FIRST WORDS

This book is not written about what others were and did, but about what we are and can do! It is a revelation of what we are in Christ, an unveiling of what He can do through us.
It is a lifting of the curtain and a revealing of the holy of holies and our ability to enter it and stand in the presence of the Father.
It is a revelation of our ability to stand in His presence on the behalf of others.
It is a discovery of God’s ability available to anyone in Christ—an introduction to ourselves in Christ.
Much of it will be new and a challenge to earnest spirits to climb the heights and to sound the depths of these tremendous spiritual realities.
It will enable us to know Him and the power and the ability that was revealed in His resurrection, and the amazing fact that that ability is ours!
It will show us our legal rights in Christ: that we do not stand upon His sufferance or His pity, but upon our legal rights, claiming them for our very own.
It will remove the mist that has surrounded the prayer life and lead us out of spiritual mysticism into the light of life.
It will show us the authority of the name of Jesus, and how to use it.
It will show us the ability of the Indwelling One in us.
It will reveal our place in the Family and show us how to take that place.
This is not a book of philosophy or of theories, but it is a book of reality.
It shows us what belongs to us and our ability to enjoy all these rights in Christ.
The call to prayer is the Father’s invitation to visit with Him. This is more than the consciousness of a great need that often drives us to intercession. It is the call of Love to come and fellowship. It is really visiting with the Father.
Few of us have realized the fact that the Father’s heart is hungry for the companionship of His children. His heart hunger is the reason for man and the reason for redemption, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son” (John 3:16).
That love impels Him to call us to prayer.
That call is the proof of our ability to stand in His presence. It is the proof of His making us righteous enough to stand in His presence without reproof or condemnation.
It means that we are ever welcome to the throne room.
How few of us have ever realized this?
It is sons visiting their Father.
It is children coming joyously into the presence of a Loving Parent.
He does not demand faith of His children. He doesn’t say, “Now if you believe,” or “If you have faith,” or “If you love me.” He said that to the Jews, His servants, the men of the broken covenant. But He says to us, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). It is the Father’s invitation to the throne room of Love.