October 31, 2015
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I Have All the Power
April 29, 1994 6:30a.m.
Dear child, do not fume, do not fret. Hold tight to all I have taught you. You will know peace if you listen to My teachings. Satan wants to trip you up. He has no power over you! You must stay fixed on Me and My love. I love you so intently! I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I love you. Why should you worry about anything on this earth?
I am He Who has all the power and I am guarding your way. The devil uses your thoughts to taunt you. Focus your thoughts on Me and loving Me. Do not judge your brothers or worry what they think of you. Operate from love of Me and from selflessness. I will make things happen.
Obey Me in everything I make clear to you in your heart. Be open and focused constantly on Me. I guard your way. Concentrate on My Passion and how I loved you to My death and love you this way this very minute.
I, God, loved you to My death, child. Your only concern is love of Me and love of one another. Strive to love and bring others to heaven.
I call you to preach the gospel this day in your being. Do not miss an opportunity to be Me to this world.
I love you. I go with you. My way is peace. You have nothing to fear ever. I am by your side. I love you, My beautiful child. Come to Me and you will find rest. I operate you and you can rest in My arms. Let go, surrender. I am truly here. I love you. Jesus.
end of excerpt
Seek True Treasures
February 17, 1994 - 5:30 a.m.
Jesus: My little ones, how are you doing? Are you getting bogged down in this weather? Do you know yet that you do not control the elements? You live every day and you think you have much to do to control your actions but you do not see the eyes of Him Who watches over you with loving care.
I give to you this earth and all you need to sustain your life here. Man worries about the earth and if this or that will happen. Man has become so independent that he thinks he controls all things and he needs to worry about his present and future.
You, My favored, chosen ones, know that life here lasts but a moment and like smoke it is gone without a trace. Look at your ancestors. So few people ever remember their ancestors, yet your ancestors thought that at every moment their actions were so crucial. Little ones, you hold on to life. You hold on to these little happenings here and you worry in vain! Look at the big picture, My little ones. Here today, gone tomorrow, and where are you going?
The days go by with such speed. "Oh," you say, "Where have the years gone?" You think every second is so important. You worry, you fret, you wander empty roads and I watch you. I see you with your emphasis on the moment. You are being deceived, My little ones. It is in seeing the moment as part of eternity that you really know what is going on. Each moment you live, you are the teacher about the God Who dwells in your breast. Each moment you live, you are My messenger to this cold, scared world. Nothing you do means anything except as you are serving Me.
Take off your glasses. Behold the life above. See every moment as a drop of the life to come. See every moment as part of eternity. All these drops together make up your pass into My kingdom.
You worry, you wonder, you fret, you hold on. I give you a toothache, I take it away. One second and a toothache is gone. Is that not how it is with life—one second and it is gone? Oh, how those little precious moments seem to die away and you scarce can remember what happened! Yet during people’s lives those moments seem earth-shattering. Those moments are yesterday’s forgotten memories. You hold on, you fret, you fume and I watch you let go of each moment, only to become forgotten by today.
Store up your moments as part of eternity. Every moment here is part of your pass to My kingdom. How are you living this moment? Is it used to give service to Me and preach My gospel? Are you making all your moments count towards your eternity? Each moment is but a breath and it is gone. Did you use the moment I gave you to do My work? This time is not yours. I can snatch your moments away in one breath. It matters, My children, only as you choose to serve Me and spread My love!
If everyone had God as their primary goal, what love you would possess. What power you would know, because God is the mightiest force. I have all the power. Other power is false power!
Do you get it yet? Do you think anything you hold on to is so precious here? Here today, gone tomorrow, and I snatch you from your seats and you never return to finish what you deemed so important.
Are you comprehending My words here? The body is but an instrument to get you around. Reach with the spirit within. Live from the soul. Communicate with Me in your soul. Look for the unseen world that surrounds you constantly. Die to yourself.
