04/11/2014
THE VISION OF THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE - November 02,2014
Background
The Holy Ghost made me His minister on December 04,1992.
Was shortlisted by our former Church and made the last three, to go to Israel as a parish Pastor in 1995 but a stalemate arose. None of the last three made that posting. Another young man from Agege District was eventually picked and posted.
The Holy Ghost later, after some time told me that I would not be allowed to go to Israel in my lifetime. ..
In 2006, an Institution included my name, for processing towards a pilgrimage to Israel, yet again, regrettably, it was not successful. I thanked them for the effort because I had doubts about their success, based on former Information.
Trust
In my ministerial service thus far, I have kept Holy Information sometimes for years. People's privacy and confidentialities are not divulged by me, even beyond ten years.
This habit has earned me much trust by The Holy Ghost. Thus He has given me innumerable encounters till date.
Sunday, November 02,2014.
As usual, as a servant, I delight to prepare the elements for the Holy Communion personally.
As I laid out the vessels, as always, I lifted my hands to Heaven, to The One Who died for us and Whose mangled symbolised Body and Poured - out Blood, we were getting set to partake, my closed eyes were Spirituality opened. I beheld a portion of a land, which I knew in the Spirit to be in Land of Israel. The area was not inhabited but an open field, extending to the right and to the left. Yet both sides each gently sloped towards its middle portion, giving out a valley with trees that provided shade. The Holy Ghost then spoke and told me that it was the Garden of Gethsemane that I was seeing in the vision.
This completely altered the course of the Service on Sunday.
That was the Garden to which our Lord Jesus, with His eleven disciples resorted to for the very last time for prayer, after the institution of the Lord's Table. There He agonised in prayer, three distinct times, without any support from His trusted disciples, including the closest three. An Angel had to come to comfort Him. After the third time, Apostle Judas Iscariot, leading the enemies of God for financial reward, came to betray the Master of Everything. The events that followed from here that night culminating in His Resurrection, on the third day of His crusified death and burial, are not unknown by humanity.
The Garden is the spot that our Spiritual Transformation was accomplished by our Great High Priest.
Application
What do you think about your prayer life?
What do you think about corporate prayer by the Church?
What do you think about personal prayer sacrifice for God's people?
Conlusion
Being at the right place, though weakened, slumbering and made heavy by Satan, is acceptable by God, than celebrating, dancing and rejoicing with the enemies of God.
Revive your agonising prayer life so as to affect your world.
