Grace For Gethsemane

0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.600 Hi, this is Joelan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:05.680 to the podcast and thanks. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:06.800 For supporting the ministry. 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:11.160 We believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:15.520 and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the message. 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:16.639 God bless you. 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.480 It's great to be with you today, and I hope 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.000 you'll stay connected with us during the week through our 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:25.880 daily podcast or YouTube channel, social media, and you can 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:27.120 come visit us in person. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:29.080 We'd love to have you be a part of one 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:30.000 of our services. 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.200 I'd like to start with something funny, and in Texas 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:36.919 we're known for everything being bigger. There was this Texan 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.920 farmer that loved to brag about the size. 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:40.280 Of his ranch. 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.280 He was in England and met this English farmer and 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.080 he asked him how big his ranch was, knowing that 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.360 he'd probably ask about his. The Englishman said, my ranch 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:53.440 is thirty five acres. How big is yours? The Texans said, well, 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.600 let's just put it this way. If I got in 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.959 my truck at sunrise and started driving across my property 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.720 at sunset, I would still be on my ranch. The 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.360 Englishman said, yeah, I used to have a truck like that. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:11.440 No bragging around here. Here we go, y'all. This is 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.440 my Bible. I am what it says I am. I 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:16.840 have what it says I have. I can do what 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.760 it says I can do. Today I will be taught 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:24.120 the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.520 my heart is receptive. I will never be the same. 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:32.680 In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:37.160 to you today about grace for Gsemone. The word Gsemone 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.640 means a place of pressing. It was an olive garden 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:44.240 in Jerusalem, and workers would put olives into a press. 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.800 They were squeezed and under that pressure the oil would 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.520 come out. You couldn't have the valuable olive oil without 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:55.880 the pressing. It's not a coincidence that before Jesus went 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.080 to the cross, before he rose from the dead, he 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:03.000 had to go through the garden of Gasimone. That's where 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:07.160 he was so overwhelmed and so distressed, knowing what he 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.760 was about to face, that he swept great drops of blood. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.160 He said, my soul is in agony, even to the 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:18.480 point of death. He had this season of suffering that 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.880 he had to endure. He could have given up, said 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.280 father I'm done here. This is too much. He could 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.520 have called angels to come rescue him, but he made 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:32.360 this decision. Father, not my will, but you will be done. 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:37.320 He passed the test, and we celebrate the resurrections, but 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:41.360 the real victory was won in Gasemone. That's where he 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:45.040 refused to give up. He didn't get bitter because people 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:50.520 betrayed him, didn't get discouraged because disciples fell asleep, didn't 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.400 live frustrated because the plan wasn't fair. 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.720 He was squeezed, he was pressured, he. 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:00.840 Was uncomfortable, but he endured the suffering, knowing that the 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:05.440 joy that was coming. Real victory is not one in public. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.239 It's one in private. It's what you do in Gasimine 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.440 when you're taking the treatment. The child's off course, when 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:17.440 your dream is delayed. Paul said in Philippians, I want 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.280 to know him in the power of his resurrection and 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:25.639 the fellowship of his suffering. You can't have a resurrection 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.840 without some suffering. You have to have a strong will, 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:34.040 a made up mind, not a weak mentality, but a 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:35.160 warrior mentality. 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:37.640 I am in this for the long haul. 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:43.280 I will not give up, start complaining, blaming, doubting, I 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.120 know on the other side of this suffering is the 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:50.520 power of the resurrection. Peter said, after you have suffered 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:55.000 a little while, you will come out established. The suffering 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:59.280 is not permanent. The squeezing, the pressing is not how 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:03.840 your story is. Gasimony is just one stops. It's just 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.160 a season. It's designed for you to pass through it 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.920 so you can come into the power, the fullness. 