Watch and Pray - Paul M. Williams

Bethesda Shalom

Matthew 26:36-46

It is my conviction, that it is in Gethsemane more than in any other place, that light is cast upon the full humanity of God our Saviour, Jesus Christ. In Bethlehem we see His birth, in Gethsemane we see His travail of His soul; in the manger we hear the cries of the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes but in the garden we hear the groans of the anguish of agonising prayer. Consider with me, the great sorrows that His soul endured that night. If the name Gethsemane (Lit. oil press), means anything historically, it was for this hour that it was named!

This message is a call for God’s people to watch and pray in the hour of their vulnerability.