Jesus said to
his disciples: “Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my
name he will give you. Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask
and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
“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 had 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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