God uses His instruments to manifest His love for us

There was a grand wedding feast for the 'Son of God'. The host employed servants to serve the guest in the banquet.

The servants are the employees of the host.

What does this apply to in our spiritual lives?

God sent us His servants like the prophets of the old. They lived hard lives trying to re-direct the path of salvation back to God. They were tortured, persecuted and killed for the sake of God's children.

The saints and angels are also servants of God. Blessed Virgin Mary's life was no exception. She had to undergo all forms of persecutions, prejudices, and humiliations for the love of God by expressing her love for God into actions. She was a young virgin with no experience in marriage life and parenting.

She was a poor village girl. She should have been enjoying herself chasing after material but she pushed these aside and accept suffering for the love of God to become a mother of the most controversial man in the whole world that ever touch the soil of the earth.

Jesus lived a solitary life different from the rest. The whole universe was His but He took nothing as his own. He gives all that He had created including the pleasure of lives, material and beauty and treasure that can be extracted from this earth to all His brothers and sisters who are God's children.

Blessed Virgin Mary was completely obedient to God. She took responsibility to bring Jesus into this world. She nurture, fed, clothed and loved Him as any other ordinary children.

But she was a perfect mother with divine Spirit in her directing her mind, heart and her spirit.

The joyful mysteries of the rosary showed the nature of the 'Mother of our Lord'. Her humility, meekness, helpfulness, obedience and as a whole her expression of love for God and mankind.

She accepted the angel's message and put the whole responsibility on her shoulder but she knew that God would carry it with her, showed her trust and dependent on God. She is like a little child of which Jesus said in the gospels. 'No one can enter into the Kingdom of God unless they are like little children'. The precious virtue of simplicity, trust and dependent children had on their parents led them to a very special union of which we should and must apply it to the spiritual. Just as that physical loving relation is precious so is our spiritual relationship with God should be similar. For God is our eternal Father and we are His children.

By calling and reminding herself she is only a servant of God, a creature of God or a lump of soil, she humbly submitted herself to the will of God.

This showed her submission to God, which is essential for the salvation of our souls.

She received the news that Elizabeth, her cousin was pregnant. She was very excited because she shared the same or similar responsibility with her cousin Elizabeth.

She was very excited and hurried to see her cousin to convey the 'good news' that salvation indeed was already here and that the person who was to bring salvation is now in her womb. In her womb was the Savior, Messiah or Anointed One of God and the Son of God of whom the prophets of the old had prophesied.

This showed her enthusiastic in working in the 'vineyard of the Lord as the 'Ark of the Tabernacle'.

We should also shoulder our responsibility and love for God by doing the will of God willingly, happily with full responsibility and love like our 'Mother' does.

Mary went all the way to Bethlehem in order to fulfill what was prophesied by the prophets that the Messiah should be born in Bethlehem.

The baby in her womb was due to be delivered anytime by then but she knew that God would provide for them.

Eventhough the place of the delivery was such an unfit environment she willingly and humbly accepted the situation. The Divine Spirit in her must have told her that this is the place to deliver her Son. As a mother of a king, she can request the delivery to be in a special place but this was in obedient to God as a manifestation of the 'Nature of God' in Mary. God created all material things for us but He took nothing as His own.

God's love for us was indeed manifested in His saints on earth and in all the things that He created that are good.

God served the world especially through His saints and angels who are His workers in the vineyard and servants of God.

See how much God loves all of us even by laying down His life for the salvation of all human races.

What must we do in order to give meaning to His Divine, infinite, impartial, unconditional love for us?

Praise and thank you Lord for Your inspiration and enlightenment. Amen.

Feed your soul with love

Your stomach should be fed with the right, nutritious and mild food to sustain life.

If suddenly you continue to feed it with junk food, there will be sure to be a stomach upset. The stomach will ache and complain of a sudden entrance of undesirable and strange food.

But if you continue to feed it this way, it will sure to accept the food somehow.

Who shall be the victim of your indulgence?

Off course it is your body which is going to suffer from mal-nutrition. If you continue with this harmful habit, you most probably would get very sick and died.

If your soul is fed with the wrong food other then the Holy Spirit and its graces, your soul will complain.

But if you continue to indulge in sin, the soul stop complaining and worst still even began to accept the sinful ways you are living.

Who shall be the victim here?

Off course it is your soul that shall be the victim of your sin.

Your soul got very sick and may even died of thirst and hunger.

When you start committing sin, your soul would sense certain threat because your conscience is prickling you. But if you continue not to take heed of your soul and conscience's warning your soul and conscience somehow had to give in or co-operate with your sinful bodily desires and actions.

Finally your soul shall be tainted and polluted with so much sins that you had to lose heaven forever. You may be alive but your soul is already death.

Therefore wake up, before committing sins became a permanent habit in each one of us.

Help us Almighty God to feed our souls with your love. Help us continue to co-operate with the Holy Spirit, which is free for our asking.

Help us to know that the Holy Spirit cannot live in a constricted heart whose passage is too narrow. Help us therefore to open our heart, relaxes its arteries and all the blood vessels, so that the whole heart would allows the free movement of the Holy Spirit who shall be the host of the heart and soul.

Our souls needed your love, your touch, your smile and your approval.

Our soul needed Sanctifying Grace. God revealing Himself to us. No one had ever seen God. Without God revealing Himself to us we could never know, what more to love, believe and obey Him.

Like an infant seeking the breast of its mother, so we too are seeking love from You, Almighty God.

For you said that even if a mother forgets her baby that she is nursing, You would not forget us. As any mother would not forget her baby that is sucking from her breast, so God would never forget us. Even if mother forgets but God will never forgets.

This is a great assurance and a comfort for us all. He never abandons us but we so often abandon Him, whether knowing, purposely, willingly or vice versa.

He is the Lord of our soul. The God of all His creation. Nothing would come about without His words.

His words bring about action. His word is love. For everything He created it was out of love.

So we can see, He created us because He loves us and prepare a very special dwelling place for us, our mother earth was such a unique place with all its beauty, air, wind, breeze and all life that is contain there.

He even decorated the sky with twinkling stars and moon, like diamonds in the sky. The ecological system was perfect. He was preparing the earth for mankind like parents preparing for their first born child.

God never will abandon us but we are the one doing it by committing sins of idolatry.

 

Faith and Superstition

What is superstition?

It derives in the belief of luck and magic.

The power that seems to work for those who are superstition does not come from God but it is the action of the devil.

It must not be confused with the power of even ordinary faith in others and ourselves.

Superstition is idolatry in the highest order. It is the worship of Satan and its power.

It does produce certain degree of limited result. Limited here I mean that God would not give Satan the ultimate power over His creatures and all His creation.

These result spurs spiritually blind people into their traps. In the trap and home of evil are unlimited suffering, anger, hatred out of deep-rooted jealousy for the children of God who are well care and loved by God, whereas they themselves will never have the opportunity anymore.

Faith

What is faith?

Faith is the believe in supernatural power that does produce a certain degree of extra-ordinary result.

Faith in your parents, relatives and friends spurred action without faith cannot achieve. Faith is trust in the highest order. Faith is believing without seeing or any prove.

We have faith in our parents, relatives and friends and expect them to live to our standard of trust. We pay the price, that is faith in them, we expect positive result or had great expectation in them to live up to our faith in them.

Many of us can expect adverse or imperfect result from faith in our fellow human being who are like us. They or we are bound to fail and later let them or us down.

We can witness many relationships that seem to derive from faith in each other. Faith that each would live to their own high expectation. This is actually very selfish on our part, if we practice this. Suddenly their relationship collapse because of faith in the other parties that later produce below your targeted result. They separated and may hardly become friends again.

