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April 21, 1999 - Given April 20, 1999
Messenger: When we mount the altar of sacrifice we take all our sin and the sin in the world to that sacrifice and we ask God to cleanse us and send His grace. I identify with Him in taking our sins into my heart and asking that He sends grace to our Church and our world.
It feels as if I mount the cross with Him, I take all the terrible sins from all the generations past and ask for healing for our world. I am so one in this sacrificial offering with Him, pleading in my whole being for forgiveness for our sins. I am consumed with sorrow and suffering, feeling the great seriousness of this sinful condition, knowing we have offended our beloved God and wanting to love Him and make reparation to Him for our sins. I am consumed in the offering in suffering and pain and filled with hope and faith and love that He will hear my prayer that cries out in my whole being. "Oh my God, forgive us and have mercy, shower us with Your grace and Your love. I beg You to accept my humble prayers and unite it in great purity in Mary's Heart, my offering being so deeply united to my eternal King, as I dwell most intimately in His most Sacred Heart, being so one with Him in this Sacrifice offered to the Father in the Holy Spirit. God help us, save us from our sins."
John 6:35
Jesus answered them:
I am the bread of life.
No one who comes to me will ever hunger;
no one who believes in me will ever thirst.
Jesus speaks: You run after foolish pleasures because you do not fully submit your will to this mission. I have given a direct plan for spreading the consecration to the earth and leading you into the depth of My Heart. There you will find the treasures of life existent in Me. Some come willingly to serve, some still have their own plan. When one feels oppressed, they resort to foolish pleasures for satisfaction. The plan I give here is the Father's, it is to lead the world into the reign of My Heart. My Mother's peace plan given at Fatima must be obeyed. It is willing service to the plan that will move the Movement ahead. Do you serve willingly? I ask for your commitment in your souls to pray because you love your brothers and sisters. I ask you to serve Me as I served the Father. Give Me your heart. My directions are clear.
GOOD SHEPHERD
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QUEEN OF PEACE
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Jesus speaks: I am the Bread of Life." I feed you with My word and My Body and Blood. I feed you in the Eucharistic Sacrifice, you are made whole. I am the Bread of Life. I am the Divine Healer. You run after idle pursuits and pleasures, you seek to feed your bodies with pleasures that kill the soul.
From Today's Mass, Reference: John 6:30-35, Acts 7: 51-81.
Many are held captive in the snare of the devil. Your oppression is coming from your enslavement to him.
Pray to be set free, see the open door. You are locked in a tomb of your own making. See the lighted door.
I am the gateway that leads to freedom. Freedom is found in living in the Father's will, obeying the Commandments and living according to My word.
John 14:6
...I am the Way; I am Truth and Life....
Jesus speaks: Set the captives free. Alleluia, Alleluia.
April 20, 1999 - Second Message
Jesus speaks: I speak to you of demonic activities. The demons do not want people to love God. They will use dates and times to act, anniversaries, Feast days. The devil wants all to be under his reign. The devil wants to steal your hearts.
You are all sinners, you are not perfect. In a dysfunctional family, in an alcoholic family, the activities that are not according to God's will are masked. The devil works in secrecy. The devil tries to get one under the influence of a drug, a sin, in some way or other to possess him. The degrees to which one allows him to take over with a substance or a vice vary depending on the person's will. The devil is like a worm in an apple. He starts in little things, in little ways. His intention is to take over and make the whole apple rotten. A little alcohol, a little habit, and he works more and more and more until in some cases the drug or the drink, the vice, the sin controls the very life of the person. People allow the devil through this manner to control them. They are enslaved in some way to the habit or sin that controls their life.
Freedom is found in living in the Father's will according to the word of God and obeying the 10 Commandments.
What keeps a person stuck is the denial to admit the truth. The devil wants to be the master over them.
I am the Bread of Life. I ask you to raise your voices in song. The song the "Bread of Life" will lift your heart.
Matthew 4:4
But he replied, 'Scripture says:
Human beings live not on bread alone
but on every word
that comes from the mouth of God.'
Jesus speaks: I am God, I feed you. You suffer in your life, you identify with My life in My cross and in the Resurrection.
I give you a lighted door. I give you the balcony, your focus must be on Me.
Many children in addicted homes learned to escape through some activity or pleasure when they experienced oppression and pain in their lives. They were unable to enjoy the moment, to live in the present moment, because of the oppressed state in the home. The addicted party was very controlling. All in the family lived under this dominion and had to put up with the dictates of the ill party. In order to cope with this situation, they learned to look for pleasures they could engage in later. They learned to not live in the moment, to find some means of escape. Children in such homes do not understand the situation. They are being taught that life is not to be lived now. They are forced to survive in a dysfunctional setting and forced to obey. The child experiences pain and suffering, but no one listens to the child and his feelings. Only the sick person expresses himself, others are controlled. The child has to learn to cope with this situation. He learns to "stuff his feelings". Many times he engages in various pleasures for relief. Unless the child is allowed to admit the truth, and express his feelings, he can suffer through his whole life. Today many of My souls are wounded. They are not living active lives. They have learned to cope with any stress by using something to relieve the pain. It can be sex or alcohol or drugs or abuse or adverse behaviors. It can be television or sports, video games, excitement. The child continually searches to regain the loss, to find the love, acceptance and security he never had. Some spend their whole lives focusing on themselves and feeling very insecure around others because of their failure to be taught the basic healthy relationship skills of loving and being loved.
You were created to love God and love one another. When one does not feel loved, when one does not love, one does not feel at ease with himself. The person is a social being created by God. You are to spend your whole life growing more and more in loving relationships with God and others so that for all eternity you will exist in a deep loving relationship with Father, Son and Holy Spirit and all others in heaven.
