June 5, 2016
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June 5, 2016
A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul
Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.
R. Emotions must be disciplined, like fear,
if not properly disciplined can cause great disorders.
Dear God, please help us to work in a pure
spirit to do what is Your will for us.
Faith lifts a man up. A man can
seek pleasures in things below him.
Faith helps a man have the vision
of God. Man has to have as his
goal on happiness found in God.
Dear Jesus,
Please help us to pray for the priests, the Church
and the world with great love for them. We want
the world to be as You want it to be – living
by Your commandments.
We are praying for healing and for help, Jesus,
with this mission to spread the devotion to
the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart. We ask
for Your grace in everything we do.
Jesus: My child – you have experienced very many
trials, but have been given the opportunity
to learn many more things you never knew
before.
I am teaching you the love of My Sacred Heart.
What you know of love is not all there is to know.
Love in the heart is very deep, you weigh so
many things by your vision which is still
imperfect. You do not understand all you
need to see. I am teaching you the ways
of My Heart.
There is such a difference between a man
being disconnected from their heart and
trying to think their way through life. Thinking,
rationalizing, trying to measure through
imperfect eyes coupled with insecurities,
pride, trying to get ahead, fears, comfort
zones is keeping many men from really
being free and loving, of living as I operate
in them. Many men operate
without their heart – having so many fears
that are bad habits, why they are not free
to really do what I ask of them – to live
their vocation in love.
The mind can be a trap door – A man can have
so many fears – he tells himself – want his
comfort zone being alone – that he closes
in so tight he doesn't operate as he
should – according to the heavenly Father's
will.
I am with you. God dwell in your graced
baptized soul. You must pray to the Holy Spirit
to enlighten you – to know, to understand,
to have wisdom, to love and respect God
as you should. You must pray to the
Holy Spirit to know your place. To know your
place under God. To respect authority –
to live in the proper order under God.
A man so focused on his head can leave
out his heart entirely the more he keeps
disconnecting from Me in control, in
fear, in manipulation, in being shut
down and living wounded and not healing.
The key is to see yourself as you
really are. You are imperfect and you
must recognize how you truly are –
No man is an island. You are here to learn
to give and take, to work with your fellows,
to love your neighbor as yourself and in
that there may be great suffering, but love
is abounding in your heart.
You operate to bear witness to God who
lives in you and operates in you – You
live to serve God, as God wants you to
be – You are open to the Holy Spirit working
in your life, guiding you, healing you,
filling you with grace to love and to
operate in love as the Holy Spirit moves and
operates in you.
Say this: Dear Holy Spirit, come and possess
my soul, fill me with Your healing grace,
help me in every action I do today – to be Your
instrument of love in the world. Help me
to see through the eyes of God the Father,
to really live and love and give of myself,
as a witness to God. Help me never to give
into bad habits that thwart my
growth in the spiritual life. Fill my
heart with love and help me not to be afraid
or a coward about doing what God wants
me to do. Help me to have courage and
vision – as God imparts to me the grace
to see through the eyes of the heavenly
Father – to do the will of the heavenly
Father – to dare to love – to give in love
and not count the cost. Holy Spirit I love Thee –
Be the guest of my soul – operate in me.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my
trust in Thee –
When fear begins in my heart – I put
my heart in the Heart of Jesus.
I ask Mary, my Mother to take my heart
deeply in His Heart –
I ask Mary, my Mother to protect me and
love me, as my heavenly Mother and
Mother at my side.
I am not alone –
I am sheltered under the mantle of Mary.
My biggest problem can be my fearful
thoughts, bad habits in thinking
that needs to change –
My thinking can be so paralyzing that I do not
do what God is asking of me because
of fearful thoughts – when there is
no cause for these thoughts – only
bad habits of thinking coming from
fear and control.
R. Dear God help me to know Your Might at
work in me, now, washing the slate
clean of old bad habits in
thinking – so I will operate as I
need to –
in the difficult with courage –
in the indecision with the wisdom of God –
to be in the right place, at the right time –
to see – where before I may have been
blinded by fear and self-enclosure.
Dear God, I report for your work – with
a holy heart rooted in the Heart of
Jesus. Give me Your love, come and
possess my soul that I can
operate without the paralyzing
fear that can work in me to hold me
back from what You are asking me
to do.
Jesus: At first when you walk in a place
that is unknown you ask –
Where am I and what is next,
but as you become more familiar,
letting go and letting God – the
unfamiliar is the path you travel
with greater ease because you are
led by the hand of God.
Let go of the bad, fearful ways of thinking
that paralyze you in thought –
Listen to those who I have sent to direct
you, work in love to be transformed.
