BE with Me!

My People,

Good Morning! The Peace of Jesus and the love of mama Mary be with you always.

 

There are times, when I need to sit and listen to some good music. I love listening to country. It brings back all the good memories and makes my heart race with time. What is it about country music, if you’d ask me that? Well, I think, I love the way they keep it simple, they sing from the heart and they sing to mine. 

 

Love is like the ocean. We all know that the Earth is 71% water. Imagine all the love in the world. The sea is never calm. At times there could be tides or typhoons. Love is like that. Whichever way you look at it, these are conflicts-conflicts cause pain.

 

Have you ever noticed - Not everybody you smile at will smile back at you?  Why is that?

Not everybody will reciprocate to your kind gestures.

Not everybody will understand you.

Not everybody will love you back.

Not everybody – has someone to walk with them when things go bad.

Not everybody – gets to know how loved and blessed they really are.

 

Lack of love causes emotional pain in people. It causes scars that build in fear. Some people become hard hearted. They never socialize. They keep a distance from people.

It’s not that they never want to be loved.

It’s just that they never found anybody worth their trust.

It’s just that every time they began to trust, someone hurt them even more.

 

 

 

Open the door of your heart, if not completely, then ever so gently. Jesus, says come my Beloved, Come be with me.

Look at this below passage from the Bible. Love is the ocean (sea) here. And the storm is the conflict that love comes to face. All you have to do is believe in Jesus.

This relates to Jesus and His disciples in a boat, being tossed about on a stormy sea. Christ has just calmed the waves with a single command. Jesus turns to His disciples and said to them, “Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?” Mark 4:40

It was only human to fear in such a storm. But Jesus was telling them, how could you possibly walk with me for this long, and not know me?”

The disciples were astonished by the miracle Jesus had performed, and they were filled with awe, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even wind and sea obey him?" 4:41 Mark.

Jesus’ own disciples didn’t know him. They’d performed miracles of healing, and fed masses of hungry people. But they were still strangers to who Jesus really was.

The disciples came to Jesus, requesting, “Increase our faith”. Luke 17:5  Many of us today ask, “How can I obtain faith?” But they don’t seek the Lord Himself for their answer.

 

 

 

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God for ever and ever. Psalm 52:8

The green that David refers to here signifies spiritual health. It means to grow, fruitful. David is telling us, my health comes from trusting God.

 

People trust people. You can deny it. But it does not change the fact. When people want something, the thought is – How best can I please, to get my work done? Or they simply choose to be a ‘yes man.’

”Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. Jeremiah 17:5-6.

The Lord is warning, “Don’t trust in man. If you put your faith in human power rather than in me, you’ll be cursed.”

Yet, if we put our trust in the Lord, here is what our faith will produce: “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit."” 17:7-8

As we trust wholly in Abba, Father, His divine strength—flows in us and through us. While everything around us is decaying, we’ll flourish as green trees, healthy and strong. And when the hour of trial comes, we won’t wither. Instead, our faith will grow.

The cross of Christ has provided us with forgiveness of our sins. We are given the power of victory over all bondages and dominion over sin. We are supplied with mercy and grace. And, of course, we are given the promise of eternal life.
The Cross has given us the means of escape from the terrors of sin and hell.

The Cross provides God’s people with peace and joy.

The Cross has provided us with open access to Abba, Father.

From the point of crucifixion of Jesus, not only was man able to enter into God's presence, but God could come out to man.

 

 

Gods gift of holiness can never be a reward for anything we have done. It is an unearned, undeserved favor—an outright gift.

God demands absolute holiness! The kind of repentance that God is looking for is confessing the weakness of our futile efforts and denying that we have any power at all in ourselves.

You can never be clothed in Christ's holiness until you fall on your face before God's throne, wretched and totally helpless! You must be given holiness as a gift.

The greatest gift you can give to God is your faith that He will give you His holiness.

