Discerning God's Will in Your Life
Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
The Marian Fathers
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
For each decision in our life, does God want us to make a specific choice? If so, how do we know what that choice should be? How do we know when we want something if it is our will or God's will? Join Fr. Chris Alar as he explains the importance of spiritual direction and how we can know what God wants us to do and how to find peace in our decisions. Support our Ministries here.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, good morning, everybody, and thank you for joining us here at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy. |
| 0:05.9 | I'm Father Chris, one of the Marian priests and brothers, and we're excited to have you with us today |
| 0:11.3 | because you've heard me say so many times before that I love cracking out my seminary notes going back to seminary. |
| 0:18.2 | And this is something that we learned in seminary but absolutely is not |
| 0:24.8 | taught enough and I was just telling wonderful we have a full shrine here today that this is a talk |
| 0:31.9 | I probably should have done one of the first few of the explaining the face series. Today we're going to be talking about |
| 0:39.1 | discerning God's will. How do we know God's will in our life? When does God put it this way, |
| 0:46.8 | does God, is there a right or wrong answer in everything we do? Does, does God say every decision you have to make, no matter how small, |
| 0:56.7 | paper or plastic? Does God, is there the will of God in that? That's what we're going to talk |
| 1:02.9 | about today. So let us begin with a prayer in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy |
| 1:08.1 | Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, we ask you send the Holy Spirit down upon us |
| 1:13.5 | to open our minds and hearts to receive this grace you wish to bestow and to discern your will, |
| 1:20.1 | Almighty God, in all things. And we ask in the intercession of St. Faustina that you may guide us and help us in this discernment of your will. |
| 1:30.7 | We ask all this through Christ, our Lord. |
| 1:33.7 | Amen. |
| 1:34.0 | Name of the Father, into the Son, under the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:37.1 | Amen. |
| 1:37.4 | I'm also excited. |
| 1:39.6 | I'm going to be looking a little more deeper into this to make sure that what I'm thinking, |
| 1:44.9 | talk about discerning the will of God I've been talking to the Lord I really feel moved right now in the |
| 1:53.4 | midst of everything that's going on but to write a book on the Holy Spirit and a consecration to the |
| 2:00.6 | Holy Spirit because consecration is the Mary Joseph |
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