Good Morning Friends,
“Very early in the morning, while it was
still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place,
where he prayed.” (Mark 1:35)
There are many things I do not understand
about prayer.
I don’t understand why God asks us to pray
when He already knows everything that we will speak to Him.
I don’t understand why God asks us to tell
Him our needs when He knows our needs better than we know them ourselves.
I do not understand why God answers some
prayers and some prayers seem to go unanswered.
But there is one powerful truth that I learn
from Jesus – prayer was important to Him.
Prayer was important enough to Jesus that He got up very early, while it
was till dark, in order to pray. Prayer
was important enough to Jesus that He made the time to pray, even though the
needs around were many and were pressing.
Jesus could turn rocks into bread, heal the sick, calm the storm, walk
on water, overpower demons and raise the dead.
Yet, still He prayed.
Jesus needed prayer. Perhaps He needed it for guidance – after
all, He did pray before He appointed the 12 apostles. Perhaps He needed it for encouragement – He
turned to prayer on the last night of His life because it was such a dark time
for Him. Perhaps He needed it for power
– many of His miracles were performed when He prayed.
But, I think, most of all, Jesus needed
prayer for relationship. Prayer for
Jesus was about spending time with His Father.
It was about sharing His thoughts, His plans, His fears, His life, with
His Father.
We should pray for many reasons: for guidance, for encouragement, for
power. But, most of all, like Jesus, we
should pray for relationship: to share
our thoughts, our plans, our fears, our lives, with our Father.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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