Love Prevails!: Desiring God!

My People,

Good Morning! Every once in a while when you watch a dream come true, remember God has made a way for me and you!

Jeremiah 9:24, “but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,”

We need to work with the humility of Christ. One acquires humility only by accepting humiliations. Forgive out of love, forget out of humility let no hurt or bitterness remain.

I AM NOTHING!

I AM BUT A WRETCHED SINNER!

Have mercy oh Lord!

The Sun so shines on me and you! We all have dreams and most people never in their lifetime ever ask God, ‘what is it that you want from me? What could I do to tell you how much I love you?’ We never realize to ask?

Whenever I put up a topic, there will be times that the lyrics of the song will come to my head, or I will have to hear it more than once to know it is God who wants me to mention the song. Here goes Rod Stewarts-Have I told you:-

Have I told you lately that I love you?
Have I told you there's no one else above you?
Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness
Ease my troubles, that's what you do

For the morning sun in all its glory
Meets the day with hope and comfort too
You fill my life with laughter, somehow you make it better
Ease my troubles, that's what you do

There's a love that's divine
And its yours and its mine
Like the sun
And at the end of the day
We should give thanks and pray
To the one, to the one

Take away all my sadness,
fill my life with gladness
Ease my troubles, that's what you do

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22—23

Gentleness is an indicator that the Spirit of God is at work in our lives. We are reminded to treat each other in gentleness, as Jesus did. He always gave people hope. The most effective way to lead people to Jesus is by imitating Jesus.

Let this be our prayer: “Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto thine.”

What do you do when your heart is broken – what are tears they are but droplets that fall from one’s eyes. Aren’t they? To cry is to hurt. We live in an insecure world. We hurt people when we trust little. To doubt is a lack of faith. And without faith what can you do?

When I cry, my eyes swell up. I cry at times out of happiness too. When someone hurts me I walk up to the person say the nicest things. Isn’t it wonderful to leave people with good words even though it is your heart that breaks into so many fragments? You catch the person unawares with this act of kindness. Sometimes all it requires is some good words. What it does to the person, is, it shows you care.

· Sometimes we are mean to people who are good to us – we don’t believe that good can happen to ‘someone like me.’

· I keep hearing people say mean things about each other, always putting the other down. When we talk bad about somebody, when we can’t see someones happiness and want to snap back at them or make stories, it says nothing good about us.

· We all get annoyed some of us really get mad. I get angry too. As much as my temper rises it quickly cools down too maybe a minute or two. Don’t worry, I don’t box people down.

· There are people who love gossips and one look at them and you would know how they enjoy what they do. They can’t resist it. Deep down it’s become such a habit that if they don’t do what they do, they would lose themselves.

· Jealously always stems up from insecurity. If one is confident of themselves, one can’t be jealous? And I know that you would ask – what one has to do with the other? It’s actually very simple. If you know your identity in Christ, you cannot be jealous. It is not who you are, but whose you are?

Whatever your feeling, whatever the circumstance-ask yourself, ‘what would Jesus do?’

And if you don’t get the answer, let me help, Jesus would say, Love your neighbour as yourself and do good to those who hate you.

This is what Jesus tells me, ‘Love with all your heart. Love with mine.’ I am told not to hurt anyone. I try really hard. And when people hurt me, Jesus holds me.

Love is a splendid thing!

As a 9 year old, on our walks after dinner, I would look for the Moon, I felt most comfortable. Today I feel the same.

There was a time, when as a 9 year old on my 5 minute walk to my aunt’s home, I would admirably look at a house under construction-with no thought in my head, just plain admiration. When that house was done, my dad was given the keys to that place we called home.

I speak straight from the heart. My cousin calls me point blank and I know God loves that about me. I believe in simplicity, I don’t understand manipulation. I love people who speak from the heart. I love boldness in a person. I love the capacity of a person to love people and go a million miles for all. I love to watch a person speak with faith in God and speak on His awesomeness. Faith is what it does and how it forever changes the relationship of a person with God! I love to watch every-every little thing that God moves to make even the smallest drop of water look so beautiful if you only look at it with the eyes of wonder, you will be amazed forever!

I know I am I always will be! Always indebted to You!

Often during our troubled times, we fail to be patient. The Patience to wait and faith in God moves the heart of God.

What is a God destined moment? I believe that things in our lives come to pass at a God given moment. Not one minute before and not a second late than the destined (appointed) time by God. How wonderful it is to wait. And how wonderful it is as each minute enfolds revealing the God ordained moment.

Day 19^th April, 2015 – Husband to wife-open mind.

Day 20^th April, 2015 – Just believe in Jesus.

Day 22^nd April, 2015 – Don’t give up.

Day 26^th April, 2015 – Just the way you are.

Day 18^th April, 2015-Saturday - 7:30 pm mass, I was seated in line of the Tabernacle. I felt Jesus most alive. I did not see Jesus, but that did not change the way I felt about His presence.

The feeling that you are loved, the feeling that you are accepted is like no other feeling in the world. It’s enough to make you feel on Top of the world.

General belief is that when one is positive – it is usually because they have what they want.

I have had things in my life, and there are times that I wished would be but nevertheless nothing ever remains the same. Things change, people change. Time goes on. We remember.

There is only 1 thing that I ever wanted – and that was to have the greatest love story in the world.

Day 13^th April, 2015, Monday - I have been with the grace of God able to go to Church on a daily basis. When I would miss mass, my prayer to God would be ‘Bid me to come to you.’ God heard me.

When you connect with Jesus, there is nothing that He want share with you.

Love they say burns your heart. Love is a fire that grows fiercer and keeps you warm and makes your heart ache with the sweet pain of love.

