GEHTSEMANE FOR ME!

[Prophetess Marilynn Brignac]

" THEN COMETH JESUS WITH THEM UNTO A PLACE CALLED "GETHSEMANE, AND SAITH UNTO THE DISCIPLES "SIT YE HERE WHILE I GO YONDER AND PRAY" AND HE TOOK WITH HIM PETER AND THE TWO SONS OF ZEBEDEE, AND BEGIN TO BE SORROWFUL AND VERY HEAVY. THEN SAITH HE UNTO THEM, "MY SOUL IS EXCEEDING SORROWFUL, EVEN UNTO DEATH: TARRY YE HERE, AND WATCH WITH ME. AND HE WENT A LITTLE FARTHER, 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.(MATT. 26:30 MOST OF US ARE FAMILIAR WITH GETHSEMANE AS A PHYSICAL PLACE, ALSO KNOWN AS THE MT. OF OLIVES OR THE 'GARDEN OF PRAYER", BUT GETHSEMANE IS ALSO A SPIRITUAL PLACE, WHERE WE MUST ALL JOURNEY TO, AT SOME POINT IN THIS COURSE WITH CHRIST. CHRIST, HIMSELF OFTEN WENT UP TO GETHSEMANE " AND IN THE DAY TIME HE WAS TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE; AND AT NIGHT HE WENT OUT, AND ABODE IN THE MOUNT THAT IS CALLED THE MOUNT OF OLIVES."( LUKE 21:37 ),BECAUSE IT WAS 'THAT PLACE' FOR HIM, THAT PLACE OF SERENITY, ISOLATION, AND CONSECRATION, THAT REFLECTED ALL THAT HE/ELOHIM, HAD CREATED FOR THE BENEFIT AND ENJOYMENT OF MAN. IT WAS THE PLACE OF THE "OIL PRESS" WHERE THE ANOINTING WAS MADE A DEMND ON AND PROVEN, AND IT WAS A PLACE OF INTENSE FELLOWSHIP AND COMUNE WITH THE FATHER, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, OF THE ULTIMATE COVENANT SURRENDER, TO SERVING THE FATHER, EVEN UNTO DEATH. IT IS INTERESTING THAT THE SAME PLACE THAT HE FOUND STRENGTH AND COURAGE WAS THE SAME PLACE WHERE HE WAS BETRAYED AND FELT "FORSAKEN"! GETHSEMANE WAS THE REAL PLACE OF MANIFEST "PURPOSE" AND THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE ANOINTING, BECAUSE ONE HAD TO BE MIGHTILY ANOINTED TO RELEASE SUCH VIRTUE THAT IT APPEARED THAT HE WAS "SWEATING" GREAT DROPS OF BLOOD! GETHSEMANE IS FOR ME, IF THAT'S THE PLACE THAT WILL PRESS OUT SUCH A GREAT WEIGHT OF GLORY AND AN ANOINTING THAT WILL ENABLE ME TO DIE FOR THE VERY ONES WHO JUST NAILED ME TO THE CROSS, AND UTTER A BLESSING OVER THEM WITH MY LAST BREATH! GETHSEMAN IS THAT PLACE OF BEING "TRIED" WHERE YOU CAN'T BRING EVERYBODY, OR EVEN "TWITTER" THEM YOUR LOCATION. OUT OF THE APOSTOLIC 12, THERE WAS A REASON CHRIST ONLY ALLOWED THE CHOSEN THREE TO BE NEAR HIS SUFFERING AND VULNERABILLITY, EVEN THOUGH HE PERSONALLY CHOSE THE OTHER NINE, AND THEIR GIFTS AND CALLINGS WERE TESTED AND TRUE. EVEN THOSE CHOSEN THREE DISAPPOINTED AND ABANDONED HIM IN HIS GREATEST HOUR OF "NAKEDNESS", AND "APPARENT" "HELPLESSNESS"! IT WAS IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE WHERE HE FOUND RENEWED STRENGTH TO SUSTAIN HIS LIFE, AND IT WAS THERE THAT HIS FATE OF DEATH WAS SEALED! GETHSEMANE IS THE "DYING PLACE" WHERE WE MEN DIE TO SELF AND TO THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD AND THE FLESH! IT IS THE PLACE THAT SEPARATES THE "MEN" FROM THE "BOYS", AND THE "SAINTS" FROM THE "AIN'TS", THE SOLDIERS FROM THE COWARDS. GETHSEMANE IS THE PLACE OF "COMMENCEMENT' OR GRADUATION WHERE EVEYONE WHO SURVIVES IT IS A "VALEDICTORIAN", AND WITH THE RANK OF "MAGNA CUM LAUDE". SURVIVING "GETHSEMANE" WITH ONE'S FAITH, SPIRIT, AND PRAISE INTACT QUALIFIES YOU FOR THE "DELIVERANCE HALL OF FAME",AND AS A "KING" AND "PRIEST", BECAUSE "I COULD'VE FAINTED, AND WOULD'VE FAINTED, BUT I DIDN'T!" AT GETHSEMANE, ONE WON'T FIND ANY STANDING OVATIONS OR GREAT APPLAUSE FROM PRESTIGIOUS, LEARNED, AND PROSPEROUS MEN, BECAUSE NOT MANY DARE TO OR HAVE THE NERVE TO VENTURE THERE VOLUNTARILY, BUT ALL OF HEAVEN IS PRESENT AND ATATTENTION WHEN A SERVANT OF THE LORD TRAVELS THERE AND ENDURES ALL OF IT'S HARDNESS, AS A GOOD SOLDIER, A PRISONER OF HOPE, WHO RECOGNIZES THAT IT'S NO LONGER "I" THAT LIVETH, BUT CHRIST THAT LIVETH IN ME!
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