Lord give us Your blessings and Spiritual strength for each day and night on this Earth School Journey!

 

He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. 

⏤ Psalm 102:17 

Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered. 

⏤ Dwight L. Moody

We need to pray each day and say, "Lord give us Your blessings and Spiritual strength for each day and night on this Earth School Journey!" We need God! We need His blessings and Spiritual strength to get through this life, this Earth School journey. I try to pray constantly, in the middle of the night when I wake up, in the morning, as I drive, at meals, after lunch when I say a rosary, in the evening, before I go to bed, always. I think it is so important to give thanks to God, count your blessings and be grateful to God for all. Too, it is critical that we pray a lot, pray for others, the world, that God's will be done in our lives. 

The Mornings with God App today had a nice message and said, "O God, we would be strong for this new day, and we wait upon You to renew our strength. You have given us renewal in sleep—and we thank You for this. You give Your beloved sleep—and You give them blessings while sleeping. For the goodness of the night, we give You hearty thanks. We need also spiritual strength for the day that is before us.

We shall meet temptations.

We shall have duties to perform.

We shall have burdens to carry.

We shall have conflicts with the evil that is in the world.

We need strength for all these experiences. You only can give us what we need. You are our refuge and our strength—a very present help in times of trouble. You have promised to be with us and to strengthen us. You have said that as our days are—so shall our strength be, and that Your grace is sufficient for us. We accept these assurances, believing that we shall obtain help from You for every duty and every struggle. We desire that this shall be a profitable day. Lord, give us faith that we may not fail of Your help at any point. Let us not faint nor grow weary in our work. We go to our different duties and tasks in Jesus' precious name, and we desire to live for You all the day. Bless our home life. Bless our work and business. Bless our association with neighbors and friends. Fill us with Your love, that we may live worthily all the day, affectionately as a family, bearing one another's burdens, in peace with all people as much as lies in us, and compassionately toward the troubled, the sorrowing, and the sinning. Keep us from accidents and injuries as we go about. Give us good health. Make us wise unto salvation. And to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we will give praise forever and ever. Amen."

At 61 years young, I know God has been with me a very long time, since I was a baby, He has protected me, when I was just a few years old, I fell from a second floor on to a cement floor. I was saved and not harmed. My mother thought it harmed me as I never spoke until I was five years old entering Kindergarten. I would just point and hum at things. I have had great success, a wonderful career, great spouse, parents, siblings, upbringing, travels, education and college, publications, just so much to be grateful for, so many wonderful students over the years and accomplishments. I am completely blessed! I am grateful for my parents raising me Catholic and knowing Jesus, I still go to church and confession, receive communion each week and pray a lot. It is all a blessing from God to have God in my life. His grace and mercy in my life has been a blessing! I work on not sinning, being a good person of goodwill, obeying God and His commandments, the teachings of Jesus, and following, imitating, and reflecting Him! I give all glory to God! He is so good to me!