Luke 6:12-19

Now during those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was called the Zealot, and Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

Jesus prayed before he called the twelve. We can see that he prayed often and before big decisions. When we bring our confusions and decisions to prayer, we don’t get easy answers but we widen the context in which we make the most important decisions of our lives. Prayer often gives us an opportunity to put the important decisions of our lives into the context of love of God and love of our neighbour.