Father, we ask that you would continue to gently but powerfully pour out the Holy Spirit upon us.
Father, sometimes your word teaches us things that really go against the grain of our culture
and things that really go against the grain of just ourself, of how we see ourselves.
And so, Father, this is one of those times when your word does this.
And we ask that your Holy Spirit would help us to see the beauty and the wisdom and the power of your word
and that we would believe it and trust you and live our lives in light of your word.
And Father, we ask that you would do this gentle but powerful work of your Holy Spirit within us.
And we ask this in the name of Jesus, your Son and our Savior. Amen.
Please be seated.
So, I am the opposite of hip and au courant.
I learned things probably months after others know that there are...
In fact, probably when I learn about a phenomenon going on in social media, it's probably already declining.
But I have discovered this week that there's something going on for those under 30 involved in social media called manifesting.
And it must be a bit more popular than our church.
They get like... I think they've had 150 million views at one of the main sites for this,
which is a little bit more views than our webpage gets by like 150-fold almost.
More than that, way, way more.
150 million-fold.
Anyway, what it is, it's very popular.
And it's... Basically, it's...
There's things that I deserve in life and that I want in life, and I really want to have them.
And so, I need to focus my thoughts and focus my energies and believe that these things are going to happen to me.
That I'm going to get that job.
I'm going to get that relationship.
I'm going to get that friendship.
I'm going to get that recognition.
I'm going to get that raise.
You know, whatever it is, I'm going to get that trip.
And I just need to, like, believe it and put my energy into it and be positive about it.
And that will go out into the universe, and the universe will give me what I desire.
I think I've tried to summarize what manifesting is.
It's a little bit, for those of us who are older, it's like the secret, only more contemporary.
And it's very popular.
150 million views and talked about in lots of different spots.
I mention that because in such a world where something like this is so possible, so powerful and popular,
I read to you just a moment ago this sentence.
Abba, Father, all things are possible for you.
Remove this cup from me.
Now, that's not particularly controversial, but this next bit is.
Yet not what I will, but what you will.
This is a profoundly anti-Canadian comment and belief.
In fact, if one of you were to go to your very good, just, social justice, Canadian, secular friends,
you had a group of them over, maybe your neighbors, you have really great neighbors,
and you were to say, by the way, you know, on Sunday we heard about this text,
and George encouraged us and showed us a way that it applies to our lives,
and we should believe it.
Yet not what I will, but what you will.
And if they felt comfortable, or maybe after they'd had a couple of glasses of wine or something like that,
and their inhibitions were removed, they would probably say something like,
really, like Jesus said that?
And you'd say yes.
And then you'd say, and you believe that?
And you'd say yes.
And they'd say, you actually think this is a good idea?
And you'd say yes.
And then they'd probably point to you and say, you've got blood on your hands.
That's the language of abusers.
That's the language of oppressors.
That's the type of language that leads women and children to be abused by men.
It is the language that is used by tyrants to oppress.
And you have blood on your hands, if you encourage people to believe this.
They might also say this.
You know, that sounds like it's a really, you know, okay, I'm going to give you a bit of credit,
but, you know, it's very, very, very disempowering.
Like, don't you think, George, that, you know, young men and young women
just starting out in their careers and trying to get careers and trying to get ahead
and hoping to maybe save up, make a down payment on a house or get a car,
and don't you think, George, that that's a very disempowering thing to have the model
that they're to say over and over not what I will but what you will?
Don't you think that?
George, don't you think that real religion and real spirituality should empower people,
empower them to get what they want, empower them to move forward in life,
and what you've just said is the complete, it's just wrong.
It's wrong-headed.
It's foolish.
You see, Jesus is saying, not yet what I will but what you will goes deeply against the grain
of the Canadian, one of the Canadian cultural stories that we all just understand and we all breathe.
So, what do we say?
Well, first of all, of course, abuse is wrong and a problem.
And I'm not going to say that if you look at it a little bit closely,
you'll see that it's not as bad as it looks.
I'm going to say something different.
I'm going to say that in its context, when you hear Jesus speak,
you understand what he says, that it's beautiful and wise.
That it's beautiful and wise.
And that if you listen to what Jesus says,
and you take it into your heart,
it will help you to achieve the deep yearnings and longings of your heart.
In fact, that when you listen to it more closely,
you'll realize that key bits and pieces of the Canadian cultural story
are actually taking you away from the deep longings and yearnings of your heart.
So, those are bold claims.
Let's go.
