What does the Garden of Gethsemane Tell Me?

     I've been studying a lot about when Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36-46) and it is an eye opener compared to everything I have been thinking. God is taking my life and turning it for Him. I will admit I have tried to live for the world but that isn't working out so well. I've tried to get people on my side, to do my dream, to understand what I've seen but it hasn't been working out.
      God is saying, "Stop! and let me do the work! Can't you see what I have done with you and the people around you. Let me get your life in that way."  He has showed me one stop to getting to my dream or the big thing in my life that He wants me to do through this story and a friend's dream. I won't talk about my friend's dream on here because this entery should be more of a devo. type one. I got this idea from this story at a church I went to but I'm expanding on it and putting it to work in my life.
       Jesus took all of the disciples to the garden and told them to sit while He went and prayed. While he went to pray he took only 3 out of the 12 disciples with him to that spiecal spot to see what would happen. To see the big Plan unfold. He told those 3, Peter, James, and John, that His soul was distress and crushed. He wanted them there with Him to watch but yet Jesus went on a little more to where He could be alone to pray. He fall face down on the ground and prayed, "My Father! If it is possible let this cup of suffering me taken from me. Yet I want your Will to be done, not mine." Then He returned to the 3 and saw them asleep. He asked Peter, "Couldn't you stay awake and watch for me even one hour? Keep alert and Pray. Otherwise temptation with overpower you. For though the spirit is willing enough, the body is weak."
          Jesus left 2 more times and both of those times the 3 disciples has fallen asleep. Those 2 times Jesus prayed the same prayer but different words, "Take this suffering from me but if it is Your will let it be." The 3rd time Jesus' betrayer was there and the disciples didn't even know.  How does this might apply to my life you might ask. Well, to my life it is about my dream and plan He has for me.
          We don't need the whole world helping us with our dreams, we might just need a few really close friends to help us get there and be apart of it if they have the same things in common. I just need a few people who believes in and what to change the same things I want to change for the better. My favorite part of these verses are "KEEP ALRET AND PRAY!" As Americans or people who live in America today, we need to do to that. Jesus was suffering big time and the disciples didn't notice. WHAT IF THE DISCIPLES DID NOTICE AND DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT? What if they helped Jesus with that problem? We have problems all around us today, big and small, we just need to keep our eyes open and alert.
         I like how the pastor at the church puts it espically for my job and ministry. If you ever get to the point of where you don't like what you are doing or feeling like Christ doesn't want you there anymore then you are sleeping. You should never get sleepy of what you are doing for Christ. Your heart should be awake and alert to what you can do and you could always do more. I never want to get sleepy in my ministry or life for that matter. There is always children I could be reaching for Christ in every way, shape, and form. There is always more I could be learning about children too because they are not a simple thing to get. Even if I have to spend some time by myself seeing these things and making my dream come true because I'm the only one in my circle that believes what I do about these children then I will be the only one until God sends some more people my way with the same thing in common. I do need to plan out everything first and it might mean I take a break and just be with God and have Him grow me and my dream.
        We need to be on our knees praying, "God, what would you have me do today?" or  "what would you have me do next? I'm realizing I'm getting sleepy here." We don't need to stay at a job just because of the money it pays or the position we get but sadly that is what it has come to and a lot of people aren't happy in life. Do you think this could be the reason? Something to think about for all of us. Are we in our job for the money or for Christ because He has put us there for a reason? KEEP ALRET AND PRAY. To me right now, that is the most important command beside loving God with all your heart, soul, and mind.