How to Plead Our Righteousness before God in Prayer

Through faith in Christ, we may plead our righteousness before God, because Christ's obedience has been counted for us as if we had done it; because Christ Himself is our righteousness, and we can pray in union with Him; and, because whatever true righteousness has come out of our sanctification is the fruit of the same saving work, and rewarded by God not for its merit but by grace (for Christ's merit).