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.600 The abundance that God has in store. 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:15.880 But the enemy would lie for us to get stuck 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:16.680 in gssemine. 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.760 Why did this door closed? Why is this taking so long? 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:22.720 Why did my child get off course? 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:28.640 You can't reach your destiny without being pressured, squeezed thoughts 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:29.120 telling you. 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.760 That it's never going to work out. God has forgotten 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:32.159 about you. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.960 The fact that you feel the pressure, that's a sign 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:40.400 that a resurrection is coming. You wouldn't be in gasimone 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:45.920 if you weren't close to something amazing, not ordinary, but supernatural. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.719 Doors opening you never dream would open, business tracking you down, 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.839 the right people showing up, healing from. 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:54.800 What looks impossible. 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.240 When you're in a place of pressing, don't let it 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:02.520 squeeze your faith, outs, squeeze your hope, squeeze your dreams. 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.360 Turn it around and let it. Squeeze the doubt out. God. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.680 I don't see away, but I know you're making away. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.760 Squeeze the bitterness out. God. 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.599 They hurt me, but I know you're my vindicator. Squeeze 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:16.680 the discouragement out. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.800 I lost this loved one. But God, I know you 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.440 have beauty for these ashes. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.920 I can't promise you that you'll never have a gaseimone, 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:30.520 never feel pressured, overwhelmed, betrayed. But I can promise you 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:35.120 there is grace for every gasemone. The apostle Paul had 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.039 what he called a thorn in his flesh, something that 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.200 he couldn't get rid of. Three times he prayed, God, 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.240 take this away, get me out of gasemone. I'm uncomfortable. 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:49.680 He couldn't pray it away, God said Paul, My grace. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:50.560 Is sufficient for you. 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:55.160 God won't let you go into that pressure without giving 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.560 you what you need to handle it. Quit telling yourself. 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:00.360 I can't take this anymore. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.840 Joel, I can't raise these kids. I can't deal with 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:03.520 this sickness. 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:08.360 These coworkers are driving me crazy. You're defeating yourself when 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.240 you're being squeezed. You have to talk to yourself. The 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.560 right way. I can handle this. I am strong in 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:18.080 the Lord. I can do all things through Christ. In 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.359 one sense, it was easy for Jesus to heal the 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:25.120 blind man, easy to turn water into wine, easy to 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:29.200 raise Lazarus from the dead. But now Jesus was in Gosemone. 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.720 He was so distressed that he fell to the ground, 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:34.080 overwhelmed by pressure. 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.600 You don't get to choose the road you travel. Sometimes 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.760 God will take you to a Gosemone, down a path 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:46.600 that's uncomfortable. There's pressure, adversity. You didn't choose it. 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.720 We like the favor, the blessing, the good times. This 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.680 battle chose you. And Jesus already. 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:55.240 Knew the outcome. 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:59.160 He already knew he would rise again, be seated next 0:06:59.160 --> 0:06:59.839 to his father. 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.560 He knew the end, But in the middle, the. 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:07.679 Pressure was so great he still questioned. He said, Father, 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.920 if you're willing take this bitter cup from me? Three 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.920 times he prayed that, but the heavens were silent. God 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:16.720 never answered. 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:18.160 He didn't hear a. 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.320 Voice boom out like when he is being baptized, sir, 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.160 and I'm pleased with you. Keep going strong. It's all 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.640 gonna work out. He heard from his father in the 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.880 good times, but in Gaseomone, the most difficult time in 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:36.000 his life. Not a word, but God being silent doesn't 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:37.120 mean that he's not there. 