Luke 6:12-19

God chooses His disciples...Knock and the door will be opened. Seek and you will find. Ask and you shall receive. He wants no man to perish but all to have everlasting life with their Creator.

He knows how He can use their lives and the talents that He gives to bring His healing touch to mankind. This faith is a gift from God and is a living, continually growing seed. It is  planted in us by the saving grace of Jesus Christ to develop the fruit of the Holy Spirit. The Christ like character developed is given us to share with others, believers and non believers. Prayer holds the key, opening the door, to relationship with the Father through His Son.

Without the power of the Holy Spirit within we can do nothing.

The audience for the sermon consisted of both disciples and the great multitude. Jesus did not restrict His remarks simply to those who believed. Jesus’ fame extended even into Gentile regions. The people were drawn by His teaching and healing ministry. In general, the disciples of Jesus were not wealthy. They were poor men who had come humbly to trust in God.

Luke 6:12-19

¹² Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. ¹³ And when it was day, He called His disciples to Himself; and from them He chose twelve whom He also named apostles: ¹⁴ Simon, whom He also named Peter, and Andrew his brother; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew; ¹⁵ Matthew and Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called the Zealot; ¹⁶ Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot who also became a traitor.

¹⁷ And He came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases, ¹⁸ as well as those who were tormented with unclean spirits. And they were healed. ¹⁹ And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all.

²³ And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. Now when evening came, He was alone there. 

Matthew 14:23

³⁵ Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed. 

Mark 1:35

Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.” 

Luke 11:1

10 And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease. 

Matthew 10:1

³⁶ and begged Him that they might only touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched it were made perfectly well. 

Matthew 14:36