You have a soul at this very moment that is a vibrant spiritual force alive within you. Live from your soul, My little ones. Focus on your soul. Live from your heart. Do not fret and fume for the things of this world. Here today, gone tomorrow, and then forgotten. Today’s moments, yesterday’s forgotten treasures. Do they mean so much or do you forget what seemed so important?
Reach with the soul. Live for God. Each moment is your chance to store up treasures for eternity. They will never be forgotten. What you do to help others to know Me will never be forgotten. How you loved will never be forgotten. How you gave lives on in those you touched. Your love is like a bubbling brook. It bubbles and keeps on bubbling. Your selfishness dies the moment after you live it.
Love is the force. Love is the power that reflects the God above. Love is not selfish. Love does not demand its own way. Love gives and doesn’t stop giving. On the day of judgment it will be found in the hearts of those you touched. Think of only yourself and watch your moments become yesterday’s forgotten moments. Love your brothers and watch the world reflect the love you gave, from now to the end.
Love or selfishness? I call you to love. I call you to plant a seed that grows into a mighty oak. Plant My seeds of love. Ask not how you can attain your goal but how you can fulfill the goal of God. Love God, love one another. Too simple, too hard for many.
Love, children. Reflect the God Who dwells within your soul. Store up your moments forever lest they become yesterday’s forgotten treasure.
Like ripples on a pond, your love never dies. It reaches on and on and goes into the moments of eternity. Love is lasting. Love never dies. Love God, love one another. Die to yourself and live.
end of excerpt
October 31, 2015
R. What is heaven like?
There is unity, where we are
wrapped in the embrace of
Divine Love, but to get to
heaven we must be pure.
Dear God,
Help us to learn to be obedient
to You and to live according
to Your Law for us. God
is Absolute truth. We have
a lifetime to seek the truth –
our life is a letting go process.
We have to let go to what we were
able to hold onto because of
age, let go of ways we could
do things because our bodies
just can't do it –
God has a Plan for all of us
and we live in time here.
We cannot even understand
what it would be like
to live in this unity, forever
with God.
We are made in the image and likeness
of God. Our life is empty without
love – God is love – God is absolute
truth. God is all knowing –
God is all good.
To be united in eternity – we
are united to infinite knowledge
and goodness and truth and
love –
Intensity, but we must live
to be pure, to live in the truth –
to seek goodness, let no guile
be in the man, but he is
seeking perfection in God.
We are seeking goodness to be able
to embrace it eternally – we are
seeking truth in our life here
below.
Come to me Lord and possess
my soul.
Song:
Your Presence Pervades my Soul –
R. We seek the will of God first, above
our own desires, we want to
know the Plan of God for our
life and for the world –
We do not plan and prod and
schedule our life and then
decide to put God's will
into our plan – this is debase –
When we do this –
we put ourselves above the eternalness
of God and His Plan –
for why He created us –
He first loved us –
We are dependent on God –
not the other way around –
we are to be servants of
God's plan –
The love of God is love that is
so generous –
it is not petty and even-stephen,
as counting money like
Judas who sold Christ
for 30 pieces of silver –
One can see the ugliness of sin,
the taintedness of brute selfishness,
and pride and against the
back drop of God
who gives and gives so generously –
what we have been given are
gifts given by God –
so why should a man try to
prove his greatness before
everyone else – over and over
and over again
Jesus: Let your light shine in the Lord –
Light may be illuminations that
one never sees with their eyes –
like purity seen in generosity
given from a heart of love –
For God is generous to you and others,
like Betty, chose to give their lives
to God in prayer and sacrifice –
all day, all night.
And yet you measure your wealth as
far more precious than anyone
who chooses the gift of living
totally to serve God –
Senseless men can see their own
minds and in denial will
not open up even to see from
the heavenly point of view –
they are too busy being
INDEPENDENT and in control
prodding and planning their next move –
trying to put God's will into their
man-made prideful plan –
They say "Oh I dole out to You God, what
I so generously give", when in fact
I have given to them their life, their
talents, opened up doors and they
did it for their glory; Blessed the
man who lives for the honor and
glory of God. There is no good
outside of Me – I am infinite
Perfection.
