Hello, prayer friend, and happy new year. Our team is hard at work recording our new season of the

Prayers of Rest podcast, so in the meantime, we're bringing you some of our very best episodes from the past two years,

the ones that listeners have loved the most since we started. We'd love to hear which of these

episodes is your favorite. You can

simply tag me at Asherita when you share on Instagram or Facebook, or you can leave us a five-star

review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and tell us which episode you're loving. We'll be back soon

with a brand new season. Until then, let's get to today's Prayer of Rest.

Welcome to the Prayers of Rest podcast. I'm your host, Ashrida Chuchu, and this season, we're

preparing our hearts to celebrate Jesus in the weeks leading up to Easter by praying through

the characteristics of Jesus' love.

I'm so passionate about this topic that I wrote a whole book about it. It's called Uncovering

the Love of Jesus. It's a London devotional and you can find it at Uncoveringthelove.com.

Of course, you don't need it to follow along with these

prayer podcasts, but if you do want to go deeper into an aspect of Jesus' love, you'll find that

helpful. Now, let's begin. Find a quiet place where you won't be interrupted and take a deep

breath as we enter into God's presence together.

Matthew 26, and he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter,

So, could you not watch with me one hour?

Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Again for the second time he went away and prayed, my father, if this cannot

pass unless I drink it, your will be done.

So let's begin by reciting God's goodness.

Oh God, this passage is just heartbreaking in the abandonment of Jesus' disciples and his loneliness on this hardest night of his life. And yet, Jesus, you

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