Month: October 2015

God is Pouring His Spirit out like Never Before.

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We all need help to discern sometimes whether a vision or a visitation is from God, and if you are on your own, you can only pray about it and check it out if it agrees with the bible. My mother once complained to God that she wanted a perfect spiritual director to guide her and Jesus appeared to her and said ‘Aren’t I am enough.’ She grudgingly accepted it and then two months down the track she complained to God again and Jesus appeared a second time and said ‘you can if you want, but it is going to be useless.’ So she thought if it is going to be useless why bother. Now a great many people are going to complain for starters and say that was not from the Lord. The thing is we are all individual and God knows the best path for you and what He wants to accomplish in you.

Self-taught

I personally believe that in many ways my generation had to be self-taught in this area, since it wasn’t sociable acceptable amongst Christians to have supernatural gifts, especially speaking openly about it. I know there have always been people that God has used in a big way for many people to be healed, prophesy to etc. they are the lucky ones. Most of us were hushed up. What I am trying to say is what took my generation a lifetime to learn, this generation coming up will only take a very little time to learn if they are genuinely interested in walking with God, because they have a great many more teachers out there now. And also I believe the countless martyrs that have been put to death and still are being put to death for their belief in Jesus is not wasted. Because I believe God is rewarding the martyrs sacrifice in union with Jesus sacrifice on the cross, by releasing greater graces for the world to come to know Jesus and being filled with the gifts of the Holy Spirit in a most powerful way.

We are Called to be Co-Redeemers

It is a Catholic belief not shared by most Protestants. Protestants will say there is only one Redeemer and Jesus paid it all and that is that. What Catholics believe is all Christians are to follow Jesus all the way to Calvary, which means we are called to help save the world and one way to do that is to suffer as Jesus suffered. Now this is the tricky bit I find hard to explain, other people do a better job than I do but here goes. Jesus is the one only Redeemer. If Jesus didn’t pay for our sins all our efforts trying to help Jesus, save souls would be completely useless that includes evangelising. You can evangelise to someone all you like, but if you not backed up by grace you can forget it, you can’t save your own soul never alone somebody else’s.

God likes to work through His people. He doesn’t need anybody to help. It is just God’s way, He loves us to join in. It reminds me of the time when I was a small child. My mother would say ‘let’s make a cake.’ My mother did everything, got the bowl out, put all the ingredients in, stirred the cake mixture and then she would hand me over the wooden spoon, I would stirred it a couple of times and then she would put the cake mixture in the oven. Now far as I was concern I helped made the cake and my mother encourage me to think so. Our Heavenly Father is far more loving towards us than any parent on earth. He loves us to join in and do our little bit even though it is totally unnecessary.

God Rewards Christian Martyrs

Martyrs sacrifice their life for God, there is no sacrifice greater than that. So surely it stands to reason that God is going to reward them in very majestic manner. He is going to reward them more than any other person serving Him. When we pray we pray that God will spread His healing grace or saving grace on people all over the world and think nothing strange about it. What a great many people don’t seem to understand our whole life if lived for God is a prayer. God will reward you for living in union with Him. You live in union with Him when you let Jesus have His way with you.

I just believe that Christians Martyrs have made way for grace to spread throughout the whole world. I believe many conversion are taking place, because God has accepted their sacrifice so much so that He is rewarding them of souls being saved in a very powerful way. I believe when we make any kind of sacrifice and give it to God in union with Jesus suffering out of love and humility God always rewards us as if it was Jesus who made that sacrifice.

Powerful Prayer of Exorcism

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I just bought a very small prayer book approximately forty years ago and you still can get it on the internet. The book is called “The Pieta Prayer Book.” I highly recommend it, it is one of the best prayer books you will ever find and it doesn’t cost that much money to purchase either. When I first got this book I opened up to this prayer. I didn’t realised it was a prayer of exorcism, if I had known it I wouldn’t of start to read it, because I would have been too fearful to do so in those days. As I started to pray I felt the presences of exorcism so incredibly strongly, that there was no mistaking the prayer was being answered. The presence of exorcism filled the whole room and I was scared, but felt now that I started this prayer I better finished it.

is(7)Prayer To St. Michael

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in the day of battle. Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who prowl through the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

Some people have problems praying to angles, they think we are not allowed to do this. St Michael and all the angles and saints in heaven are our brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, I think it would be strange, not to talk to our family members. If we are in need of help the family members are usually the first people we call on for help. To me there is no difference with our spiritual family in Christ. I believe they are more our brothers and sisters then our earthly family in many cases.

