Does God protect someone's household?

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From break-ins and occurances of the such?
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He can - but it all depends upon His will and whether it’s for the greater good of all concerned.

It is not as though when someone becomes Christian/Catholic they can figure they will never experience a break-in if they pray and ask God to protect them from such. God can foresee so much that we cannot. It could well be that in the end, some far greater good could result as a consequence of God choosing not to intervene and prevent the break-in (or other similar occurance).

A Catholic would pray to God for protection from break-ins, and then **trust **that God will do whatever is for the best. If someone should subsequently break into his home, then he would be confident that God had some very good reason for allowing it, and that something good would eventually result.

Having said all of that, I would definitely add that praying to ask protection from break ins is definitely beneficial. God hears our prayers and they carry weight (so to speak) with Him. He will hear our prayers if they are sincere and protect us. It is only when some greater good would result that they will not be answered in the manner we requested.
 
Saint Faustina actually mentions something like this in her diary. If I recall correctly she says that every family has a guardian Angel and so does every Parish, as well as every town. Something like that. Its been awhile since I read it, but it is something along those lines.
 
Nita said:
He can - but it all depends upon His will and whether it’s for the greater good of all concerned.
It is not as though when someone becomes Christian/Catholic they can figure they will never experience a break-in if they pray and ask God to protect them from such. God can foresee so much that we cannot. It could well be that in the end, some far greater good could result as a consequence of God choosing not to intervene and prevent the break-in (or other similar occurance).

A Catholic would pray to God for protection from break-ins, and then **trust **that God will do whatever is for the best. If someone should subsequently break into his home, then he would be confident that God had some very good reason for allowing it, and that something good would eventually result.

Having said all of that, I would definitely add that praying to ask protection from break ins is definitely beneficial. God hears our prayers and they carry weight (so to speak) with Him. He will hear our prayers if they are sincere and protect us. It is only when some greater good would result that they will not be answered in the manner we requested.
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You do believe that? If God prevents a 12 year old from being raped in South Carolina, while allowing another girl of the same age to be raped in North Carolina, thta’s because he can’t draw a greater good from the rape of the 1st but he can from the rape of the second? Do you mean a greater good like a child maybe? Perhaps that child, once given up for adoption will be God’s answer to an infertile couple’s prayer for a child. If the second 12 year old becomes pregnant and miscarries the foetus, then what will have been the greater good? Isn’t it more likely that God respects free-will and lets people commit evil (which often implies that there is a victim of that evil) and that chips fall where they may, while God sits by watching things unfold as if he was watching a movie? Honestly what was the greater good of Natascha Maria Kampusch’s hellish ordeal, isn’t that defaming God and painting him as a heartless schemer to see him as someone who picks and chooses what horrible situations will happen and to whom for a lousy “greater good”. How about ship happens, God sees it happen and tries, inasmuch as circumstances and people involved allow him, to lend a helping hand and bring healing and restoration. I don’ t know whether it’s God I despise or how he’s being misrepresented by otherwise well-meaning people. Hoping it’s the latter of course.
 
KingJohn said:
From break-ins and occurances of the such?
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In Judaism it is believed that affixing a mezuzah, which contains among other biblical verses the Shema on top, to the doorpost of one’s home (in the proper manner!) protects the inhabitants from evil, sickness, and harm while promising a long life, and may even extend to protecting the inhabitants of other homes, whether Jew or Gentile. It is customary to kiss the mezuzah with the right hand upon entering and leaving one’s home so that one realizes that G-d is with you both inside the home and outside. However, protection is NOT the essential reason for affixing a mezuzah; the reason is much simpler, namely that G-d commands Jews to do so in Torah Law. It is interesting, however, that most Karaite Jews do NOT affix a mezuzah to their doorpost or other rooms of the home since they interpret the commandment as symbolic in the sense that one should affix G-d’s Word to one’s heart and mind.
 
Biblical history would indicate that, yes, God can protect households. The example that comes to mind first is the Passover of the OT, where the households of obedient Jews were protected from the death of all th first-born through the blood of the lamb on their lintels. Powerful example.

We have had our home blessed by two priests several years ago when it was first built. I periodically bless each room with blessed salt and holy water. St. Teresa of Avila said nothing makes the devil flee like holy water! Is is superstition? No, just faith and trust in God and in the sacramentals provided for our help. Is it like an insurance policy with guarantees?

The only guarantee is that all things work for good to those who love the Lord.
As for me and my house, I will trust in the Lord.
The Lord guard your coming and going, both now and forever. :signofcross:
 
God allows each and every person free will. If a person is determined to break into your house, God will not interfere with that person’s actions.

However, God could arrange for a cop car to drive past at an opportune moment.
 
Robertanthony said:
You do believe that?
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Yes.

(You put forward several situations but you never mentioned prayer. My response was based on a person offering real loving, trusting prayer. Such prayer always trusts that what God allows to happen to one is for some greater good. For a Christian, it’s the prayer Jesus made in the Garden of Gethsemane: “If it be possible… Nevertheless, not my will but Thy will be done.”)
Isn’t it more likely that God respects free-will and lets people commit evil
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Of course God respects free will. But if He chooses to intervene He can do it in ways that neither take away or interfere with the free will of the culprit.
 
DavidFilmer said:
God allows each and every person free will. If a person is determined to break into your house, God will not interfere with that person’s actions.

However, God could arrange for a cop car to drive past at an opportune moment.
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👍 And that’s only one out of a multitude of different “coincidences” that could prevent the theft from taking place.

I love the definition that such coincidences are just a minor miracles where God chooses to remain anonymous.
 
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