Faith in God

Faith in God originated from the grace that comes with our souls' co-operation with the Holy Spirit. Faith in God, to achieve divine result needed the co-operation of free will. A gift to every mankind as a token of God's love for all mankind, despite our disobedience and sin.

God is the source of life, truth, wisdom and love. Faith in Him who is God and all His Words are nothing less then the truth and love.

All His creation, the cosmic power that govern the space, the ecological system that govern natures, all man-made system and all the rules and laws that govern mankind are at the mercy of God.

Everything on earth would be death without God's Spirit moving and function. God's Spirit continues to move the winds, filter the air that we breath, the sea and ocean function in their own orderly manner to fulfill the command of God's Spirit. Plants, animals and mankind multiply and continue to fill the earth to fulfill the commands of God unknowing.

Nothing and nobody can resist God's Words. His Words is life, light and love to those who believe and submit to Him. We can now clearly see that only mankind, beside the devils are rebellious, yet God is so patient and gentle. God gives and allows us sweet time to make a change.

Jesus said that if we had faith even as small as a mustard seed, we could move mountain and sea.

Man's eye could not see the power of faith. Just like the Spirit of God continues to moves through the whole universe. No one knows where it comes from just like the blowing of wind. All movements and action are obeying the commands of God.

Faith spurs hope. This hope had its meaning in the truth.

The truth is we are all His creation and we are all His image and likeness, tainted by sins. Once we had a loving, intimate and trusting relationship with God but sin destroy this hope. So Jesus came and rebuilds the broken bridge, so that we could once more return to embrace God as our master and Lord.

If we had faith in Jesus, He would never fail us.

He knew all our hidden thoughts, feeling and emotion and the motives and reason for our every action. Time and space cannot hold Him down because He is the Lord of it all.

Faith in Him is our co-operation or sign of our invitation to Him to be a part of our life, here and after. Trusting in His plan for others and us.

Praise the Lord. Amen.

The story of the Beatitudes

The Beatitudes are basically for the hearts rather then outward signs.

Blessed are the poor,

Blessed are the lows in spirit,

Blessed are those whose hearts had been broken,

Blessed are those who accept suffering as a cross of Christ, by uniting their pain and sorrow to Jesus' cross and suffering.

And by doing so will serve the purpose of purification of their spirit/souls because Jesus dies for that purpose.

Blessed are those who are humble, meek, gentle and lowly,

Blessed are those who love God and willing to do anything to defend His holy name.

Also to defend God's children.

To be God's instrument in showering love, care and concern for them.

Blessed are those who are pure in heart because only through seeking purity can they really see God through visions, messages and prayers.

Since prayer is a form of communication with God, it is two ways channel.

We speak to God in words, through meditations, adoration of Him in any forms (crucifix, pictures, movies, etc).

God too communicates and speaks to us. He shows His majestic power in nature of which is His creation. He reveals His power through the movements of wind, thunders and lightning, tidal waves and especially in the unique nature of mankind.

The stars and moon stay in obedient in its obit, years after years.

On the gentler side, we can find great peace at the seaside watching birds flew and singing their songs. The waves gently move forward to the sandy beach and returns again. The beautiful evening scenery as the sunset and the moon begins to rise. The reflection of the sun on the sea as it began to reveal its final face as it bid goodnight to us all. And the moonrise with a great smile to adorn the night sky, like a lighted candle in the dark.

Lets go to the beautiful garden, planted with flowers, trees and the ground carpeted with beautiful green grass. The birds, butterflies, bees are seen hovering the beautiful garden.

The instinct of animals in search of food, shelter, mates and we might like to admire how carefree and unique they are.

What more to say human beings with mind and souls of their own?

Blessed are those who mourn now for they will laugh for joy.

Who are the people who mourn now?

When Jesus was with us especially during the period after His Baptism, He mourned for the whole world. He mourned for those who love Him and those who rejected Him.

We who are to journey with Christ or in Christ are to put His shoes on our feet and walk with Him or the mysterious ways would be to live in His Hearts together with His saints or brides.

Only then we can really experience the suffering and pain He had endured and how great was His perseverance.

Our souls are God's image and likeness but after the fall was greatly tainted by sins until Christ shed His Divine merciful blood and washes all our sins away. But we still failed Him by repeating the ways of our first parents. We crucified Him over and over again, knowingly or unknowingly.

We set our priority and our hearts in this world as though we are preparing to live here for eternity.

We nourish or pamper our physical with so much perfumes, diamonds, jewels, expensive clothing, exotic and expensive food but on the other hand, the souls inside us is crying out for just basic food and drink but it was not given to them.

Our souls are like infants crying out to their mothers for breast milk and their warm caress but we do all we can to obstruct the souls from finding them.

God gives us freewill or choice whether to open or close our hearts to God.

We are entrusted with this responsibility to always open our hearts to God so that our souls would receive the nourishment from God.

What had we done to our souls? Where will the weak and hopeless souls return to, when our lives are over?

Will they be so dirty and shameful that they loss eternal union with God?

Had we abuse our responsibility by surrendering our souls to the world and to the devil?

Where then will our final destiny be?

If you close all communication with God and to our heavenly brothers and sisters, you and me will never know them.

If God were to allow you and me to come close to heaven's gate, we would flee because the Divine Light of God shining through Jesus and all His saints would evaporate you and me.

When you put a potted plant inside our house for too long, the leaves turn yellow or brown, the stems are long and weak.

Suppose you put this potted plant in the hot mid day sun, what would you observe?

The plant soon dies.

What about our souls which had not receive nourishment from God by living in darkness of sin?

They would flee from the Divine Light of God, if not they would be burnt.

Souls that are far away from God during this earthly lives would not dare to come near God after they die or during particular judgement but they had to face God during the General Judgement.

Our souls are immortal and our bodies are mortal. Where should our priority be?

Praise the Lord. Amen.

 

God coming to man

God the Father and the Son comes to dwell in the hearts of man through the working of the Holy Spirit.

The mysterious ways in which they function cannot be explained by man's intelligent and wisdom.

God decided to open the eyes of those who think and know they are foolish in man's sight. God decided to reveal His Mighty glory and splendor to them and teach them His own wisdom.

The very wisdom that created the universe.

Do you like to have the wisdom of man or the wisdom of God?

Who is greater and mightier? Man's wisdom was just a part and parcel of God's wisdom.

Yet man's wisdom had not been able to sustain the purity of it.

God gave all His children His wisdom.

Animal and man had different wisdom. Man's wisdom had been polluted or tainted with the world's deceitful wisdom.

Now as man develops from generation to generations, they passed on the wisdom that is tainted or polluted to their children.

That wisdom is no longer the wisdom that was originally given to Adam and Eve.

In our time evil had been much appreciated through movies, ways of life of those who seek and worship evil in their minds, hearts and in their thoughts.

Thinking that evil enable them to seek riches especially material.

God enemies are the devil. They are the source of all evil and sin.

They are planting seeds secretly in the land of God. They grew unknowingly without being notice by mankind.

God is the gardener and owner of the whole land.

God is the owner of all the hearts of mankind.

The heart is the place where God grows and functions.

It is through the hearts that God reaches out to another human being.

God reveals His Divine love through those whom He loved. God touches and heals our neighbors through our hands, hearts and our love.

God came to man in a mysterious manner of which was through grace. His grace is abundant and freely given.

His grace travels, penetrate and dwell in a soul, heart and mind that submitted to Him fully.

God knew the very essence of our hearts. If we surrender to Him even if our hearts are full of evil and impurities, He will clean up all the mess and arrange our lives in order. After everything is clean and arrange in order, He will come in and dwell there.

