The Next Novena! (It was one of Padre Pio’s favorite prayers)

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We’re really excited to announce that the next novena we’re praying is the Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus!

The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is celebrated 19 days after Pentecost, so we start praying this novena on Wednesday, June 10th — that’s one week away! 

For this novena, we will reflect on Jesus’ love for each and every one of us. We will pray for our hearts to be conformed to His Sacred Heart, for us to be more merciful, more loving, and more Christ-like.

You can sign up to join us in prayer here:

https://www.praymorenovenas.com/novena-to-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus

And you can share your prayer intentions with us all below.

We’re looking forward to praying with you and for you! 

God bless you!

John-Paul & Annie – PrayMoreNovenas.com

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  1. Please pray for me, my husband and my entire family for God’s protection and blessings, also pray for me that my Visa applications will be accepted and be successful. Thank you lord

  2. For serious health problems of my daughter and son-in-law, that they have a healthy life in Gods loving arms.

  3. Please cure my daughter’s ear problem.
    Pray that her surgery in July will be successful.
    I pray to you Our Lady since you know how a mother suffers.
    I love you and I believe in you
    Pray for my daughter and cure her ear.
    Amen

  4. Praying for the health of my daughter Mari.
    Praying for the health of my brother Artur.
    Praying for my son David.

  5. Please pray for my grandson Lincoln, he’s two years old and all of a sudden he stopped eating and is on a feeding tube.

  6. I plead to sacred heart of Jesus for my elder son to be healed from eczema and to complete his engineering studies successfully. Keep my family in good health, mind, body and soul. Help my husband in his job and free of problem. Cure him of his diabetes and shoulder pain. Make him to find peace through you Jesus. Help and protect my younger son in all his endeavors and lastly Jesus help me in successfully completing all the topics, revision and passing my SAP certification at the earliest. Please hear my humble request Jesus

  7. I pray that i find a driver for my truck and that business is great for the rest of the year, and beyond. Allowing me to provide for my family. I also pray that my son has an amazing tourney and makes the all tourney team and comes home with the championship! Amen

  8. Kindly pray for healing for our sisters Clarita Guerrero, Malyn Nigos, Manel Estira, and also for my husband Mortimer and son Martin. Prayers for protection for our son Mark at his fishing guide job in NWT.

    Thanks and God bless

  9. Please help my children with their individual needs. Bring them all back to practicing their Catholic faith. Son – help finding better employment, that he and his wife get their marriage blessed and are able to have a child. Daughter – strength to care for newborn, nearer employment, smooth home purchase and move in. Daughter – be with her. Thanksgiving for blessings.

  10. Please pray for my daughter, Cindy – that the right decision (God’s Will) is made regarding her possible assignment with government service. Please Lord allow whatever is best for her and her family regarding this situation happen. That I may hand this over to God and trust Him completely.

  11. My prayer intentions are;
    1. May God help me find a job that I can
    do well where my company is kind
    and nice, and where my boss will
    treat me well.
    2. May my previous employer who
    terminated my employment, pay for
    my severance pay fairly and on time.
    3. May my filing for tax exemption for
    my separation benefits with the
    government be expedited and
    successful.
    4. May Social Security System of the
    Philippines accept my request for
    refiling of my claim for Sickness
    Benefits having been infected
    previously with Covid, which they
    deny for the reason of non-existing
    license number of my attending
    physician.
    5. May my Sickness benefits claim be
    given due course and approved.
    6. May God bless the “candy making”
    business that my wife and I are
    beginning to put up.
    7. May God give us good health and
    keep my wife and I away from
    accidents.
    8. May God; through His Holy Spirit,
    lighten our path and bless us with
    the gift of understanding to
    comprehend His plan for me.
    9. May God; through His Holy Spirit,
    bless us with the gift of Fortitude to
    do His will for me.

    Thank you for praying for me and God bless!!

