Pass this bitter cup and what. I want the calling but not the cup. I want it... I warn it, but I don't want to go through anything. I don't want to suffer. I don't want to endure anything. I don't want to sacrifice. I don't want to have to work over. I don't want to have to roll up my sleeve.
I don't want to have to grunt and grind. I want it. I do want it, don't get me wrong. I absolutely do it but I want it my way. God said this ain't Burger King. This is not Burger King. You don't get to have my promise your way. You don't get oh...Do you hear what I'm saying. You don't get to have my promise your way, and your stubborness has delayed your life.
If you would've done what I told you to do, when I told you to do it, you would have already been there. But you spent years out of your life trying to find another way around going what you gotta do. Baby you gotta do, what you gotta do. I want the calling. I don't want the cup. I want the end results. I don't want the process. I want to get there and you've got all kind of dreams of what it's gonna be like when you get there, but you've got no commitment to the process.. of what it takes to get there. FATHER... is there another way that I can get what you promised me, without going through what you're showing me.
He goes on a little further, he got Peter, James, and John, and he puts them all together and says "pray for me. Pray for me." This is the inner circle. These are not distant. These are not distant at all. These.. these are designated supporters. So I left the distant ones over there. The designated supporters are the hand-picked people that you can bring a little closer. Designated supporters are closer than distant supporters. They get to see more than other people saw. They get to know more than other people knew. They had been designated. They have been hand-picked. They have been selected.
They don't wander into your inner circle. They are called into your inner circle. Stop letting people slip up on you. Some of you have lost all control of your life because you have left your doors open and anybody can come in and out at will, and now you got distant people in designated places. He says and then the final thing that he teaches us is that you go from the distant to the designated, but ultimately you have to go to the divine. In the presence of the divine he finds healing that he could not find even in the designated or the distant people who follow him.
He went into the divine presence of God. Isn't it funny how we can be comfortable with our sin, and uncomfortable with our God. Whatever you like to do when you do it you're not uncomfortable when you do it, but when you get in the presence of your God you don't even know how to talk to Him. You don't even know how to open up to Him.
Jesus goes on a little further and he goes in to pray and he's now in the presence of the divine. This is a state cuz he if he does not get out of the garden he cannot fulfill his destiny. And the problem with some of you is that you have been in the garden for twenty years. You have been in the place... the garden it's a place of pressing. You have been in the place of pressing and pressure and indecisiveness. You have been in the place of "fittin" to, "getting ready to", "I'm about to", for 20 years. You've been on the verge of "thinking about it", "one day I will", for 20 years..
20 years!! Jesus shows me something. Jesus shows me something. Watch this... watch this...This is good, because Jesus goes into the presence of the Father and then he comes back to the designated. He goes from the divine to the designated and says won't you watch with me one hour... and then he goes back to the divine and he prays again.. and he goes back to the designated, "are you sleep again". See that's what happens when you're in Gethsemane. You keep trying to go from the divine to the designated, from the divine designated, from the divine to the designated. Trying to solve the conflict in your own head.
But finally he gets so lost in the divine. You know you're lost when His will becomes your will. You know you're lost when you stop trying to have it your way. You know you're lost in His presence when you've lost sight of your personal opinion and all of a sudden you're saying to yourself, "not my will"! I'm leaving Gethsemane. I'm leaving the place of excuses. I'm leaving the place for procrastination. I'm leaving the place of frustration. I'm going on. The Lord sent me to say to you get out of Gethsemane. Get out of your own head. Stop rethinking the same stuff over again. Stop wrestling with coulda, woulda, and shoulda. Get out of Gethsemane means you need to understand it costs what it cost, and it's not going on sale. You gotta do ... what you gotta do, and there is no escaping it, and there is no out clause, and there are no coupons, and there's no discount Fridays. It costs what it costs for what I'm gonna do in your life.
You might as well buckle up your seat belts and get yourself ready, cuz it costs...what it costs. I don't know who that's for. I don't even know what God is talking to you about. But whoever that's for, God just sent you a direct message. He doesn't wanna argue about it anymore! He don't want to hear you crying about it anymore! He don't want you bringing up alternative ways anymore! GET OUT OF GETHSEMANE!! .
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