"Prayer Life" - miracle which makes a youth "Jesus Youth"

Are you tired of hearing these? "Pray well"; "Pray without ceasing"; "Awake and pray". You should not. This is all about the life of a Jesus Youth.

When you feel there is no progress in your spiritual life, when you realize you are good but not a saint, when you find your ministry is atrophied, lost interest in Christ and His Church, instead of examining your methods or other causes, ask yourselves first if you have prayed enough, and to what extent God really has first place in your lives. In the world we live today, a Christian who does not pray will not only be mediocre but as our Holy Father affirms, a "Christian at risk", vulnerable to any attck of the enemy or any change of circumstances.

You could stay united to God all through day and night. On rising, begin your day by saying, "Thy Kingdom come!" Make a habit to raise your mind and heart to God at the start of every activity and say to Him: "Lord in Your name!" In Your name I am going to School; In Your name I will study or work; In Your name I set out for job or return home; In Your name I will pray or engage in ministry; In Your name I will relax or go out with my friends, In Your name I am going to sleep. In this way,
everything becomes a prayer, an opportunity to encounter God; everything takes an eternal value and becomes effective means for ministry, because we are not doing this in our own, but God and us together, and that too is called prayer, to abide in God! But this does not mean that you should give up all your devotions, meditations and Rosaries. I did not say that. Those should be in its place.

Dear friends, I invite you to understand about prayer with some more depth. Think of prayer as a sunbeam. Its rays stretches down from Heaven. It nourishes the lilies and roses. It royally clothes them in light. Thus arrayed, they bloom and their beauty give glory to God. When we surrender to prayer much, we also beautiful in God's eyes and gives glory to God.

Prayer is a surrender and a sacrifice. But we must also accept the way prayers are answered. The Lily receives what it needs to be nourished and grow. We, through prayer, receives what it needs for salvation. If the Father knows what the Lily needs, does he not know our needs as well? Let us accept what He sends us, in humility and gratefulness, like the Lily dancing in the sunlight.