Jesus gave thanks:

1
Jesus gave thanks

• at the feeding of the multitude - Matthew 1419
• after expressing dismay over the unbelief of
  those who had witnessed the miracles - Matthew
  1125
• after the apostles had returned with reports from
  their preaching tour - Luke 1021
• in the Upper Room - Luke 2217, 19

2
Jesus Thanksgiving Prayer

• "Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I
  knew that you always hear me, but I said this for
  the benefit of the people standing here, that
  they may believe that you sent me."
• John 1141-43

3
Surprised?

• 1. No effort to get to Lazarus before he died

4

• 1. No effort to get to Lazarus before he died
• 2. The command to remove the stone

5

• 1. No effort to get to Lazarus before he died.
• 2. The command to remove the stone
• 3. Jesus prayed

6

• 1. No effort to get to Lazarus before he died.
• 2. The command to remove the stone
• 3. Jesus prayed
• 4. We don't have the actual prayer request of
  Jesus

7

• 1. No effort to get to Lazarus before he died.
• 2. The command to remove the stone
• 3. Jesus prayed
• 4. We don't have the actual prayer request of
  Jesus
• 5. Jesus prayed with His eyes open

8

• 1. No effort to get to Lazarus before he died.
• 2. The command to remove the stone
• 3. Jesus prayed
• 4. We don't have the actual prayer request of
  Jesus
• 5. Jesus prayed with His eyes open
• 6. The prayer of Jesus was an audible prayer

9

• 1. No effort to get to Lazarus before he died.
• 2. The command to remove the stone
• 3. Jesus prayed
• 4. We don't have the actual prayer request of
  Jesus
• 5. Jesus prayed with His eyes open
• 6. The prayer of Jesus was an audible prayer
• 7. His audible prayer was thanksgiving

10

• 1. No effort to get to Lazarus before he died.
• 2. The command to remove the stone
• 3. Jesus prayed
• 4. We don't have the actual prayer request of
  Jesus
• 5. Jesus prayed with His eyes open
• 6. The prayer of Jesus was an audible prayer
• 7. His audible prayer was thanksgiving
• 8. Not surprised - the prayer of Jesus was a
  confident prayer

11
God heard the prayers of

• Hagar
• Rachel
• Children of Israel
• Psalmist
• Solomon
• Elijah
• Hezekiah
• Manasseh
• Josiah

12
I John 514, 15

• "This is the confidence we have in approaching
  God that if we ask anything according to his
  will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears
  us -- whatever we ask -- we know that we have
  what we asked of him."

13

• "Father, I thank you that you
• have heard me."

14
Acts 2815

• "The brothers there had heard that we were
  coming, and they traveled as far as the Forum of
  Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. At the
  sight of these men Paul thanked God and was
  encouraged."
• KJV - " Paul . . . thanked God, and took courage."

15

• "Father, I thank you that you
• have heard me."