Watch “The Garden of Gethsemane” Jentezen Franklin, host of Kingdom Connection & Pastor of Free Chapel.
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Jerusalem one of the oldest cities in
the world considered holy by three major
religions this city where Jesus walked
Tod was crucified buried and rose again
was the origin that started a movement
2,000 years ago and that spark a revival
continues today through the celebration
Center a new building project that will
be in the heart of Jerusalem a safe and
secure place to worship for new
messianic multicultural communities
imagine the name of Jesus returning to
the nation of Israel and really that’s
ultimately what this is about that the
people of God will come into a fuller
revelation of who their Messiah is we
come into that place where they worship
and we’re calling this the celebration
center for a reason because this is a
place of worship in that city the
prophecies are being fulfilled through
ministries like this and and I want to
be a part of that revival I believe that
there is a blessing that comes on people
when they begin to partner and bless the
nation of Israel let’s spark revival and
see an outpouring of the Holy Spirit as
we support the celebration Center
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hello and welcome to Kingdom connection
I’m coming to you today from the
beautiful city of Jerusalem specifically
I’m in the garden of gethsemane
the place where we read that so much
occurred here and our life was changed
because of a prayer meeting that took
place here where Jesus wrestled with the
will of the Father just like all of us
do you know it’s so hard sometimes to
find the will of God we we sometimes
want God to drop the whole plan of his
perfect will on our life and rarely does
he do that but he does say in Psalms 37
the steps of a righteous man are ordered
of the Lord God rarely will give you the
whole plan but he will give you step by
step his plan and I believe as you
listen to this telecast today God’s
gonna give you the next step I believe
that it’s time for you to move into your
future and into the plan that God has
for you and there’s the preceding word
of God you know when Abraham raised the
knife to sacrifice his son Isaac on that
hill that you can see behind me when he
raised that knife he was obeying the
word of the Lord God told him to do that
and he was going to stab his son and he
heard the preceding word a new word a
fresh word God said stay your hand and
he stopped what if he hadn’t heard the
preceding word of God Jesus said man
shall not live by bread alone but by
every word listen to it that proceeds
out of the mouth of God in other words
you don’t need to proceed until you get
the word from God on what direction to
go and I’m believing today that while
I’m teaching you from the Garden of
Gethsemane that the Lord will give you
the next step that preceding word of God
he has a plan for this season of your
life and I want to just read it
sometimes we just need to hear it from
the scripture but in this place where I
stand today this is what happened coming
out he went to the Mount of Olives as he
was a custom and the disciples also
followed him so when he says he was a
custom it means this was his
prayer place this is where he came on a
regular basis Jesus would find one of
these olive trees one of these old trees
and there’s a lot of olive trees and
different trees all around me and he
would find often you read before day he
would slip away often you read he would
pull away from the crowd so that teaches
us something number one that we need a
place of Prayer and number two we need a
time of Prayer you will not pray if you
don’t have a place of Prayer and a time
of Prayer the Lord really taught me this
many many years ago when I first started
pastoring free chapel and Charisse my
wife and I were having children we had
three at the time and I was so busy I
was so busy building the church the
church was growing and we were in a
building program that I was just going
to the Bible to get a sermon and I
really didn’t have I was praying but not
like I not consistently and the Lord
spoke to my heart and said I want you to
find a place of Prayer and a time of
Prayer and this was over 20 years ago
and I began to go to a place in
Gainesville where I live and every day
of my life after I take my kids to
school I would go to my place of prayer
at my time of prayer and I would walk I
like to walk in the woods there in
Georgia we’ve got all kinds of woods and
I’ve got trails and that’s my place of
prayer I even have trees that at
different challenges and different
crises that we’re going on in our family
or in the church I took stones or I took
a knife with me and I cut into the tree
and I made a mark and would say Lord I’m
gonna come by and every day I won’t buy
this tree and I marked this tree I want
you to remember I’m praying for my child
or I’m praying for this church or I’m
believing you for that building program
I’m believing you for that building and
to this day I was there Saturday before