We must continue to pray and seek God's help so that it is God Himself who would lead us into submission.

Give up our freewill to Him. The very gift God gave to His children after the fall.

The conscience and freewill plays a very important role. Surrender them to God and let Him lead you and me into the spring of living water.

God is the source of that spring that will never run dry.

It is eternal and spiritual spring of living water.

It is the grace, blessing, nourishment and love from God.

We on earth enter into this spring and consume the drink when we enter into a covenant with God through the Sacraments given to the Church through Christ.

God had planned a mysterious journey with all His disobedience creations.

It is just like a boy and girl relationship.

Man and woman are supposed to be united into one. They got more acquainted and finally fall in love.

God and man are supposed to be one. God is just like a boy, courting a girl. Before the courtship the boy already loves and admires the girl for a long time. The boys cared and showered the girl with the most expensive gifts. They got intimate and finally fell in love. The girl gave a positive and clear response of submission to the man and sealed their love in marriage.

The mysterious courtship between God and man began the very moment before conception. God looked at the soul of which is to arrive into the world. He looked at it with great hope and expectation that this soul would return home safely and also fulfill its obligation by spreading the 'Good News' of salvation to the world especially to God's chosen children.

That soul enter into a woman's womb of which was chosen by God. It grew and matured and finally was born into this world. What great joy the parents felt when they receive the little infant into their arms. God is very happy indeed to see how parents appreciate that wonderful gift. Man participated with God in bringing new creation into the world. But how pure and appreciative are the inner thought of man when that baby arrived into their arms?

Are they prepared to fulfill their obligation by co-operating with God to bring the child of God closer to the Creator or are they doing their best to separate them from God?

Look and wake up all mankind and see the anger and disappointment in the eyes of God! He shed so much tears. He was still greatly hurt. He was scourged and crucified by many parents who brought their children away from God whom is the very source of life to their children.

Many parents gave plenty of undesirable responsibility and had high expectation on their children to excel in their studies, works and their plays.

They had selfish plan in their minds, hearts and thoughts. They took God's creation as a source of pride for themselves instead of giving honor and glory to God.

God is very patient and kind. He is gentle and loving. He will never give up on all His children brought up in a sinful and undesirable manner. He sends out His grace to all His children. Those who rebelled against the evil ways of man, God specially found a home in their hearts.

God would save all those who submitted to Him. Just like gold, was extracted from the rocks of the soil. God would patiently pan the soil and when He found the gold, what great joy He had. He would clean and polishes it.

He would mold it to build the Holy Temple of Jerusalem. This gold represents those who had the living heavenly virtues of faith, hope and charity in addition to the ways of the Beatitudes. They are obedience to God's laws that is the Ten Commandments of which was summarized and made perfect and simple by Christ. Christ said, "Love your God with all your hearts, souls and your minds and love others as you love yourself.

We must be able to love and appreciate ourselves before we can love and appreciate others.

These are simple rules for the salvation of any individual soul.

The Sacraments of the Church are official in heaven.

Those who came into the covenant with God signed their name there, placed their hearts, minds and souls to God. They would receive abundant blessing. God gave His love to the fullness and we should be able to experience the fullness of God's presence in our lives if we open ourselves completely to Him.

God charted a path of salvation for every individual soul and freewill guided by our conscience played a crucial role, whether to give in to God's grace and mercy or to stay in the darkness.

God loves us but He never force on us.

He is patient, gentle and compassionate. He would wait for the right moment and time before it is too late to send the message; strong and clear before He called it a day for the life of every individual soul.

Blessed are those who submitted to the loving chastisement of God.

To His Divine and gentle spirit in molding and bending of our once sinful ways to the ways of God, angels and saints.

The Holy Temple of God is the 'New Jerusalem'. It is completely pure and holy.

Adorned with precious stones and gold.

It is built on a firm foundation.

The cornerstone is Christ who is the foundation and beams of the structures.

Praise the Lord. Amen.

Invite God into your lives

We human beings are very prudent. We are able to separate affairs at home from business outside.

When we are at work outside, we behaved and spoke differently. With a different attitudes and tones of voice. We try to avoid anything personal from cropping out during business conversations and place of work.

When we are at home with our spouse, children, parents, brothers and sisters, we had a different stories to tell.

You gave a completely different image of yourselves. You talk about personal and private matters but concerning business and affair at our workplace we try to avoid. This is wisdom in human nature.

But God is the God of every occasion in our lives. He is the God in your workplace, outings and your home.

Don't ever separate the spiritual from the physical. God created the physical for us to ponder on the spiritual. All the marvels and wonders of His creations revealed His supreme love and power over all His creation. He created everything from the mess, put them into orders, gives them instructions to perpetuate till the end of time.

All the systems that governed natures and the universe are drafted and implemented by Him alone.

Invite God into your lives when you are having even a very intimate relationship and when you are on business. He is the God and provider of all, be it spiritual and physical. All systems of nature and spirit moves to fulfill His divine and ultimate command. Even the devil that was once the most influential and intimate angel of God had to obey His command.

Once He destined and made up His mind, He shall be very firm and never took back His Words.

Don't ever allow our human nature to fight God but let ourselves gently and humbly surrender ourselves to His love and chastisement.

Don't ever think that suffering and pain is a punishment from God but rather accept it as a cross of Christ of which all of us whether we are poor or rich, whether we are weak or strong had to carry.

Pray that God would give us His grace to enable us to carry the cross patiently. Lovingly, with music in our hearts just like our heavenly mother Mary.

Pray that God's patient would not wear out on us. Pray that we would not be the one who is the cupid of his anger and disappointment but rather pray that God would gently and patiently allow His grace to flow to our hearts step by step so that it would not confused and mistaken.

Pray that we would open our hearts to Him to do as He please for all He does was for the good of our souls, hearts and our minds.

Praise the Lord.

Amen.

Jesus and Mary

Have we ever held the little infant Jesus in our arms?

Have we looked deep into His compassionate and loving eyes?

Have we seen how He laugh, cry and yearn for her mother's warm and protective embrace?

Have we with our own eyes seen Jesus taking the first step as He walked?

Have we ever bathed, clothed and fed Him with milk and how He chewed His first solid food?

Have we seen how He tried to turn over and finally the joy in Mary's face to see Him succeed?

Have we seen Jesus murmur the words "Mummy and daddy" (in the Scripture Jesus called her mother woman when He assumed the role of God. He is truly God and man.)

Have you ever the opportunity to see Him play with His relatives and friends?

Have you ever see how He embraced His foster father Joseph, grandmother, etc?

Have we had the opportunity of seeing the little child Jesus took His meals by Himself?

Have Jesus ever looked so deeply into Your eyes, just like little children to their loving gentle mother?

Jesus suckled milk from her mother's breast. Mary looked intimately at the fragile little infant as He rested in her arms comfortably. Mary caressed Him gently, cradled Him as she fed Him and cleaned His face with towel to dry up the sweat.

Mary looked gently and lovingly at the infant Jesus with great expectation and hope.

She held the child Jesus very closely to her heart and never would she ever want to part with Jesus, either in her physical world, or in the spiritual world.

Have you ever held Jesus in your arms when He died?

When Jesus was taken down from the cross Mary held her son for the last time. Poor Mary's heart was shaken and broken into pieces of which only she could express.

She persevered, knowing that it was only temporary. Winter is over and the rain had stopped. Spring is just three days away.

She held on and the pain pricked her very deeply. Every wounds inflicted on Jesus, was also inflicted on her too.

