The Prayer Life of Jesus Following Jesus in Prayer Part 1 Ps Ashish Raichur

The Prayer Life of Jesus
Following Jesus in Prayer Part-1

Sermon Notes, Sermon Outline and Small Group Study Guide

Following Jesus in Prayer (Part-1)
Sunday June 04, 2023
THE PRAYER LIFE OF JESUS
This is an overview of some to the key observations we can make as we look at the
prayer life of our Lord Jesus Christ. This serves as an introduction to the entire sermon
series (book).
If we had to vote on anyone who did not really need to pray much, perhaps no need to
pray at all, we would have pointed to Jesus, God incarnate, the Eternal Word who
became a Man, God lived and walked as a Man. Eternally He was One with the Father
and the Spirit. He was in the bosom of the Father (John 1:18), and while He was on
earth, He was also in heaven (John 3:13).
Yet as we observe His life as given to us in the Gospels, we see a Man, who prayed a lot.
While we do not have much recorded about His early growing up years, if we go by what
the prophet Isaiah had written we can say that He was nurtured in God’s presence
listening to and learning from the Father by the Spirit. “He awakens Me morning by
morning, He awakens My ear to hear as the learned. The Lord GOD has opened My ear;
and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away." (Isaiah 50:4-5). "For He shall grow up
before Him as a tender plant" (Isaiah 53:2). “His delight is in the fear of the LORD" (Isaiah
11:1-3).
At the right time, when Jesus went to be baptized by John the Baptist in the river
Jordan, as Jesus came up above the water the Bible records, “while He prayed, the
heaven was opened. And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him,
and a voice came from heaven which said, "You are My beloved Son; in You I am well
pleased." (Luke 3:21-22). Even before He preached His first sermon, He personal prayer
life was so powerful that “while He prayed, the heaven was opened”. As believers we
know positionally we are in Christ, seated at the right hand of God. The veil has been
torn, and we have free and open access to the presence of the Father. Prayer enables us
to walk in the reality of this, experientially, with heaven always open to us.
PRAYING IN SECRET
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The Lord Jesus regularly practiced praying in secret, in quietness, in solitude, before the
Father.
Just before He began His earthly ministry, the Lord Jesus spent forty days in the
Wilderness praying and being alone with the Father.
The Gospels record numerous occasions when Jesus went away to be alone with the
Father in prayer.
He would rise early in the mornings to go and pray (Mark 1:35).
When ministry was expanding and great multitudes kept coming to hear Him, be healed,
delivered, and receive miracles, Jesus would often send the crowds away and withdraw
to be by Himself to pray (Matthew 14:23; Mark 6:46; Luke 5:14-15).
When people wanted to forcibly make Him king, He withdrew to be alone with the
Father (John 6:15).
He spent the entire night in prayer, before appointing His Twelve apostles (Luke 6:12).
There were occasions when He went with three of His closest disciples, Peter, John, and
James to the mountain to pray (Luke 9:28).
His personal prayer life was so strong, it prompted His closest disciples to come to Him
requesting “Lord, teach us to pray” (Luke 11:1).
As we progress in this study, we will take a close look at how the Lord Jesus practiced
praying alone in the secret place, so that each of us can develop this in our own lives as
well.
A PATTERN FOR PERSONAL PRAYER
All of us are familiar with what is often referred to as ‘the Lord’s prayer’, referring to the
pattern of prayer that the Lord Jesus taught us:
Matthew 6:9-13
9 In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.
10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors.
13 And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the
kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Of course, the Lord Jesus never intended for us to simply recite this prayer verbatim
repeatedly. He gave it to us as a pattern, so that we could pray in that manner. We will
look at this closely and develop a pattern for personal prayer that we can all use.
BELIEVING PRAYER
The Lord Jesus pointed to our Heavenly Father as being a gracious, benevolent, caring,
and generous Heavenly Father. He taught: “For your heavenly Father knows that you
need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all
these things shall be added to you." (Matthew 6:32-33)
Concerning us praying and receiving from the Father, He made strong affirming
statements such as what we are all familiar with:
Matthew 7:7-11
7 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to
you.
8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will
be opened.
9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?
11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more
will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
There were no doubts, chances, or probabilities in His assurance of asking and receiving
from the Father. He never faced failure in prayer, and He did not indicate that we had to
face failure in prayer.
However, He made it clear that we must pray believing prayer if we are to receive, when
we ask. He said “And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
(Matthew 21:22). He taught us how to pray believing prayer. He said: “Have faith in
God….Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you
receive them, and you will have them.” (Mark 11:22,24).
And then Jesus positioned believing prayer in an altogether new level. He instructed us
to ask the Father in His name! To ask in His name, using His name, means we now act as
people with the power of attorney, as those authorized and delegated to fully represent
Him, standing in His place, to do what He would do if He were there, carrying as much
weight as if He were personally making that prayer! (John 14:12-14; John 15:16; John
16:23-24).
He made believing prayer an expression of our life in Him. He told us to simply abide in
Him, and His Word abide in us, and we could ask anything we desire, and it will be done
(John 15:7).
As we progress in this book, we will study the practice of praying believing prayer to ask,
seek, and knock and receive answers from God.
PERSISTENT PRAYER
The Lord Jesus also taught "that men always ought to pray and not lose heart," (Luke
18:1). Not only should we always pray, but we should continue in prayer till we see
desired outcomes. He used two illustrations, the friend at midnight (Luke 11:5-13) and
the story of the widow and the unjust judge (Luke 18:1-8) to teach us about persistent,
continuing, never-giving-up, tenacious prayer.
This is an important part of a strong prayer life that we must develop. Learning both
abiding (resting) and striving (pressing in) in prayer. Learning to be childlike (in simplicity
and faith) and warrior-like (in militancy and tenacity) in prayer.
We will explore keys to persistent prayer in greater depth as we journey forward.