I came here I can walk through those
trails and I can show you the marks of
prayer that I would put on those trees
just as a little memorial to say God you
know the Bible said if Cornelius his
prayers came up before God as a memorial
did you know you can stack prayers up
and
like the memorials in Washington the
Jefferson Memorial the Lincoln Memorial
can you imagine your memorial a prayer
coming up before the throne of God and
as was his custom did Jesus came to this
place the Garden of Gethsemane you can
see the eastern wall the beautiful
center there of the city and the Dome of
the rock behind me where the temple once
stood and he would he loved this area he
loved this place and he would come pray
here and if you ever come and we’re
coming next year and I hope you will
we’ll have a prayer meeting right here
in the garden of gethsemane but if you
ever come you you will be touched by
this place this is very very special and
I’m gonna pray for you and your family
from the Garden of Gethsemane just a
moment on this telecast and when he came
to the place listen to that the place do
you have a place find a place of Prayer
get a place of prayer have a time of
Prayer it’s that important and the
scripture said he said pray that you
enter not into temptation jesus said
this to his disciples and when he had
withdrawn himself about a throne a
stone’s throw away he knelt down and he
prayed saying father if it is your will
take this cup away from me nevertheless
not my will but yours be done
listen then an angel appeared to him
from heaven and strengthened him and
being in agony he prayed more earnestly
until his sweat became like drops of
blood falling down onto the ground and I
guess it’s emotional to me because I’m
here where it happened you know we read
these stories in America and around the
world and you know we have but when you
come and you stand here he came to a
place and an angel came and ministered
to him and his sweat became in such
agony his sweat became like drops of
blood sometimes you have to sweat it out
sometimes the Christian walk is not easy
sometimes it’s tearful sometimes it’s
you sweat it out
and Jesus the Son of God his his sweat
became like drops of blood and it fell
into the ground this ground these rocks
could have heard him pray and could have
been touched by the book that was
actually the first shedding of the blood
of Jesus Christ for the world we think
of it being on the cross but it was not
on the cross where he shed his first
drops of blood his first drops of blood
were shed the night before he was
crucified in this garden the blood of
atonement did not start on Calvary it
started in the Garden of Gethsemane
where his sweat and by the way sweat was
part of the curse you remember what he
told Adam he said by the sweat of your
brow because you’ve eaten of the
forbidden fruit by the sweat of your
brow you will you will have to work and
produce for the rest of your life and
the earth will give up thorns listen to
this so Jesus when his sweat became like
drops of blood was breaking the curse
going all the way back to the Garden of
Eden in the GAR it all started in a
garden the Garden of Eden and it was
defeated in a garden the Garden of
Gethsemane when his sweat which
represents again sweat was part of the
curse God told Adam Adam because of this
the sweat of the brow everything will
come you’re gonna have trials and
tribulations and you’ll labor by the
sweat of your brow but Jesus said you
won’t have to work for salvation anymore
I’m gonna take the sins of the world and
what you’ve tried to work and make
happen by offering sacrifices for
hundreds and thousands of years offering
sacrifices I’ll do it through my blood
I’ll shed my blood and it’s not dududu
it’s done done done it is finished and
the blood of Jesus Christ makes us
righteous takes the shame the guilt away
and it cleanses us from all
unrighteousness
it takes the curse of sin from our life
in his listen to that his
his sweat became as drops of blood in
agony and being in agony he prayed more
earnestly and then he rose up from
prayer and came to his disciples and
found them sleeping for sorrow and he
said to them why do you sleep could you
not tarry with me one hour and he was
teaching his disciples about prayer you
know the other thing that stands out in
that text to me is something about
angels the Bible said that as he prayed
in this garden an angel came and
strengthened him and ministered unto him
and the greatest tragedy of
prayerlessness is the unemployment of
angels when we don’t pray angels are not
employed Paul prayed in a storm and an
angel came and delivered him Daniel play
prayed in a lion’s den and an angel came
Peter prayed in a prison and an angel
came and led him out the greatest
tragedy of prayerlessness is the
unemployment of angels wonder how many
of our angels are standing in the
unemployment line in heaven because we
don’t pray jesus said you have not
because you ask not ask and you shall
receive seek and you shall find knock
and it shall be opened unto you
and when Jesus prayed in the garden he
