The Holy Spirit inspired our blog.
Feast of Saint Luke, evangelist
Response: Your friends make known, O Lord, the glorious splendor of your Kingdom.
Let all your works give you thanks, O LORD,
and let your faithful ones bless you.
Let them discourse of the glory of your Kingdom
and speak of your might.
R. Response
Making known to men your might
and the glorious splendor of your Kingdom.
Your Kingdom is a Kingdom for all ages,
and your dominion endures through all generations.
Response:
The LORD is just in all his ways
and holy in all his works.
The LORD is near to all who call upon him,
to all who call upon him in truth.
Emphasis mine, Ps 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18
The LORD is near to all who call upon him; the problem I had in my younger years was that I didn’t call upon the Lord.
God was up there, and I was down here trying my best to make things happen. This is not a joy-filled life as we have reported, and we continue to report because I meet people via the comments and personally who bring God into their lives only when they have exhausted every other means of trying to solve a problem.
If you think about this, and I have, this is stupid.
There is God who wants to be a part of your everyday life, and we call on God only when we feel we have no other recourse.
We talked about a person a few weeks ago who was in constant pain, she called her Doctor, and looked for a medication that could solve the problem, and neither did.
The Holy Spirit brought us both together, and we suggested that before we told her the name of the Gel, she should start praying the prayers we have suggested in our blog, and after she had been praying for a while, I would send her the name of the Gel.
We reported she did as we suggested and is finding relief.
Is the pain gone?
No!
But it is more bearable, and she is starting to live in Joy.
I think it is safe to say everyone reading our blog has some kind of pain, be it physical or mental. No one escapes.
But
Unlike people who don’t know God, we do. The great news is we are Baptized, so we have God within us.
If God is within us, why don’t we use the Love of God to help us with all the problems, no, the difficulties God has ALLOWED in our lives?
Who else would you want?
I believe the woman we wrote about earlier in this blog has found God on a much more personal basis and is starting to live a life far different from where she was before we met.
How about you, is the LORD near you, and do you call upon Them?
We suggest three relationship-building prayers this quarter if you want to join and grow in Team Jesus.
- Weeeeeeeee, say this prayer every time you and God interact. For example, weeeeeee made a great meal, Weeeee played a good game of …, Weeeee didn’t handle this very well, etc.
- Thank you, Father; say this all day, every day, for all the Father is doing in your life. If something really good happens, say this multiple times with enthusiasm. When I was told my Basal Cell had disappeared, I said the Thank You prayer at least fifty times as I walked out of the doctor’s office.
- I’m Fantastic; anytime anyone asks how you are, tell them you are Fantastic. I believe you are who you say you are. You have every reason to be Fantastic and no reason not to be. If you can’t think of a reason to be Fantastic, thank God for the difficulty, and God will provide you with the reasons.
Sidebar:
Last week, it took three days before the Holy Spirit revealed what we would write about, and this, to me, was concerning because it was the Holy Spirit who told me to apply to write Wednesday’s blog.
Is this ministry over?
Not this week!
I attended a meeting at our church for men. We were shown an excellent presentation about all the evils we now face as Catholics. Fewer Priests, fewer parishioners attending Mass, families breaking up, drug and alcohol abuse, and the list went on.
What fascinated me was in the half hour we watched the Video, satan’s name was not mentioned once.
How can you talk about evil and not mention satan?
If you can’t identify the enemy, you can’t successfully overcome what the enemy puts you through.
In the comments above, once the woman identified that satan wanted her in pain and God didn’t, her life changed.
She threw out satan!
Her life changed!
Imagine if, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, our Government refused to tell you who did it.
Everyone could be your enemy.
By not identifying satan, you’re giving satan a pass, and satan wins.
Identify satan when satan enters your life and throw him out.
“Get behind me, satan! Come, Holy Spirit, fill me with your Love, Joy, and Peace.”
The battle ends when we jump on the Hallelujah Train Home to Jesus.
Update: We mentioned in a prior blog a man who asked how I was; I said I was Fantastic, and the third time we met, we lightly chided him for not being Fantastic. Today, as we walked toward each other, I asked how he was, and he said with a GREAT BIG SMILE that he was “FANTASTIC.”
See how easy it is to preach the Gospel. Your demeanor will say more than any words, and we say this because Jesus died on the Cross filled with Joy, and everyone who attended, except St. John and the women, went away beating their breasts, realizing the mistake (sin) they had committed. Lk 23: 48
The next step is to get him, and by the way, ourselves, to identify why we are Fantastic; we, pray you, will do this in time.
One step at a time.
Why?
Once you know why you’re Fantastic, you become a conscious competent, and as a conscious competent, you will be able to stay Fantastic because you understand how and why you became Fantastic in the first place.
Update on last week’s blog:
In the comments section of A Catholic Moment, Win said, ”I believe the problem with “lead us not into temptation” is an issue with the translation from Jesus’s original words into English. The Spanish version translated into English reads “do not let us fall into temptation” (no nos dejes caer en la tentación). When I pray The Lord’s Prayer, that’s how I say it.
Win, thank you! From now on, that’s how I will say the Lord’s Prayer. This makes total sense to me; our answer, as we reported, didn’t. God working in my life.
I will still ask why an incorrect statement, “lead us not into temptation,” is an essential part of the Our Father in the American English language in the first place.
Win, thank you for taking the time to help us understand this part of the Lord’s Prayer better.
Nancy Senger also sent me an email comparing different Bibles. I haven’t included her email because this is a Catholic Blog, and I am shocked the Catholic Church isn’t uniform in this prayer.
Thank you, Nancy; the changes in the different Bibles were breathtaking.
It’s amazing what two thousand years have changed.
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A field somewhere in New Hampshire. Picture by Jennifer Hansen
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