Trust and Thanks -- one prayer

#319  Sunday, Nov. 9/14  8am., at home.

I come to do your will.

I am beside you at all times and in all circumstances.

Do not be afraid.  Call on Me to strengthen your soul.

Sit with Me awhile and hear My Words for you.

I have not abandoned you.  On the contrary, I have enriched you.  You have asked Me to strengthen you and I have.

And remember when you ask for this strength for your soul you will follow it with a thank you.  Otherwise your being is just asking and really may be not anticipating receiving. When you ask, anticipate that you have received and then just a simple thank you.

So often we ask hoping that I will fulfill your request.

No longer hope that I will, but rather trust that I do.

We can go through life hoping for this and that, but only hoping.  Your thanks to Me indicates that you believe I can, will, and want to answer your request.

We seem to complete the first part of our desire – hoping – yet do not make it a trusting request.  We can make it a trusting request by our thanks.

So we can live in almost a shaky hope not really secure that I will fulfill your request.

But I want you to live in the fullness of Me.

And that calls for deep trust and deep gratitude – all in one.

Perhaps your first prayer can be “I trust in Your Will for me Lord, thank you.”

In this prayer, you are not requesting a specific thing (although I don’t mind if you do) but rather you are trusting the all of you into the ALL of Me, with gratitude.

We may say that “My request was never answered” and that may appear true in your eyes.

Yet, if I answered each person’s request as they would have Me do, there would be no trusting and no heart-felt gratitude.

Hard to believe eh?  That if I answered every one of your requests as you would have Me do, I would not be the Supreme Being.

So make to Me a prayer of trust – you trusting that whatever you request will be heard by My Most Sacred Heart and taken in and loved and made more complete by My Will.

Let your trust and thanks be one prayer to Me.  Let Me reign in your life as I know best.

I will not trash any request you make of Me.  Yet I will make it fuller and more complete by My Love flowing through it.

Do not ever hesitate to bring your request to Me.  However, remember that you come to Me trusting that I hear your request  --  TRUE --- and that I have My Love all over it --- TRUE – and that I will fulfill the TRUTH in that request.

Let Me give you an example:

You may ask: “Lord I need a new window in my house.”

So I take this request and then fill you with the next step and the next step.  Each one of us thinks we come up with the ideas of how to accomplish this.  But no, I plant these ideas into your being.

So you have to find a contractor, the right window size and shape, the time of year you want it done, if you will be home and if not who will be, etc., etc.

Now you do not have to tell the contractor “bring all your tools, which include your ladder, hammer, screwdriver, saw, etc.

Now he may not be able to come on the day of your choosing or the window may take several weeks to be ordered.

Do you see where this is leading to?   Hmmm.

I God am the Contractor that you contact about whatever your concern is.

I hear your request and yet you do not have to tell Me what small things I need to ‘bring with Me’ to get the job done.

You request and then you leave it in My Hands.

You let Me measure it and figure the exact size and shape opening.

You let Me insert the window as I see fit.  I might figure that you don’t need a new window or it is not possible or reasonable for this window to go exactly where you wanted.

What I want you to realize and trust in is that I take each person’s ‘order’ and then I put My Love into it so the ‘order’ fits with My Plans for your life.

“Go tell it on the Mountain that Jesus Christ is born.”

Now where/why do I use this phrase?

Because if you proclaim that I have come into your life, then you must allow Me always to be the God of your life – full and complete.

And the fullness of Me in your life can only be expressed by you unconditional Trust and Thanks in Me.

So sit with Me awhile and contemplate how much of Me, Jesus, you will be willing to proclaim to the world.

God Bless, Thank you so much for coming aside to listen to My Words.  I love you and you are My Beloved One.