Our Sinful Hearts
Even how good earthly followers or disciples of Jesus Christ are, there bound to be patches of soil that are conducive for evil to plant their seeds of weeds and are fertilized enough to let them grow.
The devil is manipulating or exploiting that piece of land that belongs to them.
Therefore we needed to destroy and throw away the soil that evil love to grow their seeds.
The devil knew our weaknesses even more then we ever can. They never hesitate to capitalize on these chances that we open to them.
By our free choice, these weaknesses cause destruction or great damage to the souls as well as the pure flesh that still exist amidst all impurity and sin, the consequence of the fall of mankind.
We may not have full knowledge or too blind to have even dime knowledge of the existence of these dark patches in our hearts. If we allow only the dime light of the world to shine on us, we are complacent to say we are quite alright and seeking perfection in this world is foolishness. It is beyond our reach. It is true that it is far beyond our reach as far as human is concerned, but we are disciples of Jesus Christ. He gives us His Spirit so that we can fully reach out to God the Father. Not by our human strength and power but by the positive exercising of our freewill. To attach ourselves to God in the 'Mystical Body of Christ'. Because in this Body of Christ, Man and God is but One. In Jesus, with Jesus and through Jesus mankind shall be one with God the Father by the working of the Holy Spirit.
Countless times in our lives we hunger to be rich and powerful but we can't get it, so we try to disguise it, pretending to be complacent, but when fortune start knocking on our doors or even pass by, we rush out, stumble badly and fall. He may completely forget about God and His love.
In marriage that is almost collapsing, where no effort are being put to save it, couple tried to stay together, for the sake of their children. But it may not last long when temptation come and the marriage is destroy. 'What God had united, let no man put asunder'. But is God making a mistake or it is a trial that God put forward for strengthening the marriage but we fail, even before taking the first step to growth?
God never made a mistake, He knew us through and through. Marriage that stays strong when all is well is very fragile. The strength of a marriage depends on how tough the trial is and how well we response to that test. By our human effort and strength we might fail miserably. It was through God's effort that mankind can be united in truly loving each other, so too we must receive the same Spirit to help us continue with our journey as couple and family together.
In business, we may pretend to be comfortable with the small profit margin we earn, but when business prospect that gives us the ability to earn huge and merciless profit, we detached ourselves of the value we once hold firmly to and chase after that mountain of fortune.
These are only some examples of the patches of dark soil that still exist in our hearts.
We cannot cover it up by burying them alive. These dark patches had to be fully exposed to God and be delivered before they completely destroy our souls.
Burying them alive is very dangerous for the devil knew exactly when to strike that would leads us to our fall. Therefore let God open up those areas in our lives that we lived in falsehood and pretension. When we go for inner and spiritual healing these areas could be seen clearly or vaguely depending on how much 'Light' of God is allowed into our hearts. When God fully shone His merciful 'Light' on us, we felt great pain in our hearts, bodies and even our minds. But the pain and agony is just temporary and Jesus is carrying the heavier yoke with us. We are not alone as all the saints and angels prayed hard for us. Praying for us to yield and submit to God's transformation, authority and power over us. We only need to rely and trust in God, the rest shall be according to His will and power.
If those dark patches of soil, are not scrapped and thrown away, it may spread to other areas that were once 'lighted up'. The devil, his angels and instrument on earth would sow all forms of weeds and thorns that caused the whole land to be a useless plot. God is looking for fruits in all His plots of land. Those that continued to be barren of fruits for a long time would be of no significant to God anymore.
Those plots of lands that start to flower and bears fruits, God would put His full attention to them. He would continued to nourish, water, clear the weeds and thorns from growing. God is the gardener who would prune the trees that are bearing fruits, so that more fruits would sprout from the newly cut branches. That is why people who are living a pleasing life before God, by their submissiveness and obedience tend to suffer more. The churning of soil, pruning of branches are painful to the plants, so these also apply to our lives in union with God.
People who continued to live in darkness do not fear God, for they do not recognize God as their master and God, but they feared their master and god that is the devil. They would tremble at the movement of the devil and out of great fear they had to obey and do whatever job that were given to them. The devil was never satisfied, he had no love for his instruments, agents and angels. Among themselves, they manipulated each other to fulfill their selfish act. Like 'Satanic worshipper' and 'Black gangs' or whatever names they called themselves, are all groups formed by the power of darkness, derive its source from the devil.
In these groups all called themselves common brotherhood because of their union with Satan and his agents. They all had plans to spread their membership to as many as possible. In this manner they snatch away God's reign from the people created by God. There is no love but they share their responsible out of demand and fear of torture and being killed. Therefore those who are members are trapped maybe for their whole life, unless they took one of greatest risk, to get out into the light and be physically killed or to dwell in darkness be spiritually death for all eternity.
