Prayer Station 2 - The Garden of Gethsemane
You will need ...
A quiet space, 20 minutes – half an
hour, a local newspaper, and your bible or a printout of the bible reading
below ...
Instructions ...
o
RRead Matthew 26: 36-46
- Ask The Holy Spirit to
guide your thinking
- Close your eyes and
put yourself in this scene.
- Jesus is alone in
prayer with his father. Peter, John and
James are already dozing...
- Can you take up the
prayer baton …?
- What should you pray
about ... Look at the newspaper, what is calling out for God’s intervention?
Matthew
26:36-46 (New International Version)
Gethsemane
36Then Jesus went with his
disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he
said to them, "Sit here while I go over there and pray." 37He
took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be
sorrowful and troubled. 38Then he said to them, "My soul is
overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with
me."
39Going a
little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, "My
Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will,
but as you will."
40Then he
returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. "Could you men not keep
watch with me for one hour?" he asked Peter. 41"Watch and pray
so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body
is weak."
42He went
away a second time and prayed, "My Father, if it is not possible for this
cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done."
43When he
came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. 44So he
left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same
thing.
45Then he
returned to the disciples and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and
resting? Look, the hour is near, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands
of sinners. 46Rise, let
us go! Here comes my betrayer!"