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:38.880 That's a test. 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.960 That's when you have to show God you're gonna trust 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.320 him even when you don't hear him. You're gonna keep 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:50.640 believing even though nothing is changing. When Heaven is silent, 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.840 you need to go back to what God already promised you. God, 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:58.760 I'm in Gasemone dealing with this illness. But Lord, you said, 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.640 you're Jehovah ra the Lord, my healer. Lord, I thank 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.440 you you're restoring health back into me. God, I'm suffering 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.880 from this child that's breaking my heart. But God, you said, 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.520 as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:18.040 Jesus said, Father, if you can take this cup from me, nevertheless, 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.600 not my will, but let your will be done. It's 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.600 okay to ask God to take something away, but you 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.160 need to add the nevertheless. God, if it doesn't happen 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.840 my way, I'm not gonna complain, live better. 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:36.160 Give up on my dreams. I'm gonna stand strong, endure, 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:40.439 knowing that this season of suffering is leading to a resurrection, 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:42.880 to a new level of my destiny. 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.720 God wouldn't have let you go to Gasimone if he 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:47.840 didn't have something. 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:48.800 Amazing in front of you. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.000 There are levels of favor and blessing you can only 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.720 see by going through a season of pressing, a season 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:01.480 of suffering. Gasimone is not the enemy's designed by God. 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.679 It's a strategic place to launch you to the power 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.520 of the resurrection, to see favor that you've never imagined. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:11.240 But here's the key. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.040 Before you see public victory, you have to win the 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:19.600 private victory before you see your resurrection. You have to 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:24.040 pass the test in Gsemone. Had Jesus said, Father, take 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:27.480 this bitter cup from me because I'm bitter. I'm not 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.360 putting up with this suffering. It's too much, he wouldn't 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.200 have seen the resurrection. He wouldn't be seated on the 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:37.960 right hand of the Father. Are you missing favor increase 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.840 because you're stuff in Gasemone, bitter over what didn't work out, 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.839 upset over the door that closed, angry over who left you. 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:48.880 Try a different approach. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.679 If you win the battle in gsemone, pass that test, 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:54.760 you will see what God is up to. 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.400 This is not the time to be sour. 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.040 This is the time to say, I may not I 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.240 like it, but God, I trust you. 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.959 I know your plans for me are for good. 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.559 You wouldn't have brought me into Gasemone if I wasn't 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.959 on the verge of a resurrection, a breakthrough, a new 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.920 level of my destiny. When Jesus prayed that third time, 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:21.000 the scripture says, angels came and strengthened him. When you 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:24.880 have an attitude of faith in times of suffering, you 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.280 don't complain in the pressing. You're trusting God when the 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:32.320 heavens are silent, when you're squeezed, Instead of being sour, 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.240 you're thanking him that he's working. 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.320 That's when angels are going to show up. You'll feel 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:41.160 a supernatural strength to endure. 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.400 When you should be overwhelmed, a power to keep moving 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.880 forward when you should be stuck, a courage to believe 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.360 when you should be doubting. That's how you pass the test. 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:56.319 You can't pray away Gasimone. Jesus asked his father to 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.120 remove this bitter cup. Father, get me out of this 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.880 suffering pressure. God didn't say, all right, I'll remove it. 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:07.880 I'll change my plan. Gasimine is a setup that suffering 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:12.880 is leading to a resurrection, to something supernatural. We see 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:16.520 this in the life of David, seventeen years old, a 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:20.000 teenager out taking care of his father's sheep, when the 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:24.200 prophet Samuel showed up and chose him over all of 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:28.120 his brothers as the next king of Israel. A destiny moment. 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.400 David heard Goliath tauning the Israelites. 