Day 225: Our Will vs. God's Will - The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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Fr. Mike reviews one of the most powerful verses in Proverbs, dealing with personal discernment and wanting to follow our own will instead of God's. He also goes into a deeper explanation of the prophet, Jeremiah, and how we ourselves can reflect the actions of Israel in the Old Testament. Today's readings are Jeremiah 2, Ezekiel 28, and Proverbs 14:9-12.
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August 12, 2024 Please pray for my 5 yr old son, Gabriel. He will have a surgery/procedure done today. May God be with him and all his doctors and nurses.
Praying for your son that the surgery will go well and that he will be healed quickly.🙏🙏🙏
Praying that Our Heavenly Father and Mother Mary cradle Gabriel in their comforting arms. Prayers for you and the family. And prayers for the Medical Staff.
Thank you Lord and thank you all for the prayers. The surgery went well and he is home now resting. May God bless you all.
Praying for Fr. Mike & BIY 🙏🙏🙏
August 12, 2024 Monday. Here I am.
Father, may everything that I do this day, whether it be full of joy or pain, whether it be full of love or of grief, I ask that everything I go through today be offered to you just like Jesus offered everything to you. It is in his name we pray. Amen. 8/12/2024
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Father Mike, thank you for BIY, guapo, my brother in Christ. Blessings. Handsomely handsome
Thank you Fr Mike for helping us understanding God’s word and the message he have for us in his Words. Thank you for making it more meaningful to us and by so doing you help us get closer to God because we can better understand Him. I’m praying for you and all religious 🙏🏽
What A Day! I got teary eyed listening to God's pain. It's like He was heartbroken, abandoned, after all the love He gave to His beloved children. He gave them everything even when they were complaining or unfaithful. That's most of us 😭 Heavenly Father grant us the graces to be Your good and loyal children ❤️🙏🏻❤️
Amen! ❤🙏
12AUG2024. Day 225. Oh Lord, help us to say yes to your will. Help us to stay on the path to your kingdom. We need you, Oh Lord. Amen
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It all makes so much sense when Father Mike explains. Thank you Father Mike.
Today my Father died 20 yrs ago in Italy and I live in the UK. I remember how broken I felt and how helpless I was feeling. He was going to be buried the next day as is the custom in Italy. I remember thinking there was nothing or any one on this earth that could make things right for me. I am a Catholic but did not go to church regularly. So I rang a local priest to ask if I could pray in his church and he opened his church for me and my sister. I prayed and asked my Father to forgive me as I could not be present for his funeral. At that point a light was reflected and that was his sign.
After a couple of days I managed to fly to Italy and went to his grave and prayed. And since this time I have gone back to church and attend Mass each Sunday. God had called me back but I knew it was God and my prayers that helped me to feel close to my Father.
I have arranged a Mass for him at my church this Sunday and do so each year.
And when it comes for me to die, I just know my Father will be waiting for me.
I've got tears in my eyes. I am so so happy for you that you found your way back to Jesus ❤️ May he bless you and your family and for your Father I will pray to support him, if he was still in Purgatory 🙏
Thank you so much father Mike Schmitz and Ascension Presents. 🙏👏👏👌👍
Dear ALMIGHTY GOD 🙏
Have mercy on me ,Help me Cleanse my thoughts and desires and please forgive me for my sin done knowingly and unknowingly. In choosing to do wrong and failing to do good.Please Forgive all those who hurted me and please forgive me for hurting others. O GOD heal us spiritually, mentally, physically and financially 🙏. I surrender all my worries ,anxieties and fears at your feet.Let your WILL and not my will be done.GOD you know me better than i know myself .you know my fears and my desires... Please don't let my desires blind you towards your WILL 🌟🙏help me follow your will✨and give me peace in whatever is to come.I thank you and praise you ALMIGHTY GOD 🙏 🕯️
Amen
Praying for everyone journeying BIAY presently and in future 🙏
Date - 12 - August- 2024
Amen! Very beautiful prayer. Thank you for the prayers and I am also praying for you. ❤🙏
O Lord God thank you so, so, much for Your faithfulness towards me a sinner. Help me O Lord God to be holy. Thank You O Lord God for all the blessings and protections towards me a sinner. 🙏😇👼❤️💙
Once again, such a timely message for me. I've been divided right in half of whether or not to pursue a particular thing and I've been praying about it. Objectively, it is a rather innocuous thing. But, at the end of the day - and after hearing today's readings - I realize I am seeking worldly counsel. Today's episode is a clear pointer right back to the Lord. Heaveny Father, I thank you for Ascension Press and Father Mike for helping us form ourselves according to your precious Word instead of the folly of this world, to keep our minds on heavenly things. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. To God be the glory!
