Daily Prayer

 

Day 12,  Leave the crowd, go to a lonely and secret place to pray, as Jesus did!

  We should leave the crowd to receive grace of God in its fullness. Jesus never wasted the time even for a minute serving his Father. After finish the preaching; he leaves the crowd and goes to a lonely place for prayer. ‘After sending the crowds away he went up into the hills by himself to pray.’ (Matt. 14: 23) Jesus went alone to pray. We need the personnel prayer for the union with God. In the Morning and Evening; Jesus done the personnel prayer according to the Fathers’ will. ‘In the morning, long before dawn, he got up and left the house and went off to a lonely place and prayed there.’(Mk. 1: 35) Our Lord has given us so many examples of prayer life by his own way of life. He prayed and fasted for forty days in the desert and was tested by Satan. ‘Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days being put to the test by the devil. During the time he ate nothing…………’Satan knew he was hungry and he tempted Jesus and asked him, ‘if you are Son of God, tell this stone to turn into a loaf.’ But Jesus replied, ‘Scripture says: Human beings live not on bread alone.’ Lk. 4: 1-13 He prayed fervently even he was tested by Satan but he didn’t fail in anything. When he has chosen the apostles, he prayed whole night lonely in a mountain. He chose the apostles after long hours of prayer.  ‘Now it happened in those days that he went onto the mountain to pray; and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. When day came he summoned his disciples and picked out twelve of them; he called them apostles.’ Lk. 6: 12-13