I Am Preparing You For Your Garden Of Gethsemane Moments, Says The Lord

My beloved child, I am preparing you. I am preparing you to experience what I experienced in the garden of Gethsemane, where I said “Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.”

I am continuing to separate the chaff from the wheat with My winnowing fork. I am cleaning up the threshing area, gathering the wheat into My barn but burning the chaff with never-ending fire. I will not tolerate mixture.

Remember My Word about your love for me and your love for your family “If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine. If you refuse to take up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy of being mine.”

Remember My Word about what it truly takes to be My follower, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it. And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but are yourself lost or destroyed? If anyone is ashamed of me and my message, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in his glory and in the glory of the Father and the holy angels.”

Remember My Word about the reward My people will receive when they totally and completely give up EVERYTHING for My sake, for a season, “And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or property, for my sake, will receive a hundred times as much in return and will inherit eternal life. But many who are the greatest now will be least important then, and those who seem least important now will be the greatest then.”

My beloved child, all this may seem beyond you and your ability, and that is understandable, as you will do all that I am bringing you in to not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit. You do all things through Me who gives you strength.

My beloved, lean not on your own understanding, but in all your ways acknowledge Me and trust in Me with all your heart. I will always, always show you which path to take. I promise you, as My Word tells you, that I am working in ALL things in your life for good, because you love Me and you live according to My purpose for your life.

Remember, you are not trying to win the approval of people, but of Me, the Lord your God. If pleasing people were your goal, you would not be My servant.

As you reflect on My words here, never, ever forget that My will for you is good and pleasing and perfect. Yes, My way is perfect, and My ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.

Everything I do reveals My glory and majesty. My righteousness never fails.