Jesus departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent
the night in prayer to God. When day came, he called his disciples to himself,
and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles: Simon, whom he
named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew,
Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot, and Judas the
son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
And he came down with them and stood on a stretch of
level ground. A great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people
from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon
came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and even those who were
tormented by unclean spirits were cured. Everyone in the crowd sought to touch
him because power came forth from him and healed them all.
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Reflection:
Is prayer part of your life that it seems that your
day is not complete without prayer? Before making the very important decision
of choosing His twelve apostles Jesus went first to a mountain to pray. There,
He spent the night in prayer to God (Luke 6:12).
Prayer is our hotline to God this is our means to
connect with Him. Through our prayer we invite God to come into our lives. With
our regular habit of prayer the God that is distant now becomes the God that is
with us and the God that walks with us.
What does prayer brings us? Through our prayer we
connect with God, thru prayer God calms us, God comforts us, God guides us and He
gives us wisdom to make the right decisions in life, to name a few.
Who amongst us wouldn’t want God to be with us and
walk with us? Of course we all want the presence of God in our lives this is
the reason why we must always have time for God through our prayer. Our prayer
life must not take a backseat over our worldly undertakings; it must be prayer
first before our many worldly activities.
What would our worldly riches mean to us if we
don’t pray? What is the use of wealth and power if God is just a
superficial entity in our lives or if we are without God?
Someday we will die and everything that we have
accumulated in this world will not anymore matter to us. What will only matter
during that time is our relationship with God built through our active and
fervent prayer life.
Do you always give first priority to your prayer
life? - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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