PHILIPPIANS 4:6:
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”
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PICCARRETA:
Sept. 5. “Do not be in a hurry – everything is written in Heaven. It will happen when God wants. Do not be concerned about the necessary means; the Lord abounds with those who love Him. Rather, you should fear more not being good.”
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BOH VOL 20 NOV. 16, 1926
“The human will renders man a slave; it causes him to be in need of everything. He feels strength and light missing in him continuously; his existence is always in danger, and whatever he obtains is by dint of prayers, and with difficulty. So, the man who lives of his will is the true beggar.
On the other hand, one who lives in Mine has no need of anything; he has everything at his disposal. My Will gives him the dominion of himself, and therefore he is the owner of strength, of light – and not of human strength and light, but of divine. His existence is always secure, and since he is the owner, he can take whatever he wants, nor does he need to ask in order to receive.
This is so true, that before Adam withdrew from my Will, prayer did not exist. It is need that makes prayer arise; but he did not need anything, he had nothing to ask for or to impetrate. So, he loved, he praised, he adored his Creator; prayer had no place in the terrestrial Eden.
Prayer came, it arose, after sin, as an extreme need of the heart of man. When one prays, it means that he needs something, and because he hopes, he prays in order to obtain.
On the other hand, one who lives in my Will lives in the opulence of the goods of her Creator as the owner; and if she feels any need or desire, seeing herself in the midst of so many goods, it is that of wanting to give her happiness and the goods of her great fortune to others. As the true image of her Creator, who has given so much to her with no restriction at all, she would want to imitate Him by giving to others that which she possesses.
Oh! how beautiful is the heaven of the soul who lives in my Will. It is a heaven with no storms, with no clouds, with no rain, because the water that quenches her thirst, that fecundates her, that gives her growth and the likeness of the One who created her, is my Will. Its jealousy so that the soul would not take anything if it is not Its own, is so great, that It does all the offices: if she wants to drink, It makes Itself water which, while refreshing her, extinguishes all other thirsts, so that her only thirst may be Its Will; if she is hungry, It makes Itself food which, while satiating her, takes away from her the appetite for all other foods; if she wants to be beautiful, It makes Itself brush, giving her brush strokes of such beauty, that my Will Itself remains enraptured at a beauty so rare, impressed by It Itself in the creature. “
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My beloved Jesus, fused in Your Will and guided by You in everything, I seal and glaze all human acts with Your acts of Divine Will. I penetrate even into hearts, and I bring to each heartbeat the heartbeat of Your Will, to each thought the kiss, the knowledge of Your Will. I impress in each word the Omnipotent Fiat. I invade everything and overwhelm everyone into It, so that, in seeing that all the acts of creatures are smothered with Your Will, drawn by the powerful magnet of Your own Volition, Your Supreme Will may descend upon earth and reign on it.”
Adapted from
BOH VOL 16 Dec. 6, 1923