Thursday, May 15, 2008

My sheep hear my voice

Message"My sheep hear my voice"

You will consider it difficult to pray if you do not know what to do. Each of usmust help himself to pray: first of all, by having recourse to silence, for wecannot place ourselves in the presence of God if we do not practice bothinterior and exterior silence. It is not easy to bring about silence withinourselves, but this effort is indispensable. It is only in silence that we willfind a new power and true unity. God's power will become ours, in order toaccomplish everything as is right and proper. The same will be true as regardsthe union of our thoughts with his thoughts, the union of our prayers with hisprayers, the union of our actions with his actions, of our life with his life.Unity is the fruit of prayer, of humility, of love.God speaks in the silence of the heart. If you place yourself before God insilence and prayer, God will speak to you. And you will know then that you arenothing. God will only be able to fill you with himself when you know yournothingness, your emptiness. The souls of the people who pray much are souls ofgreat silence.Silence makes us see each thing differently. We need silence in order to touchthe souls of others. The essential is not what we say, but what God says - whathe says to us, what he says through us. In such a silence, he will listen tous; in such a silence, he will speak to our soul, and we will hear his voice. Have faith, there's power in prayer........

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