Scripture References:
👉Matthew 26:2-50 AMP
👉Matthew 26:15 AMPC
👉Luke 22:44 AMP
👉John 13:21 AMPC
👉John 18:2-3 NIV
4/5/26
#5MinutesofFocus
"JESUS, Thank You For The Garden!!"
Jesus,
Everybody wants to talk about The Cross and overlook what you went through, BEFORE you even got to The Cross.
But Not me, I can't just bypass The Garden and go straight to The Cross and forget about how you were betrayed by one of your own, betrayed by somebody close to you, betrayed by the one you gave a title, the one you gave a position, the one you gave purpose.
Jesus, Thank You For The Garden!!
Because I cannot forget how you were deeply grieved in The Garden. YOU ALMOST DIED of sorrow (right there in The Garden) and all you wanted was somebody to pray for you, the way you had prayed for them, be there for you, the way you had been for them.
Jesus, Thank You For The Garden!!
My heart aches knowing the disciples were there, but you STILL felt alone in everything you went through.
My heart aches knowing you were stressed out in The Garden to the point that your tears were like drops of blood.
YET, It's the bloody tears that fell from your body that gave me my mind back.
Because for many of us, the 1st thing sin took was our mind.
And The disciples you chose were there, but they were asleep, they were sleeping while you were pacing, going back and forth in The Garden. 1 x, 2 x, 3xs you went to them for help and found them asleep.
The same disciples you taught to pray in Luke 11:1 were not praying with you, keeping watch with you when you needed them to help carry the weight of the spiritual warfare you were feeling.
Jesus,
I repent for not being there when you needed me, for not being where you need me to be, vigilant and on my post.
My heart aches when I think about how Judas betrayed you for 21.60
How he put a price tag on his relationship with you.
How at the end of the day, you didn't mean more to Judas than a measly $21.60.
And how sleep was more important to the other disciples than staying awake, watching with the one that had watched over them time after time.
You never sleep nor slumbered on them (Psalm 121:3), but they couldn't stand guard over you, stay awake with you for 1 hour.
Jesus,
All you needed was an hour (60 minutes) and many of us fail to give you that.
Nothing is sacred anymore. I don't think we even know the meaning of the word.
Judas deliberately brought your enemies into The Garden. John 18:2 says HE KNEW the place... It was a place you had often shared with your disciples (it was a sacred space), but still....
Jesus, Thank You For The Garden!!
Thank you for praying YOURSELF through and giving up YOUR WILL -your desire to have that cup (of wrath) pass from you, for me.
Thank you for choosing The Father’s Will Over Your Own.
Until Next Sunday.
LPS~ Love, Prophetess Stacy
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