Prayer by Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ talks about our falling in love with God--such that it determines what I read?
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And your question is?
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Read this u'll know everything about God, u'll know whats real and whats obvious, whats the truth about God, i guarantee u\n\nWho is God?\nWho has been remembered as the Ocean of Love, the Intellect of the Wise, the Almighty Authority, the Comforter of Hearts, the Truth, The Living Being and the Blissful One?\nGod Says:\n I am the Ocean of Love; \nI show you the path of love. \nMy love remains unbroken and constant. \nI cannot forget even one of you. \nI have so much love for you,  \nand My love is unconditional and unlimited. \nI am the Beloved.You have been calling out to Me for a long time. \nWho Is God?\nWe are used to knowing things by seeing them, hearing them, tasting them, touching or smelling them. Most of us have grown up in a ‘seeing–is–believing’ and ‘hands on’ culture and we are used to perceiving things in that way. Because we can’t see, hear, taste, touch or smell God, the question arises – is God for real?\nOne can reach out to God with pure thoughts and be connected to Him. The soul experiences the response of pure feelings and spiritual strength. God is truth itself and thus can be recognized with the eye of truth.\nGod: The Supreme Soul\nLike us, God is also a soul. Unlike us, He is referred to as the Supreme Soul – the only soul who never takes a body (gross or subtle, human or angelic) of His own. He is beyond the effects of actions and is never subject to the dualities of birth and death, pleasure and pain, success and failure. Being beyond the limits of time of this physical world, He retains absolute knowledge of the universe and all its dimensions.\nWhere is God?\nGod lives, not everywhere but somewhere. A thought of God almost always takes the eyes upwards, as though one is perhaps expecting a face to miraculously appear from behind the clouds or to beam down from the moon. Thoughts are powerful. They link one soul to another. If they are properly channelled, thoughts can even go where only the soul can travel – beyond the moon and stars to a dimension of golden red light, the original home of all souls. Immersed in the experience of the warmth of this light, the soul feels as though it is truly at home at last, and with God.\nGod – The Spiritual Sun \nLike the physical sun, which gives light and life indiscriminately to all beings, God is the Spiritual Sun, giving light to all, whomever and wherever they may be. He serves altruistically, without any selfish motives, reminding each one of their innate qualities of love, peace and happiness. This is why He has been remembered in some countries and cultures by the name Shiva, The Benevolent One.\nGod’s Wisdom, Love and Power\nPeople may wonder why, if God exists, He doesn’t wave a magic wand and fix things, making or at least influencing everyone so that they do exactly what they ‘should’ do. But God never takes away anyone’s freedom of choice. God’s wisdom is to recognize and respect each soul’s individual identity, freedom and inherent goodness. God shares knowledge – a profound understanding of the dualities and dilemmas of love and hatred, happiness and sorrow, victory and defeat, etc. – but He does not make our choices for us. The soul is free to choose ‘to be or not to be’, ‘to love or not to love’. God’s love strengthens the soul’s will to free itself from the distresses caused by vices such as selfish desire, anger, fear, ego and attachment. God’s power helps the soul to recognize its highest potential and to aim for perfection by practising the art of simple living and high thinking. Such practice by a significant number of souls eventually brings about positive change in the whole of humanity.\nWhen you learn to tune your mind in meditation to the mind of God, then whatever the situation, you always have a source of help and strength to draw upon – an infinite reservoir of power and virtues that is only a thought away
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My Dads sermon last night was about how prayer changes things.The fact that you have asked for prayer shows that you believe that God is able to answer those prayers.Hold on to that faith,God is very concerned about you.Keep looking past the problem and to the solution.God is the solution.My heart goes out to you.Jesus is the answer.
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Yes, praying for someone can change them with the Graces of God.\n\n"Prayer-The lifting of mind and heart to God in praise, PETITION, thanksgiving, and INTERCESSION; communication with God in a relationship of love"\n\nHowever, God is not a genie ... he will NOT grant all we ask 4.  He has a plan, and our prayers <esp. petition, and intercession> can be weighed by him.  If we ask God to make someone fall in love with us ... well we're dealing with two separate "Free Wills" ... and God doesn't change free will.  Now if we're praying for a person to stop lying, steeling, or commiting adultry ... again, there's the "Free Will", but God can also grant this person more spiritual gifts to help this person overcome these bad things that are keeping that person away from God ... remember, prayers work best when we're asking God to fullfil God's plan, and foresaking our plans and desires.\n\nHave I seen it work?  Yes, my friends mother prayed for 10 years for her daughter to find and marry a Catholic man ... my friend did marry a Catholic man ... \n\nI'm currently praying 4 God to get rid of a deamon in my "Ex" ... I can't really confirm he's possessed, but I prefer to say he is so I don't have to acknoledge how sick and twisted this SOB really is ...
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read Psalms Chapter 9. (incidentally, it is somewhat difficult to understand your detailed info. It is nice, but deep...perhaps too much for my feeble mind.)
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Somehow I doubt that you are a person who really cares what God thinks based upon this & other questions you have asked but no matter....\n\nHere's the 6th beatitude: Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.\n\nBasically what its saying is that it lets us see the body according to God as a temple of the Holy Spirit.\n\nPurity requires modesty.  Modesty encourages patience & moderation in loving relationships; modesty is decency.\n\nSo how do you think God feels about pornography?  And do you think it really matters to Him who's in it?
