Gospel: John 16:23b-28
“I have told you this in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures but I will tell you clearly about the Father. On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not tell you that I will ask the Father for you.
For the Father himself loves you, because
you have loved me and have come to believe that I came from God. I came from
the Father and have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going
back to the Father.”
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Reflection:
A woman asked Jesus to make her rich, so she prayed for it. After three months of asking and praying the woman never received his prayer petition. She was deeply puzzled why she has not received what she wanted.
Until she had a dream wherein Jesus told her this, “You did not receive what you prayed for because you just relaxed in your house. You never exerted effort to realize what you want. So the next day the woman prayed once again and she coupled her prayer with action and after a period of time she was able to achieve what she was asking from the Lord.
Our petitions for Jesus must not end with our vocal prayers only. We must see to it that we follow it up with actions. For example, we desire something, of course we have to pray and it must not end with our prayers. We must work very hard to realize what we are praying for.
Jesus will generously help us achieve what
we want to happen in our lives for as long as we will exert every ounce of
effort to have it. In other words it must always be prayers with actions and
not prayers alone. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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