Prayer Reflections Week XV (July 22-28, 2013)

Day 7: "Persistence will make him get up and give his friend all he wants."-luke11:8.

• Does God answer our prayers just because we're persistent in asking or  because he's basically a Giver? The father always gives what is best to us, yet He's happy when we persevere in prayer because it PROVES our trust that HE CARES for us. Don't stop praying. God shows Himself in a GRADUAL way when we ask Him day-by-day, 'Father..give us today our daily bread..'- vd prayer buddies

Day 5: Proverbs 11:30; " The seeds of good deeds become a tree of life"

• His words serve as  fertilizer for us to grow in our spiritual life so that we bear much fruits. Our lives are mere reflection of how we nurtured the seed(word of God) . If his words firmly planted and rooted in our heart we become life changing instrument to others. - from Verbum Dei Prayer Buddies

• "Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me." Jesus friendship with us is full of trust and confidence, he trusts us so much that he shared to us everything he learned from our father.  Are we so trusting and confident in our friendship with Jesus? Do we really trust in his words? - abay

Day 4: "To those who listen to my teaching, more understanding will be given, and they will have an abundance of knowledge." -Mat. 13:12

• knowledge of God will always lead us to do the right thing in the perspective that God wants us to see. The more we listen to and assimilate the word of God, the more we know and understand the ways of God. Knowing God is also knowing ourselves better. How happy and abundant our life would be if we had the abundant knowledge of God -VD Prayer Buddies 

Day 3: The seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God's word and produce a harvest....Mk 4:13-20.

• God reminds me thru the parable how his words can bear fruits in us. It is vital to listen to his words with faith day by day. To ponder and devour each word and assimilate the word like a sponge that it becomes part of our life today by finding out where and how we can apply it in the situations we will face today. We need to ask God to increase our faith to believe and follow every word he tells us. -vd prayer buddies

Day 2: The seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God's word and produce a harvest....Mk 4:13-20.

• God reminds me thru the parable how his words can bear fruits in us. It is vital to listen to his words with faith day by day. To ponder and devour each word and assimilate the word like a sponge that it becomes part of our life today by finding out where and how we can apply it in the situations we will face today. We need to ask God to increase our faith to believe and follow every word he tells us. -vd prayer buddies

Day 1: Then Hé said, " Anyone With ears to hear should listen and understand."Mk. 4:3,9

• When we listen and understand, His words will be rooted in our hearts and become évident in what we live today. Like à plant deeply rooted in good soil, His words cannot be taken away With the world's offerings. Have you heard & understand His words today? - vd prayer buddies

• truly, assimilation of the Word of God is understanding our prayers with our whole being. it is understanding what we have listened with our hearts and soul, not just with our minds; deciphering His desires in our lives by understanding between the lines. between those lines are words of love only understood by a heart that beats for the Word and a soul which yearns for it faithfully. for how can we really incarnate His Word in our realities if our understanding is lacking? This is our identity- to assimilate the Word with our entirety- DAILY! - Angel

Prayer Reflections Week XIV (July 15-21, 2013)

Day 7: "CHOOSE THE BETTER PART!" -Luke 10:42.

• We cannot have everything or do everything, that's why life is made through choices. Both Martha and Abraham chose to invite God into their homes, & He turns their barrenness into a miracle of hope. What about you? Are you too busy to choose the better part today? ;-) - vd prayer buddies

Day 6: "How happy are you to believe that the Lord's message to you will come true." Luke 1:45

• Generations after generations are the BLESSINGS we obtain when we believed and live the Promise of the LORD.We maybe deeply disturbed most of the time but JESUS taught us to live with FAITH and full of thanksgiving. Good morning!!! -VD Prayer Buddies

Day 5: Colossians 3:16a; Christ's message in all its richness must live in your hearts. Teach and instruct each other with all wisdom."

• effective listening of the word of God will manifest thru our actions;  for the fullness of heart the mouth will speak. Thru us the word of God will be alive. - frm Verbum Dei Prayer Buddies

Day 4: 'Anyone who listens to my teachings and follows it is wise' -Mat 7:24-25

• God is always inviting us to become wise, to live our life to the optimum. It is only in listening and putting into practice what we listened to from Gods word that we discover more and more each day the value and beauty of our own life and the life of others. Be wise, discover more, allow the word of God affects your life, after all God has the best plan for us! - VD Prayer Buddies

• If we don't obey God, it's like glancing our face on the mirror. Same old self, same old life... Obeying God transforms us to a whole new being w/ wider perspective because we see things in the eyes of God. Day 3: My mother and brothers are all those who hear God's word and obey it. Lk. 8:21. -Nanang

Day 3: My mother and brothers are all those who hear God's word and obey it. Lk. 8:21.