Pope Leo Xlll composed this prayer after seeing a vision of the great fierce battle between St. Michael, and Satan over the Church. I would love to read up more about this Pope, because he is so completely the opposite of Pope Francis. Pope Leo does warned about attacks of the Catholic Church  in the latter days and what to look out for.

Our Lady appeared in Garabandal in 1961, I think it is a place in Spain. She told one of the children how many more popes there will be in the future and Our Lady told her that one pope she doesn’t count. That pope is Pope Francis, he is clearly if you look into what he is doing is the false prophet which the prophetess Maria Divine Mercy warned us about, at the beginning of his reign as pope.

There is a site that I just found on the internet, it is very informative on how Satan is attacking the Catholic Church and the address is Facebook.com/defeatmodernism.

Some thoughts what Heaven might be like

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There was a person who went to heaven that I saw on YouTube and she said that there is football in heaven. She reckons it is beautiful not like the football on earth. Other people say we basically do what we do here on earth, but everything is so much more joyous and so wonderful that it can’t be described. Music, visiting, driving cars even, beaches are in heaven, fishing and so on. One thing that one women mention was in her mansion, had a very big kitchen. Something I would be looking forwarded too. Heaven doesn’t sound like what I was told when I was young. That basically you sit on a cloud and just worship God for ever. They say that you are worshiping God all the time, but there is so much going on in heaven. I want to go there. I know Jesus wants us to think about heaven a lot. It keeps you positive and breaks your attachment of the things of the earth. It reminds you that your real home is in heaven. A place that is so exciting and creative, who wouldn’t want to go and live there for eternity.

A Visitation God gave Me when I was a Young Girl

isI2TNE013The little that Jesus has revealed to me about His majesty, as you can imagine their is nothing on earth that even comes close to describing anything about Him. You look at mother nature in the middle of no where and you can feel great power coming from a mountain for example. It is nothing to be compared with the power of God. It is just a small token of it. So when we are face to face to Jesus in all His glory, we will soon find out how small we really are before God Almighty. Once when I was a young child I had a visitation of God and I explained it to myself this way that I only tasted a teaspoon of God. His presence was so powerful I knew if the whole world was one mind, we would not be able to imagine what I experienced. I knew if God poured the power over a stone as He did with me the stone would worshiped God with all it had. So if that is only a teaspoon of God’s power, there is no way are we going to know what we are in for when He comes.

The Suffering We Experience in Life is Nothing Compared to the Glory We Will Experience in the Next

We live in our little world and don’t realise how big the outer world really is. Only God knows everything about us all. There is so many different trials out there. We all come from different places with different baggage that only God can really understand. The other day a word was spoken over me and the Holy Spirit touched my soul so deeply that I had a glimpse of what God could see in me. He revealed to me that my soul has stored all the memory of all the pain I have ever suffered from beginning of time to the end. My soul is still in very great pain but God protects us so that we don’t feel everything, that is the best way I can explain it. I saw and felt my soul experiencing a real deep appreciation and comfort that God truly cares about everything that I have had ever suffered in the past and He is going to reward me for it. I can’t exaggerate or even explain it that well, but I was crying so deeply, because I knew God really cared about every single suffering that I went through in my entire life. That He hadn’t overlooked not one thread of suffering that I went through. Just knowing God really loves me and appreciated all that I went through, that nothing is lost to Him, was such tremendous comfort.

