Watch and Pray

Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign saying, whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he, hold him fast. And forthwith, he came to Jesus and said, hail, master, and kissed him. And Jesus said unto him, friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they and laid hands on Jesus and took him. And behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck a servant of the high priests and smote off his ear.

Then said Jesus unto him, put up again thy sword into his place, for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my father, and he shall presently give me more than 12 legions of angels. But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be? In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, are you come out as against the thief with swords and staves for to take me? As I sat daily with you teaching in the temple and you laid no hold on me. But all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.

Then, all the disciples forsook him and fled. Let’s pray together. Lord, once again, we come to your word and we come before you and in the name of the lord Jesus and we ask you to meet with us and teach us, lord. Open your word to us and open our hearts and minds to your word and instruct us and help us to understand the truth, to draw close to you. Lord, help us to learn more about ourselves and these admonitions and warnings you give to us through this this example with the disciples in the garden.

Lord, give us instruction. Lord, our eyes are upon you in Jesus name. Amen. First thing I want to show you and point out to you, of course, we’ve already paid it. We’ve already focused on the lord Jesus and this cup and his prayer and his willingness and and we’ll see it in just a minute again, but just just it it would be good to meditate on the willingness of Christ. You know, why was Christ willing? Well, first of all, he was willing first and foremost because it was the father’s will that he take that cup but there’s a second reason that should not be should not be neglected or over or or or or a missed in this which is The Bible says that for the joy that was set before him, he endured the cross.

So, while he was obeying the father’s will and yielding himself to the father’s will, he was also thinking about us. He was thinking about what’s the the what he was about to accomplish and the the benefit it would have to us because remember, god is he he is he is eternal and so, in the lord’s mind are those who would believe in him and who would be reconciled to him through the gospel, through his death, through the cross, through his resurrection and so our lord is obviously thinking about the father but he’s also thinking about us in this in this in this story here but the thing I want to draw our attention to tonight, first is the temptation.

So, the lord tells the the disciples in verse 36, sit ye here while I go go and pray yonder and then he calls Peter and James and John and he said, tarry you here in verse 38 and watch with me. So, the idea of watch, to watch just simply means, he’s not saying, look out for the people who are coming to arrest me. He’s just telling them to stay awake. That’s all he’s saying. That’s what watch means, to stay awake.

And then he went a little further and of course, he prayed and then he, verse 40, he came unto the disciples and findeth them asleep and say it, could you not watch for with me for one hour, one hour, watch and pray. Now, here’s the key, that ye enter not into temptation. Now, the temptation for these disciples, I don’t think they’ve they’re fully aware of what’s happening because remember in the in the in the last supper, Judas went out and they thought he was going out to to give something to the poor if you remember. So, they are not aware even though Jesus has repeatedly said, I’m gonna be betrayed into the hands of sinners, it’s not computing, it’s not sinking in. And so I don’t think the disciples are are really aware, I think they have a hint, and I’ll show you why in a minute, but I don’t think they’re fully aware of what’s about to happen. So they’re they’re not prepared. That’s the point. They’re not prepared.

And this this this temptation that’s going to meet with them tonight is a kind of surprise and unexpected danger that’s going to show up when the mob comes to arrest Jesus. The Bible says here, in verse 47, there was a great multitude with swords and staves. So, I don’t know. How many is that? Somebody give me a guess. 10? 25? It says, great though. I figure 25 might be a crowd but I mean, I’m I I would think it would be a couple 100?

I mean, I I I’m just guessing here. I know when Jesus taught and fed the 5,000 things like that that uses the same phrase, great multitude. I don’t know that there were that many but I’m looking at it and I’m thinking there’s probably a lot of people. With all with, they’re all armed. They have their swords, they have their staves, they have their torches, and they’re coming with with, you know, no good intentions and so this is gonna be the temptation.

But it’s going to come at a surprise, as a surprise to them. They’re not going to have any time to prepare themselves and all at once immediately out of a desire for self preservation, they will reflexively flee. That’s what we find in the last verse of verse 56 is faced with this kind of sudden temptation. When they should remain faithful, how many times has Jesus covered that, right? Suffer with him, reign with him, and and similar ideas in that moment, they are gonna completely melt away immediately.

