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Messenger: Jesus told me:
Things that worked in our lives to handle people, problems and situations we will now see
as imperfect and dysfunctional.
As He brings to light the old patterned ways in our lives, how we handled things, we will see them as never before in a new light. We will learn to interact, as He acts in us, in new and deeper ways of expressing love more likened to Him.
We cannot control people or events around us. God gives us the Ten Commandments and His Word. He in His great love for us gives us our freedom. Many people today commit the most evil sins. God allows them to choose whether they will follow His way or the evil way. We see this pattern in the Bible from Cain and Able to Joseph and his brothers to the good and the bad thief. We see John and Judas. He did not change the way these people acted. He gives us our free will.
All of us who have children know when children are two years old, we cannot control them. We must teach them to obey. Why is it that we think we could control a child of twenty or twenty-one? Why is it we think we can control our husband, our neighbor, the priest? Why is it we think we can control anyone's behavior? Look at the sex, violence, slaughter of little babies. God gives man his free will, man chooses whether to love and obey God or to do his own will.
This is one of the first lessons taught to us in the Bible with Adam and Eve. God tells us His displeasure at the willfulness of our first parents by the sufferings He inflicts on us, but He gives us the promise of salvation and grace in these words:
Genesis 3:14-24
Then Yahweh God said to the snake, 'Because you have done this,
Accursed be you
of all animals wild and tame!
On your belly you will go
and on dust you will feed
as long as you live.
I shall put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
it will bruise your head and you will strike its heel.'
To the woman he said:
I shall give you intense pain
in childbearing,
you will give birth to your children
in pain.
Your yearning will be for your husband,
and he will dominate you.
To the man he said, 'Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,
Accursed be the soil because of you!
Painfully will you get your food from it
as long as you live.
It will yield you brambles and thistles,
as you eat the produce of the land.
By the sweat of your face
will you earn your food,
until you return to the ground,
as you were taken from it.
For dust you are
and to dust you shall return.'
The man named his wife 'Eve' because she was the mother of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said, 'Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever! So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.
Messenger: This is then followed by Cain and Abel.
This is followed by the accounts of Noah and the flood.
If God gave man his freedom in so much love, why are we trying to control? We see power comes from Him when He wipes out the earth by flood at the time of Noah.
We are players at the game of life. What is on the line is our goal, life everlasting in Him. People on the "board game", which is on earth, get stuck in the saloons, the pleasures, the food, the drink, wine and women, power and control and they lose focus of the real game that is being played.
The game is to learn about our Creator the Almighty God, to learn about His might and His wisdom, to realize we are but players, creatures of the Creator. In one moment He can make a wind blow that would tear the board and all the players to shreds, but He does not come to destroy. He comes to save. He comes to teach us His way of love.
So thus the lesson we must learn today is to put aside our prideful ways of thinking how perfect we are and learn we have a lifetime to learn to love more perfectly in imitation of God.
He gives to us the Our Father to pray.
Our Father,
(our beloved Father, Protector, Creator, Almighty God. We pray as little children,
dependent on Him. We declare this in the Our Father, when we call as little ones to Our
Father. Our hearts burn with love for Him for it is from our great love for Jesus, that
the Father has made His love for us known in our hearts. As we have united in such oneness
with Jesus, we know the One who sent Him most intimately. So we pray and our hearts fill
with tears crying out to God, Our Father, Who has all the power. We, the creatures of the
earth, surrender to Him. Our Father wants us to call Him by name and call as a little
dependent child. In Him is found the all perfect goodness and kindness of our Creator, the
almighty, all powerful God. Have we learned our place yet, as a little child, or do we
walk with pride in our hearts as stiff backs thinking we are the ones in control and most
powerful?)
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.
(We worship You, we adore You, we love You, our heavenly Father, and we acclaim Your
precious name, Father, our Father. We love Thy name as a little child calling to his
father. Our hearts swell with love for Him.)
