{"id":349623,"date":"2025-11-15T10:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T15:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=349623"},"modified":"2025-11-25T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:15:55","slug":"journey-of-faith-towards-the-garden-of-gethsemane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/journey-of-faith-towards-the-garden-of-gethsemane\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey of Faith Towards the Garden of Gethsemane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-left: 7px solid #365b81; height: 25%; padding: 21px;\"><big>On <strong>Monday, November 17th<\/strong>, a <strong>Journey of Faith<\/strong> commenced for the great transformation of lives. This Journey of Faith will lead to the <strong>Garden of Gethsemane<\/strong>, situated on the <strong>Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, Israel<\/strong>.<\/big><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Why Gethsemane?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The name <strong>\u201cGethsemane\u201d<\/strong> literally means <strong>\u201coil press.\u201d<\/strong> It was a garden where olives were harvested and pressed to extract pure olive oil.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>A Place Chosen by the Lord Jesus<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>The Lord Jesus Christ chose this location<\/strong> to spend His final moments <strong>before His crucifixion<\/strong>. Just as <strong>olives must be crushed<\/strong> to release their most valuable essence, <strong>He was about to face extreme pressure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>What Gethsemane Symbolizes Today<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Gethsemane symbolizes the place where <strong>pressure reveals what lies within us<\/strong>\u2014whether it is the finest oil or something undesirable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>How to Connect and Learn More<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Join us\u00a0<\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Monday to Friday\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">for the<\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/tag\/journey-of-faith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journey of Faith<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0at<\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a09 PM CT \/ 10 PM ET<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0only on<\/span>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/BishopJoshuaFonseca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bishop Bira Joshua\u2019s Telegram Channel\u2014Click Here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Call\u00a0<a href=\"tel:18883324141\">1-888-332-4141<\/a><\/strong> for more information.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 20px 0;\"><a style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #203769; color: #ffffff; padding: 14px 28px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; box-shadow: 0 3px 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); transition: background-color 0.3s ease;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/BishopJoshuaFonseca\">Click Here to Access Bishop Joshua&#8217;s Telegram Channel<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On Monday, November 17th, a Journey of Faith commenced for the great transformation of lives. This Journey of Faith will lead to the Garden of Gethsemane, situated on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, Israel. &nbsp; Why Gethsemane? The name \u201cGethsemane\u201d literally means \u201coil press.\u201d It was a garden where olives were harvested and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":349624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[66,6207],"site":[],"class_list":["post-349623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-school-of-faith","tag-campaign-of-israel","tag-journey-of-faith"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349623"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349813,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349623\/revisions\/349813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349623"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=349623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}