Prayer Prompt before reading LK 18:9-14 Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray well, 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.
“WOMAN, YOU ARE SET FREE OF YOUR INFIRMITY.” LK 13:10-17
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 teaches us more about our opponent, the Devil, who will do anything to stop us from entering into the Kingdom of God. Jesus taught us that humility will defeat the devil. Today, we learn that Jesus can set us free from the grasp of the devil.
We can interpret it as being set free through the ministry of healing or the sacrament of reconciliation that Jesus will set up later through His Apostles. The Pharisees believed in the law so much they totally missed the opportunity to be compassionate towards the people they were called to serve. Jesus embarrasses them today proving that a woman crippled by a spirit is more important than untying or unbinding a work animal which was legal on the Sabbath.
I have been deceived very easily by the devil. Early on in my life I saw the commandments as God taking away my fun living in a restrictive strait jacket. As I continued to pray and listen to Him, receiving grace in the sacraments, and reflecting on the Scriptures, I have learned that the devil is deceiving me. I am very competitive and as Peter Kreeft says, “There is only one game in town.” (Holiness vs. deception or God vs Devil) This battle lives every day in a person’s mind and belief begins in a person’s heart.
When a person thinks God is trying to take away their fun or restrict them from being happy, think again, the great deceiver is at work. God’s desire for us to be holy and be with Him in heaven is greater than ours. We are His creation, His handiwork. He loves us more than we love ourselves and He wants us to have a relationship with Him. Are you ready to fight and defeat Satan? It starts with a daily battle in your mind!
Today’s challenge: Defeat Satan with Mary, pray your rosary every day! God brings joy, Satan brings misery. You have the power to choose, choose wisely.
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
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