SUNDAY IS FRIEND DAY! HOW MANY WILL YOU BRING?
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Luke 5:15-16, “But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.”
A marked feature of how the Lord spent time with the Father was that He practiced withdrawing into the wilderness to pray.
The Lord not only rose up early in the morning to be with the Father, but also on many occasions during the day and night He withdrew from the crowds privately to pray.
Luke 5:16-17 says, “And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed . . . and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.”
The repetition of the Greek imperfect tense (continuous action in past time), translated as “was,” clearly shows that the Lord’s power to heal was in direct proportion to the time He was spending withdrawing to pray.
Another way to say it to help grasp the sense of this passage: “He Himself was continuously withdrawing in the wilderness and was continuously praying, . . . and as a result, the power of the Lord was continuously with Him to heal.”
The Lord’s practice of withdrawing reveals how much He was actually dependent upon continuous supply to meet His present needs.
Even the Lord Jesus Himself needed fresh supply, fresh infusion, and fresh energy imparted into His humanity in order to live a life expressing God.
The way He received these fresh supplies was by His practice of withdrawing to spend time with the Father in prayer.
By this we can see that the Lord did not live trusting in His divinity to carry Him through His human existence.
In His humanity, He needed to withdraw to spend time with the Father for His daily life.
If He as the very Son of God depended upon this time, how much more do we need to practice withdrawing in order to be continuously supplied by the divine life!
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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