They’re gone. And so this is the temptation that they’re gonna be faced with and but think about this, not only are they gonna be faced with the temptation but as a result of their fall because they are gonna stumble and they are gonna fall. As a result of that, think about the the result of that sin cascading down into their lives, the discouragement. Even when they seek repentance, even when they seek to be right with god, you don’t just, when you, when you and I have a failure like that, we don’t just get right back up.

No, it hurts us and it sets us back and it discourages us from following the lord and that’s exactly what’s gonna happen. In fact, I I would argue that probably for the next say forty days, these disciples are going to be kind of slowly coming back to the Lord, even they confess and they got right with him, the discouragement of having to be repeatedly encouraged by Jesus all the way up until his ascension, I think that’s gonna be kind of a long term process. Here’s what we have to remember, that when we fall, it’s not just a matter of, well Lord forgive me and you get up. No, when really really butcher it like these disciples did, this is one reason we should we should avoid it and beware because it’s often not something we get up from easily.

In the same way as you have an accident, you take a fall, you might break bones, you might hurt yourself, sprain body parts or whatever. You don’t just get up and leap back up and start walking. No, there’s a recovery and that’s that’s also true of sin. Even if you confess it, those things aren’t easy to get over. Now, here’s the principle about temptation. He says in verse number 41, watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation.

So, the watching, staying awake, and praying, those things are the things that enable us to endure temptation. That’s why he’s telling them to do it. He knows the temptation is coming and he’s telling them in advance what they need to be doing to have victory and overcome the temptation. The lord tells us as he told the disciples to watch and pray to prepare us for it. We’re not going to always escape it. We’re going to have to face it and we had better be in the right the right condition in order to face it and and not fall to it.

So, when you look at it, he says, watch and pray. Now, again, do they know what’s coming exactly? I don’t think they do. And yet, the lord tells them, watch and pray. So, to their mind, if they knew that there was an imminent, serious temptation that was about to happen. They might be more inclined to pray but they they don’t likely know that. So, to them, it it might sound like the lord is just saying, you just need to pray. You you just need, you just need to stay awake and pray tonight, it’s just important for you to do.

Not too different than the way he tells us to watch, right, that’s regarding the coming of Christ is watch, be sober, and then he of course tells us to be praying always, and the Lord tells us even though we don’t know of an imminent temptation, because the truth is, like this temptation, temptation to us comes often suddenly. And we’re not given advanced notice. And so the Lord says we must always be prepared, And the way we do that is by watching and praying.

Watching and praying. So, really we could summarize this by saying this, the best, you and I are not going to know when temptation’s coming our way. That’s just not something we know. It comes suddenly. So, the best preparation is a daily walk with God. When we’re daily seeking him. It doesn’t mean temptation will not come. It will. But when you’re daily seeking the Lord, if if just I’m I’m just kind of applying it from the term watch and watch and pray. When we’re watching, we’re we’re sober, we’re engaged, our minds are are in tune, you know what I’m saying? We’re not just like in neutral spiritually.

Boy, ain’t it easy to be there in neutral spiritually? Just kind of idling. But we’re engaged and then we’re praying. We’re seeking God’s face on a regular basis. That that’s what the verse is telling us. That protects us from temptation. Because we don’t know when it’s coming and we don’t know the form that it will take when it does come and so we must it it’s obviously we should walk with god because we love god but sometimes, you know, that that love waxes and wanes but another kind of another reason we should do it is because temptation is a real threat to us.

And the defense that the Lord has given us is, walk with me, seek my face, pray, stay in my word, be sober, be vigilant. This is a regular daily occurrence. Now in this case, of course, the Lord is telling them to do it at this moment because he knows what’s coming though they may not know that. But they they’re not he look what he says in verse 41. Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation, the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak.

