Gethsemane Before Glory (prophetic word)

"Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will" (Matthew 26:39).

A little farther. That's the place the Father's trying to take you today. God wants to take you father into the "power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings" (Philippians 3:10). He's got spiritual exploits waiting for you in His Kingdom (Daniel 11:32). He wants to take you deeper into the realm of His glory where you see Him act in power. God still works miracles, signs, and wonders, and He wants to bring heaven to earth through your vessel, but you've got to go a little farther with Him first.

In the garden of Gethsemane we see Jesus praying for the cup of death to be taken from Him before He was betrayed and led to Calvary. The cross was where He'd be separated from the Father's presence for the first time (Matthew 27:46). This was worse than any physical death could ever be; yet, it was the only way we could be redeemed. It was the Father's will, and this cup would not pass. Jesus had to drink it. Jesus finally surrendered saying, "yet not as I will, but as You will."

No servant is greater than His master (John 15:20). If Jesus had to go through Gethsemane to get to glory, so do you, and if He could do it, so can you. "And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you" (Romans 8:11).

What is God asking you to surrender today so that you can reach the next level in your spiritual walk? Is it a person, ways of the flesh, or a secret sin? Whatever it is, God will give you the strength and grace to release it if you depend on His Holy Spirit.

Know that you can never out-give God. Anything you give Him can't compare to the riches He'll place in your hands. Someone once said that your penthouse dream is God's basement idea. You've got to give up that basement in order to get to God's best. You won't reach the pinnacle without it.

Will you choose to go a little farther with Christ today? Imagine what blessings await you on the other side of your sacrifice!

"Truly I tell you," Jesus replied, "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields--along with persecutions--and in the age to come eternal life"" (Mark 10:29-30).