Hebrews 5:7 “In the days of His flesh [Jesus] offered up definite, special petitions (for that which He not only wanted but needed) and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him Who was always able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence toward God (His godly fear, His piety, in that He shrank from the horrors of separation from the bright presence of the Father).”
This passage in Hebrews tells us that in the days of His flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears. The emphasis of all this is that the Son of God actively and consistently prayed. Jesus understood the seriousness of communicating with His heavenly Father. Jesus chose not to let to let anything disrupt that fellowship.
What can you say about your life? Have you come to understand the importance of communicating with God above everything else? What things do you let distract you from daily communication with the Father? If Jesus was convinced that His own life and ministry depended on His prayer life with the Father, we should set our hearts to maintain uninterrupted time in prayer with our Lord Jesus because this is the key to our life as God intends it.
Jesus knew the Father’s love and He sought to prevail upon in asking the Father to come to His aid. In John 17:24 Jesus acknowledged this in prayer: “You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” Jesus loved the Father and He was loved by the Father! Because of this, He confidently expected the Father to hear and answer His requests from a loving heart. Jesus knew that any and every answer from the Father was always an expression of that love. Jesus understood the importance of that love relationship. The Scriptures reveal that Jesus and the Father were always in loving union and constant fellowship with each other. John 14: 10-11 “I am in the father, and the Father in Me.” (John 10:30, 38; 14:20).
Jesus was intensely committed to prayer because this loving presence of the Father was His very life. John 6:57 “I live because of the Father” and prayer was His lifeline! The closeness of the Son
and the Father is the most important characteristic of Jesus’s prayer life. It was a closeness that found its expression in His constant time alone with the father in prayer. Jesus did not let anything distract Him from this intimate fellowship; His family, His disciples, the religious critics and even His enemies, there was too much at stake to let anything distract Him.
The people around Jesus did not understand this at times. But they also did not see that this was the kind of relationship that they should have with Jesus. This is one reason why so many times Jesus had to find places where He could be alone and pr. But He let nothing keep Him from maintaining His relationship with the Father.