Knox’s seven principles of prayer (Part VII: Realization) Paul Grimmond

Paul Grimmond

Today is the last part in our series reminding us of Broughton Knox's teaching on prayer. It ends as simply and profoundly as it began.

This is the last principle of prayer—the realization or acknowledgment of the only ground on which we can offer prayer to “the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy”. It is only through Christ's righteousness that we stand in God's presence. It is only in Christ that we have been adopted by our heavenly Father as his sons and daughters into his family. If our prayers are to be offered in the area of truth, they must be offered in the realization and acknowledgment that it is only through our Lord Jesus Christ that we have access to the heavenly throne of grace.

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