Jesus is God! – Study of LukePart 16- “Prayer is Hard”

Luke 22:39-46

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• The skinny on Prayer

BIG IDEA: Prayer is the work that works!

Passion Week ChronologyEvent Day and Time (If

Known)Passages of Scripture

Supper in Simon’s House and Mary Anoints Jesus

Nisan 8Friday

Matthew 26:6-13

Paschal (Passover Lamb) is chosen for each family and the lambs are ushered into the city of Jerusalem

Nisan 10Sunday (Likely morning)

Exodus 12

Triumphal Entry of Jesus Nisan 10Sunday

Mt. 21:1-11; Mk. 11:1-10; Lk. 19:29-44; Jn 12:12-19

Withering of Barren Fig Tree2nd Cleansing of the temple

Nisan 11Monday

Mt. 21:18-19; Mk. 11:12-14Mt. 21:12-17; Mk. 11:15-19; Lk. 19:45-48

Olivet DiscoursePharisees Plot to have Jesus killedJudas agrees to betray Jesus

Nisan 12 & possibly 13Tuesday

Mt. 24-25:46; Mark 13; Luke 21:5-36Mt. 26:1-5; Lk. 22:1, 2; Mk. 14:1, 2Mt. 26:14-16; Mk. 14:10-11; Lk. 22:3-6

Last SupperUpper Room DiscourseTeachings on Way to GethsemanePrayer in GardenBetrayal and arrest in Garden

Nisan 14Wednesday

Mt. 26:17-29; Mk. 14:12-25; Lk. 22:7-20John 13:2-14:31John 18:13-24Mt. 25:30-46; Mk. 14:26-42; Lk. 22:39-46Mt. 26:47-56; Mark 14:43-52; Luke 22:47-53; John 18:2-12

Luke 22:39-46

39 Coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, as He was accustomed, and His disciples also followed Him.

Luke 22:39-46

39 Coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, as He was accustomed, and His disciples also followed Him. 40 When He came to the place, He said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

• προσεύχομαι (proseuchomai)–Mark 1:35–Romans 8:26– Ephesians 6:18– James 5:13–1 Thess. 5:17–2 Thess. 3:1–1 Timothy 2:8

Luke 22:39-46

39 Coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, as He was accustomed, and His disciples also followed Him. 40 When He came to the place, He said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

• προσεύχομαι• πειρασμός

(peirasmos)– examination to

learn the true nature or character of (James 1:2; 1 Pet. 4:12)

– a test intended to make one stumble (Lk 4:13; Acts 15:26)

Luke 22:39-46

41 And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and prayed, 42 saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.”

• βούλομαι (boulomai)– desire, wish,

implying planning and the invocation of the will (Ac 25:22; Php 1:12)

• θέλημα (thelēma)– will or desire (1

Peter 4:2)

Luke 22:39-46

43 Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him. 44 And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

• ἐνισχύω (enischuō)– Acts 19:20-So the

word of God grew mightily and prevailed

• ἐκτενής (ektenēs)– 1 Peter 4:8, “…have

fervent love for one another…”

– Acts 12:5, “Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer…”

Luke 22:39-46

45 When He rose up from prayer, and had come to His disciples, He found them sleeping from sorrow. 46 Then He said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation.”

• λύπη (lypē)– state of mental pain

and anxiety– 2 Cor. 9:7 …let each

one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly…

– 2 Cor. 2:7 …forgive and comfort, lest…be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

What Should We Pray About?

• Spiritual Protection– “Pray that you may not enter into temptation”

• Physical and Emotional Provision– “if it is Your Will, take this cup from Me”– “being in agony, He prayed more earnestly…sweat

became like great drops of blood”– “found them sleeping from sorrow”

• God’s Will to Be Done– “Your will…not My will, but Yours, be done”

Why Should We Pray?

• God is our Father– 1 John 5:13 “…you who believe in the name of the Son of God,

that you may know that you have eternal life…”

• God Hears Our Prayers– 1 John 5:14 “…if we ask anything according to His will, He

hears us…”

• God Answers Our Prayers– 1 John 5:15 “And if we know that Hears us, whatever we ask,

we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him”

What Keeps us from Praying?

• Emotional and physical exhaustion-sleeping from sorrow

• Over commitment to other activities-I’m just too busy to pray right now

• Unconfessed Sin in our lives• Spiritual Apathy• Self-Dependence-I can do it on my own• Past “unanswered” prayers• Boring-I’m easily distracted• Prayer is Hard Work

Luke 11:9–13

9 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 11 If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

BIG IDEA: Prayer is the work that works!