People might think I am exaggerating about my suffering, but we have no idea how much our body and soul is holding.  I knew great healing of great magnitude will take place in heaven. We are all going to be in for a great wonderful shock when we are face to face with Jesus in His whole glory. We will no longer be seeing Jesus through a veil. We will all be healed and glorified through Jesus merits that it is going to be so incredible.

God’s powerful Presence

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isOI1ZI7NWOn Saturday while I was driving home, I looked up into the clouds and thought of the time when Jesus will be coming down riding on a horse with His whole army of angles. I had a hard time keeping my eyes off the clouds, because I felt a little of His presence with His army of angles. I saw a video the next day about the rapture that they are saying He is on His way now. That He is approaching the earth now. Remember it takes time to get to one place to another, but He is actually on His way to collect us. Then it dawn on me, the experience of what I saw the day before was actually seeing Jesus in a small way, His coming. That is why I felt His power. I don’t know how to explain it that well. One of the things that I felt besides wonder was fear. Fear of His Majesty and Power.

Jesus is so Kind

So it worried me, why do I feel so much fear about His presence, when I am on His side. Then I started meditating on How big and awesome He is and yet He left His place of honour to come to earth and lived a very humble and poor life for me, often being hated for my sake and then crucified in a most cruel way for me. And every day I eat the bread of life, because of His great infinite love for me. God is so huge and yet so selfless when it comes to loving His children. All the things He has ever has done for me is incredibly generous. Despite how powerful and Majestic He is, He loves us so much. I think it so important to meditate daily especially when the day of the rapture is getting closer and closer to remember God is infinitely powerful that it is frightening but His love for each and every one of us is equally powerful.

If we forget to look at His love for us, we may instead look at how unworthy we are due to our sins, and forget that Jesus has paid the whole price for our sins. All we need to do is believe it and love Him without fear that He will chastise us. Satan is going to try very hard to make us look at our sins and keep our eyes off the love God has for us. If we do that we won’t be able to stand up joyfully and welcome Him with any confidence that He will take us.

A Vision I had of the Worst Sinner in the World

I had a vision when I was in my late teens I think. I was meditating on the worst sinner I could think of, which to me was a priest that served Satan. I was meditating on this person that he only had a very short time to live and he was searching for somebody to teach him about Jesus. He asked this women about Jesus, but she refused to teach him, because in her mind he was so evil that he was too unworthy of being saved. Then in my meditation I said that not only did she turned her back on the sinner, but she turned her back on all the suffering Jesus suffered for him to save him. And then at that moment, Jesus took over my meditation and now it was like I was sitting upstairs, looking down onto the stage where Jesus had one knee kneeling on the ground and the other leg sweeping behind Him, with arms wide open to the imaginary sinner begging him to look at Him.

The sinner was looking at his feet in complete despair and hopelessness. I saw the women that refused to help him, walk past with full of self-righteousness. I noticed that Jesus did not judge her, but His whole attention was on saving and trying to convince the sinner to just look at Him. I was also given the knowledge, because the sinner was looking for Jesus, his life was extended for that reason. Jesus just kept begging the sinner to look at Him. Eventually I said to Jesus he can’t see you. Jesus ignored me and still kept begging for the sinner to look at Him. Years after the experience I realised what Jesus was doing! The sinner was looking at his feet, in other words he was looking at the lowest part of him, HIS SINS. He wasn’t looking at how kind Jesus was, how loving and forgiving Jesus was. The sinner only had eyes for his own misery and sinfulness that it prevented him to look at Jesus through the eyes of faith. So that he may believe in Jesus willingness to forgive all his sins and forget them as if they never had happened.

Trust Jesus With all your Heart

Now my belief is that all Christians need to repent of all their sins with confidence that Jesus has not changed. He is still a very loving and forgiving God, despite of our great and many sins. But we must believe and prepare ourselves to keep believing, because when we see the angry Jesus coming with His army of angles to judge the earth of the many unrepentant sinners, we may mistake us as one of them. Forgetting our sins are wiped out completely, because we not only have repented of all our sins, but Jesus has wiped them all out of His sight through the power of His blood. When we look at His majesty and think of His power we will then believe in the power of His blood is most definitely strong enough to wash away all our sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus love for you and not on your sins. Praise Him for His goodness and love and believe in Him. Look at His love not your sins.