• Community life help us in molding our spiritual being. We form and accompany each other to deepen our faith. In our life now, this is what we need for us to grow in faith and live the plan of God for us with the accompaniment of others we regard as our 2nd family, the community. frm: VD Prayer Buddies

Day 2: There was a soft whisper of a voice.  1 kings 19:11-12.

• Only in the silence of our heart can we hear God speaks to us. That's why its vital to make a stop and find a quite place to pray with the word of God. To discipline and shut off ourselves from the distractions caused by TV, cellfones, gadgets which often times take over what should be God's place in us. Listen! God is speaking right now. -VD prayer Buddies

Day 1: If u hear my voice and open the door, we will share a meal together as friends. Rev. 3:20

• When we pray we hear God's voice through His Words in the scripture. He enters our hearts and share an intimate moments with us. Only in prayer we can listen to Jesus and HE listens to us. Have u heard His voice today? What is He saying? VD Prayer Buddies

Prayer Reflections Week XIII (July 8-14,2013)

Day 7: "The Word of God is something very near to you, it is already on your lips and in your heart, you have only to carry it out."-Deut30:14.

• The Word is that inner Voice of Love that prompts us to speak and to do good, like the Good Samaritan. Busyness  is often an easy excuse from charity. May we always keep a "pilgrim" space in our hearts to be available to that inner voice who turns us with mercy toward our wounded brother or sister on our daily way. - VD Prayer Buddies

Day 6: 'how happy are you to believe that the lord's message to you will come true'.Lk1:45

• Gods promises to us will come true if we trust in him, If we believe. It is in our Dialogue that he conquer our trust, where we recognise that the promise is not the aim, the promise is God himself. He as our promise, He as our aim, he is our true happiness. The Lord's message came true to her. Help us Mother Marry and be with us, teach us to believe. -VD Prayer Buddies

Day 5: John 1:12; Some, however, did receive him and believe in him; so he gave them the right to become God's children. "

• To become a child of God we should have  strong foundation of faith rooted through the scriptures.  reading the scripture daily meditating it plus  daily exercise of our faith, we can build stronger foundation in faith. -From VD Prayer Buddies

Day 4: "It was because you haven't enough faith, answered Jesus" - Mat. 17:20.

• How is our faith to this moment? Is the voice of the World louder than the voice  of God in us? Faith is a daily invitation of friendship with God, a respond to Gods call of oneness with Him. Be one with the Lord in silence for a couple of minutes in daily prayer and in the days to come Jesus would say, you have enough faith. - VD Prayer Buddies

Day 3: Go out and stand before me on top of the mountain, the Lord said to him....there was the soft whisper of a voice. 1Kings 19:11-12.

• The voice of the world is so loud that deters us to listen to the voice of God. Today He is inviting you to go to the "mountain" -- peak of your prayer and in the silence of your heart God speaks. The real voice we need to hear is in the silence of our profound prayer. - VD Prayer Buddies

Day 2: Do you believe in the Son of Man? Jn 9:35-38.

• Without faith we cannot please God. Faith is not merely hearing about who Jesus is but it arises from an encounter with him when we pray and listen to his Words in the scriptures. How open are we to believe in every word he speaks to us is the gauge of our faith. VD prayer buddies

Day 1:"Courage daughter! Your faith has saved you". Mat. 9:18-26.

• God is once again showing us that nothing s impossible w/  him. Our Father n heaven continously gives us an assurance of resurrection to those who have served him with faith. Let us recognize the resurrection that is taking place in us through our daily humble conversion. -VD Prayer Buddies

Prayer Reflections Week XII (July 1-7,2013)

Day 6: ' I know  well the plans i have for you. Place for your welfare not  for woe! Plans to give you a future full of hope.           - Jr 29 :11-12

• our life in the mission have a transcendence. Gods desire for us is a future of hope. What  this moment mean of our mission VD for God? - VD Prayer Buddies

Day 5: Mat. 9:9-13; 'It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick. And indeed I came to call not the upright, but sinners."

