1966 Saint Paul’s Church Wellesley, Massachusetts.
The Holy Spirit inspired our blog.
Today’s Blog is going to be different in many ways.
Today, 6/22/24, I had an Epiphany on the Golf course, and we couldn’t wait to start typing.
As we mentioned last week, the Holy Spirit encouraged me to buy Dr. Charles Price’s book The Real Faith for Healing.
Reading Dr. Price’s book answered many questions, and the Epiphany I had on the golf course was how to explain what I learned.
Dr. Price said, “If we had the Faith of a Mustard seed, we could be healed.” Dr. Price also noted that the BELIEF that God can heal you isn’t enough. The Bible clearly tells us we have to have FAITH.
That statement blew me away. I believed God would heal me, but I also thought I didn’t have the Faith of a Mustard seed (satan).
The question that arose in my mind was how I grow in faith.
The Epiphany was comparing Gail and me, who will be married for fifty-eight wonderful years this year, and what we did to build faith in each other.
The picture shows the first minutes of our new relationship. The Bible says we are joined as one when we become a married couple. A spirit between us has created an unbelievable bond between us, our sons, and their families.
At that moment, I didn’t know the Love, Joy, and Peace that would grow over the next fifty-eight years.
I didn’t know the Joy of fifty-eight years of marriage.
I didn’t know the Joy of raising three wonderful sons.
I didn’t know the Joy of their bringing home three wonderful wives or the Joy of watching their children grow into adults.
I didn’t know each year would be better than the last year.
How did we build that relationship?
Patience, Kindness, Generosity, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control increased our Love for each other, and from that increased Love came more Joy and Peace.
Dr. Price said, “Faith is first given, then grows as a “Fruit of The Holy Spirit.”
To be honest, I didn’t even know about the Fruit of the Holy Spirit until I was in my early forties, and I hadn’t made the link with Gail until today, but as Unconscious Competent, we built a wonderful Loving relationship.
We also forgave each other if that was necessary and moved on.
Lastly, We thank each other, remember, thanking tells that person they are needed.
God created marriage so we could experience the Love, Joy, and Peace of a relationship built on faith in a human way of life.
Faith that each of us has the other’s back, as does God.
Faith that each of us will carry out our vows, as does God.
A Love and Faith that built a family of five that has expanded into a family of fifteen. God wanted our family, and I can’t thank God enough for Their Blessing.
Dr. Price: We would love to speak doctrinally about the Father seeing us in Christ, but to my heart is whispered the truth that He would first see Christ in us.
Remember, the last lines of St John’s Gospel are:
There are also many other things that Jesus did, but if these were to be described individually, I do not think the whole world would contain the books that would be written. Jn 21: 25
For the past two-plus years, our blogs have discussed building a relationship through prayer. Our prayers are unique because they are relationship prayers, and with a growth in relationship, you have a growth in FAITH.
You have growth in FAITH because the relationship prayers create an increase in Love, Joy, and Peace.
Dr. Price: Real Faith, the size of a Mustard seed, will do more than A Ton of determination; we have made FAITH a condition of the mind when it is a DIVINELY IMPARTED GRACE OF THE HEART.
Dr. Price: To believe in healing is one thing, but to have Faith in healing is all together different.
Wow, I didn’t see that coming.
As we have reported, I have had many healings, but it wasn’t until NOW, Today, while reading Dr. Price’s book, that I fully understood that the healings were not a condition of my mind, prayers, or belief but a Divinely Imparted Grace of the heart brought about by:
Knowing that God has taken care of me.
Faith that God is taking care of me.
Faith that God will take care of me.
And sadly, I am a sinner.
Why the wedding picture?
That day in 1966, my life changed from a single man to a husband and, nine months later, a dad, none of which I had any training for. We had difficulties, many of which we have mentioned, but because of our Love for God and each other, we overcame our difficulties and are now celebrating fifty-eight love-filled years of Marriage.
In November 2010, the Holy Spirit and I had a five-hour wrestling match in which I lost (?).
The loss was that I reluctantly agreed to do my Father’s will and not mine. (I was agreeing to a commitment just as I did before the Alter with Gail) We reported what God would ask, and I compiled. That night, I didn’t have a camera to record what happened to me, but that night, like our wedding day, will always be etched in my mind as a life changer, and like my becoming married, I would never change or wish to change my decision.
I didn’t know that night the Joy I would get from retiring.
I didn’t know the Joy I would receive for buying a condo and selling the house.
I didn’t know the Joy I would feel in writing books.
And I didn’t know the Joy I would get from writing for A Catholic Moment and meeting many of you.
In both cases, marrying Gail and turning my life over to God, I had to accept on Faith that all would be well, and it has been better than I could have imagined.
Life can be so exciting when you turn your life over to your Father and let the Triune God run your life.
We Pray you fully realize why this week’s blog is so different and necessary. Peace Fred
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Our wedding picture is at Saint Paul’s Church in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
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