My Adorable Jesus I trust in You

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Romans 10:13

Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

I was meditating once on how beautiful God is. I have seen a few video’s on people who have gone to heaven and I thought why wouldn’t people serve and worship God? He is nothing but goodness and love. In God’s kingdom everybody wins, there is only love and appreciation of one another. Whereas in Satan’s kingdom there is only hate and jealousy. I really think people are mad. God does expect us to do our bit and then great rewards follow. Satan on the other hand will promises you the world, only to spit you out when he no longer has a need of you.

isO5HO9OA7God’s law when it is all said and done is love. Thou shalt not kill, you wouldn’t want to kill if you love your neighbour. Thou shalt not steal, you wouldn’t want to do that either if you love your fellow man. And so it goes on. God’s laws are perfect and holy. Why can’t people see that? I look forwarded to the new heaven and earth that God has promised us. Where love will thrive and a lamb and lion sit beside one another in perfect peace.

I remember thinking why don’t people chose God, it is not like He is a bad God. People are choosing hell instead of heaven, because they do not believe and do not see how wonderful God really is. They are turning away from perfection and eternal bliss that only God can give. If they only worship Him and not some lie that they think is going to give them happiness, but instead it is going to lead to their eternal torment in hell. God showed me a little of His great sadness. Everything He does for us comes from His infinite love for all of us. He would never do anything that harms us. But if we chose to follow Satan He has no choice but let us go. He has given us a free will and He respects it.

I remember reading a book called “Eternity” by a women from the early twentieth Century. She was in a coma for a few days. While she was in a coma she visited heaven and hell. She was told even if God let the unrepentant people into heaven, they would experience more pain in heaven than in hell. The only people who can stand before God and not feel any pain are the ones who sins were washed away by the blood of Jesus. And that can only happen if you repent of your sins and believe in Jesus is your Saviour. Jesus is the door to heaven there is no other way to get in. So when it is all said and done, hell is less painful to the unrepentant sinner than if they were allowed to go to heaven.

Psalm 103:12

As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

The more you look at God looking at you with love, the more confident you are that God can and does truly forget all your sins. God is not mean, he is so affectionate. When I look at my animals how they love me, I think that is a little of God’s love for me. God is love and God has invented all the ways of loving, it all comes from his nature. God has a playful side that we very rarely think of.

To Call on God in Truth

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Psalm 145:18

The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all call on Him in truth.

What is truth? In this case, when we are sincere before God. When we empty ourselves of all self-importance as if God owes us something. When we realise how insignificant we are before Him. What have we done to truly deserve God’s favours? God made us out of nothingness and all we do in return is criticize Him when things are not going our way. Why do we blame God for everything that bad happens to us? Why don’t we blame ourselves for listening to Satan’s lies in the first place. If we were all God we would not put up with ourselves, we are worse than a spoilt brat. We wouldn’t tolerate it in our own children, what we dish out to God. That is why humility is so important and we have to be honest with God and admit we have very little of it.

2 Peter 2:9

So the Lord knows how to save those who serve him when troubles come.

Those who ‘serve Him,’ are the key words here. Do we serve ourselves or do we in truth serve God. I would love to be able to say that I always put God first, but if I did it would be a lie. One of the things that I love about God the most is, that I can be totally be honest with Him and know He will not let me down. With people you can only open up so much, because if you tell them too much about your weakness they will wipe you off. God never does. He is a true Friend and Father. We can count on Him for anything, but we have to call on Him in truth. We have to learn where our true place is before God and other people.

1 Corinthians 15:57

Thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.