How do you measure the purity
of the soul of My Mother
with your money, child –
how do you measure –
love given when I died on the cross
for your sins –
how do you measure forgiveness
of sin and giving men the
reward of eternal happiness –
in your eyes – you see like a
closed door – many of you –
you believe that generosity
and goodness begins and
ends on you –
You have missed the first cause –
the prideful man when he
opens his eyes on rising:
sees himself the first cause –
While a man is seeking his will – he
wastes time and energy in his
life. He should be seeking God's
plan and wanting with his free
will to chose to do God's will
first – and many times that is
not doing the things you would
rather do, but serving God and
doing what He wants.
There is the Divine Law –
You can be united to God's law or
swim against the current and
do your own – causing problems,
disharmony, darkness, independence
is doing your own will –
like Eve in the Garden –
I have given you a free will – to
choose if you will seek God's
will and serve God –
or plan your own plans and
kid yourself trying to put
God in your plan.
To seek My will in love is to go
out and to want the heights –
to pray to the Holy Spirit to
guide the unknown and to
give you wisdom to see
and embrace God's plan –
to be ready to seek goodness,
truth and operate in love –
Giving to God what is His due –
Recognizing God's generosity given
to you –
Love is the best – do you do
what you do for Love of
God or love of self –
To Love is the best – to seek to
serve God and love Him and
love others because God
is love –
The selfish man sees everything
from himself – his point of
view – the wounded man in
denial, judges things from his
box of a wounded heart –
controlling and shutting down
and trying to make others fall
in line under him –
Life is a journey to be lived under God –
Man is dependent on God –
God has a plan –
Man has been given a free will –
What does he do with his
free will?
The will of a man can determine
his outcome in life – You
are to abandon your will and
freely choose love –
love of God first above your
selfish desires –
love of others – because I
showed you the way –
love of self – is living according
to God's will –
not being independent,
but dying to the tainted
ways that are impure
and rising to greater
perfection –
The greatest of all is love –
you seek God, you seek
God's will –
You seek to know God as He is –
You reach up –
You don't start with your mind and
what you desire out of
selfishness and woundedness
and then try to put God in
your plan and make Him
down to your size.
In heaven man will have the
beatific vision and see
God face to face –
In heaven you will have the fullness
of life –
In heaven you will be possessed
by God.
Prayer for Union with Jesus
Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.
I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.
I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.
When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.
-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994
Jesus: In heaven you will have
eternal happiness –
You must try to spread these
prayer chapters I gave you
to spread.
Jesus: I attach so many graces to these
prayers, prayed with a
humble heart for the Church
and the world –
pray the prayers doting on
every word from a pure
and humble heart.
I tell you – you were created by
God with a plan –
Man must advance in the
Plan God has for him –
A man can tell you he has
accomplished this and that
by his own plan and
measure his worth by his own
accomplishments and disregard the
plan of God, who created him for
His purpose with all the talents
he has to serve God according
to His will.
Adam and Eve were created in the
image and likeness of God
and they sinned against God –
They made themselves a rival
to God.
Genesis 3: 1-7
Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?' The woman answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ' Then the snake said to the woman, 'No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.' The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths.
Genesis 3: 24
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.
Jesus: Adam and Eve were given great
gifts – They chose their own will
over God's will –
They were to be the first teachers
of the human race –
Adam was given these gifts to
teach the children he would
have –
But Adam and Eve chose independence
from God –
And with the sin of Adam and
Eve – disorder entered the
world –
Adam was so gifted, but now the
human race would be subjected
to death and disorder.
You have been given so many
gifts in the sacraments –
The gift of your knowing and loving
capacity elevated in baptism –
to be able to love supernaturally
but you can refuse to love
as God wants you to love and
choose your will over
God's will and see things
from your tainted, closed
down point of view –
I give you a free will to love God and
to seek His will or
choose to be independent of
God's will and try to live
your life – working against
the current and try putting
God into your plan –
which is absurdity!