  12. We are having family get-together tomorrow to celebrate my brother who died in January, the Sam Caito family and Fathers Day. I am praying all come together in peace, love and Joy of God. I am asking prayers for forgiveness and reconciliation in families with the Lord Jesus, in particlular our families and may only the holy Will of the Lord be done. May God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit fix any problems I have caused, as well as everyone elses. Also if it be the Will of God, Benjamin attend Baptism class in July so his 6 year old son can be Baptized. Thank you. I pray for you all as well.
    I ask for all the graces the Blessed Mother has to do whatever she knows she should do in our situation. And the intercession of all the Holy Saints and Angels of God, I plead the same requests. Thank you and God bless.

  13. Dear Lord Jesus I trust You for the urgent requests that are on my heart as well as the ones on my 2 adult kids hearts too! I now THANKYOU for answering these urgent prayers and am grateful! I know YOU are the answer for things that seem impossible so I TRUST IN YOU SACRED ❤️ Of JESUS! Protect me& my loved ones from evil(K,A,J&J,R,R,M,M,am& all our animals! JESUS I TRUST IN YOU! Teach us to be humble,loving,forgiving! Please work in our hearts! XO

  14. I offer this novena for the people of Ukraine and Russia, I pray to ask Jesus to help them to end the war and bring peace, love , unity and reconciliation among the leaders of the two countries. Also I pray for those who are sick, street children, and those who suffer financially.

  15. Please that I don’t have cancer of my thyroid or if heaven forbid I do that it hasn’t spread. Acceptance of God’s will. Health for Shawn, Kait and Bob.

  16. To the Sacred Heart of Jesus
    I pray for miracle healing for Ted and Marlon in ICU, for my Aunt recovering from surgery, for safe trip for my sister and protection and strengthen for her to handle Mum and brother, for healing my health situation and my husband’s health, and for my daughter’s mental health. I pray for miracles for my daughter and older son to find their career focus, for focus to complete my research this summer and smooth preparation as I start my doctorate. I pray that all will be provided for my family financially and food, bills paid on time. I pray for my youngest son to complete high school smoothly in the next two weeks, as well as his prom and graduation, and for university residence to come through for him and all fees paid up on time. For family unity and protection from danger, disease and evil. Thank you for all blessings, Sacred Heart of Jesus, intercede for me. Amen.

  17. I pray for the graces and gifts of:
    Honesty to myself and others
    Sorrow for my sins
    To feel shame for my sins
    The ability to weep for my sins
    Selflessness

  18. Please pray for my daughter”s safety. She is in an abusive relationship and is blindly being lead. In Jesus’s name let her leave and safely go forward. Amen

  19. Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on me and my family give us back our life our Paul, he came to you together with his friend Keith in baptism on his 18th birthday, how can I reach you sacred Heart to answer my prayer
    I love you ,I trust and are waiting for Paul’s return
    Thank you Lord Jesus

  20. Prayer intentions:
    1. HEALING OF MY SISTER ROSEMARIE RAMOS SENTING FROM ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION.
    2. GOOD RESULTS OF MY FRIEND RICHARD TONGSON’s BONE MARROW BIOPSY .
    3. PEACE ON EARTH ESPECIALLY IN WAR TORN COUNTRIES.
    4. HEALING FOR ALL COVID VICTIMS AND PROTECTION OF ALL FRONT LINERS AND HEALTH WORKERS .
    5. OUR PROTECTION FROM THE COVID VIRUS AND OTHER DISEASES .

  21. Please pray for my daughter and her husband as they are going through struggles in there marriage after sixteen years I’m asking for help so that they can communicate and rekindle the relationship so that the union can survive this storm and there can be peace love and unity in Jesus name

  22. Sacred Heart of Jesus, please hear my prayers for my Daughter in law, Tonya. Praying for her legs to be healed and healthy pregnancy and baby. Thank you. Amen

  23. For my daughter wh underwent brain surgery to remove a tumor for the second time and has to undergo chemo and radiation. I pray that she can have healing from this horrible disease.

  24. My daughter & son In law are a young married couple they are going to marriage counsellor because he’s suffer depression and the marriage began breaking down . He didn’t want to seek help but counsellor recommended he gets assessed before marriage counselling Continues. Please pray God will remove all obstacles in their lives , break the chains & free them , I want them to find inner peace & to seek God ., to be happy in Jesus name amen

  25. Please pray for the safety and protection of the doctors, and staff from the young women who is showing up making unfound acusations. Adminstration has done everything to accomadate her but she continues to show up and acting out

  26. Please pray for our sons, Adam and Jeffrey, and their families to come home to the Church. Please pray for the intentions of our daughter, Johanna. Please pray for our grandson, Emmett, that he will be free from anxiety and will be safe this summer. Please pray for the safety of all children, born and preborn.
    Thank you.

