Prayer reveals various aspects of our emotions, our circumstances and our motives.
  Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane…to pray.  His eleven disciples were there also.  He asked Peter, James and John to go into the garden further because “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.  Stay here and keep watch with me.”  (Matthew 26:36-38)
  Then Jesus went still deeper into that Olive garden to pray.  Jesus “…fell on His face and prayed, saying, ‘My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.’”  (NASB) Matthew 26:39

  Jesus knew what was waiting to happen in the coming hours…suffering – heart-wrenching suffering.  He would have the pain of humiliation, the pain of scourging, the pain of my sins and yours as if they were His, the pain of being separated from His Father…pain, the likes of which you and I will never know. 

  No wonder He prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me…”
  Yet – yet, He also added “…yet not as I will, but as You will.”

  When you face hard things do you also follow Jesus in yielding to God’s will, God’s way and in God’s perfect timing?  Or is your prayer ‘if it is possible, let these things not happen to me!’

  How will you now pray to the living God?