“And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. And Simon and those who were with him searched for him, and they found him and said to him, ‘Everyone is looking for you.’ And he said to them, ‘Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out.’ And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.”
Nothing is more important for my ministry in the future than my prayer in the present!
Read the verses that precede today’s passage, and you’ll see that the day before this morning of prayer in Jesus’ life was filled with God at work. Jesus’ teaching that day had a massive impact on the people in Capernaum, and then the evening was filled with miraculous healing. You might think Jesus would want to sleep in the next morning.
But he woke early and slipped out to pray. His mind was on the ministry he would have in other towns. It would be easy to think that since God worked so powerfully in Capernaum, the same would be true elsewhere. But Jesus knew that God’s work through him would match his prayer life. If God’s work through you were to match your prayer life, would he be doing a lot or a little?
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