Earthly mother experiences this hurt too if their beloved son had to go through what Jesus went through.

Mary's perseverance and endurance was rewarded. God crowned her with an eternal and divine crown of Queen of all saints.

Jesus loves Mary very deeply and whoever breaks Mary's heart breaks His heart too.

Mary in heaven together with Her Son works hand in hand to salvage the whole world if possible.

She will be there in time when we needed her most. She will never desert and abandon us. She pled Jesus for mercy and compassion on behalf of all her children.

She shares with her Son the rank of servant to God's Children.

Whoever wants to be Jesus' followers are called to serve God and also one another.

To be humble, compassionate and charitable just like God is. Only with sincere, pure, humble and holy hearts can we ever enter into the Kingdom of God to the fullness.

We are all called to dwell in the fullness of God's presence in His Kingdom but many of us are still far away or journeying into it.

In the Kingdom of God, all submitted to God completely without compromise.

Suffering and pain in this life is just a stage or transition period of purification, molding and re-directing of our path to the ways of heaven. It is just like purgatory on earth. What suffering and pain you accepted as a price for our sins shorten our state of purification in Purgatory in the next life.

It should be considered as a blessing in disguise rather then a punishment from our loving and compassionate Father.

Let God's Spirit fill us from head to toes and let His Spirit overflows and touches the hearts, souls and minds of our fellow brothers and sisters and warmed them.

Let God's Light in us shine forth for the whole world to see and never ever suppress it from expressing and shinning out.

The truth is Christianity without Christ's Spirit is death just like body without soul is likened us to other animals.

A great reward awaited those who are obedience, trust, hope and submitted to God.

The rooms in the Kingdom of heaven are being prepared for each one of God's chosen children.

Are we qualified to dwell in that special reserved room in the 'House of God' of which is a palace of the king of kings and Lord of Lords? They are having a grand banquet to welcome the 'Bride'. Are we all dressed in the wedding gowns preparing to meet the 'Groom'?

Pray always that God in His mercy and love would mold and transform us back into a pure and perfect likeness of Him.

Amen.

The Holy Family of God

Blessed Virgin Mary is a divine and special creature set aside to become the 'Ark of the Tabernacle'. Her womb was likened to be a case to store the treasure of God's Kingdom on earth.

Her submission and humility is the expression of the very nature of God. Mary existed in this world to be a servant of God, just like her Son, God and Savior are.

Her divine service to God in mothering the Savior of the world came not as a surprise to her. She longed with her heart, soul and mind to serve God this way. God must had prepared her fully before the official announcement by the angel Gabriel of which the date and time may came as a surprise to her. She trusted God completely to fulfill His Divine will in her. She never complains but accepted what was given to her.

Should we all fallen creature tainted by the deathly sin of Adam and Eve complain and humiliated the sincere service of the mother of Jesus who is her God and our God. She is rightly and without doubt the 'Mother of God'. It is not position that she hungered for but how much she can serve? Are we willing to mother the children of God or a co-shepherd to Jesus' lambs and sheep just like Mary is?

Mary embraced the whole world including those in the spiritual world into her 'Immaculate Heart' just like Jesus with His 'Sacred Heart'. She embraced the joy, suffering and finally awaits the triumph of this dark world including those in purgatory. She will not rest until all her children are safe in the arms of Jesus.

Reap what you sow

It was 6.30 a.m. dated 9/4/99.

While I was praying the Rosary, a big dragonfly flew right through the window into our home.

Dragonflies used to flew in but they usually die within a few days.

This is what would happen to evil people when they steal their ways into the Kingdom of God.

They would die there because this is not their usual habitant. They are used to be fed with evil just like the dragonfly's habitant is the jungle-symbolized sin and evil.

The dragonfly was trying to escape as though they were trapped. Children of the light are fed with 'light'.

If you give the opposite they would die. So if you sow the seed of evil in your heart by consuming evil that is by following the ways of this world and worst still the evil ways, you are doomed to destruction and perished with them in the fire of hell.

If you sow in your garden or heart the seed of goodness and life, you would surely reap the fruit of goodness and life. That is to say, if you are obedience to God, follow His ways, teachings and commandments by practicing, cherishing and full of love for God and all mankind, God would reward you with eternal life in heaven. Where your soul would rejoice to discover and touch the source of spring of living water, right in front of your sight.

Praise the Lord. Amen.

How can we explain or clarify our relationship with God?

Jesus as Son united with His Father in complete unity and love.

Their Divine union of love, dependent and obedience to one another create a very powerful Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit. It is the union of Jesus and the Father.

Just like a husband and a wife completely love, dependent and trust each other. They live in obedience. With this spirit in them, they conquer the challenges of life together. No mountain is too high and valley too low for them to travel.

They produced children with this divine union. They love, care and nurture them till they are old enough to stand on their own feet.

This union of God the Father with the Son is a mysterious and supernatural union.

So as human being that are not gifted with supernatural power, which originated from God Himself, we could not understand or describe the mystery.

Those who had the bond of the Father and the Son in us, which is the Holy Spirit would be able to explain the mystery, if they co-operated with God. It is actually God telling who He is to us, which is called Sanctifying grace or power that enable us to know, believe, love and to trust in God.

As the Father, He is full of authority and power. He is the one who is the architect and source of life. He is the one who makes the world and the universe to function naturally and normally.

He is the 'Alpha and Omega' which mean the beginning and the end. He is called 'I am who I am' for nobody created Him.

As the Son who came into this world we could see His Divine compassionate, gentle, loving, caring and a Shepherd's heart.

He came to reveal God's Divine Sacred Heart to all God's children who care to save their souls.

Human parents trained their children to grow up strong and independent but it is different with God.

We are supposed to forever remain a child of God. Innocence and pure in our dueling with God and His family but to the evil force there shall be no compromise.

Complete rejection of Satan and His power is the essence of their battle.

Therefore to be loved by God is to depend on Him as His Divine Instrument of worship.

To go where He instructed. To fight when told to fight. To love when told to love and as a whole to be who God is.

In order to be perfect children of God, our spirit and God's Spirit must be equally pure and holy, only then the union is perfect.

Heaven is a place of complete submission and love.

Heaven is a place of complete rejection of Satan and his power.

Heaven is where all saints and angel worshipped God in selflessness.

Praise the Lord.

Amen.

The Holy Trinity and the role they play

Time 5.30 a.m. Date 18/3/99

The Father

He is the author of all forms of life,

He is the source of all wisdom,

He is the source of the spring of living water,

He is the mind of God,

All destinies lie in His 'hand',

He is the 'potter'.

The Son

He is the manifestation or expression of God's love.

He is the 'way' to the Father,

He is the 'light' of the world,

He is the 'Word' of God',

He is the promised one from God,

He is the Messiah and Savior of the world,

He is the 'Bridegroom' of the spiritual brides, which includes all mankind.

His Divine Sacred Heart expresses a mother-like love and compassion.

He loves us by surrendering His life for the ransom of our sin.

He is the second person in the 'Godhead', but He resumed and takes the place of the humblest servant ever came to earth.

He is the incarnation of God into man,

He continues to love, heal, suffer, nourish us with His Body and His Blood purifies our souls, mind and our hearts.

The Holy Spirit

He is the spirit and power that unites the Father with the Son.

The Father and the Son were perfectly and completely filled with the overwhelming love of the Holy Spirit.

He is the third person in the Trinity.

He came from God. He is with God and performs the actions of God.

When His Spirit moves, it was through the command of God the Father and the Son Jesus Christ.

But they are equal, belong and completely united into each other. No part is greater then the other. The three always function consistently.

