[S] Mark 14:26-28 --
26 After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. 27 And Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away, because it is written, ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.’ 28 "But after I have been raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee."
[O] Usually singing of hymn or praise begins a movement and it appears that's what was taking place after they had the (last) supper, they all went out to the Mount of Olives to start another activity. Jesus on the way explains a depressing and discouraging news which I'm sure confused His disciples. His words of comfort following that was even more confusing about being raised and going ahead to Galilee. My walk with God is similar. I get all excited to sing praise songs to move forward to do some great things for God, but soon I run into a dead end (at least to my perception) where I see no way out, but through God's miraculous intervention I am able to go further ahead. It seems this is a routine cycle of spiritual maturity in God even His disciples experienced here.
[A] As I remember Bill Gothard explaining the "Death of a Vision," so may times I run into that dead end where the most exciting vision I perceived to have come from God shatters away. It is this time when I must remember the power of His resurrection to lift me out of that place.
[P] Dear Father, as I face my death of a vision, I surrender my situation to You so Your resurrecting power will work through my life. May Your name be lifted up through my circumstances and nothing else (especially my own fame). In Jesus' name. Amen.