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00:00We conclude, then, that prayer identifies us with God.
00:04In a relationship with someone, the more you share, the more you identify with them.
00:09You see that he thinks like you, shares your projects, and agrees on the essentials.
00:14And so the union grows. The same with God, as in a courtship.
00:18If you share thoughts and projects, intimacy grows.
00:23I don't know if you've ever thought that we often say,
00:27Lord, I want to do your will, but how will you know it without listening to me?
00:32If in your prayer you only ask and ask, or only talk and talk,
00:37There is no real dialogue, it is a monologue from someone asking their unconditional provider.
00:42When you give yourself space, God reveals his thoughts, his feelings, his desires to you.
00:48You identify with them because in the end we just want to be happy in it.
00:53That time in prayer brings you closer, identifies with you, and makes it grow in depth and duration.
01:00As in a relationship, you move from the obvious and superficial to the profound,
01:05to things that are relevant in life, even to how abstract love is.
01:10I love you is not just a word, it's tickles, insomnia, distractions.
01:16You can't stand being away, you think about him and her all day long.
01:20You send her messages all day long, you look for little things to do to make her happy.
01:25Jesus, God and man, resorted to prayer, but his prayer was different.
01:29So his disciples, even though they were from the Jewish people, a people with a great tradition of prayer,
01:36They asked him, "Teacher, teach us to pray."
01:40In response to their request, Jesus prays the Lord's Prayer.
01:44In this prayer, the most important thing is that it shows us the true relationship with God.
01:51Moving from the Jewish relationship with a God as the Almighty, the Invincible, the Provider,
01:59which it is, but to a filial and close relationship with God.
02:05In the Aramaic prayer, it says, when you pray, say Abba.
02:09What does that mean? Daddy.
02:11It's a term of endearment for dad.
02:14A relationship is established, similar to how a child relates to their father.
02:18which implies trust, attention, love.
02:22At first, then, we have to use our limited human language.
02:25to speak with the transcendent and wonderful being that is God.
02:29Jesus told them, pretend that he is your dad, your daddy.
02:33Speak to him with affection and little by little you will make love.
02:37This involves finding two people who are looking for each other and who want to be together.
02:43Not like couples who stop seeking each other out, getting to know each other, serving each other,
02:47And now, they just share a roof.
02:50In getting to know and love each other, we become one.
02:53As the three-stranded rope symbolizes for marriage,
02:57between the two of them and God.
02:59And a relationship will develop.
03:01And this requires patience.
03:03It doesn't happen immediately, and even less so with God.
03:05It doesn't happen all at once.
03:07This experience of prayer in the presence of God
03:11This will necessarily result in a change in our inner and outer lives.
03:16Once we are exposed to this relationship,
03:19Our lives are transformed.
03:21Little by little, they are changing our criteria,
03:24our way of seeing life.
03:25It makes us desire God more in our lives.
03:28An expression that helps to better understand prayer is to pour out one's heart.
03:34Pour out your heart before God.
03:36In other words, to arrive with a person with complete trust, without masks.
03:40What could you hide from God?
03:42Is there a situation in your life,
03:45any need that is unknown to him/her?
03:48The child doesn't wear masks to talk to anyone,
03:51especially with his dad.
03:53He speaks to her directly.
03:56We need to learn to relate to this person without the mask.
04:01Don't try to be something you're not.
04:03If you're angry, anxious, or things went badly in your business,
04:07Did things go badly with the children? Are you worried?
04:11Come as you are so that God can transform you from there.
04:16God is not what we think.
04:18God is something else.
04:20You have to know him to be able to love him and know that he is like that.
04:23And that way, when time passes, you'll be able to say how wonderful it is.
04:29We must know God and understand that He is different.
04:33who is a spiritual being, who loves us in ways we cannot imagine.
04:37But that love is not always expressed in the way we would like it to be expressed.
04:43Prayer does not imply feeling.
04:45In fact, it's normal not to feel.
04:49At first, God can be, so to speak, very affectionate.
04:54For example, during a retreat, a healing mass, a holy hour,
04:59Many sensations occur, similar to those experienced during courtship.
