People have said to me for fifty years, ‘Why do you stress prayer so much?’ Because Jesus did.

When Jesus was being baptized in Jordan he was PRAYING when the Spirit descended on him. At the end of his journey on the cross, Luke says “As he died he was PRAYING ‘Father, forgive them.’” He went to the mount of Transfiguration, and as he was PRAYING he was transfigured. Luke emphasizes every event in the life of Jesus with PRAYER. - Leonard Ravenhill