  27. My intentions for this novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is that my husband will observe the 10 commandments religiously.
    That my son will go back to church and prayers and observe the 10 commandments religiously.
    That our good relations to our aunt will be restored and that she will not be that hateful.

  28. I am praying for my son’s Visa for his university studies.
    I am praying for my husband to get employment
    I am praying for peace and love in the home and in the marriage
    I am praying for my family to go through their different huddles.

  29. Hi, can l have a WhatsApp number so that it could be easier for me to chat u& u guide me on how to pray novena

  30. Plz pray for me to get God fearing husband carrying loving I need to settle divine favor,mecy and protection upon me ,my job Amen

  31. Praying for a Breakthrough in many areas off my life🙏
    My home to be sold my children for peace within them my health at night I have alot off pains on my knee and my Finance which I don’t have any income. Lord please help me🙏Amen.

  32. I pray for Kevin to be filled with God’s wonderful grace and to return to Mass.
    I slso ask our Lord for improvement within our family relationships especially between Mark and Kevin.
    I pray for all intentions of those people praying the novena

  33. Less pain for me
    Health and safety of my family
    Friends son to get better
    Nephew to regain eyesight and cognitive skills
    Prayers for our country

  34. Please pray for me that I AM able to successfully and lovingly fulfill my financial obligations in the highest most benevolent way. May everything work out beautifully for me and my family. Thank you!

  35. I think my older Partner is starting to develop dementia. Please pray I find the support and resources I need to develop with this challenging time.

  36. Please pray for my mother Ann total healingvand restoration, for the tumors/masses in her brain and lung to be cleansed out by the precious blood of Jesus and made to disappear completely. For every abnormal cells and diseased areas in my mother’s body to be touched and healed by Jesus. Pray that the biopsy test results come out normal and that my mom has no cancer. Oh Lord Jesus there’s nothing too hard for you are the Lord of the impossible,give mom quality life again,cover her with your precious blood and embrace her and give her your protection in her hospital bed,command the doctors who are attending her to only give the right medications and treatment Amen

  37. As family we have been in court for over 20 years seeking for justice in our land court case. may the Lord grant us a favourable out come. We also have 3 daughters whose father abandoned. My retired sister, their mother and I, their aunt, are the sole supporters. May they grow to love the Lord, pass their academic exams, get good jobs and good christian faithful husbands. Amen

  38. I pray for healing upon:
    1. Mrs Ugwu Amarachi
    2. Mrs Ukamaka Olisakwe
    3. Benita Nwebonyi
    4. Chizitellum Aforka
    5. Nwachukwu Genetrix
    6. Every other person who is in need of God’s Divine Healing.

    I pray God to approve my scholarship, Amen.

  39. Prayers for a sign of my vocation *rather it be marriage and/or religious life. If marriage, please pray for god to point me toward the right man to marry.
    Also pray for my grandpa and grandma’s health this summer!
    Thanks,
    Dominique

  40. I thank God that I got a tenant for one of my houses. Glory, honour, praise, thanks and adoration be to God always, forever and ever. Amen and Amen. 🙏 😇✝️🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊

  41. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I pray to you with everyone here. My sister is in ICU from uncontrolled diabetes and blood pressure. Today I ask you to pray for her complete healing. She’s got three kiddos and a husband who need her. Thank you.

  42. My husband has deserted ourarital home since early Nov, lat year. Has so far paid dowry for his concubine in Ukambani, Kenya and is not supporting his children well. He is not playing his role as a father to his children fully and doesn’t have any senses left in him that remind him of his husbandry role!
    Again, he has shifted all his wealth to the concubines residence and doesn’t remember if he hails from a community that needs him plus his economic input. He cares less about his family!

  43. Please restore my health and energy. I am in constant discomfort and pain that takes away my energy. I need help with this just to keep up my apt. “Cleanliness is Godliness.”

