How to Let God Speak (to You) | LITTLE BY LITTLE | Fr Columba Jordan CFR
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- God has something to reveal to you - today. This is true every day, but often we forget, neglect or don't know how to listen. Fr Columba talks about how to be open to God's word for you - today.
Episode Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:16 Hearing Vs Listening
0:43 My Experience
2:13 Listening Humbles Us
2:56 Open to God's "Today-ness"
4:44 When Prayer Becomes Stale
5:27 Nudges from God
6:13 Test These Things
6:42 Like & Subscribe!
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Father Columba, I was Baptised into the Catholic Church a few days ago at the Holy Saturday Easter Vigil. Watching your videos helped me along during the past year. Thank you for making these videos.
Welcome to the Catholic Church! May God bless you super abundantly!🙏🙏
May God bless you richly ❤ Hooray for saying yes to God!!!
Yay that’s so exciting! Congratulations 😊
Welcome to the family!
May God bless you greatly!
You will never know how your vids help us all to be better Catholics, Christians, people. Bless you, Father.
Praise God.
Not never, friend.
ST. TERESE OF AVILA: “It is a great grace of God to practice self-examination; but too much is as bad as too little. Believe me, by God’s help, we shall advance more by contemplating God than by keeping our eyes fixed on ourselves.”
❤❤❤❤
Love this quote ❤️ 👏
And where is Saint Teresa now? Nowhere, nothing.
Have you heard the artist Nothing.Nowhere?
@@loonycushion Somewhere.... Out There, Together Forever..... Everlasting Love
Father, I watch you regularly my son Christopher called yesterday. His girlfriend broke up with him again and he doesn’t want to live. I’ve tried to give him help he’s going back to church but he is just in such a bad state. He’s so far for me. I am in Vermont and he is in Elpaso. Please pray for him.
I’m praying for Christopher too 🙏🏼
Praying for you both too
Praying
I am praying for Christopher. May the Lord remind him of his identity. That He is an invaluable son of God, worth more than rubies. Peace 💟💟💟
@@annem2922 thankyou
Can whoever reads this say a prayer for mental health for all gods nations 🙏🏻. Praying for god fearing & self governing men & women. Amen Thank you! ☺️
Quote: "It's amazing how many coincidences happen when we pray." 💯
Just yesterday evening, a thought popped into my mind, to ask Jesus: “Will you be my guest tonight?… What may I offer you?”
It was just a glimpse, followed by distractions, but I kept trying to get back to it, it felt so good, as if a door had suddenly unlocked.
I have been a Catholic all my life, I lost my way for quite a few years. I am 61 now and love my Catholic faith so much that I get teary-eyed thinking about God. I love your videos and look for them every day. You are a good man Father, God Bless you and keep you from all evil. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
True meditation, prayer sometimes need not be said, just be fully in his presence and not speak even in our minds. Just be still and know he is
Thank you, I have ADHD and its so hard for me to focus. But looking at it as surrendering really changes everything.
Same here. I’ve had times when I even resorted to learning and saying my prayers in Greek or other foreign languages in order to keep focusing on what I was saying.
Interesting. Similar on both.
ADD here. Once I memorise prayers in Latin I drift off anyway. Need more focusing/challenging again to focus
I am not a religious person, but this man has a presence about him - gentle, warm, and expansive. I get the impression he is the kind of guy that provides solace by just being in the room.
He is reflecting the love and peace of God.
You can't miss it when you have a true Jesus follower 😇
Hi Fr Columba. Hoping to get a blessing from you in Gods Cottage in July. God Bless Adrian
I was literally wondering today how can I better listen to God and this video popped up 🙏🏻
Thank God you are in this beautiful ministry. Love God and all the work you do for all of us. You are an inspiration.
God, what are you saying? Making me watch this video today🤔
I had taken My cross and medal with the Madonna of, and put it in a pocket. The video started and I reached in the pocket the necklace was all tangeld together. I first thought oh No as i often do when things go into knoths and i dont see a way out. Then i realized by the Grace of God that i then could listen to him because he was speaking, through this entagledment the necklace had created and the lessons I belivie was that as soon as I listende to the video and opened My heart for the peace and comfort of God i started to feel like the necklace almost like i didnt do anything made itself become back to order. Only by trying to listen to what Gods meaning was in that situation.
