Bible Lesson: Prayers Of Jesus:
Ending The Day With Prayer.
Location: A Mountain In
Bethsaida.
Lesson: Each Day Should Be
Started And Ended With Prayer.
Bible Texts:
Matthew 14:23 KJV
And when He had sent the multitudes
away, He went up into a mountain apart (alone)
to pray: and when the evening was come, He was there alone.
John 6:15 KJV
When Jesus therefore perceived that
they would come and take Him by force, to make him a king, He
departed again into a mountain Himself alone.
Homily:
In most orchestral
compositions, there exists a special refrain.
Oh the work may have its flourishes, its mighty fanfares, but
throughout its theme is a recurrent refrain, always bringing
it back, from allegro to finale, the recurrent theme is what, is many
times most remembered. Whether hauntingly mesmerizing or heavenly
uplifting, surrounded from moments of allegro to slargando, the
recurrent refrain, brings us back to earth, from where ever the
symphony has taken us.
Life is filled with
many works every day, and we pray, whether they have been works small
or great that they have been works for our Master. And yet one thing
and one thing only will bring us back to our course, our theme in
life of the straight and narrow, and that is the recurring refrain
of fellowship with our (Abba) Heavenly Father.
Psalm 55:17 KJV
Evening, and morning, and at noon,
will I pray, and cry aloud: and He shall hear my voice.
The habit of our
Lord, was to pray, pray, and pray.
Matthew 6:6 KJV
But thou, when thou prayest, enter
into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy
Father* which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in
secret shall reward thee openly.
*Father-Greek:
Pater (Pat-ayr): A “father”, father, parent. / Abba
(Ab-bah): Father.
John 1:12,13 KJV
12 But as many as received Him, to
them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that
believe on His name:
13 Which were born, not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
God is only
Father to those who are born-again Christians.
John 20:17 KJV
Jesus saith unto...them, I ascend
unto My Father, and your Father; and to My God, and your God.
Psalm 66:20 KJV
Blessed be God, which hath not
turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me.
Proverbs 8:17
KJV (God's promise to those who call upon Him.)
I love them that love Me; and those
that seek Me early shall find Me.
Jeremiah 29:13
KJV
And ye shall seek Me, and find Me,
when ye shall search for Me with all your heart.
Zephaniah 2:3
KJV
Seek ye The Lord, all ye meek of the
earth, which have wrought His judgment; seek righteousness, seek
meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of The Lord's anger.
