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The One Thing That Made Jesus’ Prayers Always Work | E.W. Kenyon Teachings | E.W. Kenyon Teachings | YouTubeToText
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The central theme is that Jesus's prayers and words were always effective not due to divine favoritism, but because he operated from a place of unbroken union and fellowship with the Father, a reality now available to all believers through Christ.
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There is a mystery in the life of Jesus
that few have truly understood. Every
prayer he prayed worked. Every word he
spoke carried authority. Storm stilled.
Sickness vanished. Devils fled. Even the
dead obeyed his voice. When he said,
"Lazarus, come forth," death itself
surrendered. This was not because he was
simply divine. Scripture tells us he
laid aside his divine privileges when he
took on flesh. Philippians 2:7 says, "He
made himself of no reputation and took
upon him the form of a servant and was
made in the likeness of men." Jesus
operated as a man filled with God,
showing us what life could look like for
every believer, indwelt by the same
spirit. So, what was the one thing that
made his prayers always work? What was
the secret that turned his words into
living power? It was not longer prayers.
It was not louder declarations. It was
not more emotion or effort. The secret
was simple yet profound. Jesus prayed
and spoke from union, not distance. His
authority flowed out of his unbroken
fellowship with the father. Every
miracle, every answered prayer, every
moment of divine power sprang from his
awareness that I and my father are one.
As he said in John 10:30, EW Kenyon
captured it perfectly when he wrote,
"Jesus was the first man to reveal the
father and to unveil what fellowship
with the father really means." Jesus did
not beg to act. He spoke as one in
perfect harmony with the father's will.
His words carried authority because they
were born out of oneness. This is what
made his prayers unstoppable. When he
stood before the tomb of Lazarus, he
said something astonishing. In John 11:41-42,
11:41-42,
we read, "Father, I thank thee that thou
hast heard me, and I knew that thou
hearest me always." Imagine that Jesus
did not ask if God would hear. He
thanked him that he already had. His
prayers worked because he never doubted
his position before the Father. He knew
he was heard and he knew he was one with
the one who answers. That same truth is
what the devil has fought hardest to
keep hidden from believers. For if you
ever become as confident in your union
with the Father as Jesus was, your
prayers will take on the same divine
certainty. Jesus himself said in John
14:12, "He that believeth on me, the
works that I do shall he do also." That
promise makes no sense unless the same
relationship that empowered Jesus is now
ours in him. Kenyon wrote, "The Father
and the Son are one. Now through the new
creation, we are brought into that same
union. We are one with him." This is not
poetic language. It is spiritual
reality. The very thing that made
Jesus's prayers always work has been
made available to us through redemption.
The tragedy is that many pray from the
position of separation rather than
union. They approach God as distant,
pleading for what he has already
provided, begging for what has already
been finished in Christ. Such prayers
lack confidence because they are rooted
in uncertainty. Hebrews 4:16 invites us
to come boldly unto the throne of grace.
Boldness is not arrogance. It is the
byproduct of union. Jesus prayed boldly
because he lived in the continual
awareness that he and the father were
not two working separately but one
working together. He said in John 5:19,
"The son can do nothing of himself, but
what he seeth the father do." He lived
by the inner sight of that union.
Imagine for a moment a child standing
beside his father as they build
together. The child's confidence does
not come from his own strength, but from
the presence of the father working with
him. That was the relationship Jesus
modeled. He said in John 14:10, "The
Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the
works." Notice the simplicity of that.
Jesus never struggled to make things
happen. He simply yielded to the Father
within, allowing the life of God to flow
through his words and actions. This is
the key so few have grasped. Prayer is
not persuading a reluctant God to act.
It is participating with an inddwelling
God who is ready to act through you. The
believer who understands this moves from
striving to resting, from pleading to
partnering. 1 John 5:14-15 declares,
"And this is the confidence that we have
in him, that if we ask anything
according to his will, he heareth us.
And if we know that he hear us,
whatsoever we ask, we know that we have
the petitions that we desired of him.
Jesus knew he was always heard because
he only spoke from union. The believer
can have that same assurance when prayer
flows from the word which reveals the
father's will. Every time you pray
according to that word, heaven
recognizes its own language. You are not
sending requests into the distance. You
are releasing the will of God into
manifestation. Kenyon said, "When the
word becomes a living reality in us,
prayer ceases to be an effort and
becomes a joy." That is how Jesus lived.
His joy was full because his fellowship
was unbroken. He moved in perfect
harmony with the father's heart. There
was no sense of struggle, no
consciousness of separation, no fear of
being unheard. He was not trying to
reach God. He was revealing God. And
that is precisely what redemption has
made possible for us. The same spirit
that dwelt in Jesus now dwells in you.
Romans 8:11 says, "If the spirit of him
that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell
in you, he that raised up Christ from
the dead shall also quicken your mortal
bodies." That means prayer is no longer
a reaching out. It is a release from
within. The spirit who raised Christ now
breathes through your words when they
are aligned with the truth of your new
nature. But here is where many stumble.