A prayer for today from the Old Testament 2 Chronicles 7:14🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Day 225 Monday August 12th, 2024
Our Will versus God's Will. Today's readings are Jeremiah 2, Ezekiel 28, and Proverbs 14:9-12.
Deo gratias. 😇❤❤❤
Lord I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof but only say The Word and my soul shall be healed 🙏
Thank you Fr Mike. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless 🙏 ❤️ 🙏
It is sad to watch the chaotic lives around us, I think people view church as an institution that wants to stop them from having fun, but as I have got older, the words "to whom the son sets free is free indeed" resonate so much with me, having faith stops us from a lot of pit falls in life. We have all fallen short of the glory of God, but I would not want to walk through this life without the hope we have in Him.
Amen i'm still learning to do the right thing. 'cause my family I grew up with. We were all baptized up. When I was 22 years old adjoin the cafe church. What's baptized ask nineteen seventy nine. And I left the church for a while going to meet parents church. That was the biggest mistake of my life. Shut down and then back 15 months.
I didn Many confessions
Told god I was sorry. On my confessions I went back 50 years. Who thinks I forgot about and who is spirit teacher. Mind me if something else I need to uh confess. When I had learned if I honestly forgot to mention something. We are forgiven. But we still need to go back to confession. And until the priest what were you left out even though it wasn't intentional. So I can get a good pentance.
Thanks for your reply Jonathon, i am not Catholic but Baptist so have a different perspective on the confession thing. The main thing is you are in regular worship, I wish you well in your future walk with God.
Wow, really wonderful message for the weekend....Come back to me, says the Lord, so broken, damaged, disgraced, sinful, we go back to him.
Day 225..lead us Lord. Prayers for Father Mike and all the BIY family 🙏❤
Amen 🙏.
❤ and blessings so thankful for these utubes
amen
Thank you for explaining and reading the scriptures daily its a good thing learning and loving God. God bless you Fr.Mike and the whole BIAY TEAM
Pray for me that I will be able to come back to the Lord with all my heart, not just to calm his wrath 🙏
I am praying for you 🙏
Thanks for the prayers and I will pray for your intention. ❤🙏
Fr. Mike, what an amazing journey that I've been blessed to join through this podcast. It has blessed my daily routine with the motivation to live around the scriptures, because reading the Bible isn't easy! So I give thanks again to God for Ascension, and for all who make this possible. My prayers are with you fellow Catholics, Orthodox and Protestant Christians! Love You and may God Bless You this Advent. In Jesus' Name Amen.
Thank you friends and Fr. Mike
Our Will vs. God's Will. This title really hit me because as a child I think I followed God's will after my grandfather died. I was told in a dream to take care of my grandmother. (I think the "being" who told me looked like my grandfather.) I just lived my life, I thought, but the skills I learned and the things I did guided me toward what I would need to do in the future. Twelve years after this dream, I did take care of Grandma. I was the only one who could be there was no one available to be there.
