Christ’s Model of Faithful Prayer

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Does praying that God's will be done demonstrate a lack of faith? Today, R.C. Sproul points us to the example of Jesus praying in the garden of Gethsemane before His crucifixion to address this question.

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0:00.0	Faithful prayer, true faith, is trust.
0:05.0	And the prayer of faith is a prayer that trusts God
0:12.0	for the outcome.
0:14.0	I've had people tell me that if you pray for somebody and you say,
0:21.0	if it be thy will, oh Lord, please raise this person up,
0:25.0	that that is a sin.
0:27.0	It's in the front against God to say, if it is God's will,
0:30.0	because God always wills that.
0:32.0	So wait a minute.
0:35.0	If it is a lack of faith to say, if it be thy will,
0:40.0	what does that say about the posture of Christ's prayer
0:46.0	in the Garden of Geseminine?
0:48.0	The greatest teacher we have on how to pray is Christ Himself.
0:53.0	And when He was faced with His great passion,
0:57.0	His ultimate suffering, that none of us can imagine what it was
1:02.0	like to have the cup of God's wrath set before Him.
1:06.0	We can't imagine that.
1:09.0	And He, in agony, sweating beads of blood is on His face
1:15.0	before God in the Garden of Geseminine, and He says,
1:18.0	oh Lord, if it be thy will, let this cup pass from me.
1:26.0	Was that an act of unbelief on Jesus' part?
1:30.0	By no means.
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