GROW IN YOUR
RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
Learn how to encounter Jesus accompanying you in all your experiences
Many of us grew up learning to pray about the business of being a Christian. We ask for help to do the right thing, pray that our relatives will know God or petition him to bless what we are doing for him. We ask forgiveness about the things we do wrong, and return repeatedly for direction and confirmation, so we’re certain we know what we’re supposed to do. Our prayers feel like work – which is no surprise, because that’s what our prayers are about: work.
And those are good prayers, but as Christians, it’s so easy to make our whole prayer life into something where we’re talking about the business all the time. What about the romantic side of your relationship with God? When was the last time you asked Jesus to tell you what he likes about you?
This way of praying is called ‘praying your desire’ or ‘Questions for Jesus’. A cool thing about desires is that God designed us to be desire-driven, and put desire in our hearts to draw us to Him, because He is the true object of our desire. Desires will draw us to His heart. Praying our desires connects us romantically with God, which is the relationship He wants to have with us. It gets us out of treating Jesus like a boss and into treating Him like a friend and lover. Join us for a ‘Questions for Jesus’ Prayer workshop and start learning to pray your desires!
*Questions for Jesus prayer workshop at St. Benedict's Catholic Community
The workshop will help you:
Identify the deep longings /desires of your heart
Learn how to form a 'question for Jesus' that opens up a personal conversation
with Him and allows Him to fill the longings of your heart
Explore some Scripture passages which talk about desires
and what you can learn from them about prayer
Craft creative desire prayers
Understand the inner workings of the heart: how our desires, beliefs,
emotions and behaviour interact and work together
Meet Jesus in a painful memory
Understand why it's important to learn to work with our desires - the role of desire in change
Learn a quick way to identify the desire that is driving your response and take it to Jesus.
Then you get to practice it with someone right away
Use Desire prayers to get to know Jesus more intimately - to get to know his heart
Connect with Jesus, the Man of Sorrows in your suffering and experience deep fellowship with him there
We can offer the workshop as a series of weekly sessions online or an in-person workshop.
If you are interested in joining our next workshop, or would like to organise one for your parish, church,
group or association, could you please connect with us.
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We are happy to share more with you about the style of the workshop, the various formats in which we can run it,
and answer any other questions you might have.
