Prayer, Religion, Spirituality, Ecumenism            

 

                                                                             

                   We Invite All…

 

      TO KNOW THE LORD

                                                                                  AND ENTER INTO A PERSONAL

                                          RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS

 

                                                                                                                                                                                  

                                            

               

                  

 

 

 

 

 “Many acknowledge Me as their God but few look upon Me
 as their Father:  Many believe in Me but few believe in My
 love for them” – to Josepha Menendez

"SEE! I WILL NOT FORGET YOU....I have carved you
on the palm of My Hand...I have  called you by your name...
You are Mine ...You are precious to Me.  I love you... For a moment I hid My Face from you but with enduring love I take pity on you"   (Isaias 43,49)

 

 

             WHAT IS PRAYER?

 

                               The first question to ask is,

 

                                                      WHAT IS RELIGION?                           

                                                                            

                                        Religion is a relationship:

 

      A relationship of 
                                        the creature to its Creator;  

                                                          a Bridal Covenant with Yahweh
                                 
                                 …brought to fulfillment in
                                              The Incarnation: GOD BECOME MAN.
 

 

       PRAYER IS COMMUNICATION/COMPANIONSHIP: 

 

TRUE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD (RELIGION) IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT COMMUNICATION.  Talk to your God as a child to its Father, as a lover to its Beloved, as a weak sinful creature to an understanding Creator who yearns to forgive, help and make all right.

 

TALKING TO GOD IS PRAYER, or one may rest in His Presence without words, or drink in the beauty of creation in praise of the Creator, and/or perform a good deed to another for love of God.

 

Do you feel angry and hurt at God?  Tell Him.  God desires you to bring all concerns to Him.  He loves you as you are.  God knows how to "write straight with crooked lines" (Paul Claudel) but loves you too much to leave you that way

 

Do you want to have assurance that God exists?  Ask Him, He knows how to answer in ways that will make your heart overflow.

 

Religion is not laws.  One can observe all the laws in the world and never know the Lord.  However, true religion cannot be mere lip service but must be accompanied by a TRANSITION OF HEART accomplished by God if we surrender ourselves to Him and ask His help.  GREAT IS HIS LOVE TOWARDS THOSE WHO SEEK HIM.  "Seek God and you will find".

 

 

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