Breaking the Fear Cycle by Maria Furlough

Breaking the Fear Cycle by Maria Furlough

Author:Maria Furlough
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Living / Women;Fear—Religious aspects—Christianity;REL012130;REL012120;REL012000
ISBN: 9781493413416
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2017-12-27T05:00:00+00:00


How Jesus Prayed

No, this section is not about the Lord’s Prayer.

I thought I had a very creative idea once (emphasis on thought). I was preparing to teach a ten-week class on prayer, and I thought, Let’s do a study looking at only the prayers that Jesus actually prayed in Scripture! So off I went, digging through the four Gospels, expecting Jesus’s many and eloquent prayers to easily fill up my Bible study. Wow, I clearly overestimated the times we actually know what Jesus prayed. I think we assume these texts are there because we know that Jesus prayed often. He constantly went away from his disciples to pray. Little did I realize we don’t always get to hear what he prayed.

Excluding the Lord’s Prayer (which I decided was Jesus teaching us how to pray and not necessarily what his own prayers sounded like), I found a scarce number of times Jesus’s prayers are recorded. So when we do get a backstage pass to listen to a conversation between Jesus and our heavenly Father, we should probably listen and take notes.

There Jesus was, about to die on the cross. Not only that, but everyone he loved—his friends, family, and even God himself—was about to turn their backs on him. Jesus was about to walk a road of pain and suffering like no one can ever imagine.

Let’s look together at Jesus’s last prayers and how we might model our prayers after his. May we take note and learn what the deeper-level prayer life looks like.

John 17:1–5

Jesus Prays for Himself

Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.

A Prayer for Ourselves

Father, I come to you now in this season of life, and I ask that you will bring glory to me so that I might bring glory to you. You have brought me to this time and place as a woman or man, wife or daughter, mother or father, professional or at home, and I pray you will allow me to use the place I have in this life to bring others to you. May you finish the work in me that you gave me to do.

John 17:9–11, 15–16

Jesus Prays for His Loved Ones

I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you.



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