Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Nov 14, 2023 11:05:10 GMT -5
FATHER JIM’S WISE & OTHERWISE
Prayer releases the divine power of God
We need the reminder that prayer releases
power. That concept is not strange to our modern world.
All of your lifetime and mine, science has
been in the business of releasing power. This
has become so much a part of our lives that
we hardly even notice it. Flip a switch, and the
light comes on. That is the harnessed energy
of electricity. Turn a key and the automobile
engine starts. That is the harnessed energy of
petroleum and now electricity. Science does
not create these powers. It simply fulflls the
conditions necessary for their release.
What science does in the physical realm, prayer
does in the spiritual realm. It fulflls the conditions necessary for the release of divine power.
We read part of a prayer that Jesus prayed on
the night before he died. The Synoptic Gospels
tell of another prayer he prayed in the Garden
of Gethsemane. Those prayers opened the way
to Calvary. They enabled Jesus to face the cross
with a calm and a courage that we cannot even
imagine. Leave out those prayers, and there
would have been no Calvary.
When you and I pray, we are not trying to get
God to do what we want. We are putting ourselves in the hands of God, so that He can do
through us what He wants done. We are releasing the power of the divine purpose and will.
Without prayer, there are some things that
God cannot say to us, for prayer is the listening ear. Without prayer, there are some things
that God cannot give to us, for prayer is the receptive heart. Without prayer, there are some
things that God cannot do through us, for
prayer is the cooperative will.
Fr. Jim is Pastor of St Mary Mount Carmel/Blessed Sacrament Church and St Anthony's Church
This is very well put and great view on prayer that I can say I also believe.