If you have your Bibles, let's go.
That's Mark chapter 14, verses 32 to 42, we're going to look at.
And in terms of the context, just before I read it,
in some ways you could say that the 24 hours,
this is part of a 24-hour period that literally,
and I mean literally in the old-fashioned way of literally,
it literally changes the world.
The world will be different after this 24-hour period than it was before.
And in this profound 24-hour period,
it begins with Jesus as an observant Jew celebrating the Passover meal
and the story of God's delivering his people from slavery and bondage in Egypt.
And by the end of that 24-hour period, that day,
he will have been betrayed,
he will have been falsely accused,
he will have been whipped and beaten,
he will have been crucified,
he will die,
he will be embalmed,
and he will be buried,
and this all takes place in 24 hours.
And this story is right here in the middle of it.
And it goes like this.
And they went to a place called Gethsemane,
so they've just finished celebrating the Passover supper.
He's predicted, amongst other things,
that they're all going to fall away and leave him.
And they went to a place called Gethsemane,
and he said to his disciples,
sit here while I pray.
And he took with them Peter and James and John,
and began to be greatly distressed and troubled.
And he said to them,
my soul is very sorrowful,
even to death.
Remain here and watch.
And going a little farther on,
he fell on the ground and prayed
that if it were possible,
the hour might pass from him.
I'll just sort of pause here for a second.
This has been well commented on by lots of people,
but it's not bad to point it out again.
I've done many, many, many funerals,
and I've talked to many, many, many people
who've gotten a terrible piece of news
that they have cancer,
that it's inoperable,
that their days are not going to be numbered in decades,
not even in years,
probably not even in months,
but maybe in weeks.
And almost all of them handle the news better than Jesus
is handling his upcoming death right now.
I think all of them handle it better.
So what's going on?
That Jesus,
in fact, actually,
if you know the original language,
it's even more desperate
than it's talked about in English.
When it says greatly distressed and troubled,
you need to understand
that's greatly distressed and troubled.
Not just sort of greatly,
but really distressed and troubled.
And when he says his soul is sorrowful,
even to death,
that he has like a deathly type of sorrow.
And his collapsing on the ground
in his sorrow and in his distress,
that's how he's handling
his impending betrayal and death.
So what's going on?
Well, we're going to talk about
what's going on in a moment.
But what we need first
is to see this un-Canadian prayer.
That's the context.
He's not handling this.
Doesn't seem to be handling it very well
by a Canadian point of view, outsider.
And then this is what he prays.
And he said,
Abba, Father,
all things are possible for you.
Verse 36.
Abba, Father,
all things are possible for you.
Remove this cup from me,
yet not what I will,
but what you will.
Now there's, you know,
a couple of things about this.
If you think about it for a second,
it's actually...
I've met a few people
who've said something like this,
but it's a very,
very common thing on the internet,
and it's a very,
very common thing in books and movies.
And the reason why many people
become irreligious
or walk away from the Christian faith
or some other type of faith
is because they've observed a loved one
in deep sorrow
and deep pain
calling out to God
that they would be spared
from the suffering and death,
and God is silent,
and they die.
And that's actually
what we're seeing right here,
at least on one level, isn't it?
It's a story where it appears
as if God is silent
in the anguished cries of Jesus.
And it seems as if
he says in this context,
yet not what I will,
but what you will.
It seems, at least to our Canadian ears,
as if it's him disempowering himself.
It's as if he's enabling abusers
to our Canadian ears.
Well, let's consider this story
a little bit more
and think about it a little bit.
I just finished reading a novel,
a very good novel,
and the novel centered around
a dad and his best friend
and a six-year-old boy.
So the dad, his six-year-old boy,
and the dad's best friend.
And the story centers around
the fact that the dad
and the best friend,
the dad convinces the best friend
that this boy,
the dad had to spend some time
in jail for something.
And the dad convinces his best friend
that his wife is an abusive mom
and convinces his best friend
that the mom's dad
is sexually abusing
the six-year-old boy.
And so the best friend
helps his friend
to kidnap the boy.
And so a big part of the novel,
of course,
is that conversation
and then, of course,
the kidnapping.
And then, of course,
is the chase
as people,
especially the grandfather
of the little boy,
begin a chase
to try to get the,
from their point of view,
to rescue the child back.
And as part of their
trying to evade,
that's the father
and his best friend
and the six-year-old boy,
as part of their attempt
to evade being captured,
they go into a wilderness area
and it's night.