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:32.680 They were all afraid. 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.600 He went out with a slingshot and a few stones 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:36.840 and defeated this giant. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.760 Overnight he became a national hero. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:44.680 Another destiny moment, he was invited by King Saul to 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.000 come to the palace and serve as his armor bearer. 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:52.199 He went from no one knowing him to this influential. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.480 Position the favor of God. 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:58.040 Everything was going great, one good break after another. Then 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.880 King Saul became jealous of David tried to kill him. 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.960 Here David was honoring Saul be in his best, But 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:09.960 David came in to a gasimine, a time of pressing, 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.640 a time of squeezing. He had to flee for his life. 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:17.320 He lived out in the desert in caves, in hiding 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:22.040 on the run. Wasn't fair. He hadn't done anything wrong. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.000 David could have become bitter. God, where are you? Why 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.720 did you let this happen? But he understood this principle 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.760 that the suffering was a set up. It was a 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:36.800 sign that a resurrection was coming. David kept doing the 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.400 right thing. At one point he could have killed Saul. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.840 He and his men snuck up on Saul while he 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.360 was sleeping. David wouldn't do it. He knew God had 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:48.199 anointed Saul. 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:49.800 He wouldn't touch him. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.360 Even though David was suffering, he took the high road 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.840 and did the right thing. It wasn't long after that 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.480 this Saul was killed in a battle and David was 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:03.360 made keen. On the way to your destiny, there will 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:08.160 be these moments of favor God opening doors, bringing right people, 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:09.600 causing you to excel. 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:11.880 But there will also. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:17.640 Be some gasmonies, sometimes of pressing squeezing it. How you 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.880 handle gasimone will determine whether you get stuck there or 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.559 whether you come into the resurrection. It's easy to get 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.600 bitter when people do us wrong, upset over the medical report, 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:31.040 sour over the. 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:32.200 Contract that we lost. 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:38.920 But when you understand gasimone is strategic, it's necessary. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.800 For you to go to the next level. You can't 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.920 have a resurrection without a gosimony. You have to pass 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.800 the test. Here's the key in the pressure. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.160 Any of us can do the right thing when it's easy, 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:56.280 when Samuel's anointing us, when we're defeating Elia, when Saul's 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:57.640 calling us into the palace. 0:13:58.120 --> 0:13:59.360 That doesn't take much. Faith. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.800 Test comes when it's not fair, when people betrayed you, 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.960 the medical report's not good, business went down. 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.240 You're in gasemone. That's when many people give up. 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:16.120 Blame God. I can't take this pressure. Don't get stuck 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:20.560 in gasimone. It was never designed to be permanent for 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:21.560 you to live there. 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:23.280 It's a temporary season. 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.200 If you'll pass the test in private, then you'll come 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:31.440 into public victory. And sometimes we're waiting for God to 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.720 change things. Joel, when I get through this suffering, then 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.440 I have a good attitude when the pressure is not 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.680 so much, when these people quit doing me wrong. 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.120 God, if you'll take this bitter cup from me, then 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.920 I'll start believing again. Now add the second part of 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:48.440 the prayer. 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:53.720 Nevertheless, not my will, but let you a will be done. 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:57.880 You're saying, God, I know your grace is sufficient, so 0:14:57.960 --> 0:14:59.840 I'm going to keep being my best right where I 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.880 and I'm going to have a smile when I could 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:03.680 be discouraged. 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:05.960 I'm going to have a song of praise when I 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:06.960 could be complaining. 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.440 I'm gonna keep thanking you that things are turning in 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.960 my favor when I don't see any sign of it. God, 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.640 I'm gonna be good to people who are not being 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:17.120 good to me. 