{"id":19397,"date":"2019-03-15T01:01:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T06:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=19397"},"modified":"2019-03-14T12:39:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:39:58","slug":"want-god-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2019\/03\/15\/want-god-wants\/","title":{"rendered":"Want What God Wants"},"content":{"rendered":"

To want what God wants is a guarantee of success in one’s life<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Evandro Nunes Photo: Wesley Almeida \/ cancaonova.com<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When we understand the meaning of our own name, we also understand the meaning of our mission and existence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joseph is a popular name in our country.<\/span> But what does that name mean?<\/span> Joseph, in Hebrew, means “he that addeth.”<\/span> Record this well, because today we will talk a lot about St. Joseph, patron of our Church.<\/span><\/p>\n

My brother and sister, you have to say with your life: If You want it, I want it, Lord!<\/span> And what does God want?<\/span> He wants us to be holy.<\/span> If what you do in your life is not contributing to your sanctification, I say without fear: “it does not suit you.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Whoever does the will of God, I say, “There is no way to go wrong.”<\/span> Ah!<\/span> How wonderful it would be if we all understood that!<\/span> My brothers, to want what God wants is a guarantee of correctness in one’s life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Saint Joseph, an honest man<\/span><\/h3>\n

And we have today, as an example of holiness, Saint Joseph. The Church presents Saint Joseph as this concrete model of holiness.<\/span> And see: Saint Joseph is the one who teaches us the importance of living holiness with a coherent testimony of life, much more than with beautiful words.<\/span><\/p>\n

What St. Joseph did was far more than what he said.<\/span> What a beautiful teaching for us!<\/span> I, for example, am here before you in this preaching.<\/span> To preach to you I use my Bible, but to evangelize I need to make use of my life.<\/span> Understand it?<\/span> Only a coherent life in God does evangelize others.<\/span><\/p>\n

This biblical passage, which we have just proclaimed, states that St. Joseph was a good man, that is, an honorable man.<\/span> And what is an honorable person?<\/span> It is that person who does not negotiate his moral principles, it is that person who speaks and lives coherently what he speaks.<\/span><\/p>\n

One important thing to keep in mind is that the sacred author wrote the Holy Scriptures in view of the Jewish people, not us North or South Americans.<\/span> So we need to understand, from this point of view, what this gesture of rejecting Mary secretly <\/span>because of her pregnancy  meant to St. Joseph.<\/span> In fact, in making that decision, St. Joseph was assuming for himself all the responsibility of  her – until then inexplicable – pregnancy of Mary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Want to have prophetic dreams<\/span><\/h3>\n

But behold, the angel of the Lord appears in a dream and reveals the truth of that event in a prophetic way.<\/span> Joseph’s dreams were rich with details.<\/span> And at that time, prophetic dreams were not common.<\/span> But even so, the Lord granted these dreams to St. Joseph.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more:<\/span>
\n .: Saint Joseph: an example of a disciple for Christians<\/a><\/span>
\n .: Saint Joseph, family and work<\/a><\/span>
\n .: Prayer to the glorious Saint Joseph<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

Saint Joseph, from this prophetic dream, fulfills the will of God.<\/span> My brother and sister, anyone who wishes to do God’s will can only set out from the moment that God gives this order.<\/span> Stay where God told you to stay!<\/span> That’s what St. Joseph did!<\/span> He wanted to leave, to leave Mary, but God ordered him to stay with his wife.<\/span> And St. Joseph so remained.<\/span><\/p>\n

But St. Joseph had a second prophetic dream.<\/span> And in that second dream, God commanded St. Joseph to leave immediately.<\/span> Now is not the time to stay, but to depart in obedience.<\/span> If God had it done, my brother, do it!<\/span> For a long time, I stopped doing God’s will because of the concern I had with what others would find … How much time lost, my God!<\/span> But today, thank God, I learned the lesson.<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel that God brought me here, today, because He wants to pour out on us a anointing of consolation.<\/span> We have seen many tragedies in our country, my brothers.<\/span> And then we ask ourselves, “Why is all this happening?”<\/span> And I think it is to turn to God, to draw closer to the Lord, to return to the prophetic dreams God has for each one of us.<\/span><\/p>\n

St. Joseph wants to inspire us at this time and motivate us to cry out to God for these prophetic dreams in our lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Transcription and adaptation: Alexandre Oliveira<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n