Glory to God for doing these funny but beautiful lessons of life
Little tweaks like this make a big difference! Thanks for sharing Fr. Columba!
Not kidding, woke up, i had a thought i should pray that god should talk more directly to me. Then i was thinking nah dont test your god, i open ip youtube to stretch in the morning and here we go this video was suggested first! God bless you my brother! ❤️
This was so very helpful. Thank you. I feel a reset in my soul and my relationship with God which is what I've been praying for for so long. It's so simple yet the concept was was evasive for me. Thank you. Thank you. God bless you.
I have a really hard time hearing God when I'm in prayer and meditation. Especially at this point in my life as a baby Catholic, new to the faith
It takes practice
Thank you SO much, Brother! Countless times in Adoration or meditative prayer, I have felt like I should open myself
to listening, and nothing comes, and I feel as if it's my fault somehow.
I do get inspirations at times out of the blue, and infrequently in deep prayer. But, to just open myself whether or not He speaks and
that's okay; well this is a warm and welcoming idea for me! Perhaps this is another meaning to the Scripture
Passage, "Wait upon The Lord"... Praised be Jesus for sending this to me through you in perhaps due time, 3 weeks later in my feed!
I will always let God speak to me. Or, since He does not require my permission, I will always try to listen.
divine mercy i trust in you take care of everything thank you father god bless you
Fr. Columba's advice sounds very simple when done ONCE. But to regularly apply it day to day is a different ordeal, and thats the beauty of always trying to remind ourselves daily to put ourselves in the presence of God, regardless of how our days go. I wish I can achieve this in my life. Thank you for reminding us this Fr. Praise be God!
Thank you Father. I don't think that when someone pops into your mind when praying, and then you meet them is a coincidence, I think its God incident. Love the little nuggets of faith from you.
Priests, religious. Bishops, this ministers of the church are so beautiful… The blind lady.
Thank you and God bless you!
I know what wgat you mean; this type of prayer is vastly different from just saying the words or even meditating, as you said. It's like the difference between sending the Lord a text or calling Him. ❤ Bless you father and all who help with making the videos.
Hi Father.... Bless us and bless you...
If you’ve read The Bros. Karamazov, this guy is what Fr. Paissy looks like in my head.
Thank you Father. That's helpful.
Thank you Father Columba ☘
This is exactly how I've been feeling! The Lord knew I needed to hear this❤God Bless❤🙏
Love this, because yes He is with us during all conversations!
This was a beautiful and finely nuanced message - it has opened a new way to experience God - thank you for sharing 🌿
Jesus loves you and is with you forever
I've been making a Sacred Heart painting for over the fireplace. It's pretty big and oil paint so it's been going slow. I know He loves me to fuss over Him as well and make Him look as perfect as I can. Sometimes I hear Him say my name, and I know He wants me at the painting but not to paint. He could be anywhere, but He calls me there to just gaze at each other. His voice is very soft and simple. He's so adorable and loveable. And funny and always right. ❤❤❤😂😅
Care to share the image?
Awesome. Thank you for your insight. I believe it to be true I just need to practice it now.
Hold onto what is good! Thank you it was helpful,
Thank you for listening and being obedient. What peace overwhelms us in His presence. Shalom
Came upon this. Meant to be. Thank you Father. I will try this. God bless you and Mary protect you and guide you.
Thank you 💞
Well, I was really meant to hear your message this evening - thank you, God and Fr. Columba 😊
That was very helpful... Thank you... Xx🏴xx
Wow, just thinking, prayer really is such an unspeakable privilege. Beautiful message. Thank you x
Thank you fr for this video
I really loved your message, thank you. So open, honest. It's something that has been on my mind for a bit, to want to be open to hear from God, not just talk at Him. I look forward to hearing more from you. May He bless you with favor, knowledge and the wisdom to know what to do with it, although it sounds like you all ready have those things.🥰🙏
Thank you Fr. Columba for the beautiful words, I have always struggled in listening to our Lord, your words will certainly help me to have a more open heart😊
God speaks through his inspired word. The Holy Ghost interprets through the inspired word.
❤ amen
So beautifully and graciously put. This is true, in my humble experience. Listening with the ear of the heart is the key. You remind us also to expect to hear. An important attitude and subtle difference. Thanks, Fr. Columba.🙏❤️🙏
Thanks for this good speech.It’s our hardest work to listen God not ourselves
Very very helpful and a wonderfully insightful recommendation. Thank you Father.