There is something to be said in this verse about sleep as it relates to the flesh. Sleep as it relates to the flesh. When Jesus came to the disciples in verse 41, they’re asleep and he he he wakes them up and he says, hey, watch and pray. They go back to sleep and he comes back. He wakes them up. And they go back to sleep and he comes back and he says, sleep on now. It’s too late. They’re all, they’re already here and while he’s saying that, they come. They show up. The mob does. But there’s something to be said about sleeping because these disciples were sleeping. So, imagine, imagine, they’re sleeping and Jesus nudges them and says, wake up, wake up. He that betrays me is at hand. Wake up and they’re like, oh man.

And boom. There’s a mob. Mentally, no time to prepare. They are completely taken by, you see what I’m saying? Not only spiritually taken by surprise but fit, they’re literally sleepy. They have just been just been woken up. We don’t know how long Jesus prayed. I don’t imagine it was a brief prayer. And here they are just, they have just woken up to a mob. Now, a mob is a hard thing to describe in our country.

We’ve seen to have seen it more and more recently. There’s, with these riots, you know, with the George Floyd riots in Minnesota and other riots that you you see em on the news but but a mob is a very scary thing. A mob is a very very scary thing. I know a missionary friend in Cambodia. He he he was he was driving his car and a drunken man on a motorcycle was driving way too fast and as he was pulling out, the drunken man hit his car And so it wasn’t even his fault, but as in many countries, he’s the white guy, and as a result, he was, you know, he’s obviously the default guilty party.

And so, the man flies over the handlebars of his motorcycle and he cuts his leg, so he’s bleeding on the road. And so, my friend, he gets out of the car and he lives in a busy part of the city where he lives. And it took no time at all for a mob to gather, a crowd, and everybody shouting one thing, shout, shout, he’s gonna run, you know, because that’s a big thing. Is you’re gonna, you know, somebody’s gonna run away and they’re not gonna be able you know, hold him to account for what he did to the drunken man on the motorcycle. But that’s the thinking, and all of a sudden, have twenty and thirty and fifty, and now you have 100 people, and nobody knows what’s going on, but all they’re doing is hearing each other yell, and the tensions are rising, and my friend when when that happened, this is years ago when he he actually wrote it in an update and he said, he said, that was the first time that I really understood what it what it meant that our Lord was arrested by a mob. He said it was scary.

And these disciples have just woken up. Now, going back to the the issue of sleep, how many of you would consider yourself to be spiritually minded when you wake up in the morning?

You wake up and you’re just walking in the spirit, ready to go, ready to serve the lord. Most of you are, if you’re giving me any indication at all, it’s not so much. I don’t see Devin here but if Devin were here, he would definitely he would definitely being agreeing.

All I’m pointing out here is that in some way, and this is just Adam theology here, but it’s something about sleep messes us up. We can go to bed spiritually minded, walking with God, and you know, as we should, and wake up just a rotten, old, wicked. And truth is, we were the whole time, but when we went to bed, the Lord was was the lord’s spirit was dominant in our life. We woke up and it’s like it’s like our flesh reset.

And reaffirmed and reasserted its place That’s where they they are. Flesh is dominant, they’re just waking up. Do you think they’re fit? That’s why they should have been awake. That’s why they should have been praying, but they weren’t. But it also tells us that this this problem with sleep also tells us that maybe that’s one reason why we when we get up, we should we should seek the Lord, because we are not naturally spiritual people. Remember, the flesh is weak, and you and I, we cannot serve god. We cannot walk with god according to the flesh. It’s not possible.

It’s not possible and that, you know, there are many there are many people in churches and you know, in religion, in in baptist churches just like ours that try to to serve god and walk with god in the flesh. They try to do the motions and all of that and they’re either extremely evil and and and mean spirited or absolutely and totally miserable or they last for about five seconds and they’re gone.

You know why? Because the flesh is too weak. The flesh is too weak. The flesh is too weak and so we have to, that’s one reason we need to seek the lord early because and make sure that he’s in his proper place in our lives when we’re awake. I don’t know why it’s that way. Why why sleep seems to have an effect like that but maybe I’m the only one but I’m telling you, it has an effect like that on me.

But you also see here the principle of the power of the flesh. Jesus said, the flesh, the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak. How many times have we thought to ourselves, we’ve we’ve had good intentions and the disciples no doubt love Jesus. Judas isn’t here. So, all 11 of these men, they love Jesus. They believe in Christ but good intentions do not make the flesh able to resist temptation.