Take a simple example of a perfect spouse of the Holy Spirit, no other then, Virgin Mary's. The mind, heart and spirit (soul) of hers. Her mind is filled with God's love. Her heart's desire is to serve God completely as His instrument and her Soul is completely the spouse of the Holy Spirit.

Whatever actions she performs would be pleasing to God, don't you think so?

It can be imperfectly summarize that the mind represents God the Father. The heart represents God the Son and the soul represent God the Spirit. This is how human mind can digest and understand.

When you believe in God, believes in the three with undivided love. Sometimes dividing them into three different functions and roles can be quite misleading and hard to understand.

But as a whole there is only one God. They are the 'mind, heart and spirit' of God.

If anyone of us try to believe or divide them, especially many Catholic like to emphasize on the second and third persons in the Trinity is like sitting in a bas with a driver without fuel and power to run.

Don't ever divide them. God is powerful, mysterious to our mind, his love overwhelming because we could not understand and His Spirit is the one that bring all the love and power of God to us. We can feel God touching us through the Holy Spirit. God understands that certain people's heart are not prepare to accept the Holy Spirit because it require and demand submission of all that belongs to Him. It includes even our freewill of which God gives to each and everyone of us. If we are like a child, we can see and enter into the Kingdom of God.

For in the Kingdom of God every part submitted and depended on God to care, nourish and to love them. If we are not ready to submit like 'little children' then the Kingdom of God cannot manifest in us to the fullness. People who belonged to the Kingdom of God put their heart, mind and their souls to God alone. By doing this they obey the commandment of God especially clearly expressed by Jesus, that is to love God and to love all His creation with an undivided love. In Baptism which include confirmation we receive His Holy Spirit, He continues to live in our souls/Spirit, through His Spirit and perform action through out unity with His Spirit.

The Father and the Son perform all actions through the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit moves into our heart and reveals the love of the Father and the Son.

The Holy Spirit dwells in the heart, soul and mind of all mankinds who accepted Him. Live, work and grow there. Without the Holy Spirit you and me can never know God the Father and the Son.

The Bible was written with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit dwelling in us, how are we suppose to really understand the unseen and the thought of God expressed in the Bible.

Yes! People said 'I am filled with the Holy Spirit' because they believe in the Father and the Son and in their inner thought they had suspicious or may doubted the Holy Spirit. People can believe that as long as they believe in the Father and the Son, We are automatically filled with the Holy Spirit if they are baptized in the Name of the Trinity in very incorrect. You and me could only have the seed of the Holy Spirit but you and me suppressed it from growing any further. We use our own power to suppress the Holy Spirit. We replaced it with human spirit. Can God's divine plan ever succeed in each one of us? Surely not! Begin with God's Power and ends also with God's power.

Make the Holy Spirit your spouse just like our mother who is the second Eve does. Do you still want to follow our fallen mother or do we want to follow our new mother Virgin Mary.

Yes! My dear people of God we can easily said that 'I am filled with the Holy Spirit' because all my actions of sacrificing our time, energy and material were the expression of the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. Yes! Indeed it is very true because it was through the compassion and mercy of God that those who had a vague idea about the Holy Spirit may also receive it. Understand one very important point.

The Holy Spirit is a spirit of infinite love, mercy and power. If you only restrict a certain portion of your heart to Him only then He can function and work through that portion which we surrender. The power of the Holy Spirit opens up our hearts, soul, mind, thought, ears, eyes and all our senses to Him. When you are filled with the Holy Spirit graces of the Holy Spirit travel into your physical and your spiritual. If you had the fullness of the Holy Spirit graces that touch or given to us can be felt by our spiritual that had surrendered and opened to Him. Initially graces cannot be felt because the communication between the spiritual and physical is not complete. Somewhere there seemed to be a gap. God's grace travels through but cannot be received. If we surrender our soul and spiritual to God in complete co-operation the presence of God can be felt, seen, touch and heard by us.

The third person in the Trinity is very gentle, compassionate and full of love, yet His greatest gift of all is His Power.

If you are filled with the power of the Holy Spirit, you can perform actions and said words without the Holy Spirit can't do.

You will be very bode and fear no one because the Holy Spirit is God the Father and the Son united into an undivided and infinite love.

God the Father spoke through His 'Word' Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit moves, passes the message and perform the actions and vice versa that is The Holy Spirit receive the message pass through and filter through Jesus' Sacred Heart and back to the final consideration of the Father. When the Father command the process repeat itself again.

God will not force His power on you and me if we are not prepared for it.

We all need His Power, energy, strength and love to perform His action.

Some people may said that they will go for Charismatic renewal once they are dry but it should not be the case because the Holy Spirit is a spirit of relationship between you and God. It is present in all the sacraments of the church but most of all He wants an intimate, trusting, gentle and loving relationship with all His creatures personally.

God the Father performs all actions through this magnificent, mysterious and wonderful power of God.

If the power of God is doubted, the second and third person is hurt and offended. It breaks His heart. The Holy Spirit is the manifestation of the love of the first and the second person in the Trinity. We can simply say that God is so good and Jesus is the way, truth and the life. You and me make up our mind, heart and soul to follow Jesus footsteps but when doubt of His Spirit creep in, the whole plan is ruin. Because this is a spiritual journey into an immortal world full of spiritual obstacles.

We can easily stumbled and fell deep into pits without spiritual guide. This journey into an unseen world is a spiritual one and we need God's Spirit to be our companion. Like Peter travelling through a storm and found Jesus walking on the water. Would you, if you had a choice to let Jesus carries you? Or would you like to hold His hands or would you like to walk close or at a distance behind Jesus? Which is safer and sure of reaching our destinations?

You can said and proclaim in a loud voice that we love the Almighty Father and His Son but we could not appreciate His Power what are we believing in then? God is undivided and we must never ever divide the Trinity.

Believe in the Father's wisdom and author of lives.

Believe in the Son's love and compassion.

Believe in the Holy Spirit's power to perform mighty and mysterious action and expression of God's love.

All God's plan, creation and recreation are out of love.

The function of the Holy Spirit is to spread the love of God.

To dwell in all God's creations so as to sustain lives in them but most of all to dwell in the hearts of all God's image and likeness, God's 'breathe'.

The Holy Spirit dwell in all mankinds' heart and soul. Moves them to perform the action of the Father and the Son.

The Father and the Son were filled with the Holy Spirit or love.

If you and me want to imitate God, we must imitate His ways and plans.

If God the Father and the Son is filled with the love and power of the Holy Spirit, so must all who intend to reach sainthood.

Even while in this world we can be in the Kingdom of God if the Spirit of unity is also dwelling in us so as to be completely united with Him after our earthly journey is over.

If you are filled with the love and power of the Holy Spirit, your bodies decayed, if it had stain of sin but your and mine souls which had for so long live in unity with the Holy Spirit who is always with God and He is God return automatically and directly to Him in complete happiness and joy.

Doubt not the Power of the Holy Spirit.

For only through His Spirit dwelling in us, who manifest His love to us and shine that divine light of God to others, we could not be perfect children of God. God is perfect so must all who called themselves children of God must also be perfect so that we can be completely united with God in purity and love. Our bodies are temple of the Holy Spirit and what is the function of God's Temple in us?

God gives all who love and obey His command the gifts of the Holy Spirit. But if you and me doubted His power, still He will be very patient and compassionate. In due time when your or mine hearts are ready He will enters.

Those who doubted the Power of God and His manifestation through the hearts of God's children needed to pray even more to let God reveal Himself to them. It had been clearly explained that those while still alive on earth who experienced the presence of God to the fullness would be a saint who would be completely united to Jesus and finally to God.