Hebrews 11: 1-4
Only faith can guarantee the blessings that we hope for, or prove the existence of realities that are unseen. It is for their faith that our ancestors are acknowledged.
It is by faith that we understand that the ages were created by a word from God, so that from the invisible the visible world came to be.
It was because of his faith that Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain, and for that he was acknowledged as upright when God himself made acknowledgement of his offerings. Though he is dead, he still speaks by faith.
R. Read all of Hebrews
Chapter 11
Hebrews 11: 6
Now it is impossible to please God without faith, since anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and rewards those who seek him.
Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
... In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.
The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.
At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ.
end of excerpt
R. Love of God - demands that we
honor God –
From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 12
23. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION
Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God
our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.
R. Love of neighbor we treat
our neighbor as God wants.
God is Absolute Truth –
John 14: 6
Jesus said:
I am the Way; I am Truth and Life.
No one can come to the Father
except through me.
R. Our quest for happiness –
our goal is God –
We seek to obey the will of God
over our own will –
We seek to do the will of God
in love as God desires
us to be –
God is all truth
God is Absolute truth –
God's Word is the truth!
1 Corinthians 2:9
"What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, what the mind of man cannot visualise; all that God has prepared for those who love him;"
I Give You the Key to Conquer Satan
April 29, 1994
Jesus: I am the Alpha, I am the Omega, I am your loving Savior come to this earth to save you. I send you these hand-delivered messages to help hurting souls. Look around you at the souls that need these messages. I am your loving Savior. I died for you. I am begging you to help (her) to get them out. Every day souls are being lost because they are not being taught about My love. She is My messenger. She needs to speak. She needs to tell all of these messages.
I love My beloved ones so very dearly. Please help get these messages to My loved ones. So many are hurting so badly! Love of God, love of one another!
Satan is working so hard to divide your workers. They need these messages about love and anger. Please see that they get this message. I love them so dearly. My renewal will come from the Center. Satan wants to divide your beloved workers. Publish these letters on love and anger. Your flock is hurting and needs to know My love and operate from love of one another. Your city will be lit only by the love of God. Read these messages on love this week. They need to circulate. Satan wants you divided. I am giving you the key to help them conquer his cunning. Love of God, love of one another! I love you so. You are My beloved servant.
Thank you for listening. I love you!
end of excerpt
Do Not Be Troubled or Afraid
May 21, 1994
My dear child, I love you. Constantly focus on Me and My love for you. I am Jesus, Son of the Living God. I live in the hearts and souls of My beloved ones. I have life in this world in you. The more you read these letters, the more I live in you.
I come, you write. Do not be troubled or afraid. Your love for Me and your brothers is all that matters. You think I am not right by your side. I am, child. Come and be close to Me. I want to share Myself with you.
Time is short and you will be tested. Stand still and do not give in to your emotions. Focus on Me and My love for you. You are My soldier in this cold world. I come and comfort you. Do not be troubled and anxious. Only live in My love, My sweet one. Do not worry for I am your beloved one. I love you. Jesus.
end of excerpt
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R. Pray for These Things
1) Pray for the Pope & hierarchy to help us start prayer chapters.
2) Pray for Dan, Sally Jo, Richard, Carol, Margaret, Sue,
Jack, Jean, Amanda, Matthew, Special intentions.
3) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
4) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
5) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
6) People going to Florida and China.
7) Vocations to all 7 categories.
8) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
9) Pray for pope helping us.
10) Pray for Jeff - sales & health. Pray for Nick.
11) Blue Book 16 and cover and all involved.
For our Publisher and all involved
12) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
14) Pray for Fr. Joe's new book, cover & funds for printing & postage.
15) Donors and members and their families.
16) Healing of the Family tree.
17) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Kerry, Tom & wife.
18) All who asked us to pray for them.
19) All we promised to pray for.
20) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
Betty, Sophie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Louie, Laverne,
2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple, Rosie & all involved.
21) 2 babies and moms.
22) Funds and insurance.
23) Jerry's garage.
24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
26) Consecrate all hearts.
27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.
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