I believe we are all basically a empty vessel with a free will. We have the ability to desire God Spirit to fill us up or we allow evil spirits to fill us up. So every time I decide to love things in a holy way I am allowing God’s Spirit to love through me. Every time I chose hate to express itself through me, I believe I am in fact allowing an evil spirit of hate to live and express itself through me. That is how I see it, it makes sense to me so I believe that the demons disguises themselves as us and in our ignorance we blame ourselves for feeling anger to somebody for example. We are one with Jesus, which means we take on His nature. When we feel anger to somebody, I now know that it is usually an evil spirit in me and I don’t have to go along with it. I can denounce it and refuse to let it worry me and do what I know Jesus would have me do instead. We all have many feelings that we do not like in us, but they are not always coming from us  but demons if we have been born again. We have died to sin, but yet we still get tempted to sin. The devils are not going to leave us alone and if they can trap you into thinking a temptation is a sin then they have got you. Sin is when you agree to something and do what you know is wrong, willingly.

Isaiah 41:14

“Do not fear, for I Myself will help you.” Declares the Lord, your Redeemer.

So when we figure out God is for us and all we have to do is be honest to our God, then He can help us. While we believe in the lies of Satan that God doesn’t love us, because we are too unworthy, our faith levels is not what it is supposed to be. Without faith nothing can be done. Our joy in our Lord is because we believe He really loves us and will help us in our trials. If we can’t believe, then there will never be joy in serving God. And the joy of the Lord is our strength. I find the first step is always the hardest and I have notice when you eventually do make that first step, God will surprise you and do all the rest. He meets you more than half way. Sometimes change can be so easy, because God gives abundant of graces to deal with the problem when we hand it over to Him in complete surrender and trust. We can’t do that without humility. So pray often for humility. It is so important to do so.

Reconcilliation between the Churches

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Ephesians 6: 10-12

Be strong in the Lord and in his great power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can fight against the devil’s tricks. Our fight is not against people on earth but against the rulers and authorities and the powers of the world’s darkness, against the spiritual powers of evil in heavenly world.

I have to admit that sometimes I can get extremely hurt and angry when I hear people treating my faith as a Catholic like we are heathens. I realise that the fight is not between people but rather we are fighting the devil and the fallen angel’s influences on us and the world. So being angry with people is actually falling in the trap the devil is setting up for me. Not only to do me harm but everybody else who has a taste of my anger.

The importance of Forgiveness

All Christians if we listen to the loving words of Our Lord will be reconciled with Him. If we forgive others only then are we forgiven ourselves. It is a truth we can’t run away from. The problem I see in this world, people insist on living in a fantasy where they make their own rules and think they can get away with it. If you put your hand on a hot stove, your hand will burn, it is a fact of life. It saddens me to see people will refuse to believe in God and will not even try to obey His commandments and think there will be no negative results. There is a hell and too many people are going there minute by minute, forever. Christians included.

I remember I did a very stupid thing when I was about the age of eight years old. I use to visit a friend’s place. She lived opposite to a very old and run down cemetery. I seem to always come home at dusk and passing the cemetery at that time use to scare me. I suppose out of fear, I dared the most evil spirit to chase me down the block. I hadn’t even finished the dare and a very evil spirit was behind me. I looked up to God for help and saw a very small white cloud on top of me and it was moving towards the end of the block so I raced after it. I was using the cloud as a focus point to communicate to God. I remember saying to God you can forget the fire and brimstone in hell, just being with this one demon for eternity is a hell I would not be able to endure. When I finally got to the end of the block, all the clouds became alive and I could see that the angles and saints in heaven were jumping up and down with joy of my escape.

Demons in Hell

If that one demon was too much to bear, think of all the trillions of demons we would have to live with for ever, tormenting us because we were too proud to accept the teachings of Jesus Christ and obey Him. That is where so many people are going. I think to myself all the beautiful things God has given us, the sun, moon, the earth and each other and yet we chose to worship ourselves and then lose everything and a whole lot more that He is willing to give us in heaven.

I believe God has put a very strong calling in me to educate what Catholics actually believe in. I do believe many people really think they know what Catholics believe in but have been wrongly educated by well-meaning Christians, causing unnecessary sorrow to many people. A good idea is to try to put yourself in the person’s shoes that you are questioning. Human’s beings tend to rush in and judge others without getting the facts. Most of the time we judge people from wrong information.  In Psalms I think it says people judge by outward appearances. God looks into people’s hearts. He knows everything and He is the only one qualified to judge anybody. And He is so merciful unlike the human race.

