Prayer Reflections Week XIX (Aug. 19-25, 2013)

Day 6: ' The kingdom of heaven has suffered violence attacks and violent men try to seize it' mt 11:12

• To love is many times not easy but God make possible in us what is Impossible for man. Take the risk to love as he love and to make possible the family that we are call to build. The family of God - vd prayer buddies

Day 4: "Let us not give up the habit of meeting together, as some are doing. Instead, let us encourage one another." (Hebrews 10:25)

• We are meant to commune  and whether we like it or not our life speaks and affects the life of others. Building our life in Truth and Love also builds the life of many. Draw strength and courage from Jesus and from people of active faith and together as one community let us share a life live in full. - VD Prayer Buddies

Day 3: You are like the light of the world...In the same way your light must shine before people. Mt. 5:13-16 

• As we are called Christians we too are bearer of the light that we received from Christ. A light that freed us from bondage of sin, gave hope for us who are hopeless, gave love for us who felt unloved and faith for us who have none. Today let the light of Christ shine through you and share this light so others may live. VD Prayer Buddies.

Day 2: In Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all others. Rm. 12:5 

• Your life is created for community and fellowship. God never intends to make our personal relationship with Christ privately. This must be shared through our fellowship with others. Sharing our life with Christ is the real fellowship. Be involved, Be connected to Catholic communities and live out Christ fellowship with others. VD Prayer buddies.

Day 1:" This s good and it pleases God Our Saviour, for Hé wants everyone to be saved and to come to know the truth." (Jn. 3:18)

• It pleases God when we obey His command to love our neighbors by treating them as members of our own family by sharing the Love of God so that together we will become witness of the truth , the love of God. Let love for others prevails in our hearts everyday even of it takes sacrifices because we are made out of His love and we are meant to love.  VD Prayer Buddies

Prayer Reflections Week XVIII (Aug. 12-18, 2013)

Day 4: "When Jesus saw the large crowd, his heart was filled with pity for them." Mat. 14:14

• Jesus is always looking at us with great mercy and compassion in spite of our stubbornness and ignorance of him, he never loses hope and confident that someday we will gradually learn from his ways. Like Jesus, do we feel compassion towards our superior, co-workers, children, spouse? - VD Prayer Buddies 

Day 3: I am the vine, you are my branches,...those who remains in me and I in them will bear much fruit...Jn. 15:5

• It is essential in our discipleship the strong connection we have with the source and that is Christ. We are nothing without him. It is only through him that we can find faith and perseverance to enjoy the fruits of mission. Just hang on to Jesus. He will not fail you. - Vd Prayer Buddies

Day 2: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has chosen me to bring good news to the poor." Lk. 4:18

• We are all chosen by God to bring Hope in the life of others in the manner that we dealt and communicate with our brethren. a simple smile, a sincere listening and a soft voice of inspiration may give them  courage to persevere in life with God. Give Hope, Give Life... Share the Good news -VD Prayer Buddies

Day 1:"And now I give you à new commandment, love one another as I have loved you, you must love. one another. Jn. 13:34

• This very basic commandment of Christ is the very first step in Our mission to share His love-life to others without discrimination. Just we are fruits of other disciples following this commandment, let us also do the same to the people w/in our reach. - VD Prayer Buddies

Prayer Reflections Week XVII (Aug. 5-11,2013)

Day 7: "For wherever your treasure is, that is where your heart will be also."-luke12:34.

• Jesus reminds us today: Make God the treasure of your heart. Life is short & our homeland is in heaven. We need to work hard to build His Kingdom of Love, justice and peace. If we do, He will be the One to 'do up his belt and wait on us.' Don't worry, you can rest all you want when you get there, meanwhile, let Him find you busy serving others. Happy Sunday! -vd prayer buddies

Day 6: Matthew 10:42
"If you gives so much as a cup of cold water to one of those little ones because he is a disciple, then I tell you solemnly, he will most certainly not lose his reward."

• Even in a very simple gesture of serving the LORD it certainly receive the reward. Don't take for granted a little good act of LOVE it might be your steeping stone to HOLINESS as your reward. Good morning!!! - VD Prayer Buddies

Day 5: "Those who believe in the son of God have the testimony of God in them" (1John 5:10).

• Faithfulness in prayer is the key to announce the good news. Our experiences of God into our life is  a great motivation for us to share our faith and our prayers to others.-from VD Prayer Buddies

Day 4: "Jesus emptied himself by taking on the form of a servant." (Philippians 2:7)

• Jesus emptied... means nothing left for him even his life on earth were given up for the sake of not one, not two not even to many but for all of us... even Jesus is serving us in many ways though he is Lord..do we recognize this identity of ours to be of service for others? It is the love that God puts in our hearts that cry out to serve others. Satisfy your heart today, give service to others in the simplest way out of love. - VD Prayer Buddies
• Serve with gratituted for God is good - joy

Day 3: I have chosen you to be with me....I will send you out to preach. Mk. 3:23-15.

• The call of Jesus to do the mission is personal. He wanted us to be close to Him as we journey as His apostles. So that our missionary journey is joyful and complete. Giving freedom to those who are in bondage, healing the seek, hope to the despair, making blind see, the deaf hears and justice to the oppressed. Listen friend, Jesus is calling.- Vd Prayer Buddies
• God calls us in varried ways, sometimes in the situations we face, in the experiences we had, thru people we met, & most often in our conversation w/ Him thru the scriptures... We just have to discover & recognize how He invites & calls us...Lord may I be able to realize how you want me to be...amen - nanang

Day 1:"We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jésus to do good works, w/c God prepared in advance for us to do". (Eph. 2:10)

• It is but right & Just to share to others the life & love of Jésus that we recieved through His Words. Just as Jésus became à servant to us, we too in return will do the same to others. Through Our prayers let us recognize God's call to reach out to those who are still ignorant of the life & love of Jésus. Let us not deprive them of their rights to know & experience Jesus' love. We can always share when we are in prayer. -vd prayer buddies

Prayer Reflections Week XVI (July 29-Aug. 4, 2013)

Day 5: "And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the Day of Judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world" 1 John 4:16-18

• Living in God, our love grows more perfect bec of the holy spirit is in us. Living in God strengthen our faith, and we learned how to face discouragement and failure.-From Verbum dei Prayer Buddies

Day 4: "But you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you" -Jn 15:18-20

• There are so many things the world is  offering that we can't refuse; power, material positions, pleasures, etc. that often mislead us to the truth of life, the truth that we are Gods masterpiece and are not meant to belong to world but to the Lord. Turning our back on the world because of following christ and facing the humiliation and persecution of the world will always lead us to life eternal.-VD Prayer Buddies

Day 3: Christ suffered for our sins... He died for sinners to bring you safely home to God. 1 Peter 3:18

• Jesus suffered for the sake of man for this is out of His love for us. As his followers we are called to be like Him that in giving ones life to others is an act of love. We sacrifice our time, efforts, ego and pride as forms of dying to ourselves in bringing many people back to God. My friends remain faithful. - Vd Prayer Buddies

Day 2: Jesus replied "We must go on to other towns as well, and I will preach to them, too. That is why I came." (Mark 1:37-39)

• Our prayer life would always end in proclaiming the words we listened from God, assimilated and lived out. We cant keep the good things and great experience of God in our Heart because it is meant for others. and it is only in sharing it that we savor the completeness of joy in our heart. Like Jesus do not just bring people to God, But bring God to his people...Speak his word with your life!  - VD Prayer Buddies

• our life then will become a mirror of who God is. in so doing, God will be known to others - Celia

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