Don’t Mess with St. Jude
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by Richard Poe Thursday, October 11, 2012 8:06 am Eastern Time |
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ST. JUDE is the patron saint of lost or desperate causes. You pray to St. Jude when you have nowhere else to turn. You pray to him when you are trying to do the impossible. You pray to him when all the odds are against you. That’s where I am now. That’s why I’m praying to St. Jude.
In the past, I never would have written an article like this. My pride would have prevented me. In the past, I would have prayed first, then decided what to write later. I would have waited for the results of my prayers. If the results pleased me, then yes, I might have written something about them. But if the results displeased me, I would have kept silent.
In effect, I was bargaining with St. Jude. I was trying to make him a deal. “Answer my prayers, and I will give you free publicity,” I was telling the saint. “But, if you don’t answer my prayers, you’ll get nothing from me.”
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St. Jude places a special requirement on his devotees. When you pray to him, you are supposed to publish the results. You are supposed to tell people what happened. |
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It’s natural for people to bargain. But bargaining doesn’t work with St. Jude. He’s not a businessman, and he doesn’t need your business.
What St. Jude requires is loyalty, devotion and obedience, with heavy emphasis on the word obedience. St. Jude places a special requirement on his devotees. When you pray to him, you are supposed to publish the results. You are supposed to tell people what happened. You are supposed to tell them what the saint did for you. There are all sorts of ways to spread the word about St. Jude. You can do it the old-fashioned way, by word of mouth, or you can post messages on the Internet. But, one way or the other, you must spread the word. In so doing, you inspire others to pray to St. Jude. At least that’s the theory.
If I have learned one lesson, after nine years of praying to St. Jude, it is this: You cannot bargain with this saint. You cannot sit in judgment over him. It is not our place to judge whether St. Jude has answered our prayers to our satisfaction. When we pray to St. Jude, we must publish the results, whether we like them or not.
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With this article, I am going one step further. I am announcing my novena to St. Jude in advance, before I have even finished it. This is the fifth day of my novena. There are four days to go. I have no idea how St. Jude will answer my prayers. I have no way of knowing if he will answer them at all. I do not know if my life will be better or worse when this novena is done. I do not know if my path will be clear or whether it will remain hidden from me. But whatever happens, I will announce the results on this blog.
I am praying for a nine-day miracle. I am praying for a turnaround in my fortunes. I am praying that my little publishing company Heraklid Inc. will succeed, and that I will earn enough money from my books to get back on my feet. And I am praying that St. Jude will make crystal clear, by the ninth day of this novena, whether or not he has chosen to grant my petition.
Whatever happens on the ninth day, I will announce it on this blog, even if it seems like bad news. I will trust that St. Jude has his own good reasons for doing what he does, even when I don’t understand his reasons. And I hope and pray that, whatever happens to me and my wife, and to our struggling little company, be it good or ill, that our story may serve to instruct and help others.
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I have prayed the novena to St. Jude to help a little boy. We have seen definite progress in this sweet child. I will continue to pray to him daily in hope and faith that he will continue to help this child. Thank you St. Jude for coming to my aid.
Thank You Saint Jude for hearing my prayer. Thank you Saint Jude for your intervention. Today is day two of my novena and I am waiting in faith. Thank You
Thank you St. Jude. I am on day eight of my prayers. I believe in the miracle of St. Jude and will be forever grateful and spread the word of St. Jude to all who will listen. Thank you St. Jude!
I recently read this article by Richard Poe who said you are expected to post your prayer result because that’s What’s expected,no matter what the rest maybe well here i am posting my results I prayed to St Jude by using this 9 day novena and I did all the other things that were required of me. It has been well over5years at least and I didn’t receive what I prayed for are anything close. I’m not mad are upset It just confirms that what I’m praying for is unachievable or is not for me. I really wanted this, it was my way to improve on my life and others. Oh well I guess. I encourage others to pray and to St Jude because my prayers aren’t yours and you aren’t me it’s just not not my time. So pray and keep on praying. And for those of you who receive what you asked for keep testifying and spreading the good news. Amen Be Blessed my brothers and sisters.
I pray daily to St. Jude and will continue to do so. We have seen more progress in the sweet little boy I am praying for. Thank you St. Jude!!
St. Jude, you answered my prayers for help with a difficult exam and even before the results were revealed you should me through a dream that I would fall but would rise back up. I failed the exam only to have my results recalculated and changed to a passing grade by the end of test day. If that is not powerful I don’t know what is. Thank you for also assisting me in finding closer for a financial problem and fixing my cash flow problem.
As I continue to pray to St. Jude, we continue to see progress in the child I am praying for. Thank you St. Jude!
Thank you St Jude for intersessing for me, for my new job and financial breakthrough. I thank you for getting my brother out of the crutches of alcahol and giving him a new lease of life. You have always come through for me and I know I will continue to come to you in my desperate times, In Jesus name, Amen
Thank you st jude for hearing my prayers today you are my saint and i will thank you in heaven….