There are more details to this story which I wrote in greater detail.
tnx fr.mike 👍☝💐🧡🙏➕📖🔥🛐🧡🕊🧡
Thank you Father Mike for being there for me for us and getting us God's story so that we can understand it amen good evening to everybody and sleep well God bless
Thank you Father Mike for sharing the bible with all of us. It is such a blessing to understand the words of our God. Thanks for helping us to grow closer to our Lord. Praying for Father Mike and all who are in need of prayers. Lord please bless all those in need of You. Thank you God for everything
Thanks Fr Mike, you're God's abundant blessings to us.
Please pray that God’s will be my desire. And I'll always be faithful to God.🙇💝
Lord, You are the giver of all gifts! May we always give you thanks for your blessings and steward them well. Manifest your holiness in our lives so that people can see YOU working in us. May we always point to you in all we do. Break our hearts for what breaks yours. Thank you for being a God we don’t have to chase, a God that is always there with open arms. Help us to see through the vanity of the things of this world that won’t love us back, that look appealing, but don’t actually exist to fill our deepest needs. So today, Lord, we choose to drink from your living water, we choose your grace, we choose to come back to you in the silence of our hearts when your Holy Spirit convicts us of the sin in our lives -not only when we are found out by others. Thank you for the gift of forgiveness and interior transformation. 🙏🏻
Excellent episode
Thank you and God Bless you father Mike. This has been a great Journey so far with you and all of the others here. I have learned so much more reading The Bible with you instead of by myself. Praying for you and for all who are following you on this Journey. I watched this morning 2 Brothers Brother Jason and Brother Ruben take their Vows. They are now Holy Priest too. Let's keep them in Our Prayers too. The whole Shrine of Divine Mercy was full of people. It was so beautiful....
Amen. Lord help us to come back to you with all our hearts by acknowledging our sinfulness. Have mercy on us Lord we have sinned against You. God bless Fr. Mike.
Thank you Fr.Mike for enlightening us in the word of God.
Lord Jesus, I humbly pray for myself, Father Mike, & all the people participating in the Bible-in-Year podcast. I do not know all their needs, but you do, Lord. I offer them to you with confidence that you hear our prayers. May your word take deep root in our hearts & transform our ways of thinking, discerning, and acting. May your grace open our ears to hear & understand, revere & treasure both the Old & the New Testaments which God has prepared for all who desire to enter his kingdom. Send us your Holy Spirit to give us the Spirit of Knowledge, that we may know God and know ourselves. Give us the grace to approach the Word of God with meekness & humility, & with an eagerness to do everything God desires. Please give me the grace to set aside my intellect and my know-it-all attitude and let your Word speak to my heart and my soul. Help us to be diligent students & faithful disciples of your Word. May our hearts never grow dull & may our ears never tire of listening to your voice. Thank you and praise you for the gift of perseverance and for nourishing us with your word! Amen.
Thank you, father Mike for shepherding me and my household through RUclips. Be blessed
Thank you and 🙏 ❤
Thank you! You and the understanding of the Bible has made such a change in my life! My bible now has notes in it to be passed down to my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. What a blessing you are to all our lives!
"The point of our lives is to point to God." -Father Mike Schmitz
Thank you, Fr. 🇻🇦
Hi Frank Mike, I struggle with this, not that I don't know God's Will Be Done, is so much better for us, I fail to let go and let God. When I surrender to God, all is well, but when I don't, I'm a mess, Pray for me please
Thank you, Father Mike for being in my life. 💙 God bless you!
All good things come from the Lord. "Thank Him". Prayers Fr. Mike.
Thanks be to God❤❤❤❤ hear our prayers Father in heaven❤❤❤ thank you amen prayers father Mike amen amen
Ezekiel 28 : 25-26
The Sovereign Lord said,
" I wil bring back the people of Israel from the nations where I scattered them, and all the nations will know that I am holy. The people of Israel will live in their own land, the land that I gave to my servant Jacob.
26 - They will live there in safety. They will build houses and plant vineyards. I will punish their neighbors who
treated them with scorn, and Israel will be secure. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God."
