Jesus Praying in the Garden!  Real Southern Woman
Channel: REAL SOUTHERN WOMAN, COLLARD VALLEY COOK
Date: 2022-03-23

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon: Morning and Evening
March 23rd — Morning Reading
"His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground." — Luke 22:44
The mental pressure arising from our Lord's struggle with temptation, so forced his frame to an unnatural excitement, that his pores sent forth great drops of blood which fell down to the ground. 
This proves how tremendous must have been the weight of sin when it was able to crush the Savior so that he distilled great drops of blood! This demonstrates the mighty power of his love. 
Think on this: The gum that oozes from the Ambrose tree is best when it hasn’t been cut. Jesus yielded most sweet spices when He was wounded under the knotty whips, and when He was pierced by the nails on the cross; but see, He gave forth His best spice when there is no whip, no nail, no wound. 
This shows that Christ volunteered sufferings, since without a lance His blood flowed freely. Here when He was kneeling in prayer before taking on the sin of the world there was no need to apply the knife; His blood flows spontaneously. No need for the rulers to cry, "Spring up, O well;" because it flows in crimson streams. 
If men suffer great pain of mind apparently the blood rushes to the heart. The cheeks are pale; a fainting fit comes on; the blood has gone inward as if to nourish the inner man while passing through his trial. But see our Savior in His agony; he is so utterly oblivious of self, that instead of his agony driving his blood to the heart to nourish himself, it drives it outward to wet the earth. The agony of Christ pictures the fulness of the offering which he made for men.

Can’t you recognize how intense His wrestling was through which he passed, and will want you hear its voice to us? Look at the great Apostle and High Priest of our testimony and see Him sweat even to blood rather than yield to the great tempter of our souls.
Edited by Tammy Nichols on 03/23/22 for easy reading on the Real Southern Woman vlog.