Mine by cov'nant, mine forever; mine by oath, and mine by blood. Mine-nor time the bond shall sever; mine as an unchanging God. My Redeemer, my Redeemer...oh, how sweet to call Thee mine. Author Unknown

One of my friends – mentioned how his expecting wife wants a baby girl. He was wishing for a baby boy and he mentioned that if the baby is born on his father’s birthday that means his father is come back. I kept quiet for a minute, and then I told him we as Catholics don’t have the dead coming back. I told him, your father is happy in Heaven let him be there. Then he mentioned that he had a girl’s name ready when he was expecting a boy. This is what I said “why don’t you ask God in faith?" The Bible says, ‘Ask and you will receive.’ I told him if you can’t be honest with God, who can you be honest with?

We all need to be honest to ourselves. When we are honest to ourselves-we can be honest to others. And we can do so only with God’s help.

3rd May, 2015 – It will be 10 years since my brother was called to be with God.

26th April, 2015 – Afer the mass, I prayed to God, asking for His will. I said I would do whatever HE asked of me. I was ready for anything. Outside the Church on a board I saw the number 13 and when looking closely – I saw 1313.

Being aggressive does not mean you will bash someone up. It’s said that being aggressive gets you to the top spot. People don’t say it upfront. It’s a dog eat dog world. Everyone wants to be on the top spot. The word well chosen is a go-getter. It just means that you don’t mind stepping on others shoe or telling tales or reporting everything about them to get what you need. And no being a pushover does not mean being humble. These are just perceptions that people build to make themselves feel good of the wrongs they do.

Jesus is humble of heart. Often we do not realize the tenderness with which Jesus waits for us. Often we carry our load and for too long. We seek for someone to forgive us. We seek to forgive and be forgiven. We only have to remember what Jesus says, “Give me your burdens, come to me for I am meek and humble of heart.”

‘Meek’ - means gentleness, thoughtfulness, simplicity, truthfulness. Jesus put ‘humility’ after meekness. Meekness means love in action (kindness). Jesus said, “By this they will know that you are my disciples.”

Meekness is strength under control. It is not being impressed by a sense of one’s self-importance.

Here, Christ shows us what it means to be meek because
“when he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.”
Christ entrusted Himself to God alone and if anyone had reason to boast, it certainly would be only Him. Philippians 2:8-Christ humbled Himself (God Himself became humble); became obedient to death on a cross. He gave up His status and took on humanity—as an act of humility. He became man, in order to redeem and save us sinners.

In Matthew 11:29, Jesus says “take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle[meek] and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls.” We find rest by trusting our lives to Jesus, trusting Him to guide us through trouble at work or difficulty in marriage or whatever trouble life brings. We have to trust that Jesus is the answer to all our problems. His meekness and humility are why we take Jesus’ yoke because otherwise, we’re just bound to the world. It may seem easier, but it’s not. Jesus says ‘my burden is light.’

There will be times that we have to reject the comfort of the world. We are mocked because we are not part of the crowd. We were not created to be part of the crowd. We were created for greatness. That is the burden that is the yoke that Jesus calls us to accept.

Mother Teresa’s - Ways we can practice humility:

To speak as little as possible of oneself.
To mind one’s own business.
Not to want to manage other people’s affairs.
To avoid curiosity.
To accept contradiction and correction cheerfully.
To pass over the mistakes of others.
To accept insults and injuries.
To accept being slighted, forgotten, and disliked.
Not to seek to be specially loved and admired.
To be kind and gentle even under provocation.
Never to stand on one’s dignity.
To yield in discussion even though one is right.
To choose always the hardest.

It is in being humble that our love becomes real. Jesus possessed the fullness of the Godhead and took on the form of a servant.

When we realize our nothingness God can fill us with Himself. We must be empty of pride, jealousy, selfishness before God can fill us with His love.

We need to pray to God to help us get rid of all the hardness of our own hearts, replacing it with the humbleness we encounter in Jesus Himself. He who is almighty chose to become flesh for the love of us.

We need God’s grace. Paul says - 1 Peter 5:5, “clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for God opposes the proud but [God] gives grace to the humble.” We have to pray to the Spirit of God and look at Christ’s example of being humble, and bind ourselves to Him-to His meekness and humility, as a whole way of life.

Colossians 3:12, “Put on, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness and patience, bearing with one another.” Humility and meekness are character traits that we as Christians must put on. When people look at us, they need to experience Christ. And it is God’s grace that helps us look this way.

People have this impression that humble people are taken advantage of and walked on by others. A humble person is truly a strong person. Nobody in the world can change the mind of that person who is ruled by God.

When Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane, one of Jesus’ disciples took a sword and cut off the ear of one of the arresting soldiers. In an act of mercy and meekness, Jesus healed the soldier then reprimanded His disciple. Jesus humbled Himself and submitted to the authorities… willingly giving Himself up as a sacrifice on the cross.

Humility is freedom from pride. When we realize that we all have faults, we treat others much better.

When we are full of pride, and don’t get our way, we get very upset and are easily angered. Its humility and meekness that keep us open to the Holy Spirit, willing to learn.

God wants us to have an assurance that God is in control and He’ll always take care of us no matter what!

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. Philippians 2:5-8

Jesus the Son is consubstantial (“the same substance of the Father”, "one in being.") with the Father He did not in pride consider the Incarnation beneath His dignity. He concealed His Divinity behind mortal flesh and became a bond-servant of God. Jesus humbled Himself to the point of humiliating death on a Cross out of love for the Father and for us.

We are accustomed to thinking of the Abba Father in terms of power-The Omnipotent God, but His heart is meek and humble like Jesus's.