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Home Search Topics Contact About | Devotions Are Vital 3Mark 1:35: And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
Jesus had spent all of eternity before His incarnation with God the Father. One might believe that Jesus would have been saturated with the companionship of the Father, that he wouldn’t need any more time with the Father. But Jesus has given us a wonderful example of being often alone with the Father. If He needed and/or desired that companionship and communication with the Father, how much more do we who have had such a limited exposure to the Father need those things. Sometimes Jesus’ prayer was an interruption of His miracle working. Prayer is more important than doing something, even if what we are doing is serving the Lord. Communicating with God is more important than anything else we do. Our service is to flow out of that communication. Service is never to be a substitute for our relationship with God or our going into His presence. We will serve Him best when we have been in His presence. Luke 5:15 But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. 16 And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.Jesus always did the right and perfect thing. It may be surprising to some that He withdrew Himself from needy people to go into the presence of the Father. Jesus going into the presence of the Father was more important than meeting the needs of people. Luke 6:12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
Is there anything important enough to you in your life to continue in it for 8 hours? We need to be in the presence of God far more than Jesus needed that. And yet, we sometimes don’t even give Him 5 minutes. We sometimes think of our time in prayer as not accomplishing anything. How wrong we are!! By the way, our private prayers ought to be long, while public prayers should be short. Jesus prayed before He served, in the middle of serving and after serving. Do we recognize as Jesus did how important prayer is? |
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