  44. For relief of pain. For my son to return to the Church and for healing on a difficult relationship with a neighbor.

  45. My intentions & deep prayers for;
    -that my daughter gets closer & closer with God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit & our Virgin Mary.
    -for me, to grow & hold a stronger faith each day to Jesus & the Virgin Mary.
    -for good health for myself, my daughter & my husband
    -for world peace
    -for the non-believers in God, may they find the correct path towards our Lord
    – for Annie & John-Paul ( both of you that have created this incredible prayer group!!).
    God bless all the people that our in this Novena:)

  46. 1:For my sacrament of marriage due in 14 August this year.
    2: Spiritual stability
    3:Family wellness
    4:Peace for Kenya in the coming elections due in August this year
    5: My financial freedom and stability

  47. My prayer request is for my sons, to stop using drugs and alcohol to get through their lives. That they become responsible adults and the lord repairs their minds from the abuse so that they will be able to make proper decisions for the rest of their lives. Amen. TY all!
    PS. I refuse to give up hope on them.

  48. Bless my children’s new marriages with faithfulness & life-long commitment. Provide them with wisdom & courage to live according to your word. Surround them with your love & protection always. Amen.

  49. I pray for my family and myself, may we remain faithful in the Lords promised blessings. I pray for healing on my body and those who are sick. For financial freedom that will get rid of debt in my family, and for success in my interviews. May I forgive those who have hurt me and my family and pray for healing amongst ourselves. May our individual prayers be answered. Amen

  50. Praying for miracle for Jerry Green who just got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and his wife Carol who has early stages of dementia.

    Most Sacred Heart of Jesus praying that a miracle will be granted to this beautiful couple.

    May they be a witness to their church that miracles do happen.

  51. Prayers for those to return to the Church…Faith to sustain them and bring them home….
    For all those in the Ukraine who are suffering for what they believe.

  52. Miracle healing for me and my brother. For my family’s health and happiness and financial issues. For my siblings and their intentions. And for our elderly may they be comforted. Amen
    Thankyou

  53. I ask of you all to pray for me to our Lord Jesus Christ that I will have a positive pregnancy test after this IVF I have just done and I will travel safely back home and I will have a healthy pregnancy and healthy and beautiful and God fearing children. Amen.

  54. I pray thatB will be baptized and that my kids and grandkids go to church and receive the sacraments.
    That all of my children are blessed with lifelong happy marriages and healthy happy children.
    An end to all addictions within our family.
    A complete healing for J of cancer. That I want obedience to God above all and that I come to love the rosary and all my prayers are pleasing to God.
    For all the decisions we need to make regarding our house and loans.

  55. Dear Sacred Heart of Jesus, please heal and protect my family, friends and I. Please Bless us 🙏 Spiritually, mentally, physically and emotionally.

    Please heal us of fibromyalgia, hyperparathyroid, kidney and heart disease, arthritis, anxiety, depression, asthma, allergies, COPD, diverticulitis, abdominal aortic aneurysm, double heart bypass surgery, myocarditis, cancer, diabetes and colon problems.

    Please help my wonderful husband take better care of his diabetes.

    Please help our wonderful son and his friends continue to live God 🙏 loving lives.

    Please also help our son, our nieces and nephews with anxiety. Help these young people find peace through God.

    Please heal our fractured Nation, and help all people understand the evils of abortion and socialism.

    Please help the good people of Ukraine against Putin.

    Thank you Sacred Heart of Jesus and Blessed Mother 🙏.

  56. I am making a pilgrimage and asking God to keep us all safe
    Health for Mike and Al’s marriage
    My autistic / special needs grandkids… Luke, Jude, MaryGrace
    My health in making this pilgrimage
    My son in being able to keep this new job in these hard times.
    Keep me afloat so I can help my kids financially when they need me, which is all the time.
    Help this sick society before we end up in Hades
    Keep my family and friends functional and close to you.