Good intentions are not good enough. The flesh needs but a brief opportunity, a brief lapse in watching and praying and it will completely take us over. And that’s another reason we should watch and pray consistently, consistently, consistently because we just need the flesh just needs one opening, one opening. Look if you would real quick at Luke 22. Luke 22. I wanna show you one other little detail about the disciples and this event that Luke 22 verse number 45.

It says this, and when He rose up from prayer and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow. So, that’s the that’s the verse that indicates maybe they know something’s happening. Maybe it’s the fact that Jesus because there is another verse in the gospels that says, Jesus told them about his coming crucifixion and they were sorry, they were, they were filled with sorrow. Jesus told, the Bible says that and here, there’s there’s sorry. So, even though they they might have an idea of what’s coming, I don’t know that they know the timing but it does remind us of one thing. One of the reasons they were sleeping, not only were they tired because it was the middle of the night but they were also sorrowful.

Now, here’s the thing to remember. Sorrow, even if it is for good cause, can lead us down a hole that will harm us. You see, their sorrow led to their led to their sleepiness which led to them not praying and I’ll tell you something, Satan doesn’t care if you’re if you’re sorrowful, if you’re grieving, he will seize upon every opening to destroy you, to tempt you. So, in sorrow, even even in the ups and downs and difficulties of life like these men were facing, he will use that against us.

And so we have to be very careful that we do not allow a lapse in our spiritual life, no matter the reason. No matter the reason. And so we see the disciples, they forsake the lord at the end of the passage. So, what we have here is we have not only the lord’s warning in the moment but we have the end of the story. What we we know how this turns out.

The disciples were tempted. They succumbed to the temptation, they failed, they lapsed. And so what is that? How does that teach us? What it shows us is it shows us the connection between watching and praying and the outcome of the temptation. In their case, they failed on the one, so they failed on the other. We see it all in hindsight plainly. So, I’m just, for us, it’s just an encouragement, a reminder that we should stay close to the Lord consistently daily.

Alright, let’s go down to verse number Let’s go down to verse number 52. Then said Jesus unto him, put up thy again thy sword into his place for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my father and he shall presently give me more than 12 legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be?

There are a few times in scripture in this narrative of Christ’s arrest and crucifixion where the where there’s a a little word or a a verse that tells us that at any moment, the Lord could have ended his sufferings. At any moment, he could have brought an end to all of this, and here it’s clearly spelled out. He says, I can call 12 legions of angels and all of this is over. In the book of John chapter 18, when Jesus comes and they said, whom Jesus said, whom seek you and he said, G and they said, Jesus of Nazareth and he said, I am he. John says that they fell backward and fell down.

Even his word defeated them. And that tells us that that at any moment, the Lord could have could’ve escaped this, and if that’s true, then it it it brings us back to this the same thing we saw in the garden. It brings us back to the Lord’s willingness. If at any moment he could escape what was about to happen to him, that means that he on purpose chose to press forward.

Now think about why. This is what I was referring to earlier. Why did the Lord refuse to save himself? Why did the Lord refuse to save himself from the mob, from the cross, from the death, from the cup. Why did he do that? Number one, for his father. Number two, for you and for me. That’s what the Bible says. So, as you think about, he could have called 12,000 angels, 10,000 angels, actually there was a lot more than 10,000, 12 ladies and there’s a lot more than 10,000, but he could have called 10,000 angels is true, but he didn’t because he wanted to save you.

Now just meditate on that. Because He wanted to save you. That’s what was in our Lord’s mind, that’s what was before Him. The last thing I wanna show you is this, is in this same chapter, you can see that, in fact before we read that, let’s go to Luke 22, I wanna show you another detail that’s important for what I wanna say. Luke 22 verse 36.

Luke 22 verse 36. Now, if you’ll note verse 39, just note verse 39. Verse 39 is when they went out to the Mount Of Olives for the for the at the Garden Of Gethsemane. Okay. So, we are we’re talking about the same time but this is right before they go to Gethsemane. This is like right around the last supper. Just like hours even maybe minutes before Gethsemane.

