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When God Chose His Team
Brian Mashburn
February 1, 2015
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When God Chose His Team
I have two profoundly important questions for you today.
First, how is your prayer life with God? Would you characterize it as growing? Is it deepening? Is it one-way conversation or is it two-way? Do you have one at all?
This is so important because prayer is how we come to God and participate in our growing relationship with him. When the son of God walked the earth as a man, it was with prayer that he communed with God.
He prayed in the beginning of his ministry at his baptism and he prayed at the end of it on the cross. And he prayed everywhere in between. Today we will look at a time when he prayed all night long before he made a big decision. Think about it: If Jesus Christ needed a vibrant prayer life to stay connected to God, then how much more do you need it?
Second, who specifically are you discipling? Or who are you being discipled by? After praying all night, Jesus specifically called twelve guys by name to invest in. To teach. To train. He didn't preach these guys to maturity. He didn't "Bible class" them into Christlikeness. He called them "to be with him." (Mark 3:14)
Intimate, life-on-life relationship was God's chosen method of changing the world when he was here as a man. And then he commissioned his disciples to go and do the same.
Are you being discipled? Are you discipling anyone?
If so, I'd lay bet that those relationships are the richest ones you have. If not, then I'd bet that you are not transforming more into the image of Christ.
That might be worth praying all night about.