The following is from Pastor Stewart's series on the prayer life of Christ. The passage this week was Mark 6:45-52. The first paragraph contains some of my notes from the message.
"The Devil wants the Christian to look at the circumstances, even if they are good. He wants us to look at the circumstances and not at Christ. Right after the feeding of the thousands, Jesus takes His disciples to get in a boat without Him and tells them to leave. He then gets alone to pray. It is likely that He went to pray about the disciples' hardness concerning the working of Christ."
After the feeding of the 5,000, Jesus walks on water. The disciples reacted to Jesus' walking on water with fear and amazement. Mark 6:52 says that this was because "they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened." At the reading of this verse my heart was pricked, knowing how I respond with fear, doubt, and even disbelief because the hardness of my own heart.
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