(The following verses are prayers of Jesus recorded in the Gospels. After each verse I tried to give an observation and a synopsis that attempts to remain true to Jesus' contextual prayer. I hope it ministers to you.)
-Matthew
11:25-26
Jesus praises the Father here for
revealing spiritual wisdom to his children while the learned and the book smart
do not know this wisdom from God necessarily.
-Matthew 27:46 Jesus expresses the estrangement from
His Father because He bore the Father’s wrath
for my sins. This prayer shows the interruption of the Father/Son
relationship.
-Mark
14:32-40 Jesus anticipates the suffering, the
cross. He prays in anguish three times and stating twice: God who is able.
Change the direction of my life but only if it is according to your will. This
is a prayer of excruciating, total submission to
the Father. It exemplifies to the maximum what the cost of discipleship ought
to be. Jesus was yoked to the will of the
Father.
-Luke
22:31-32 Jesus
intercedes and advocates to the Father for Simon Peter because Satan wants
to ruin him and all the apostles. Jesus prays for an unfailing faith in Simon
and once faith does return that he would strengthen others and intercede as
Jesus did for him.
-Luke
23:34 Jesus forgave
the crucifiers because they didn’t know who He really was. v46 Jesus spent His last breath praying Scripture: Palms 31:5 giving His Spirit to the Father and
His will.
-John
11:41-42 Jesus prays in thanksgiving
for the Father hearing Him and demonstrating a miraculous sign in public to draw out faith in the crowd.
-John
12:27-28 Jesus is in anguish and emotional
distressing asking for the Father to save Him but to glorify His Name most
of all. God affirms Him.
-John
14:16 Jesus asks the Father to provide the Holy Spirit for a constant
presence of truth.
-John
17:1-26 Jesus prays that God would fulfill His work, according to His glory. Jesus states
that He has done what needed completing.
He confesses His yearning to be glorified
as He was before Earth existed. Jesus tells
the Father the truth He gave to the disciples and their reception of it.
Jesus prays for His disciples: Protect them,
unify them in Yourself, give them My joy, preserve Your Word in them, and
Sanctify them in the Truth. Jesus prays for the converts after His
disciples: may they be one with Me/Us, may
that oneness show the world that Jesus is the sent Son of God, bestow glory on
them, Jesus desires us to be with Him, affirm their knowledge of You and for
the love of God to be with be in and with them.
