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Praising God Daily
by Fr. Robert DeGrandis, S.S.J. | |||
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"P" stands for PRIMARY. Praise is primary. Jesus, in His own life, praised the Father and He taught us as His disciples how to pray. "Our Father in heaven..." Matthew 6:9... In the book of Revelation, it speaks to us of perfect praise. "All the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They prostrated themselves before the throne, worshiped God, and exclaimed: 'Amen. Blessing and glory, wisdom and thanksgiving, honor, power, and might be to our God forever and ever. Amen'" Revelation 7:11-12 Now, that is a good prayer. That is perfect sevenfold praise: Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor,power and might to our God.... "R" stands for RAISE. Seek first to praise God in your life, that is the answer. RAISE your voice to the Lord. Many of us are yelling and screaming in front of TV sets daily, but when it comes to prayer, we mumble. No, indeed! We come to praise the Lord, to raise our voices! "Shout with joy to the Lord, all the earth; break into song; sing praise" (Psalm 98:4) The "A" in praise stands for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. We are acknowledging the Lord when we praise Him. How do you acknowledge another person? You tell them the good things that are reflected in them. You acknowledge the Lord by saying, "Thank You Lord, for Your presence here today. I thank You, Lord, that You are so loving, You are so good, You are so wondrous."... "I" in praise means INTERIORIZE. As you become more inclined to pray out loud, the more you are interiorizing the spirit of praise. As you learn to do this more openly, then, when you go out to your car at five o'clock after work and you have a flat tire, you are not going to kick the car. Instead, you will say, "Praise God."...the spirit of praise really gets into your blood and bones and becomes a part of you. You really have not arrived until the spirit of praise has become part of you. The "S" in praise means SEEK the Lord, that we seek Jesus at all times and in all places. The "E" stands for EFFORT. This is difficult, because praise takes effort, and there are times when we say, "I don't want to praise; I want to complain. I want to be crabby and I want to cry, because the situation is miserable. This is lousy." Yet again, repeat, "Lord, not my will, but Thine be done." ...The secret of faith, without doubt, is praise -- continuous, great, triumphant praise, which becomes a way of life.
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Prayer Course for Healing Life's Hurts
by Fr. Matthew Linn, S.J., Dennis Linn and Sheila Fabricant Linn
| Although everyone who can love can also pray for healing, we have found that there are three people who can best pray for healing. For example, if a person has a back problem as did Judy whom we filmed, we will ask three people to pray with her: her best friend, someone who, in prayer, has been healed of a back problem, and someone now suffering like her from a back problem. These three people often pray a deeper prayer because they have a deeper love which makes more present God who is love. They don't have to convince God to love but simply offer him a channel to pour out his love. A friend is one of the deepest channels God can find. Besides a friend, God can readily use the compassionate love that persons have because they are suffering in the same manner as when a person in back pain compassionately prays for another in back pain. Finally, the third group, persons who have suffered and been healed through prayer, pray not only with a compassionate love but with expectation that what has happened to them in prayer will happen to another. The more we love, the more healing occurs in us and in others with whom we pray. |
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