Fasting Devotion 2026: Day 20

Fasting Devotional – Day Twenty

Friday, January 30, 2026

Title: Jesus Surrenders in Gethsemane

Text: Matthew 26:36–46

Written by: Maverick Garcia

Thoughts:

Christ Jesus modeled ultimate surrender, paying the price for sin and dying on the cross, but before He gave His life, He had already surrendered the will of His flesh to the will of the Father. So, after the Last Supper, Jesus goes to Gethsemane with His disciples and goes to pray and asks Peter, James, and John to remain with Him, stay awake and pray. In Jesus’ prayers, He is sorrowful, overwhelmed and in distress (this is right before his arrest) and prays to The Father to, “let this cup pass from me,” if it is in His will.

Challenge:

How wrapped up can we get in our own lives’, our schedules, our anxieties, “our world,”  that we seek ourselves to “fix” our suffering? Jesus, being fully man, yet fully divine, surrendered His fleshly will so that the will of The Father could be done.

In a time of sorrow, knowing the pain and suffering He was about to endure and was already enduring, He didn’t just pray to The Father to let that cup pass from Him, but He prayed three times for the Father’s will to be done. The thing with praying that prayer is most the time, we are unsure of the will of The Father and at times that can and will be scary, but how great is our God that in Romans 8:28 it says, “God works for the good of those who love Him…” His goodness is unimaginable to us. Jesus wasn’t just praying for His pain and suffering to go away, but to be content in the will of the Father.

How often do we miss that? When we surrender, we aren’t promised an

end to momentary pain, but instead we are relying on The Lord in every aspect of our life because what He has is better than anything we could ever dream of.

Prayer:

Father God, I thank you. Thank you that Christ Jesus, the Lord, modeled what true surrendering looks like. Lord, fill my heart and soul with gratitude. Father God, I pray against pride, against envy, against selfishness, and against the weakness of my flesh, and I pray for Your Holy Spirit to guide me to truly surrender

Father, I pray for Your will to be done, in every aspect of my life. God, I give you everything, I come to you humbly, and vulnerably and give it all to you. 

Father, I no longer want to live my life with myself at the throne, but to be a true servant to You. Lord, I pray because the Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. 

Father God, in my flesh I want what’s best for me, but in surrendering to You, You work all out for Good. Lord, I love you, and it’s in Your name I pray, Amen.

“Jesus wasn’t just praying for His pain and suffering to go away, but to be content in the will of The Father.”