Here’s what Jesus says. Verse 36, then said He unto them, but now he that hath a purse, let him take it. And likewise his scrip, and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one. For I say unto you that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, and he was reckoned among the transgressors, for the things concerning me have an end.

And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, it is enough. How many of you have ever looked at the the these three verses and thought to yourself, this is kind of an odd conversation.

He tells them, buy a sword. They say, we have two. He says, that’s good. He tells them to get a sword. Okay. Now, go back to Matthew. Verse 51.

These men, this mob grabs Jesus to arrest him And our our dear brother Peter takes the sword. The sword that that he has just been instructed to keep. Right? And he whips out that sword, and Luke 22, one of the disciples, Luke twenty two forty nine says this, when they when they which were with him saw what would follow, they said unto unto him, lord, shall we smite with the sword and it doesn’t sound like Peter even gave a chance for the lord to answer because he he drew the sword from the sheaf and he went hacking at one of the one of the poor people following following following the the mob there and John tells us that that he struck the servant of the high priest. His name was Malcus.

Matthew twenty six fifty one, you notice this, it says, behold one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his his hand. Now now Luke tells us or John rather, John 18 tells us that that person was Peter and struck a servant of the high priests and smote off his ear. And then after afterward, Luke twenty two fifty one tells us that Jesus immediately healed the man’s ear.

So, drew the sword, tried, why is he drawing the sword here? What is he doing? What is, why is he trying to cut people’s heads off? What’s the reason? He’s trying to protect Jesus, he’s trying to protect Jesus.

Now, Matthew 26, look at verse 52. Then said Jesus unto him, put up again thy sword into his place, for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father and he shall presently give me more than 12 legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be?

Not only did the lord rebuke Peter but he also healed the servant’s ear and by doing so, the lord made it clear that although he told them to take a sword, they were not using the sword aright. It was not the time for the sword. This is the confusing part because he tells them to take a sword and then when he, I’m, if I’m a disciple, what I’m thinking is, well, three hours ago, Jesus said to take a sword. This must be the moment.

That’s, I mean, if I said, hey, make sure you’re armed and then, you know, somebody breaks in, you’re like, well, that must be what was it it was about. But what the what the lord is saying here is that this is not the proper time or place or circumstance to use it.

And then he said this, put up the sword into his place for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. The Lord made it clear by this statement that the kingdom of God was not to be advanced by means of physical weapons.

At this moment, they’re coming to arrest Jesus. Think about if Peter had been successful in his defense of Jesus and the mob scattered. Why is this mob here? This mob here is to arrest Jesus to eventually take him where? To the cross. Where what happens? Where he dies for sinners. If Jesus, if if Peter, rather, Peter’s defense had been successful, there’d be no salvation.

The kingdom of god is not defended with swords and spears. It’s not defended with guns. It’s not defended with rifles and bombs. The kingdom of god is not is not promoted and advanced in that way. Now, here’s the problem. Is that is now, most other places in the world, this is not an issue but in this country, because of of our founding and our history, and we’re close to the fourth of July, all of us love that, but as a result of that, there’s a there’s kind of a blending where people have gotten this idea that it is their Christian duty to use the weapons of war to advance God’s work, God’s kingdom, and that is not scriptural.

That is not scriptural. This is exactly what Peter is trying to do. This is exactly what Peter is trying. So, listen, so as an American, why does this matter? As an American, listen, we love the Second Amendment, I love the Second Amendment, I exercise the Second Amendment. Some of you are doing your duty exercising the Second Amendment at this moment. We’ll keep that, we’ll keep it anonymous. But the rest of us are glad that you’re exercising the Second Amendment for us but let me tell you something. When you put on your hat as an American, you exercise the Second Amendment.

But you also have a hat as a Christian. And sometimes it’s hard to know exactly which hat is supposed to be worn at certain times because they’re not always the same. They’re not always the same. But one thing, and that’s a key thing to remember, to be an American is not to be a Christian and to be a Christian is not to be an American. There are plenty of Christians in the world that are not American.