And as this whole journey
is going on,
one of the things
which is very interesting
in the novel
is that the best friend
starts to realize
that he has made
a terrible, terrible,
tragic mistake
and that the abusive parent
was the dad,
his best friend,
not the mom
and that he probably
shouldn't believe anything
that his best friend
has said.
And it's a very well-written novel,
the anguish
and the puzzlement
as he starts to dawn on him
that he has believed
these lies
of his best friend
and that his best friend,
I mean,
the dad,
is abusive.
And so as the chase goes on,
the dad is very hard
towards the little child,
always ordering him around
and this other fellow,
we'll just call him Bob,
and Bob continually ends up
being one who protects
the six-year-old boy
and comforts him.
So they get into this situation
where they're in trouble,
it's cold,
they're going to die of exposure,
they need to get out of it
and they can't go backwards
because of where they are
and the only way
to get out of it
is to go down
a fairly steep side
of a mountain
and then cross some rapids.
And at every stage
as they're going down
this thing,
which is needed
if they're not going to die
of exposure,
at every time
it's at all difficult,
the little six-year-old boy
says,
I can't do it,
I'm afraid.
And at every time
that the little boy
says,
I can't do it
because I'm afraid,
the dad gets angry at him
and says,
I need to toughen you up.
You just got to do it.
But Bob,
who loves the little boy
and cares for him
and consoles him,
reaches his arms out
and says,
we can do this.
We can do this together.
Trust me.
And it's very moving.
So here's the question for us.
When we read Jesus' prayer,
why do we assume
that God is the abusive father
and not the friend
who consoles?
Why do we assume
that God is the abusive father,
not the friend who consoles?
You see,
at every little point
in that journey,
what does the boy say?
I can't do it.
It's not my will to do it.
And what does the friend
who loves the boy,
Bob,
who loves the boy say?
You need to not do
what you will.
You need to do
what I will.
And if you don't do
what you will
but do what I will,
you will ultimately be safe
and you will arrive
at a place of safety.
You will arrive
at a good destination.
So why is it
when we read the text
that we assume
that this is an abusive relationship?
Why is it
that the Canadian cultural story
bends us
to assume
something like that?
if you could put up
the first point
for a second?
Jesus' prayer
is not hurtful foolishness.
It is deep
and beautiful wisdom.
Jesus' prayer
is not hurtful foolishness.
It is deep
and beautiful wisdom.
And we see the beauty
and the wisdom of it
if you think
of another situation.
You see,
on one level,
what is the deep longing
of our hearts?
One of the deep longings
of our hearts
is that we would have
a friend like Bob.
That we would have
a friend who consoles us
and loves us.
That is a deep longing
of our hearts.
We have a crisis
of loneliness
in our world.
I mean,
one of the reasons
I urge you to,
if you can,
to come back
to in-person worship
is that
as wonderful
as the technology
can be
to enter into worship online,
it's not the same
as being able
to see
the disruptive joy
of children
at certain points
and times
of the service.
And you need
to be present
with others
because we need friends.
But here's the other thing.
Consider Louise and me
or any marriage
or any romantic relationship
or for that matter
any friendship.
In a love relationship
or in a friendship relationship,
there has to be
two things that go on
if that actually
is going to work.
If you're actually
going to be able
to be friends.
If you're actually
going to be able
to have that
loving relationship.
And on one hand,
what you need
is you need to put
yourself forward.
Like,
I need to put
myself forward.
Louise doesn't want
to have a relationship
where I'm always
completely absent
and distant
or when it comes time
for us to spend
time together,
I pretend I'm
somebody else
or something like that.
She wants me
to put myself forward
towards her.
But at the same time,
if I only put myself
forward all the time
towards her,
that will kill
the love relationship
because there has
to be times
when I put myself
second relative
to her.
There has to be
times where I say
in a sense,
not what I will
but what you will.
And if there's
never a time
in a relationship
where the husband
or the wife
or one of the two
friends never says
yet not what I will
but what you will,
then that relationship
will not last.
That friendship
will not last.
You see,
the fact of the matter
is there has to be,
if you're going
to have a friendship,
if you're going
to have a love
relationship,
there has to be
a bit of a dance.
The dance of putting
yourself forward
and the dance
of saying,
I'm not going
to be first,
I'm going to be second
or third or fourth
or fifth or whatever
it is.
If it's a family
and you have kids,
there has to be times
that the dad
or the mom
put themselves last.
