There is a pressing, urgent need in the Church today for more men and women of prayer, for people who will pray and cry out and persevere until the answer comes. Our God is a prayer answering God.
Consider for a moment that Jesus needed to pray. The Gospels record that, “One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God” (Luke 6:12). And: “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where He prayed” (Mark 1:35).
Many times, “…crowds of people came to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed” (Luke 5:15-16). The Son of God gave Himself to prayer, not in spite of the crowds, but because of the crowds. Without prayer, even He could do nothing. Prayer was His lifeline to the Father...