JUNIA Magazine Issue 03
A Magazine for women about faith, miracles and how to live the Christian life today. Encouragement, Inspiration and Links to Resources.
A Magazine for women about faith, miracles and how to live the Christian life today. Encouragement, Inspiration and Links to Resources.
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<strong>JUNIA</strong> MAGAZINE / ISSUE <strong>03</strong><br />
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And His times of prayer weren’t<br />
always simply for the teaching or<br />
modeling for others. There are<br />
many instances when Jesus drew<br />
away to pray without anyone else<br />
present (Matt. 14:23; Luke 5:16).<br />
We don’t know what He prayed<br />
during those times, and He didn’t<br />
see the need to always record<br />
His intimate conversations with<br />
His Father. We just know it was<br />
important enough to Jesus that He<br />
orchestrated moments to be alone<br />
in His prayers.<br />
Other times He modeled prayer<br />
for others, such as when He<br />
instructed His disciples in what<br />
we now know as the Lord’s Prayer<br />
(Matt. 6:9–14). He also prayed<br />
at key moments ‐ such as the<br />
resurrection of Lazarus ‐ in a way<br />
that benefited those around Him:<br />
So they took away the stone.<br />
Then Jesus looked up and said,<br />
“Father, I thank you that you have<br />
heard me. I knew that you always<br />
hear me, but I said this for the<br />
benefit of the people standing<br />
here, that they may believe that<br />
you sent me” (John 11:41–42).<br />
We also notice that Jesus’ prayers<br />
were often full of emotion and<br />
agony. It’s one more indicator that,<br />
yes, Jesus needed to pray:<br />
During the days of Jesus’ life on<br />
earth, he offered up prayers and<br />
petitions with fervent cries and<br />
tears to the one who could save<br />
him from death, and he was heard<br />
because of his reverent submission<br />
(Heb. 5:7).<br />
You can’t study the life of Jesus<br />
without concluding that prayer<br />
was - and is - a critical component<br />
of His life. He modeled it, pursued<br />
it, and was passionate about it.<br />
And now He has the assignment of<br />
fulltime intercession at the throne<br />
of God: “Christ Jesus who died ‐<br />
more than that, who was raised<br />
to life ‐ is at the right hand of God<br />
and is also interceding for us.”<br />
(Rom. 8:34).<br />
He is, after all, the Greatest<br />
Intercessor.<br />
How Else Did Jesus Pray?<br />
What are some other general<br />
things that Jesus prayed about?<br />
Whatever Jesus prayed about