Amen. So true...
God has done, is doing and will always do great things for me.
He has provided for me, is providing for me and will always be my greatest Provider.
Thank you heavenly Father God.
Where do you find help and support when you most need it? True friendship is strengthened in adversity. Jesus offers his disciples the best and truest of friends. Who is this promised friend? Jesus calls the Holy Spirit our Counselor and Advocate (also translated Paraclete or Helper). How does the Holy Spirit help us as the counselor? Counselor is a legal term for the person who defends someone against an adversary and who guides that person during the ordeal of trial. The Holy Spirit is our Advocate and Helper who guides and strengthens us and brings us safely through the challenges and adversities we must face in this life.
Person and role of the Holy Spirit
As Jesus approaches the hour he was to be glorified - through his death on the cross and his resurrection - he revealed more fully to his disciples the person and role of the Holy Spirit. What does Jesus tell us about the Holy Spirit? First, the Holy Spirit is inseparably one with the Father and the Son. It is the Holy Spirit who gives life - the very life of God - and who makes faith come alive in hearts and minds of people who are receptive to God's word.
The Holy Spirit makes it possible for us to know God personally. He gives us experiential knowledge of God as our Father. The Spirit witnesses to our spirit that the Father has indeed sent his only begotten Son into the world to redeem it and has raised his Son, Jesus Christ, from the dead and has seated him at his right hand in glory and power.
The Holy Spirit reveals to us the knowledge, wisdom and plan of God for the ages and the Spirit enables us to see with the "eyes of faith" what the Father and the Son are doing. Through the gift and working of the Holy Spirit we become witnesses to the great work of God in Christ Jesus.
Spirit strengthens us in faith and courage
Jesus warned his disciples that they could expect persecution just as Jesus was opposed and treated with hostility. We have been given the Holy Spirit to help us live as disciples of Jesus Christ. The Spirit gives us courage and perseverance when we meet adversities and challenges. Do you pray for the Holy Spirit to strengthen you in faith, hope and love and to give you courage and perseverance when you meet adversities and challenges?
O merciful God, fill our hearts, we pray, with the graces of your Holy Spirit; with love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, humility and self-control. Teach us to love those who hate us; to pray for those who despitefully use us; that we may be the children of your love, our Father, who makes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. In adversity grant us grace to be patient; in prosperity keep us humble; may we guard the door of our lips; may we lightly esteem the pleasures of this world, and thirst after heavenly things; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
source: From the desk of Don Schwager, hosted by Kairos Europe and the Middle East
Kneeling at your feet, sweet Mother of God and Queen of Peace, I, your loving child, confidently turn to you in my need, seeking your intercession for peace of mind and comfort to my troubled heart. (Mention your petition here.)
O listen to me, dear heavenly mother. Come to my aid and refuse me not as I cry to you. For you are my mother, and you fail no one who has recourse to you, O Consoler of the afflicted, O Queen of Peace. Amen.
Take a look at what is happening today.
Here are some of the Bible prophecies that are being fulfilled.
Go thru the following scriptures....
1. The songs in the temple will go away. (Amos 8: 3)
2. The corpses are so numerous that they are thrown away. (Amos 8: 3)
3. The earth will shake (Amos 8: 8)
4. The Festivals and Celebrations become sad. (Amos 8:10)
5. Bitter days ahead. (Amos 8:10)
6. You will not be able to hear the Word. (Amos 8:11, 12)
7. A young people fall unconscious when they are young. (Amos 8:13)
8. Marriages will be without celebrations. (Jeremiah 16: 9)
9. People will die of deadly diseases. (Jeremiah 16: 4)
10. They will be not be able to mourn for their dead. They will not be able to bury their dead. (Jeremiah 16: 4)
11. They will not go to the house of sorrow. And will not show sympathy. (Jeremiah 16: 5)
12. Big and small, old and young will die. There will be no one to bury them. (Jeremiah 16: 6)
13. It is forbidden to go to a feast/celebrations. (Jeremiah 16: 8)
14. Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors: hide thyself for a little while, till the fury pass away. (Isaiah 26:20)
15. The pride of men shall be humbled, and the lofty shall be humbled. (Isaiah 2:11)
16. Wash your hands so that they do not die. (Exodus 30: 18-21)
17. Keep distance if you have symptoms. Cover Mouth and Avoid Contact (Leviticus 13: 4,5,46 Mask)
18. Whoever is sick should stay inside their tent for 7 to 14 days. (Leviticus 13: 4-5, Quarantine)
Dear St.Anthony, pray and intercede with Jesus for us. You are known for miracles in finding lost things. Help me find and get all that I have lost. I am truly confident, you will come to my aid with your intercession on my behalf answered by God through Jesus who loves to linger in your arms. I will spread your miracle prayer and make you known to all. Amen.
