What does EGW write about...
Ellen Gould White über: "The Path of Prayer to the Heavenly Sanctuary"
Answer
The path of prayer leads God's people through faith directly before the throne of grace in the heavenly sanctuary, where Jesus serves as our High Priest. Although we cannot see our Mediator with physical eyes, we may direct our prayers to Him with the assurance that He mixes them with the fragrant incense of His own righteousness and perfect obedience. Thus our petitions rise as a sweet fragrance to the Father and are accepted through the merits of Christ.
Faith as a Connection to the Heavenly Sanctuary
The priest in the holy place, who directed his prayer in faith toward the throne of grace that he could not see, represents God's people, who direct their prayers to Christ before the throne of grace in the heavenly sanctuary. They cannot behold their Mediator with the natural eye, but with the eye of faith they see Christ before the throne of grace and direct their prayers to Him, confidently claiming the blessings of His mediation.
As with that typical service of the priest in faith looking toward the throne of grace that he could not see, so the people of God today should direct their prayers to Christ, their great High Priest, who, invisible to the human eye, intercedes on their behalf in the sanctuary above.
Christ declares Himself as our Advocate. He wants us to know that He has graciously consented to be our Representative. He places His merit in the golden incense vessel to present it with the prayers of His saints, so that the prayers of His beloved children are mixed with the fragrant merit of Christ as they rise in the cloud of incense to the Father.
When the sincere, humble prayers of the sinner ascend to the throne of God, Christ mixes with them the merits of His life of perfect obedience. Our prayers are made fragrant through this incense.
The simple prayers that are given by the Holy Spirit will ascend through the open door, which Christ declared: I have opened it, and no one can close it. These prayers, mixed with the incense of Christ's perfection, will rise as a fragrance to the Father, and answers will come.
Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary to inform God of who we are, but to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but lifts us up to Him.
- Christ as High Priest Prayer
- Incense Merits of Christ
- Faith View Heavenly Sanctuary
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