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:18.640 When you know. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:22.480 God in the fellowship of his suffering, like the scripture says, 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.200 then you're going to know Him in the power. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:28.760 Of his resurrection. You may be in gysemine. 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.360 Now God's been good to you, You've seen his blessing. 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:37.320 But you're in a time of pressing, squeezing. It's uncomfortable. 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.720 People have come against you, straining your finances. A child 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:43.040 has an illness. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.400 You're on a road that you didn't choose, facing things 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:51.080 you don't understand. God sees what you're dealing with. He 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:55.320 knows who did you wrong, what wasn't fair. When he's 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.560 not removing the pressure, that means you have the grace 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.280 to withstand, to endure. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:02.080 To overcome. 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.480 You may not be able to pray it away, but 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:09.080 when you say God, I trust you, I'm not giving 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.800 up on my dreams. I'm not backing down on what 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:15.440 you promise. I'm going to stand strong knowing that you're 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:19.760 in control. That this season of suffering is a sign 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:24.000 that a resurrection is coming. That's what allows the creator 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:25.640 of the universe to go to work. 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.800 That's when angels are dispatched. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:33.200 With healing, favor and breakthroughs. Don't get stuck in Gysemone. 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:38.120 That's not your destiny. Earlier that evening, Jesus had dinner 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.120 with the twelve Disciples. We called it the Last Suffering. 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.080 He prayed over them, told them what he was going 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.080 to go through, and wash their feet. He left that 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:48.560 night with Peter, James, and. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.600 John and they went to the garden of Gsemone. 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.480 Jesus felt so overwhelmed he asked them to stay up 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.320 and pray for him. He went over by himself and 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.680 fell on the ground, prayed that God would take this 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.800 cup from him if he could a little while. He 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.360 went back to check on his disciples, hoping to get 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:08.200 some encouragement. 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:10.720 He looked over and they were asleep. 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.240 He woke them up and said, come on, guys, couldn't 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.320 you stay up for an hour and pray for me? 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.400 This is the most critical time of my life. He's 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:20.400 kind of frustrated. 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.520 He asked them again, even more emphatically, please stay awake 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.240 and pray for me. He thought for sure they got 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.960 the message, and he went off for a little while. 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.200 And prayed, and came back a little later, same thing. 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:33.760 They were sound asleep. 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.600 Sometimes when you need people the most, they're not there 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:38.000 for you. 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:40.679 There's a temptation to think. 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.280 Man if I had them, then I could get through this, 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:47.040 then I could overcome. But the fact is, when you're 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:51.440 in gyseimine, it's between you and God. You don't need 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:55.360 other people. If someone's always rescuing you, praying for you, 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.720 keeping your cheared up, that's gonna limit your growth. 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:03.040 God will wean you away from people so you'll have 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:04.040 to depend on him. 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.960 He wants to hear your prayer. You have a direct 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:08.760 line to him. 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:10.520 He's always listening. 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.480 Jesus woke the disciples up again and asked them to pray, 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:17.960 and he went away and came back the third time 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.800 they had fallen asleep. This time he didn't try to 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.720 wake them up. He didn't try to convince them to pray. 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:29.000 He looked at them and said sleep on. He came 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.960 to a point where he didn't let it bother him anymore. 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.720 He could have kept waking them up being frustrated. Instead, 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:40.440 he accepted that he wasn't going to have their support 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:42.399 and that was okay. 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:46.680 He knew he didn't need them to fulfill his destiny. 