Mary has requested that the daily message be given each day to the world. It is read nightly at the prayer service from her Image Building in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.A. This is according to her request. All attempts will be made to publish this daily message to the world at 11 p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A. We acknowledge that the final authority regarding these messages rests with the Holy See of Rome.

December 13, 1998

Jesus speaks: I speak to you of authority. I ask you to see a ladder. I ask you to see the top. God is at the top and all authority is under Him. In a family God is at the top, on a lower rung of the ladder beneath God are the parents, under the parents are the children.

Jesus speaks: Now I ask you to see a fourteen year old who wishes his way. He must yield to the parents. The parents have a responsibility under pain of sin to do God's will in raising the child.

Now I ask you to envision a chart as such:

Jesus speaks: The struggle for man, my will/Thy will.

I ask you to meditate on the Sorrowful Mysteries of the rosary.

I ask you to reflect on Matthew 26:39

And going on a little further he fell on his face and prayed. 'My Father,' he said, 'if it is possible, let this cup pass me by. Nevertheless, let it be as you, not I, would have it.'

Jesus speaks: My child, I was in the garden. I saw before Me all of the sins of the world, I saw My bitter Passion. I saw all that would reject and accept the grace that would be given to them. I am the new Adam. In the garden I sweat the life saving Blood, I cried out:

'Father,' he said, 'if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Nevertheless, let your will be done, not mine.'

Jesus speaks: My child, I give you the garden of Eden.

The devil tempted Eve, she persuaded her husband to disobey.

The devil said,

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.'

Jesus speaks: The question is to do My will or thy will. It is a struggle for the tainted children of Eve to live in the Father's will.

The world is focused on the self, on getting ahead, on being the head, on being on the top. The way of God is to realize God is the head. God's way is to do His will.

Are you to try to be like gods as Eve wanted? Or are you to be likened to God?

The struggle is to remain on the ladder under my feet.

Always the parent is the child of the Father. Always the authority is coming from above. Parents realizing fully their roles as children of God operate by His rules, the Commandments and His Word. Parents do not get their answers from the world or from men. They have a link to the Creator who sets the rules and governs. He is the one who gives truth.

The world has turned right to wrong and wrong to right. It is very confusing many times to know what to do. You must come to Me.  I AM THE WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE. I give you My Word, I give you the Commandments.

When a child goes to school, the parent gives the authority to teach the child. They now have that responsibility given by the parent to teach the truth. They now take the rung on the ladder and their head is under God's feet. They now are held accountable for what they do, for they are responsible to God.

The Church is the highest authority upon earth. It acts in God's name.

The Pope has authority in faith and morals. All must live according to his dictates in these matters.

This authority was given by Me to him. He must live according to God's will and the rules given to him.

I Corinthians 15:20-28, include here.

In fact, however, Christ has been raised from the dead, as the first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep. As it was by one man that death came, so through one man has come the resurrection of the dead. Just as all die in Adam, so in Christ all will be brought to life; but all of them in their proper order: Christ the first-fruits, and next, at his coming, those who belong to him. After that will come the end, when he will hand over the kingdom to God the Father, having abolished every principality, every ruling force and power. For he is to be king until he has made his enemies his footstool, and the last of the enemies to be done away with is death, for he has put all things under his feet. But when it is said everything is subjected, this obviously cannot include the One who subjected everything to him. When everything has been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the One who has subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.

After that will come the end, when he will hand over the kingdom to God the Father, having abolished every principality, every ruling force and power. For he is to be king until he has made his enemies his footstool,

Jesus speaks: Jesus before Pilate, Matthew 27:1-2. Include here.

When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people met in council to bring about the death of Jesus. They had him bound and led him away to hand him over to Pilate, the governor.

Messenger: They handed Him over. He allowed them to do what they did to Him. In the end, in the Reign of the Sacred Heart, there will be great conformity to God's will.

God gives men this freedom. He does not coerce. He is a God of justice.

The New Adam gave His life doing the will of God.

Study the words of John, chapter 19 when Jesus was before Pilate verses 10-11. Include here.

Study the word handed and power.

Pilate then said to him, 'Are you refusing to speak to me? Surely you know I have power to release you and I have power to crucify you?' Jesus replied, 'You would have no power over me at all if it had not been given you from above; that is why the man who handed me over to you has the greater guilt.'

Messenger: Study the words of John 19:14-16. Include here.

It was the Day of Preparation, about the sixth hour. 'Here is your king,' said Pilate to the Jews. But they shouted, 'Away with him, away with him, crucify him.' Pilate said, 'Shall I crucify your king?' The chief priests answered, 'We have no king except Caesar.' So at that Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.

Messenger: Study the words of John 19:41. Include here.

At the place where he had been crucified there was a garden, and in this garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been buried.

Messenger: Christ is the first fruits.

In fact, however, Christ has been raised from the dead, as the first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep. As it was by one man that death came, so through one man has come the resurrection of the dead. Just as all die in Adam, so in Christ all will be brought to life; but all of them in their proper order: Christ the first-fruits, and next, at his coming, those who belong to him. After that will come the end, when he will hand over the kingdom to God the Father, having abolished every principality, every ruling force and power. For he is to be king until he has made his enemies his footstool, and the last of the enemies to be done away with is death, for he has put all things under his feet. But when it is said everything is subjected, this obviously cannot include the One who subjected everything to him. When everything has been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the One who has subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.