They look at their failures, their
weaknesses, their unworthiness, and
think, "How could I ever pray like
Jesus?" The answer lies not in you
trying to be worthy, but in accepting
what has already been done. Jesus made
you worthy. He brought you into the
father's presence as his very own. 2
Corinthians 5:21 declares, "He hath made
him to be sin for us, who knew no sin,
that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him." That righteousness is
not a future reward. It is your present
standing. It is what gives you the same
boldness Jesus had when he said,
"Father, I thank thee that thou hast
heard me." If you are in Christ, you are
just as heard, just as welcomed, just as
authorized. The father does not hear
Jesus better than he hears you because
you are now in him. Once you see this,
prayer becomes an entirely different
experience. You stop starting from lack
and begin from fullness. You stop trying
to get heaven to move and realize heaven
already lives within you. Prayer is no
longer an attempt to get God to come
down. It is the expression of God
already at work within. This was the one
thing that made Jesus prayers always
work. He prayed from oneness. His
authority flowed from identity. His
words carried the power of the
inddwelling father. And the miracle of
grace is that this same union has been
extended to every believer through the
new birth. When this revelation grips
the heart, everything about prayer
changes. You stop approaching God as
though he were far away and begin
communing with him as one who abides
within. Jesus said in John 15:7, "If ye
abide in me and my words abide in you,
ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall
be done unto you." Notice the order,
abiding first, asking second. The power
of prayer does not begin in the asking.
It begins in the abiding. Jesus's words
worked because he never stepped out of
that abiding awareness. He lived from
the presence, not toward it. The modern
church has often reversed this. Many
pray to feel close to God instead of
praying because they already are. They
seek his presence as though it were lost
instead of recognizing it as their
permanent dwelling. Yet scripture says
in Colossians 1:27, "Christ in you, the
hope of glory." That means the same
presence that gave Jesus confidence in
every situation now resides in you.
Prayer that works is prayer that flows
from that consciousness. EW Kenyon
wrote, "When we become God insideminded,
the word comes alive. Faith becomes
natural and prayer becomes a
partnership." Think about that phrase,
God insideminded.
The moment your heart awakens to the
reality that God himself dwells within,
hesitation dies and confidence is born.
You stop begging, you start reigning.
You stop wondering if God will answer.
You begin to declare what he has already
said. Jesus never pleaded for things to
happen. He simply released the Father's
will with authority because he knew the
Father's power was within him. The same
principle applies to every believer. You
are not trying to get God to come down.
You are called to let him flow through
you. When you lay hands on the sick, it
is not you trying to make something
happen. It is the Christ within
stretching forth his hand through yours.
When you speak the word in faith, it is
not human effort. It is divine
partnership. That is why Jesus said in
Mark 16:17 to18, "These signs shall
follow them that believe." The believing
ones are not trying to imitate Christ.
They are participating in his ongoing
ministry through union. Kenyon said it
this way. "When you realize that you and
the master are one, it will
revolutionize your prayer life." And
truly, that is what the father intended
from the beginning. Redemption was not
simply to rescue you from sin. It was to
restore you to sunship. Romans 8:15
declares, "Ye have received the spirit
of adoption whereby we cry, "Aba,
Father." That same spirit that cried,
"Aba in Jesus now cries within you." You
share the same relationship, the same
access, the same authority. That is why
Jesus said in John 20:21, "As my father
hath sent me, even so send I you." The
father's plan was not to have one son
walking in power, but a family of sons
walking in union. Yet, this is precisely
where the enemy strikes hardest. He
knows if he can separate you in
consciousness, if he can convince you
that you are distant, unworthy, or
powerless, then he can neutralize your
authority, you will still pray, but
without expectation. You will still
speak, but without conviction. He fears
nothing more than a believer who
understands union because such a
believer prays with the same certainty
Jesus did. It is not your effort that
gives prayer power. It is your position
and your position is in Christ.
Ephesians 2:6 declares that God hath
raised us up together and made us sit
together in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus. That means when you pray, you do
not pray up toward heaven. You pray from
it. You speak from the place of victory,
not toward it. You declare from the
finished work, not toward the
unfinished. That is why Jesus prayers
never failed. He never prayed from the
ground up. He prayed from heaven's
perspective down. Now imagine living
with that same awareness. You wake up
and realize the creator of the universe
lives in you. You face problems not as
one overwhelmed but as one indwelt. You
approach prayer not as a last resort but
as a royal decree from the throne of
grace. That is how the early church
prayed. In Acts 4, after persecution
broke out, they lifted their voices
together, not begging God to protect
them, but declaring his word boldly. The
result? The place was shaken where they
were assembled together and they were
all filled with the Holy Ghost. Acts
4:31. Their prayers worked because they
understood their position. So what then
made Jesus's prayers always work? It was
not divine favoritism. It was divine
fellowship. His union with the father
was the wellspring of his authority. And
that same union is now yours. You are
not trying to get close to God. You are
in him and he is in you. The question is
not whether you are connected but
whether you are conscious of that
connection. When you pray from that
place of oneness, heaven responds
because heaven recognizes its own. You
begin to see prayer not as duty but as
divine cooperation.
You start to understand that the words
you speak in faith carry the same
creative power that formed worlds. And
you realize as Jesus did that the father
always hears you. Not because you have
performed perfectly but because you are
his and his spirit dwells within you.
This is where the life of faith becomes unshakable.
unshakable.
Once you know who you are in Christ and
where you stand, doubt loses its grip.
Fear becomes a stranger. Prayer becomes
a joyfilled partnership instead of a
desperate plea. You no longer measure
your prayers by emotion or results, but
by relationship. You begin to pray as
Jesus prayed, out of rest, not striving,
out of awareness, not anxiety, out of
oneness, not separation. Yet there
remains one more vital key, one that
determines whether this union will
remain theory or become living power in
your daily life. It is the missing
element that causes many believers to
pray passionately, speak boldly, and yet
see little change. It is the unseen
hinge upon which effective prayer truly
turns. And when you discover it, your
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