Right now so many precious believers are in fear all around the globe. Many are battling with discouragement, unbelief and turmoil due to the global catastrophic events which are currently transpiring. Our minds cannot really be on anything else except the earthquakes in Japan to Mexico and NZ etc. While I am in prayer and fasting I focussed again on the Garden of Gethsemene and the incredible power which was released that night. I never really saw the detail of that night in scripture until about a year ago when I really started studying it.

As I was studying what transpired that night I was incredibly blessed to be reminded of the power of Christ which is resident inside every single believer!

I want us to look at the powerful events which took place in the Garden of Gethsemene.

John 18:4-6 Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?”  They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am He.”Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. ⁶When Jesus said to them, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground.

Jesus said the exact same words which God Himself said to Moses on Mount Horeb to identify Himself to Moses -  “I AM”…  “ego eimi”

As Jesus opened His mouth to utter those words a power was released from Him which knocked over 300 special forces of the day soldiers plus more police who came with!

There was more happening at that very moment in the Garden…

Mark 14:51-52 And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his naked body. And they seized him,  but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked.

The scholars tells me that when Jesus said those words that suddenly a young boy was raised from the dead running naked out of the garden. We can easily ‘assume’ this truth because the linen cloth which this young boy wore was only used to bury people in the New Testament. There was also a cemetery right next to the Garden of Gethsemene.

So much power was released that it not only knocked down over 300 special forces soldiers of the day, but raised someone from the dead as well!

Matthew 26:53 “Do you think that I cannot pray to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?”

1 Legion = 6000 angels

12 Legions = 72 000 angels

1 Angel strength killed = 185 000 men in one night

1 Legion of Angel’s strength can kill 1.1 billion men in one night

12 Legions of Angel’s strength can kill 13 billion men in one night

Jesus was making a bold statement here. After He knocked them all down with the power of God, raised a boy from the dead, He carried on saying that they must not think He cannot be given so many angels which will wipe the very human existence from the face of this planet!

The statement which Jesus was making was very clear. He was simply saying that no one has the power to take His life. He alone has the power to lay down His life and to take it up again!

This is the Christ Whom we serve!

This is the Christ Who lives and breathes and moves and has His being inside of us!

Why must we fear?

In His Love

Leon du Preez