PM - FROM GROTTO TO GETHSEMANE

8PM - HALLELUJAH MAMA GRAVE SITE

After dinner, we came across KS, Angie and Wai Yee excitedly on their way somewhere. Aparently a Singaporean friend who had been here told them that they should visit the grave of Pastor Choi Jashil, the mother in-law of Pastor Cho Yonggi, more affectionately known by the Koreans as "Hallelujah Mama", located at the Holy Hill. This is a small area somewhere on the left side, half way up the hill. They went there immediately and found the grave. There was a very nice corner with an empty patch big enough to accomodate the team. Some people were praying there, so they decided to let Pastor know and come back again later at night.

NIGHT - LEADERS CHECKED OUT HALLELUJAH MAMA SITE

Pastor decided to lead the cell leaders to visit the Hallelujah Mama site together. We found the site vacant, and spent the time praying and seeking the Lord. Afterwards, in sharing, some felt that we needed to invite the group to come back here the next night to pray and to observe the Watch of the Lord, as in the Garden of Gethsemane. They also sensed that the most painful moment in Jesus' life was at the Garden of Gethsemane, not the cross itself. It was there that He faced the agony of choosing to obey the Father and go the way of the cross. It was there that His sweat became blood, and He cried out to the Father, "may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as You will." Some felt that it was there that He really died.

In Matthew 26 Jesus told His disciples, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.” But He came back 3 times and found them sleeping instead. We felt that we needed to tarry the hour that Jesus asked, and the disciples failed. We had to come back the next night and do the watch. It was later decided to be 3am, where we would wait and pray to day break.