When To Pray

      

Prayer, like breathing, should be a continuous process in every well-ordered life. We should endeavor to make our lives, one continuous prayer. One endless spiritual contact with the source of our spiritual strength and guidance.

When this is done, we become the instrument  through which God manifests the miracle of daily re-creation.

Naisip ba natin minsan na tayo ay ipinapadala dito sa mundo para gawin ang mga bagay para sa Kasiyahan ng Panginoon?

            Each of us have our work to do. How well we do it determine the reward that our Heavenly Father will bestow upon us. And the greatest reward of all are the words that will greet us when we appear in His presence. Then He will say to those of us who have fulfilled our duties, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.”

            For no matter what our apparent station in this life may be, no matter how humble it may seem, we are but the instruments of His will. Working out the details of His plan. Helping to make this world a better place for those who will follow after us.

            We all have God within us. Since He is the Father of us all, we are His children. Being His children, we all have Him within us. Having Him within us from the moment we enter this life, we begin our lives sinless, a continuation of His sinless self.

            We should keep our bodies, our souls and our minds fit places wherein He can dwell. That is our work, and if from time to time we are perplexed, bakit hindi tayo lalapit sa Kanya na ating Panginoon at itanong ANG TAMANG DAAN.

            There is no better guide, no better teacher, no kinder parent to point out the way for us.

            And as in our daily work, we have duties to perform, so in our daily lives we have our spiritual duty to ourselves, to our neighbors and to God.

            Hence, each morning, before we enter into the work of that day, we should set aside a space and devote it to our meeting with God. We should retire to the privacy of our own closet and then and there ask Him for His aid. We can ask Him to show us the way. Since it is His work that we are doing, nararapat lamang na itanong natin sa Kanya kung paano ito gawin.
           

If we ask, seriously and sincerely, the way will open for us.

            Then at night, after our work is done, we should again retire to the privacy of our closet and there make our report to Him. Telling Him how we have, during the day, done in His work, and ask that we may be re-created so that we might continue in service to God and our fellows.

            May iba naman na nagsasabi , “Wala na akong panahon sa umaga at pagod na ako sa gabi”

God measures not your devotion by the length of time that you give to your prayers. But by the fact that you come to Him humbly and ask.

            Surely it is not too much to ask of you to arise a few minutes earlier and after you have prepared yourself for the day, to go into silence with Him. And there open your soul and let Him fill it with joy  and good resolution.

            Go to your God, as you go to your lover. Clean, fresh, awake and groomed.

            At sa gabi bago ka matulog, there in the silence and the stillness, let Him feel you with peace so that the miracle of re-creation may become your daily reality.

            Yun lang ba ang sa mga panahong yaon kinakailagan ang panalangin?
No, During the day in those moments when we are alone, when we can sit and see Him in our mind’s eye, let us offer a silent prayer of thanksgiving, or a word or two for help and assistance for the work that is before us.

We should also carry our prayers with us all through the day. And at night, take them to sleep with us.