God, thank you for all the grace and favors which you have given me through the prayers of your Apostle, Jude Thaddeus. St. Jude, I thank you for your intercession in response to my prayers regarding my relationship. I will always be grateful to you and will spread to devotion to you. Be with us always so we may face our problems with courage and serenity.
I encourage devotion to St. Jude he never fails to help and answer our prayers.
St. Jude Novena ( Pray for 9 days straight at the same time)
St. Jude, glorious apostle, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the name of the traitor has caused you to be forgotten by many. But the Church honors and invokes you universally as the patron of hopeless cases, and of things despaired of. Pray for me who am so miserable. Make use, I implore you, of that particular privilege accorded you to bring visible and speedy help where help was almost despaired of. Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation and help of Heaven in all my necessities, tribulations and sufferings, particularly … (Make your request here) and that I may bless God with you and all the elect throughout eternity.
I promise you o blessed St. Jude to be ever mindful of this great favor and I will never cease to honor you as my special and powerful patron and do all in my power to encourage devotion to you. Amen.
St. Jude, pray for us and for all who honor you and invoke your aid.
Pray 3 Our Fathers, 3 Hail Mary’s, 3 Glory be to God
THANK YOU St. Jude for helping me with my money problems. The final day I finished my prayer novena I received a letter about my financial situation. It sounds like a made-up testimonial but it is not. I haven’t contacted St. Jude in years since I only turn to him for emergencies and dire situations, but he always comes through, and I’m not even very religious. I’m agnostic.
Thank you St Jude for your answer. I prayed that I would be called back to work and that I would receive the finances for the time I was off. And St JUDE answered my prayer. I thank you St Jude for the full blessing. St Jude was told to me by my co worker. And I read the story on St Jude and it clarified my faith. Thank you St Jude for praying for me. And hearing me when I felt there was no way. I share my miracle and belief to others who feel there is no answer. Thank you St Jude.
I have known about the prayer to St Jude in 1987. Whenever I had no way out I used and still pray to St Jude and I have always been given what I was asking for. Even if I do not get exactly what I wished, always I got the plan B. This prayer is so powerful. It moved mountains for me.
I wish every one would pray this prayer
I am on the 3rd day of my novena to St. Jude. And I’m hoping that my prayers will be answered. I’m really in a desperate situation right now. Although, a friend of mine told me not to really depend on him, I will still pray to St. Jude. I believe in him and the Lord. There’s no harm in trying and praying, right? Thank You in advance Lord and St. Jude. Whatever may be the result of my prayer, i’ll continue to pray and believe in your power and of course God’s power. Amen!
Thank you St Jude for answering my prayers, 6/9 charges were dropped and we are now waiting for the NMC hearing. I pray that the last hearing goes well. Thank you so much.
Thank you St Jude for answering my prayers, i am getting the money I need.
St. Jude helped me recover my reputation in a way that was nothing short of miraculous. Right now I’m praying to him with another big request. I believe this dude will come through.
I am going on Day 6 of this journey and I am so looking forward to what is in store from him. I believe he has something in store for all of us whether it works the way we want it or if the odds of it not, it goes into an even better direction with purpose of our own meaning of life. I will be posting my results and I surely do believe he has a way for all of us!
Thank you St. Jude. I do acknowledge what you have done for us in the past and hope you can help again. Thank you St Jude
Thank you st Jude for the continuous provision day after day when I need and ask for your help, you always come through for me. Please keep praying for my career life. Thank you Lord Jesus for your faithful servant St Jude.
Thank you God and St Jude for answering my prayers…. The doctor had to send my mom with a heart specialist and they did a test on her to check her heart but before I went I prayed so much to our God and St Jude I did the novena for 9 days I prayed nothing serious would be wrong with her heart and my prayered was answered! She came out fine from her exams Thank you God and St Jude Who never left my sight I will be forever grateful!
Dear St Jude
Thank you for hearing my prayer and I ask for your intercession to pray for me and with me to on behalf of God that my miracle be answered. I want Quentin Odrick back into my life,please keep me close in his heart and in his thoughts daily to love and cherish me throughout eternity. I ask that my blessings be given that I receive the resources needed to buy the gifts that I promised, and I will be able to spend good times with him to enjoy as we live laugh love with peace and joy in our hearts. I am grateful and have faith as my Novena is in the 9th day,that my prayers will be answered. Amen RRG
I’ve prayed to St. Jude several times in the past. I may have received what I prayed for, the door was opening, but deep down I knew that what I requested was not right for me and probably not in accordance with God’s plan. I never did publish my results, I guess because I didn’t think it worked since it didn’t go exactly how I wanted it to go and I also changed my mind about what I wanted. St. Jude did answer my prayers and I am forever grateful and devoted. I encourage everyone to pray to St. Jude. Let go and pray to him. He listens. Open your heart.
