1. Learning to Pray Like Jesus

3. Learning to Pray Like Jesus

4. When Jesus Prayed... It was intensely personal Psalm 63:1
O God, you are my God! I long for you! My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearns for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

5. When Jesus Prayed... It was His highest priority John 8:28
Then Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.”

6. When Jesus Prayed... It was His highest priority
He began His ministry in prayer
He sustained His ministry through prayer
He concluded His ministry with prayer
Mark 1:35
Then Jesus got up early in the morning when it was still very dark, departed, and went out to a deserted place, and there he spent time in prayer.

7. When Jesus Prayed... It was His highest priority
“I can be active and pray; I can work and pray; but I cannot be busy and pray. I cannot be inwardly rushed, distracted, or dispersed…. Usually, for [prayer] to happen there must be a deliberate withdrawal from the noise of the day, a disciplined detachment from the insatiable self.” Eugene Petersen,
The Contemplative Pastor

8. When Jesus Prayed...
He didn’t give up

9. Why don’t we pray like Jesus?
We don’t understand what prayer is
We have been disappointed in prayer
We have not been taught to pray
We don’t realize how much we need it

10. Learning to Pray Find a quiet place Give God time
Pray specifically and boldly