The Basis For Intimate Prayer
“I donāt have intimate prayer with the Father based on my good attitudes or actions. I come on the basis of his righteousness. He justified, established, sanctified, called, saved and brought me into the same relationship that he had with the Father before the world was founded. He hears me when I call on him. Jesus gave his disciples a new and sweeping promise in his last, intimate time with them in the Upper Room (cf. John 14). Six times during that talk Jesus repeated this promise, āThen the Father will give you whatever you askā as you pray āin my name.ā
John Wimber, Prayer: Intimate Communication (Anaheim: Vineyard Ministries International, 1997), 7.
