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Going Farther
* GO FARTHER IN PRAYING FOR THE KINGDOM*
Our Father in heaven, hallowed (or holy) be Your name.
Your kingdom
come.
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
Now God’s will is carried out very promptly
and very precisely in heaven, and we are to pray that His will would be done the same way on
earth.
It is interesting, you look in heaven, and there are some things that are obviously absent in
heaven.
Things like oppression and sickness.
Jesus told us we should pray that His will be done
on earth even as it is being done in heaven.
Significant to that prayer, Jesus said we are to pray that God’s kingdom come, meaning we
should pray for the expansion of His kingdom, that men and women’s hearts would be receptive
to the gospel.
We should pray for the influence, the authority and the dominion of His kingdom
to be manifested.
Whether we are praying for a nation, a city within a nation, a particular family,
or even an individual, we should pray that the kingdom would come into their life, and that God’s
power, ways, and purposes would be made known.
Praying for a particular circumstance to
change and endeavoring to possess a promise He’s given us would also come under this
heading of praying that His kingdom come.
Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the
disciples, “Sit here while I go and pray over there.”
And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.
Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death.
Stay here and watch with Me.”
39 He went a little farther…Can we say that?
He went a little farther.
I realize he’s saying that He went, obviously, a few paces farther to pray, as the verse makes clear.
He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “ Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You /will/.”
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Though it speaks of Jesus physically going a little farther to pray more, it is symbolic of the fact
that He went farther in prayer.
The preceding verses said that He began to be sorrowful and
deeply distressed, but He did not quit.
He continued to press on.
Then after that He confessed
to the disciples, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death.”
Yet, He did not stop.
He
went a little farther.
He continued to pray.
Now Luke says that at the point where Jesus went a little farther and prayed more, an angel
came from heaven strengthening Him.
Then it says, “Being in agony, He prayed more
earnestly.”
How does the Son of God pray more earnestly?
If you figure that out, you let me
know, but the idea is that He went farther.
He pressed on a little more.
When it comes to prayer,
many times we stop short.
We need to go just a little farther and press on if we are going to see
the kind of results that we want to see.
We don’t see what is up ahead, and I think sometimes we quit just before we get there because our vision is obscured.
I listened to a tape years ago that was just intriguing to me.
Apparently, somebody had written
this book; and encrypted in it was some sort of a treasure map.
If anyone could break the code
from the book, it would lead them to some buried golden statue.
If they got the statue to the
author of the book by a particular time, he would give them a check for a hundred thousand
dollars.
This guy actually broke the encryption of the book, worked it out, told a friend of his, and
said, “Look, I think I understand this thing.
First we have to go to Crater Lake, Oregon.
There is
a particular lodge there, where will be something like a moose head and a plaque hanging on
the wall
went a little farther, and He continued to pray.
Then it says that an angel came from heaven
strengthening Him.
I think if we will just go a little farther in prayer, we might have some angelic
intervention in our lives.
We might break into a supernatural realm that otherwise we are just
short of, and it is just right there, but we never quite break through.
If you pray five minutes,
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man, pray seven; if you pray fifteen minutes, just press on a little more and pray twenty.
I think
sometimes we get drowsy, or maybe we are feeling overwhelmed or distressed, and we do not
press through.
I believe that we can tap into a strength that otherwise we will never know exists
if we just press on.
I read a story about a region in Africa where an entire village had come to Christ.
There was a
revival going on, and they took their salvation experience very seriously.
Every member in the
village spent much time in personal prayer.
In fact, they had their own little pathway, and they
would go to some secret place where they would pray.
They could always tell if someone was
not praying because grass began to grow over their pathway.
Because they were so in love with
Christ, and they wanted so much to see others come to Him, an interesting little thing sprung
up.
If they noticed there was grass growing on their brother’s path, they would pull him aside
and say, “Dear brother, there is grass on your path.”
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