Greetings Prayer Warriors,
Independence Day came and went, but do know I continue to pray for you all! I hope you were spending treasured time making memories with family and friends.
Because of the holiday, I kept contemplating independence, freedom, and dependence. In marriage, we depend on one another. In families, we depend on each member to do their part. Knowing you can depend on one another is what allows for some independence. Then I read this:
“The Creator has endowed men with rights and liberties; men got them from God! In other words, we are dependent on God, and that initial dependence is the foundation of our independence.” -Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.
Hierarchically, if we are first dependent on God, and then one another, don’t we experience the greatest of freedoms?
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17
God granted us free will. With freedom comes a responsibility to do not what you feel like, but what you ought to do.
Be free, yet without using freedom as a pretext for evil, but as slaves of God. Peter 2:16
For freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1 … for a person is a slave of whatever overcomes him. 2 Peter 2:19
Prayer is a powerful weapon against temptations and all forms of evil. Whether you pray the rosary or another form of prayer, remember that while no one lives a life without temptation, temptation can be dissipated and conquered through prayer, which brings us closer to God. That is the power of freedom in Christ!
May your prayers unite you with the Father and build a fortress of protection around your marriage and your family. The family that prays together stays together!!
Peace, Joy, and Love,
Janet