Turning everything over to God

[Trying2bssint]

Good morning:

I had a quick question. I recently have read a few catholic books about inner peace and peace of heart. they are all really good. they all talk, at some point in the readings, about “turning everything over to God,” (which sounds great to me!!)

i guess my question is, how exactly do you do that? are there certain prayers, consecrations, novenas, etc. or do you simply maybe go to adoration and simply say “God, I give everything to you.”

thank you =)

 

[oldgraymare2]

Hi Tryingtobessint,

What you can simply do is ask for “God’s Will to be done” when you pray. That is what I do when I especially need God’s guidance with something.

We also pray for “God’s Will to be done” when we pray “The Lord’s Prayer” that Jesus gave us.

You can also consecrate yourself to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, too, if you want to do that and you haven’t already done so.

You can certainly do that too when you go to Adoration–just tell God that you give everything over to Him.

 

[animalis]

Turning would be the act of the will. Everything would be the contents of the heart. In context the statement means to be become devout. St. Thomas Aquinas, officially one of the greatest explainers of divine revelation said, “those persons are said to be “devout” who, in a way, devote themselves to God, so as to subject themselves wholly to Him.”

The subject is the perceiver, and the object is the thing perceived. It is by your perception of divine revelation as a perceiver of dogma in your conscience, which originates not from your mind but from the teachings of the Church, in this your reason perceives the agency of God in meditation . St. Thomas teaches that the cause of devotion is meditation. The habit of meditation or mental prayer will effect devotion, which is in other words consists in the ‘turning everything over to God’.

This habit is the effect of a change of heart and more true then mere curiosity, St. Paul says in Romans, “Faith then cometh by hearing; and hearing by the word of Christ.” (Rom 10:17) In part the virtue of Faith is the acting out of that habit in which consisted in the belief in the message that comes from Christ through his Church. The soil of the soul has to be right, for the seed of the word of Christ to grow into the habit of mental prayer. (cf. Mk 4:3f.) The ears of understanding, the ears of the heart - take the word in silence which is what consist in mental prayer, and the effect is devotion.

An authentic explanation of mental prayer, lauded by Pope Pius X is the book, “The Ways of Mental Prayer” by Dom Vitalis Lehodey

 

[CarolNoel]

I say this every day.

Junk Prayer

Lord, I am tired of walking alone and carrying this junk around.
I want to walk with You and be free.
I am going to start right now by giving You everything that is burdening me,
and then being very quiet so You can help me sort it out and finish what needs
to be finished and let it go - piece by piece-.
Lord I want to walk with You into freedom.

 

[LPS]

Good morning:

I had a quick question. I recently have read a few catholic books about inner peace and peace of heart. they are all really good. they all talk, at some point in the readings, about “turning everything over to God,” (which sounds great to me!!)

i guess my question is, how exactly do you do that? are there certain prayers, consecrations, novenas, etc. or do you simply maybe go to adoration and simply say “God, I give everything to you.”

thank you =)

One thing that has helped me immensely is to visualize. I have two favorite ways to do that … one is to picture myself gathering up “the problem” into a big pack on my back, walking to the foot of the cross, and laying it down there.

The other (and my favorite) is to stretch out my arms, palms up and hands open, giving God total permission to place anything into them, or to remove anything from them. Blessings or trials, I ask Him to give or to take as He wills. It’s an exercise in trust and a good way to initiate prayer and conversation with Him. When I find myself “taking it back,” it only takes a moment to re-visualize offering it back to Him.

 

[ready]

When something good or bad happens to you offer it up to God for the salvation of souls. When you know a person who is very good, offer them up to God and thank Him for their goodness. When you know a person who behaves very bad, offer up that person to God and ask for their conversion. It appears there are several ways you can offer something or someone up to God. You can offer up your whole life and your death to God by saying: I give you my life and my death, O Lord, may Thy Will be done. There are probably a hundred ways you can offer people and events up to God. The bottom line I think is accepting the person/event in submission to the Will of God and letting go of the person/event in a spirit of submission and self-abandonment to God. God bless you.