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 |
 |
July 4th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 5 Period I.The Novena Rosary Mysteries
for July 4th are Sorrowful
Please come to the 5th
in Clearwater, Florida!
July 5th is an important date!
July 3, 2006
Messenger: Trees do bend though straight and tall —
Sing: Hosea
Jesus speaks: Sing, Sing, Sing My
children, let your joy resound
to the ends of the earth.
Messenger: I have trouble remembering details, sometimes
names, etc., I want to remember, but I know
all the details of those things where God acted on
my soul.
Sometimes people look similar, those
related and unrelated. Mannerisms may be the same,
like my children do some things in a way I
do them.
Our life here is to be more like Our Heavenly
Father, we were created in the image and
likeness of Jesus.
Fear enveloped my soul and I looked into
the eyes and face of Jesus and He quieted my fear
and I set my gaze on Jesus.
July 3, 2006 message continues
Messenger: So what does it all mean —
Jesus wants us to be happy, to be a light,
to love —
So how do we look at love —
Love is not a word synonymous with sex
Love is being like Jesus.
Jesus is God.
God is love.
In our lives we must discern — there is such
a wide spectrum of things for us to do,
but God does have a plan for us.
God wants us doing His will —
God created us to love and to serve Him.
God fashioned us and gave us talents to
accomplish His work.
I know that to do this I must abandon my
will and give myself to Him striving
to live in His will. In this lies my joy.
The world may set before us a lot of choices
of things we can do, but God has a
Plan for us. He wants us to serve Him — He
has called us to a certain vocation.
In one message I received it talked about how
it may feel to be in New York if God wants us
in California. It feels like putting on our
pants for a shirt, that doesn't feel too good.
I asked myself why I was doing what I
am doing today. I know God has picked
me to do this mission and He has allowed me
to be tested and tried and has also given me
great gifts to know and love Him more and know
and love others deeper.
He did not want me to decide to do what
one person may think I should do. He has a
Plan and He knows what will bring me greatest
peace and happiness — that is serving Him the way
He wants.
Jealousy is an issue many times. Some one
wants to possess us and tell us how to be
their private servant. God wants us to serve
Him to be a light and to reach the whole
world. God wants each one of us to make Him
#1 in our lives.
We are always seeking greater love, hungering for
the all perfect God and we will not find it in
any person here below, any profession, any
thing here below — we are always hungering,
searching, wanting more, wanting to be filled
by Him.
Song: God's Love
July 3, 2006 message continues
Messenger: Trees do bend though straight and tall.
Jesus would call me from my bed to write
His letters of love in God's Blue Book. In the
middle of the night — I had no preconceived
thoughts, I was called from the bed, half-asleep
to write as He wanted me to write. I would
go to bed anxious to hear from Him and some
nights it was hard to jump up when He called
me, but I did it most of the time immediately
and wrote His letters of love.
So if God tells us in the Blue Books of His on-fire
love, why do we not believe Him. He calls us to
realize that He loves us so very deeply and
He will give us the grace to grow in a deep
union with Him, if we are faithful and
let Him operate in us as He so chooses. He is
the bridegroom of our soul, He is the initiator,
we are the soul waiting His favor.
The devil is real. The devil's grip is paralyzing
and crippling to grip the chosen soul and get
them focused on themselves, filled with damaging
fears, lusting after pleasures, giving into —
whatever the devil can use to entice us from
our mark.
Anger can be a very bad enemy. Even
hidden anger. Feelings of disappointment,
frustration, etc. are not evil, but when
we seek revenge, aim to hurt
— we have opened a door to anger and satan.
Recognizing the truth and not lying to
ourselves, discerning God's will is essential —
without a get even angry attitude.
I realized all day I put up with unloving ways
many times and I may act unloving and not compassionate
to others so they think, but in all I must
sacrifice and learn to love despite hurtful
remarks and even persecution because God calls
me to be a light —
But some persecution by others, in front of
others may lead to a situation where I may
feel like Christ condemned to the cross
before the angry crowd.
We are called to be loving, to be a
light, to forgive, to make peace, we will
fail sometimes and we may think certain
others fail a lot, but it teaches us patience,
love, compassion, forgiveness, kindness —
always modeling our ways after Jesus.
What can happen after days of love and caring
one particular surprise can really be a
"hum-dinger" and we have to deal with
the problem to get a productive solution.
Having problems does not make us bad,
how we act is what determines our
holiness, the sin we may commit.
God lets us suffer — God may give us
tremendous gifts — there is this bitter-sweet
moments of life — looking at the top of the
mountain climbing up the side of the
mountain — being pulled down by a lot
of people afraid and hanging on from below.
When the mountain top is so inviting — so
beautiful, so real, so close, can we give
into anger that can let the string of
fearful people, pull us down the hill —
I think not — NO — we can't if
we seek real happiness in Him.