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December 3rd, 2023. Praise and Glory to God. I pray the Lord bless all of us including Father Mike in whatever we do today and for our tomorrow's should we get them, all to God's glory. 🙏🏻
This is just so good, and Fr. Mike helps us to see our present selves in our circumstances and how we are like the unfaithful Israelites.
Thank you, thank you Fr. Mike you are a blessing.
proverb 31 beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
Idolatry is a problem in the world today. God, I believe gives us an opportunitty to choose right fr0m wrong
So good. So glad I found this
Thank you Fr Mike! ❤️🙏🏼🌞
God remove all evil sins
My friends, I am asking you for prayers. Once again, the Lord solved a big financial problem for us. And all I can think of is the awful things that will happen if that solution is taken back! (It’s not finalized yet). I am in a spiral of doubt and fear and it’s making me sick. I know it’s my fault for not being able to relax and trust, but my stupid brain won’t shut up!!
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻for you.
Trust in God. 🙏🙏🙏
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Carrying Dawn M's mantle and message. Please intercede and pray for the most forgotten soul in purgatory. How lonely it must be without anyone praying for them, they need our prayers. Consider listening to Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year on the Marian Press Podcast. Each day's reading is just about 7 minutes long. 8/13/2022
I pray the podcast remains up as I was late starting. I am trying to catch up to date. Thank you Father Mike!
Father Mike has already said it will remain up, I do believe permanently. It's quite a gift, and he keeps assuring us that it doesn't matter if you fall behind, you will get there.
@@mrssmith1691 Thank you. I am trying to catch up but, want to be able to absorb the whole Bible.
Cindy, yes this podcast remains up. As you see, I'm reading and praying that all can enjoy this blessing no matter when they start. This is the 2nd time around BIAY for me and I find it just as enriching as the first time hearing it. 8/13/2022
Still up, today. Reading BIAY, 2024 ! 🙏
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So good. Thank you. God Bless. Claire.
Thank you God bless Rev father
The word of the Lord! Thanks be to God!
An incredibly powerful message. I had not learned about Prophet Jeremiah in that much detail! He seems incredible and relatable! Thank you so much, Fr. Mike. The messages you continue to share through God are immensely inspiring. God bless you! :)
Hi Luisana. Am jst curious when I saw your name. We have same surname. Am from Philippines.
@@MariaLourdesization hi, nice to meet you! I am from Venezuela. :)
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Father in heaven, we give you praise, and we thank you so much. We thank you for, as every day we pray this, we thank you for your Word. We thank you for revealing to us your call to repent, your call to come back to you. We thank you for revealing to us the fact that you have a plan for our lives and that you actually want us to be blessed by you. You want us to be close to you. You want us to be as faithful to you as you are to us. And even when we are not faithful, even when we fail, you have not abandoned us, because you are a good dad. And so, Father, today, Dad, today, we thank you. And thankyou for your gift, thank you for your wisdom, and thank you for never abandoning us and continuing to call us back to your heart. Help us to say yes to your heart. Help us to say yes to your heart. Help us to say yes to your will, and help us to turn away from what we have turned to in place of you, what we have placed our trust in, in place of you, what we have given our heart to instead of you. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.
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Good messages today.
God Bless, I’ll pray at my local church of Our Lady of Mt Carmel, to help out The Church, so I can hopefully attend the Conference in Nov. God Bless You Fr. Mike. Your the Best! Amen
To God Be Glory Amen JMJ
Prayers for everyone. 🥰
God never leave me alone I can’t make it on my own bless my home
happy Easter 2022 to all..
Wow that kind of hit me between the eyes. Thanks Fr Mike Thank You Lord
But I learned today that humility is so important when I’m gone. I’m even then darkest places and will reward us for the good that we do.
Oh Almighty God, may I continue to endeavor for your guidance 🙏🏾🙏🏾
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight.”
Proverbs 3:5 RSV-CI
Keep it up Fr. Mike!!!!!!!
