Chronicles of The Cross - A Yielded Life

In this message, the speaker discusses the Chronicles of the Cross and Your Deadline. They focus on Jesus' experience in the Garden of Gethsemane before his crucifixion. Jesus faced emotional pain, betrayal, trial, denial, mockery, and physical suffering. Despite being the Son of God, he willingly allowed himself to go through this to fulfill God's will. The speaker emphasizes the importance of submission to God's will and the need for a born-again experience. They encourage listeners to accept Jesus as their Lord and allow God to lead their lives. The message concludes with a prayer for submission and a reminder to stay tuned for more inspiring content on Radio ACI. Shalom to you all wonderful people of God. God richly bless you for participating in the Just Ended Prayer Startup. Thank you for joining for today's morning glory devotion brought to you by the Harvest Chapel International Kumasi. Your facilitators for today are Pastor and Deaconess Boafa. Be assured that God will work an effectual work in our lives today as we fellowship together in his presence. Please let's kindly share a word of prayer. Father in the name of Jesus, we thank you for another opportunity to be blessed by your word. Please let your word bring transformation into our lives. We thank you Father in Jesus mighty name, oh Lord, Amen. Please let's kindly affirm our confirmation together from Joshua chapter 1 verse 8. This book of the law shall not depart out of my mouth, but I shall meditate in it day and night, that I may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then I will make my way prosperous, and then I will have good success, Amen. Beloved, our topic for today is Chronicles of the Cross and Your Deadline and our Bible passage is taken from Matthew chapter 26 verses 36 to 39. Matthew chapter 26 verses 36 to 39 is our read from the New English Translation. Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane and He said to the disciples, Sit here whilst I go over to pray. He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and became anguished and distressed. Then He said to them, My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with Me. Going a little further, He threw Himself down with His face to the ground and prayed, Father, if possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not what I will, but what You will. Beloved, here is a reading of the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Chronicles of the Cross and Your Deadline Can you imagine someone going through certain unpleasant places and situations? Not necessarily because there are no alternatives, but primarily because he needed to please another. Such was the arena in which Jesus found Himself before entering into prayer with the Father in the Garden of Gethsemane as documented in Matthew 26. Jesus, under the weight of the painful and shameful path He was about to tread, said to His disciples, My soul is crushed with anguish to the very point of death. Probably, with full knowledge of what He was about to go through, He felt the emotional pain of the plot by the Jewish leaders to kill Him, a Judas Escherus betrayal with a fake kiss. Probably, He was stressed out by the trial, which was to take place before the high priest and the Jewish council of elders, plagued with false witnesses and unfounded accusations. Beforehand, Jesus must have felt the pain from the denial by Peter, His own close associate, the blows, the slaps, the spatuling on His face, the loud outcry, Crucify Him, Crucify Him, the mockery from the crowd and the Roman soldiers, the stripping of His clothes, the cruel flogging, the crown of thorns, the heavy cross to Golgotha, and perhaps the heavy nails to be driven through His flesh. And there at last He hanged on the cross, suffering and panting for breath, until He breathed His last with loud cries, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? How could a King, the Son of the Most High, the One by Whom and for Whom all things were made, who has power over all the elements in the universe, be treated that way? Beloved, it's for one and only one simple reason, He allowed Himself. For the Bible affirms in Philippians chapter 2, the verse 6 through 8, it is although He was the same nature as God, He did not insist on keeping all the privileges of being equal with God, instead, He willingly gave up divine privileges, specifically, He became a human being and took the attitude of a servant. When He had become a human being, He humbled Himself even more, specifically, He obeyed God even to the extent of being willing to die. He was even willing to be nailed to a cross, to die as though He were a criminal. Jespersi declared at the attempt by His disciples to fight for Him with swords, if He needed a rescue team, He could have requested and had more than twelve legions of angels to fight for Him at the point of His arrest or later from the hands of the cruel Roman soldier. Do you think that the knowledge about Jesus, whose wisdom got the Jewish leaders astonished even as at age twelve, could it easily have defended Himself before Caiaphas the high priest and Pilate the governor? But Jesus remained silent, having already agreed that not His will but the Father's should prevail. Beloved, this is a pathway of submission, the way of brokenness, the way of a yielded life and a heart in which God rules unhindered. This is a reason for the born-again call, the call through which man retains and begins to submit to the will and the ways of God, the call through which man gives access to God to be the king of his life. Like Jesus, it is the point at which one allows himself to be ill-treated but say or do nothing to retaliate, the point at which one suffers for no wrongdoing but still chooses not to be offended and angry and bitter. This can only happen when one takes the foremost step of accepting Jesus as his Lord and personal saviour and thereafter allowing God, through His Spirit and His Word, to take leadership of his life. This is the point where one recognizes that he is no longer his own but that he belongs to God. Precious one, God the Creator of water is calling you to take the pathway of submission so you can become what He intended you to be. May He bless you as you are to Him today and forever, in Jesus' mighty name, Amen and Amen. Beloved, please let's take a memory verse together from Matthew 26, verse 39D, reading from the New English Translation. My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me, yet not what I will, but what you will. My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me, yet not what I will, but what you will. Beloved, let's share a word of prayer. Father, we thank you for exposing us to the pathways of submission. We pray that Jesus Christ has shown us the example. Help us to be fully submitted unto you. In all our ways, throughout all our lives, in everything that we do, in everything that we say, in everything that we think about, in fact, every moment of our lives, help us to submit to your will and your wish that it will end as well, according to the expected end that you have in mind. Father, we thank you. We give you praise and glory. In Jesus' mighty name, we have prayed, Amen and Amen. Precious one, thank you for participating in today's Morning Glory Devotion. There's definitely more of this inspiring content coming your way on Radio ACI today. Therefore, kindly stay on this dial so you can enjoy a serene atmosphere needful for your spiritual growth. God richly bless you and be gracious to you. Shalom and have a blessed day.