Where Is Your Gethsemane

 In the secret place He spoke softly and asked me "Where Is Your Gethsemane?"

I'm certain the question was asked for my spiritual understanding and the depths of "What despair my soul was in to get me to the cross of, crucifying the flesh and finally, walk in the spirit of Liberty, Light, Love, and Life.

Where is The Gethsemane Garden that transformed and changed my life completely. Do you Remember where that place is. Where is that spiritual crushing oil garden?

We all have a Gethsemane if we have truly Encountered Jesus. No one can go to the Son until the Father first draws him or her to the Son.  A True Jesus Encounter transforms a lifestyle completely.

Mark 14:32 Jesus prays in the garden of Gethsemane. They went to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and Jesus said, "Sit here while I go and pray." He became deeply troubled and distressed and told them, "My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch."

The Hebrew word for Gethsemane is a place for pressing oil or wine and shemanim, which means oils. Gethsemane just happens to be at the foot of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem. He was being pressed with extreme pressure of His suffering for all of us here because of sin. So much so, the pressing was so sorrowful that Jesus bled as he sweat in great sorrow. To Jesus we were worth every bit of crushing. Here in Gethsemane, was the last secret place Jesus spoke intimately with the Father. The Garden of Gethsemane, the olive grove. Yeshua drank from the cup filled with the crushed oil.

Where is Your Gethsemane; the place of despair, sorrow, and crushing from the weight of our own sin and sorrow then the transformation decision to Liberty, Life, Light, and Love... "Abba Father, everything is possible for You. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet not my will but Your will be done. Mark 14:36." The decision to drink from the cup was here. Gethsemane. Father, your will be done here. Where is your Gethsemane...

Mine was at the Ville. If you could merge Jefferson/Louis, and Fenn into one, that's the place. That's the place where my whole life had changed. There my soul was crushed by the weight of my sorrow. I pondered this question He had asked on my walk. "Where Is Your Gethsemane," remember the decision and the cup you chose to drink from. The moment decision that transformed you. Choose this day whom you will serve moment. Joshua 24:15

We get to choose to die daily and nail the desires of the flesh onto the cross just as Jesus did. He however, done it literally so we wouldn't have to suffer as He did. Grateful He took the punishment for us; that is what a Loving Divine God would do for His creation. Jesus, the only One worthy and willing to do it. That is what Yeshua did for you and me.

That is where my Gethsemane is the place named the Ville. I remember the season, the month, the year, and the crushing transformation. It's my garden where I drank from the cup given as I had a decision to make. My whole life was changed. Where is Your Gethsemane? Do you remember it or do you yet need to encounter your garden moment... So much to ponder on and may we not miss the opportunity or moment of our visitation either.

Where Is Your Gethsemane, your secret place encounter that transformed your whole life completely...

Look up and see the Salvation of the Lord.