• We are sick but healed by God. We are sinners but forgiven. We are difficult people but called by God to the same mission to  attracts other difficult people as well. Our call to be disciples; call for others.- vd prayer buddies

Day 4: "Seeing their faith, Jesus said take comfort, my child, your sins are forgiven. " -Mat 9:1-8

• Jesus never runs out of mercy for us giving us peace and comfort and seeing the priceless value of our life beyond our feelings of stingy, guilt, and unworthiness. As followers of Jesus we are invited to do the same - VD Prayer Buddies

Day 3: "You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets and jesus himself is the cornerstone." Eph.:2:19-22.

• You are being prepared by Jesus to collaborate with His mission like everyone of us. He gives us exactly what we need during the journey. This is an opportunity to encounter more of Christ and the joy of giving ourselves to others. Christ needs us. He needs you. ---------frm. VD Prayer Buddies

Day 2:"Do not be afraid, follow me"  (Mt 8:23-27).

• How deep is your faith in Jesus? Is it strong enough to make you unafraid to take risks in order to follow Him? What kind of waves hinder you to follow Him? The offer of the world only gives us temporal happiness. Yes to follow Christ is not easy but he is the only one who can give us true happiness. Let's give our 100% in following Christ and lead others to do the same and enjoy the fullness of life that we are longing for. - vd prayer buddies

Day 1:But Jesus Said to him' "Follow me and allow the dead to bury their own dead". Mat. 8:22.

• Jesus is inviting us to followHis desires for us and leave our own desires. We may meet trials along the way in our following but these are nothing when we live with the awareness that jesus is always present in our lives. VD prayer buddies

Prayer Reflections Week XI (June 24-30, 2013)

Day 6: "here I'm, ready to came to you for the third time and I'm not going to be a burden on you' -2 cor.12: 14

• After this week Jesus came again to us loving,forgiving us making us to see that cross is not burden. Life itself is a guaranty of growth.What you discover this week? What did you learn in your own process of carrying your cross?  - VD Prayer Buddies

Day 5: 2 Tim 4:17-18" But the Lord stood by me and gave me power so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed for all the gentiles to hear and so I was saved from the lion's mouth."

• Don't give up because God never gives up on you. He gives you strength for you to bring the word of God to your family, officemate, friends and to other people and even to your enemies. From VD Prayer Buddies

Day 4: "We are subjected to any kind of hardships but never distressed; we see no out but never despair; we are pursued but never cut off; knocked down, but still have some life in us." - 2 cor.4:7-12

• We never loss hope because this hope of ours is anchored in the very life of Jesus. Always look beyond the cross, it is not the end but just the means of our concrete following of Jesus and marked in us our true christian identity. -VD Prayer Buddies

Day 3: "The Cross of Christ is a folly to the world.. but for those who are on the road of salvation it is the power of God." 1Cor.1:18-25

• The road to salvation would always lead us to the cross but the world see this as foolishness and absurd. I would rather be a fool in the eyes of the world but wise in the eyes of God.Today make a choice, which do you prefer? - VD Prayer Buddies

Day 2: The life that I am now living...I am living in faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. Gal 2:20.

• It is unconditional love for us that moved Jesus to embrace the cross until the very end. Like Jesus we all have crosses in life that comes in different sizes and no one is exempted from having them. Does the cross scare you away? Bearing our cross daily will lead us to the perfection of our love for our spouse, children, neighbor. The cross is not an option but a necessity in following Jesus. -VD Prayer Buddies.

• The old and rugged cross is the most beautiful wood for it reminds God's unfailing love to mankind. - Celia
• i may have accepted my cross but with lots of complaints and a lot of times left the cross behind especially wen got frustrated. help me to be strong and firm in carrying my cross every minute, everyday without hesitation  and complaints in taking it as a joy of being with Him. let me be the light as well to others in following His footsteps amen - Dhelia

Day 1:"When i am lifted from the earth i will draw everyone to me. (In saying this he indicated the kind of death he was going to suffer).jn12:23-28

• we already had the assurance from Jesus that we are not meant to stay forever in this world but to be with him forever.Jesus had to take death for our sake. We are invited to die from our worldly ways & desires so that the work of Jesus may be seen in our lives. - VD Prayer Buddies

Prayer Reflections Week X (June 17-23, 2013)

Day 6: "dont be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall put on. Is not life more than food & the body more than clothing?" Mt 6: 24-34

• God give us the grace to recognize his providence. He will not abandon us. Trust in him and do his will. Look for his kingdom and the rest will be given. -VD Prayer Buddies

Day 5: Mt 6:19-23; Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

• Doing good deeds everyday is storing treasures in heaven. And giving with willingness of the heart would lead you to the fullness of life. What treasures do you desire most Lasting or Temporal? - from VD Prayer Buddies

Day 4: "Our father...Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven" -Mat. 6:7-15

• Our prayers will always lead us to the will of our father and that is Love, Love in giving us everything that we need to live a fulfilled life, a love that will always invites us to share to others what we received. Give love each day in our own little ways and gradually fulfill Gods will in our life day by day! - VD Prayer Buddies

Day 3: "...when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing...." Mt.6:1-6,16-18.