prayed not my will but thine be done as
a matter of fact he prayed if it be
possible let this cup pass from me it’s
one of those moments where we see the
humanity of Jesus where he is vulnerable
where he’s wrestling with do I really
matter do I really have to do this do I
really have to suffer on the cross
am I really gonna go through with this
and he said Lord take this cup from me
there is a this cup experience and if
you’re drink from that cup you’ll wear
the crown but you can’t have the crown
without the cup many times we want a
painless Christianity and some of you
are drinking from the cup right now
Jesus himself had
drink from the cup and the measure of
your trial is the measure of God’s trust
in your life the greater the trial the
greater the trust jesus said not my will
but thine be done I’m telling you that
when you get to that place there I
remember when the Lord called me to
preach and I was majored in music was on
a full scholarship I play saxophone and
I love music and I was in my second year
of college and I felt an uneasiness I
felt like God had more and I’m talking
to some of you right now that God is
gonna give you the next step he’s gonna
give you his will for your life Jesus
prayed in this garden for the will of
God and I’m gonna pray in a moment for
you that God will give you the next step
to his plan and his will for your life
but I remember you know just having an
uneasiness like something is missing and
I began to earnestly pray and fasted for
three days and the Spirit of God began
to deal with me in such a strong way and
I felt the call to preach but it was a
it was I had to sweat it out
you know Jesus sweat became like blood
you have to sweat out the will of God
it’s not an easy thing you just wake up
and you’re in the will of God you have
to sweat it out you have to stay
steadfast you have to trust God you have
to obey when it seems like nobody’s
noticing you have to do what God says do
when nothing’s happening it’s wonderful
when huge doors are opening and big
things are happening but that’s not that
see we all we care about is the
destination but God wants to it’s the
journey
it’s who we’re becoming and as I begin
to sweat it out and when God called me
to preach you know there’s nothing like
being in his will and I look today and
Here I am in Jerusalem preaching to you
I never would have dreamed that that
would take me where all the places that
God has allowed me to go but when you
pray not my will and I remember I had to
get to that place where I said Lord I’m
willing I’m willing to do whatever you
want me to do
that’s when something
that’s when heaven opens up as long as
you’re fighting as long as you’re saying
I’ll do it but or you know if it works
out like I really want every
relationship you have to lay on the
altar and say not my will but thine be
done
when I when I was going to you know
marry my wife Charisse I had to I had to
reach that point that I said not my will
if you tell me I’ll walk away or if you
tell me Lord I really want to marry her
but but but I only want your will I’m
telling you we need to pray that prayer
more we do too many things without
prayer pray about that house that you’re
thinking about buying pray about that
person that you’re getting involved with
pray pray about the the business that
you’re in
pray about it talk to the Lord about it
and say Lord not my will but thine be
done when you do you invoke the power of
heaven and you know when you get to that
place that you say not my will but thine
be done that’s when the ain’t the the
answer will come that’s when something
inside of you truly is willing to do the
will of God and the will of God for you
is the greatest and safest place to live
I’d rather be in the will of God in Iraq
surrounded by Isis than at Disneyland
out of the will of God because the
safest place in the world for you if
God’s will for you is to be in a place
he’ll give you the grace the protection
the provision all that you need and I
feel like saying to somebody when you
get in the will of God the provision
will come when you get in the will of
God the power of God the action of God
will come and I’m gonna pray for you
today I want to pray that God will
invoke his will over your life and you
know this place where Jesus pray I just
believe that power can flow from where I
am to where you are many of you are at a
many of you are out of transition and I
sense it you’re you’re in a transition
season and you’re wondering Lord what’s
the next step the steps of a good man a
righteous man not by your own rights
it’s the blood of Jesus are ordered of
the Lord he’s already got your life
planned out he’s already got the person
for you that you’re gonna marry he’s
already got if you’re married he’s
already got plans five years ten years
the Bible said he establishes that the
the beginning from the end in other
words God finishes it and then he goes
all the way back in starts and listen to
this I hear the Lord telling me to tell
you this
he’ll never he’ll never waste a step
even the bad steps and choices that
we’ve made God won’t waste it he’ll take
