Today's Pause for Prayer 04-09-2021

  • Apr 9, 2021
  • Michael Blank
  • Category: Prayer Alerts

Ladies and Gentlemen, the sweetest time of day is when I PRAY, because I am talking to the one who loves me the MOST!

They (Jesus & His Disciples) went to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and Jesus said,

Sit here while I go and pray.

He took Peter, James, and John with Him, and He became deeply troubled and distressed. He told them,

My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.

He went on a little farther and fell to the ground. He prayed that, if it were possible, the awful hour awaiting Him might pass Him by.

“Abba, Father,” He cried out, “everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from Me. Yet I want Your Will to be done, not Mine.”

Then He returned and found the disciples asleep. He said to Peter,

Simon, are you asleep? Couldn’t you watch with Me even one hour? Keep watch and PRAY, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.

Then Jesus left them again and prayed the same prayer as before.

When He returned to them again, He found them sleeping, for they couldn’t keep their eyes open. And they didn’t know what to say. When He returned to them the third time, He said,

Go ahead and sleep. Have your rest. But no—the time has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Up (arise), let’s be going. Look, My betrayer is here!

Mark 14:32-42

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Dear ones, The LORD our GOD does NOT dictate how we use our time! There are monks and nuns who PRAY consistently and there are some people who never pray unless they are in grave danger or trouble. JESUS does NOT discriminate against us. He understands us as another human being. Three times in the Garden of Gethsemane He wanted compassion and comfort from Peter – James & John. JESUS knew that they had no idea what was about to happen to Him nor their own lives.

Yet in His hour of greatest testing JESUS Prayed that His Father’s Divine Purpose BE DONE – not My good ideas; not My wants; not My desires; but ONLY what GOD-JEHOVAH has Planned for Me.

Holy Spirit of TRUTH, we PRAY in agreement with Your Word in Romans 8:26-35

 

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to PRAY for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And He who searches our hearts knows the Mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the Will of God.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to his purpose.

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all—how will He not also, along with Him, Graciously give us all things?

Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to Life—is at the Right Hand of God and is also interceding for us.

Who shall separate us from the Love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the Love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

Amen and Amen!

 

Sweet Hour of PRAYER – Alan Jackson

Video LINK = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pL41VzmOhg

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