2/1/26
#5MinutesofFocus
"He's Preparing You "
[1] When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was a garden, and he and his disciples went into it.
John 18:1 NIV
Jesus had just finished praying, but despite all His praying...He STILL ended up getting arrested by verse 12.
👉How could Jesus' prayers not work?
👉Jesus had a prayer life.
👉Jesus prayed to His Heavenly Father and it still didn't prevent Him from being arrested.
Many of you are puzzled and have similar questions about your own prayer life. Why didn't praying work?
Beloved,
God never promised you that prayer would prevent or stop EVERYTHING.
But have you ever considered...That just maybe, Instead of preventing or stopping the situation...
👉Prayer is what prepared you for the situation?
👉Prayer prepared Jesus for His arrest.
Of course, He knew he would be arrested, but still he needed to prepare mentally, prepare emotionally for the actual taking away of His freedom etc.
👉You see, It's one thing to know it and something totally different to actually go through it.
👉Therefore, You need to be prepared for what's next.
👉You need to be prepared or you won't be able to go through it, you won't be able to handle it.
Jesus needed to be in The Garden of Gethsemane, praying harder than he had in days prior.
It was the praying, crying, the breaking of His Will in The Garden of Gethsemane that prepared Jesus for His arrest, and being arrested prepared Him for The Cross.
Luke 22:39-54 NKJ
👉So, Instead of being mad that your prayers didn't prevent or stop that thing from happening...
👉In time, you will discover what your prayer life was preparing you for all along and I hope you will look back on it and BE GRATEFUL for the time God gave you in prayer to prepare.
SOMEBODY: He's preparing you.
“You don’t understand now what He's doing, but it will be clear enough to you later.”
John 13:7 MSG
Remember, He causes all things to work together for the good...(Rom 8:28 NLT) Even the hard things, the things you never thought would happen to you etc.
Until Next Sunday.
LPS~ Love, Prophetess Stacy
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