Posts Tagged "Jesus Christ"

Your Support Team

You are not alone when you sit down with someone to pray for him. Not by a long shot. You have a vast multitude of spirits behind you. Literally. Which is not to say that you do not have provide certain very real things when you enter a Christian healing prayer session. There is willingness, openness, patience, stillness, and, most of all, love. These are all on you. It is your responsibility to listen to what is being said, and to...

New Heaven, New War by Robert Southwell

Come to your Heaven, you Heavenly choirs, Earth hath the Heaven of your desires. Remove your dwelling in your God; A stall is now his best abode. Since men their homage do deny, Come, angels, all their fault supply. His chilling cold doth heat require; Come, seraphims, in lieu of fire. This little ark no cover hath; Let cherubs’ wings his body swathe. Come, Raphael, this babe must eat; Provide our little Toby meat. Let Gabriel...

Prayer And Thanksgiving by Francis of Assisi

All-powerful, most holy, most high and supreme God Holy and just Father Lord, King of Heaven and Earth we thank you for yourself for through your only Son with the Holy Spirit You have created all things spiritual and corporal and, having made us in your own image and likeness, you placed us in paradise. And through our own fault we have fallen. And we thank you for as through your Son you created us so also, through your holy love,...

On Light

Peering Through As a mystic I feel as though I spend much of my time in the dark.  It is a place that shares more with worlds that exist in cartoons than with what we experience in our world every day.  There is a lot of slipping and sliding around. Silence is crucial.  Knowing how to detect something around you so that you can become still is necessary for survival. In spite of the increased challenge in finding my way around,...

For The Comfort Of Christ’s Presence

O Lord Jesus Christ, who yourself did weep beside the grave, and are touched with the feeling of our sorrows; fulfill now your promise that you will not leave your people comfortless, but will come to them. Reveal yourself unto your afflicted servants, and cause them to hear you saying, I am the resurrection and the life. Help them, O Lord, to turn to you with true discernment, and to abide in you through living faith, that finding...