The 'Rules' in Prayers

Hesed we Shalom my dear brothers and sisters in Christ..due to the feedback from some people that is blessed by the Lord for they have been inspired by the previous discussion entitled Lent 2010,so i'm moved to post another discussion..i'm impressed with the seed that the Lord has sow in a simple reflection inspired by Him through His Word.

Prayer is essential..a medicine of no one has discovered(its 'true ingredients').the only Doctor inside this ingredients is only the Lord..we have been well informed and taught from our childhood or to some special people is from their adulthood that prayers compiled of many form and access on it. Should we only adapt to only simple prayers or more devotional prayers? Actually we could use both and more from me is that we should know certain ways of prayers that please the Lord and a kind of prayers that didn't please Him and instead may be just profane the sanctity of prayers..why must be 'rules' in prayers and this 'outline' of our behaviour in prayers to be observed?

To be specific that we knew about 10 Commandment or The Decalogue..why not that we use it as the guide, a basic Guide.. the first part of The Decalogue is reserved to God alone,'Love your God with all your heart' and the second part of it is used towards the people of the Lord and also in indirect way is also for God,'love your neighbours as you have love Me'..it is true that some people practiced all of this but not enough to please our 'jealous' God..to tell you the truth that God didn't felt any competition of any of His creature but He is sometime seen as the 'jealous' God for human kind always led astray from Him..He draw us back to Him so that we will find complete Love for God is Love. This Lent we heard back the saving action of God even though it looks like something new but actually that it is already many times been told.

God's plan on salvation been carried out and it is still constantly on going..so, it is our disadvantage that we are losing or even lost our hope in Him..some people might wonder, why we have to believe in Him that we didn't see at all?it is almost a norm for us that if some people did not reached out to us that we will have a thought that we should not believe in them..but for God, we can't apply the same 'norm' for the Living God.He is really exist and He is even heard and saw as 'Spoken','Laugh' and 'Act'(and more than this)..

To be the main point, we should trust and believe in Him as i've mentioned in earlier discussion..to this extend, to those who still reading this may 'waiting' for what is the 'rules' that should be observed? should we nagging?try hard to believe?include the emotion so that the Lord act fast towards our prayers?laughing?meditate?..wow,that is to much in data i could share with you..honestly that we could now know the term 'koinonia' and 'agape'..

Koinonia
In 'communion' with God, we need to be sure and believe that when God is present when we pray,no evil power will interupts us..yes,koinonia in thelogical terms is applied to relationship within in community of early Christian especially to describe The Holy Communion or Breaking of the Bread..but for now,in term of prayers(why not that we explore deeply based on the same criterions that you alone 'commune' with the Living God..so in this state that we should ensure that He is the one to'Speak' to you as 'friend' and don't bring our worries inside our prayers,it will interupt the 'koinonia' process..when is the time we should speak to him when in 'koinonia'?humble ourself and you will suprise that your trueself will be unveiled by the Lord at that time..if in this daily life you are hiding your trueself in deep within you...then when 'koinonia'process with Him,my dear brothers and sisters, He knew you even before you are to be made in the womb and your trueself will be 'out'..even for you yourself will be amazed that why you didn't know yourself better and never seen your own colour before..that is one of many things happen when in 'koinonia'..

Agape
This is what 'felt','sense' and 'attached' before,during and after 'koinonia' with God..agape is pure love..what love is this?sarang ha mida?wo ai ni?aku sayau ke nuan?i love you?..not yet to think of this foretaste of pure love of Agape..it is not cause by our hormone and then presented as emotion or feeling..Agape is not only all of this..it is more than this..God's love(Agape) is never fading,never decreasing,never harmful but it is constant,abundant and is salvation..i like the quotation one of the saint that there are two main types of martyrdoms;martyrdom of blood and martyrdom of Love..it is seem 'hurt' when comes in the contextual of 'martyrdom',so better that we translating this 'martyrdom of Love' to Agape..it is clearer..for Agape is not made by human being but it is from God..the perfect Agape could be found in Eucharist where He is really present in this Sacrament of Eucharist..Agape and Eucharist is not totally different in matter but when we becomes closer to God, then we will be experiencing and enlightened by God in the natures of Agape in Eucharist..now, many people still unconscious about the Real Presence of God in Eucharist and failed to explore more in Agape..this is sad for us when speaking of irresponsibility of certain Catholics that not managed to observed all of this carefully..yes, one of the main factor of this is lack of Private Relationship which is forming ‘Koinonia’ through our personal prayers..
So, we have come to this sense..why not that we reflect our own doings in daily life..’Did i love God with all my heart?Did i love my family,friends and even my enemy(ies)? Then we could achieve ‘Koinonia’ and ‘Agape’ without us knowing it, and the sole Engineer of this is only- ’I Am Who Am’ .

