I’ve really appreciated this insight today from Brian Zahnd … <\/p>\n
On the night of his betrayal, Jesus spent a lot of time in prayer, centering himself on the will of His Father. However, nearby his friends slept.<\/p>\n
When the soldiers arrived, his friends sprung into action, drawing a sword and cutting off a man’s ear.<\/p>\n
The one who slept reacted out of fear and aggression.<\/p>\n
Jesus, who had spent the time laying his fears and issues out in prayer calmly healed the man.<\/p>\n
He was then quiet for most of his 3 trials that followed and then prayed “Father forgive them, they know not what they do” as he hung on a cross waiting to die.<\/p>\n
The one who slept, quickly denied knowing Jesus and the rushed away out of shame.<\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
Such an interesting contrast.<\/p>\n
We don’t know everything Jesus prayed that night but we do know he taught us to pray like this:<\/p>\n
\u201cOur Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.<\/p>\n
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.\u201d A prayer that re-centers us and re-focuses us – not on ourselves but on heavenly things.<\/p>\n Imagine if we were so centered through prayer – that when the bank account was empty we simply trusted for our daily bread.<\/p>\n Imagine if we were so centered through prayer – that when our enemies attack, we stepped in to offer healing, rather than a fist or sword.<\/p>\n Just imagine if we were so centered through prayer – that when faced with the troubles of this world we could truly hush, be still and know …<\/p>\n Imagine …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve really appreciated this insight today from Brian Zahnd … On the night of his betrayal, Jesus spent a lot of time in prayer, centering himself on the will of His Father. However, nearby his friends slept. When the soldiers arrived, his friends sprung into action, drawing a sword and cutting off a man’s ear. … Continue reading Working it out through prayer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-3DU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n??Matthew? ?6:9-10, 12-13? ?NIV??<\/a><\/p>\n