I am thankful for everything and know that I am blessed. I continue to have faith and grow closer to God so that I don’t continue to make the same mistakes. I’ve started a new novena today for a job that I really want. I feel that the decisions that I have recently made took me off course and I want this new job so that I’m back on track. I pray to St. Jude for this new job opportunity and will continue to walk in faith. I believe and you should believe too.
From the bottom of my heart i will always be grateful that i prayed saint jude thaddeus novena because of this i never lose hope i already finished my 9thday novena yesterday and i know in the coming days it will be answered..whatever it takes i’m very glad that i’ve known you beacause of this my faith made it stronger.. Thank you saint jude:)) for interceding in my prayers !
I finished my 9 day Novena today to Saint Jude. He did not answer my request, I am so sad. I also understand it is his & God’s way of saying NO. Asking for my fiance to return just is not God’s plan. So very sad but I know I must continue on. Thank you for at least listening St. Jude
Please St.Jude help cure my h issue / m issues. please help a,a,j,d,l,a . thank you god bless all.
I want to thank St Jude for his prayers on my behalf and have prayed for nine days I will wait for my results and will pray without ceasing Thank you St Jude for loving me As I seek an answer.
Thank you St. Jude. I have been praying to you for 9 days. I believe in the miracle of St. Jude and will be forever grateful and spread the word of St. Jude to all who will listen. Thank you St. Jude!
St Jude has answered my prayers and fufilled my needs in desperate times. I have faith in him and thank him!!
Hi everyone! I’m on my fourth day of my St. Jude Novena. So far, God, Jesus and St. Jude were giving me delicious food in advance. One of my prayers were delicious food for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. St. Jude really listens to our prayer. Thank you St. Jude, thank You God, Jesus and Virgin Mary. You’ve blessed me with delicious food in advance. Even on my second day of my Novena.
As for my other four prayers, I’ve yet to see the results on Christmas Day. In God’s will I pray to St. Jude to help me get back with a loved one, financial assistance, loyal friends and to uplift my partner’s situational depression.. I’m still on my fourth day. Tomorrow’s my fifth day. Everyone should try to pray St. Jude Novena.
Thank you St. Jude for the advance treats!
Thank u St Jude for answering one of my prayers.i succeeded in my exams,which is indeed a miracle for me.u did the miracle.
Please St Jude,find a way me and my love unites forever,he proposes me in marriage.and help me in getting the job im praying.i hve faith in u.i love u St Jude and thank u for everythg
St. Jude helped me get into a great college a couple of years ago. I never thanked him. When I came upon this post I realized that I had to share what he helped me achieve with others. Thank you, St. Jude. I’m sorry this took so long.
Thanking St Jude for many miracles one was for s spouse and already got an answer! Within a day, of the novena I met someone who is a Christian and loves God. Thank you st Jude.
Thank you st.jude!! You heard my prayer and helped me get through such a difficult exam with flying colours! Im sorry I dint publish it then…(I didn’t know we should) and if u are angry with me for that please forgive me st.jude!
Thank you Saint Jude for giving hope to the hopeless and listening to our prayers in desperate times. I am praying your Novena for my mom with stage 4 cancer who could have days to live. I pray for your intercession for her healing here on earth so she can continue to guide me and be my light in Jesus here on earth in my teenage years. please allow her to get better ive been praying so hard and although things keep getting worst, I know that God can totally heal her and make a miracle in the blink of an eye. Please let my mom stay on earth with me and continue you to be my spiritual and moral guide i dont know what i would do without her love. I am on the second day of my novena and will post my results when I see them. Praise the Lord
In the past Saint Jude has answered my prayers. Prayers that i thought were very hard to be answered but they were answered. The first two times I ever prayed were about school issues like convincing a rather harsh teacher to understand that I was absent due to medical reasons and therefore should not have been deducted so many points on my work. The other was to get a last minute spot for the art teacher I wanted to have when the class was already well full, the vacancy that opened went to me. Another time I recommended my mom to pray to him for some debt that was being collected that was way, way higher than the original amount and the debt turned out to not be collected after all by order of the court itself. Another time I prayed for my computer to be able to be fixed when I probably did not deserve it as it was mainly my fault it cracked but somehow my extremely harsh father who hardly ever buys me anything, especially something expensive decided that he would buy me a brand new and better computer, which is a miracle knowing how stingy he is. However now I am asking for just another miracle which I hope with all my heart will be answered just like those past ones. Thank You so much for everything St. Jude.
Thank you Saint Jude for helping me get my sweetheart back! You truly are a miracle worker and I will be grateful to you always.
Thank you Saint Jude.
