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Prayer for Your Tomorrow

May God bless you with
     a clear dawning,
     a cool morning,
     a warm noonday,
     a golden sunset,
     a gentle twilight,
     a starlit night,

and if clouds should cross your sky,
may God give you the faith to look for
the silver lining.
Amen.

Robert H Schuller - Positive Prayers for Power-Filled Living

Theological Term of the Day

Guilt

Guilt is being responsible for and accountable for an offense. Biblically, it is the state of being under a present or pending consequence due to a sin, a breaking of God’s Law. It is also an emotional state as well as legal condition. Guilt feelings are used by the Holy Spirit to inform the sinner of broken fellowship with God (Isaiah 59:2; John 16:8). Because of our guilt before God, we need reconciliation (Rom. 5:6-9).

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Prayer for the Day

Saint Patrick

May the strength of God pilot us.
May the power of God preserve us.
May the wisdom of God instruct us.
May the way of God direct us.

Positive Prayers for Power-Filled Living - Robert H. Schuller

Theological Term of the Day

Guardian Angel

A Guardian Angel is an angel assigned to protect someone. There is debate within Christianity as to the legitimacy and/or extent of the guardianship by the angelic realm over people as a whole or specific individuals.

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For Perseverance

Deep within myself
I have a powerful awareness that
I have made the right decision
and am moving in the right direction.

I will let nothing and no one
deter, detour, distract, depress, or defeat me.
"No man having put his hand to the plow and
looking back is fit for the kingdom of God."

God's spirit is rising within me
now,
making me very determined
to faithfully keep the beautiful promises
I've made.
I will be faithful.
I am reliable.
Thank you, God.
Amen.

Positive Prayers for Power-Filled Living - Robert H. Schuller

Theological Term of the Day

Grace

Biblically, grace is unmerited favor. It is God's free action for the benefit of his people. It is different than justice and mercy. Justice is getting what we deserve. Mercy is not getting what we deserve. Grace is getting what we do not deserve. In grace we get eternal life, something that, quite obviously, we do not deserve. But because of God's love and kindness manifested in Jesus on the Cross, we receive the great blessing of redemption.

Grace is God's Riches At Christ's Expense. Grace rules out all human merit (Rom. 11:6). It is the product of God that is given by God, because of who He is not because of who we are. It is the means of our salvation (Eph. 2:8-9). We are no longer under the Law, but under grace (Rom. 6:14). (See 1 Cor. 15:11; Rom. 5:2, 15-20; 2 Cor. 12:9; and 2 Cor. 9:8).
In the false view of Roman Catholicism grace is something that can be merited (Catechism of the Catholic Church, par. 2010, 2027), infused into the soul (CCC 1999), which then enables the individual to perform good works that merit salvation (CCC 2010, 2027).

• Infused:  CCC 1999, “The grace of Christ is the gratuitous gift that God makes to us of his own life, infused by the Holy Spirit into our soul to heal it of sin and to sanctify it. It is the sanctifying or deifying grace received in Baptism. It is in us the source of the work of sanctification.”
• Meriting Grace to attain eternal life:  CCC 2010, “Since the initiative belongs to God in the order of grace, no one can merit the initial grace of forgiveness and justification, at the beginning of conversion. Moved by the Holy Spirit and by charity, we can then merit for ourselves and for others the graces needed for our sanctification, for the increase of grace and charity, and for the attainment of eternal life. Even temporal goods like health and friendship can be merited in accordance with God's wisdom. These graces and goods are the object of Christian prayer. Prayer attends to the grace we need for meritorious actions.”
• Meriting Grace to attain eternal life:  CCC 2027, “No one can merit the initial grace which is at the origin of conversion. Moved by the Holy Spirit, we can merit for ourselves and for others all the graces needed to attain eternal life, as well as necessary temporal goods.”

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