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.960 When things don't turn out the way you thought, friends 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.680 you were counting on weren't there for you. You didn't 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.320 get that promotion you deserve. The medical report hasn't improved. 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:58.000 You've done all you can. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:00.840 You prayed, you believe you worked hard. 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.680 Instead of letting that frustrate you, you need to say, 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.840 like Jesus, sleep on, You're not gonna bother me anymore. 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.480 I'm not gonna try to control things I can't control. 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.879 I'm not gonna lose sleep over who's not supporting me 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.399 over what didn't work out. I know God is on 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.679 the throne. He's fighting my battles. He will get me 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:24.119 to where I'm supposed to be. 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:29.159 Real victory is not when God does everything you like, 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:33.760 changes all the negative circumstances, fixes all the people that 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:38.200 get on your nerves. Real victory is when all that happens, 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:40.080 but it doesn't bother you anymore. 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.200 You've grown to the point where you. 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.720 Don't have to have all that to be happy, You 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:50.000 content while God is working right where you are, knowing 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:53.080 that He's given you grace not just for the good times, 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:58.680 but grace for Gosimine. When there's pressure, people that fall asleep, 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.560 doors that don't open, your attitude is I'm going to 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:04.800 enjoy my life despite. 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:05.480 What was coming against me. 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:08.840 Yes, there's a lot of pressure, but I'm still going 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:11.439 to give God praise. Yes, I'm on the road I 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.360 didn't choose, but I know God is ordering my steps. 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.760 I wouldn't be in this season of suffering unless a 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:23.440 resurrection was coming. Well, Joel, I'm disappointed because these people weren't. 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:27.040 There for me. They let me down. People can't stop 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:30.679 your purpose. If they weren't there for you, you didn't 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:31.240 need them. 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.200 If they walked away, they weren't a part of your destiny. 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:39.040 If they were supposed to be there, they couldn't leave. 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:44.199 If they weren't supposed to, they couldn't stay. Quit begging 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:46.520 them to come back, Tell them to sleep on. 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:48.720 God has someone. 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.600 Better for you, someone that you can't get rid of, 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:57.160 someone that loves you, that admires you, that sees you 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:00.800 as the gifts from God that you are, that promotion 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:01.639 you didn't get. 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:03.879 How long are you going to be sour over that? 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:07.080 Tell it to sleep on. It's a test. 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:11.560 God has a better position, that medical report that hasn't changed. 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:15.800 You've done all you can, quit worrying, quit living frustrated. 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:18.480 Tell it to sleep on. 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:20.960 One of the best things I've learned is to not 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:25.520 fight everything I don't like. Fight the closed doors, fight 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:28.800 the person that did you wrong, fight the delays. We 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:32.640 end up living in a fighting mode where we're always frustrated. 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:37.600 Two words can save you a lot of heartache. Sleep on, God, 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:39.760 you're in control. I'm gonna do my. 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.600 Best and trust you to get me to where I'm 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:46.639 supposed to be. After the third time Jesus found his 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.000 disciples asleep, something rose up in him. 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:53.200 He said, we have to leave right now. My time 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:56.400 has come. They walked out of the garden and there 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:58.000 was Judas looking for him. 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:02.360 The principle is you can stay in Gusemone and reach 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:03.200 your destiny. 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:06.399 It's a place that you're supposed to pass through. 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:09.520 At some point you have to rise up and say, 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:13.320 like Jesus, I'm done being bitter over who left me 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:17.720 I'm done living upset over what I didn't get, angry 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:21.720 over the company that hurt me, disappointed by who fell asleep, 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:26.480 sour over this road that I didn't choose. I'm leaving excuses, 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:31.840 leaving frustration, leaving self pity, leaving guilt. You have to 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:35.439 get out of gasmone. The enemy would love for you 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:39.080 to get stuck there, stuck in blame, stuck in who 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:41.720 hurt you, stuck in a bad childhood. 