We spend so much time trying to change and control the things out there on the exterior of our lives. We should want this because when this happens the Glory He will pour out will be beyond what we can imagine.Įven though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me your rod and your staff, they comfort me. He will hand the things of Satan over to destruction. But God says, “do not be afraid.” God’s wrath is directed at Satan. We have so many idols and so much fear though we don’t even know how to fully surrender. When we receive the grace God wants to give us through full surrender we can say to a tree, “bear fruit” and it will. Walking in our domain by surrendering to the Will of God, he gives us creation.Īmen, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it shall be done for him. A large number of people from the towns in the vicinity of Jerusalem also gathered, bringing the sick and those disturbed by unclean spirits, and they were all cured. Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and mats so that when Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on one or another of them. Yet more than ever, believers in the Lord, great numbers of men and women, were added to them. None of the others dared to join them, but the people esteemed them. They were all together in Solomon’s portico. Many signs and wonders were done among the people at the hands of the apostles. He tells them they will do greater things than He does, and they do. And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. Jesus has been glorified, He wants to glorify them Īmen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father. Shall I not drink the cup that the Father gave me?” (John 18:10-11).īy the time Jesus ascends, all they are clinging to is a love of Him. Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its scabbard. Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear. Up until that point they still had their own thoughts, ideas, words, and actions. Most of the Apostles didn’t fully surrender until after Christ died on the Cross. Our God-given domain is all of creation, and it is held inside of us when we align ourselves to the Will of God. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires( 2 Peter 1:4). As the Mother of God, holding the Creator in her womb, all of creation was held there too. As a daughter of the Father, Spouse of the Spirit, and Mother of the Son, the Trinity dwelt inside of her. She birthed the will of God for the world. Immersed in daily prayer and total relationship with the Trinity, she was trained to think, speak, and act by the Will of God. The Blessed Mother understood this fully. Our thoughts, words, and actions to be His. Though in our limited understanding we may not comprehend God, we can ask for our will to be one with His will. It’s why Saint Paul says to be transformed by the renewal of your mind. The thoughts, words, and actions of the Trinity don’t have to be hidden from us. So I started praying for the thoughts of the Father to be my thoughts, for the word of the Son to be my way, and the actions of the Holy Spirit to proceed from me in my deeds. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:8-9). Then I remembered the verse įor my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. I was thinking about how Satan has stolen so much from us, about how he has trained us how to think. I went to the chapel the other day to pray as I was struggling with many things and many people.
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