Lent 2010

Hesed we Shalom my dear brothers and sisters in Christ..Lenten season this year started with the point given by the Lord that whoever want to find life must be competely in Him and He in you all.like Pope Benedict XVI has stated that Conversion to Christ break the bond of selfishness..it is true my brothers and sisters in The Lord that we often deceive ourself when we say that we do love our brothers and sisters when we did good things and did not act towards mortal sins and venial sins..but now i would like to share with you all that 'yes' to that but it is not enough for us..why all of this insufficient?..here we come that the Holy Church taught us that we should Pray,Fasting and Almsgiving. we often hear it but did we already start and how to start?

Pray
When we pray,is it mean that we need to please God with a lot of kind of prayers?Not yet to judge on that.we do need prayers.For those who have to grant or give the blessing,all of this rest upon Him alone.it is not us to 'command' the Lord to receive it and make all the things we prayed happens(even for good things). The Word of God revealed to us that we should pray without ceasing in spirit and truth. that is the true fruit of prayers that the Lord want us to do. In this blessed month of Lent, i would like to invite all of us steadfast in every prayer especially Holy Rosary. how to open ourself with prayers and to proceed with what we did honestly? pray with our heart completely believing in Him and surrender every burden and temptation that broke our bond with Him. then afterwards that may be He will kindly 'speak' to you as friend, and hold on that we need to be humble for He is humble even though He is mighty Lord. for when the Lord is in the centre of us, we will feel Divinely Shalom, a peace that neither any body could give and us to tell.

Fasting
This is very hard to distinguish between Bodily and Subjectively form of knowledge upon this. but we need both of this element. Many Catholics failed to see how precious this beauty of the ancient act of mortification. Mortification meant that we deny ourself of our need and work in order to give the needy(i'll share more on 'Almsgiving'section later). St.Paul told us that let put to death the work of the flesh. He did not give us null and false example to be 'cruel' towards ourself and desacreting our body. Our body is holy indeed as our own spirit is holy because we are the Holy Temple or Tabernacle of the living God. so, we do need to understand that the Bodily fasting is necessary for ourselves but not God for God did not need our fast but we did. that is why the Lord our healer and counsellor knew very well that this kind of mortification is accepted. See the example of the people of Nineveh that they have ordered the fast and extra thing,abstinence in order to repent even though they did not sure what kind of sins they have commited. the Lord accepted their fasting(because their kind of fasting is what the Lord favour) but even more are their humbleness and repentance that reconciled themself fully towards Him.
Bodily fasting is carried out from the ancient time till now and the Church never abolish this kind of fasting. even the saints also attached to this act. we could do Bodily fasting outside Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. for those who already practice this act, i would like to remind or more from me is to share, why not that we share with others how great and wonderful this Bodily fasting to others. Not to make ourself holier than others but talk to others as friend and never claim ourself that 'oh i've fast, and why not you tried it' but better we use the word 'the Church has a lot of kind of tradition inspired by the Lord included fasting,...(so on and so on on)...even the saints and holy people including sinners could have this'

Almsgiving
on this section i have to stop for a while, and hopefully that in near time that i could share with all of you...and may be some one will share with us also about this section and plus the sections on above..

From the simple witness of the servants of the Lord's children

Opening of new chapter of Agape in my life

Hesed we Shalom to my dear brothers and sisters in Christ..
This blog meant to show more about Agape-Love to people. I've wondering, 'will this blog comes to sense?' when at first that i starting my own blog. This blog as the begining of my service online. Which is sharing and inspiring people with Agape so that on these term that people will value every single moment of their life..

Perhaps in the near corner of time that more of the fruits of Agape-Love will be shared towards you all.. For Agape comes only from God alone for Love is God for God is Love.

So, let the mysteries begin.....