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:43.960 This is a new day. 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:48.680 Yes it was hard, Yes, they fell asleep, they betrayed you. 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:51.400 You're on a road you didn't choose. Can I tell 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:53.920 you none of that stopped your destiny. 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:58.439 All gasemone did was get you prepared for the next level. 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:02.919 That pressure call you to develop more muscles, greater trusts, 0:23:03.040 --> 0:23:07.240 greater faith, greater resilience. The enemy thought it would squeeze 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:11.120 your faith out, but it backfired. It squeezed out the doubt, 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:17.160 the bitterness, the uncertainty. Now you're stronger, bolder, ready for the. 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:19.399 New things God has in storm. 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:22.959 You went through the suffering. Now you're prepared for the 0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:27.120 power of the resurrection. I can imagine when Satan saw 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:31.159 Jesus in the Garden of Gasimone's hands in his face, 0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:35.679 great distress, sweating drops of blood, said father, take this 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:36.720 bitter cup from me. 0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:38.040 He thought he'd won. 0:23:38.760 --> 0:23:41.600 Looked like a picture of defeat, like Jesus was giving up. 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:45.600 But don't judge the rest of your life by season 0:23:45.720 --> 0:23:46.560 in Gsemone. 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:49.880 God wouldn't have let you go in if he wasn't 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:51.240 going to bring you out better. 0:23:51.800 --> 0:23:52.880 He's up to something. 0:23:53.800 --> 0:23:56.320 The next morning, Jesus went to the cross and they 0:23:56.400 --> 0:23:59.439 crucified him. Looked like it was over. But on the 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:02.480 third day he came out of the grave. He said, 0:24:02.480 --> 0:24:06.240 I am he that lives. I was dead, Behold, I'm 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:11.760 alive forevermore. All that suffering was a setup for a resurrection. 0:24:12.840 --> 0:24:16.440 That time of distress in the garden, that place of pressure. 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:20.439 It wasn't random, It wasn't just a bad break. It 0:24:20.520 --> 0:24:23.320 was all a part of God's plan that would launch 0:24:23.400 --> 0:24:28.600 Jesus into his purpose. Early that Sunday morning, Mary Magdalene 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:29.760 rushed to the tomb to. 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:32.720 Check on Jesus. The stone had been rolled away, but 0:24:33.320 --> 0:24:38.120 Jesus wasn't there, and she was weeping and confused, wondering 0:24:38.160 --> 0:24:41.800 who took his body. She heard a voice asking, why 0:24:41.800 --> 0:24:45.400 are you crying. Who are you looking for? She glanced 0:24:45.440 --> 0:24:48.480 back and thought it was the gardener. She said, sir, 0:24:48.520 --> 0:24:51.119 if you've taken him, please tell me where he is. 0:24:51.840 --> 0:24:56.679 Jesus said to her Mary. Immediately she recognized him. She 0:24:56.800 --> 0:24:59.719 went back and told the disciples that he was alive. 0:25:00.680 --> 0:25:04.920 It's interesting that Jesus was dressed as a gardener when 0:25:04.920 --> 0:25:08.879 he arose. He could addressed as a carpenter, as a rabbi, 0:25:09.200 --> 0:25:12.840 as a king, but he chose a gardener. Maybe he 0:25:13.000 --> 0:25:17.439 was showing us the significance of the garden of Gasimone. 0:25:17.600 --> 0:25:20.680 Perhaps he was saying, I made it through my garden. 0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:24.320 Stay in faith. I'm gonna help you make it through yours. 0:25:25.400 --> 0:25:28.760 The last place Jesus appeared before he ascended to Heaven 0:25:29.400 --> 0:25:33.359 was on the Mount of Olives. That's where Gasemone is located. 0:25:33.920 --> 0:25:37.960 A few days earlier he was there suffering in agony, 0:25:38.280 --> 0:25:43.560 great distress. Now he's at that very place, victorious with 0:25:43.680 --> 0:25:45.360 the keys of death in hell. 0:25:45.640 --> 0:25:47.280 Not suffering but reigning. 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:52.040 Not in agony, but in victory, not great distress, but 0:25:52.160 --> 0:25:55.800 in all power. Yes you may go through some gosemonees, 0:25:56.119 --> 0:25:59.040 but like Jesus, you're gonna go back to that very 0:25:59.160 --> 0:26:04.280 place with great victory, great favor, great courage. The enemy 0:26:04.320 --> 0:26:08.520 doesn't have the final say God does. He's ordering your 0:26:08.560 --> 0:26:13.320 steps in those times of pressing. Keep reminding yourself. It's 0:26:13.359 --> 0:26:16.399 a set up that suffering is a sign that a 0:26:16.480 --> 0:26:21.560 resurrection is coming. Now, quit being frustrated over the disappointments. 0:26:21.840 --> 0:26:25.040 Who left you what you can't control. Tell it to 0:26:25.119 --> 0:26:28.919 sleep on. You don't need that for your destiny. You 0:26:29.040 --> 0:26:31.840 keep doing the right thing when it's hard. You are 0:26:31.920 --> 0:26:36.439 passing the test. God sees your faithfulness. He has angels 0:26:36.440 --> 0:26:40.760 coming to strengthen you. I believe and declare you're about 0:26:40.800 --> 0:26:44.760 to see the power of the resurrection. Because you won 0:26:44.880 --> 0:26:52.080 the victory in private, You're about to see a public victory, favor, promotion, healing, vindication, 0:26:52.680 --> 0:26:57.240 the fullness of your destiny in Jesus's name, And if. 0:26:57.080 --> 0:26:58.800 You receive it, can you say amen? 0:27:01.200 --> 0:27:03.960 I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus 0:27:04.000 --> 0:27:05.119 the lord of your life. 0:27:05.520 --> 0:27:09.240 Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 0:27:09.359 --> 0:27:13.200 repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make 0:27:13.240 --> 0:27:14.720 you my Lord and savior. 0:27:15.480 --> 0:27:17.960 If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:27:17.960 --> 0:27:21.119 born again. We'd love to send you some free information 0:27:21.240 --> 0:27:23.280 on your new walk with the Lord. 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