Jesus’ intimacy with the Father in His prayer life was distinctively linked to the Holy Spirit, because He knew the Spirit’s activity was the key to God’s anointing and equipping for service in His kingdom. The first time we see this link between Jesus, His prayers, the Holy Spirit, and the closeness of Father and Son is His baptism in the Jordan River in Luke 3:21-22 “Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized, and (while He was still) praying, the (visible) heaven was opened. And the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven, saying, You are My Son, My Beloved! In You I am well pleased and find delight!” As Jesus prayed, the Holy Spirit came upon Him with enabling for the ministry that was ahead of Jesus, while the Father confirmed His love for His Son.
We can study this closeness between the Father and the Son, and admire it, but never make the connection to our lives. What about you? Are you experiencing intimate fellowship with the heavenly Father in the days of your flesh? Through every day, as you carry out your responsibilities and activities, are you living in continual fellowship with the Son and with the Father, through the Holy Spirit? Can you say, ‘I am in Him, and He is in me.’ In prayer, have you allowed the Spirit to teach and shape you to the image of Jesus so you can say “If you have seen me, you have seen my heavenly father” like Jesus did in John 14:9? Have you spent enough time in prayer to know that your words and works are the words and works of the Father, like Jesus did in John 14:10?
As you pursue a closer relationship with God through prayer, are you keeping the Father’s love in the forefront of your thinking and your experience? When we pray, we need to remember that God loves us, He has plans for us, and will lay His heart over our hearts as we pray!
We need to find time to pray to receive His direction for our lives. We cannon allow distractions to interfere. Nor can we get discouraged if others do not understand our closeness with the Father and all that He is telling us.