PRAYER OF SUBMISSION AND SURRENDER
The Lord Jesus knew that He had come for the very purpose of going to the Cross (John
12:23-27). In fact He was the Lamb of God slain from before the foundation of the world
(1 Peter 1:19-20; Revelation 13:8) which meant that He had already agreed to the Cross
before the creation of man.
Yet, when the time came for Him to go to the Cross, it was an agonizing moment. Luke
records: “And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like
great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” (Luke 22:44). It was in a moment like
this that the Lord Jesus prayer with vehement cries and tears (Hebrews 5:7) and chose
to submit and surrender to the Father with the prayer we are all familiar with: "O My
Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You
will." (Matthew 26:39-44).
Jesus even mentioned at this moment: “Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My
Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels?” (Matthew
26:53). He knew what was available to Him, and yet He chose not to use it, placing doing
the will of the Father a higher priority than exercising a privilege He knew was available.
There is a lot for us to learn from Jesus and His journey through His time of agonizing
prayer leading to submission and surrender. We will examine this further later in this
series.
INTERCESSORY PRAYER
The Lord Jesus taught that the church has been given the keys to enforce God’s will on
the earth. We are to pray “Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in
heaven.” (Matthew 6:10). To pray in this manner, we have been authorized with the
keys of the Kingdom of heaven, to overthrow the powers of hell (darkness) and we can
bind and lose (disallow, allow) on earth what has been bound and loosed (disallowed,
allowed) in heaven (Matthew 16:18-19). One of the ways we bind and lose on earth, is
by agreeing together in prayer in Jesus name. This brings the Lord on the matter as we
are gathered and in agreement in prayer in His name (Matthew 18:18-20).
Part of intercession is doing for others through the exercise of spiritual authority, what
they may not be able to do for themselves. Jesus demonstrated this when He ministered
deliverance and taught His disciples the importance of prayer and fasting to enhance
faith when casting out evil spirit (Matthew 17:20-21).
While the Lord Jesus would surely have spent many hours in intercessory prayer, we
catch glimpses of what He would have engaged in, through brief comments recorded for
us in the Gospels.
Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem (Luke 19:41). We could infer that He would have
prayed over the city, knowing that His heart was for this city.
The Lord Jesus prayed for the Church, for you and me in what is recorded for us in John
17, often called the High Priestly prayer. He said that He had (kept) preserved His
disciples by praying over their lives and through the Word He ministered to them in the
Father’s name (John 17:8,9,12,15). He also prayed for us that we would know the
Father’s love, walk in unity and display His glory so that the world would believe through
our lives (John 17:20-26).
By revelation the Lord Jesus knew what satan’s schemes were against Peter, and He
took care of this in prayer. He told Peter: "Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for
you, that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not
fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren." (Luke 22:31-32)
His work on the Cross was also a great work of intercession. Isaiah foretold:“He bore the
sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.” (Isaiah 53:12).
There is a lot we will learn about intercessory prayer as we take a look at these insights
from the prayer life of Jesus.
JESUS’ TEACHING ON PRAYER
There is a lot that the Lord Jesus taught us about prayer and what we do when we pray.
He taught us to pray for those who ill-treat us, “who spitefully use you and persecute
you” (Matthew 5:44).
He taught us the importance of forgiving people and keeping our heart free of
unforgiveness as we pray (Mark 11:25).
He taught us not to use prayer as a means of drawing attention to ourselves, using vain
repetitions, many words, making long prayers as a pretense of our spirituality (Matthew
6:5,7; Matthew 23:14). This would only bring greater condemnation on us. Instead, He
taught us to pray in secret and God will reward us in public (Matthew 6:6).
He taught us that prayer is a key to overcoming the adversary. We are to pray "And do
not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one." (Matthew 6:13). We are to
“watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh
is weak." (Matthew 26:41).
He taught us to come with humility before God in prayer (Luke 18:10-11) knowing that
no man is qualified in his own self to enter the presence of such a holy God.
We are to “pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest." (Matthew
9:38).
He laid hands and prayed over little children setting us an example to do the same
(Matthew 19:13).
One day, Jesus walked into the Temple at Jerusalem overthrew the tables of people who
bought and sold at the Temple and pointed to the Old Testament: "It is written, 'MY
HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER,' but you have made it a 'DEN OF
THIEVES.'" (Matthew 21:13, quoted from Isaiah 56:7).
Finally, in anticipation of the Lord’s return we are to watch and pray because we do not
know when the time is (Mark 13:33; Luke 21:36).
We will draw insights from the teachings of Jesus on prayer.
HIS PRESENT MINISTRY – OUR GREAT HIGH PRIEST
How important was and is prayer to Jesus? It is quite amazing to consider that today, in
His glorified state, the Lord Jesus serves as our great High Priest “who is even at the right
hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.“ (Romans 8:34). As our great High
Priest interceding for us, He represents our redemption and justification (Romans 8:34).
He aids us when we are tempted (Hebrews 2:17-18). He represents our confession of
faith (Hebrews 3:1). His presence before the throne encourages us to hold on to our
confession of faith and to come boldly to the Father, to obtain mercy and find grace in
our time of need (Hebrews 4:14-16). As our great High Priest, He stands as the surety of
the new covenant assuring us of all our covenant provisions and blessings. We
experience His saving, healing, and delivering power “to the uttermost” because He is
always there making intercession for us (Hebrews 7:22-28).
When we pray, we are really co-working with our great High Priest here on earth. When
we pray in secret, there will be no recognition from men here on earth, but we are
joining hands with the King of glory, we are co-working with the Almighty God to see His
Kingdom come and His will be done here on earth. What great rewards await those who
have labored in secret while on earth. Only heaven will tell the glories that await them
there.
Join us in the exciting series of lessons on “Following Jesus in Prayer” as we learn to