There are many good Christians out there that do love one another, despite what church you go to. I believe they are the mature Christians that lead people to Christ. Those who still are acting like little children, fighting amongst themselves are not leading people to Christ, but in fact are doing the opposite. Jesus said we will show people of the world that we are His true disciples by the way we love one another. Also loving our enemies is a very difficult thing when we let our human nature get in the way. People of the world don’t love their enemies. it is something that they do not understand about Christians, but at the same time it attracts them and then they start asking questions, hopefully to God. Many have converted because of this unique feature of the Christian faith. It is no small deal to love one another as Jesus loves us. It wins souls like no other way.

The Divine Mercy

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The Love of God is the flower – Mercy the fruit.

Sister Faustina was born in Poland. At the age of twenty years she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. Our Lord chose to entrust her with the mission to spread the Gospel of His Mercy. If you meditate on the prayer taking in the words slowly into your heart, the prayer will have great meaning. It is a powerful prayer to win over your confidence that God truly loves you and is merciful beyond measure. Once you have confidence in God’s mercy then your prayers become extremely powerful, if you pray for things that do not offend God. If you pray for things that are good and not harmful to yourself and others that is. God loves to answers our prayers at the right time.

Let the doubting soul read these considerations on Divine Mercy and become trusting.

Divine Mercy, gushing forth from the bosom of the Father – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Greatest attribute of God – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Incomprehensible mystery – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Fount gushing forth from the mystery of the Most Blessed Trinity – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Unfathomed by any intellect, human or angelic – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, From which wells forth all life and happiness – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Better than the heavens – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Source of miracles, and wonders – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Encompassing the whole universe – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Descending to earth in the Person of the Incarnate Word – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Which flowed out from the open wound of the Heart of Jesus – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Enclosed in the Heart of Jesus for us, especially for sinners – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Unfathomed in the institution of the Sacred Host – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, In our justification through Jesus Christ – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Accompanying us through our whole life – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Embracing us especially at the hour of death – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Endowing us with immortal life – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Accompanying us every moment of our life – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Shielding us from the fire of hell – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, In the conversion of hardened sinners – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Astonishment for Angels, incomprehensible to Saints – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Unfathomed in all the mysteries of God – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Lifting us out of every misery – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Source of our happiness and joy – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, In calling us forth from nothingness to existence – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Embracing all the works of His hands – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Crown of all God’s handiwork – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, In which we are all immersed – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Sweet relief for anguished hearts – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Only hope of despairing souls – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Repose of hearts, peace amidst fear – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Delight and ecstasy of holy souls – I trust in You.

Divine Mercy, Inspiring hope against all hope – I trust in You.

To the Divine Mercy

I fly to Your mercy, Compassionate God, who alone are good. Although my misery is great and my offenses are many, I trust in Your mercy because You are the God of mercy and it has never been heard of in all ages, nor do heaven or earth remember, that a soul trusting in Your mercy has been disappointed.

O God of compassion, You alone can justify me and You will never reject me when I, contrite, approach Your Merciful Heart, where no one has ever been refused, even if he were the greatest sinner. For Your Son assured me: “Sooner would heaven and earth turn into nothingness than my mercy fail to embrace a trusting soul. Amen

Jesus, Friend of a lonely heart, You are my haven, You are my peace. You are my salvation, You are my serenity in moments of struggle and amidst an ocean of doubts. You are the bright ray that lights up the path of my life. You are everything to a lonely soul. You understand the soul even though it remains silent. You know our weakness and, like a good physician, You comfort, and heal, sparing us sufferings – expert that You are. Amen

When Satan is Mad at You

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I remember once I was singing a song of praise and the person on the cd that I was playing said something like ‘I thank you Satan for giving me that mountain.’ I repeated it and added ‘because it made me come closer to you Jesus.’ Sometimes unexpectedly Jesus will respond to something that I have said to Him. In this instance I saw His pleasure that I realised after every mountain I climb for the Lord, I become that much closer to Him.

