This weekend I will continue my preaching through the gospel of Mark, and it seems I have more material than I have time for in my message. The passage we will look at this week is Mark 1:35-39, Jesus' priority in prayer. Here are just a few thoughts that are not in this weekend's message...
- Prayer defined; Prayer is talking to God, communing with God (versus simply acknowledging God). When you talk to God, you can praise him, thank him, ask him for your needs, seek his will, ask him to intervene in the lives of others. And remember, too, that God is your friend, so that you can talk to him in the same way you would talk to a friend; that is, in your prayers you can use simple language and you are free to express not just praise or petitions, but confusion, questions, doubts, worries, frustrations, and failures.
- What we pray for reveals where our heart is!
- There is power in our prayers when we commit ourselves to regular praying in which we daily bring names to the Lord. Such praying is not just a recitation. It provides the Holy Spirit access to those hearts.
- Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this ? always obey such an impulse. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
This Sunday we will discover the priority of prayer in the life of Jesus. I hope you make it a priority to discover his priority.
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