Will You Drink the Cup?

 In the garden where I prayed, Father, help me to be brave

This cup I’ve been given, is more than I can bear…

How can I, the son of man, carry all their cares?

The pain, the sorrow, the transgressions of man-kind

Has made them heartless, perverted and blind…

Shrouded in darkness, help me to be strong.

 For this purpose, I have come,

like the nightingale’s lonely song…

I pray, Father, your will be done…

 The horror of the crucifixion, our people’s hatred and rejection

Is not what hurts me most…

I pray that I will not fail thee, nor grieve the Holy Ghost…

This blood, I sweat, and the anguish I feel, this suffering is but for a little while

It’s real…as the Evil one strikes at my heel…

 The joy that is on the other side, where Spirit and Life collide

For every false accusation, every stripe, struck, upon my back, every vile and evil thrashing, is worth asking, Not my will, but thine be done.

To fulfill your purpose, and redeem lost souls, from beginning to ending,

I will be the sacrifice…

 Father, I will drink this cup of suffering and bring new life!

 The words you spoke to the woman in another garden, He will crush the serpents head…

And all will be restored…just as you said.

 ~Beloved son of God! Yeshua, The Messiah

~Marla Shaw O’Neill April 15, 2021

 Genesis 3:15 New King James Version

¹⁵ And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”

 Matthew 26:36-56

English Standard Version Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

³⁶ Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go over there and pray.” ³⁷ And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. ³⁸ Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch^[a] with me.” ³⁹ And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”