develop our prayer lives based on prayer life of Jesus Himself.
CLOSING
As we journey through this study on “Following Jesus in Prayer”, we will reflect on each
of these 8 aspects of prayer. We trust that there will be much learning and growth in
each of our personal prayer lives:
1) Praying in secret
2) A pattern for personal prayer
3) Believing prayer
4) Persistent prayer
5) Prayer of submission and surrender
6) Intercessory prayer
7) Jesus’ teaching on prayer
8) His present ministry – our great High Priest
GOSPEL AND SALVATION CALL
SUPERNATURAL MINISTRY TIME

Minister as the Spirit leads
LIFE GROUP STUDY GUIDE

Following Jesus in Prayer (Part-1)
Sunday June 04, 2023
The is a simple guide for use in Life Group discussions. Our objective is to focus on the
application of the Sunday sermon - how each one is becoming a doer of the Word and
building their life on God's Holy Word. The Life Group meeting would normally last for 2
hours. Each Life Group would have up to 12-15 people.
Preparation
To prepare for the Life Group meeting, you can listen to the Sermon Key Points (sermon
summary in five minutes) or the full-length Sunday sermon. You can also review the
Sunday Sermon notes. All these are available in the "All Peoples Church Bangalore"
mobile App or online at our sermons page. Pray for the Life Group meeting and invite
the work and ministry of the Holy Spirit.
Welcome
The Life Group meeting may commence with a time of prayer, worship, and a fun
activity.
LISTEN to God's Word

Read the following Scripture references: Matthew 14:23; Mark 1:35; Mark 6:46; Luke
5:14-15
INVESTIGATE God's Word Together