If that's going
to be a family,
that's a family
of love.
And we see
this very,
very same dynamic
here.
like,
why is it
that with our
Canadian cultural
lens,
we see this
as being
an abusive
type of thing
and enabling
abuse
and not maybe
thinking that it
actually is a little
bit about
how love
looks.
You see,
in fact,
in particular,
as we're going
to see in a moment,
Jesus has to put
himself forward.
The hour
depends upon
Jesus doing
what only
Jesus can do.
He has to put
himself forward.
It has to be
him.
There is no
possible way
for it to be
someone other
than him.
But not only
does he have to
put himself
forward,
he has to put
himself last.
love.
And that's what
love looks like.
See,
part of the
problem that we
have,
unrecognized,
is that the
Canadian cultural
story,
that you have to
be number one,
you have to look
out for number
one,
you need to
empower number
one,
number one needs
to get what
number one
needs,
number one needs
to get what
number one
wants,
number one needs
to get what
number one
desires,
is that entire
cultural story,
as it seeps
into our
thinking and
our affections
and our
emotions and
our imaginations,
kills love,
friendship,
families,
and institutions.
It kills
them.
And you know
what?
On your
deathbed,
on your
deathbed,
the things
that will
bother most
people is
not that they
didn't have
more power.
And I'm not
saying that
there's never
time when you
shouldn't have
power.
I'm not saying
that.
What will hurt
people?
What troubles
them?
The relationships
they wrecked.
The way they
spent too long
at the office
and missed
that opportunity
to love their
wife and kids
or their husband
and kids.
What will bother
you is that
you spent
far too
much time
like this
and never
saw the
beautiful
children for
how beautiful
they are.
You spent
too much
time like
this and
never thought
of your
mom or
your dad.
You spent
too much
time like
this and
never had
time with
your friends
and that's
the regret
because those
are the
deepest and
deeper
longings of
our hearts.
And that is
why Jesus'
prayer is not
hurtful
foolishness.
It is deep
and beautiful
wisdom.
So why is
Jesus scared
or apparently
acting with
such drama?
Here's a
thought experiment.
Imagine for a
moment that
one of you
says I found
this cool
new app
and you
should really
download it
and you
download the
app.
And what you
don't realize
is that
in a week
or two
time,
once the
app has
gotten synced
with all
those things
it has
to get
synced
with,
all of a
sudden you
get a
message that
you have
to show up
at a
particular
room and
here's what
you discover.
Here's what
you discover.
That this
app has
been able
to record
every single
one of your
thoughts for
the last
48 hours.
Every one.
And they've
transcribed them
and you're
going to go
and sit
with your
family and
friends while
they're read
out.
everything
you've
thought for
48 hours.
That
catty
comment about
how your
best friend
looks.
That
smug
assessment
about how
better you
are than
somebody else.
That
lust,
that greedy
thought,
that angry
thought,
that
constant
irritation
with your
mom or
your husband
or your
wife.
every single
one of
those thoughts
for 48
hours has
been transcribed
and is
going to be
read out
to those
who you
thought about.
And it's
going to
happen six
hours from
now, four
hours from
now.
time.
How would
you feel
about it?
Would you
be filled
with sorrow?
Would you
be filled
with deep
distress?
stress?
Would you
maybe even
collapse
emotionally?
Because
to have
what you've
thought
recorded
just for
48 hours,
that doesn't
even count.
It could be
a week,
it could be
a month.
Just to
have that
recorded and
revealed to
everybody,
and to
have to
experience
their anger
and all
those other
things at
you,
in a
room,
that would
be something
that you
could never
recover from
and that you
could never
be consoled
for.
Listen again
to what Jesus
prays in
verse 36.
And he
said,
Abba,
Father,
all things
are possible
for you.
Remove
this cup
from me,
yet not
what I
will,
but what
you will.
So what
is the
cup?
If you
could put
up the
next point,
that would
be handy.
The cup
is an
image that
comes from
what our
Jewish
friends call
the Tanakh
or the
Torah,
what we
call the
Old Testament,
Christians
call the
Old Testament.
It's in
about a
dozen,
15 some
odd different
places.
And if
you look
at those
references,
it is this,
your cup,
sort of a
metaphor,
an analogy,
it is the
accumulated
wrong that
you are
responsible for
and the
Lord's just
anger at
the wrong
you are
responsible for.
Your cup
is the
accumulated
wrong that
you are
responsible
for and
the Lord's
just anger
or wrath at
the wrong you
are responsible
for.
