All-Nighter Anyone?

[S] Luke 6:12-13 --
 ¹²It was at this time that He went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.
 ¹³And when day came, He called His disciples to Him and chose twelve of them, whom He also named as apostles:

[O] "This time" in verse 12 is referring to how the Jewish leaders began to take offense at what Jesus was doing and start to conspire against him.  In this time of difficulty and spiritual oppression Jesus spent the quiet and personal time to pray and spent time with God for the whole night.  When's the last time I did an all-nighter?  It was mostly when I have a deadline to meet or test to study for that I am forced to stay up all night trying to frantically finish the task at hand; otherwise doing something I have a passion for such as watching my favorite soccer team play the World Cup games, or to finish off the whole season of a Korean Drama DVDs.  But it sure has been a long time since I stayed up all night praying and talking with God especially when stress knocks at my doors.  Furthermore, such an intense prayer time with God preceded His choosing the twelve disciples who He worked closely for them to turn the world upside down (Acts 17:6).  During a hardship and before a major decision making, Jesus spent the whole night conversing with God.

[A] My life seems too busy these days and physically demanding to make me too tired to spend the night (or even an hour) talking with God regarding my urgent needs in my life and ministry.  I need to figure out how to change this so I would have some margin my life to do take such a time away from my routine.

[P] Dear Father, I want to spend that quantity of quality time with You and yet my life is so packed up I cannot.  Would you show me a way to make some room in my life to get back to having that prayer time with You?  In Jesus' name.  Amen.