Because sin entered the world, because dysfunction is passed down from generation to generation, you are taught many unloving, non-communal relationships. Also you have acquired ways of dealing with stress and conflict, some good, some very bad, for example the misuse of alcohol and sex, drugs, overeating, overworking, anything to pass the time so that you can deal with the pain deep within caused by not experiencing loving relationships.
Men, you are imperfect. If one has a sore leg, the person must admit it if he is to seek help to be healed. When you are sick, many of you cover it up and pretend you are perfect. If your leg is broken, you must admit it and take measures to be healed. If your heart is broken, you cover it up and act like you are perfect. How can you heal when you will not embrace the truth?
Many alcoholics and others suffering from addiction live every day living for the wrong reward. Do you live your days centered around some substance or activity? Does a substance or something else control your life? Do you take something to keep you up or high and something to slow you down? What or who controls your body? Are you addicted to some sin? What is the chain that controls your life? Do you want to be free? You must admit the truth about all that controls your life. You want to be the master over your life. I give you the power. Your body cannot be a slave to sin. I give you your body to serve Me. You live to serve Me. Those who think it is all right to abort a baby think they have control over their bodies and that they can kill a baby. Your body is to serve Me. You do not have the right to abuse your body. You must eat properly, and do all that will maintain your life according to God's will.
I am the Master, you are the servant.
It is not for the body you live or for foolish pleasure. Some go from addiction to addiction and do not know that they must deal with the pain within, admit the truth, admit their part in it. They must break from the addiction and quit blaming others hatefully for their problems.
I recommend that you write your feelings in a letter to Me. I recommend wives and husbands and those in intimate relationships share their feelings. This practice in writing loving letters from the heart helps you to grow and mature more in the ways of loving. Your must pray to the Holy Spirit to help you and lead you. I tell you to pray My Holy Spirit Novena every day.
Do you want to be active and live? Life is in Me. You must be purified. you have not arrived, you are imperfect, you must be willing to admit your faults. All must learn to help each other grow to be more as I intend them to be.
Yes, sin entered the world. Who is your master? Are you stuck in a sin of some sort? Go to confession, tell your sins, not your neighbor's. All must seek to be purified to be one in Me. I will live in you in proportion to your emptying yourself to Me. You must die to your imperfections. To be healed, you must admit the fault. What is your chain today? Are you addicted, do you live to gratify yourself with a certain pleasure? It is not wrong to seek pleasure and enjoy the gifts I give you. It is wrong to live for that pleasure and make your whole reason for existing to focus on that pleasure and think that it could not be taken away from you because you need it.
I give you love. Every relationship must be exactly according to the Father's will. The devil will work to throw it off. A couple about to be married must wait until they are married to have intercourse. The devil will try to divide those in intimate relationships. The devil will try to get them to commit sin as in the case of the engaged couple. Every relationship must be exactly as God wills. Because some in loveless marriages cannot persuade another into sharing, many today are forced to carry a heavy cross. Both parties must be operating according to the Father's will to have a mutual intimate, loving relationship. Some parties in marriages live a single-like life. The other party, if unable to change anything, is forced many times to adapt to this kind of life. Others are quiet, but inside experience deep love. All must be as they are, but to have an intimate relationship they must communicate their love in some way. In marriages, one may be quiet, the other may talk most of the time, but the communication must be there to express the loving feelings in the heart. The talkative one should not try to change the untalkative one. However, both should lovingly pursue ways of meaningful communication, to express feeling.
If some are totally closed and wish to remain so, others will not be able to share intimately with them. There is a difference between being quiet and being closed. All must learn to live in love. Those that have been closed should try to explain their feelings in a letter to someone they trust and love, the other should try to understand these feelings in love.
Letters should be written in love, in which personal feelings are shared. You should own your own feelings and share them. You should not tell others how they feel, you do not know. Tell them how their behavior has made you feel. Do not condemn and assume others feel a certain way. The devil works in this to create division. Every person must share openly from his heart. It may be easier to write letters of love first and then handle problems through a letter.
If you feel unloving toward another, write a letter about yourself, some of your faults and how you would like to improve. This will help to open your heart. Writing letters in love and truth helps you to solve problems.
Writing letters for ten minutes daily, exchanging them with another, reading them 2 times for content and to understand the other's feelings will help you grow in greater intimacy.
Writing letters to Me, opening your heart wide, knowing I am your Spouse and that I love you, and reading My Blue Books will help you to grow in greater love with Me.
You are here for this purpose: to love God and love one another.
There are three loves. (This is given in Father Carter's book Response to God's Love.)
Love of God, love of self, love of others.
You must see yourselves as precious to Me. All three loves must be present. To love others properly, you must first realize how much God loves you and how precious you are. Millions of wounded souls walk the earth because they were taught by parents that they were not precious. You see yourselves through the eyes of those who raised you.
See yourself through the eyes of God.
I loved you to My death on the cross
Read My love letters in the Blue Books.
You must see your greatness: God created you in His own image and likeness.
You must love yourself as God's beautiful creation.
Do not see yourself through the eyes of condemning parents and teachers. See yourself as so precious that I shed My Blood and died for you. Read My Blue Book messages.
You must not be attached to any person, place or thing. Your relationship is to be according to God's will.
God wills you to be in intimate loving relationships with one another, NOT SLAVISHLY DEPENDENT.
You are and look as you are because God created you a certain way. Love yourself, develop your talents, help each other, do not be competitive or selfish. Live in the Father's will. Do not be jealous. Live to serve God. God is your Master. Do not get enslaved to the devil by using "junk". I love you, I am the Son of God.
John 3:16
For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him
may not perish
But may have eternal life.
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