#235 Mon., Feb. 10. 2014, 9:50am, St. Theresa’s Chapel, before the Blessed Sacrament
O God strengthen my soul. This is a simple prayer you can say anytime, anywhere.
We sometimes get so busy with our prayer words that we forget to be very simple like children.
Do not try to scatter the darkness all at once, but see that each day you bring your soul to Me for further enlightenment.
Thus the prayer “O God strengthen my soul.”
I will know what is in your soul that needs strengthening and by this simple prayer you have given Me permission to act.
We get caught up in “What should I do to make myself a better person?” It is a good question but you do not have to seek for the answer.
The answer is most simple “O God strengthen my soul.”
We get scattered in our thoughts and good intentions as we seek to serve God. However, I urge you to be like little children – say this simple prayer and your will will be done by Me.
You cannot strengthen your own soul because it does not come from you. It was not Created by you and thus you do not have the key to care for it as it needs caring.
You do however have the key to ask the Creator of your soul to care for it.
We don’t think of this small prayer “O God strengthen my soul” as asking.
It sounds more like a command. Yet what your command represents is your will and wisdom to know that I AM the one to strengthen your soul.
So it is a statement of Trust.
It is a statement of sincere belief in My Power.
It is a statement that lends itself to submission.
I am not in control God, You are.
What a privilege and blessing to be able to relinquish your soul to God.
There is nothing that you want to let stand in the way of your soul getting the best care it can ever get.
It may seem to some like a prideful request. You want to have a strong soul.
Yet, not a strong soul that you can brag about, but a strong soul that, day in and day out, wants to serve the Fullness of your God.
Many of us want to serve God – in our time and our place. The strength we need for our soul is to serve Him in His Time and His Place.
So the strength we are requesting is not to better our soul but to open our soul to realize and act on the fact that to serve God we need a strong soul. One that will not waiver at the slightest breeze of anger, upset, hurt.
Sure, sure your soul may react this way in certain situations and that is normal.
But it is how long you let it be in these states of disquiet.
That takes strength to see that these disquieting happenings are dangerous and damaging to a soul that wants to serve God.
So the strength you seek for your soul is to move hastily from these disquieting moments to the center of My Sacred Heart.
Your upsets do not survive in the Fire of My Love.
Yet your soul has to have the strength of character to realize this and choose to jump hastily into My Sacred Heart.
Your soul has to be the one to make these strong decisions otherwise you will wallow in your hurt emotions that sway so easily hither, to, and yon.
Call your strong soul to distinguish for you – to defend you when you let your emotions take flight.
Let the strength of your soul pull your emotions back into His Sacred Heart.
The more you ache and ask for a strong soul the healthier all of your being will be.
The negatives can’t stand up to the scrutiny of a strong soul.
Stop chattering on what you should do, could do, to defend your hurt emotions. Rather gather in your soul and take flight into My Most Sacred Heart.
It takes great strength to do this manoeuvre because we always seem to want to satisfy our ‘hurt me’ rather than running hastily to the Me who offers Love and Assurance.
We get caught in our emotions because we feel hurt and abandoned.
Yet the only thing you are missing really is knowing and proclaiming you are Loved above and beyond ALL.
If someone puts their arm around you and tells you what a great job you have done – does this hurt you??
It shouldn’t because it conveys to you that you are loved.
Yet if someone speaks sharply, harshly or correctively to you, you feel hurt. You are not feeling loved, right?
So what you must realize in this circumstance is that you have a choice – you most certainly can stay in the hurt you, or you can choose to take these hurts and hasten into My Most Sacred Heart where only Love abounds.
A strong soul will direct you to the center of My Sacred Heart.
It knows what you are missing and it will escort you to where the missing can be found and received.
We can’t get True Love from this world. Yet sometimes we think we can and then are disappointed when it does not come.
So you need a strong soul that will remind you that there is an endless source of Love that you can tap into anytime.
So don’t hesitate to ask your God “O God strengthen my soul.”
It is like doing push-ups or arm curls. If you don’t do them your arms will not be as strong as they could be when you are called on to pick up something heavy.
So with the soul. If you do not exercise this prayer “O God strengthen my soul” you will lack the stamina to ward off negative, destructive emotions.
Exercise this prayer in your life often!
You do not have to wait for the hurt moments to use it. You have to realize that it is necessary to pray it as often as possible.
Again, it is like doing one arm curl when you go to pick up a bag of heavy groceries. It is not as effective unless you have done many thru the day without a thought of picking up a heavy object.
You have chosen to do this exercise because you know it will come in handy when you have something heavy to lift.
Thus the same with this prayer! Say it often to strengthen your soul for when it needs to act on your behalf to take your hurts to a healthier living place.
God Bless, I Love you, you are Mine.