  57. I pray for all those who are suffering from the effects of Covid and the vaccination that has brought serious health concerns I pray that it will be resolved. I’d like prayers for myself for resolution for a long battle with my Dental started 31 years ago when I was doing drugs and my beautiful teeth were damaged in a bicycle as I blacked out woke up in the hospital I’ve had bone disease I’ve had replacements and I’m praying 30 some years later this will soon come to an end and that everything that comes out of my mouth and out for my tongue will be for the glory of God nothing but praise

  58. Please pray for Sean Kite he s my son has had addiction problems , just found out he has cancer of the nose , throat, neck, & brain in lymph nodes has doc appointment on Thursday June 22nd he does have financial issues and housing problems please pray he keeps roof over head .

  59. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus please take from me anything which is preventing me from having you totally in my heart. Please take from my body inflammation, especially on my right toe area. I pray for healing of that painful area. Pour your precious and powerful grace upon my adult children. Guide Stevie’s path and choices. Heal him mentally, physically and spiritually. Help him or send someone to help him lose weight and get healthy. Help him with his career that you have so graciously done in the past beyond my expectations. Thank you for the answers to my many prayers. Heal him any addictions, depression, health and mental issues. Surround him with many angels to keep him safe on his motorcycle, bike and car. Keep all evil from him. Protect Liv from violence and hateful comments and actions for being who she is. Bless and guide her path.

  60. Please pray for my nephew Akasham 23 yrs who is on a ventilator after almost drowning please pray for his healing

  61. Asking prayers for improvement for my obstructive lung disease as I’m having trouble breathing & don’t want to go on any more medications. Asking Jesus for help & healing❤️‍🩹🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

  62. I ask the Sacred Heart of Jesus to be with us on our family vacation next week. Many people will be having a get-together and I am asking for this special and beautiful time to be blessed and strengthened from Our Lord’s heart.

  63. Please pray that my husband’s business becomes successful. We have made a move 1 1/2 yrs now from a State where we lived many years and had a prosperous business. In this new move we have had no business and things are very bleak looking forward. God has been so good to us all these years during trials and successes. We are much older now and need the income to take care of our needs and obligations. Your intercessory prayers are very much appreciated.

    Prayers also for: Gaby, Rita, Maryanne, Catherine Rose & baby, Rose, Wendy, Frank & Steve
    Conversion prayers back to the Church and the sacraments for Audrey, Madelyn and Zachary.
    May the Lord bless you abundantly for your ministry.

  64. For health, and that my family stays close to Jesus and our Catholic faith and close to each other
    Also that my daughter’s passport be approved and received this week… It is being held up in a processing center ~ praying it will be resolved easily in the next few days and for safe travels
    In Jesus’ name I’m gratefully asking these intentions

  65. Prayers please for the sale of the property and the trails being experienced with respect to employment and jobs. I ask again protection for my grand children in these times and again protection from the plague. I ask strengthening and the gifts of the Holy Spirit that I may continue to increase my faith and trust in the Lord. I asked the intercession and the gifts of love, joy and peace in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Forgiveness of sins and mercy on us all. I pray for the poor souls in purgatory that they may be soon released into the presence of the Lord and see at last the end of their trials. 🙏🏼

  66. Praying for our daughter to come back to the Catholic Church and also to come back to our family!
    I pray that she will find a Catholic marriage partner and that she will be treated like Royalty by him!
    Thank you Jesus

  67. My intention is for my family, friends and world will remain ever close to our Lord and Blessed Mother. For those who don’t see or believe that they will come to know, love and say yes to the Lord. For God’s healing and peace in our hearts, minds and souls.
    Thank you, Melissa❣️🕊🌻🌹🛑

  68. That we are not evicted from this house 🙏🏼
    That this house holds strong while we are in it 🙏🏼
    That I get enough income 🙏🏼
    That I get caught up financially 🙏🏼
    That JorDan continues to move forward 🙏🏼
    That Allison finds job🙏🏼
    That Marlynn’s body hold strong 🙏🏼
    That DaShawn & Devin are safe 🙏🏼
    That we remain COVID free 🙏🏼
    That every one be encouraged 🙏🏼

  69. That we are not evicted from this house🙏🏼
    That this house holds strong while we are in it 🙏🏼
    That we can move into safe permanent home 🙏🏼
    That JorDan continues to move forward 🙏🏼
    That I get enough income 🙏🏼
    That I get caught up financially 🙏🏼
    That DaShawn & Devin are safe 🙏🏼
    That Allison get job🙏🏼
    That Marlynn’s body holds strong 🙏🏼
    That we remain COVID free 🙏🏼
    Everyone finds & keeps encouragement 🙏🏼

  70. Please I ask for your prayers and assistance for my sister Mary Pat and my son Luke — that they will both heal and recover and have long healthy lives with their families.

