The Power and Mystery of Prayer in the Divine Will

We all know that we need to pray.  We have even been called to a life of continuous prayer by Mary.

 "Our Lady does not force us to pray; she invites us to change our lives through prayer.  It is her desire that we live prayer in a way that our lives become a continuous encounter with God."

Marija Pavlovic on the messages of Medjugorje



"A continuous encounter with God," it is with this in mind that we can understand how the most powerful prayer is that which is united to Jesus which renews his acts and graces.  They in turn bring us to a closer encounter with God.

“My daughter, unite your sufferings to mine, your prayers to mine, so that they may be more acceptable before the majesty of God, and may appear not as your things, but as my own works.” 

Vol. 2, June 9, 1899   



It is in uniting ourselves with Jesus' even to go on to unite ourselves with his very mind, his eyes, his mouth and so on that we begin to make true progress.  Beforehand we might only take a small portion but the closer we are united with Jesus the more we take of Him. 

While praying, I was uniting my mind to the mind of Jesus, my eyes to those of Jesus, and so with all the rest, with the intention of doing what Jesus did with His mind, with His eyes, with His mouth, with His Heart, and so forth.  And as it seemed that the mind of Jesus, His eyes, etc., diffused for the good of all, it seemed that I too would diffuse for the good of all, uniting and identifying myself with Jesus.

Now, I thought to myself:  ‘What kind of a meditation is this?  What prayer?  Ah, I am no longer good at anything - I am not even capable of reflecting on something!’  While I was thinking of this, my always lovable Jesus told me: 

“My daughter, what?  You are afflicting yourself with this?  Instead of afflicting yourself you should rejoice, because when you used to meditate, and many beautiful reflections used to arise within your mind, you would do nothing but take from Me part of my qualities and of my virtues.  Now, since the only thing left to you is being able to unite and identify yourself with Me, you take the whole of Me.  Good at nothing as you are, with Me you are good at everything, because with Me you want the good of all, and the mere desiring and wanting good produces a strength in the soul which makes her grow, and settles her in the Divine Life.  Then, by uniting with Me and identifying with Me, she unites with my mind, producing many lives of holy thoughts in the minds of creatures; as she unites with my eyes, she produces many lives of holy gazes in creatures.  In the same way, if she unites with my mouth, she will give life to the words; if she unites to my Heart, to my desires, to my hands, to my steps, at every heartbeat she will give a life - life to desires, to actions, to steps - but holy lives, because I contain the creative power within Me, and therefore, together with Me, the soul creates and does whatever I do

Vol. 11, June 12, 1913



And so it is that by uniting ourselves with His own Will we truly embark on a continuous encounter with God and these acts of ours also take on the characteristics of His Will so that they in truth become His acts with his effects.

My daughter, the love, the reparations, the prayers outside of my Fiat are just little drops, while, in my Divine Will, the same things, the same acts, are seas, gigantic walls, endless rivers. As immense as my Will is, so It renders the acts of the creature.”
Vol. 28, April 12, 1930     

...there is nothing more sublime, more extensive, more divine, more holy than living in my Will – the generations of Its acts are incalculable. So, when the soul is not united with my Will nor enters into It, she neither does her little round, nor opens the current of Its unending light. Therefore, everything she does remains personal and individual; her good, her prayer, are like the little light which is used inside rooms, which has no virtue of giving light to all the storage places of the house, and even less can it give light outside; and if oil is lacking – that is, the continuation of her acts - the little light is extinguished and remains in the dark.”

Vol. 16, March 2, 1924



Outside of living in his Will we can only generate the little light of a lamp which is destined to go out and of hardly even giving sufficient light to ourselves.  But prayer done in the Divine Will reaches everyone, gives itself to everyone.  Like the Sun which offers its rays to all only those who choose to hide from it's rays will not benefit from them.

“My daughter, the prayers done with Me and with my very Will can be given to all, without excluding anyone.  All receive their part and their effects, as if those prayers had been offered for one alone.  However, they operate according to the dispositions of the creatures, just like Communion, or my Passion:  I give It to all and to each one, but the effects are produced according to their dispositions; and if ten people receive It, the fruit is not inferior to the case in which five had received It.  Such is the prayer done together with Me and from my Will.”

