Do you live with Jesus?

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Do you live with Jesus? How much time do you spend in conversation? Do you take him to work with you? Do you eat with Him? Do you play with Him? Is He the man of your house?

I live with Jesus and one of the things I put Him in charge of is time management. I’ve noticed that since He has been managing my time, I seem to have a lot more of it. He seems to like to have my full attention and He doesn’t seem to busy me with too many activities. What has happened as a result, is I spend most of my time observing all that HE is doing and I become less concerned with getting things accomplished. It is very humbling to let Him serve me. He is pretty possessive of his job of time management. If I try to take over He sabotages my plans. He most definitely has a plan and I just have to surrender to it.

He also is in charge of the finances. It’s amazing too. When I am getting down to the wire and I have very little money, He always provides me with work, such as a funeral to sing, or a last minute haircut to do. It’s so obvious to me that He doesn’t want me worrying about such things, He just wants me to leave it all to Him. My only concern is to listen and be ready when He calls.

What do you surrender to Jesus?
 
Unfortunately, I don’t live with Jesus. I’m stuck in this valley of tears waiting for that day when I can go home.
 
I spend a lot of time with Jesus too, but not as much as I would like. I feel that he is always with me when I am in my car and that is when I talk to him the most. That is a good amount as I spend 2-3 hours communting each day. I think about him a lot during the day while I am at work too, but it is harder to feel his presence then. I am better able to give him my attention when I am alone. He is the man of my house as there is no man there.

Often I get ideas about what I am going to do and not to do, and he corrects me. This weekend I had decided not to go to the healing mass I normally attend (in addition to the regular Sunday mass) because the lady I normally take with me had to go out of town. I figured it was a good chance to get caught up on other things. I didn’t ask his opinion, but he made it perfectly clear that I needed to go and pray for some other people I know with cancer, etc., so of course I did! It makes me so happy to do what he wants. After reading your post, I am thinking I should just ask him before I bother to do anything.🙂
 
BobCatholic said:
Unfortunately, I don’t live with Jesus. I’m stuck in this valley of tears waiting for that day when I can go home.
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Oh Bob, I am so sorry for your burdens! It just occurred to me that if you are carrying a heaving cross then he is very close to you indeed, although it is so hard to feel it then.😦 Praying for you!
 
so do you keep a journal of this interaction you have ? and if so do you post it?
 
I am currently trying to let the Holy Spirit take control of my life. I am reading “Be a Man” by Fr. Larry Richards and this is a great guide for me. It has shown me how far I need to go and the only way to get to where God wants me to be is with the help of the Holy Spirit. I actually think attempting to give myself to the Jesus led me to the book.

From the OPs comments with time and money management…I am learning from this book that time and money is not ours anyways, it is Gods and he allows us to use it. Although I dont post much, I felt I had to respond to this post because I wanted to let you know that it seems you are living what I am trying to learn. God Bless You.
 
Lady_Love said:
Do you live with Jesus? How much time do you spend in conversation? Do you take him to work with you? Do you eat with Him? Do you play with Him? Is He the man of your house?

I live with Jesus and one of the things I put Him in charge of is time management. I’ve noticed that since He has been managing my time, I seem to have a lot more of it. He seems to like to have my full attention and He doesn’t seem to busy me with too many activities. What has happened as a result, is I spend most of my time observing all that HE is doing and I become less concerned with getting things accomplished. It is very humbling to let Him serve me. He is pretty possessive of his job of time management. If I try to take over He sabotages my plans. He most definitely has a plan and I just have to surrender to it.

He also is in charge of the finances. It’s amazing too. When I am getting down to the wire and I have very little money, He always provides me with work, such as a funeral to sing, or a last minute haircut to do. It’s so obvious to me that He doesn’t want me worrying about such things, He just wants me to leave it all to Him. My only concern is to listen and be ready when He calls.

What do you surrender to Jesus?
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We fight all the time about who gets my time. I get Mary on my side so he usually loses.
 
pbrain said:
so do you keep a journal of this interaction you have ? and if so do you post it?
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I don’t keep a journal per se, but sometimes I write letters to the Lord when I am sitting with him in the adoration chapel at my church because we can’t pray out loud there. I thank him for the good things he is doing for me. I tell him what is worrying me and what I need. These are written in a notebook, so I am able to look back at them when I am trying to remember something. Often I see that he has answered my prayer!
 
Yes I live with Jesus. And from my experiences with him I’ve learnt two things:
  1. He really is quite the jokester!
    and 2. He always, always, gives you more than you ask for. Not only because he is able, but because he 1000% wants to, as well. 🙂
 
Yehuda_Dion said:
Yes I live with Jesus. And from my experiences with him I’ve learnt two things:
  1. He really is quite the jokester!
    and 2. He always, always, gives you more than you ask for. Not only because he is able, but because he 1000% wants to, as well. 🙂
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Amen:nun2:(sista!)
 
thomasf said:
I live with my wife and kitties.
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so jealous! I love cats. I think I am more excited to get a cat than have a baby. Shhh! Don’t tell that to anyone.

Speaking of that, about 10 years ago, I was living in a very secluded place and I secretly wanted to have a cat so bad. My roommate would not allow me to have one until one day a Mother Cat with two kittens started hanging around the house. They had obviously been dumped. When my roommate saw the kittens, I was allowed to keep them. I know that was a God thing. No one knew how much I wanted cats more than Him.

I eventually moved and rather than move the cats out of their home I let my roommate keep them. Sad day.
 
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