of our Discipleship Center building. The novena ends June 22. Please
e-mail any insights or prophetic words you feel the Lord has given you.
Prayer for the Building Project
Abba Father, source of all life, you brought each of us into being and
have called us to be a community of faith.
Lord Jesus, Son of the living God, architect and builder of all things,
You have given us the task of proclaiming your Gospel, of being a sign of
your love, and building a place to call home.
Following the wisdom of your Spirit, we have set about to provide
buildings where our faith can be shared from generation to generation, and
your love may be celebrated in your community of faith which we construct
under your guidance and on the chief Cornerstone, Jesus the Christ.
Lord Jesus, we seek your provision for the funds, workers, and resources
necessary to complete the task you have given us. Fortify our faith
stronger than our buildings. Watch over the laborers and keep them safe.
May our work on this project serve to strengthen our church community and
contribute to the building of the Kingdom of Our Lord Jesus Christ, here
on earth and in eternity. Amen.
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Monday, June 22, 2009, St. Paulinus, St. John Fisher
Genesis 12:1-9, Psalm 33:12-13, 18-20, 22, Matthew 7:1-5
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NOT YET
"To your descendants I will give this land...Then Abram journeyed
on." —Genesis 12:7, 9
As Abram passed through the land of Canaan, God promised him that his
descendants would inherit that land. However, the Canaanites were still
living in the land at the time (Gn 12:6). Abram then continued his journey
south many miles more to the desert of the Negeb. Abram got the promise
but no land yet.
Joshua led the Israelites into the promised land, but they didn't possess
it right away. God told them they wouldn't occupy the land in one year;
they were not numerous enough. God displaced the peoples who resided there
by sending hornets to drive them out, little by little. Otherwise, the
Lord said, the added responsibilities would prove too much for them (see
Ex 23:28-30; Dt 7:22). So God allowed the Canaanites to stay awhile, to
maintain and upgrade the land and dwellings until the time the Israelites
could take over.
Abram and Joshua both experienced delays. As Joshua discovered, sometimes
a delay is a result of God's kindness. As Abram learned, sometimes a delay
is for the benefit of others, not us, and we are to patiently bear it so
others we may never even meet can be blessed through us (Gn 12:2-3).
Is there a delay in your life that you can't understand? Allow God to use
it to work all things to the good (Rm 8:28).
Prayer: Father, when You tell me "not yet," may I always trust that You
have "already" given me all that I need.
Promise: "The measure with which you measure will be used to measure
you." —Mt 7:2
Praise: St. Paulinus was a public servant, husband, father, hermit, poet
and bishop.
(This teaching was submitted by a member of our editorial team.)
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