Mark 14:32-36 New International Version (NIV)
Gethsemane
32 They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. 34 “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,” he said to them. “Stay here and keep watch.”
35 Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from him. 36 “Abba,[a] Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
Benjie Kim continued the WITH series with a sermon on what it looks like to have an intimate relationship with God. He shared from Mark 14:32-36, when Jesus prayed in Gethsemane because he was deeply distressed and troubled, and his soul was overwhelmed with sorrow. God calls us to have two traits to overcoming the darkest times in our lives: (1) having an authentic relationship with proper community and practicing complete transparency is essential. We are called to share the depths of our souls to the people in our lives that can walk with us and guide us. (2) having a relationship with with God that reflects Abba (daddy, papa, my own dear father). Our relationship with God ought to reflect a very intimate relationship between father and son/daughter. Healthy solitude is the opposite of escape. Take time in your life to have our hands open to claim and pray, “Abba, I belong to you.”
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