05:02When the couple started holding hands, you felt butterflies, you said,
05:07I feel something, I can't express it clearly.
05:10Thus, in the relationship with God, with the passage of time,
05:13you stop feeling that something,
05:15But the love grows ever deeper and more spiritual.
05:20That's why I tell you, don't despair looking for a sensory experience in prayer.
05:25God still loves you, even if you don't feel anything.
05:29Prayer is not about talking a lot either.
05:32Jesus himself tells us,
05:33Do not be like the pagans who believe that by talking a lot,
05:37God will listen to them.
05:40Remember that before you ask him,
05:42He already knows what you need.
05:44Psalm 139 tells us about this, saying,
05:48You know when I sit down, when I stand up.
05:52My thoughts penetrate from afar.
05:55Before the word reaches my mouth you know it completely.
06:01He likes to talk to us.
06:03The idea is that we, too, will enjoy talking to Him.
06:07But He likes to talk in his own way.
06:09It has a different language and moves in a different dimension.
06:14It does not need to speak verbally and physically.
06:17It is through the soul that we communicate.
06:21Certainly, God can speak to us in prayer.
06:24And we can experience that tremendous feeling of God's presence
06:28in our prayer through the Holy Spirit.
06:31But that won't always happen.
06:33Prayer allows us to experience the mystery of God.
06:37Prayer is the means of discerning something that goes beyond us, that is a mystery.
06:46Without prayer we will not see transformations.
06:50He who does not pray will not truly become a Christian.
06:55Normally, what we ask of Him or talk about with Him can be realized over time, over very long periods of time.
07:04My wife and I, for example, from when our children were babies until even before they were born,
07:10We have asked the Lord that, if it is His will, we should have them and that they should get married,
07:15because they find the person He wants.
07:18And so we continue the struggle, asking for more.
07:23God works in our lives and makes changes, sometimes very small ones,
07:27But the important thing is that they are sustained.
07:30It's like in exercise, little by little.
07:32Little by little you manage to harden your calf.
07:35It'll take you a year to build muscle, that is, if you eat well, right?
07:38It's not instant, but if you don't exercise, it will never grow.
07:43That's how the prayer is.
07:45God has processes, and they happen in His time, not ours.
07:49Imagine yourself compared to the earth.
07:52You are nothing, not even a grain of sand.
07:56You would go completely unnoticed in the universe.
07:59And yet, you are the center of the universe for Him.
08:04Scripture says, "Who is man that you are mindful of him?"
08:09That's you.
08:11Paul says, if you are amazed at the wonders of God,
08:15Imagine what God is like, because He made everything that exists.
08:18We see so much wonder here on earth, extraordinary things,
08:22And yet, none of that compares to heaven.
08:26Does anyone know what it means to hit your finger with a hammer?
08:30How do you explain that?
08:33Until you get a good hammer blow,
08:36You'll truly know what that pain is all about.
08:38But explaining it is difficult.
08:41Entering into its mystery is to begin discovering a new world.
08:44And you can do nothing more than through prayer.
08:47No reading will lead you to this because it's not about knowledge.
08:51As we said at the beginning, it is an experience of God.
08:55And experiences are only learned through experience.
09:00You could have the whole theory of what's happening,
09:02But you need to give God time in prayer.
09:05Put aside selfishness and dedicate time to it.
09:08Be patient and ask Him with all your heart to allow you to live this experience.
09:14We often want to receive the saint's grace,
09:17but not the purification of the saint.
09:19Each one follows a different path to holiness.
09:22A different path of prayer.
09:24But the important thing is to have that experience of God that he speaks of.
09:30Perhaps your path will never be the experience of God of a Padre Pio
09:34or the experience of God of a Saint Francis,
09:37But it will be yours.
09:39As you progress, you will have a clearer understanding of this experience in your life.
09:47It was a pleasure to share this topic with you.
09:51Now I invite you to an exercise led by Father Ernesto María Caro
09:55to experience that profound encounter with Jesus.
09:59Begin your intimacy with God today.
10:12Thank you!