How is your prayer life? What do you pray for? Do you pray for your family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances? Do you pray when people ask you to pray? Do you ask others to pray for you? How often do you pray? Are you praying that God’s will be done?
Prayer is our communication mechanism with God. From personal experience, many of our prayers are personal. We pray for things we want done. We pray for healing, relationships, jobs, and general well-being. We don’t always pray for God’s will to be done.
Though Jesus gave us one example of how we should pray in what we commonly call The Lord’s Prayer, His example of prayer just before going to the cross gives us an even more profound example of prayer. He prayed that God’s will be done. He was willing to give up His personal desires for God’s. He knelt down and submitted to the Father’s will.
When we are willing to kneel and submit to God’s will, we follow Jesus’s example in the best possible way. It isn’t easy. We must let go of our own desires, giving up our will to obey God’s will. It won’t be comfortable. It won’t be popular. We may be required to go where we don’t want to go. Yet, we can trust in God’s promises.
How do submit to God? We can only do so in faith. Our faith includes belief, trust, and action. We believe God has a plan for us. We trust he will fulfill his promises. We act on our belief and trust. Our action is to submit to God’s will, giving up our will and following his plan for our lives.
I pray we all follow Jesus’s example. I pray we choose to give up our will and submit to God’s will. I pray each one of us believe God has a plan for us, trust his promises, and act on our faith. Follow Jesus’s example. Submit to God’s will. Believe he has a plan for you. Trust God’s promises. Act on faith.
Luke 22:41-42 Then he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and prayed, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me, yet not my will but yours be done.”
Marty Pressey 