Prayer Prompt before reading LK 17: 11-19 Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father is and God the Son so that I may know who I am.
“HAS NONE BUT THIS FOREIGNER RETURNED TO GIVE THANKS TO GOD?” THEN HE SAID TO HIM, “STAND UP AND GO; YOUR FAITH HAS SAVED YOU.” LK 17:11-19
Humbly submit your will to God (thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Today, Jesus shows us again the relationship between faith and salvation, gratitude, and what can happen when we fall to the feet of Jesus and ask for His mercy. We are all lepers symbolically with sin. We have inherited a mangled and disfigured nature due to the Fall of Adam and Eve.
We need God’s mercy, none of us are different in this area of our lives. The sad thing is we treat others differently because they look different on the outside or they are mentally or physically disabled. There is no normal. ( Watch the movies “Wonder” or “Radio”)
We are sinners who need a Savior. Gratitude is lifting the veil put over our eyes by Satan and our fallen human nature and seeing reality, God’s ways, Truth, reality what is. Conversion is allowing our hearts to be transformed by God’s love and grace and beginning to see things the way they truly are.
Every one of us is created out of God’s love and has dignity. Every one of us is God’s handiwork and His masterpiece. We matter and have value. No matter how many times we sin, how much we suffer, or how much we are ridiculed we never lose our value because we are made in the image and likeness of God. Be thankful for who you are and what God has blessed you with. Love yourself because you are made in God’s image and likeness.
Be the first to sit with a “foreigner” at lunch and befriend a person with a disability. This is who Jesus would be hanging out with. Today, fall to the feet of Jesus, ask for His mercy, come back to Him and thank Him for His forgiveness and cleansing you. Then, live in the joy of salvation now and in heaven.
Today’s challenge: Sit with someone that is not in your friendship group at lunch today. Fall at the feet of Jesus at the crucifix in your room at home and ask God for mercy and thank Him for the opportunity. Fight sin harder with God’s grace, mercy, hope, love and friendship.
Thanksgiving Challenge: Put down your electronics and help someone. Take care of those who take care of you. Spend intentional prayer time thanking God for all He has given you. Receive the Eucharist which means “Thanksgiving”. Write little notes of gratitude and put them on family members’ pillows or just tell them thank you for everything they do for you.
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
212-God is all in all the time forever faithful and just loves us all of the time for He is love straight through; our response-be grateful for this great gift of life, the faith handed down to us, a Savior who took are place, worship, adore, give thanks and praise!
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