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.

September 12, 1999

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.

September 12, 1999 - 2:30 p.m. -1st message - Given at China, Indiana

Mary speaks: Worse than any war, your children are battling for their lives.

They are dying a spiritual death.

Pray to read this message with an open heart and pray as We have instructed.

You watch the smut of the T.V. and you do all you can to stamp out my Son's tender love letters. How you offend my Son.

Get on the bandwagon to stamp out the smut on your earth. You are good at trying to stamp out my Son's Movement and ignoring me.

I stood beneath the cross of my Son and I cried.

My children, Christian homes are battling a war worse than any that kills the body, souls could be lost. Illicit sex is an everyday thing to some. There is the killing, killing of babies, violence and the taking of drugs.

Many who fight you as messengers in the Shepherds of Christ never read the messages. They have joined a "bandwagon" to stop you.

Children, I am Mary your Mother, stop the abortion and illicit sex, those are sins. Don't persecute those that are praying for the priests and the Church and the world.

I cry. I cry. I cry.

September 12, 1999 - 2nd message

Jesus speaks: Please pray the prayers as I have instructed.

Jesus speaks: 5 years later - I ASK YOU TO PRAY THE SHEPHERDS OF CHRIST PRAYERS.

DO YOU HEAR THE MESSAGE?

Messenger: The message is so deeply embedded in my heart from all the times Mary appeared before me.

Delivering this message many times is like walking into a burning fire. Why would I continue to do so on my own?

I saw her before me, I cry deep inside. Many of our young think sex outside of marriage is okay. They are taught this. This is a real problem. If they die suddenly in accidents, where will they go for all eternity?

Mary cries, I SAW HER APPEAR, BEGGING US TO PRAY AS INSTRUCTED.

The more the focus was on me when she appeared almost 500 times, the more they did not respond.

Today, how many children have not been reached with the School Rosary Program!

PLEASE, DO YOU SEE THE SWORD IN HER HEART?

Jesus speaks: You focus on every aspect of the messenger's life and MISS MY MESSAGE.

DOING 6:20 PRAYERS

1) PRAY THE HOLY SPIRIT NOVENA
2) PRAY THE SHEPHERDS OF CHRIST PRAYERS
3) PRAY THE ROSARY

SECOND MESSAGE

CIRCULATE THE SCHOOL ROSARY PROGRAM

CENTRAL MESSAGE

PROMOTE THE PRIESTLY NEWSLETTER

RESULTS:

GREATER PEACE

Jesus speaks: I give you 3 VISIBLE SIGNS of the validity of these messages.

Jesus speaks: I am Jesus, please pray My prayers for the priests and renewal of the Church and the world.

The world must consecrate their lives to Our two Hearts as Mary told you at Fatima.

Until a sufficient number of people consecrate their hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, there will not be peace in the world.

I love you,

PLEASE LISTEN.

September 12, 1999 - 6:20 a.m. prayers - 3rd message

Jesus speaks: My children, and I address you as children. You are not the master, you are to serve the Master. In making yourselves the masters over God, you have not been given freedom, you have become enslaved to a darker master.

All power will be under God. All churches, families, businesses, ministries, etc., must be under His feet. Eve wanted to be equal to God. Eve wanted to be the master, why be under someone when you can be on the top?

God wants structure, thus He gives authority to priests, authority to parents, etc. Authority is many times feared because it is misused. Whenever anyone operates from his own powerful reign, makes himself the head, those under him suffer, for the power coming from God is blocked by selfish gain. I give you diagrams to help illustrate the basic principle. Power flows from God to those in authority. I give you My Holy Spirit Novena booklet, the more you pray it, the more the Holy Spirit will enlighten you to live in the Father's will as one holy family, living and serving God in such oneness, under the Father's feet. Under God, my children. Mary is the perfect handmaid of the Lord,

Luke 1:49

for the Almighty
  has done great things for me....

Jesus speaks: She does not say, "I am mighty, I am in charge, I am God."

Look at the temptation of the evil one to Eve.

Genesis 3:4-5

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.'

Jesus speaks: When God's family is living according to the Father's will, you will have peace. The devil concocts all kinds of schemes in peoples' minds to get to the top. It is much more comfortable for some being above the heel than under it.

Genesis 3:15

I shall put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
it will bruise your head
and you will strike its heel.'

Jesus speaks: The devil works in the head in your pride to get you to do that which will make you your own boss. "God is telling me this.", you say. That is where you fail. I have given many of you specific jobs, you constantly give in to him, the devil, talking in the head to make you "like gods", rather than getting under the heel and just doing God's will, being like Mary, a handmaid of the Lord.

I am not speaking of not following a directed Mission in which I give direct messages to a messenger and the fruits are being seen throughout the world. The devil works in two ways. To raise up those who want to be on the top through self-will; to try to squash the messages I, God, am giving, so that men will be able to ignore Me.

The question is, "What is the will of God for you?"