Those who experience the presence of God once in a while needed to pray more and those who feel that they are quite happy doing all the charitable works but could not experience the presence of God needed to reevaluate on their relationship with God. The truth is that we may not have opened ourselves spiritually to Him. Our inner thought still tells us to believe in the things that are tangible of which our five senses can experience.

We need to pray for the sixth sense of which must come from God and not the evil one.

Through our hearts, God the Father and the Son enters and dwell there.

Will God find in our hearts an acceptable home to dwell? Does He really feel at home in our hearts? When He step foot into the door of our hearts would He felt like staying there forever or would He felt so uneasy and unwelcome that He felt He had to leave.

If we welcome Him into our hearts and into our lives, our souls would rejoice and automatically follow suit. Usually the one who hungers and thirsts for the living water is the souls. The souls feeling unhappy because you and me had not fed it will cries out to the mind and the hearts. When these happened unhappiness and loneliness creep outs and expressed through our moods, facial expression, thought, mind and our dreams. Many people may tries to suppress this inner yearning of the souls for love of God by getting drunk, spending their fortune on drugs, all forms of medication and indulging on eating and exercises of which is physical. They experience extreme headache or migraine, their hearts beat very fast, anxious and worry and some ended up having emotional breakdown.

Why are we so blind to suppress our soul who needed the love and care of His real Father?

When you and me allow Him to enter, the souls were nourish, love and purifies by God of which our hearts would be filled with overwhelming joy just like a son once lost but was found.

The soul and God to be perfect should be spouse through Jesus Christ who draws mankind to Himself and presenting them pure, holy and strengthen to God the Father.

With God's spirit dwelling in us we could conquer mountains and travel through rough valleys with the energy and power from God.

There shall be no obstacle and hurdle too difficult or high for God.

We are just instruments of God performing His function using our physical.

He needed all our limbs, hearts and our spirit/souls to perform His uncompleted work of which He had just began after His death, resurrection, ascension into heaven and finally the descent of the Holy Spirit.

God needed to live in each one of us, not outside, or just imitating His ways, ideas. As a whole the journey to heaven is actually not only following Jesus from behind but rather let Jesus unite Himself to us through the Spirit because the spiritual world is so mysterious, we could not understand.

Would you and me feel very safe, if Jesus would carry us along the journey of life rather then walking from behind?

First walk is following Jesus from behind, imitating His actions, words and the ways He walk.

Second walk is following Jesus. Walking side by side and hand in hand. Talking very closely.

Finally the third walk is very mysterious of which human mind could not understand unless they are open to God's Spirit and ready for it because it cannot be easily explain. It is beyond human limited understanding to understand the ways of God unless they themselves had the same power dwelling in them.

Third walk is a very intimate walk. It is like two lovers joined in the heart. Observe perfect couples if any at all, you can briefly understand what I am trying to express.

Walking our journey, as spouse of Jesus is a perfect journey for we are called 'bride' of Jesus wearing the wedding gowns presented by the 'Bridegroom' Himself.

Don't you feel a husband would be happier if his bride wears the wedding gown presented by Him?

Jesus is very happy if you and me wear His Spirit as clothing for our souls.

Not only to wear it but also to love and cherished it just like the way you love your husband.

This is what God wanted of each one of us that is to be His 'brides', males and females. To wear the gowns presented by Jesus with appreciation, gratitude and love.

That wedding gown is the Holy Spirit because only through the Holy Spirit, we can truly love and serve God. Only then we can truly unite ourselves with Jesus and nothing else.

Believe in the Holy Spirit to the fullness, just as we believe in the Father and the Son. Do not simply pick and choose which and what to believe. Believe in His love and His Power. The Blessed Trinity must be worshipped equally with our hearts, souls and our minds. From those infinite and undivided love springs out the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

Praise the Lord, God Almighty.

Amen.

The Nature of God is Spirit

We are on a spiritual journey to an unknown destination as far as the physical is concern.

We are all physical, although we had souls of our own of which is God's property.

We can never explain the mystery of God's love and His ways without God's Spirit guiding each and every one of us.

God's love is spirit, so we need the Spirit of God to reveal Himself to us. How can this be possible?

For example, when you come close to a person, you hear His heartbeats. If you had no biological knowledge, you could not explain. You only knew that the heartbeats keep that person alive.

The heartbeat is life to any individual but can you explain the mystery of the heartbeat without biological knowledge? Off course not!

Without God's Spirit fully in control of our human nature, no one can properly explain the mystery of God's love eventhough you may read books after books.

You can easily forget because the seed of the Spirit is the most wanted seeds of all. The words of God as written in the Bible are all seeds of the Holy Spirit.

They are Words of God. They are the most wanted seed of all, especially the birds of the air.

They would search very hard for these precious seeds. They would destroy them.

We all need God's Spirit coming to us to the fullness in order to sustain the seeds, let it sprout, grows and bear fruits.

God is the gardener of the garden or field where seeds of life is grown.

He is the one who fertilize, clear the weeds, water the plants and to give the plant enough sunlight.

God is the master of our lives. He is the one who fills and nourishes us with His Divine Spirit and grows in our hearts, souls and our minds.

The Spirit of God know what to give and in adequate to any individual person.

Fill ourselves with God's Spirit by surrendering ourselves to God. Let Him be the master, captain and power to the collapsing and useless boat. Let Him challenge the winds and the waves. For He knows what is ahead.

Praise the Lord, God Almighty.

Amen.

Worship God in truth and in spirit

It was Holy Thursday, 1/4/99 at 8.30 p.m. as I was receiving Holy Communion, the Lord opened my eyes and I saw a vision of the heavenly Jerusalem. It was a huge building with great architecture beauty and splendor. It was coated with a layer of dirt and unwanted material.

Then suddenly the Holy Temple was stripped off all its unwanted coating and dirt.

All that was seen was a pure, shining and white building facing the supreme power of God.

Then I heard angels and saints sang song of praise to the Almighty God and King.

The message was 'Worship the Lord in spirit and in truth' and to strip ourselves of unwanted and unnecessary laws and rules that binds us into bondage and slavery.

All God needed was the worship from the heart, soul and mind from all His chosen children. Other then that are not necessary and useless.

How are we to worship God in truth and spirit?

God is spirit and our human nature will never be able to please and worship God, no matter how hard we try.

If our human nature is capable of worshipping God, then we can claim praise for ourselves.

Nobody can boast in the presence of God. No one can!

So how are we to worship God?

God gave us His Divine Spirit and He did not intent that His Spirit to only mingle with our spirit which would create a spirit of compromise and it is impure.

God demand pure, spotless and divine worship.

This had to come from God alone in order to be pleasing and worthy.

So what are we suppose to do?

Let God's Spirit decide. Let God's Spirit fill our hearts, souls and our minds. Let it overpower our human spirit and let God's Spirit win and gain control of our hearts, souls and our minds.

Let God conquer and win the battle with our human nature. Let Him be the supreme God that governs our souls, hearts and our minds.

No other less then perfect spirit can do this task.

Only then our sacrifices, offerings, labor, pain and suffering in this life would be a perfect offering to God. Let our lives be living sacrifices to God. This is the plan of Jesus. For Jesus is a living sacrifice to God, the Father and the Spirit. We as Christian are supposed to unite ourselves to Christ and offer up our sacrifices to God.

Only then this offering is pleasing and worthy of God's grace and mercy.

Let God Himself be the one who controls the boat. Let Him be the power to drive the boat. For the truth is our bodies are just like a boat sailing against the wind and the waves.

If Jesus who is the master of the wind and the waves is to control the boat, we are all safe and can rest assure of reaching our destination.

