April 4
Luke 10:38-11:13
Do you have a spiritual mentor? Someone who models and teaches you how to follow God? This is one of the key roles Jesus played for his disciples. They watched his perfect life and often asked questions about what he was doing. One of Jesus’ common practices was to go off and pray, sometimes by himself, and other times with his disciples. After one of these moments, a disciple asked Jesus how they should pray. Jesus gives a model prayer but also gives a few prayer principles. The first is that we should pray with persistence and shameless audacity. We should recognize it is never a wrong time to pray. Second, we should pray with a level of expectation that God will respond. He may not answer in the way we desire, but we can trust that he will always respond in the way which is best for us. Third, we should pray resting in the goodness of God. The character of God is what should compel us to pray.
Consider for a moment your own prayer life, something we have often discussed as we have made our way through the Gospels. Do you have a regular practice of going to God like Jesus? Do your prayers reflect the Lord's Prayer? Do you persistently pray and expect God to respond? Finally, do you pray trusting in God’s goodness, rather than thinking you must twist his arm? God has given us the gift and blessing of being able to come to him in prayer. Let us never take that for granted.
Father God, thank you that I can come to you because of the work of Jesus, and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Help me to continually come to you in prayer. Amen.
How can your prayers better mirror the teaching of Jesus?
Do you have a spiritual mentor? Someone who models and teaches you how to follow God? This is one of the key roles Jesus played for his disciples. They watched his perfect life and often asked questions about what he was doing. One of Jesus’ common practices was to go off and pray, sometimes by himself, and other times with his disciples. After one of these moments, a disciple asked Jesus how they should pray. Jesus gives a model prayer but also gives a few prayer principles. The first is that we should pray with persistence and shameless audacity. We should recognize it is never a wrong time to pray. Second, we should pray with a level of expectation that God will respond. He may not answer in the way we desire, but we can trust that he will always respond in the way which is best for us. Third, we should pray resting in the goodness of God. The character of God is what should compel us to pray.
Consider for a moment your own prayer life, something we have often discussed as we have made our way through the Gospels. Do you have a regular practice of going to God like Jesus? Do your prayers reflect the Lord's Prayer? Do you persistently pray and expect God to respond? Finally, do you pray trusting in God’s goodness, rather than thinking you must twist his arm? God has given us the gift and blessing of being able to come to him in prayer. Let us never take that for granted.
Father God, thank you that I can come to you because of the work of Jesus, and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Help me to continually come to you in prayer. Amen.
How can your prayers better mirror the teaching of Jesus?
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