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 Lenton 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. As we pray about uncovering

the love of Jesus together, I also want to show you love in a small, tangible way. So each week

during the season, I'm giving away some of my favorite things to podcast listeners, just like you.

So you can find the prize of the week as well as details for

how to enter the giveaway each Monday morning on my Instagram account at Asherita. That's

A-S-H-E-R-I-T-A-H. I know. I know. I don't have the easiest name to spell. So I'll link to my account in the podcast show notes too.

So entering the giveaway is a breeze.

I hope these giveaways are a true blessing to you.

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.

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