DAILY BREAD OF LIFE

(KJV.)  ST. MATTHEW 26:38-40

(38)  Then saith he unto them,  My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death:  tarry ye here, and watch with me.
(39)  And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying  O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me:  nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
(40)  And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter,  What,  could ye not watch with me one hour?

ABBA FATHER!

Brethren, as believers in sufferings, the only remedy to our troubling situations are fervent prayers to our Father through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior;  there is no other way, many times we try to use self efforts to solve spiritual problems, which may not go deeper spiritually into the roots of our situations; not knowing that, all things that manifest on earth are engineered from the spirits before manifestations physically;  therefore, regardless of our circumstances in this world, before we try to reason with worldly solutions, let us seek the face of our Father, pray first, then, search the scriptures to find solutions that relates to our circumstances, referring to how our Father turn things around for good, trust him to do the same for us, for, our Father, honors his words, and will not turn away from his children who reminds him of his words.  

Pray with greater faith, believe in Jesus Christ that he conquered our mountains of difficulties on the cross of Calvary, and we are more than conquerors in this world of darkness, that miracles do happen in this world to change negative situations around positively by his grace:  during difficult times, maybe, our faiths are being tested and proven by our Father;  if we are not careful enough to stand firmly in faith during sufferings, regardless of what the enemy does, trust and surrender our lives over to Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, in the way, that he trusted our Father with his life, in the garden of Gethsemane, took away the iniquities of this world;  how then can we overcome our predicaments successfully?;  this is a point to ponder on!

In this chapter, Jesus went to the garden of Gethsemane, with his disciples to pray, when they got there he asked them to wait for him at a place while he goes yonder to pray;  why leave the disciples behind?;  as believers, there are moments in our lives when we need to get away from business of this world, go into seclusions, to pray, seek our Father's face to guide our footsteps when we are on cross roads of our callings; however, Jesus took three of his disciples including Peter, and began to be sorrowful and sad;  isn't that interesting, how our instincts will relate events yet to surface into our lives?; Jesus felt the negativity of what was about to prevail against him;  therefore, he further fell on his face and prayed, crying out to our Father, saying, "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me:"; at this point, his heart was heavy with grief, his flesh was weaken for the task ahead of him, the enemy tried to infiltrate Jesus's mind to give up on the most important aspect of his assignment, his sufferings, shed blood, death on the cross and resurrection from the graveyard; therefore, he went on to say, "nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.";  regardless of how Jesus felt at that particular time, about what he was about to go through, he also knew that our Father's will ought to done on earth:  therefore, he rebuked the devil, surrendered to the authorities died on the cross, rose up again to complete his assignment successfully, ascended into heaven, seated on right hand of our Father as an advocate forevermore.

As branches of the vine;  many times, when we are called into the service of Jesus Christ, we waste fruitful years to dance and march around wildernesses of this world; enjoy and delay our destines, pray our ways out of suffering times needed to refurbish our souls into what our Father intended us to become in his righteousness, rather than to pray for strengths to overcome sufferings, allow our Father's will to be done, in other to be proven as worthy servants of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior; in the aspect of Jesus Christ's sufferings, in his prayers, threw the ball back into the courts of our Father, saying, in other words, "if I should go through this, thy will be done!;  people of our Father, let us be careful to discern ways and craftiness of the enemy, whenever, our breakthroughs and blessings are being discharge from heaven into our lives, guess who shows up to blindfold our eyes not to see or receive our blessings?;  the enemy of our souls,  if Jesus Christ, would have given up going through sufferings, death on the cross and resurrection from the grave, what would have happened to our iniquities, would this twenty-first generation still perform animal blood sacrifices for atonement of sins?

CONCLUSION:

Dearly beloved, when Jesus Christ gave in to the will of our Father, came back from seclusion and found his disciples asleep, he said to Peter; What, could ye not watch with me one hour?;  friends, when in sufferings, no one can really feels our emotions, what we go through unless they are in similar situations themselves;  therefore, when in sufferings, let us rely on Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, pray to the one who is dependable, with capabilities to feel our emotions, and on our sides while we go through sufferings; and be strengthen by reading the scriptures, singing songs of praises to our Father, with thanksgivings, and wait patiently for his will to be done, be overcomers with words of testimonies;  be aware that during those darker moments of our lives, in the valleys of shadows of deaths, that is when the enemy of our souls, positions himself with lies to prove that his ways out of our sufferings are better, than ways of our Father, and if care is not taken, believers may fall into his temptations, derail themselves from the establishments of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior and intended purposes of our Father, lose their rightful inheritances in life everlasting.  Amen and Amen!

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

(KJV.)  Matthew 26:42:  He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying,  O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.