Please discuss a few of these together, giving time for people to share their insights. We
encourage each one individually to make notes of their personal learning during the
Group discussion.
1, As we prepare to journey through this study on “Following Jesus in Prayer”, reflect on

each of these 8 aspects of prayer that we will be examining in this series. What would
you anticipate learning and how would this impact your personal prayer life:
1) Praying in secret
2) A pattern for personal prayer
3) Believing prayer
4) Persistent prayer
5) Prayer of submission and surrender
6) Intercessory prayer
7) Jesus’ teaching on prayer
8) His present ministry – our great High Priest
If time permits, each one can take a few (3 minutes max) to share one or two key
learning and how they see themselves applying it into their specific life situations.
Encourage each one to participate and share.
FELLOWSHIP by sharing your life and spiritual journey

Each one takes a few (3 minutes max) to share anything from their walk with God,
something God has been teaching them, a testimony of answered prayer or a specific
challenge that they would like prayer for. Encourage each one to participate and share.
ENCOURAGE each other by praying and ministering to one another

Get into small groups of two or three and take turns to thank God and pray for each
other in the light of what was learnt today. Listen to the Holy Spirit. Expect the gifts of
the Holy Spirit to flow bringing healing, releasing miracles, prophecy, etc.
Regroup and pray together for:

1, families to be protected and strengthened
2, a mighty outpouring of God's Holy Spirit on us as a church and through us to bless
many others in our city and nation. Nothing but a mighty work of God's Spirit can change
our city and nation.
3, for the BUILD TO IMPACT project - for God's hand to guide us through the land search
and acquisition process, and for finances to be more than enough to get this project
done.
Close by thanking God together.
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SERMON OUTLINE
Prayer is an opportunity for us to partner with God to see His Kingdom come and His will
be established here on earth. In this sermon series “Following Jesus in Prayer”, we
examine the life, the practices, and teachings of Jesus in 8 important aspects of prayer:
1) Praying in secret, 2) A pattern for personal prayer, 3) Believing prayer, 4) Persistent
prayer, 5) Prayer of submission and surrender, 6) Intercessory prayer, 7) Jesus’ teaching
on prayer, 8) His present ministry – our great High Priest. Expect your prayer life to be
enriched and strengthened as we learn to develop our prayer lives based on prayer life
of Jesus Himself.
The Prayer life of Jesus (Part-1) provides an overview of the life, practices, and teachings
of Jesus’ on prayer.
KEYWORDS
prayer, intercession, intercessory prayer, sermon, sermons, sermon notes, sermon
outline, free sermon notes, free sermon outlines, Bible study resources
REFERENCES/CITATIONS
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New American Standard Bible
2020, (NASB) Copyright © by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved.
Biblical definitions, Hebrew and Greek words and their meanings are drawn from the following
resources:
Thayer's Greek Definitions. Published in 1886, 1889; public domain.
Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries, Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong,
S.T.D., LL.D. Published in 1890; public domain.
Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, © 1984, 1996, Thomas
Nelson, Inc., Nashville, TN
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary. Edited by William D. Mounce with Rick D. Bennett, Jr.
(1993)
Word Pictures in the New Testament. Archibald Thomas Robertson. Published in 1930-1933;
public domain.
Word Studies in the New Testament. Marvin R. Vincent, D.D. (1886)

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Following Jesus in Prayer Part-1

The Prayer Life of Jesus

THE PRAYER LIFE OF JESUS

He would rise early in the mornings to go and pray (Mark 1:35).

A PATTERN FOR PERSONAL PRAYER

We will explore keys to persistent prayer in greater depth as we journey forward.

PRAYER OF SUBMISSION AND SURRENDER

JESUS’ TEACHING ON PRAYER

We will draw insights from the teachings of Jesus on prayer.

HIS PRESENT MINISTRY – OUR GREAT HIGH PRIEST

Join us in the exciting series of lessons on “Following Jesus in Prayer” as we learn to

GOSPEL AND SALVATION CALL

SUPERNATURAL MINISTRY TIME

LIFE GROUP STUDY GUIDE

The Prayer Life of Jesus

LISTEN to God's Word

INVESTIGATE God's Word Together

1, As we prepare to journey through this study on “Following Jesus in Prayer”, reflect on

FELLOWSHIP by sharing your life and spiritual journey

ENCOURAGE each other by praying and ministering to one another

Regroup and pray together for:

Close by thanking God together.

Our other websites and free resources:

Thayer's Greek Definitions. Published in 1886, 1889; public domain.

Word Studies in the New Testament. Marvin R. Vincent, D.D. (1886)

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