Now notice I
said responsible
for because I
want to capture
sins of
omission and
sins of
commission.
It's both
those times,
using my
analogy of the
lustful thought
or the angry
thought or the
vengeful thought
or the
unforgiving
thought,
and it's also
those times that
you pretended you
didn't get a
text to pick up
your brother or
your sister or
your friend and
give them a
drive and you
pretended you
didn't get it.
And it's not just
the pretending,
it's the failure to
do something that
you could have
done.
You're responsible
for that.
It's things you've
done and the good
things that you
could have done,
should have done,
and didn't do.
You turned a blind
eye, you were a
deaf ear to it.
And so those of us
who like fantasy
movies and all,
it's like those
things that you
see in fantasy
movies where,
you know,
there's some evil
wizard or whatever
and he wants to
make himself or
she wants to make
herself stronger
and she somehow
finds a way to get
the evil from other
people into a cup
and they can drink
it.
And of course,
that is only a bad
thing for that
person and for
everybody else.
But it's almost as
if every time you
go through life and
you have that thing
that you're responsible
for that you're
wrong and it goes
into the cup,
imagine something
really black and
foul smelling,
really just not
even pure black,
just something that
muddy and foul
smelling and rank
and it goes into
a cup and every
time that happens
it goes into a
cup and it goes
into a cup and
the cup doesn't
overflow, it just
becomes more
concentrated and
more concentrated.
And it's not just
like in the fantasy
novels where it's
just that the bad
things go into the
cup because then
you might be an
evil wizard and
actually desire to
have that because
you might foolishly
think that if you
can get all that
badness back in you
you'll only be
stronger but that's
not the way the
world works and
it's not just
anger in the cup
as if God is
this crazy,
anal, angry,
angry, driven
person.
It's both.
It's the wrong
and people's,
and God's anger
at the wrong.
To give you a sense
of why that's a
just thing, it
would be just as
imagine for a
moment that Louise
was to share with
you something that
I had done which
was wrong and
she shares that
wrong with you and
all of you would
have turned from
looking at her and
looked at me and
said, George, that
was wrong.
And if Louise says
that was wrong, you'd
all be going like
this, yes, that was
wrong.
You're right to be
angry.
And George, like,
what were you
thinking that was
wrong?
Louise is right to
be angry.
And God, in a sense,
is involved in
everything you do
that's wrong and
it's not only that
he's involved with
everything that you
do that's wrong,
he's also doing
something which
social justice
warriors and others
properly want, which
is to hear the
cries of the
victims and to
have the victims'
cries heard so
that those who
are perpetrating
terrible things on
the victims, that
they know and
they hear that and
they feel it.
And so in that
cup is all of the
wrong that I'm
responsible for and
God's proper anger
at that wrong and
it goes into a
cup.
And if I would
be unmade and
inconsolable and
devastated after just
having 48 hours of
my thoughts revealed,
how destroyed would
I be to have my
whole life revealed?
If you could put up
the next slide.
So when Jesus
prays, Abba,
Father, all things
are possible for you,
remove this cup from
me, yet not what I
will, but what you
will.
This is giving us
another image of
what's going to
happen when Jesus
dies on the cross.
The death of Jesus
on the cross is
his taking your
place and drinking
your cup.
That's what you
see when you see
Jesus dying on the
cross.
It is the weight of
not just having to
drink my cup, and
that would be a very
foul cup.
But also drinking
yours, and
yours.
And because he's
God, the son of
God, he has a
sense of just how
foul that
accumulated cup
will be of all
the cups of all
the world, of all
the people, that
he will drink, and
he will be unmade
and desolate, because
he drank my cup, and
he drank yours.
And that's what he's
doing on the cross.
Listen to the
prayer again.
Abba, Father, all
things are possible
for you.
All things are
possible for you,
God.
Remove this cup
from me, yet not
what I will, but
what you will.
And Jesus will
leave there, as
we'll see in a
moment, to walk
towards the
cross, to
drink the
cup.
If there was
no other way
other than Jesus
drinking the
cup for you
to be made
right with
God, that
means your
situation is
vastly worse than
you've ever
dreamed.
but at the
same time, if
there's no
way, if
Jesus has
done such a
thing for
you, you
are vastly
more loved by
God than
you can ever
possibly imagine.
And that's the
message of the
gospel.
I'm vastly
worse.
I'm vastly
worse.
than my
three o'clock
in the
morning, and
I can't
sleep, times
of torment.
