Prayer06 PREPARE THE PATH FOR ME the meaning of prayer
ANNOUNCEMENT The youtube MEDITATING ON THE UNIVERSE, which you can access at http://www.sisterraquel.com, has been deleted and replaced with a better version featuring FR. JAMES B. REUTER as narrator Please update the old youtube links you saved with the new one shown below in red and resend to friends. – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni3WexYCm08 – _________________________________________ THE MEANING OF PRAYER – _________________________________________ in the bible, Jesus said ‘pray to the Lord of Harvest’ but why did He say that when He Himself is the Lord of Harvest? after much reflection, this was my insight – Jesus needs workers in His vineyard to do the harvest we are these workers and the Lord needs us without us, He cannot get His harvest He acts through our free will to merge with His Divine will without this merging the Lord is helpless because this is the principle of free will the Lord cannot impose on us we have to agree with Him, only then can He act – if there is no human petition, no prayer the Lord cannot heal so our prayers for others are so important this is my message to the prayer warriors your role in the healing ministry is so important without you, many will suffer and not be healed align your will to the Lord’s surrender your will in prayer to the Healer – Jesus also said ‘prepare the path on which I will walk’ the preparation of the path is our free will surrendered to His will then can He walk the path towards us and the people we pray for – this is the essence of the intercession of saints they prepare the path and intercede for us our lady, the bridge and mediatrix to Jesus is the most powerful path maker of all because she is the mother of Jesus whom He cannot refuse a short hail mary for a cancer patient somewhere in california you have not met goes a long way towards healing of the one prayed for and also the one praying – the active participation of human and divine will is the requirement for prayers to be answered together they are the most powerful force on earth our will is the pathway for divine will to act we can solve global warming and global financial crisis so easily more than the puny human interventions of creative scientists and ingenious economists who are not aware that aligning their will to God is the key to a solution, not just their ingenious solutions human intervention without God’s intervention will not work God can solve global warming in the blink of an eye but He needs us to pray for it, to prepare the path – the theme of the entire old testament of sin and punishment, of repentance and forgiveness the single most important message of the entire bible revolves around this merging of Divine and human will – God’s greatest gift to us is human freedom and our greatest gift to Him is simply to surrender it back to Him – God allows satan to roam the earth so we can have a choice to test our human will to choose good or evil the greatest battle now raging on earth resides in each and every will to seek the Lord or fall to satan’s enticements – the surrender of our will is the surrender of our soul and spirit it is the greatest act of adoration it is the most powerful prayer – sister raquel – _________________________________________ it is easier to prove God exists to the hearts of simple children than to the minds of suspicious philosophers – sister raquel – _________________________________________ in the spring of my childhood i wandered in awe at everything in the summer of my youth i squandered time in frenzy in the autumn i squandered the empire i built so hard now in the winter of my life i have a choice – i can stare at the emptiness in despair and desolation or i can go back to spring to the preoccupation of my childhood sunsets, blue skies, cookies flowers, friends, books moments of frenzy and awe in between moments of silence and prayer – eastwind – _________________________________________