• Jesus loves a joyful and a humble giver. He is teaching us that to love others is not to "show off" that you have done good things but to recognize that our joy is meaningful if it is recognize by God in secret than by the people in the open.   - VD Prayer Buddies

Day 2: Love of Jesus is the true model of Loving others. " I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your father who is in heaven. (Mt 5:43-48)

• Today Jesus invites us to discover  the real joy of loving our enemies, in human thinking its difficult but Jesus want us to live our life in the fullness of joy by being free from slavery of hatred, ill-feelings and grudges.  We need to ask the Grace of God to be able to love like Jesus. Let's try it NOW and experience real JOY and Freedom. Just simply imagine how many times Jesus forgives our sins. We are invited to do the same. ( VD- Prayer buddies ) Pls pass to others. 

Day 1: "Give to him who begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you". Mt. 5:42

• Many times in our life we give with justification and with conditions. We often forget that God gave everything we need. He even gave His life even if we don't deserve it. Our time, talent and treasure are God's gift to us. Let us be reminded of God's generosity by sharing what we received from HIM. -VD Prayer Buddies

Prayer Reflections Week IX (June 10-16, 2013)

Day 7: "i have been crucified with Christ; yet i live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me."-galatians 2:19.

• Conversion is not a one-time event, but a necessary way of life. We need to be crucified each day of our selfishness and hidden pride in a daily humble conversion. Complacency leads to downfall, like in David. We nourish our faith in God's mercy to deal realistically with our shadows that stop us being Christ. Walk  humbly with your God today-VD Payer Buddies

Day 6: 'you are the salt of the earth,but if the salt losses its taste,with what can it be seasoned?' Mat 5:14-16...

• Can a light be hidden? let your light shine' The fruit of our dialogue, our intimacy with God can be seen, can be light for others, if we allow it to be. let that light from God shine through us in concrete gestures, actions, words. What is God's invitation for you? -VD Prayer Buddies

Day 5:Mat 7:21-23 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom in heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."

• Our prayers will manifest not in our words but through our actions. What is the quality of your prayer? Does it entail sincerity? Grow in faith means grow in our relationship with the lord.- VD Prayer Buddies

Day 4: Mat 5:3-10 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven"

• To be poor in spirit is when we continuously seek the will of God for our life and to always depend on him in whatever situations that we are facing now. By so doing, we are slowly transformed not to ask what we want God do unto us but what God wants to do with our life and start to live differently yet fulfilled and happy. - VD Prayer Buddies

Day 3: "..I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me." Gal.2:20.

• The transformative power of prayer elevates our life to be Christ-like. It continues to mold us by renewing our mind,heart and soul to live according to the design that God wants us to live. Be steadfast in prayer and be amazed on the wonderful life it will lead you. - VD Prayer Buddies

Day 2: 1 kings 17:21 T'hen he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the Lord, “Lord my God, let this boy’s life return to him!”

• bold prayer need pure heart and  much confidence and trust to let God move towards it. We are invited to return to life again  asking not by merely getby prayer but bold prayer with trust and confidence. -VD Prayer Buddies 

Day 1: This, then is how you should pray: 'Our Father in heaven: May your holy name be honoured; May your kingdom come; may your will done on earth as it is in heaven. Mt 6:6-13.                                

• How do I pray? The passage of today teaches us how we ought to pray. Prayer is not about us. To pray is to know what God's will is for our life amidst the situations we are facing. Real prayer is a prayer which transforms our thinking to the thinking of God. We can say that we have truly prayed when we follow not we want but we follow the will of God for us. VD PRAYER BUDDIES

• Your Father knew what u need before u ask him mt 6:8. where shall i go and meet my God? It starts with an act of faith and dialogue.   monday lord teach us how to pray mt. 6:6-13  morning! - Mylene