* This act of consecration to the Holy Family will u nite the members of your family more closely to God and to one another.
Prayer
O Jesus, our most loving Redeemer, Who having come to enlighten the world, with Your teaching and example, willed to pass the greater part of Your life in humility and subjection to Mary and Joseph in the poor home of Nazareth, thus sanctifying the Family that was to be an example for all Christian families, graciously receive our family as it dedicates and consecrates itself to You this day. Defend us, guard us and establish among us Your holy fear, true peace and concord in Christian love: in order that by conforming ourselves to the divine pattern of Your Family we may be able, all of us without exception, to attain to eternal happiness.
Mary, dear Mother of Jesus and Mother of us, by your kind intercession make this our humble offering acceptable in the sight of Jesus, and obtain for us His graces and blessings.
Saint Joseph, most holy Guardian of Jesus and Mary, assist us by your prayers in all our spiritual and temporal necessities; that we may be able to praise our divine Savior Jesus, together with Mary and you, for all eternity.
Our Father, Hail Mary and Gloria three times.
Prayer Source: Catholic Family Handbook, The by Rev. George A. Kelly, Random House, Inc., New York, 1959
Jesus, You are the way maker. I trust in You and I know You will make a way for me. I know You have always been beside me especially at my lowest times. I need You now ever more in these difficult times. Only You Lord know what is happening in my life. You have said, "Be still and now I am God, Be not afraid, I will deliver you". I trust in You, Your words and promises. You surely will rescue me from my exile and restore my life. Amen.
My LORD Jesus Christ, Who because of Your love for men remain night and day in the Blessed Sacrament, full of pity and of love, awaiting, calling and welcoming all who come to visit You, I believe that You are present here on the altar. I adore You, and I thank You for all the graces You have bestowed on me, especially for having given me Yourself in this Sacrament, for having given me Your most holy Mother Mary to plead for me, and for having called me to visit You in this church.
I now salute Your most loving Heart, and that for three ends: first, in thanksgiving for this great gift; secondly, to make amends to You for all the outrages committed against You in this Sacrament by Your enemies; thirdly, I intend by this visit to adore You in all the places on earth in which You are present in the Blessed Sacrament and in which You are least honored and most abandoned.
My Jesus, I love You with my whole heart. I am very sorry for having so many times offended Your infinite goodness. With the help of Your grace, I purpose never to offend You again. And now, unworthy though I am, I consecrate myself to You without reserve. I renounce and give entirely to You my will, my affection, my desires and all that I possess. For the future, dispose of me and all I have as You please.
All I ask of You is Your holy love, final perseverance and that I may carry out Your will perfectly. I recommend to You the souls in Purgatory, especially those who had the greatest devotion to
the Blessed Sacrament and to the Blessed Virgin Mary. I also recommend to You all poor sinners.
Finally, my dear Saviour, I unite all my desires with the desires of Your most loving Heart; and I offer them, thus united, to the Eternal Father, and beseech Him, in Your name and for love of You, to accept and grant them.
Amen.
The rain is falling, the eyes of the Angels are crying. This earth so arid with love needs to be watered. How long will it take for humanity to understand? How many destructions, big and small, for the world to hear what True Freedom is? Yet the Lord waits, and his arm of righteousness is withheld by His Mother. Oh how much they love us those of Heaven! They look at us, they intercede, with their benevolent gaze. Will I be worthy of so many promises up there in Heaven? Nothing that I could have done will be enough ... It is You Lord who saves me, day and night You are there. So I say to myself "No matter where this world is going, Lord I trust in You!".
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The Lord says , I am the God of the impossible and I will watch over My word to perform it. No matter what you are facing, stay focused upon Me, for I Am faithful and I will lift you up. My child, the plan of the enemy is to bring confusion, and cause you to settle for less than what I have for you. Do not fear what the future will hold, as you place your life in My hands I will direct your paths. My child, lean not unto your own understanding. I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. Allow Me to work in you and watch how I will bless the works of your hands. Be still and know that I am your God and that I have everything under My control. My child, I am calling you to draw closer to Me and keep your eyes upon Me, for I am the Author and the Finisher of your faith. Leave all your past failures, mistakes and disappointments behind you and Trust Me to provide all your needs. Worship Me in the beauty of holiness. As you follow My leading I will bring breakthrough to your situation says the Lord! Hebrews 12:2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.
Source: FB Carole Burgess/Christine Garvey Vilar