A Pilgrim's Journal

I do not recommend that approach.

Guess what? Jesus also pulled an all-nighter.

	And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a
	mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
	   Luke 6:12

I wonder if He was tired the next day. There are places in the gospels that tell of how the disciples were tired and fell asleep, so perhaps this was a habit for Jesus. Maybe the only free time He had for prayer was at night when everyone else was asleep.

But I am not convinced that He was necessarily tired the next day. Oh, it might have been that way, and I'm sure Jesus was tired at various points, but somehow, I think Jesus was refreshed while talking to God. Recharged. So recharged that there was an abundance of power in Him as a result.

	45 And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter
	and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude
	throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
 
	46 And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive
	that virtue is gone out of me. 
	   Luke 8

There's another spot in the Bible where hanging out with God ends up with physical side effects that are truly amazing. Did you know that Moses went without food and water for 120 days? That's how I understand these verses:

	When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone,
	even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you,
	then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither
	did eat bread nor drink water:
	   Deuteronomy 9:9

That was the first round. The first tablets during the first 40 days and nights. Then Moses came down the mountain, saw the Israelites in the midst of idolatry, and smashed the tablets.

What did Moses do then? He fasted another 40 days and nights, pleading with God for mercy for the sinning Israelites, interceding on their behalf.

	And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days
	and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water,
	because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in
	the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
	   Deuteronomy 9:18

So Israel was saved from utter destruction. But new tablets were needed. So up the mountain Moses goes again:

	And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty
	days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that
	time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
	   Deuteronomy 10:10
 
	And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights;
	he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon
	the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
	   Exodus 34:28

So I would not be surprised if Jesus found more strength in praying to God all night than He would have gotten with a comfortable full night's sleep. In fact, as evidenced by the miracles that happen after all that prayer, Jesus certainly did find strength.

	But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by
	bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth
	of God.
	   Matthew 4:4