Vol. 11, September 25, 1914

“My daughter, as the creature calls my Will into her acts, into her prayer, he repeats that act together and prays together with the creature, and since with his immensity he finds himself everywhere, the creation, the sun, the sky, the angels, the saints, they feel in themselves the strength of the creative prayer, and everyone prays; the prodigies of this prayer is omnipotent, it involves everyone, it gives itself to everyone; only one, ungrateful, who doesn’t want to receive it, remains without (it’s) effects.  So that my Will possesses pregnant virtue; and oh, how beautiful it is to see him pray in his divine way, and with his creative virtue that imposes itself on everyone and makes everyone pray!  This prayer imposes itself on our divine attributes, and makes pour out rains of mercy, of grace, of pardon and of love; it is enough to say that it is our prayer, in order to say,:  ‘It can give everything.’

Vol. 36, July 6, 1938



When Jesus say "given to all" he does not limit even to time.  An act done in the Divine Will breaks the bonds of time and gives itself to everyone, past, present and future and to the one eternal Being God Himself.  It is always in act, and here we find the true meaning  and power and reach of continuous prayer.

“It is my Supreme Will that possesses the nature of true good, because It has no beginning and no end, and therefore Its good is always the same, always full, always stable, not subject to any change.  This is why all that the soul makes enter into the Supreme Will - all of her acts formed in It - acquire the nature of true good:  because they are done in a stable, immovable Will, which contains eternal and immeasurable goods.  So, your love, your prayer, your thanksgivings and everything you can do, take their place in an eternal beginning that never ends, and therefore acquire the fullness of the nature of good.  So, your prayer acquires full value and complete fruit, in such a way that you yourself will not be able to comprehend where the fruits and the goods of your prayer will extend.  It will go around throughout eternity, it will give itself to all, and at the same time it will remain always full in its effects.  Your love acquires the nature of true love – of that unshakeable love that never fails, that never ends, that loves all, gives itself to all, and remains always with the fullness of good of the nature of true love; and so with all the rest.

Vol. 19, August 29, 1926        

“My daughter, how beautiful is the prayer, the love, the work of the creature in my Will!  Her acts are filled with the whole of the divine fullness.  Their fullness is such that they embrace everything and everyone – even God Himself.  See, for all eternity your thoughts will be seen in mine, your eyes, your words in mine, your works and steps in mine, your heartbeat palpitating in mine, because one is the Will that gives us life, one the love that moves us, that pushes us, and that binds us in an inseparable way.

Vol. 19, May 10, 1926



 So these prayers done in the Divine Will do not just offer themselves to mankind but they touch all of Creation and even God himself opening up pathways between God and man.

“My daughter, how my Heart is wounded by the prayer of one who seeks only my Will! I hear the echo of my prayer, which I did when I was on earth. All my prayers reduced themselves to one single point – that the Will of my Father be fulfilled, both upon Me and upon all creatures. This was the greatest honor for Me and for the Celestial Father: that I did His Most Holy Will in everything. By doing the Will of the Eternal One, always and in everything, my Humanity opened the paths between the human will and the Divine, which had been closed by the creature.

Vol. 17, February 22, 1925




A prayer which touches all and everything and everyone and God himself.  One would expect great effects from it.  But Jesus tells Luisa that this will not always be seen.  God's Will will always impose itself in the end but if the prayer of one living in His Will can not obtain that which it desires he uses it to pour itself into souls and prepare them that way for His graces.

“My daughter, when the soul prays in my Will, all things and all created beings stand at attention, suspend all things, make everything silent, and while they are all intent on admiring the act done in the Divine Will, all together, they follow the prayer. The power of it calls and imposes itself on everything, in such a way that all do the same thing. If all other prayers were united together in order to compare them with a simple prayer done in my Will, this one surpasses them all, because it possesses a Divine Will, an immense power, an incalculable value. I Myself feel invested by such a prayer, and as I see that it is my Will that prays, I feel Its power which identifies Me with that very prayer. So, if graces are not obtained by means of the prayer done in my Will, which is universal and divine prayer, if divine justice is not placated and scourges continue to pour upon the earth, it means that that is the Will of God, and that instead of letting those graces descend, It makes the effects of the prayer descend into souls; and if one does not obtain much with it, much less will be obtained with other prayers not done in my Will, which contain neither divine power nor universal strength.”

