Deep Pain Deeper Prayer

Greetings to all; this weekend, as we come through what can feel like deep pain and suffering, let us never stop praying.

Although Jesus was fully human and divine, we can learn and be encouraged by His human examples and His prayer life. In His humanity, Jesus felt a pain that caused Him to weep. He also experienced a deep pain that He prayed with loud, strong cries and tears in the garden of Gethsemane.

Hebrews 5:7–8 (RSV)

7 In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard for his godly fear.

8 Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered;

Lesson: It is our devotion to prayer that will help give us the ability to go deeper in prayer when we find ourselves in deep pain.