Category: Faith

Podcast Guest: Jesus’ Prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane

Last month I was invited to participate in a book project by Jason Scott Montoya, author, and creator, sharing stories and systems to live better and work smarter. Jason is currently writing his third book with the working title, From the Garden to the Cross: Powerful Lessons From Jesus’ Harrowing Journey. As a part of gaining different perspectives, Jason included others in the conversation in a special series of his Share Life podcast. Below is the first episode in the series.

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I Will Flourish Into Who I Am Meant To Be

I’ve had kind of a heavy day. In truth, I’m in a heavy season. I’m sure to the outside world it probably looks like everything is just peachy, but the truth is there are a lot of struggles in my life right now.

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Love Changes Lives

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It wasn’t how I wanted to spend my day. You’ve been there. The inopportune hours we spend at the auto repair shop.

There were three recalls on my car. After making a few attempts over a year’s time to have them repaired, the parts were finally in, and the repairs could happen in two hours.

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Do You Know Who Your Healer Is?

“If only I can touch the hem of His garment I can be well.” She could barely get the words out. Life was hard for women of that time, especially this one.

She was a woman of faith, a woman who knew He was her healer, and if only she could get to Him, everything could change. The crowds were massive, and she was weak, nearly crawling on the ground. For at least twelve years she bled and though she had seen many doctors, doctors who drained all her financial resources, no cure or healing had come.

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Are We So Different?

We are no different from Adam and Eve when it comes to our response to our own sin. Like them, we can feel:

  • Ashamed
  • Disappointed
  • Not good enough

These 3 feelings, stirred from our sinful behaviors, are exactly what the Enemy uses to pull us away from relationship with God and into hiding.

Like Adam and Eve, we hide from God when we sin. But even in this tactic used by the Enemy, God did not leave Adam and Eve. Nor does He leave us. He pursued them in the cool of the morning. And just like them, He pursues each of us in the same way through Jesus!

Our sin might cause us to hide; but Jesus came to set us free from the power of Sin over us! His very words are “He who is in Me is greater than he who is in the world.”

God gave us freedom in Jesus. He is our High Priest and when we confess our sin and repent (make a u turn), He hears and intercedes for us!

God is good and nothing is too hard for Him, especially for those who open their hearts to give Him reign over their whole life. To them, God is working all things together for good!

Our relationship with The Lord is kept intimate through transparency in confession and true repentance.

Keep your intimacy with God protected and open!

“Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?””
Genesis 3:8-9 NIV