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Take This Cup
As I enter this time of prayer, I repeat the words of Psalm 13:1–2, slowly, several times, making them my prayer to God:
‘How long, LORD? Will you forget me for ever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
and day after day have sorrow in my heart?’
Pause and repeat
As we continue to explore Christ’s prayer in Gethsemane, today we consider its five most shocking words: ‘Take this cup from me …’ (Mark 14:35–36).
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Thus far, Jesus has been following the pattern of His own ‘Lord’s Prayer’, saying ‘Abba, Father’ instead of ‘Our Father,’ and ‘everything is possible for you’ instead of ‘hallowed be your name,’ but now, at the point where He’s meant to pray ‘Your kingdom come,’ He says the exact opposite: ‘Take this cup from me.’ He is going off script, admitting to the Father: ‘I don’t want to suffer. I’m scared. There has to be another way!’ If Jesus can be so honest with God in His hour of greatest need, then surely so can we?
In what ways do I pretend when I pray? Are there any ‘tricks’ I use to try to avoid or persuade God?
Pause and reflect
I take a little time now to speak to the Father honestly from my heart about what I’m really feeling and thinking, remembering that He loves me, values my honesty, and is never shocked.
Pause and pray
As I bring this time with God to a close, I pray a prayer of surrender by Richard Foster:
‘Today, O Lord, I yield myself to You. May Your will be my delight today. May You have perfect sway in me. May Your love be the pattern of my living. I surrender to You my hopes, my dreams, my ambitions. Do with them what You will, when You will, as You will. I place into Your loving care my family, my friends, my future. Care for them with a care that I can never give. I release into Your hands my need to control, my craving for status, my fear of obscurity. Eradicate the evil, purify the good, and establish Your kingdom on earth. For Jesus’ sake, Amen.’*
* Richard Foster, Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home (San Francisco: Harper, 1992), 24.
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About this Plan
Why does it sometimes seem like our prayers go unheard or unanswered? Can we find hope and a new perspective during difficult seasons? This Lent and Easter themed plan is based on the book God on Mute, which was written by the Founder of 24-7 Prayer Pete Greig, who has stepped into the dark side of prayer and emerged with a hard-won message of hope, comfort and profound biblical insight for all who suffer in silence.
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