He prayed many times in private and in public. He not only taught us how to pray, but He commanded us to pray. We are told to pray, and yet I dare say that there is little praying on the part of the average Christian today. I believe the first thing that will amaze us when we get to heaven will be the thought of our prayerlessness and how much could have been accomplished had we spent time in prayer. The first thing I want you to see just briefly is the antiquity of prayer.
Prayer is as old as the human race.
Our first parents talked to God, and the oldest and most universal of religious exercises is prayer. Man prays by instinct. If he has no god, he makes one. The most godless person will cry out to God in times of peril. That was a form of prayer, no matter how crude it was.