1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: Life Audio. You are listening to everyday prayers with Million 2 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: Praying Moms helping you pray God's word for your family 3 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 1: in the areas you need it most. I'm your host, 4 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: Nicolette Belle. Here we believe prayer isn't a last resort. 5 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 1: It's our first and best response in parenting, and every 6 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: day we come together to partner with God for the 7 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: hearts of our children as we journey towards Easter. Together, 8 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 1: we've been unpacking the final prayers of Jesus as we've 9 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: broken them down. I believe these prayers have shown us 10 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 1: the heart of God and have taught us so much 11 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: about connecting with the Father in prayer. Today, we will 12 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: discuss the power of submission in prayer as we wrap 13 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: up our conversation surrounding Jesus's Prayer in the Garden of Guessimone. 14 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: To learn more about the Million Praying Moms Ministry, visit 15 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: Millionprayingmoms dot Com. Can find a link in our show notes. 16 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 1: After a quick word from our sponsors, we'll pray together 17 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: for our children. Matthew twenty six thirty nine, Going a 18 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 1: little farther, he fell with his face to the ground 19 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: and prayed my Father. If it is possible, may this 20 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: cut be taken from me? Yet not as I will, 21 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 1: but as you will. Jesus here shows us a beautiful 22 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: example of true submission to the Father. I titled this 23 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: episode the Power of Submission, and those things could be 24 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: seem contradictory power and submission, but I'm proposing that here 25 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: in the garden, Jesus shows the most ultimate display of 26 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: power through submission. He could have resisted the Father's will. 27 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: He could have insisted on another way, but he submits 28 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: to the Father's will on our behalf out of his 29 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: love for us. And just as Christ submitted to the 30 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: will of the Father, we are to submit our children 31 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: to God in prayer. I was talking to my sister 32 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: about this, who has kids in college in high school, 33 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 1: and she reminded me that this isn't a one time thing, right. 34 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,919 Speaker 1: She describes submitting her children over and over and over 35 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 1: again to God. Specifically, she talked about the time when 36 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 1: my oldest nephew went to college. He has very extreme 37 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: food allergies that she was really able to stay on 38 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: top of most of his life up until that point. 39 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: He was admitted to their state college, which is allergy 40 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: friendly accommodates food allergies during dorm assignments and has a 41 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: dining hall that is free of the top allergens. But 42 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:46,799 Speaker 1: he chose to go to the university that he had 43 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: wanted to go to since childhood, a different university. It 44 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: is not allergy and friendly. He was placed in the 45 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,239 Speaker 1: dorm latto and they would not allow special selection based 46 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: on allergies. Additionally, they didn't really offer many foods that 47 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: were safe for him, so his diet consisted of pizza, 48 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: chicken strips, and cereal. James's allergy is really severe, the 49 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 1: most severe I've ever encountered. Not only did my sister 50 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: feel all of the normal feelings a mom feels when 51 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 1: letting a child go away to college, she also felt 52 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: an increased anxiety surrounding his allergies. What if he kissed 53 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: a girl that ate a food that he was allergic to? 54 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: What if he went to a party and had something 55 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 1: to drink and ate something without realizing it. His allergies 56 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: are so severe it could kill him. She had a 57 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: choice to let her fear consume her, or to submit 58 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: him to God and trust him into the hands of Jesus. 59 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: With a lot of prayer, sissy released her boy to God. Well, 60 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: she would say she has to do this continually because 61 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: we moms like to pick back up the worry that 62 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: we've put down, don't we. And this prayer of Jesus 63 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: shows us how to submit to God in prayer. Just 64 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: as Christ submitted the will to the Father, we can 65 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: submit our children to him. The Father submitted his son 66 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: for all of us. He doesn't ask us to do 67 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:16,359 Speaker 1: anything that he isn't willing to do himself. Well, I 68 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: think is kind of significant here when looking at this prayer, 69 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: is that Jesus's prayer wasn't answered in the way that 70 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: he wanted it to. Listen to it. Listen to what 71 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: he says, not my will, but yours. Not my will 72 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 1: shows us that his will would have been a different way. 73 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: That Jesus had some other ideas for how this could 74 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: happen or what might need to go down, And he 75 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: asked the Father, is there any other way? And then 76 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 1: he says, but not my will, not what I want, 77 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: but what you want. So what this shows us is 78 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: that what Jesus wanted to happen didn't actually happen. And 79 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: this gives me a lot of comfort because that happens 80 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: in our lives a lot of the times, doesn't it. 81 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: We often let unanswered prayers keep us from praying. If 82 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: God didn't respond in the way we expect or want, 83 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: we automatically assume that he must not be listening or 84 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: that our prayers aren't making a difference. But Jesus shows 85 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 1: us another way. He prays. He says, this is not 86 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: what I want, but I want what you want more 87 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: than what I want. And then when the answer was 88 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:28,919 Speaker 1: still not what he wanted, he kept praying and kept 89 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 1: pursuing the Father because he genuinely desired what God wanted 90 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: more than what he wanted. And I wonder if that's 91 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: the case for you and I. When Jesus had decided 92 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,359 Speaker 1: to submit, and he submits to the Father in prayer. 93 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: When he's done with his prayer in twenty six Matthew 94 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: twenty six, verse forty six, he says to the disciples, rise, 95 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:54,799 Speaker 1: let us be going, see my betrayer is at hand. 96 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,040 Speaker 1: After he prayed and surrender, Jesus had a true resolve 97 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 1: for the task that was in front of him. He 98 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: knew what was coming, and he decided that he was 99 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 1: ready to face it. After he prayed he truly accepted 100 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: God's will with purpose. Today we wrap up our series 101 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,600 Speaker 1: on the final Prayers of Jesus. It really has been 102 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 1: a joy to look at Jesus's final words to the 103 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 1: Father before he gives up his life on earth in 104 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: the High priestly Prayer and this prayer in the Garden 105 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:26,479 Speaker 1: of Guessemone. I really hope that you've learned something and 106 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: have been encouraged in your prayer life. My hope today 107 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 1: is that when we pray for our children, we can 108 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 1: do it with a true spirit of submission, knowing there 109 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: is power when we submit what we want for our 110 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:45,840 Speaker 1: kids to what God wants, trusting that what He wants 111 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: for them is the best thing possible. Let's pray, Holy Father, 112 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: just as Christ submitted to your will that night in 113 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:59,239 Speaker 1: the garden, helped me to continually submit my will to yours. 114 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: I am convinced that you know what is best for 115 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: my children, and I am asking for faith to live 116 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: in that truth. Help me to surrender my children to 117 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: you over and over again in Jesus' precious name. Amen, 118 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: are you a visual learner? Would you like to receive 119 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: our daily devotions and written form? Write to your inbox. 120 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: Then join our Patreon community of Praying Moms. 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