God doesn’t move in your life when you struggle; He moves when you pray.
I remember a song from when I was in grade school! Stating this EXACT thing! So many times things pass us by, we remember them as our needs materialize!
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D9-d3CvVjaAc&ved=2ahUKEwi_uczPjYrhAhVBT98KHdRZDOIQwqsBMAB6BAgJEAU&usg=AOvVaw2wqzgh8cvIQLbqVzzynImp
Memories! Praise The Lord from Whom ALL blessings flow!!!
Ever see someone whipped? Well! Bleeding? A bloody nose?
Brings a new understanding and meaning to “…and by His stripes we ARE healed!”
Remember! AFTER Jesus gave up The Ghost, he was pierced and out of Him ran the scarce remnants of blood and edema! He was essentially beaten to death!
Dehydration? Please! The LEAST of His worries! 40 days/nights of fasting? He was in FULL battle mode for what was pending!
BUT! Even He at the last minute saw to side step what He knew He came to do! A sinless ‘Man’ to bear the sins of a world?
Remember:
“Eli Eli lama sabachthani?”
which is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken me?”
is a quote from Psalm 22:1. This saying is taken by some as an abandonment of the Son by the Father.
My commentary is DEEP! God Who knows ALL! Ordered the angel’s to turn away. He Who knows ALL, had seen EXACTLY what would occur. Jesus knew as well, hence the tears of blood in the garden. STRESS, ANGUISH, SORROW!!! To sweat blood?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gotquestions.org/amp/sweat-blood-Jesus.html
The night before Jesus Christ was crucified, He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane. It is in Luke’s Gospel where we see that His sweat was like drops of blood: “And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44). Hematidrosis is a rare, but very real, medical condition where one’s sweat will contain blood. The sweat glands are surrounded by tiny blood vessels. These vessels can constrict and then dilate to the point of rupture where the blood will then effuse into the sweat glands. Its cause—extreme anguish. In the other Gospel accounts, we see Jesus’ level of anguish: “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death” (Matthew 26:38; cf. Mark 14:34).
The intense anguish and sorrow Jesus felt was certainly understandable. Being God, Christ knew “all that was going to happen to Him” (John 18:4). He knew in painstaking detail the events that were to follow soon after He was betrayed by one of His very own disciples. He knew He was about to undergo several trials where all of the witnesses against Him would lie. He knew that many who had hailed Him as the Messiah only days earlier would now be screaming for His crucifixion (Luke 23:23). He knew He would be flogged nearly to the point of death before they pounded the metal spikes into His flesh. He knew the prophetic words of Isaiah spoken seven centuries earlier that He would be beaten so badly that He would be “disfigured beyond that of any man” and “beyond human likeness” (Isaiah 52:14). Certainly, these things factored into His great anguish and sorrow, causing Him to sweat drops of blood. Yet there was more.
Crucifixion was considered to be the most painful and torturous method of execution ever devised and was used on the most despised and wicked people. In fact, so horrific was the pain that a word was designed to help explain it—excruciating, which literally means “from the cross.” From His arrest in the garden until the time our Lord stated, “It is finished” (John 19:30), Scripture records only one instance where Jesus “cried out in a loud voice” (Matthew 27:46). As our sinless Savior bore the weight of the world’s sins on His shoulders, His Father must have looked away, as His “eyes are too pure to look on evil” (Habakkuk1:13), causing the suffering Servant to cry out “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”—“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Psalm 22:1; Matthew 27:46). The spiritual pain of this feeling of abandonment no doubt greatly exceeded the intense physical pain the Lord endured on our behalf.
At the beginning of creation, human history began in a garden (Genesis 2:8), and when the first Adam sinned against God in this garden, death entered the world (Genesis 3:6). Thousands of years later, Jesus Christ, the last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45), entered into another garden to accept the cup from His Father’s hand (Matthew 26:42; Mark 14:36; Luke 22:42), and death was about to be swallowed up in victory. Although God’s plan was designed before the creation of the world (Ephesians 1:4–5), we must never forget that its execution came at a great cost. Ultimately, then, we are the ones responsible for the blood that dripped from our Savior as He prayed in the garden. And we are the reason Jesus’ soul was overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Indeed, these bloodied sweat drops came at a great cost; let us never forget that.