A big plastic spoon was planted in a
garden –
5 years later it was still there and it
didn't change –
10 years later it was still there and it
didn't change –
You see now a seed was planted in the
same garden and it was watered
by the rain and –
the light helped it to grow as the sun shown
brightly on it –
And 5 years later – there was a small
tree, that gave shade and beauty
in the garden
And 10 years later it had grown in
such beauty and it bore
fruit and flowered before the
fruit –
It was a delight to the eyes and
the birds of the air came to
rest there and build a nest –
Are you like the stiff plastic spoon – that
finds its place and never changes –
inactive and sterile?
Are you like the seed planted in the garden,
full of life, growing
and bearing fruit?
The man who lives his life to be sterile
doesn't live at all –
he sets his path, works alone,
makes a pattern and just looks
for a place to settle and . . .
Why would you quit working with
others I send you –
and why would you box-up your
heart –
You are to grow – to live – to witness –
to be alive –
not like a plastic spoon – boxed
and never changing –
You are to grow more and more in My
image and likeness –
I am love –
1 John 4:17-21
Love comes to its perfection in us when we can face the Day of Judgement fearlessly, because even in this world we have become as he is. In love there is no room for fear, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear implies punishment and no one who is afraid has come to perfection in love. Let us love, then, because he first loved us. Anyone who says 'I love God' and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen. Indeed this is the commandment we have received from him, that whoever loves God, must also love his brother.
R. The man that is sterile has the arguments
under his belt –
Did you ever see an abandoned shack –
the weeds grow up around it –
the door becomes tattered –
there is no sign of life –
Your heart is for loving, growing
being vibrantly filled with love
for God and others and focused on My
love for you.
Your heart is to be growing, healing from
old wounds and more and more
like Mine –
My pilgrim – you are on a journey –
don't settle in to negative thinking –
don't settle in to sterile ways –
Be alive in Me –
...I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me.
R. Be alive!
Live in Me!
Know My love!
Recognize you are imperfect!
Forgive others –
Ask to be forgiven.
Pray for My mercy –
Come to Me, My little treasure
I love you - so much!
I love you
I love you
I love you
Do not take your eyes off of My Heart
of love –
Live to help to bring the Reign of
My Sacred Heart to the earth –
I am God and I love you with
My Heart on fire for love of you –
Don't listen to satan –
He hates –
He wants you fearful –
He wants you to hold back –
He wants to make your heart an
old abandoned shack –
Do not fear, I am with you!
Is fear your biggest friend or
am I your best friend?
A person can grow in fear and be set
so - in their ways – they are like
the plastic spoon - planted in a
garden –
Pray to be possessed by God – pray
to be set free of fear –
Fear can be paralyzing and crippling
in the spiritual life –
Pray, Pray, Pray to be set free of
self incriminating fear –
Let go –
Look at your crippling thoughts that
hold you back from really working
with others, seeing as you need
to see to do My work –
Have a heart that is active – that is
not an old abandoned shack –
If you suffer with others –
know they suffer with your
imperfections too –
I love you, despite your imperfections
and faults –
I love you and want you to love Me –
I love you and want to be first in your
life –
I love you – I call you to do certain
things – fortitude is the virtue
to do the difficult I ask of you –
does it matter if I ask for a
pebble or a boulder –
Do what I ask for – it pleases Me and
My heavenly Father when you
are obedient –
when you are child-like and know
your dependence on God –
The stiff man says he counts on himself –
he knows it all –
he walks around with his eyes
turned in on himself and misses
the sun lit day –
His god is himself –
He is limited in all he does by his
pride –
He is blind and don't know it –
The man rooted in God has vision
to see – is working like a
well pumping heart to give
life to the body –
Let your life be alive in Me –
I am the Master –
You are to grow in your image
and likeness of God –
Song: Give me Your Heart oh Jesus –
Song: I Am Your Sacred Heart
23 Years Ago
Cling to Me
May 13, 1993
Jesus: My dear child, if you stay close to Me, then I live in you and you live in Me. I am He Who created you and I love you with such an intensity that you will never know. My words are your truth. You must abide in My heart in all things. There is no room for doubt. My ways are steadfast, direct, and without error.
You must stay rooted in Me to ward off the power of the evil one. His grip is paralyzing and crippling. His power is stronger every day.
When you live in Me, I am in your heart and he has no power over Me. I am your God. I am your true lover. I want to protect you. I want to guard you from this force. Stay rooted firmly in Me and he will have no power.
I am He Who comforts you. My hand is upon you. Hold tight to Me, My child. My eyes are fixed right on you. You are My most precious child. I love you as no other can. My arms are about you. My tenderness surrounds you. My love is in your heart. You go not alone. I walk with you.
I share every aspect of your life with you. Cling to Me, feel My presence. It is warm and secure within your chest. There is no room for fear, for I cast out fear and bring you comfort and joy.
end of May 13, 1993
24 Years Ago
October 5, 1992 - 3:30am
R. Dear Jesus, Give me Your hand to write this book for you. I am your servant. I want to be Your hand to this world. If you, Lord Jesus, would write a book, what would you say?