These are some of the tactics the devil used, to enter into 'time' , 'space' and this generation. He made use of human hearts, hands, and feet and as a whole the physical for their growth in destroying as many souls as possible.
The people that accepted darkness as their comfortable home, hated those who are not their own most. They hated the 'light' that God gives to all His Children and tried to destroy them. They would utter these sinful words which seemed to be very much acceptable to all people in this world, 'After all we are human being. We had desire of our own. It's alright to commit sin, because God is merciful. Submission to God is the greatest mistake we would have made for our lives, because by doing so, we are made into mere robots that God would manipulate, etc'. The lists of deceits and lies goes on and on. What the devil spread was a comfort to our sinful desires and hearts. We want to get as rich as possible. In riches to the foolish man (in the eyes of God ), is power, authority and we can buy anything, even love with this. But still one thing that money never can buy, that is eternal life in union with God. We may be able to buy worldly pleasure, false and temporary happiness with money but we cannot fool God.
When we come close to God in pray and especially Holy Communion, whatever ideas, words, images, etc that continue to linger and appears before us causing distraction, are the areas that needed to be delivered and healed the most. Our prayers may not be acceptable unless this is done. This requires either personal deliverance through prayers, confession or through the Church's ministries dueling with spiritual and inner healing. Do not ever consult other channels, beside God. Do not be deceived by people who disguise as Jesus' Shepherd. They are everywhere. Once we are captured by them, it would be a tight grip and letting go require much inner strength to seek God once again. Therefore do not waste our time dueling with pagan mediums, channeling, communion with the death and other impure spirits, fortune reading, listening to useless chanting of unholy people, 'Fengshui' experts, etc. Some may pretend to lead people to God as a disguise initially but the truth would be revealed later when the situation is almost hopeless. This people may already be too dependent and trust their whole lives, their fates, fortune , etc in the hands of evil people.
Prayer To the Holy Spirit
Come Holy Spirit I need You,
Come sweet Spirit I pray,
Come with Your strength and Your power,
Come in Your own gentle way.
Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the Father and the Son, Jesus Christ, illuminates my heart, soul and my mind.
Shine forth Your Light and destroy all evils that are dwelling comfortably in my heart.
Set me free from all forms of bondage and slavery and give me Your Spirit of freedom and love.
Enter into all corners of my heart and all secret chambers. Pick and destroy all seeds, plants, trees and roots of evil that had taken or about to take its foundation on my heart's soil.
Let my heart be like a house, fully open, including all rooms so that You can move freely.
Do not allow me to let You, the owner of this house that is my soul, to sit on a certain part of the house only, but to allow you freedom.
As You gave St. Peter the key into the Kingdom of heaven, I would also like to give the key of my heart to You, so that You had freedom to operate and function.
Open up my spiritual eyes that I may see the invisible work of Your hand.
Give me Your Sacred Heart and unite it with mine, so that I can love God with a burning passion and desire.
Give me Your hands and unite them with mine, so that I would do God's will.
Give me Your ears that I may listen and obey God's voice.
Help me to hunger and thirst for Your Divine virtues of faith, hope and love.
Give me Your wisdom, knowledge, understanding and gifts of discernment.
Lord God. Loving Father, I offer up this prayer through and by the power of Christ's Spirit. May You answer them according to Your will always. Amen.
Prayer For the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Opening prayer:
Almighty and Eternal God, thank You for sending Your Son our Lord Jesus Christ to be our Redeemer. He is the only one who can fully pay the ransom for our sin. Help us to follow Him, as He is the manifestation of Yourself, Almighty God. Your Divine plan for sending Your Beloved Son is to finally complete Your plan of salvation. Your final plan to send forth Your Divine Spirit so that we can all worship You in Truth and in Spirit, which is the most perfect worship.
Without Your Spirit dwelling in me, I could never truly worship You.
Please give me Your Divine Sanctifying Grace and open up my heart for the entry of Your Holy Spirit.
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Spirit of God send forth Your Divine power and transform my heart, so that I can love God the Father and God the Son, Jesus Christ the perfect way. Spirit of God guides me when I pray, so that my prayer will be always pleasing to God.
Illuminate my heart, so that darkness will disappear. Chastise me, transform me, and mold me into the image and likeness of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
Spirit of God, give me faith and hope in You always. Infuse Your love into my heart, so that I can perform charity, not by my power but by Your power.
Empowered me to continue the works of Christ to give food to the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, visit the prisoner and welcome stranger into my home which include physical, spiritual and mental.
Holy Spirit open up my heart, eyes and my ears that I may see, hear and obediently response to God's Words and to follow, accept and love His will just like Jesus Christ did.
Come Holy Spirit, I need You.
Come sweet Spirit, I pray.
Come with Your strength and power.
Come in Your own gentle way.
Spirit of God, bring me to submission and complete reliance on You always.
Amen.