Stewards for Christ

A Prayer Ministry of Faith and Hope

Welcome!

Welcome to: STEWARDS FOR CHRIST. My goal here is to share my walk of faith with you and others. A journey to know Christ; weave daily prayer into our lives and get closer to God. Yes, it is a personal journey. A path at times we travel alone yet yearn for accompaniment with others. This is when the action of the term Synod comes in…journeying together.

As His child and a Prayer Warrior, we must pray for one another, for the world and our needs. Times are troubling, and those weak in faith, unsure, those forgotten need our prayers. Let us share our walk of Faith with them.

Many of you look to this page for the Devotional to the Prescious Blood of Jesus Christ. It will remain. Please continue to pray it throughout the year. Many souls will benefit from all your prayerful efforts.

Our mission…to save souls for Jesus Christ. He wants us to seek him. We need to seek him.

May God’s peace and blessings be with you always. Guadalupe Irma

A NECESSAY DEVOTION

Precious Blood of Jesus Christ Devotion

Thank you for praying this great devotional during the month of July with me. Please pray it forward.

How to pray this devotion How To Pray PB Jesus Christ Devotional — THE GREAT MONTH OF JULY (guadalupeirma.com)

July 1-9 Novena Honor of Nine Choir of Angels

Great Month July: July 1-9 Novena — THE GREAT MONTH OF JULY (guadalupeirma.com)

July 13-15 Novena in Honor of the Most Holy Trinity

Great Month July: July 13-15 Novena — THE GREAT MONTH OF JULY (guadalupeirma.com)

July 20-31 Novena for the New Israel

Great Month July: July 20-31 Novena — THE GREAT MONTH OF JULY (guadalupeirma.com)

THE PROMISES OF OUR LORD The Promises of Our Lord — THE GREAT MONTH OF JULY (guadalupeirma.com)

Additional prayers to this great devotion:

The Holy Rosary The Holy Rosary — THE GREAT MONTH OF JULY (guadalupeirma.com)

Chaplet of the Precious Blood Chaplet Of The Precious Blood — THE GREAT MONTH OF JULY (guadalupeirma.com)

Litany of the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ Litany Precious Blood Jesus Christ — THE GREAT MONTH OF JULY (guadalupeirma.com)

Consecration to the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ Consecration Precious Blood Jesus Christ — THE GREAT MONTH OF JULY (guadalupeirma.com)

Consolation Prayers Consolation Prayers — THE GREAT MONTH OF JULY (guadalupeirma.com)

Adoration Prayers Adoration Prayers — THE GREAT MONTH OF JULY (guadalupeirma.com)

The Anguished Appeals The Anguished Appeals — THE GREAT MONTH OF JULY (guadalupeirma.com)

The Mystical Prayers of our Lord Jesus Christ Mystical Prayers — THE GREAT MONTH OF JULY (guadalupeirma.com)

May God bless you.

 Lenten Fasting and Beyond

A Prayer Before Fasting

Heavenly Father, as I begin this time of fasting, I pray that you will fill me with Your grace, and grant me strength and resolution to endure the hunger and discomforts that I may experience during this fast.

Keep me strong and alert, Lord. Deliver me from all unwanted thoughts and distractions that would jeopardize my fast. Protect me from temptation and from the Evil One. May this fast lead me to spiritual growth, renewal, and healing.

Grant me, Father, the assurance that You will strengthen me during the difficult and challenging times of this fast, and meet me for sweet moments of spiritual growth and surrender. Help me to focus not on what is being taken away, but what I will be gaining as I use this fast as a spiritual discipline. With you leading me, Holy Spirit, I am ready.

My God, I offer up this fast to You and to Your glory. May Your mercy be always upon me, a sinner.

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

Let’s expand on what Fasting is during Lent.

1.     It’s not a hunger strike.

2.     It’s not a removal from our creature comforts but are they wants or needs?

3.     It is a conversion to uniting with Jesus Christ.

4.     It’s a way to transform our weaknesses into strength with sacrifice.

5.     It allows us day by day to free ourselves from the shackles of idols, from sin that bind us away from our Lord, Jesus Christ.

6.     It brings us closer to Jesus in his journey with ours to understand why he fasted, for us and the world.

7.     It helps change or break habits and establish needed God-filled routines.

8.     It cues us to be without what is not necessary, be without obsessions.

9.     It may bring you to forgiving rather than be forgiven.

 

Think about this-what do you want out of this Lenten Season? What changes? To bring you closer to God? To create a wonderful relationship with him? Maybe it’s not on this list. Or you might have more to add to it.

What is pushing you to fast?

End of the day: Conversion for making room for God, for Jesus Christ.

End of this 40-day Lenten journey and beyond…live as a better disciple for Jesus. Live as a Steward for Christ. Live to evangelize; to bring others to Jesus.