Jesus: My dear children,
Today I come to deliver a message to each of you. I want to tell you of each person's dignity, of their beauty and their self-worth. Each child is, oh, so uniquely precious to My Most Sacred Heart. Each child is full of the talents I have given to them. Each person is divinely created by God and given all these gifts to be happy and love one another.
The problem comes when you feel you will be left out. That you will be left by another who has trodden on you and will do it again. I see you all as My most precious children. I watch your every move and know all pain and anguish in your heart. My Heart aches, you have insecure feelings about yourself. I came to this earth I died for you. I felt cold, hungry, lonely on this earth. You need not worry that no one knows the pain and anguish in your heart. God created you with such special gifts and talents. It is important for you to raise above your wound and forgive those who hurt you.
You need only turn your will and your life over to Me and I will guide you in all your ways. I have all the Power. Many are not of My ways. The key to life is to recognize your faults, but still know you are this precious gift of My Father a gift to this world. This world is in need of your strength. Running yourself down, blaming others hurting them can cause you misery and pain. At this very moment, you are the precious creation of God!! You must operate with Me in your heart.
You need not run yourself down. I am with you every day guiding your ways, lest your foot stumble and you lose your way. You will not wander far from your path if every day you keep bringing your focus back to Me. If you dare let Me be at the helm, if you dare to really let Me run your life, I will do with you such wonders that you yourself would be amazed. But you will know with such ease when you did these things that you did not do them alone. You will know My power, moving the mountain, My power chipping at the stone, My power working on your hardest problem and you will be set free.
Oh yes, you will be set free and know a serenity that only comes from letting go and letting Me run your life. To you, My child, I have given all that is good. I made you My holy soldier, My warrior in a world of pain and hatred. You are the light that shines in the darkness, you are the coat to a cold child, you are the smile that warms a troubled and lonely heart. You are the comfort for everyone you meet, because My most precious Heart powers you, smiles through you, understands and loves through you.
Love your fellows for Me. There are so many troubled hearts that need to know My love. I can love through you if you let Me, I can be their friend through you if you let Me. I am He who comforts you and you are he who comforts them. My power is endless, it never runs out, there is not a power failure EVER. In your darkest hour, My light shines in the darkness and I say to you, "Oh blessed of My Father, look at yourself with awe, you are My creation, you are indeed so precious to Me, you are My light to this world, you are My hands and My feet and most of all My Heart."
Oh, you are My loving Heart, to those who are bowed down, to those who are lost in the darkness, you carry My smile and wear My armor in a world that is trying to tear one another down with hate and ugliness. There is gentleness, there is love, there is hope in you, if you open yourself up to Me. Be My knight to the world, wear My armor. I am your God and I will protect you from the darkness. Plug into My power, be not afraid, I go before you always and you can rest in My arms when you feel weary. You can put your head in My lap and weep, you will know, I am truly with you and you are My light to this world. I created you so special - to cast out fear in the darkness, to clothe the naked, to give hope to the oppressed, to be as I live in you and love through you and you are My smile and I touch My hurting ones through your love.
You are he who loves this world. You must stay plugged into My power-source. This world is hungry for My love. It needs My love, I give to them through you. I am your God and I made you as a gift to the world. You are filled.
Focus on Me and your life will be abundant and whole, joy in suffering, freedom — but you can take the knocks because you will know you do not go it alone, but with Me. I love you My precious child.
end of October 5, 1992
Sing: The Prayer for Union
Song: Prayer for Union with Jesus
(refrain)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.
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.
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. (refrain)
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.
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.
(refrain)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.
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. (refrain)
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. (refrain)
R. We were created by God with a free will
to choose God or to reject God. God intends
us to seek Him and we are to put
effort in this acting with a free will –
saying 'yes' to God. We choose happiness
for ourselves. We decide to seek God.
God wants it this way – where we
choose Him first because we love
Him.
True happiness can be found only
in God and is everlasting – perfect
happiness can only happen in the
next life –
A man chooses happiness by his
actions – God has created us so we
must with our free will, choose
Him to obtain eternal happiness and
we must die to the ways not like
Him and grow in the life of Christ.
We cannot have complete happiness
in this life – We must put our
goal on eternal happiness in our actions
and live by the heavenly Father's
plan to gain eternal happiness –
It is a reward given to those who
loved and served the Lord, given by God.
Fear can be an enemy to man's freedom.
Man can choose in his actions to
let fear control them or he can
let pride control them, greed control
them, envy, pride, anger control
his actions –
A man's actions should depend on seeing
as his goal eternal happiness.
A man can be slothful and tell himself –
I did not do it, so I am not wrong –
Making a choice to ignore God's
will for us and then plead it
wasn't my fault – I did nothing –
is wrong thinking –
Making a choice to plead ignorant
and ignore what God asks of us is
acting – it is acting opposed to God's will.
It is an action to do nothing and
ignore what we had a responsibility
to do.
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