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Dear: Love    GOD is LOVE.They are afraid of the TRUTH.Mans Heart is far away from GOD.Jesus said if you follow me you will also be persecuted,your reward will be in HEAVEN.Be of good cheer for GOD never sleeps,and sees our works.      GOD BLESS
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There's a "prayer before study" by St. Thomas Aquin but it's not surely specifical to maths (I think it was specifical to theologic study, instead)
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It is okay if you think I am nuts but here goes.I talk to God by prayer, sometimes silently and sometimes outloud. God talks to me occassionaly at His time frame, In other words I don't have to be in a prayerful or spiritual mood for Him to speak. I cannot explain it but when He speaks to me, it is not silent in my head and it is not audible so that others can hear it but it is clearly audible to me.So yes, I have a relationship with Him. I also can feel His prescense in my life.Look to John 8:47,& 10:26-30 Jesus stated my sheep hear my voice and they know me(Jesus) and follow me. God may not communicate with everyone the same as He does with me but if you do not hear His voice in some manner then you don't know Him. My relationship with Him indeed started out as faith but you are correct in the change that takes place. I cannot prove this relationship to anyone but to me it is fact. You can not achieve fact without first having faith.
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God doesn't want to hear "canned" prayer but rather what is on your heart!  For prayer help, go to this link and check it out.
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I've had a couple times where I really felt God with me.  The one I recall most: I was thinking of His actions that confuse and/or disturb me.  I started crying hard.  So I prayed, and told God what I was thinking.  Next thing I know, my tears dry up, my breathing slows down, and my whole body relaxes.  I have no doubt God was comforting me!
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The following text is what it's all about for a Chrisitan.\n\n1 John 4\n7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. \n\n13We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. 16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. \n        God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 17In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. 18There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. \n\n19We love because he first loved us. 20If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.\n\nI have personally seen God work in my life, I have allowed him to lead me since I graduated college, and have ended up where I never would have believed.  He has answered my prayers in the past, he has given me guidance, I have seen him work through friends and family.  He has even graciously given me dreams in which angels have appeared to reaffirm my faith.  I love God, for I know him and know his love for me.\n\nRomans 1:20\nFor since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
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I think when you wish for something you know it your heart it may not come true..it's just a chance ..but with prayer, you know in your heart god is listening to you and it really may happen and and if not he'll at least help with it...so wishing is just playful..praying is more serious...
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That God answered my prayer, and through miracles, dreams, visions, and words, brought me my husband from 500 miles away.  A man who knows God, loves God, lives for God.  A man who seeks God with all his heart, all his soul, and all his strength. \n\nGod gave me dreams to tell me about this man in advance.  God is real and awesome and dynamic and so beautiful.  He came after me and made me a new spirit.  He came after a man and made him a new spirit.  Then through his great miracles he put us together.\n\nPraise you God, for your glory, your love, and your power and strength.  Praise you, God, in times of pain.  Praise you for who you are.  Let your will be done.
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It is written...Yes, because it is a spiritual gift given to God's children.  When one gets touched by God strongly one gives God control of self.  When one praises God in the Spirit is out of love one feels for God at moment and the language prays and changes.into a different language at times.  \n\nRecently my Pastor prayed in the Spirit & a couple went forward for salvation because God Spoke to them in their home language (French) through my Pastor.  Pastor doesn't know French.  That was the first time that happened to Him.  Also another couple went forward for salvation that didn't know any English, but because of the Spirit led them to salvation even if they didn't understand the sermon.\n\nPraying in the Spirit builds faith.  When one needs their faith built up, just pray in the Spirit.  I feel loved by God when I feel His Spirit so much and am overcome by it.  It Also helps in prayer when you need answers.  Just pray in the Spirit and ask and receive the answer in the Spirit.\n\nI fell away for 10 years and then fell apart.  After a year of confusion,  I found a church where the pastor prayed for me.  I went forward  3 or 4 times.  The last time God poured out the Spirit on me strongly where my arms went straight up for the first time and I prayed in a different language immersed in the Spirit.  Still immersed in the Spirit, I went home and stared in my closet, pulled out a book, dropped it & the Holy Spirit directed me to toss the Mormon book out.  I pulled out another one my mother-n-law  gave me.  A Zion book.  I feared I would have to toss it.    Instead I opened to a page & directed to a verse, "It is the Spirit that you have received that will lead you into all truth and is not a liar. "   I knew that was biblical.\n\n1st John 2:27  writes:  But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you:  but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.\n\nSo, I obeyed, and slept a sound sleep for the first time in about a year.  I was delivered.\n\nSpeaking in tongues is just one of the gifts of God given to His children. Read 1st Corinthians 12.
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I know without any doubt that God Loves us..ask yourself this question? Do you ever feel like something is missing in your life? Can marrying the right person fill that gap? Can having enough money fill it? Can having good health fill the emptiness? For everyone that has asked themselves that question and they have found out that the answer is no..The emptiness that we feel is the separation from God, when we accept His son Jesus into our lives, then the Holy Spirit will come into our hearts, then a veil is lifted from your eyes, and the Truth shall be revealed, and the pit in your stomach shall be made whole..For God is Love..and satan is death..Amen!!\n\nIn answer to your question, I was not brought up in any church, God was NEVER mentioned in our home, my mom abused me as a child, my dad molested me also..I was going to commit suicide when my brother asked me to go to church, so I went to make him happy, I hated being in church, I called everyone there Jesus freaks..the next Sunday, I could not stand the emptiness any longer, so I said well I tried everything else, I will try God..Praise the Lord..I am glad I did..Amen!!
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wow,someone is actually reading the bible right.i actually see the same thing.check this out.when jesus was praying in the garden of gethsemine,if he be the only god everyones cracking him up to be.why would he go thru all the trouble to pray to himself????dosnt sound like sense to me.daaaaaaaaaah.why does he always say "he only does what he see his father do.hhhmmmm.is this the higher being that every body heard at jesus'baptism.quote "behold this is my beloved son whome i am well pleased".this must be the guy who jesus referrs to as father.isnt this a trip.wow!!!!!!!!!!!