How to pray in God's will
I was wondering the other day…When the disciples learned that Jesus was going to be unjustly crucified, did they pray against it? Did the disciples pray that Jesus would not be crucified? Did they think that it could not possibly be the will of God because in their limited thinking, all they saw was that they were losing their Rabbi, their Master, their Friend - the Messiah. Why would God want their Messiah to be crucified? That didn't make sense. Even though Jesus told them over and over about His mission, His purpose - that He was to be sacrificed for the sins of the world, that He would die but be raised up again in three days - they still didn’t seem to fully accept or understand it. The disciples were privy to these glorious truths, told to them directly by Jesus Himself. Nonetheless, when Jesus actually fulfilled the Scriptures’ prophecy by His death, the disciples were heartbroken. They were confused. Perhaps they thought in terms of "good" and "bad"