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Prayer
I was talking to a friend of mine and it is always good talking with this friend.
He lives far away but I will occasionally give this guy a call or he will give me a call and we just talk.
And its great.
We catch up, we find out what is going on in each others lives and we just kind of talk.
It’s great.
I have another friend of mine who I talk to on the phone pretty regularly.
And we talk about the most boring inane stuff.
I mean he will call me after he drops his kids off from school and tell me about how he is late for work and how he is speeding and how he just missed the turn that the GPS told him to turn on.
It’s kind of weird.
We hang out even though we are 1000 miles away from each other we talk on the phone and just hang out.
I feel pretty lucky to have a couple of guys that I can do that with.
Just people to talk to.
Just talking, communicating.
And I think about these conversations and I think about communicating and I think about our relationship with the Lord when we talk about prayer, when we talk about praying.
And I think that all of us, as Christians would say that we want a good prayer life.
We want a fulfilling time of communicating with God but many of us just don’t get what we want out of our prayer time.
If there is any prayer time at all.
And if we can learn anything about prayer then we can look at the prayer life of Jesus because Jesus was the ultimate example of what prayer looks like.
We see Him in prayer a lot.
We read about him talking with God in private and we read about him saying his prayers out loud so that others can hear what he is telling his Father.
Jesus desires to spend time with His Father and even though He is always with His Father he treats prayer with the utmost importance.
There is a tremendous amount of power that is connected to the prayers of God’s people.
Incredible power.
Prayer is simply communication with God.
It is speaking to God, and listening to God.
Prayer is in a sense a submission to the Lord.
It is a posture that reminds us of just who we are before God.
It is said that:
Prayer moves the hand that moves the world!1042
And that..
Prayer is the only omnipotence God grants to us.1043
When we look at prayer we can look at the life of Jesus.
You see, if we get a sense of what prayer really is.
What it really is would probably change things when it comes to our life.
Because when you pray, whether you realize it or not, whether you feel it or not you get an audience with God.
Hello!
You get to have God listen to you.
This week Rachel and I had to meet with the principle at the kids school.
Don’t worry, they didn’t do anything bad.
But we had something that we wanted to talk to the person in charge.
I wanted to go to the top, the number 1.
I didn’t want to mess around.
As a Christian, you get to go right to the top.
You go to the One in Charge!
You go into the very presence of God.
And that means something!
And so
And if we look at the life of Jesus and study His prayer habits, we can learn something.
We learn..
1. Prayer is First
Martin Luther is quoted to saying that
“I have so much to do that I must spend the first three hours of each day in prayer” (Martin Luther).1029
Prayer is our connection to God.
It is our power source if you will.
And when we begin to recognize that our prayers and our attitude towards prayer will show it.
Jesus has specific times that he sets aside for prayer.
He makes sure that He gets alone with His Father to praise Him, to share His feelings, and to ask for requests.
Jesus knew about this and it was his habit to spend even the first moments of the day in prayer, uninterrupted prayer.
Mark 1:35-38
Jesus prays first and he prays alone.. Just Him and God.
This is one aspect of prayer.
Jesus saw the importance of getting away, alone with God.
Look at the first verse there, In verse 35 there it says that Jesus departed.
That means that He got away.
He had to get away so that he could be alone with the Father.
He was so alone that people were looking for Him.. Peter and the other guys were searching for Jesus, but apparently Jesus knew a pretty good hiding spot and he went to it because He understood how important it was.
I know that we just talked about this a couple of weeks ago but it is no less important now.
People were looking for Him.. Peter and the other guys were searching for Jesus, but apparently Jesus knew a pretty good hiding spot and he went to it because He understood how important it was.
I know that we just talked about this a couple of weeks ago but it is no less important now.
We need to get away and we need to get alone and we need to make prayer a priority.
We need to get away and we need to get alone and we need to make prayer a priority because life has too many distractions.
There were too many distractions for Jesus and they didn’t have (in our world) anything to distract him.
No phones, no tv, nothing like that.
Jesus knew that there were distractions, and so he knew the secret to effective prayer was to get away.
How many of us have been unsuccessful in our own prayer life because of the distractions that mount against us?
But we need to understand that we have got to make prayer first.
Make prayer first.
Before you do anything, pray.
It puts you in your rightful place before God.
Recognizing it.
Pray first.
Cause there is a battle for you and your life.
Have you ever been trying to spend some time with the Lord?
And then all of a sudden the phone rings?
All of a sudden you get a ding on your phone that tells you that you received an email?
The kids start to act up.
Maybe now the dog wants to play and shows up with a ball in her mouth.
I am not making this stuff up.
You know that when you try to get alone with the Lord seems to be the times that every distraction under the sun seems to rise up against you.
The enemy does not want you to pray!
The enemy will do anything he can to keep you from praying to God.
He will because even the enemy knows that prayer IS so important.
So we have to make it first.
Even when it feels like your prayers only exist in your head they don’t.
Don’t put music on while you pray.
Not music with lyrics anyway because you end up singing along and your prayer time isn’t prayer time anymore.
If you must put ear plugs in.
Seriously!
Maybe run a fan next to you to drown out the outside noise but treat prayer like what it is, an appointment for you alone with the Creator of the Universe.
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