The more you praise God, the more you become God-conscious and absorbed in His greatness, wisdom, faithfulness, and love. Praise reminds you of all that
God is able to do and of great things He has already done. Faith comes through God’s Word and through praise. Faith grows as you praise the Lord.
- Wesley L. Duewel
(Spend some time today giving praise to God.)
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Gal 3:1-5; Luke 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75
Lk 11:5-13
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Suppose one of you has a friend
to whom he goes at midnight and says,
‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
for a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey
and I have nothing to offer him,’
and he says in reply from within,
‘Do not bother me; the door has already been locked
and my children and I are
already in bed.
I cannot get up to give you anything.’
I tell you, if he does not get up to give him the loaves
because of their friendship,
he will get up to give him whatever he needs
because of his persistence.
“And I tell you, ask and you will receive;
seek and you will find;
knock and
the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks, receives;
and the one who seeks, finds;
and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
What father among you would hand his son a snake
when he asks for a fish?
Or hand him a scorpion when he asks for an egg?
If you then, who are wicked,
know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit
to those who ask him?”
Reflection on the
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“And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and
the door will be opened to you.”
Jesus prayed and exhorted his disciples to do likewise. But prayer is no magic formula for getting what we want. Rather, prayer is the intentional shifting of our attention to God, a humble entrance into the presence of our Maker. Prayer itself is sweet transcendence, relief from anxiety, where we surrender all worries and fears. In that surrender, we discern
God’s will for us and gain greater clarity about what we truly need. Let us persevere in prayer, then, ever inviting the Holy Spirit into our hearts, always trusting God to protect, guide and bless us.
“For persistence in prayer and confidence in God’s provident wisdom and love, we pray.”
- from preacherexchange.com
Revelations of Divine
Love - by Julian of Norwich
Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 27
“Often I wondered why by the great foreseeing wisdom of God the beginning of sin was not hindered: for
then, methought, all should have been well.” “Sin is behovable—[playeth a needful part]—; but all shall be well”
But Jesus, who in this Vision informed me of all that is needful to me, answered by this word and said: It behoved that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
In this naked word sin, our Lord brought to my mind, generally, all that is not good, and the shameful
despite and the utter noughting that He bare for us in this life, and His dying; and all the pains and passions of all His creatures, ghostly and bodily; (for we be all partly noughted, and we shall be noughted following our Master, Jesus, till we be full purged, that is to say, till we be fully noughted of our deadly flesh and of all our inward affections which are not very good;) and the beholding of this, with all pains that ever were or ever shall be,—and with all these I understand the
Passion of Christ for most pain, and overpassing. All this was shewed in a touch and quickly passed over into comfort: for our good Lord would not that the soul were affeared of this terrible sight.
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