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inexpressible, for never has the love of a father for a son been more pure, and never has
there been a son who was more pleasing to his father. Even as the Son knew great agonies
in the Garden of Gethsemane as He contemplated drinking from the cup of suffering that
would lead to His separation from the Father, so too did the Father drink from His own cup
and know His own agony.
The Father was about to give me a small taste of the depths of sorrow He was willing
to endure to redeem a fallen creation. Even as He stood in intercession on behalf of the
world who had rejected Him, so I was being called to stand as an intercessor for this group
of believers.