Praise the Lord, God Almighty for Your Divine revelation and inspiration of which I had no power over.

Amen.

Fear not the Spirit of love

When God created Adam and Eve, He breathed to them the soul, which is spirit. It was holy and pure initially but sin came and tainted it.

After the resurrection of Jesus, He breathed to the disciples a second breathe that is the Holy Spirit.

Those who receive the Holy Spirit would be reborn again not only in water but the Holy Spirit.

So everybody must know, to be a true follower of Christ we must be reborn again in the spirit.

Jesus said that unless we are born again, we would not be able to enter into the Kingdom of heaven.

God is not interested in the quantity of the sheep, rather the quality of them.

Eventhough our church's members are getting larger, we really hope that they would become quality followers. That is to follow, stood and loves Jesus in good and bad times.

The Holy Spirit is life to any Christian. He may be an unrecognized spirit for He is really humble and accepted Jesus and 'Heavenly Father' as His name.

When people think of spirit or ghost, they were afraid. We do not know why but it is really our human weakness to fear an unseen and more powerful force.

The Divine Spirit of God is a completely different spirit in comparison to those shown in movies and other media.

The Spirit of God comes into you without causing panic and fear.

He is so gentle in all His dueling with mankind. He only touched the souls through the heart.

It is only right that the owner comes and communicates with His children, which are our souls.

Why are so many people having prejudice about the Holy Spirit?

If they had experience the power of the Holy Spirit in them, I am sure they would hunger for more.

Gifts of Submission

When you submit yourselves completely to God, you shall be called Children of God, not by name only but in reality.

When you had become the children of a family, you had excess to many privileges of that family, which includes all the facilities, shelter, food, clothing, love that is being showered by parents, brothers and sisters, relatives and all loved ones. These privileges came with being responsible and appreciative.

If you only receive without giving, this is not fair to yourselves and others.

As Children of God, we all enjoy our privileges, but it came with a responsibility.

What are our responsibilities to God and to man? Jesus taught us the greatest commandment of God, i.e. 'To love God with all our heart, soul, mind and our strength and also to love others as we love ourselves'.

What is this all about? It is all to die to self and to live for God, as His obedient children, we must love one another, just as we love ourselves. If we can't love ourselves, how are we supposed to love one another?

How can we love ourselves? Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. What must we do to this temple of the Holy Spirit? We must nourish this Temple of the Holy Spirit with the Spirit of God, by listening to His Words in total obedience and submission.

What are the gifts of submission to God?

The gifts that accompany submission to God are, to have full excess to His love and the Kingdom of God. As member of the Kingdom of God, we travel freely within the boundary of His Divine love. What is that to us? We had access to His Divine graces, both Sanctifying grace and other graces that are needed to mold ourselves into perfect Children of God. When we submit ourselves totally to God, we are asking God 'to do as He pleases, with the body which He gave us in the first place and we deny ourselves of all worldly and sinful desires of the world and our human body. We seek first the Kingdom of God and nothing less.

We love others as we love ourselves'. How are we supposed to love others? What are our responsibilities to others?

Our responsibilities are not only to love those who love us but also love and pray for those who hate and hurt us. This will includes loving those of not only our own, in term of denominations, religion, race, cultures and statues in society, etc...

This would require the grace of God to perform. For human are bound to fail. Nobody like to love others who hate or hurt us, but only through grace we can.

Pray Almighty and Eternal God, please look at our limitation with compassion and fill us abundantly with Your Divine Grace and Your mercy, forgive us for our weakness and help us to grow strong through Faith in You, O Lord, our God. You alone are the Holy One, You alone are our God, and Your Name shall be exulted in the highest heaven.

Alleluia. Praise the Lord for all eternity. Amen.

God the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit in the Holy Trinity is the fruit of God's intimate union. It shall also be our fruit if we had accepted God the Father and the Son completely and sincerely into our lives. The Holy Spirit works powerfully and fully in persons who are prepared to sacrifice as workers in the vineyard of the Lord. Or a shepherd taking the place of Jesus in our lives. The Spirit of God is a Spirit of action, function and it truly bears abundant fruits if we fully co-operate with Him.

The Apostles journeyed with Jesus physically about 2,000 years ago during His ministries of preaching, healing and as a whole the reconciliation of the whole human race with God.

As He began His ministry, He was baptized with water and the Holy Spirit. Even before the baptism of water and finally the Holy Spirit, He Himself is the fullness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a Spirit of missions. If God gives you a new responsibility, He would bless you and give you the Holy Spirit to perform that special task. During the Sacraments of Baptism and confirmation the Holy Spirit mysterious enter into those hearts, souls and minds almost in the same particular order as stated in the gospels.

From the hearts to the souls and finally to the minds. The hearts is the initial parts to conquer. Without giving in to God to open up our hearts, it is almost impossible for Jesus to come in. Not that He cannot. He Himself had that master keys to every individual hearts for we came initially or originated from God. He respected us fully to make our choice. This is the ways of God. Can you imagine God giving His creature respect? Yes! Indeed He gave us the highest respect to choose for ourselves. He gives us freewill and He respected that.

If our hearts were opened to Him, He would enter slowly and gently. He sends His gentle spirit to dwell there. If we allow Him, He would live in cohesion with our souls. He would teach, guide, nurture, nourishes and purifies our souls so that they would be acceptable to God. This special gift called Sanctifying Grace of which we do not deserve are given to us freely without any condition.

When the souls and hearts submitted to God the mind would automatically follow suit.

The function of the Holy Spirit is mysterious of which in the Scripture it was already stated that the world couldn't receive God's Spirit because the world cannot see it, but the apostles were blessed because God's Spirit was with Him. God said that it is not we who choose God but rather God chooses us and calls us out of this world to be His special children. Those who are called out of this world are members of Christ resurrected Mystical Body. If we are members of this Body, we are filled with the fullness of the Spirit of God.

The Spirit of God lives in God's Kingdom and we who had His Spirit also dwell in His Kingdom. If saints dwell in heaven or God's Kingdom, we who had the fullness of God's Spirit are saints on earth eventhough we had not been fully purified and in the fullness of the presence of God like the heavenly saints.

When our earthly bodies, which imprisoned us, are destroyed, we are completely free. Death is conquered and we live eternally with God.

Let us not divide God's Spirit from Jesus and the Father as though it is alien in the Trinity.

Just look at ourselves. We had our hearts, souls and our minds of which are the most crucial elements that make us a little less then angels and God.

Hearts and minds are physical but the souls are spiritual. The hearts can be seen but the mind and souls cannot be seen.

Jesus can be seen which symbolized or represent our hearts in an imperfect comparison, but God the Father and the Spirit cannot be seen just like the mind and the soul.

The mind can be symbolized as the Father and the souls as the Holy Spirit.

Can we ever separate our souls from the hearts and minds?

If we do we are actually making ourselves less then a human being. We may have to downgrade ourselves to the statues of the other creatures created by God.

We cannot separate God the Spirit from the Father and the Son. They lived in completed unity and cohesion.

Can our souls, hearts or mind function separately without involving the others? Off course not! Although the hearts, souls and minds might rebelled against one another when our hearts allow evil to interfere in our lives. Temptations cannot be avoided while we still had our physical doors that is our hearts intact. Just like Jesus is tempted so is every one of us is. Jesus the Son of God made man is not spared so are we? Jesus understood our complicated situation and how hard we had to battle with evil and finally conquer it. Surrender ourselves to God and He would be the one guiding over the entrance to your hearts so that evil may not come knocking at our door.

