Tuesday - Pray Like This

Welcome to Daily Prayer. Today, we continue an 8 week journey through The Lord’s

prayer together. This week we are meditating on the phrase, “Your will be done on earth as it is

in heaven.” This is a powerful line to pray and one that takes our whole lives to fully grasp.

Today, we will focus on the prayer of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane before His death.

Here, we find the ultimate prayer of submission to the will of His Father.

PAUSE: Before we begin, let’s take a moment to center our hearts, minds and bodies on

Christ. Take a few slow, deep breaths.

Jesus, I love you. You are my deepest and truest friend. Thank you for always being here. I lay

aside the distractions running around in my mind right now. I put away the mental to do list and

for these next few moments, I choose the best thing— to sit at Your feet.

SCRIPTURE: A Scripture reading from Matthew 26:36-39

36 Then Jesus went with them to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and he said, “Sit here while I go over there to pray.” 37 He took Peter and Zebedee’s two sons, James and John, and he became anguished and distressed. 38 He told them, “My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”

39 He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground, praying, “My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.”

RESPOND/REJOICE:

Jesus, you are beautiful. Your selfless death has given us life.

You are the Savior of the world and the lover of my soul.

You chose pain and sorrow over Your own desires.

Lord, we cannot fathom grief to the point You experienced on the Cross, but you endured that pain for the joy set before You of completing the Father’s will.

You are our ultimate example. You are the One I want to follow even unto death. We want to understand more of

Your suffering, bring us into the Garden with You.

ACKNOWLEDGE OUR NEED/ASK FOR HELP:

Help those Lord in our body and around the world who find themselves right now in the “fires of sorrow”, as you were in the garden…Lonely, rejected, out of emotional strength, weary, lost, burdened, deeply sorrowful, broken

hearted, full of grief…..

Give them strength to say yes to your will. Help them to trust that out of their grief, You will

make them nourishment for other people. May they feel your tangible presence as they say yes

to your will. We ask you Jesus to lift our eyes up right now. To see the picture of you walking

toward the cross and trust that as we walk to whatever “death” we are facing right now, You

went before us. You walk this journey with us. Strengthen us by Your presence. Give us the joy

of being with You even in pain.

SCRIPTURE AGAIN: As we listen to the passage again, focus in on a word or phrase the Holy

Spirit might be highlighting to your heart today.

36 Then Jesus went with them to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and he said, “Sit here while I go over there to pray.” 37 He took Peter and Zebedee’s two sons, James and John, and he became anguished and distressed. 38 He told them, “My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”

39 He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground, praying, “My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.”

YIELD and SAY YES:

Lord, help me to mean this. Not my will, but Yours be done. I yield to Your will today. I give into

Your plan and release the tight grip I have on mine. Even if it means shattered dreams,

Lord, I say yes to Your will.

Help me to say yes to You when I cannot see the full picture. When all I see and feel is sorrow,

give me grace to believe— through the tears—that Your will is worth saying YES to.

Make me like You Jesus. Your will is the best choice for my life.

As we end our time together, let’s join in with the saints that came before us and the body of

Christ around the world today by praying the Lord’s Prayer.

*LORD’S PRAYER*

Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name.

Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us

lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil

for yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory for ever. Amen.

*Prayers by Drew and Kate Krenkle