Top 10 Prayers of the New Testament #2

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Speaker 1: Well, let's walk with Jesus those final steps again, these whirlwind days, those antacrafts, waving branchers Jerusalem, Hope, get beneath the cheers. Fractured, they craved rescuer on their terms, King of imagination, not the suffering servant upper room. Final meal, heavy with meaning, broken bread, lifted wine, betray her named basin of water, washed feet, departure words and visible kingdom. The disciples didn't grasp loneliness, fogged in post meal psalms Rise Hosanna. Blessed is he who comes irony, prophetic words, unaware singers down the kidren's slopes across the brook, gestimite, olive press pressure fitting.

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Speaker 2: Jesus breaks the silence. Tonight, you will all fall away.

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Speaker 1: This protest, he knows better, takes Peter, James and John farther past midnight, twenty hours sleepless. Jesus is beyond tired. My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch, Matthew twenty six thirty eight. He goes farther false face down.

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Speaker 2: Father, my father, if possible.

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Speaker 1: May this cup be taken from me? And here it is top ten prayer number two. Yet not as I will, but as you will. Three times. Silence holds, anguish, sweat as blood, angel strengthens. No cup removal. Cup's contents not just mob torches, but Judas's kiss, Peter's sword, scattered friends, corrupt, trial, spit, fist rods, scourging, crown of thorns, unbearable crossbeams, nails, suffocation, deeper bearing, sin, absorbing, wrath, entering, abandonment. My God, my God, why have you've forsaken me? And then father into your hands? I commit my spirit. It's finished now. I guess the many staggers not my will, yours, not resignation. It's not numbness, it's willing, intentional surrender, cost fully known and expected.

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Speaker 2: I lack that strength. That's awkward.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you do. I dodge cups, especially deep ones like this. Yeah. Welcome to Gospel Ran podcast and Doctor Bill Senored YouTube channel. I'm your host, doctor Bill Sinyard. We're free wherever you get podcasts, of course on YouTube as well. Doctor Bill Sinard one word subscribe if you're watching us on YouTube and leave a comment below. That's one of the fastest ways you can help us. Grows by leaving those comments below. Thank you for that. I enjoy them. Also, thanks for making Gospel Rant podcast one of the top ten percent of the world. Thank you for listening every week. We hope that it helps regularly to hear about God's love for the lovel the love the unlovely and worthy, unlikely, and the hurting. And that's all of us let any given day, if we were just a little bit honest, I'm going to get right into this prayer number two. After a brief word from our sponsors, we'll be right back. So this is the top ten prayer number two. Not my will, but yours be done. Not my will, but yours be done. So back to the garden. Now we get a better understanding how staggering that early prayer was. This is not passive resignation. It's not spiritual numbness. It's willing. So so this is the top ten prayer number two. Not my will, but yours be done, Not my will, but yours be done. So back to the garden. Now we've got a better understanding how.

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Speaker 2: Staggering that early prayer was.

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Speaker 1: This is not passive resignation, it's not spiritual numbness. It's willing surrender and full awareness of the cost. And here's the uncomfortable truth. I don't possess that strength naturally, probably neither of you. Left to ourselves. We avoid such cups, especially deep ones that are going to cost us so much so, how did Jesus pray that prayer? And how can we when the time comes after the resurrection The answer becomes unfold. He promises power, not willpower, not grit, but spirit power, and acts one to eight. You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. That prayer of surrender requires a power beyond us, the same spirit who empowered Jesus now and dwells his people. And with that spirit comes capacity. We do manufacture with the spirit of sonship. There's a subtle assurance that were loved, forgiven, wanted secure. See if I know deep in my bones that the Father adores me as I am, I can trust his will. It comes with faith, which is from the Holy Spirit. Jesus drank his cup to secure that for me. Yeah, it's the spirit of the mind of Christ. My default setting is self preservation. Yeah, run, fight, flight, freeze. The spirit rewires my priority. Suddenly your good can matter more than my comforts, even if it costs me. It's the spirit of heavenly mindedness. When eternity becomes real, earth, applause loses its grip, wealth, reputation status, those things shrink in priority. In my life, I already possess significant security belonging in Christ. And the Holy Spirit is a spirit of oneness, supernatural unity around the central truth Jesus crucified and risen on my behalf. Secondary disputes lose their power to divide so much. The loaf is not torn over lesser things, but over the important things. And the Spirit is the spirit of boldness, not boldness for self defense, but boldness for gospel proclamation, even towards those who threaten us, threaten me. And he's the.