    THank you

    Anne

  71. Our daughter Rebecca is being taken to court again by her ex-husband in an attempt to get more parenting time with their 8 year old daughter. He is alcoholic and was abusive to our daughter. He is controlling, manipulative and has anger issues. Please pray the court rules in Rebecca’s favor for the safety (physical & mental) of our granddaughter Kathleen.
    Prayers for our country (USA) and good election results this fall.
    Prayers for an end to abortion.
    Prayers for protection of all pro-life people and organizations that are being targeted by anti-life groups.
    Prayers for the poor souls in purgatory.
    Prayers for all the intentions of Pope Francis.
    Prayers for my families protection from the evil in this world and for all their needs.
    Prayers for our son Kevin to return to the church and all other family members who have stopped going to church.
    Prayers for healthy baby and safe delivery for grandson due in September.

  72. Please pray for my daughter to get pregnant and to have a healthy , normal pregnancy and baby!
    Please pray for Jandy A. that his immigration visa arrives.
    Pray for Esther To have a job asap
    Pray for my husband good health
    Thank you Lord!

  73. For Complete healing and recovery from hip fracture and surgery for my 85-yr-old sister, Rufina Tainatongo. For patience and compassion for her daughter and caregiver, Lunetta, who is a recovering addict, and for thanks and blessings to her foster daughter, Lillie, who is a joy and God-sent!
    For world peace.
    For my autistic grandson, Jeremy—may God grant him the grace he needs as he makes his transition into the workplace.
    For my children and grandchildren—may they never go astray from Jesus as they struggle in this world we live in today!

  74. I am faced with potentially serious health issues. Please pray for me as I undergo tests to determine what these issues might be. I can be overwhelmed with the fear of the unknown as hard as I try to trust in the Lord. God bless you!

  75. Please pray for my husband who has Dementia and myself who is worried also bring out children and grandchildren closer to God🙏

  76. May God completely heal my soul from all traumas and free me from my oppressions and torments of the evil spirits, especially while I sleep at night.

    May the Holy Spirit be upon me all rest of my life and show me the causes of my sufferings.

  77. To receive that promotion I’ve worked hard for.
    To be able to be financially stable that I could move out and function on my own.
    To be able to move on with my grief/anxiety because I feel like it’s holding me back.
    To enjoy my birthday (06/24).
    To grow more meaningful relationships with my family and to find friends that are worth it.
    For my housing application to be successful and as smooth as possible.

  78. O merciful Jesus, I pray for your will be done in my family throughout this overwhelming and heartbreaking divorce.
    Help me to trust in you daily, to follow your will, to do as you lead, for me to clearly see what you want me to do.
    Help my estranged husband see the truth and follow you Jesus. For him to go to the sacrament of reconciliation, and have a conversion. For him to pray the rosary.
    Help my children stay focused on you Jesus. For them to follow your will in their lives and stay with pure hearts. To actively pray and speak to you and Mama Mary daily.
    Please help us pay the bills, keep our home, have financial freedom.
    In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen 🙏🏼

  79. O Sacred Heart of Jesus, make our hearts like unto thine.
    For the conversion of Maureen, Geoffrey, Vallan, Consi, Aidan.

  80. For a greater devotion to the Sacred Heart. For my marriage and for my children to find love with people who will lead them closer to God.

  81. Please pray for the kitchen staff at Pat and Joe’s pizzeria in NYC that they will stop harassing my son and others who live different life styles than they do. Pray they will be tolerant and respectful of others, let Jesus love fill their hearts. Please protect my son.

  82. I would like prayers for my children and grandchildren to know and love God and to live in His presence.

  83. Please, dear Jesus, restore baby Ellie to good health. Help her heart to heal and her lungs to work that she might finally go home to be with her loving family.

  84. For my family’s and our extended families’ and friends’ and relatives’ eternal salvation through Our Lord JESUS CHRIST.