 

There are some facts that are simply unacceptable to me. This would be one of it. The 2nd of November, 2013, after the 7:30 p.m. mass the organ player distributed sweets to the choir members. They ate the sweets in the Church itself.

No reverence was shown to God the Father,

No reverence to His Holy Son, Jesus,

No reverence to the Holy Spirit.

No reverence at all to ‘The presence of God in the Holy Eucharist.’

Moses was tending sheep when God called to him from the burning bush, commanding him: "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground" Exodus 3:5

When God commanded Moses to take off his shoes because he was on holy ground, He was not referring to a piece of real estate—He was talking about a spiritual state. God can't use a man until He gets him on holy ground.

The place was holy! The place was the spiritual condition Moses had finally come to, a place in his growth where God could get through to him. He was finally at the place ready to listen, willing to respond to the dealing of a holy God.

Our God is no respecter of persons. God, in those forty trying years, was preparing Israel as well as Moses. By way of loving judgment, the Lord was driving Israel back to a hunger for GOD.

God could prove Himself strong on their behalf in no other way.

We will have to go the same route to usefulness. That is, stripping of all self-pride and self-confidence.

 

The Bible tells us Jacob received an incredible revelation through a face-to-face encounter with God: “Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved” Genesis 32:30

What was the circumstance surrounding this revelation? It was the scariest point in Jacob’s life. At the time, Jacob was caught between two powerful forces: his angry father-in-law, Laban, and his hostile, embittered brother, Esau.

Jacob faced total calamity, convinced he was about to lose everything. Things looked utterly hopeless; yet in that dark hour, Jacob had an encounter with God as never before.

Something marvelous happens when we simply trust. A peace comes over us, enabling us to say, “It doesn’t matter what comes out of this ordeal. My God has everything under control. I have nothing to fear.”

 

God has not forgotten you! He knows exactly where you are, what you are going through right now, and He is watching every step along your path. We forget that God has us in the palm of His hand.

Can it be that we continue in hurting—continue living in defeat and failure—simply because we really do not believe God answers our prayers anymore?

Do we really believe God will act just in time, in answer to our prayer of faith?

Be honest have you almost given up on certain things you have prayed so much about? Have you grown weary with waiting?

God has not forsaken me—nor you! A thousand times no! He is right now wanting us to believe He is working all things out for our good. “We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

So stop trying to figure it out; stop worrying. The answer is coming. You will reap in due season if you faint not! “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart”

 

 

Be with me..... 

Be with me so I know

You will never let me go
I carry Your heart in me everywhere I go.

I have waited a lifetime

I’ve made wishes,
I’ve dreamt dreams,
And when this dream comes true,
I pray that all my memories of love will be of you.
You make me whole
You make me see
You bring out the best in me.

You make me feel
Things so completely

You have made my dream a reality.

I believed in the beginning of a fairytale,
That You my love, will always be,
A part of my heart;
A part of me.

Love is and will always be
My love for You to eternity.

With all my Love,

For Love Prevails!
AnitA.

 

Called to – In CHURCH

• Fast for one hour before Communion from all solids and liquids. This is a small sacrifice we offer to Jesus to show our respect and reverence for His true presence in the Eucharist.
• Dress with dignity.
• Bless yourself with Holy Water upon entering and leaving the Church. Holy Water used upon entering Church as a reminder of one's Baptism and a gesture of purifying oneself before approaching the presence of God.
• Keep your voice low when greeting one another in Church. We must be mindful of the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist as well as being considerate of others who are praying.

Remember.......

The priest should be the last person to enter the church and the first person to leave.

Cell Phones should be off or in an inaudible mode.

PRAYER: Abba, Father, keep me obedient and always faithful. Remember, this your servant.

Mama Mary keep me humble, I pray. Amen.

‘Come, be with me.’ Thank you, Abba Father.  30th October, 2013.

2nd November, 2013 - heart to heart. Abba, Father, You know.