Tune In and Let Go: Lessons from the Prayer Life of Jesus

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Newlifefellowship, Religion & Spirituality, Leadership, Richvillodas, Petescazzero, Emotionallyhealthyspirituality, Christianity, Faith, Peterscazzero, Churchleaders, Spirituality, Emotionallyhealthy, Newyork, Pastor

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🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

As leaders, we know that PRAYER is the heartbeat of life in Christ. But often, our vision of prayer can become lop-sided, leading to a heavy weight on our shoulders.

For my first 17 years as a Christian, I had a one-dimensional view of prayer. I thought prayer was a tool I was supposed to use to make God's kingdom come. So I would devote 6-8 hours a week in prayer meetings, interceding for revival and believing that unless I prayed, God wouldn't come. I thought that was what Jesus called us to.

But over time I learned to see something different in the prayer life of Jesus. The gospel of Luke highlights a way of being with God that is less about striving and more about attunement. It is true that prayer DOES require perseverance and devotion, but for reasons different than we think.

In today's podcast we explore the prayer life of Jesus and what that means for us today.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Kazaro.
0:05.5	I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.
0:09.5	Today's topic is tune in and let go lessons from the prayer life of Jesus.
0:17.3	Tune in and let go lessons from the prayer life of Jesus.
0:20.8	I'm just so excited about today.
0:23.6	This theme emerged for me, of course, many, many years ago, but in particular, a few years ago when I began an in-depth study in the gospel of Luke, I noticed that there was this large emphasis on the prayer life of Jesus, more than the other Gospels.
0:39.0	And so that led me to a deeper study into Luke's emphasis on the prayer life of Jesus
0:46.5	and how it was so unique.
0:48.7	And I realized, wow, there's a lot here.
0:50.7	Actually ended up reading a doctoral thesis thesis that became a book called Jesus
0:55.8	the Intercessor, Prayer and Christology by David Crum, based on Luke and Axe, and it was just
1:01.6	tremendous and led me into all kinds of in-depth study in the scripture. So enough time has passed
1:07.0	from that that I've been able to integrate it thoughtfully,
1:11.1	theologically.
1:12.3	And so here we are in this podcast.
1:13.8	And so Luke's emphasis is different than, say, Mark and Matthew and John.
1:18.9	So, for example, you see Texan Mark, like where it says when the disciples could not drive
1:23.6	out this epileptic boy and the demon in him.
1:26.4	And they say, Jesus, why could we drive it out?
1:28.1	And Jesus says, this kind can only come out by prayer. And texts like in Mark 11, 22 to 24,
1:35.1	where Jesus says, I tell you whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you've received it,
1:40.4	and it will be done to you. And so, you know, again, the, the theme is that God acts only in response to our prayers.
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