Before you submit your prayer request
"Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light."(Matthew 11:28-30)
Brothers and Sisters, beloved in our Lord. Intercessory prayer for your intentions is a gift. We thank the Lord for this ineffable gift, for His mercy and for His Love. The Lord fills our hearts with His Love and opens them for the needs of our neighbours. His Source of graces is endless and His Love is Great and Almighty. His word is stronger than a two-edged sword and it slices everything.
Indeed, the word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart. No creature is concealed from him, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.(Hebrews 4:12-13)
Our Lord Jesus is the one who supplicates for us before the Throne of God the Father and He intercedes for our prayer requests. And that means we pray together with Him. He isn't somewhere far away but here among us, with us, in our hearts. And what are our hearts like? Are they clean and ready to accept Him so that He could live and have His Throne in them? Let's try to clean them confessing our sins before the Lord in the sacrament of the confession. Let's try to clean them forgiving all those who are awaiting our forgiveness and let's accept our Lord Jesus into our heart, in the Eucharist.
If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.(Matthew 6:14-15)
Once we do it, then not only our hearts but also soul will be cleaned and won't be condemned. Have you ever wondered why you suffer physically and mentally in spite of your prayers? You might have thought many times that God doesn't listen to You. But you are mistaken, as He always listens to You and he looks after every sheep as a Good Shepherd. At the beginning He heals what is most important – Your soul and saves it from condemnation, from hell.
Does the body go to heaven after death?
- No. Only soul goes to heaven.
So at the beginning, we need to heal our souls, and then, if we fulfill the words of the Lord and if it is His Holy Will, he will heal our body. Because the Lord has food and many graces for the sheep who listen to the voice of the Shepherd, the Good Shepherd. He looks after them and protects them from evil and he won't allow any sheep to get lost. He will leave ninety-nine and will go after the lost one until He finds it.
What is your opinion? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray? And if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray. In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.(Matthew 18:12-14)
Think in your heart, in silence, before the Lord in the Tabernacle, what prayer request you would like to write here and which way you would like to follow. Is it the way which is Jesus Himself? He said: "I am the way and the truth and the life".
Jesus said to him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."(John 14:6)
We have Free Will. The Most Beautiful Gift from God the Father, Our Creator. Thanks to Him, we are not slaves but we are free. It depends on us only whether we will get closer to God or move away from Him. God is the Power, nothing is impossible for God. We can do anything through Him who empowers us.
I have the strength for everything through him who empowers me.(Philippians 4:13)
Therefore I can confess that Jesus is My only Lord and I will serve no-one but Him.
Thomas answered and said to him, "My Lord and my God!"(John 20:28)