I would like to thank Saint Jude yet again for coming through for me! He truly is powerful! Thank you so much for helping me with my special request!
Thank you, Saint Jude
Three years ago, i had a huge problem. We were being asked to move out by our tenant due to unsettled rental bills. I dont have a home to stay with my kids and no money at all. I just had delivered my youngest baby that time thats why I couldn’t work. Then I prayed the 9 day novena to St. Jude. On the 4th day, a relative gave us huge money, yes gave not even lent, and we were able to settled all bills and were able to look for a descent home for me and my kids. It wass actually more,than I asked for.
After three years, I confess I’ve forgotten about him.It was really shameful for me to do. Now, I am having the similar problem again. I feel so unworthy for forgetting about St. Jude. INow, I would like to tell everyone,that St. Jude really had changed our lives. He saved me and my children many times. HHe truly answers our prayers .Just please keep on having a humble heart and never forget about him just like what I’ve done. Please forgive me ,St. Jude. I have learned my lesson.
I have used St. Jude Novena in my hopeless situations before and I have seen the results. I had some family problems and I prayed in faith and everything change for the best.
I am embarking on the same 9 day journey of faith today to pray for my child who have developmental milestone delays as a result of a medical procedure she went though. as I begin to pray th St. Jude Novena, I see her walk and run around. After 9 days my toddler will be alright. God has touched many lives and made them well and I see the same for my child. I speak healing and breakthrough in her young life. as I pray I know st.jude have held my hand and everything will be just fine. we have done therapies etc etc but it haven’t given us the 100%results we seek, so now, am just letting it go and let God be God .
I am currently in the midst of my novena to St Jude. I am asking for financial help. My mom is ill and I have pretty much extinguished my family’s resources in trying to help here. (Our finances were on shaky ground before I came out to help her.). The bills are scary. The novena is decidedly a comfort. I promise to share my answered prayers. Hopefully I will recognize the answer when it is given. Thank you so much for your blog!
I would like to thank Saint Jude for helping me in my situation with the man I love. He has answered some of my prayers immediately and some I’m not so sure if it there was even an answer at all. The situation is still in question, but no matter the outcome I still thank you Saint Jude for your helping hand in my time of despair.
I am praying to st Jude once again, in the pass he has come to my aid and helped me out.i believe in st Jude and right now I need him again as I’m going through my darkest hour. Oh st Jude please listen to my prayers once again, amen
I once again would like to thank Saint Jude for his kindness towards me. He has helped me yet again and for that I am truly thankful! I want to thank him in advance for helping with my prayers. I will continue to spread his name to others and encourage those who are in despair to call upon him for his help. He is truly a powerful saint!
Thank you so much Saint Jude!
Thank you St. Jude for helping me with my prayers. Thank you for all that you do in interceding for my prayer request. I will countine to say novena to you and thank you again for a that you do.
I prayed St. Jude 3 weeks ago and he brought me together with St. Expedite what I needed. I published his name and left him coins as presents which I will spend on homeless animals. However, I have a much bigger problem at the moment. I made a novena . While waiting the results of the Novena, I will once more pray him tonight. I know he is a very soft hearted Saint. I know that he knows I have good intentions at heart. And when he brings me the miracle which I need within less than 24 hours, I will once more put him coins and on Friday will spend it on homeless animals again. I know they are desperate as me. They need security, food, happiness and human touch. This is all I can do for them at the moment. Please hear my prayers St. Jude. Thank you.
I am praying to St.Jude for a good rank in my exam…I worked hard with my new born child. It was a great challenge but I didn’t give up either on my child or my studies..For a god rank I need immense blessings from heaven as it is a highly competitive exam.I believe and have 100% faith that this prayer will be answered..I have not finished my prayer but believe by the end of 9 days I shall feel myself blessed.I shall get back with my results soon so that others can feel the power of St.Jude’s prayer.
This is a little overdue, but yes St. Jude does listen to your prayers! He makes things happen, even if you don’t see it right away. A lot of times people expect their prayers to be answered right away but sometimes it takes a bit longer. Don’t be discouraged, he always helps! Always. I promised to publish this so here I am, he helped me years ago and now when I need help again he’s on my mind. Trust him, Jesus and God. 🙂
Thank you my darling st Judes for all the miracles you have performed in my life.thank you
I am a believer of the novena and have prayed to Saint Jude for many years. I have had prayers answered, like when my brother got hit by a car, I prayed that my brother would come out of a comma that he was in for almost 2 weeks, and when the doctor announced he would have to amputate his leg. My prayer was answered and my brother came out of his comma and his leg did not have to be amputated. Also my prayer to saint Jude to get hired by a company that I interviewed with and I really wanted was answered just recently. I am going through a very difficult time of my life, my children and I live in my ex mother in laws home and she is proceeding with eviction process although at this time I can not afford to move. I am praying to Saint Jude he has never let me down.