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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Nothing Apart from God



 

God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

—Acts 10:38

 

 

God anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit and power. Jesus healed all who were afflicted and oppressed by the devil. He resisted the enemy’s temptations, calmed storms, fed thousands, and raised the dead. Consider this. If Jesus was God in the flesh, why did He need to pray?

 

Even though Jesus was the Son of God, His relationship with His Father was based on prayer.  He was a man of prayer. He started his ministry in prayer, fasted and prayed in the desert for forty days, and depended upon prayer for every part of his earthly ministry.

 

“Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner” (John 5:19). 

 

Jesus could do nothing apart from His relationship with the Father.

 

Jesus spent time alone with His Father. He prayed before, during, and after ministering. He prayed for a whole night before choosing His twelve disciples. He prayed for others and with others. He prayed in the Garden during His greatest temptation. Prayer was His lifeline to the Father. 

 

If Jesus needed to pray to accomplish His purpose, why should it be different for us? We were not created to live apart from our Creator. We, too, can do nothing of eternal value apart from our Father. We need intimate fellowship with the One who gave us life. 

 

“Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray,” James wrote (James 5:13). 

 

Dealing with affliction causes many people to worry, seek advice, and ask for help from others. But the only true source of our deliverance is found in prayer. Prayer connects you with the source of your life. Prayer is where the answer is. Prayer draws from God’s wisdom. Prayer releases God's provision. Prayer involves God in every part of your life.

 

Don’t avoid prayer because you have been told it is your obligation. Don’t avoid it because you believe you cannot say the right words. You probably talk without hesitation to others about what you are going through. Just go ahead and speak to God, too. Next, seek promises in His Word that speak to your circumstances, and talk to God about His promises. Expect Him to quicken His Word within you. Jesus expected God to hear Him and respond. God cares for you just as much as He cares for His Son. 

 

Jesus had confidence in His Father. You can have confidence, too.

 

“Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him” (1 John 5:14-15).

 

Do you have this confidence?  That God hears you? That if you pray His will, you will have the petitions you have asked of Him? You can have this confidence by knowing your Father intimately as He knows you. He is just waiting for you to come to Him. 

 

Jesus drew strength from the Father. His life had no meaning apart from God.  Life has no meaning for us apart from our Father. Apart from God, there is no help. No deliverance. No direction. No power.

 

But in Him, all things are possible.


You are joined in spirit with your Father.

 

Come, He says, share your heart with me. I am your healer. I am your deliverer. I am your confidence. I am your peace. I am your rest. Do nothing apart from me.

 

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