Reflection:
Today, if you have many discouraging thoughts in your mind, replace them by declaring the truth of God’s Word.  As you replace the negative thoughts with the truth, your life will begin to change. You will see a transformation in your thinking.

Your expectations set the limits for your life.  Are you expecting to rise higher in life? Are you expecting good breaks? If you are expecting to get the short end of the stick, your own wrong thinking will keep you in mediocrity. Remember, God will meet you at the level of your expectations. If you expect little you’re going to receive little.  Pay attention to what you are thinking and make the choice to believe God for good things and put your hope in Him. When you go out each day, imagine there are blessings, favor, increase, and promotions in your path. They already have your name on them!  It’s just a matter of time before you come across them.

Start confessing everyday – “something good is going to happen to me today.”   Believe that your best days are ahead.  God’s blessings will overtake you.  Expect goodness and mercy to chase you down.  If you learn to raise your level of expectancy instead of expecting the worst, you may expect the best.  God is going to pour out His blessings and favor on you because you honor His sovereignty.  Make the choice to start each day expecting blessings, increase, and favor and you’ll see God doing greater things in your life.  You’ll rise to new heights and feel His love like never before; you will know Him in ways you’ve never known before, and you’ll experience His goodness and grace all the days of your life!

God is the “God of the living” who preserves the existence of His faithful ones so that they are truly alive in Him.  Christ’s resurrection and the ensuing resurrection of the dead are like arrows that point to us our target – the happiness of heaven.  As one novelist wrote: “one short sleep past, we wake eternally and to death shall be no more.”

To believe in God as a God who cares about and involves Himself with us in our everyday life cause us to have the greatest possible reason for courage and hope.  Turn our hearts and minds to God and constantly reflect on His divine love, steadfastness and the fidelity of Christ.  God has begun in us a good work.  We can be sure that it will be brought to perfection in the life of the world to come.  Let us do all we can to merit the honor of rising to eternal life after we pass from this world to the next.  May we be faithful to God and live a good, honest life, loving one another as Jesus said we should.  Then we too will join the saints and the angels in praising God forever.

Prayer:
God of the living, continue to work in us as a community of faith, committed vessels of the good news.  May our lives bear witness to your love and may we be courageous and bold to declare your gift of eternal life.  May our hearts long to find rest in the promised heaven.

Reflection Questions:
1. What are the many things that keep us from putting our total trust in God?
2. How do we honor the sovereignty of God in our day-to-day activities?
3. What can we commit to change, starting today, to manifest greater hope in God than before?

This Week’s Daily Mass Reading Guide:
November 10, 2013 (Sun)    2Mc 7:9-14/ Ps 17:1,5,6,8,15/ 2Thes 2:16-3:5/ Lk 20:27-38
or Lk 20:27, 24-38
November 11, 2013 (Mon)    Wis 1:1-7/ Ps 139:1-3,4-10/ Lk 17:1-6
November 12, 2013 (Tues)   Wis 2:13-3:9/ Ps 34:2,3,16,-19/ Lk 17:7-10
November 13, 2013 (Wed)    Wis 6:1-11/ Ps 82:3,4,6,7/ Lk 17:11-19
November 14, 2013 (Thur)    Wis 7:22-8:1, Ps 119: 89-91,130,135,175/ Lk 17:20-25
November 15, 2013 (Fri)       Wis 13:1-9/ Ps 19:2-5/ Lk 17:26-37
November 16, 2013 (Sat)      Wis 18:14-16;19:6-9/ Ps 105:2,3,36,37,42,43/ Lk 18:1-8

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