About five years ago I began hearing this line over and over again in my private prayer times. I hear it to this day.

This morning one of my congregants posted a question in my Facebook Feed.

WHAT WAS THE GREATEST TEMPTATION JESUS HAD TO ENDURE?

His answer and my response brought me right back to this long standing question.

Ray says…What was the greatest temptation Jesus had to endure? The answer to this question will confirm why prayer is so vitally important. The answer was everyday, He had to surrender His Will and His Freedom to God. Are we willing to let go of our greatest idol, our will and our freedom in exchange for Jesus. We will never experience true freedom in Jesus until we completely surrender and trust in Jesus. We have to destroy the idol we keep hanging onto. It’s name is SELF. MY RIGHT. I AM ENTITLED, and the one we love even more, MY WILL BE DONE, not yours. This is why we must surrender in prayer everyday.

I responded…Jesus did surrender daily to the will of His Father. He never did anything He did not see His Father doing. When you think of how much Jesus actually did, that He saw His Father doing, it does make one wonder how much we are missing of the Father’s work around us.

HOW MUCH OF WHAT THE FATHER IS DOING ARE WE NOT SEEING?