I took the time to ‘research’ blood from other sources; many we are aware of and can read in this case!
I studied a source of atypical bleeding that was not mentioned in The Word; very possibly because it was not present or apparent! Blood from the eyes too?! There would have been spots of blood on His tunic. But, His tunic was NOT worn to cavalry!
https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2350852
https://www.verywellhealth.com/why-do-i-have-bloody-tears-4140688
This is minor compared to hematohidrosis, but I thought I would include it here.
We must remember that the soldiers split his robe. A blood soaked robe?
We may have read that the robe they placed on Him was to mock Him, for the centurions cast lots to split it amongst themselves. I used to ask a cloak? Yes, worn by The King of this world, but in those days why would men cast lots to divide it?
I will share the results of my research below:
http://www.biblestudy.org/question/why-did-roman-soldiers-cast-lots-for-clothes-of-jesus.html
We begin to ‘understand’ key points in the process that we have passed on over time. ALL I attempt to do is bring attention to fact that stared us squarely in the face!
Prayer is the means by which we implore the Holy Spirit to take up residence in our study time. Without prayer, our study is nothing but an intellectual pursuit. With prayer, it is a means of communing with the Lord. Prayer is what changes our study from the pursuit of knowledge to the pursuit of God himself.
You may be familiar with the acronym PART as a memory prompt for the key elements of prayer:
Praise: glorify God for who he is and what he has done.
Admit: confess to God where you have fallen short.
Request: ask God to forgive your sin and to meet your needs.
Thank: give thanks to God for who he is and what he has done.
Pray before You Study
Praise: Begin by praising God for giving us the revelation of his will and character in his Word. If you are in the midst of a book, praise him for specific attributes that your study has already revealed. If you are at the beginning of a book, praise him for being merciful and gracious to grant you the gift of the Bible.
Admit: Know your own set of insecurities and weaknesses as you set out to study, and lay them before the Lord. Confess that you can’t do it and that it feels too hard. Confess any sin that might inhibit your study (pride? impatience? distraction?). Confess your lack of desire.
Request: Ask the Lord for ears to hear and eyes to see as you study. Ask him to help you guard the time you have set aside from distractions; ask him to clear your mind of other concerns. Ask him to reveal his character and your sin. Ask him to make his Word come alive for you in such a way that you know him better and see your own need of him more clearly.
Thank: Thank him that he has revealed himself in the Bible and that he has given you the ability to know him. Thank him for time to study. Thank him for the gift of Jesus Christ.
Prayer is what changes our study from the pursuit of knowledge to the pursuit of God himself.
Pray during Your Study
Praise: As you study, praise God when you make a connection about his character that you hadn’t understood before. Praise him when you notice that you are beginning to ask the right questions of the text on your own. Give him praise when you find yourself enjoying your study, knowing that he is the origin of that joy.
Admit: Confess when you get frustrated with your study. Confess if you find it boring. Tell him what you would rather be doing or what feels more urgent. Confess if you chafe against what the passage is asking of you or showing you.
Request: When you hit a hard passage, ask the Lord to grant understanding. If your mind is wandering, ask for help to stay focused. If you get frustrated, ask him to teach you patience and humility. If you find yourself rushing, ask him to help you slow down. If you are besieged with interruptions, ask him to grant you some peaceful time, or to help you know if it’s time to pack it up for the day.
Thank: Thank the Lord when he brings to mind other passages in Scripture that confirm or reinforce what you are learning in your study. Thank him when you receive correction from the text, or when you are given an example to follow. Thank him each time the gospel reveals itself to you through your study.
Pray after You Study
Praise: Meditate on the aspect of God’s character that your study is revealing to you. Did the passage show God as merciful? Patient? Generous? Wrathful? Holy? Praise God for this aspect of who he is. If appropriate, pray aloud the passage of Scripture that celebrates that aspect of God’s character.
Admit: Confess any personal sin that your study time has brought to light. Confess your temptation to apply the passage to someone else’s sin problem instead of your own. Confess if you let yourself get distracted as you studied. Did your study time heighten your awareness of your lack of understanding? Did you rush to finish? Confess that, too.