Episode 211: Do My Prayers Change God's Mind?
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- Episode 211: Do My Prayers Change God's Mind?
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Thank you brothers for this. I have been thinking about this issue quite a lot lately especially concerning the intercession of the saints. God bless you and strengthen you to continue in your service of Him.
I have always had a conflict in me over this and how it can be so when God is Love and desires to be with us in communion.
I had a wound of such upon my soul from my youth. I have asked, wept, and longed many times for this wound to be healed. I had to walk with the Lord and grow and learn and mature.
Today this video resparked this. While I was in the Church mourning my recent bout of recently repented of but still in the grips of the wounds inflicted by myself to my soul. This led to the wound coming up and I went up to recieve our Lord after falling momentarily into a trance or sleep (I was sleep deprived).
The Gospel was the Samaritan Woman and the pastor`s homily was about perservering in prayer. I felt the call to go on in my supplications while also praising and thanking the Lord and knowing He is God and what that means for Who He is.
I recieved our Blessed Lord and in my pathetic weak but repented state (I recieved Reconciliation before Mass) it struck me that it was God Himself Who was in my mouth. I asked our Lord what I was to do with such, what I am to make of it.
He showed me in the ways of the heart, His wonderous Love and Beauty and powerful majesty. And He at one time in the internal prayer of my heart, as its course lead to this wound being reached and how I and life grew from who I was then from then. Our Lord asked me if I wished to be healed of the woundand brought to alignment with this knowledge of Our Lord`s Divine Supremacy and impassivity.
I knew our Lord knew my answer from all eternity but I knew also it is truly a lack in me that I was unsettled by this. I said yes. And the Lord led me to healing and told me to rest, that it was over, we were one again.
What does this mean?
Our Lord knows our answers from all time and so His choice is unaltered for there is no other way we go as He sees us going.
Yet we do choose all the same, as our Lord has made us free.
So why does the Lord ask such a thing?
Because simply, He is Love and He is Mercy and He truly cares for and wishes us to be in relationship, in communion, with Him.
We change, God does not. But, that doea not mean God`s question is meaningless. The interaction of Love and consent is real, preordained in God`s Divine Omniscience and impassivity and unchanging eternal Divine Will and free on our part, all at once.
Surely though, such a thing as all interactions with Our Lord, can not be exhausted in the Wisdom, beauty, wonder and all manner of glorious graces and blessings abounding to infinity and eternity to be gained .
But the bottom line is, Love.
Love is what matters. God truly cares for us and loves us. This is what the Enemy seeks to rob us of knowledge of. Hold it as the great holy treasure and bounty it is. Let nothing take your trust, obedient and meekness to God`s Most Holy Will, nothing is worth losing your friendship with God.
Trust Him.
Love Him.
Obey Him.
And be always with Him in your soul.
P.S.: This was the Vigil Mass for the 20th Week in Ordinary Time 2023 Gospel was as mentioned, the Samaritan woman who`s daughter was possessed by a demon, begging Our Lord to free her. It also helped me see that the Gospel at the end, highlights the woman`s great faith and perserverence by the end, in a way I did not see before.
It was also shown to me how ths reason I fell often to lust over women. It is/was because I had a broken relationship with the Lord regarding the above and with my desire for a long time to have romantic love in my life looking for it as the heights of importance and pinnacle of my life to find happiness and fullfillment.
So because the mold was broken, so ro was the pattern from it. For all human relationships are reflections of our relationship with God. Work out your relationship to the Lord and all others will conform to its mold.
Though in full disclosure I had heard this earlier but largely forgotten it. So it may have been a simply my memory there, but it seemed a deeper understanding than I had previously so it could be it was due to reflection and/or intuition.
Prior to recieving Our Eucharistic Lord for a few days I had a frightening obsession with the sinful material in question and it all only abeited after I recieved the Lord and had struggled against them and begged Him it be healed permenantly each time. It broke slowly not all at once. But it is back to natural baseline for me now..
So I am not at all saying I am some great Christian...I am a terrible disciple. I know God is Who He says He is, most fully by how He not only still tolerates me...but does still love me among all the other aspects of what the Lord has done for the wretched thing before you. I wish it were not, I wish I could give a great example of cooperating with God`s Grace and Divine Wisdom. But I have only this at this tims. So I offer it and humbly beg the Lord that it may save another who happens upon it to avoid the same foolishness and wretchedness I have put upon myself.
May God bless you dear reader in His Divine Wisdom, the Divine Mercy, and as the Sun of Justice Dawning upon we who dwell in this world shrouded in darkness. Through the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Christ, and Mother of God, with St.Joseph the Guardian of the Redeemer. Through the same Lord Jesus Christ, the Light and Salvation as the Just Judge and Divine Mercy for us all. Amen.
Thank you very much-needed
Masterful! I took so many kennel notes 👏 Thank you, Fathers
Good video. Thanks.
Still confused. If my father is dying of cancer should I bother praying for him to be healed? Or should I just accept that God is allowing it and that my prayers will not move Him to affect a change?
A podcaster yesterday thinks God is cruel not to answer prayers to heal a child, for example.
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God bless you.
It seems that God wills some evils like sickness