Pray Like Jesus

Have you ever thought how Jesus would pray? Well, being the Son of God, you probably think that after all, He is the Son of God and His relationship with the Father was enormously close. How can you pray like Him?

Even though Jesus is the Son of God, but He is also the Son of man. He has feelings and emotions like us; He got weary at times (after a long day preaching and teaching); He got angry with those who buy and sell at His Father’s house (John 2:14-16); at times He was hungry (Mark 11:12); isn’t this Jesus, just like us?

Jesus was fully God and man, and as Jesus was just like us, we too, can reach the potential where we can be close to the Father. We can walk with the Father as Jesus walked because He has shown us an example of what it takes to be intimately close to the Father. Usually, after a busy day preaching to the crowd, He would withdraw to a quiet place to pray. He woke up in the wee morning hours to pray in a solitary place (Mark 1:35). The example that Jesus left us is for us to emulate Him. As we study the life of Jesus, we can poise our inner strength to have a strong spirit man, as that would cause us to walk intimately with the Father. Jesus taught with authority and power when He ministered to the people. With authority, He casts out demons with a command and they came out of the possessed man (Luke 4:36). We too can have authority over the demonic spirits, and with power and authority, we can cast them out.

We must exercise this authority when we become the children of God. We must like Jesus, stay close to the Father so that we can be ready to serve Him at any time that He calls us to. Jesus’ secret in His ministry life is the life of prayer. As He stays close to the Father through intimate prayer, God the Father can direct and guide Him in every area of His life, as Jesus was dependent on the Father. Jesus said in John 5:19 that He can do nothing of Himself, but only what He sees the Father do, for whatever He does, Jesus also does in like manner. In order to flow like Jesus in ministry, we must build a strong prayer life and be close and intimate with the Father. We must let the Word of God change and transform us, and we must faithfully and constantly look to the Father for everything we need. We can go before Him like a child and tell Him everything that concerns us. We can trust that God will take care of us when we obey Him and do all that pleases Him.