And I'm
vastly more
loved by the
triune God
than I can
ever possibly
imagine.
Why is
this whole
story?
We can
begin to
see that
Jesus'
prayer is
not just
hurtful
foolishness,
it is deep
and beautiful
wisdom.
And this
becomes even
more clear
as we wrap
up, and
we're going
to conclude
with a
prayer in
just a
couple of
minutes.
Look at
what continues
after verse
37.
And he
came and
found them
sleeping.
Remember, he
asked them if
they would
watch and
pray with
them, and
he found
them sleeping.
And he
said to
Peter,
Simon, are
you asleep?
Could you
not watch
one hour?
Watch and
pray that you
may not enter
into temptation.
The spirit
indeed is
willing, but
the flesh
is weak.
And again,
Jesus went
away and
prayed, saying
the same
words.
And again, he
came and
found them
sleeping, for
their eyes
were heavy, and
they did not
know what to
answer him.
And he came
the third time
and said to
them, are you
still sleeping
and taking
your rest?
It is enough,
the hour has
come.
The Son of
Man is
betrayed into
the hands of
sinners.
Rise, let
us be going,
see my
betrayers at
hand.
See, there
is nothing
more empowering
than being
loved.
And to
seek power
without love
is disempowering,
but to be
loved is
empowering.
To have a
friend who
understands you
is empowering.
To have a
good purpose
and a meaning
in life is
empowering.
To die, to
always having
to be number
one, because
you know there
are times that
for justice's
sake and
goodness's sake
and beauty's
sake and
love's sake,
you must
choose to be
number two
or number
five or
number 15
or even way
down the
ladder than
that, is
profoundly
empowering.
And the
Canadian
cultural story
will never
lead you to
that truth,
but the
gospel will.
And it
also says
something very
helpful.
If you
could put up
the next
to last
point,
you know
that thing
about you're
sleeping,
there's
temptation,
the spirit
is willing
and the
flesh is
weak.
Here's the
thing,
Jesus drinks
this cup
for ordinary
people like
me and
you,
and this
line is
for
Christians.
This is
part of
the emotional
power and
beauty of
the gospel.
Until you
see him
face to
face,
you are
weak,
and you're
complex,
and you're
divided,
wounded,
and you're
held in
the palm
of his
hand.
I am
weak.
Sometimes I
want to do
things and
my body
just gives
out on me
as I get
older.
The body
gives out
on you
more and
more.
And then I
am both
doing good
things and I
do sinful
things.
I'm divided.
You know,
the models of
human beings
is if somehow
you can pick
one thing
in you and
build your
whole identity
around you,
that's just a
foolish understanding
of what human
beings are
like.
Human beings
aren't just
one thing.
We're not just
their skin
color or the
sexual desires
of the week
or the month.
We're not
that.
We are weak.
We do get
tempted.
We are
complicated.
We are
divided.
That's what
human beings
are.
And here we
see that
Jesus knows
all of that.
And we
know that if
we are his,
we are held
in the palm
of his hand.
I'd like to
invite you to
stay,
stand,
please.
If you could
put up the
final thing,
yes,
I'm going to
invite you to
pray this
prayer with
me.
I'll read
it out first.
And in some
ways,
what I've just
tried to do
is I've
tried to
summarize this
prayer of
Jesus in
light of
this story.
And it's,
you know,
for some of
you,
if you've
never given
your life to
Christ,
this is a
conversion
prayer.
And for
those of us
who have
known him,
this is just
a deepening
prayer.
To pray,
Abba,
Father,
from the depths
of your love,
your son
drank my
cup of
sin and
your just
wrath at
my sin.
Please fix
my heart
on his
once-for-all
sacrifice,
so that I
will pray
boldly,
knowing that
all things
are possible
for you,
and that I
will pray
humbly,
saying,
yet not what
I will,
but what
you will,
in Jesus'
name.
I invite
you to
pray that
with me
right now.
Let us
pray.
Abba,
Father,
from the
depths of
your love,
your son
drank my
cup of
sin and
your just
wrath at
my sin.
Please fix
my heart
on his
once-for-all
sacrifice,
so that I
will pray
boldly,
knowing that
all things
are possible
for you,
and that I
will pray
humbly,
saying,
yet not what
I will,
but what
you will,
in Jesus'
name.
Amen.
Father,
may this
prayer grow
as a
prayer of
our heart,
and we
ask this
in Jesus'
name.
Amen.
Please take
up.