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All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

How to Follow God's Inspirations

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

What do you do when it feels like God is prompting you to do something? Using the example of Simeon from the Presentation of Jesus, Dr. Sri discusses how we ought to respond when prompted by the Holy Spirit. Dr. Sri gives three steps to help us prepare for, identify, and act on inspirations of God.

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“The Holy Spirit will always lead you to love and serve.”

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life.

0:14.4

Do you ever have that sense that God is asking you to do something extraordinary, but just

0:20.1

like maybe I'm supposed to go to the chapel or maybe I should just stop right now and

0:23.5

pray.

0:24.5

I've been stressed out about something, I've been worried about something, something's

0:27.1

really troubling me.

0:28.5

I think God maybe just wants me to stop what I'm doing and just rest in His presence

0:32.3

for a moment to pray and just surrender it to Him, to give it to Him.

0:36.0

Do you ever have moments like that or maybe like you sense you're supposed to apologize

0:39.4

to someone.

0:40.4

There's someone in the office who didn't treat really well or maybe your spouse, you

0:43.0

kind of were short with your spouse and you kind of sense, oh, I was, I was too frustrated

0:47.3

and I think I just need to go to my spouse and say, sorry, what do we do in those moments?

0:54.3

This is the kind of thing that happens in the life of any ordinary Christian.

0:58.8

It's nothing spectacular, nothing really mystical, but we sense that God's prompting us.

1:04.0

He's kind of nudging us in a certain direction, like maybe if you're a parent and you're having

1:08.8

trouble with one of your kids and you're kind of sensing, I think my approach with this

1:12.4

child, it needs to change.

1:14.4

I think the way I've been approaching this child, I've got to do it differently and you're

1:18.3

sensing God's asking you to love your child and make that change or maybe you're in

1:23.4

a dating relationship and you really were hoping this was the one that you're starting

1:27.7

to sense that maybe God is showing you this relationship just isn't working, that it

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