I’ll Take the Turbo Boost Please

On my SUV, there’s a button I rarely use. It was the first in the brand’s vehicles in 2021 with a turbocharged engine. It has enough get up and go for me without pushing that button. BUT, if I had a need for speed, with one push of that button, I could outpace the rest!

And that’s what I know about prayer. Jesus went about doing good and with that good, He had super powers that He used regularly.

Imagine walking with Jesus — being there for His miracles. Seizing the many times He made a point about His Father and giving God the glory each time He performed a miracle.

Jesus had said to the disciples: “You will be MY witnesses in Jerusalem!” Then, He said, “Wait for the power! Don’t go in your own power! Go in MY power!” (Luke 24:49)

Mark records that Jesus had finished His 40 days in the desert with Satan and conquered. Then his first miracle was turning the water into wine at the Wedding Feast in Cana. Then HIs grand debut!

Mark 1 reads: “Simon Peter’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they immediately told Jesus about her. So He went to her, took her hand and helped her up. The fever left her and she began to wait on them. That evening after sunset the people brought to Jesus all the sick and demon-possessed. The whole town gathered at the door, and Jesus healed many who had various diseases. He also drove out many demons.”

“Then very early the next morning, while it was still dark, Jesus left the house and went off to a solitary place to pray.” Jesus hit the “turbo boost”.

The disciples needed the power of prayer so much, that they finally asked: “Lord teach us to pray!” They knew under the power that Jesus had to all those things was prayers.

So, as His humble servants still desiring to be like, look like and act like Jesus and possess the power that He manifested, we too say “Lord teach us to pray! Teach us how to hit that turbo button!”

Jesus’ life and ministry is worthy of hours of discussion, yet it wasn’t His preaching or His miracles that the disciples asked to be taught. We don’t see one recorded time where they asked Him to teach them to preach or heal. They saw the results of His prayer life, so they asked Him: “Teach us to pray.”

They wanted His prayer life. They connected the dots and knew that Jesus’ public life of ministry was the result of His private life of prayer. Luke 5:16 states, “He often withdrew and prayed.” It was the essence of His life. Not only did He teach on prayer…..He prayed.

They watched Him pray, watched God, the Son, talk to God the Father through God, the Spirit. They saw the intimacy and the intensity that came from Him as He prayed.

My own desire is for that same intimacy with God. I’ve begun to ask myself: “Is my life provoking others to say, “Teach me to pray like you do.” I need to work on it, but rather than my prayer, I’ll take the lead from our Master Pray-er and suggest you and I both pray His way (Matthew 6:9-13):

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.”

I believe it’s time for us to interact more with heaven. This next generation desperately needs mothers and fathers to take them by the hand and introduce them to the most beautiful and glorious Person, training them in His glorious school that we never graduate from — the School of Prayer — and get “turbo-charged”.