory.

We can exercise our priestly dignity in a twofold manner:—

(a) By intercession.

The ministry of intercession is one of the highest privileges of the child of God. It does not mean. that in this ministry we, having ascertained that there is a need in the world, or in some particular person, pour out our wishes in prayer to God, asking for the necessary supply. That is good, so far as it goes, and brings a blessing with it. But the peculiar ministry of intercession is something more wonderful than that, and finds its power in “the prayer of faith.” This “prayer of faith” is a different thing from the outpouring of our wishes to God, and leaving them with Him.

In the true “prayer of faith” the intercessor must spend time with God to appropriate the promises of His word, and must permit himself to be taught by the Holy Spirit, whether the promises can be applied to this particular case. He takes upon himself, as a burden, the sin and need which are the subject of prayer, and lays fast hold of the promise concerning it, as though it were for himself. He remains in the presence of God, till God, by His Spirit, awakens the faith that in this matter the prayer has been heard. In this way parents sometimes pray for their children; ministers for their congregations; laborers in God’s vineyard for the souls committed to them; till they know that their prayer is heard. It is the blood, that by its power of bringing us near to God, bestows such wonderful liberty to pray until the answer is obtained. Oh! if we understood more perfectly what it really means to dwell in the presence of God, we should manifest more power in the exercise of our holy priesthood.

(b) Instrumentally.

A further manifestation of our priestly mediation is that we not only obtain some blessing for others by Intercession, but become the instruments by whom it is ministered. Every believer is called, and feels himself compelled by love, to labor on behalf of others. He

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