What's up and welcome to Ask Father Jackson Podcast where I get to listen to your questions, pray with them and hopefully respond in such a way that it is helpful for you and your walk toward eternity.

Here's how the show goes. You hit me up with questions from morality, injustice, evangelization, prayer, any and all of the above.

Then I sit with your questions. I study, have conversations with other people, spend a lot of time in prayer, and then I try to respond in a way that's good for you, but because I'm imperfect and broken.

Not always when my advice be good for you, and that is the case and I want to give you the freedom to reject it.

However, if my advice is helpful for you in cultivating virtue, then I really want to invite you and encourage you to lean into Jesus so that you can give you the grace to fulfill the demands of discipleship, especially whenever my advice is difficult.

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On today's show, we're going to talk about the family. And so in the family, we have divisions. We have divisions with in-laws. We have divisions with new daughter-in-laws. We have divisions with our sisters, spouse, our brothers, whatever. And so how do we deal with family divisions? Also with regards to family. What is my obligation toward my parents as an adult with regards to being obedience to them?

How do I manifest authentic obedience to my fathers and my mothers as a grown man, grown woman? And finally, most of us have grown up, or many of us have grown up with the family pet. Some people have fish, some people have cats, some people have hamsters, some have dogs. I'm going to solve some of us have alligators. I'm just joking for the moment. I think. But will they go to heaven?

We enjoy them on earth. They give us consolation sometimes on earth. What happens whenever they die? Where do pets go after death? So that's our show. Stay tuned.

All right. Before we answer those questions, I want to share with you a glorious story. So anybody who knows me knows that I absolutely love litneys. I love the litney of humility. It is one of my favorite prayers. It has helped me out so much in my relationship with Jesus and other members of the body of Christ the church. It has been a tool that God has used to purify me. And he continues to use it.

To purify me of that thing that we call ego. My other favorite prayer is the litney of trust that was written by one of the sisters of life. It is another good prayer. And it has been very helpful for me. And for my parishioners, a lot of people come with trust issues.

Oh, trust issues. Oh, trust issues. Oh, they got some trust issues. Oh, trust issues. Yeah. So when we have trust issues, litney of trust by the sisters of life is such a good prayer. Both of those prayers are in my book.

Broken and blessed. I think they're both in my book. Broken and blessed. I know litney and trust is in there. I imagine. Yes, litney is also in there as well. So those are both prayers that if you want to pray, you can get my book. Broken and blessed.

I do such a press and you could pray those. But I have a new litney and it's a prayer for deliverance. So many people so many of us are oppressed in so many ways by the demonic. And so I've received this great gift recently of a prayer of deliverance.

And so I'm going to pray it with you and for you right now is my new favorite litney is for deliverance. And so let's pray in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Almighty God and Father. We beg the the intercession and help of the arch angels, St. Michael, Raphael and Gabriel for the deliverance of our brothers and sisters who are enslaved by the evil one. All saints of heaven.

Come to our aid from anxiety, sadness and obsessions. We implore the deliver us, O Lord. From hatred, fornication and envy. We implore the deliver us, O Lord. From thoughts of jealousy, rage and death.

We implore the deliver us, O Lord. From every thought of suicide and abortion. We implore the deliver us, O Lord. From every form of sinful sexuality.

We implore the deliver us, O Lord. From every division in our family and every harmful friendship. We implore the deliver us, O Lord. And from every sort of spell or mouth is which craft in every form of the occult.

We implore the deliver us, O Lord. The out who said peace, I leave with you, my peace, I give unto you, granted through the intercession of the virgin Mary. We may be liberated from every demonic influence and enjoy the peace always in the name of Christ, our Lord. Amen.

And the name of the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit, amen.

All right. So that's my glory story as I found the new prayer and that just makes me all happy inside. It makes me happy, clap a rhyme. If you feel like it makes me happy.

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