JESUS PRAYED

 JESUS PRAYED 

TEXT: “who in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear.”    Hebrews 5:7

Chances are good that you haven’t read that verse in a while. Let me encourage you to go back and read it slowly and carefully! It is, of course, referring to the prayer life of Jesus during His earthly ministry. No better way, no more appropriate way to end one year and begin another year than by considering the subject of prayer.

Question: since Jesus is God and divine, how can God pray to Himself?

Since he was omniscient and omnipotent, why pray?

Did He really need to pray or was he simply offering us an example to follow?

Jesus was God in the flesh and was divine.

But He was also human, fully human. And even as the perfect man, He needed to pray. The prayer life described above in verse 7 in today’s text leaves us in awe, does it not?

Think about it: the Son of God praying to God the Father in the power of the Holy Spirit! 

His prayer life was as indispensable to Him as it is for us.

Take a minute and thank Him today for the great and holy privilege of prayer!

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