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
(And we pray for the kingdom, it is the kingdom His beloved Son Jesus
Christ came to establish. They pierced Him, the One sent by the Father, and they mocked
Him as King and rejected Him. They threw Him on a tree and nailed Him to the cross after
beating Him and they, yes, they killed the Son He sent. And we pray fervently that this
Kingdom will spread, the Kingdom that His Son came to establish with His precious Blood.
And yes, may THE WILL OF THE FATHER BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. I want to write
what I know and feel about this line. I want to chisel the words in a rock and shout them
from my pew at every Mass with tears in my eyes. This "Our Father" is a most
important part of the Mass. It is the prayer, the humble prayer of the children to their
beloved God, the Father.)
Give us this day our daily bread
(and we pray, at Mass, for that Bread of Life that feeds us. The Almighty God gives His
Son as a gift to us at every Mass. The Bread of Life, this is life to me, it is life in
Them, in Jesus and the Father as Jesus prays in the "Prayer of Jesus" before He
is arrested. (John 17:21) "May they all be one, just as, Father, you are in me and I
am in you, so that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe it was you who
sent me."
I am one in Him, Jesus Christ, in a most profound way in the reception of the Eucharist
and in this I know immensely the oneness between the Father and Jesus, and I am one in
them in the Spirit. I am transformed in the intense gift more into Jesus' image and
likeness.)
And forgive us our trespasses
(I thought for years how holy I am. I pray and He is bringing to light the
sins that I have committed, the most unloving ways in which at times I treat God and
others, and I truly, as never before, understand the words of the Our Father here. I see
the weakness in my fallen human nature, I know my intense love of God within my heart and
I truly struggle in my ways of loving and trying to be like Jesus and Mary, my models. But
I see it all depends on His grace. I am entirely dependent on Him for the grace to even
see the unloving ways and for the grace to die to these unloving ways and be more like
Him.)
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
(And the more I know how I have offended God and others in unloving ways,
the more I realize that I must truly forgive others. If I wish Him to forgive me, then I
must live in the truth of seeing myself and the immense mercy and love granted to me, and
forgive others.)
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
(In these last days the devil wishes to stop us and take our souls to hell
with him. He wishes us to hate God and hate others, he wants division in our hearts for
those we love and he is busy manipulating every occasion. He wants to bring about words
and statements from others that give rise to the imperfections of jealousy and suspicion
that cause division within our hearts. Division in our hearts with others causes division
in our hearts with God. Any separation we feel in our hearts with God is what causes us
pain. We were created for Him, to love Him and all He loves. Division with Him is real
suffering, it tears our heart apart. This is why we need to pray the Our Father. Jesus
told us to pray, and gives us the Our Father.
There is much more so deeply implanted in my heart. But when we join hands at Mass and pray to Him this prayer, it is with great fervor I cry out the words and beg my Father to hear me. Many times in tears, after the Consecration of the Mass, I cry out from the depth of my soul in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, "Please Father hear us. We join in one mind and one heart as Your children and implore You to listen.")
Amen, and thank You for Your gift to us, our beloved God, and thank You Jesus for the prayer to Our Father. Amen.
Jesus speaks: This is the message I give to you today through My messenger.
I bid you to pray with your whole hearts and souls the Our Father at Mass and then to receive Me in the Holy Eucharist.
It is said between the Consecration and the reception of the Eucharist. It is your prayer to the Father, your beloved Father. There is such oneness between the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. You are one in Us in the Mass in this prayer.
God the Father speaks: Oh My beloved children, how dearly I love you, pray to Me, My children as My Son Jesus has taught you. I love you so much. I am your Father, your beloved One, the Almighty God.
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus exclaimed, 'I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children...'
God the Father speaks: You must come to Me as a little child saying "Our Father", and I will reveal to you in your heart mysteries of the Kingdom.
I wish you to pray with the greatest fervor and earnestness, "Our Father, Who art in heaven hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen."
I am the Father and I implore you to petition Me as a little child. I implore you to pray the rosary and pray as little children of the Father and to pray to your heavenly Mother to help You.
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