So needed to hear that.
I have felt this way too, thank you for sharing. I will try just listening when I get that feeling again. "Come learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly." It's easy to be recpetive when you picture our Lord saying this to you 😍
Another video that feels like it's directed to me. Lots of gratitude 🙏
Thank you Fr Columba for this message. I feel like I really needed to hear this.
I’m grateful for you! 🙏
Its amazing how many coincidences happen when we pray 🙏🏾 ❤
Father Columba offers valid words on many of his things. Listening to the voice of God within our hearts is a major one.
As a priest I can attest that this is sound . I wish father you were closer to Louisiana lol cause I would ask you to be my spiritual director
Beautiful
Prayer of the heart... One of the 5 stones that David used to Defeat Goliath.
Living a Christian life, participate in the sacraments and accept the teachings of Christ and his Church.
amen
If my mind is crowded, I say let go, let God. Simple, and it puts me in a space of openness, ease, like a child before my mind became crowded.
Thanks Father Columba. Your thoughts and insights are always very helpfu.
“Helpful”… silly autocorrect cutting works at the last second 😆
Thank you for this tip. It's just what I needed right now in my prayer life. God bless you. I decided to turn you on for a minute as I prepare for the dinner rush. And you're the friend I really needed. God bless you
This is why I so appreciate confession.
❤ my the Lord bless you Father Colomba
Wow ❤God is always on time , before time . I know how you feel , I feel the same way . Yes. Amen.
Thank you Fr Columba. God bless you always 🙏.
Beautiful, This is the second time recently I have come across the importance of listening in prayer.
Prayer being about listening and receiving. 🙏❤️
Thanks Father. Love you ❤
I am honestly really tired, beyond tired (I'm tired of the word "tired"), of trying with prayer, with God (though I know how terrible that sounds). I'm totally spent, and confused, and bitter, and just over hearing that He wants to "talk" to you, He wants to have this really intimate relationship with you, when what I've encountered for a while now is just sheer difficulty and utter discouragement concerning fostering a relationship with Him. No one understands anything I try to communicate and I end up feeling pretty silly, or just never *heard*. Doesn't make it at all better when the only one who would understand, supposedly, is "silent". In fact it makes me think perhaps the little personal struggles just don't matter. Surely, they would have been addressed by Him, validated by someone, if they did.
Someone help me, I just need help. I'm so confused, but I don't have anywhere to turn. I know anything besides Christianity is a dead-end or just ends in torment.
I see you.
If He's silent, then trust Him.
When the Silversmith is quiet in the workshop, He is focused on doing His work well. Let the Lord hammer you, you just trust that He wants to turn you into the best version of yourself.
Tell the Lord "Not my will be done but yours". It will give you silence. In that silence, you will properly feel the message in His silence.
So, just trust God, all right?
I will pray for you.
Hi there! I read your comment, and I wanna start off by saying thank you for being so vulnerable and honest about what's truly going on in your heart. I understand how frustrating it can be to try so hard to pray right and listen to God's voice. I've been there many times before. I would feel so lost and wonder, "Am I supposed to actually hear something? How come others hear God's voice and I don't?" So, I decided to bring that to prayer and ask God to help me hear his voice. What do you know, sheer silence.
But then, sometime later, my family and I decided to attend a 3 day talk held by the priest at our church. If I could tell you the major thing that stuck with me from those talks, it's that he said "God speaks to us in different ways. But the number one way he speaks to us is through His word." He spent a good amount of time emphasizing how important it is for us to read the Word of God.
When I try to listen for God's voice, I don't hear an actual voice. But when I do ask for God to speak to me about a certain topic, He'll usually bring up a scripture verse in my mind pertaining to it. The times when he doesn't, I listen to my surroundings, and hear what beauty is going on around me. So even if I bring a worry on my heart to God, and I don't quite know the answer yet, I sit in the solitude and let God bring peace to my heart. I trust that he heard my prayer, and in His timing, he will let me knkw the answer. Just remember that the right answer will always bring peace to your heart from God.
I hope this somewhat helps! I'll be praying for your journey towards Christ. God bless!
