Oh, let the Son of God enfold you with His spirit and his love.

Let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you,

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, as Chuck continues with Jesus spends the night in prayer, as we pick up in Luke chapter 6 verse 12 and now with today's message

here's pastor chuck now it came to pass in those days that he went out into a mountain to pray

again Luke's giving us the insight in the prayer life of Jesus and he continued all night in prayer. You men that spend the all-night vigils here in the

prayer room. You know who is there with you every night? The Lord, he said we're two or three

are gathered together in my name. I'm there. He was used to praying all night. You're in good company. He spent the night in prayer. Why?

Because the next day, he was going to be making some very important decisions. From those

disciples that were following him, he was going to choose 12 to be called apostles. Jesus prayed before important decisions were to be made.

I think that that is a tremendous example for us, and we would be very wise to follow it when we have

important decisions to make, to spend some time in prayer seeking

God's guidance in those decisions.

So when the day came, he called unto him his disciples, and from them he chose 12, whom he also named apostles.

And he gives us the name of the 12, Simon, who he also named Peter, Andrew, his brother,

James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew, and Thomas, James the son of Ophaeus, and Simon called the Zealot,

and Judas, the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who also was the traitor.

And he came down with them and stood in the plane and the company of

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