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Speaker 2: Spirit of purposeful suffering.

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Speaker 1: Ah. I hate that there's a thing called surd suffering, suffering without a purpose, and that kind of suffering crushes us. But with purpose it can be endured. Spirit persuades us beyond logic that no suffering is meaningless. In Christ. The Cross is the proof, and he's the spirit of eternal life freedom. The fear of death. Death is not the end of living. It's a doorway. God is the God of the living and the dead. Justice will be done, he says. So faith makes us believe that deaths will be settled again. Faith makes us believe that tears will be wiped again. The spirit's faith makes us believe that. And that changes everything, doesn't it? So how do we know this spirit exists? Look at the resurrect of Jesus. No bitterness, no vengeance, only peace and commission. Look at the apostles, ordinary frightened men transformed into courageous witnesses willing to drink that cup. This is not hype. This is not a personality type. This is spirit power. This is evidence of the present spirit in them. And so prayer number two is ours not by memorization and imitation, but by spirit infusion. Does that makes sense? What this prayer tells us about God? God equips those he calls. God's will is safe despite horror. God strengthens in anguish. God's silence is purposeful. God transforms through his spirit. So what does his prayer say about us? Boy, surrender is unnatural. We need infusion, not imitation. Lowliness proceed surrender. Full awareness amplifies choice, power produces fruit. Here's a guest, Semity surrender prayer for your benefit. I hope these prayers at the end of this podcast it will be in the book as well, But I hope they're helpful to some of you who really want to pray. So just us and let this wash over you. Father, I don't naturally want your will when it costs. Fill me with spirit, power, sonship, love, Christ's mind, heaven, focus oneness, boldness, purpose, eternal life, secure me knowing you adore me, reorder, desires, free from fear. Make me say, if possible, take this cup yet not my will, but yours be done. Ah Amen, Be careful that prayer can change everything. Here's one of the discussion questions that'll be in my upcoming book, good enough prayer. Jesus surrenders in full awareness of the cup's horror, out residu nation, but spirit empowered choice. Where do you dodge deep cups, suffering loss on what it calls? How does his blood, sweat, anguish normalize your resistance? So what's next? I'm gonna let you know after this.

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Speaker 2: Brief word from our sponsors.

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Speaker 1: So what's next? Drum roll? Please? You know. When I first pulled my list together, the next prayer was at number ten, and as I sat with it, it just wouldn't stay there, and it kept moving up my list. Why well, first, Jesus commands us to pray this second, it's one of the last things that Jesus commands us to do in the very last part of the last book in the Bible. Love to hear what you think, Bill at gospeldieshap dot com. Yeah, and I mentioned I'm finishing up that book good Enough Prayer Top twenty Prayers of the Old and New Testament. Email the Bill at gospeldesshap dot com if you want to know exactly when it will be released. Great for devotions, groups discussions. In two weeks, I'm going to begin a fantastic and relevant new series and a provocative, troubling book of the Old Testament. Imagine a nation collapsing, violent spread, civil war erupts over and over, polarization, families betrayed each other, faith disappears, and everyone insists they are still God's people. It's the Book of Judges. But the collapse didn't begin with war. It began with something quieter. Yeah, and throughout the entire book you'll hear me say this and explain it. But I'm just going to tease with this. Israel never goes to Shiloh, not once. The summer series will be through the Book of Judges. Using a title for of a hit TV show a decade or so back. I'm calling it breaking badly. They never went to Shiloh. It's so relevant for our time, not just because we're all doing what our heart's desires still, but because another one of the Judge's core morals. And you'll see what I mean. Yep, we'll see you next time. Take our Child of God. Yeah,