Vol. 22, July 16, 1927



But even prayer done in the Divine Will will not go against man's free will.  Man always has the right to choose between good and evil.  God will not force anyone.  But don't let this be a  discouragement.  By simply calling on God's Will to pray we also receive the life of prayer to continue praying.  We can return to God his own things, his own fragrances, melodies and repair for all the acts which creatures do which are not directed towards Him. 

“My daughter, as the soul does her acts in my Will, her act remains confirmed in my Will – that is, if she prays in my Will, remaining confirmed in my Will, she receives the life of prayer, in such a way that she will no longer need an effort in order to pray, but will feel within herself the spontaneous promptness in praying.  In fact, remaining confirmed in my Will, she will feel within herself the fount of the life of prayer

Vol. 12, September 21, 1920

I was fusing myself in the Holy Divine Volition in order to go around through each intelligence of creature, and give to my Jesus the requital of love of each thought of creature. But while I was doing this, a thought said to me: ‘What is the good of praying in this way? On the contrary, it seems to me that this is nonsense, rather than prayer.’ And my always lovable Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, do you want to know what the good is, and the effect of it? When the creature comes to throw the little pebble of her will into the immense sea of my Divinity, as she throws it, if her will wants to love, the infinite sea of the waters of my love ripple, are stirred, and I feel the waves of my love giving off their celestial fragrance, and I feel the pleasure, the joys of my love being stirred by the little pebble of the will of the creature. If she adores my sanctity, the little pebble of the human will stirs the sea of my sanctity, and I feel delighted by the most pure auras of my sanctity. In sum, whatever the human will wants to do in Mine, it flings itself like a little pebble into each sea of my attributes, and as it stirs them and ripples them, I feel I am given my own things, and the honors, the glory, the love which the creature, in a divine manner, can give Me.

Vol. 15, July 1, 1923

“My daughter, prayer is music to my hearing, especially when a soul is all conformed to my Will, in such a way that nothing can be seen in her interior but a continuous attitude of life of Divine Will.  With this soul it is as if another God would come out and play this music for Me.  Oh, how delightful it is! – to find one who matches Me and can render Me divine honors.  Only one who lives in my Will can reach such a point, because all other souls, even if they did and prayed much, would always give Me things and prayers that are human – not divine; therefore they do not have that power and that attraction over my hearing.”

Vol. 4, January 6, 1906




To give to God the thanksgiving and love which all creatures owe him is no small thing.  In fact it is each of our duties to requite God with love and with gratitude for everything he has made for us, done for us and disposed for us, basically for all the love he has for us.

Now, while I was fusing myself in the Holy Divine Volition in order to requite God in love for everything He had done in Creation for love of creatures, a thought was telling me that it was not necessary to do that; that this way of praying was not pleasing to my Jesus; that these are inventions of my mind. And my always lovable Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, you must know that this way of praying – that is, to requite God in love for all the things created by Him – is a divine right, and it enters the first duty of the creature. The Creation was made for love of man; even more, Our love was so great that, had it been necessary, We would have created as many heavens, as many suns, stars, seas, earths, plants and all the rest, for as many creatures as were to come to the light of this world, so that each one of them might have a Creation for herself, a universe of her own. And, in fact, when everything was created, Adam was the only spectator of all Creation - he could enjoy all the good he wanted. And if We did not do so, it was because man could enjoy everything anyway, as if it were his own, even if others also might enjoy it. In fact, who cannot say, ‘the sun is mine’, and enjoy the light of the sun as much as he wants? Or, ‘the water is mine’, and quench his thirst and make use of it there where he needs it? Or, ‘the sea, the earth, the fire, the air, are my things’, and so with many other things created by Me? And if it seems that man lacks something, that life suffers hardships, it is because of sin which, barring the way of my benefits, prevents the things created by Me from being abundant for the ungrateful creature.

 

So, given all this – that in all created things God bound His love toward each creature – hers was the duty to requite God with her little love, with her gratitude, with her ‘thank You’ to the One who had done so much for her. Not requiting God in love for everything He has done for man in Creation, is the first fraud that the creature makes against God; it is to usurp His gifts without even recognizing where they come from, and the One who has loved her so much. Therefore, this is the first duty of the creature, and this duty is so indispensable and important, that She who took to heart all Our glory, Our defense, Our interest, did nothing but go around through all the spheres, from the smallest to the greatest thing created by God, in order to impress Her requital of love, of glory, of thanksgiving, for all and in the name of all human generations. Ah! yes, it was precisely my Celestial Mama who filled Heaven and earth with the requital for everything that God had done in Creation. After Her came my Humanity, which fulfilled this duty so sacrosanct, in which the creature had so very much failed, and rendered my Celestial Father benevolent toward guilty man. So, these were my prayers, and those of my inseparable Mama. Don’t you want, then, to repeat my very prayers? Even more, this is why I have called you into my Will – that you may associate yourself with Us, and follow and repeat Our acts.”

