| As you go through the Scriptures you will quite | | | | And as always he is the captain of our salvation... |
| often find where the Lord Jesus Christ himself | | | | He led by example and we should follow that |
| went apart from the crowd, went into his own | | | | example... |
| private place and prayed. We read Scriptures | | | | And we'll start in... |
| where he got up a great while before morning... | | | | Mark 1: 21-22 And they went into Capernaum; |
| We read scriptures where he prayed all night... We | | | | and straightway on the sabbath day he entered |
| read Scriptures where he went up into a | | | | into the synagogue, and taught. And they were |
| mountain place to pray alone. | | | | astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as |
| And we as human beings, whether we be in the | | | | one that had authority, and not as the scribes. |
| Lord or not, are basically lazy creatures, ill | | | | An amazing thing happens to us when we come |
| disciplined... and sometimes it doesn't hurt for us to | | | | to the Lord. We read here that Jesus was |
| go back through the basics of Scripture again and | | | | different. When he got up to speak he spoke with |
| realize just how important it is for us to have an | | | | authority, he spoke with this confidence, he spoke |
| effective prayer life. | | | | about things he knew of. And when we come to |
| If it was important for Jesus Christ to pray, who | | | | the Lord and get filled with his Holy Spirit all of a |
| could do all things, who is far greater then you | | | | sudden we know many of the things of God and |
| and I... then how much more important is it for us | | | | when we talk we can talk with a certain amount |
| to pray as well? | | | | of authority. |
| Now this isn't going to be a study on prayer as | | | | This is what set Jesus apart from the Scribes and |
| such... there is a lot of Scripture on prayer and | | | | Pharisees - or the religious rulers of the day. He |
| how we should be praying but today we will be | | | | taught with authority, he spoke with a difference |
| just looking at the prayers of Jesus Christ himself. | | | | and people sat up and took notice. |