Sunday 16 May

Friendship Prayer 7

Friendship Prayer is amazing and powerful, it is one of the best ways to build oneness and intimacy with God.

There is a song that says, “What a friend we have in Jesus. All our sin and grief to bear, what a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer. Oh, what peace we often forfeit, oh what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.”

When it comes to Friendship Prayer, God wants us to discuss everything to Him; there is nothing small or big. Paul was writing in Philippians 4, he said, “be anxious about nothing but in everything…make your request known unto God”. God wants to know everything about you; whether it is a slight headache, health needs, financial need, education, job, business needs or concern about tomorrow, whatever it is; our heavenly Father wants us to discuss it with Him in prayers.

Luke 6: 12 (NLT)

12 One day soon afterwards Jesus went up on a mountain to pray, and he prayed to God all night. 13 At daybreak he called together all of his disciples and chose twelve of them to be apostles. Here are their names:

What kind of prayer was Jesus praying all through the night just to choose 12 apostles out of His many disciples? I believe He was discussing each person with God. “Lord, You want me to pick Simon? Isn’t he rather impulsive for this task?” God probably would have said “Simon is impulsive now but being with you will change him so much and he will lead the team after You leave.”

“Father, I should pick Judas Iscariot, why? He’s bad for this mission, a betrayer! The Father must have said, “Judas is crucial to Your purpose, yes he will betray You but that is in line with Your purpose.” They must have been having this back-and-forth discussion all through the night and when Jesus clarified everything, He made His selection. This selection process was important to Jesus and the father was available to discuss it all through the night with Him and it was called prayer.

Let’s take advantage of God’s invitation of intimacy and friendship; let’s learn to bare our hearts out to Him in prayers, listen for His response and let watch out how everything will be transformed by our loving Father and friend through the power of Friendship Prayer.

God bless you. Enjoy the rest of your day.