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    Jesus often retreated alone to pray when facing problems. The passage describes how people experience problems at work, home, and in current events, leaving them stressed. While some turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms, Jesus' example was to retreat alone and pray, as prayer was his most powerful weapon. When facing problems, big or small, the passage encourages retreating alone to a solitary place to pray to God.

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    Jesus often retreated alone to pray when facing problems. The passage describes how people experience problems at work, home, and in current events, leaving them stressed. While some turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms, Jesus' example was to retreat alone and pray, as prayer was his most powerful weapon. When facing problems, big or small, the passage encourages retreating alone to a solitary place to pray to God.

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    Mountains of Problems

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    Jesus often retreated alone to pray when facing problems. The passage describes how people experience problems at work, home, and in current events, leaving them stressed. While some turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms, Jesus' example was to retreat alone and pray, as prayer was his most powerful weapon. When facing problems, big or small, the passage encourages retreating alone to a solitary place to pray to God.

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    Mountains of Problems

    And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to
    pray: and when the evening was come, he was alone. Matthew 14:24

    Problems! Problems! Problems! Everywhere we turn, we find problems. At


    work, mountainous tasks stress us. At home, children squabble, pushing us to the
    limits; our parents provoke intense arguments. Our budgeting skills do not work on
    our finances and we could hardly make both ends meet. Calamities or tragedies top
    the news in our country. Cap it with political and economic instability, the dwindling
    peso value against the almighty dollar, sending prices of even the most basic
    commodity to the hit. Violence, murder, sex, corruption and death as shown in TV
    programs worry our minds with the dangers of present existence.

    We are tapped. Where do we turn to? There are among us who turn to food
    for escape, adding obesity and its heart threatening risks to their problems. Some
    turn to drugs, others to alcohol. Still, others go haywire, ending up in nervous
    breakdown. In addition, sad of all, others end all their problems by committing
    suicide.

    Maybe we are not counted in the foregoing tragic ends. However, are we free
    from problems? The perils of stress, heart attack, or stroke respect no man. But no
    one in this world has been subjected to problems and persecutions, for that matter,
    than Jesus had been. In the wilderness (Matthew 4:1-16), Jesus was enticed
    physically, mentally, and emotionally, but He came out victorious! He was powerful
    over the temptation. Then after the weary day of healing the sick, feeding the
    crowd, and beheading (Matthew 14:13-21), Jesus retreated alone to the
    mountainside to pray (verse 23).

    All throughout Jesus’ life and ministry, the scriptures and prayer proved to be
    His most powerful weapons. Retreating alone to the mountainside to pray was His
    habit. His strength came from prayer. Next time we are pressed by mountains of
    problems, petty or trivial they may be, let us retreat to the mountainside –solitary
    place to be alone with God in prayer.

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