ARE YOU WILLING TO SWEAT BLOOD

ARE YOU WILLING TO SWEAT BLOOD

Between glories is the valley of the shadow of death. A place of darkness, designed to test your willingness to move forward. It's a place where the enemy comes in like a flood. Each glory, builds it's own comfort zone. The longer you are in the zone the more comfortable you become with the routine of that glory. 

When you are in the moving process, to the next glory, you are out in the open and everything that you leaned on is removed. You have no idea how much you depended on your surroundings, built up by a routine, until change comes. 
Fear is your greatest enemy, during change. This is the reason most determined Christians stop moving up. 

Stress from the pressure of change reach maximum just on the edge of the new glory. There is a garden experience before the joy of the cross. Are you willing to sweat blood to reach the next glory. No one understands the inner pain of My darkness until they have experienced it. It is a place where every negative accusation is fired at you, over and over, with the intent of turning you back. When despair begins to move in, I show up to let you know, you are not really alone, I am there in your darkness.

When you step out of one glory, you will experience the great discomfort, of lack of control. The smallest thing that you handled with ease before, is a major task in darkness. Your inner man is stretched beyond belief. Everything in life becomes a big deal, because the routine you have depended on is gone. You want to cry for help, but those close to you say, what's the big deal? 

Because its your valley, I am your only source, in the middle of the darkness. This is the price that few are willing to pay. This is the narrow gate, there is no joy in it, the joy is on the other side. The cross only leads to joy, the cross is death to self. How badly do you want to remain in the center of what I am doing.

If you choose to stay at your present Glory, the routine will loose purpose and direction. Everything will start to become mechanical. This is the birthplace of tradition. Doing something the same way, year in and year out, because that's the routine. Millions have chosen to stay, just as there were only two out of three million who went into the promised land.

The giants are in the garden, there are giants in every valley between two glories. If you will commit to moving to the next glory I with be with you all the way and you will not die in the valley. Push back fear with praise and bring every thought into captivity. The price is worth it, you will see as joy comes in the morning.

Luke 22:42-44 (AMP)
Saying, Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but always Yours be done. [43] And there appeared to Him an angel from heaven, strengthening Him in spirit. [44] And being in an agony of mind, He prayed all the more earnestly and intently, and His sweat became like great clots of blood dropping down upon the ground.

Hebrews 12:2-6 (AMP)
Looking away from all that will distract to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith giving the first incentive for our belief and is also its Finisher bringing it to maturity and perfection. He, for the joy of obtaining the prize that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. [3] Just think of Him Who endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself reckon up and consider it all in comparison with your trials, so that you may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting in your minds. [4] You have not yet struggled and fought agonizingly against sin, nor have you yet resisted and withstood to the point of pouring out your own blood. [5] And have you completely forgotten the divine word of appeal and encouragement in which you are reasoned with and addressed as sons? My son, do not think lightly or scorn to submit to the correction and discipline of the Lord, nor lose courage and give up and faint when you are reproved or corrected by Him; [6] For the Lord corrects and disciplines everyone whom He loves, and He punishes, even scourges, every son whom He accepts and welcomes to His heart and cherishes.

Hebrews 4:1-3 (AMP)
THEREFORE, WHILE the promise of entering His rest still holds and is offered today, let us be afraid to distrust it, lest any of you should think he has come too late and has come short of reaching it. [2] For indeed we have had the glad tidings Gospel of God proclaimed to us just as truly as they the Israelites of old did when the good news of deliverance from bondage came to them; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not mixed with faith (with the leaning of the entire personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness) by those who heard it; neither were they united in faith with the ones Joshua and Caleb who heard (did believe). [3] For we who have believed (adhered to and trusted in and relied on God) do enter that rest, in accordance with His declaration that those who did not believe should not enter when He said, As I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter My rest; and this He said although His works had been completed and prepared and waiting for all who would believe from the foundation of the world.

 2 Corinthians 3:18 (KJV)
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 3:18 (AMP)
And all of us, as with unveiled face, because we continued to behold in the Word of God as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord Who is the Spirit.

Psalm 23:4 (AMP)
Yes, though I walk through the deep, sunless valley of the shadow of death, I will fear or dread no evil, for You are with me; Your rod to protect and Your staff to guide, they comfort me.