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          Mark 1: 35 (NIV)" Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up,  left the house and went off to a solitary place,  where he prayed ." This prayer was done after a busy day of ministry, including healing many people and casting out demons late into the night. This shows that even for Jesus, power and purpose came from his private time spent with God i.e. power to do his ministry and his purpose because following this prayer, when his disciples found him and said everyone was looking for him, Jesus stated that he needed to go to the nearby villages to preach, which was the purpose for which he came. This action shows the importance of prayer in Jesus's life, a habit of seeking private devotion with God. It shows Jesus’s dependence on God and he was prioritizing his relationship with the Father.          It is mentioned "as usual" (Luke 22:39-41 NIV) Jesus went to a so...

     Matthew 8:23-27,Luke 8:22-25,Mark 4:35-41 t eaches us many things but the two main things that I underlined and re-underlined  were; a) Jesus was with the disciples, in the boat, when the storm hit! And b) Jesus was asleep!                 I remember one of the young kids in my church had send a forwarded message to my sister,many years back, when our family was going through some unexpected and sudden storms stating; ‘Having   Jesus IN YOUR BOAT   does not mean your boat wont go through   storms, it simply means your boat WILL   NOT sink’!                 True! Jesus was with the disciples, in the boat , but still the boat went through a storm! Their boat tossed and tumbled   in the raging waves. The disciples,though the bible doesn’t mention a number ,we know atleast four out of twelve were fishermen. So i...