Vol. 18, August 9, 1925




So even if we see no effects on the earth from these prayers Jesus compares these souls and these prayers to the same ones that he made in his hidden life in Nazareth and he states that these prayers will have the same effects as his own.

“My daughter, how sweet and pleasing to Me is the prayer of the souls who are intimate with Me.  How I feel my hidden life of Nazareth being repeated – without any exteriority, with no circle of people, with no sound of bells; all neglected, alone, so much so, that I was barely known.  I kept rising between Heaven and earth, and I asked for souls; and not even a breath or a heartbeat escaped Me, which did not ask for souls.  And as I did this, my blast resounded in Heaven, and drew the love of the Father to grant Me souls.  And this sound, reverberating in the hearts, cried out with sonorous voice:  ‘Souls!’  How many wonders did I not operate during my hidden life, known only to my Father in Heaven and to my Mama on earth.

 

The same for the hidden soul, who is intimate with Me:  as she prays, though no sound is heard on earth, her prayers, like bells, resound more vibrantly in Heaven, to the extent of calling the whole of Heaven to unite Itself with her, and to let mercies descend upon earth, which resounding, not to the hearing, but to the hearts of creatures, may dispose them to convert.”

Vol. 12, December 10, 1918



And again Jesus reassures Luisa that no prayer done in the Divine Will will go without producing it's effect.

 And I:  “My love, in spite that I seek to always work in your Volition and I pray and re-pray that his kingdom comes upon the earth, yet nothing is seen.”

And Jesus:

“Good daughter, this says nothing, because you should know that the prayers, the acts done in our Volition, since they enter into our divine act, they have such power that they must bring to creatures the good that they contain.  They put themselves to watch the centuries and they look at them with so much love, and with unconquered patience they wait and re-await and with the light that they possess they knock at hearts, they makes themselves light to minds, and without ever tiring, because they are not subject neither to tire nor to diminish in power.  They do as watchmen, (as) faithful sentinels that don’t depart not until they have given the good that they possess.  These acts are the possessors of my Volition, and in an absolute way they want to give to creatures, and if one escapes them, they take aim at another.  If one century doesn’t receive them, they do not stop nor do they depart, because we have given the centuries in their power, and they form and will form our divine army in the midst of the human generations, in order to form the Kingdom of our Will.
 Vol. 30, July 14, 1932

These same prayers not only prepare mankind to receive a Will so holy but they also prepare God himself to form a "post for the creature" within himself.  It is this bridging between God and man, bringing them always closer together which forms a divine prayer and prepares God and man for the Kingdom of God.  And so we repeat what Jesus did in his Humanity, that is preparing bridges between God and man.

By doing the Will of the Eternal One, always and in everything, my Humanity opened the paths between the human will and the Divine, which had been closed by the creature.

Vol. 17, February 22, 1925

“My blessed daughter, how sweet, comforting, powerful it is, to hear my Will with all his acts, in the little act, love, adoration of the creature to ask the reigning Fiat upon the earth.  He makes use of the little love of the creature, as spokesman in order to make it resound in all her acts, in order to make her ask for his kingdom, he doesn’t want to do it alone, but wants the intermediary of her in order to do this.  But do you want to know to what this prayer serves that contains power, value and divine weapons that wage war on us with incessant ways?  It serves to call God upon the earth, to make life in every single creature, it serves to make my same Divine Will, and all his works pray, that he comes to reign upon the earth, it serves to prepare the post in God himself for the creature, it is a divine prayer, prodigious, that knows how to obtain everything.”

Vol. 33, March 25, 1934          



So it is truly only by living in the Divine Will, by allowing his Will to reign and act in each of our acts that we can encounter God continuously and can bring to God things of God that are worthy of His love for us and we can bring to all of our brothers and sisters, past, present and future the graces and mercies that they all and each need.  The act itself is only limited by that which the creature wants to offer, by the bridges she wishes to build.