Praying for you Father
Jesus, You are welcome in my heart, speak to me, show me You love me, give me the grace to overcome shame of my sins and to be truly open to You. Amen ❤
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I give You my heart and soul. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, assist me in my last agony. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, let me breath forth my spirit in peace with you.amen.❤
Most precious blood of Jesus Christ save us and the whole world.amen❤.
I feel sometimes I am like Jeremiah my heart is broken because of people who don't want to repent.
I feel the same way.Had teary eyes while listening to father Mike.
I thank God for this refreshing words of hope
Wow. I’m blow away to a deeper understanding…. Glory to God 🙏 and thank you for all eternity for this. ❤️
The apostle Paul said that he lost everything for Jesus Christ (Philippians 3:8), but he rejoiced and said he considered it ALL DUNG that he may win Christ!
Jesus, I trust in You!
Prayers for Souls in Purgatory.
Listen to Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year with Father Roesch in the Marian Press Podcast.
God Bless You.
Jesus, Forgive me a dinner.
August 17, 2022
Amen thank you for sharing the word of God :>🙏❤️
The journal has been awesome🙏❤️
Thank you Fr Mike 💫
August 14, 2023
Do you have 45 seconds to pray for in Purgatory with me?
According to tradition, St. Gertrude the Great was told by Our Lord that each time she piously recited the following prayer, it would release 1,000 souls (or a vast number) from their suffering in purgatory:
The Prayer of St. Gertrude
Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen
Thanks for this wonderful message of God father Mike, God bless u
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Done ☑️
God bless!
Amen.
"The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish." -Proverbs chapter14 ver. 9-12.
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Jeremiah 2 : 26-30,
35-37
26 - The Lord says, "Just
as a thief is disgraced when caught, so all you people of Israel will be disgraced - your kings and officials, your priests and prophets.
27 - You will all be disgraced - you that say that a tree is your father and that a rock is your mother. This will happen because you turned away from me instead of turning to me. But when you are in trouble, you ask me to come and save you."
28 - Where are the gods that you made for yourselves? When you are in trouble, let them save you - if they can !
Judah, you have as many gods as you have cities.
29 - What is your complaint? Why have you rebelled against me?
30 - I punished you , but it did no good; you would not let me correct you. Like a raging lion, you murdered your prophets."
35 - "You say, "I am innocent; surely the Lord is no longer angry with me." But I , the Lord, will
punish you because you deny that you have sinned.
36 - You have cheapened yourself by turning to the gods of other nations. You will be disappointed by Egypt, just as you were by Assyria.
37 - You will turn away from Egypt, hanging your
head in shame. I, the Lord, have rejected those
you trust; you will not gain anything from them." 📖🕯
The Good News Bible
with Deuterocanonicals
/ Apocrypha
Today's English Version
Ii empathies with the people of God for God does go absolutely SILENT. If He was keeping in touch with them He would have been before them. I don't mean keeping in touch by accusers but in their hearts, loving and nurturing.
God is always there. Not always accusing but wanting us, in the silence, to hear him. He always wants to help us.
Day 225, 3/25/2022, Annunciation Day
When I heard this I remembered a homily by a favorite priest who sat next to a man named Jeremiah on a train ride. The very funny story he told had the congregation laughing… it included Jeremiah was a bullfrog. I always wonder if he converted him to Catholicism!
I do so enjoy BIAY. I do, I truly do!! But...please...take a breath between AMEN'nohgoshthisissomething! Just like you respectfully pause between books. 🤲🏼🕊
Today, 12AUG2024. I also would like Fr. Mike to pause after he says Amen. But, this is the third year since this was taped and day 225 for this leap year. I do pray that it causes no disrespect in that moment.
I have been so understated for years that people dont know I am a scholar, but this world always like to judge beauty. Therefore rumours would be inextricably attached to me.
when i was teenager, i was told i should be a model i should be beauty queen, yet I wanted to be an engineer, whatever the world saids a beautiful girl should do insults my intelligence.
❤️ 22/08/2022