And just because you’re an American does not mean you’re a Christian. Following what we said in Sunday school, we talk about the delegated power of God, it is not our Christian duty to take up arms to make sure the right people are in office or to stop bad laws. The the the kingdom of god is not advanced using laws. Now, we want godly and upright laws, right? We do.

You know, brother David’s involved to trying to, you know, work on the legislative and on the moral front, you know, know, going against abortion and and we want righteous laws, right? That’s we do want that and that’s kinda like the way we wear our American hat. But there will never be a time when it’s okay for a Christian to take up arms to advance the gospel. Amen. That does not exist.

And the moment that someone, and I’m telling you, if you listen to these podcasts, these podcasters that are popping up, some of them are saying this very thing. Be careful. And you know what they’re often citing? They’re often citing different passages in the Old Testament. Where there was war, right? David and Goliath, the Philistines in the Valley Of Elah, right? This is the big, the great battle of the people of god against the enemies of the lord and and somehow that’s that’s kinda twisted and interpreted to refer to Christian Americans going against Iran or whatever.

Or whatever it is. That is not the proper way to apply those scriptures. I wanna tell you something. What you see in the Old Testament and the way that that the the kingdom of Israel was advanced and how the Lord directed them, that is turned directly on its head in this passage right here, where Jesus says, what are you doing? Put the sword away.

You see that? That is turned totally upside down. The kingdom of God, Ephesians chapter six, is advanced with spiritual weapons, not physical weapons. Okay. This is fundamentally different than the advance of God’s purposes in the Old Testament. And it is for this reason that we’ve gotta be very careful the way that we or maybe others we know, we hear, use the Old Testament stories and narratives. And we have to beware not to use them in way that as grounds for waging war with physical weapons for the sake of the kingdom of God, our Lord expressly forbid it. But but he did not absolutely condemn the use of the sword.

You’ll note that. So, the way this passage has often been used is to teach absolute pacifism. At no point is a Christian supposed to have a weapon or use a weapon ever but notice what he says in the passage. Verse 52 and I don’t want to read too much into this but this is what it says. First of all, we already read where Jesus told them to get to get swords and they got to and he said, that’s good.

And then in verse 52, it says this, put up again thy sword into his place He didn’t tell them to get rid of it. He told them to return it where it was. In John 18, he says, return it to its sheath. And then in in in in this in this same passage, he says this, verse 55, he actually gives a hint. What is the proper use of the sword?

He says, are you come out as against the thief with swords and staves for to take me? You know what’s what what stood out to me in all of this is when you read the narrative of the arrest of Christ, the sword comes up over and over and over again. It’s it’s a it’s a major repeated theme.

So, although some might use this to say that a Christian has no place having having a weapon at all or any kind of personal defense or anything like that, that is not what Jesus said. In fact, this verse 55 indicates that the proper use of the sword is against a thief.

That is for personal protection and that actually aligns perfectly with the Old Testament principles as well as the New Testament principles. The idea of defending one’s home and one’s family and using weapons to do it. Again, don’t throw away the sword, what are you doing with a sword? No, he just told them to have a sword, but the right use of it. And again, this is not always easy to understand when you have this one hat versus the other hat. I’ve actually heard preachers, I might have mentioned this before, heard preachers well, very well known preachers asked what they were asked and the question was posed to them, what would you do if someone broke into your house and was harming your wife and your children in the other room?

And they said, I would pray for them. Might be a good idea in a way. But see that kind of pacifism is not what Jesus is asserting here. He’s asserting it in the in the realm of the kingdom of god where they’re coming to arrest him and again, I acknowledge sometimes it’s hard to know the lines here. But for the personal defense, he’s saying, hey, the sword is for the thieves. The sword is for the thieves. So, the sword has a place for personal defense both in the Old Testament and in the New. But as a Christian, it is not a defense.

The Christian is one who the Lord tells us that persecution will come to us, and when it does, we’re not to resist evil. That’s what the scripture says, resist not evil. We studied that way back in Matthew chapter five. Resist not evil.

And so, there’s a lot to be learned about the about how the lord responded in this moment of his arrest. The assumptions of the disciples, the failure of the disciples, and we can learn ourselves how to endure temptation, the proper use of of the sword, how the kingdom of god is to be advanced. Let’s pray together.