Take My Yoke Upon You
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October 13, 2025
Hello, brothers and sisters, and YouTube family.
May the Lord grant us the grace to rejoice always, for this is His will for us.
It has been a while since I shared with you my journal. A lot has taken place, and one of the most important is my wife & I were called to join the Franciscan community and on 4th October, we took our vows, and now my wife is Mother Mary Catherine, and I am Brother Bernard or brother Bernard depending on which region you come from. So, pray for us family.
This week I share with you my thoughts on my 15th day of my 21-day in solitude prayer.
So, this is what I wrote on my 15th day in my journal:
The last couple of days, the Lord has given me new strength. Most of the day, I am pretty strong.
Philippians 4:13
"Truly I can do all things through Jesus who strengthens me".
The hunger pangs are gone. Every night at the beginning of my Night Vigil, for about an hour, I have a cutting pain, but otherwise I thank the Lord for the grace to continue. I have done a 21-day solitude and fasting before in the past 12 years; this is my third time.
The second time I was with other intercessors, that one was warfare, and the kingdom of God gained a lot of lost ground. This is what Mother Catherine, and I should have done immediately we landed in Ghana for the mission.
Family, in my late teens, as a young Christian, I was intrigued by what Jacob said to Pharaoh when he met him after coming into Egypt.
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “My pilgrimage has lasted 130 years. My years have been few and hard”. That is Genesis 47:9.
In my mind, Jacob was quite a prosperous man and was walking with Jehovah, but he confesses they have been " hard". The Psalms opens our understanding to how the life of David, a man after God's own heart, swung from one extreme to another. One season he is living in great glory, another season he is suffering under misery and many times humiliation. This should I say, the " lifestyle" of true discipleship in our pilgrim on this earth.
I need to really, really get this into my heart. My mind really needs to be renewed that no matter one's lot in life, there is misery in and around our lives. We must not place our hopes in anything or anyone except the Rock of our faith, Jesus.
Heartaches, disappointments, betrayals, are more painful because we peg our hopes on people and things. But when we are detached from them, it will just feel like a scratch. I need this grace.
Blessed Mother, pray for me.
As an intercessor in the Heartdweller Africa mission, but even just as a father, brother, friend a missionary, I must know how to pray for others correctly. Many times, we pray wrongly because our prayers are emotional and thus miss the principle in the bible about successful prayer.
This is what 1 John 5:14 says about prayer.
"This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, he hears us. "
My Rhema this morning on this 15th of my solitude, at the end of my Night Vigil was from the Book In Sinu Jesu. This what Jesus told the priest and it's very instructive,
"When you pray for any soul,
I quote what Jesus told the priest,
When you pray for any soul, begin by uniting yourself wholly to My perfect will for that soul and by entering into all the designs of My Heart on that soul. Desire only what I desire. Will what I will. Let your prayer be a way of harnessing yourself to Me so that we might work together for souls and for My Father’s glory. This is what I meant when I called My dear friends to take My yoke upon them. I wanted them to learn to labour with Me"
That’s a quotation from the In Jesu book from June 23rd 2009.
Guys, this the right way to pray for souls and also for circumstances. when we pray for souls or situations, we must desire only the will of God for them. Many of our prayers are very carnal and ineffective.
I remember a story in the Bible when King Saul died, and his son Rehoboam faced a rebellion from 10 tribes of Israel & they installed Jeroboam to rule over them.
King Rehoboam prepared an army to go and stamp the rebellion, but Jehovah God sent a prophet to warn him not to because it was the will of God for the kingdom to be divided into two. Can you imagine the prayers his allies were praying before God intervened. We need to pray God's will into situations.
I am doing presently the Novena Surrender prayer. On day 2 of the prayer Jesus tells the soul,
" Surrender to Me does not mean” I quote what Jesus said
“ Surrender to Me does not mean, to fret, to be upset, or to lose hope, nor does it mean offering to Me a worried prayer asking Me to follow you and change your worry into prayer.
It is against this surrender, deeply against it, to worry, to be nervous and to desire to think about the consequences of anything. It is like the confusion that children feel when they ask their mother to see to their needs and then try to take care of those needs for themselves so that their childlike efforts gets in their mother’s way. Surrender means to placidly close the eyes of the soul, to turn away from thoughts of tribulation and to put yourself in My care, so that only I act, saying, “You take care of it.”
That was the end of the quotation.
While I was doing my Day-2 prayer this scripture came into my mind.
" Don’t be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."
Unfortunately, we carry our anxieties to pray and try to make the Lord bend to our will. We should simply present the situation into His hands and ask Him to act according to His will.
That is a prayer, our Father will answer.
Those who watch the series “The Chosen”. Peter had a faith crisis because he could not understand why Jesus could not stop his wife miscarriage or when Thomas fiancée was killed in a Jesus gathering had and Jesus did not save her Thomas went into a faith Crisis.
There is something Jesus always said which should make us plead for mercy in difficult situations that tell the Lord what He should do.
John 5:19.
"Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son of man can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner."
I should do better for myself, my loved ones and for other souls by uniting our prayers with the will of God. My joy must be only in the Lord and nothing else.
Until next time let us remain faithful.
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