The following is an excerpt from my new book, Taking No for an Answer: How to Respond When God Says No to Our Prayers.
We have special access to the Father as his children. We can “approach his throne of grace with boldness” (Hebrews 4:16). Boldness does not mean arrogance. Boldness, in this context, is confidence. Not confidence in ourselves, but con- fidence that we’ve been adopted into his family because of the blood of Christ. Jesus’s atonement solidified our unre- stricted access to the throne of grace—and we had nothing to do with it (Ephesians 2:8).
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