We may sometimes find the divine call to spiritual integrity and growth as a condition of receiving God’s best blessings frustrating, humiliating or infuriating. This is the only way to discover the will of God and know what is good, what it is that God wants, what is the perfect thing to do.”
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Do not model yourselves on the behavior of the world around you, but let your behavior change, modeled by your new mind. Saint Paul is even more direct, saying in Romans 12:1-2 that we cannot worship well or discern the will of God if we cling to what is unworthy of our Christian calling: “Think of God’s mercy, my brothers, and worship him, I beg you, in a way that is worthy of thinking beings, by offering your living bodies as a holy sacrifice, truly pleasing to God. God can work best in an undivided heart, one that does not draw a line between “This-is-for-me” and “This-is-for-God.” If we pray for grace but don’t really want it, then Saint James says we are unstable and double-minded (that is both wanting and not-wanting) and so we should not expect to receive anything from God, because we have given him no place to put it. (The most famous example is from Saint Augustine before his conversion: “Oh Lord-make me chaste-but not just yet!”) Sometimes we are ambivalent about receiving a grace that requires conversion, or we ask to be liberated from a sinful desire that we still love. If the one who prays is wrong, then God will say, “Grow.” God will always call us to outgrow a divided heart. We may be asking for goods that we are not yet ready to receive and care for properly. A good thing at the wrong time is a bad thing. If the timing is wrong, God says, “Slow.” Timing is so important. What does it mean if God doesn’t appear timely or clear in response to our prayer requests? If the request is wrong, God says, “No.” We may have set our hearts on something that he does not intend for us, and God in his goodness says, “No.” God will always say no to any request that would separate us from him. We present ourselves to God in our neediness and vulnerability, and God appears unresponsive or indifferent. Questions about apparently unanswered prayer can be the most heartfelt questions, and therefore the most painful. Why don’t you treat me like that blind man?” I’m only asking for praiseworthy things, such as a good Catholic spouse, or excellence in my studies or peace in my family. I’m not asking for the death of my rival or to be Earth’s tyrant. And so we might be tempted to complain: “Lord, I’m not asking for anything evil. Why can’t all intercessory prayer (which I wrote about last week HERE) be answered so simply, clearly and directly? More often than not, our prayer doesn’t work like that.
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“Jesus says, ‘What do you want me to do for you?’ The blind man answers, ‘Lord, I want to see!’ Jesus replies, ‘receive your sight.’” “Why don’t my prayers work? Why don’t I get what I want from God?” That’s a tough question to answer, especially when the person starts reading Luke 18:35-43, which can be summarized as:
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Part 2 of a series on intercessory prayer: Learning to pray with right aim, timing and heart