Messenger: Study Christ the first fruits of the garden.

The new Adam, the New Eve.

Please show the three pictures again.

Messenger: The altar is the gift that the Father gives to us today. It is through the Mass celebrated in such oneness with Christ that we are fed. Great fruit comes forth from the Mass.

Jesus speaks: COME OUT OF YOUR TOMBS.

Come out I tell you. Study the messages I have given to you, My churchmen. I love you so much.

Messenger: Whenever there is authority, there should be love. God is in charge. Yet Christ the Head loved so much He gave His life for His creatures.

Jesus speaks: I speak now to you through these illustrations given to the messenger. Please illustrate. Elizabeth was barren, but nothing is impossible for God.

Luke 1:36-37. Include here.

And I tell you this too: your cousin Elizabeth also, in her old age, has conceived a son, and she whom people called barren is now in her sixth month, for nothing is impossible to God.'

Jesus speaks: This is LIFE.
JESUS CHRIST truly present with us today.

Messenger: He is mocked today and handed over to men who do not appreciate the gift they have.

The Eucharistic Heart of Jesus will Reign.
His is the King.
Mary is the Queen.

Hosea 2:4-7 Include here.

Hosea 2:4-7
Yahweh and his unfaithful wife

To court, take your mother to court!
For she is no longer my wife
nor am I her husband.
She must either remove her whoring ways
    from her face
and her adulteries
    from between her breasts,
or I shall strip her and expose her
naked as the day she was born;
I shall make her as bare as the desert,
I shall make her as dry as arid country,
and let her die of thirst.
And I shall feel no pity for her children
since they are the children of her whorings.
Yes, their mother has played the whore,
she who conceived them
    has disgraced herself
by saying, 'I shall chase after my lovers;
they will assure me my keep,
my wool, my flax, my oil and my drinks.'

We are the bride of Christ.
He is our Bridegroom.
He gives us Himself in the Eucharist.

We are to bear fruit for the Kingdom. He gives us His life in the Eucharist. We are the spouses of the Lamb. God hates barrenness. We must bear fruit for the Kingdom. We are the children of God.

Please put song: I am a Child of God .

VS. 1
           OH I AM A CHILD OF GOD
           OH I GIVE MY LIFE TO YOU
           I SEE YOUR HEART UP-ON YOUR BREAST
           AND HOPE I CAN DWELL IN THEE.

VS. 2
           OH I AM A CHILD OF GOD
           I KNOW OF MY LOVE FOR THEE
           I KNOW MY LIFE DE-PENDS ON YOU
           AND KNOW I WILL STRUGGLE FOR THEE.

VS. 3
           OH LITTLE SON OF HIM
           OH COME WITH HU-MIL-I-TY
           AND ASK HIM NOW TO GRACE YOUR SOUL
           WITH LOVE THAT IS LIKENED TO GOD

Hosea 14:2-10
III: THE REPENTANCE AND RECONCILIATION OF ISRAEL
The sincere conversion of Israel to Yahweh

Israel, come back to Yahweh your God
your guilt was the cause of your downfall.
Provide yourself with words
and come back to Yahweh.
Say to him, ‘Take all guilt away
and give us what is good,
instead of bulls we will dedicate to you
    our lips.
Assyria cannot save us,
we will not ride horses any more,
or say, “Our God!”
    to our own handiwork,
for you are the one
    in whom orphans find compassion.’

I shall cure them of their disloyalty,
I shall love them with all my heart,
for my anger has turned away from them.
I shall fall like dew on Israel,
he will bloom like the lily
and thrust out roots
    like the cedar of Lebanon;
he will put out new shoots,
he will have the beauty of the olive tree
and the fragrance of Lebanon.
They will come back to live in my shade;
they will grow wheat again,
they will make the vine flourish,
their wine will be as famous as Lebanon’s.
What has Ephraim to do with idols
    any more
when I hear him and watch over him?
I am like an evergreen cypress,
you owe your fruitfulness to me.

Concluding admonition

Let the wise understand these words,
let the intelligent grasp their meaning,
for Yahweh’s ways are straight
and the upright will walk in them,
but sinners will stumble.

Revelation 22:6-7

The angel said to me, ‘All that you have written is sure and will come true: the Lord God who inspires the prophets has sent his angel to reveal to his servants what is soon to take place. I am coming soon! Blessed are those who keep the prophetic message of this book.

Revelation 22:12-17

Look, I am coming soon, and my reward is with me, to repay everyone as their deed deserve. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are those who will have washed their robes clean, so that they will have the right to feed on the tree of life and can come through the gates into the city. Others must stay outside: dogs, fortune-tellers, and the sexually immoral, murderers idolaters, and everyone of false speech and false life.’

EPILOGUE

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to attest these things to you for the sake of the churches. I am the sprig from the root of David and the bright star of the morning.

The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come!’ Let everyone who listens answer, ‘Come!’ Then let all who are thirsty come: all who want it may have the water of life, and have it free.

Question for married couples and those in other intimate relationships:

Q: How has consecration helped us in our relationship or how do you think it will help us?

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