that step and he’ll mold you and he’ll
make you tender and it may have broken
you it may have been a terrible step
that you made that was out of the will
of God but God never wastes his step
even the mistakes that we make he can
take and he can somehow make us tender
and make us compassionate and make us he
can actually turn the bad steps into
into worship in our life that makes us
you know when we think about how God
delivered us from that bad step it turns
us to praise and turns us to worship and
glorify God like never before God will
never waste a step in your life even
your mistakes
he says come back to me I’ll cleanse you
I’ll forgive you I’ll heal you and I’ll
use you and I want to pray for you right
now if you don’t know Jesus Christ as
your Lord and Savior this is your moment
it’s his will for you to confess him and
to receive him as your savior pray this
prayer right where you are right now
just say Lord Jesus I receive you today
as my Savior thank you for the blood
that you’ve shed even in the Garden of
Gethsemane all the way to Calvary it
cleanses me and it forgives me now say
this and lord I want your wheel I pray
for your wheel today in my life
thy will be done in Jesus name Amen and
amen we would love to hear from you you
are forgiven and I just feel led because
I don’t get
to Jerusalem every day and I just feel
led to pray for our partners and friends
and all of our viewers when we come and
we’re coming next year by the way
bringing a large group over here and I
my family and I we all just get on the
buses and hang out with the people and
eat and just have the most wonderful
time getting to know our friends and and
we’ll come to this garden of gethsemane
it’s one of them favorite things that I
do because we’ll pray the Lord’s Prayer
here together I usually try to rent it
out for about an hour and we have a
prayer meeting and communion in the
garden of gethsemane with with our
people and I want to pray for you and I
want to pray the Lord’s Prayer and I
want to take the next few moments and
just pray for the sick pray for the
suffering pray for those of you who feel
alone and abandoned maybe you’re going
through a divorce it feels like your
life is broken maybe maybe you started
out and something has happened and it
shattered your dreams I believe God has
your next step just hold on to his
promise father in the name of Jesus I
just right now pray for those who are
sick I pray for those who are suffering
I pray for those who need direction I
pray for those who are in financial
difficulty you are the God who supplies
all of our needs you’re the god of
miracles you’re the god of signs and
wonders and healings and we declare your
great name the name of Jesus is greater
than cancer it’s greater than heart
disease it’s greater than leukemia it’s
greater than AIDS and Lord manifests
your power right now I know that
standing in Jerusalem right now you can
send forth healing power into every home
into every family and I ask you for
miracles today on behalf of your people
those that need help in their family
those that need help in their marriage
those that need help Lord I hold up
their children that are enslaved and
addicted to drugs and alcoholism we get
so many letters so many emails from
people who are broken and hurting and
god I just pray
those thousands of people that have
asked us to pray that you would release
miracles and angels send your angels
Lord just like you sent an angel to
Jesus release the angels to fight on
behalf of God’s people those who are in
a battle turned about oh I pray I plead
the blood of Jesus over you and your
family and your future and your finances
and your health in Jesus name Amen and
amen well our time is almost gone thank
you so much for your amazing support for
those of you who are helping us build
the celebration center right here in
Jerusalem it’s a place that will house
nine different congregations speaking
and preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ
in nine different languages especially
in Hebrew – this beautiful people here
the Jewish people and also Ethiopian
congregation Russian congregation owned
in all nations of the world represented
in the celebration Center we’re
partnering with our friends at King of
Kings Church which is an amazing
ministry doing great things and I want
to thank you for helping us we’re
getting close to the completion of that
project we need your help
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so close and I want to thank you maybe
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it done will you help us today if you
will I know God will bless you it’ll
come up as a memorial I believe for you
and your family before the throne of God
what he said in Genesis 13 that when you
bless Israel he said I’ll bless those
that bless you I’ll curse those that
curse you I believe a blessing is coming
your way when you help make the gospel
come to the city of Jerusalem thank you
and god bless you now more than ever
Jenson Franklin and King
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