How do you approach major decisions in your life? Are you impulsive or do you take your time and think things through? Do you rely upon your own inclinations or do you seek wisdom from others? What role does prayer play in your decision making process?

As we examine the life of our Lord, we learn that He did not take important decisions lightly. Jesus was God in the flesh. Unlike us, He had it within Himself to make the perfect decision every time. However, before He selected the twelve apostles, Jesus spent the entire night in prayer unto God. "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. And when it was day, He called His disciples to Himself; and from them He chose twelve whom He also named apostles" (Luke 6:12-13).

The twelve apostles were to serve an important purpose. After the Lord left the world to sit upon His throne in Heaven and rule as King, these are the men who would serve as His ambassadors and eyewitnesses of His resurrection, take the gospel into all the world, and equip the church to survive after their departure. The right men had to be chosen!

Jesus continued all night in prayer to God on the eve before the selection of these twelve men. No doubt they had already been chosen, but their appointment was a matter of such importance that Jesus sought to commune with God regarding their selection and appointment as apostles.

We must learn something from this event. If it was important for Jesus, the perfect, divine Son of God, to pray before making important decisions, how much more important should it be for His fallible disciples to do so?