Gethsemane
They call the place Gethsemane,
What is the meaning of the word?
The place of the oil press,
Oh, what irony that night!
The irony in the pressure,
Felt by Christ that night
Jesus went with Peter,
James and John,
To that place up on the hill,
To the place they press the olives,
Oh, the night was still!
No olives being pressed that night,
Just the Lord's presence, His radiant light!
Jesus was a stones throw away,
Away from the disciples three,
Away from Peter, James and John,
Alone to pray to Thee!
Jesus falls to pray a first time,
The weight of all sins past
Lord, if this cup be passed!
Jesus falls a second time,
The weight of sin that day,
Lord if this cup be passed!
Jesus falls a third time,
Falls on bended knee,
The pressure of the sins
He feels now,
The sins of you and me!
The drops of sweat fall like blood,
Like oil from the press,
Like olives falling from the tree,
In that place, Gethsemane!
Inspired by Luke 22:39-44
Written
by Mark J. Brown
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The Lord
is saying. I am the fire that warms your heart on a cold day.
I am the light that brightens up the darkness of the night.
I am the peace that brings calm in trouble. I am the hope
that expels despair and I am the love that says..... I will
never leave you nor forsake you..
Jesus drank from the
cup of sorrow
so we could drink from the cup of Joy
What an amazing God
we serve. That He would give up all that He had to come down
to live on earth, because of His great love for us.
So we could have joy, He shed tears of sorrow. So we could
have freedom He allowed the soldiers to take Him captive.
So we could have health he was bruised. So we could have peace,
he suffered torment and so we could have righteousness, he
took our blame.
Isa
53:3 - 6. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows,
and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces
from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:
yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised
for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon
him; and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one
to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity
of us all.
John 10:11 I am the good shepherd:
the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
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