#605 Mon. Dec. 6/16, 6:30am, at home
(Doing the dishes with Me)
Come My Precious people.
Come to adore, come to be with Me as I adore those the Father has Created.
I want our prayers united. What, you say, I do not pray?
Do you not remember the times I went off alone and prayed?
I prayed from the Cross.
I want you to learn the art of prayer.
The act of praying. The act of turning it ALL over to God.
Why do you think I prayed while on earth? It was in an effort to strengthen My Relationship with the Father.
It really was Me taking time out from the World to be and chat with My Father.
That is what prayer is --- having a conversation with God.
When you hear the word prayer, you automatically connect it with God.
You do not say let’s pray and then take someone to get their winter tires on. If that is your intent, then you would say “Come let’s get your winter tires on.”
Yet, when I invite someone to pray with Me, I mean let’s talk it over with God.
Let’s make a meal together. Well you buy the food, bring it home and prepare it.
So, Let’s pray together means coming aside with Me and practicing talking it over with God.
And it takes practice. And the more you practice the more you will find great joy and consolation in doing it.
Perhaps you are just a beginner.
Heh, you started out as a baby and gradually learnt things. So do not be ashamed to be in the infant stages of learning to pray.
Some of us may think we are teens or adults when it comes to praying, yet each of us is constantly learning a deeper and deeper prayer life with God.
You can combine chores and prayer you know.
When you do the dishes, lift it to a higher task, lift it up to Me in grateful prayer, that you have dishes and food and water and soap and dish towels and places to put things.
So you see, by doing it like this, you have come aside from the routine of just doing dishes, to a far deeper task, doing the dishes with Me.
Or, put another way, praying with Me while you do the dishes.
Sure, you can come aside and be with Me and concentrate on just that.
But this is a method by which you get to practice your prayer life more and more --- to pray while you are doing other tasks. It brings the task into a whole new light.
The prayer doesn’t even have to be long.
Just say “Jesus” at every breath or second breath. Make Me more present in you in every task you undertake.
Now, I will NOT tolerate you beating yourself up if you forget to say this short prayer as you work.
That is so FALSE.
Come to Me and ask for the Grace to pray while you work! How simple is that, eh?
Now, come to Me and thank Me for this new, holy day and ask for the Grace to have the Name of Jesus always on your lips.