Just recently I have been clearing out all my excess gear in my place and giving it away. I collect books like no bodies business. So I parted with many of them. There were some books I was going to give to the library down town. Later on I thought that even though I personally see no wrong in these books, I felt it might lead some people astray, if their faith was not grounded in Jesus. These text books of course cost a fortune and I hate throwing away good money. I just didn’t feel comfortable to give it to the library so I thought I will throw them all in the garbage bin. Now as I was walking away I nearly tripped and I thought Satan is not happy about my decision.

Later on the day after I had thrown them away, I was having problems seeing through my eyes. Satan has done this before. Last time I called on the name of Jesus quite a few times and then I said ‘I command in the Name of Jesus my eyes now will be able to see even better than they ever have seen before.’ I saw Jesus smiled at me. And I knew my eyesight turned back to normal instantly, not because I had the faith but because I tried to stretched my faith even further, and Jesus was pleased with my attempt.

The second time Satan tried it, I thought to myself this time I am going to bless some water and ask Jesus to unite it with His Living Water and flush my eye with it. Remember we are supposed to have childlike faith. Children would have no problems believing in this, only old stuffy adults do. The old man in us must die if we are to follow Jesus. Anyhow while I was blessing the water my eyes sight was improving and when I flushed them with the water, my eyes were completely restored to normal. Then I thought of that song, when I said to Jesus ‘thank you for the mountain, because it brings me closer to You.’ Satan doesn’t leave us alone, so in one way we should be glad. Satan is forcing us to grow. We can’t afford to be complacent while Satan is around trying to ruin everything we do for God and steal away our hope, faith and love for Jesus which is our birth right.

The more we are going in the right direction the more Satan will try to wear us down, so that we give up. I remember when I was young I met this young man who had the gift of faith healing and because Satan was fighting him so hard he didn’t heal anybody in Jesus’s name after that. At that time I had many attacks from demons, because I found out how powerful intercessory prayer was. I kept praying regardless of the attacks and found that not only my faith grew, I learnt a few useful things about the enemy. When the demons stopped fighting me, I then got worried.  If Satan is attacking, it usually means to me you are doing something wonderful in God’s Kingdom and Satan is getting into a panic.

A Prayer of Consecraction to Our Lord

Bethany Prayer

I found this prayer in the internet one day. It is a very old prayer. Many may already know it, but for those who don’t, they may like to read it.

Have thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Thou art the potter, I am the clay: Mould me and make me after Thy will, while I am waiting yielded and still. Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Hold over my being absolute sway! Fill with Thy Spirit till all shall see Christ only, always, living in me. Amen

I often listen to a channel on the internet called ‘still small voice.’ A visionary name Clare passes lessons onto us that Jesus has spoken to her. The channel is for people who really want to have a personal relationship with Jesus, so it is always on intimacy. In one of her messages Jesus tells us to say ‘I trust you’ to Him often and it will strengthen you very much. I have also been reading a book by another visionary Elizabeth Kindelmann whose diary “The Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary’ Jesus tells her to say often ‘my adored Jesus.’ Now I tend to mix and match prayers often and I put the two together. At one time I was watching a YouTube show on the Great Tribulation and before I was about to look at it I said this prayer. “My Adorable Jesus I put my trust in You.” I felt Jesus immediately comforting me so that I could look at the video on the last days with calmness.

isRKENV7PDSo I planned to say the prayer that I put together as many times as I can throughout the day. I don’t know about you, but Satan tries often to make me fearful that I am not saved. Since I am a perfectionist at heart and when I look at myself, I always see my faults. As you will all understand nobody in the whole world can be perfect in this life. We are called to strive for perfection and only by grace can we achieve it. I can get so bogged down with fear sometimes that I will never be ready when He comes for me, but when I say this prayer it clears the air. My thoughts get unravelled and I can think clearly again. If you have the same problem, try it and see if it too helps you, I am sure it will, it is definitely worth a try.