Let's look at the 1st commandments —
1) I am the Lord thy God thou shalt not have
any Gods before Me.
1) God is God — our name and fame, others
can not be more important than
God.
We have to learn this —
We have levels from our learning of making
God first in our life —
We progress deeper into this commitment.
A person used to making their boy friend
or girl friend a god will soon
be disappointed —
or they could make children, a
job, food, drink a god.
Disciplining ourselves doing God's will.
There is that tension in every relationship with
others to get it to be as God wants.
Parents and children —
children can rebel against parents
and be 14 — this is not God's will.
Some parents hold onto children —
Some Grandparents try to get a hold of
grand children, when the parents
and children would be better
off left work things out.
Some people try to make unrelated others
their children and then start with
trying to work out their own unmet
needs.
There is a right way for relationships —
— being loving
— not being slavishly dependent —
God is love —
Abuses can make some people stiff —
unnatural to healthy interaction —
Children can keep parents too far away
from their grandchildren for
selfish reasons.
So how is it — for we have all got the
human weaknesses and the rules of our
particular family whether good or bad —
we have a life time to learn to love and
have the relationships the way God
desires to help us grow in deeper
union with Him, advance in the
spiritual life and grow in our loving,
one, relationships with each other.
A parent may know how many times they
would forgive and love their child,
but in other intimate relationships
be afraid to trust and be guilty of
holding grudges, doing passive
aggressive things and not forgiving
which can block God's work.
The Our Father needs to be studied —
word for word.
Trees do bend though straight and tall!!
Trees do bend though straight and tall!!
What about Mass — is there oneness at Mass
oneness in uniting as the body of Christ
praying united to the Mass all day — begging
for grace.
We may try on an old pair of shoes and they hurt
our foot —
one year later we see the shoes in the closet
put them on again and hurt our toe — right
in the same place as before.
Relationships can be like this — a friend — we
are so glad to see them — go out with them and
the old memory of how they hurt our toe
comes up again as they do the same
things — the same way and rub the same
part of our foot and we put them in the
closet because we just don't want to
throw them away, they are pretty shoes.
Are we pretty shoes that others put on until
we rub a blister on them and then they
have to put us down because their foot
hurts.
If we have an open door we can speak from
our heart of love and try to settle the
problem rather than put the pretty
shoes on the shelf.
It's like saying — they didn't change
a bit!!
Don't we see that love takes forgiveness,
a desire to grow, letting go of anger,
talking from the heart, trusting
one another.
Never was there a real good intimate
relationship without 1) TRUST
2) COMMITMENT
3) LOVE
4) FORGIVENESS
Abuse can lead others to put up walls of
protection that inhibit intimacy
in other future relationships.
People should always be growing to be
more loving and always changing —
more tolerant, more loving —
more open, but not sacrificing
moral values —
rooted deeper in the commandments,
the Word — growing to be more
one with God —
living in the oneness being
more truthful, following a more steadfast path following Jesus and
living always a deeper life
in Him.
John 14: 6
Jesus said:
I am the Way; I am Truth and Life.
No one can come to the Father
except through me.
Messenger:
God intends us to work on our spiritual
life, that means not giving into
raging habits, responding to red
buttons where we act unholy because
of past hurts — enduring some things for unity,
but not carrying bitterness, unforgiveness, anger —
praying to the Holy Spirit to discern
what is best for us and to follow
it.
Not being afraid to trust —
I remember God told me to trust Fr. Carter,
August 1994, that may sound funny
to you, but it was an act of
my will to trust him —
obey him as my spiritual director —
help him grow more loving as a priest
through these messages, but to
do it with God's grace.
The clouds hung in the sky and nobody it
appeared held them up — they
were just there —
We are not just here —
We are creatures of the creator and
there needs to be a oneness in
our lives to be one with
Him —
To live for the purpose He
created us for.
To live for His honor and glory
To learn to love God and others
That is my purpose.
A plane soon lands and
then it is on the ground.
We are only at rest in Him —
there is a tension — we have
not arrived.
WAITING — WAITING
LOVING
LIVING Here as a LIGHT
FILLED WITH JOY —
LIVING LIFE DEEPER
EVERYDAY.
LIFE IN HIM (GOD)
HE MUST BE FIRST
Jesus wants Blue Books 4 and 5
on sale for $5.00 each plus postage
so you can circulate them to other people.
DVDs and Videos are on sale too for $5.00
so you will circulate and show them to others.
Call Glaci for image wallets to circulate.
ORDER YOURS TODAY.
Shepherds of Christ Ministries
P. O. Box 193
Morrow, Ohio 45152
1-888-211-3041
We accept credit card.
Copyright © 2006 Shepherds of Christ.