You see therefore what it means and how one can do a complete act, one must possess God with all fullness, and God works in her act.  These complete acts, have such power that they call the attention of everyone, and the Heavens bend themselves, in order to see what their Creator works of greatness in the act of the creature.  Now possessing this Divine fullness and totality, it happens that all that which she does, going forth from a depth that she possesses all and lacks nothing, if she prays, her prayer possesses the fullness of the Divine Value, her virtues are complete and fed by the life that she possesses, so that if she wants to give her acts now to God as homage, now to creatures as help, God himself will give it in her acts.  Imagine yourself what will be the great good that these complete acts in my Volition will produce.”

Vol. 32, July 8, 1933

 

Jesus has very clearly mapped out God's plan in disposing the creature to receive such a great gift as living in the Divine Will.  He goes from one step to the over beginning with bestowing "his pregnant virtue" to the creature providing the confirmation himself through his own prayer.  This allows her to prayer universally.  He then continues on to gift her with his love so that she can love universally with a love that always grows.  He passes on from here to give the gift of understanding so that the creature might appreciate and know how to use such a gift.  Finally he makes "(the) gift of the inseparability of union with God" with the creature, the confirmed gift of living in a continuous encounter with God, the gift of living in the Divine Will.  And the greatest proof is that he states that it is the Divine Will that wants this.  And when a Divine Will wants something it will happen, we only have to say "yes."  He has set up the game so that we can win over Him and it is in this that He will find his victory.


 

“Now, our Divine Will wants to be life of the creature; the greatest act, the most exuberant love, that only a God is able and knows how to do.  Now, in order to make one possess, he makes her a gift of his pregnant virtue and puts himself as head in order to confirm the gift, and makes all created things pray; he imposes himself upon our love, power, goodness, and makes our love, our power and goodness pray; and all our attributes pray; even justice, mercy, our fortitude, change themselves into prayer; no one can be missing.  When our Will wants that we do an act and that he makes himself a gift, everyone and everything prays (on their) knees in order to do that which he wants.

                “When all have prayed, even our Divine attributes, we confirm the gift.

                “The prayer of this (creature) becomes universal, and each time she prays it has such power that all our things pray, even our attributes, because in the gift has been given her the right over everything.  What thing can one not obtain with this gift of prayer?  One can say that the heavens are moved, our own Being feels itself bound and tied, and concedes.

                “With the pregnant gift, he passes on to make her the gift of love, and in order to confirm her in love she loves with new love in the sun, in the sky, in the stars, in the wind, even in our Divine Being, in a way that acquires the right of loving everyone and being loved by everyone with a new continuous love; and if you might know what it means to be loved by a love always growing and new by everyone, and to hold the power of loving everyone with a growing and new love!  To be able to say to your Creator:  ‘Growing and always new is your love for me; growing and always new is my love for you!’

                “This love surpasses the heavens, fills the celestial fatherland, and its waves go to flow in our divine bosom, and oh, the wonders that happen!  Everyone remains dumbfounded and they glorify my Divine Volition of a gift so great that he gives to the creature.

                “Now, as we make her the gift, thus we enlarge her capacity in a way that she understands the gift that she has received and makes use of the gift.

                “We pass on to make her (the) gift of the inseparability of union with God, that she arrives to feel more our life than her own.  God becomes for her actor and spectator, and she remains with her Creator, living with his own life, with his love and power.

                “With this gift everything is hers, she holds right over everything, and we, when we see her possessor, we add on the gift of rendering her victor (over) everything, victor (over) her own self, victor (over) God.  Everything is triumph in her; triumph of grace, of sanctity, of love, and we call her ‘our victor’.  We make her win (over) everything, because it is (a) gift that we have given her, and when we give we want to see the fruits that our gift contains.

                “So that each act that she does in our Volition, each word, work and step, form between her and us so many distinct harmonies, one more beautiful than the other; she keeps us always occupied, and so much is our love that we surround her exteriorly with all our works, in the interior we invest her, we repeat all our acts that have been bearers of life, hence the life of the Queen, the life of the Word upon the earth, that was an excess of continuous love, that gave new life to everyone.  Therefore we always give, we never become exhausted.  One who lives in our Volition is the full day of our continuous works and our life, that palpitates and repeats ours acts that are always in act without ever ceasing.  Hence, it is our delirium of love that we want to be overcome by the creature.  When she wins, our love is relieved and our yearnings and deliriums find life in the creature and they rest.”

Vol. 35, September 26, 1937