What is God's will, what is God's will, what is God's will?

All the prayers I have given to you are designed to take you into the Reign of My Sacred Heart. I have given the Holy Spirit Novena to you and the Shepherds of Christ Prayers to lead to this great era of peace.

I beg you to pray the 6:20 prayers as I have given. Only in working according to God's will, will the city be set on high on the hill as a center of light.

My reign will come.

I give you the quote about fire on earth:

Luke 12:49-53
Jesus and his Passion

'I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already! There is a baptism I must still receive, and what constraint I am under until it is completed!

Jesus the cause of dissension

'Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. For from now on, a household of five will be divided: three against two and two against three; father opposed to son, son to father, mother to daughter, daughter to mother, mother-in-law to daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law to mother-in-law.'

Jesus speaks: When those in authority do their own wills, they block the power coming from God. You should pray with your whole heart all the prayers I give you. Listen to this prayer, from the Holy Spirit Novena:

Dear Holy Spirit, help us to keep Your commandments and to respect authority. Help us to love all things as You will us to love them. Help us to want to pray and always serve God with the greatest love. Help us to know the truth. Help us to have the gift of faith, hope, and love. Help us to know what is right and what is wrong.

Jesus speaks: The devil works by attacking authority. He tries to weaken those in authority, he tries to get those underneath to not follow authority. He tells them those in authority are wrong, to go above their heads. Proper structure must be operative for things to work as God wills.

Excerpt from the April 27, 1999 Daily Message

A City on a Hill Shines to the World (excerpt)

Excerpt from the February 23, 1999 Daily Message

^{(End of excerpt from the February 23, 1999 Daily Message)}

Jesus speaks: Pray, please, as I have instructed. Do not worry if you cannot move others to pray. Pray yourself. I want this little remnant being so deeply united as one praying as a body as I have instructed for the coming of the Holy Spirit for oneness and healing.

John 14:15-21

If you love me,
   you will keep my commandments.
I shall ask the Father,
and he will give you another Paraclete
to be with you for ever,
the Spirit of truth
whom the world can never accept
since it neither sees nor know him;
but you know him,
because he is with you, he is in you.
I shall not leave you orphans;
I shall come to you.
In a short time
  the world will no longer see me;
but you will see that I live
and you also will live.
On that day
you will know that I am in my Father
and you in me and I in you.
Whoever holds to my commandments
and keeps them
is the one who loves me;
and whoever loves me
  will be loved by my Father,
and I shall love him
and reveal myself to him.'

Jesus speaks: Verse 20 says:

John 14:20

On that day
you will know that I am in my Father
and you in me and I in you.

Jesus speaks: I give you My first entry May 13, 1993, in Blue Book I.

Excerpt from May 13, 1993, Blue Book I: "My dear child, if you stay close to Me, then I live in you and you live in Me."

On December 17, 1991, I showed My messenger a vision of My Sacred Heart appearing on Blue Book II.

Five years later, My Mother was noticed on the building in Clearwater, Florida, December 17, 1996.

I come to set the earth on fire with the fire of My love.

I give you My 13th promise.

"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."

Jesus speaks: I give you this quote from a message to Father Carter March 26, 1996, during the first of 3 main visions (click on) Apostles' Manual.

An excerpt from March 26, 1996, message:

Jesus speaks: I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. I am the Almighty God. I say to the rocks to fall and they fall and to the grass, grow, and it grows, and to the sun, shine, and it shines. I give to you My love in these letters. Filled with My love, you will conquer this earth, not with weapons and powder or force, but with fires of My love. The fire will wipe out the hatred in the cold hearts and the earth will be covered with My celestial light. The earth will rock and I will appear in the heavens adorned in power and glory and the contrite hearts will be saved. I came to separate the sheep from the goats, the light from the darkness. I come and no one pays Me heed.

To you, My beloved son, Father Carter, I have sent you on a mission to spread this fire that will cover this earth. The hearts of men will turn from their sick and desolate ways to hearts gentle as a little lamb.

There will be one flock and one Shepherd and My staff will rule over all. Hearts consecrated to Our Hearts will lead the light across the earth. This light will be a light of intense brightness, brighter and hotter than any light from a flame. It will be the fire of God's love. The Spirit will move in the hearts of all consecrated to My Heart, and you will know how fire truly spreads, for the love of God is a fire. It is vibrant. It is encompassing. It is smoldering, burning deep within and speedily spreading on the outside. No fire on this earth can ever describe the burning embers that burn from the Sacred Heart of Jesus. No fire burns like the fires coming from My Heart and hearts filled with the love from the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

^{(end of excerpt from March 26, 1996)}

Jesus speaks: I give you My prayer:

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.

An excerpt from February 23, 1994, message A City on the Hill Shines to the World:

"What power, what might, to have each person a personal spouse of Jesus Christ!"

Revelation 21:1-4

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride dressed for her husband. Then I heard a loud voice call from the throne, 'Look, here God lives among human beings. He will make his home among them; they will be his people, and he will be their God, God-with-them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness or pain. The world of the past has gone.'

