A prayer for greater confidence in God by Meg Booker, read by Leah Martin.

Now when all the people were baptized and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying,

the heavens were opened and the Holy Spirit descended on Him in bodily form like a dove

and a voice came from heaven.

You are my beloved Son, with you I am pleased.

Luke 3 21 through 22.

Soft thick flakes of snow accumulated and illuminated the dark hours of mourning.

It's a marshmallow day, my youngest daughter exclaimed as she bounded down the stairs.

Online school, cancellations and quarantines had endowed her wonder and excitement for a

day to play in the snow.

I'd overheard her praying for a marshmallow day the night before.

My husband and I watched the weather and anticipated a snow day, but her surprised joy overflowed

onto me as her smile lit up the room that morning.

The sky lit up, the day Jesus was baptized, a day foretold in Scripture alongside so

many prophecies fulfilled by Christ's early life, death and resurrection.

John, who had simply come to prepare the way for Jesus, baptized him as the dove hovered

over Christ's heavenly head and God spoke that he was pleased.

Luke mentions the baptism of Jesus almost in passing the new Bible commentary explains.

He wants his readers to note that Jesus was praying at the time and above all that he

received a divine revelation.

Prayer is powerful and often overlooked, daily we rush about powering through difficulty

and hardship without laying at the feet of our Savior.

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