Why does he allow silence for some and not others? I don't know.
He will remind me of Mother Theresa; just today in adoration, I was prompted to ask her intercession and then
I received assistance in praying .
Please read up on her life and struggles
You are keeping the faith in silence like St. Theresa of Calcutta.
I am adding you to my prayer list.
@@AndreaWanting He is God.
Same way a master chef doesn't use the same cooking methods for each meal he prepares, God uses different preparation styles for each of us. But never forget that the masterpiece of tour finalized version is only realized when you "let Him cook" you the way that He sees as fit.
Know God through his Word. His will, his character, his heart.
thank you for the simple but compelling and actionable advice.
Thank you for being an instrument of His love!
Very Good as Always!! ❤❤❤
The openness to let God be who He is.
Thank you!
Listening, imagine if we did - One of the things I loved about the early Quakers, they listens and then acted as instructed
Okay, I’ve made it about halfway through the video and I needed to pause and ask this question: does God ALWAYS speak to us when we’re in the liturgy or when we read scripture? Because I’ve had days in the past, even multiple days in a row, where I couldn’t seem to hear anything. I was under a spiritual director at the time and she simply kind of nodded when I said that, which made me think that it was normal.
I really struggle with that though…I’ve experienced wounds of abandonment in my past and not hearing God in my prayer brings up so much pain and anger, like He’s there but leaving me on read.
That’s all. Thanks for reading.
Okay, I’ve finished the video, and I hear your point on cultivating an attitude of openness and acceptance of any messages, without demanding that there be one. Easier said than done, but at least I know where to try to go in my prayer life right now.
Thanks.
This has been what I am experiencing the past few weeks. Jesus, close, listen to Him (as Mary says).
This quote is on my kitchen cabinet "Do not let your recollection or your union with God be disturbed. Even if Martha's work is weighing on you, always seek to preserve Mary's spirit of prayer. Even with all your external occupations you can pray and your heart can consistently rest in God." ~ Bl. Maria Theresia
Seeking His sweet soft voice as I am going about my day, but also DOING those soft nudges He puts on my heart. THAT is my work. I struggle....I have a plan, or I am doing this..when I am done, then THAT will be next. Only, something comes along and keeps me distracted and I never get to it. Then the next day I realize it and, ugh. My daily journey to DO what He presses on my heart.
Thank you for being His hands and feet and making this video. Again, He reminds me to seek Him and listen with my Heart.
That is a wise quote, dear soul.
I think of it in this way: When Paul said to "pray at all times", he didn't mean to always say words, but rather, prayer is also being of a mind to expect Jesus [or Mary or other assigned Saints] at any time, and to keep The Lord in the background, so you can hear Him speak when He taps you on the shoulder [in whatever way that might be].
An openness of spirit so that when he does speak, you are primed to hear.
Thank you so very much, dear Fr Columba, for yet another incredibly helpful and deeply inspiring video! I'm so grateful to you!!! Tried to find the words to the prayer of St Francis: "Who are You, God, and who am I ?" but no success. I wonder if you or anyone reading this might be able to add them or even just a link to them here, in the comments? Also, I loved your reference to coincidences!! Someone once said, there are no such things as coincidences, they are all 'God-incidences'! I loved everything you said in this video. I just hope & pray I can become more like you! God bless you unceasingly, Father, and thank you again for all you give us!!!! 🙏🏼🕊🙏🏼
Jesus Jesus Jesus 🙏❤️😊
Good man Father Columba, am digging your videos. Thank you for doing this.
You mentioned how God can speak to you and you referenced someone you were thinking about calling you on the same day Jung call that synchronicity and he spent his career trying to empirically prove the existence of God though he never could he did concluded in his book synchronicities that he found his patients who believed in God got better.
Father Columba pray with me and help me with my intentions for my family ❤️
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Very helpful.I pray that I will listen "with the ear of my heart" and let God initiate the narrative" Thank uou Fr Columba.
I prayed for you Father.. Hiw wonderfull our lord works, to make make me pray. Take care dear friend!
The nudges from god, I call them God nods 😂
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Attitude of openness and surrender and receptivity 🙏🏻❤️
Amen❤
Thank you Father Columba.
thank you so much
Thanks for sharing Father!
Amen
God bless you Father p🙏🕯🌹🕊❤️