1 Corinthians 15:25-27

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.

Messenger: And so we see the Divine Master, He washed their feet.

All enemies will be under His feet.

Eve wanted to be higher.

Judas raised his heel against Jesus.

In John's gospel in chapter 13:8, we hear Jesus speak. In that same chapter, verse 18, we see Jesus speak of Judas who raised his heel against Him.

It must all be according to His will. Some are in authority, but it is God's will that they are in authority. They must pray to act in His will so that the power will flow. Those under them must submit to the authority that God wills.

I deliver a message from God. I sit and cry because of the hatred men feel toward me for delivering the message. If the message is God's will and you block me and persecute me because you think I am trying to be over you, then how do you get the message from God because He is over all? I deliver His message and He has authority. Our Lady has authority as Mother of the Church, but many men do not respect her or recognize Mary as having authority as Mother of the Church. The Holy Spirit guides and leads the Church. He is espoused to Mary, they work in this spousal union to bring forth fruit in the Church. To cut off Mary is to go against God's will to stop that which is fruitful.

Mary Our Mother

(from the Spirituality Handbook of the Shepherds of Christ and the pp.18-19 of the Apostles' Manual)

As Jesus hung upon the cross in His excruciating suffering, He gave Mary to us as our spiritual Mother:

"…standing by the cross of Jesus were His Mother, and His Mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw His Mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing near, He said to His Mother, 'Woman, behold, your son!' Then He said to the disciple, 'Behold, your Mother!'" (Jn 19: 25-26).

Yes, John, the disciple, represented all of us. Jesus, in giving Mary to John as His Mother, was giving her to all of us as our spiritual Mother. We can never thank Jesus sufficiently for this great gift. Mary is your Mother and she is my Mother. Pope John Paul II tells us how Mary is Mother to each of us according to each one's uniqueness:

"Of the essence of motherhood is the fact that it concerns the person. Motherhood always establishes a unique and unrepeatable relationship between two people: between mother and child and between child and mother. Even when the same woman is the mother of many children, her personal relationship with each one of them is of the very essence of motherhood…

"It can be said that motherhood 'in the order of grace' preserves the analogy with what 'in the order of nature' characterizes the union between mother and child." ³

Let us always thank Mary that she is the Mother of each of us according to each one's uniqueness. I can truly say that Mary is my Mother in an unrepeatable way, and you can truly say that she is your Mother in an unrepeatable way. Realizing what a great and unique love Mary has for each of us, what reason could we ever have for not always going to her? What reason could we ever have for not asking her to take us as her beloved children and to hold us close to her maternal and Immaculate Heart where we always experience the love, the warmth, the tenderness of this magnificent Mother?

3. Pope John Paul II, The Mother of the Redeemer (Redemptoris Mater), United States Catholic Conference, Washington, D.C., 1987, No. 38.

Messenger: Message of Mary, August 27, 1996, the message Mary wishes from her image site as directed by Mary on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, 5 days before she appeared on the building in Florida.

Mary's Message from the Rosary of August 27, 1996

Mary speaks: I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored. The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you. Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to help my children. You are my children of light.

Song: O Lady of Light, shining so bright, be with us this day, guiding our way, O Lady, O Lady of Light.

Mary speaks: I appear to you as Our Mother of Sorrows.

Messenger: Authority - all must be as He wills.

Matthew 12:46-50
The true kinsfolk of Jesus.

He was still speaking to the crowds when suddenly his mother and his brothers were standing outside and were anxious to have a word with him. But to the man who told him this Jesus replied, 'Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?' And stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, 'Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.'

Matthew 7:21

'It is not anyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord," who will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but the person who does the will of my Father in heaven.

Messenger: (Click on) the Holy Spirit Novena.

Messenger: An excerpt from a message from Jesus, November 21, 1993.

Take Your Bottle (excerpt)

November 21, 1993 - 4:10a.m.

The hills were steep, the valleys low. There were times you were dry in your mouth. There was much that was not to your liking, but you followed and followed and, in the end, a beautiful pasture, flowing with a bubbling brook, and a sunny day. Follow Me this way. Don't ask. Don't stop. Don't try to find a way out. Follow Me over the rocks, over all the dry lands, wet lands, lands that are just right. Trust in Me as little sheep. He does not go to graze other lands for he will surely lose his way. Follow, follow, follow the Master and you will never run amok, you will never lose your way, you will fly on eagles' wings. You will run and not get weary, and you will be guarded on your path, the right path that leads down all the right roads to an everlasting treasure.

My love is your fuel, My heart your light. You have heat on your journey. Stay close to the center of My heart and all you need will go with you. Alleluia.

I am the Good Shepherd. I know Mine and Mine know Me. They follow Me.

Include Song: A Song from Jesus

Question for married couples and others in intimate relationships:

Q: How do I feel we can build each other up when we are tired and weary?

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