Gethsemane

Mark  14:32-42 — Mt 26:36-46; Lk 22:40-46

  They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”   He took Peter, James and John  along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled.   “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,”  he said to them. “Stay here and keep watch.”

    Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour  might pass from him.   “Abba, Father,”  he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup  from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.” 

    Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Simon,” he said to Peter, “are you asleep? Couldn’t you keep watch for one hour?   Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.  The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” 

    Once more he went away and prayed the same thing.   When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. They did not know what to say to him.

    Returning the third time, he said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour  has come. Look, the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners.   Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!”

Questions in Genesis 

29:15

Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?”

29:25

So it came to pass in the morning, that behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served you? Why then have you deceived me?”

30:2

And Jacob's anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

Thoughts 

When the dream of our heart is one that God has planted there, a strange happiness flows into us.  At that moment, all of the spiritual resources of the universe are released to help us.  Our praying is then at one with the will of God and becomes a channel for the Creator’s purposes for us and our world. - Catherine Marshall

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