#228 Friday, Jan. 24/14, 11:15 am, St Theresa’s, before the Blessed Sacrament
Yu heard My Voice. It was not your plan to write because you were making other plans!
Remember you surrendered yourself to Me today, so I shall take advantage of planning this part of your day.
You must be obedient if you have willingly surrendered yourself to Me.
I heard you say to yourself when you heard My Voice to write “but I won’t have much time Lord because I plan to leave at 11:30am.”
And you already know that My Dictations usually last longer than 15 minutes.
So, you have surrendered your plans to leave at 11:30 to allow Me to dictate My Words to the World.
So now, all of you can see that as you pray the surrender prayer you have to be busy and surrender.
Now maybe you saying that prayer in the early morning is just said as part of your morning prayers.
However, I will take it very seriously and act on your commitment of your self to Me. So when I step in, you will realize that I am being obedient to your prayer ‘take care of everything.’
You have given Me permission and thus I willingly step into your life to lead you.
How many of you ‘feel’ Me step into your life and still do not willingly give yourself over to Me?
It is not just non-believers who may not hear My Voice and act on it, but there are believers who do not respond to My Nudging.
Perhaps that is why some do not want to say this prayer…
“O Jesus I surrender myself to you. Take care of everything.”
It is such a committal and yet we may think that since we can’t live up to it all the time, at every instance, we won’t bother to say it at all.
Take a chance that you will not get it perfect each time.
Do not strive for perfection at responding to My Voice --- strive to hear and respond to My Voice.
Once you raise the bar too high trying to make sure you respond every time, you will become disappointed, either ignoring My Voice sometimes or wondering if you missed My Voice sometimes.
I have not asked you for perfection in acting on My Voice. I have asked you to open your heart so you will joyfully hear and act on My Voice.
If you are busy trying to get it perfect, you most certainly are not open-hearted to My Call.
You are back into you, as the center for all you are striving to do perfectly.
Thank you for surrendering to Me right now.
You see it is not much past the time you had thought to leave chapel is it.
Yet you let Me have the time I asked of you to dictate to you.
Obedience, learning obedience is so essential in our faith journey.
Stay tuned to My Voice and your obedience will greatly increase.
Now you do not have to tell anyone else that you are being obedient.
Again that takes you back to bragging about you.
But do this obedience joyfully and silently with great gratitude.
Because you have begged to do My Will and I am giving you lots and lots of opportunities to do just that.
Go in peace. Gather the Graces you have gained from those with you in chapel today.
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