confidence

The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Tuesday in the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Year I, 04 July 2023
Genesis 19:15-29 <*(((>< <*(((>< + ><)))*> ><)))*> Matthew 8:23-27

Your words today, O God
our Father, are all about
chaos and destruction,
storms and calamities
in the sea and the land;
just like so many of us these days
who are in the "eye of the storm",
in the midst of great trials
and sufferings in life
due to their own making
or somebody else's sins and
wrongdoing, or simply
being in the wrong place
at the wrong time.

The whole world is yours,
O Lord; you have the whole world
in your hands and you know
everything that is happening.

Grant us the trust and confidence
in you of Jesus your Son 
and the deep faith of Abraham
as you kept your promise to save
his nephew Lot and family
from the catastrophe that fell on
Sodom and Gomorrah.

As Jesus got into a boat, is disciples followed him. Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by waves but he was asleep.
Matthew 8:23-24

When he (Lot) hesitated, the men, by the Lord’s mercy, seized his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughter and led them to safety outside the city.
Genesis 19:16

Keep us strong, O God,
in the face of trials and tribulations of life;
calamities inevitably happen,
it is how we face and deal with these
that truly matter;
cleanse us of our impurities,
of our stubbornness,
of our sins,
never to needlessly look back 
like Lot's wife but instead move
forward in life learning your important
lessons of being morally upright and holy.
Amen.

*Photo by author, Katmon Nature Sanctuary & Beach Resort, Infanta, Quezon, 04 March 2023.*

The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Friday in the Third Week of Ordinary Time, Year I, 27 January 2023 Hebrews 10:32-39 ><0000'> + ><0000'> + ><0000'> Mark 4:26-34

Lord Jesus Christ, your words this last Friday of January 2023 are so lovely, so inspiring: "Therefore, do not throw away your confidence; it will have great recompense. You need endurance to do the will of God and receive what he has promised" (Heb. 10:35-36).

What is to not throw away our confidence? Simply be assured always in God, with God. Have faith because he knows very well what is happening with each of us. Help us to keep that in mind and heart! Now, this is what I like, Lord Jesus, when the author of the Letter to the Hebrews told us to have "endurance to do the will of God and receive what he has promised." Teach us, Jesus, to bear and endure all pains in doing your will, in standing for what is true and good, in keeping on doing what is good, in continuing to love amid the pains.

Along with endurance, give us also perseverance, Lord Jesus: more than enduring the pains, let us go against all these difficulties and hardships to perfect ourselves, our faith and our love like you! Like the farmer in your parable, let us persevere, to keep on farming despite the rains and drought without really knowing if there would be bountiful harvest or not except in having that deep faith in God that whatever we plant, no matter small, would always grow and bloom. Amen.

Category: confidence

In the eye of the storm

Praying for endurance & perseverance