In the Spiritual Kingdom of God the Holy Trinity never function individually. God the Spirit may be so mysterious, if we had never journeyed intimately with Jesus like the apostles did.

We only had the gospels with us. The Gospels are the precious seeds of the Holy Spirit sent through Christ Jesus when He ascended to the Father.

When we read the words from the Gospels which are living and spirit, we need the Holy Spirit to accompany us because without the same spirit who inspired the authors to write guiding our reading and discerning we can be lost and misinterpreted them.

Only through the Holy Spirit dwelling in us can the words of God written in the Bible come alive and speak to each and every one of us.

This is not exaggeration but rather the truth of which many had given testimonies and witness about this mysterious happening.

The Words of God is alive and still speaks to all that read it with the guidance of the same Spirit.

Just like a plant or a vine of which Jesus said. The whole growth of the plant is sustained through the spirit in the plant. All creation comes alive through the Holy Spirit. Just like our sophisticated and high tech computers with all the programs but without just a humble existence of electricity it can never function. The earth came alive because God breathed His spirit into the earth, moved it to function and to sustain till the end of time.

The Mystical Body of Christ cannot function and fulfill its purpose without God's Spirit.

God's Spirit enables any individual to bear fruit. You and me can say a million times, we love Jesus and the Father but we can never function and live to the expectation Christ and the Father had on any individual without God's Spirit dwelling in us.

We witness with our physical eyes the wonder and marvel of the intervention of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

Take an individual who is filled with the Holy Spirit and the other who just proclaimed that they believed in the Trinity.

Take the example of a human father who may be a king or governor of a country.

A son may marvel and wondered at the achievements and the strength of his spirit in performing his task in governing the country with wisdom, knowledge and understanding.

The son wonders and wonders in inner worship of his father extra-ordinary personalities. He though about it for a long time. Would I like to be like my father or am I just satisfied with the high esteemed I had on him. Am I to function and produce result or am I satisfied with being an audience?

So he had this choice of which he had to arrive at a decision. He had to have his father's spirit in order to succeed his father.

Finally he arrived at the decision. He would like to be like his father. How would his mission be accomplished and realized so that like his father he would bring honor and glory to his kingdom?

He therefore came close to his father. With the guidance, training, encouragement he received and his willingness to sacrifice self in order to fit into the image his father had, he finally succeeded. With every honor he received from the people he directed all to his father. He is a good and perfect son in the eyes of his father.

Without God's Spirit dwelling, controlling and functioning in us, we could never become loving children of God.

The Spirit of Jesus and the Father dwell in the hearts, souls and the minds and filled them with knowledge, wisdom and understanding and love.

Whether we feel His presence in us or not depended so much on how much you allow Him to dwell. Take the soul as a house and the entrance as the heart. You open up your hearts to God so He entered. Where would you want your guest who is actually the owner of the house to position Himself? Would you treat Him as a guest forever till the day you die by letting Him sit in the sitting room forever? He wanted to help to clean up your rooms, toilets, bathrooms, kitchen, stores, car park, etc would you allow Him?

Physically if a guest came into our house it is just appropriate to let him relax and enjoy himself but this Jesus is a servant to all His brothers and sisters. He washed His disciples' feet and asked as to do the same to others. He is always the first to show us the mysteries of God.

If you allowed Him just to control and interfere in only part of our lives He cannot shine out. If you allow Him to be in full control of all your emotions, plans, visions, ambition and all your hope and dreams, He would take center stage in your lives. From here you are going to feel a great mysterious happening in your lives. You may marveled and wondered with awe at the mighty power of God in transforming you from a mentally, physically and spiritually weak person into a strong, bold, peaceful, joyful, full of wisdom, knowledge, understanding and love.

We can ascertain which stage of growth we are in by asking ourselves sincerely and honestly these few questions?

Jesus speaks with boldness and authority, do we?

Jesus loves little children, do we?

Jesus preached and healed do we?

Jesus had a very compassionate heart, especially towards those who are uneducated like Peter, poor widows, sinful people who needed repentance, blind, handicapped and as a whole He loved those who are sincere, repentance, humble, sick, disable which are all classified as those who are poor in spirit. These belonged to the Kingdom of God. Are we as concern about them as Jesus is?

Jesus is responsible and caring toward His mother in many occasions although the truth does hurt sometimes. She gave her mother to the care of his beloved apostle John. He obeyed His mother by changing water into wine. He obeyed His mother when He was lost and found by returning home and lived in obedience. Ask ourselves this question, 'Are we like Jesus?'

During the arrest, suffering and crucifixion of Jesus all His close disciples abandoned Him to go through a lonely death. Jesus forgave them but He asked Peter three times whether he still love Jesus to confirm his faith in him because Peter denied Him three times. Are we like Jesus who so sincerely forgave those who betrayed and abandoned Him?

Jesus loved and prayed for all His enemies and friends and even died for them in order to pay the ransom for our sin. He became the perfect 'Lamb of God' replacing animal's sacrifices. Every times masses are offered up, He repeated the same words, "Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing!" Just imagine every mass. He pleaded with His Father to forgive us. His Father looked at His Son with deep compassion and love. He forgave all our sins that we sincerely and humbly confessed. His death is a living death, that meant that He die once and for all. With His precious Divine Blood He sealed the new covenant between God and His people.

This covenant would last till the end of time until all God's chosen people are purified and return home washed clean, pure and sparking like pure gold and diamond to adorn and build the 'New Jerusalem'. The Kingdom of God, the 'new Israel', the 'bride', returned from exile from Babylon or pilgrim returning home, etc. In the Scripture there are many terms used to represent the Kingdom of heaven depending on the situations.

The Spirit of God molds each an every one of us with the greatest heavenly virtues of 'Faith, hope and charity', obedience and submission, to God and to the saints and angels in heaven.

Praise and thank you Lord for Your Divine intervention. Amen.

 

 

The descent of the Holy Spirit a guiding force to fulfill God's plan of salvation

The Holy Spirit sanctifies the soul. The Holy Spirit is the power of the unity of Father and Son united in an infinite love and strength.

This is a supernatural unity never experience by any human being before.

No relationship in this earthly world can describe the bond between the Father and Son.

The purpose of the Holy Spirit in our lives is to make the 'hour of glory' in Jesus to be the same for each and everyone of God's children.

A baby best food is its mother's breast milk. Our soul best food is God's Spirit. Because the soul is spirit so it needed spiritual parents to nurture, love and cares for it.

In order for the food to reach the soul, it needed a channel from which the Holy Spirit can flow from the source of our lives and existence.

There must be a bridge between the spiritual world and the physical world. That bridge is Jesus Christ's Sacred Heart. He paid the ransom for the sins we committed. He is the living victim of our sins because He continues to suffered spiritually whenever any of God's children committed sins. Although we may never see another Jesus crucify and die on the cross again but His suffering and pain will never cease. He suffers even greater pain then ever because we unknowingly and unconsciously committed a lot of venial sins and the pain would be even sharper and the wound deeper if you committed mortal sins. In Jesus' time you can see Him cry in agony but now the tears are silence.

The wound inflicted are deeps but physically cannot be seen. His heart continues to break and thorn apart not so much by the way the chief priests, Scribes and Pharisees answered Him back and criticize Him but since the path of salvation had been re-path and the Gentile race is 'the apple of His eye' but what had we done to Him? What had the message of salvation and about the Kingdom of God gone to? We who are responsible to deliver the message of Jesus must have Jesus' Heart in us otherwise the message is incorrect and misleading. If we haven't received Jesus' Heart in us, what message are we teaching?

Receive therefore the Holy Spirit into your lives so that Jesus can pass His message and His hearts will by mysteriously infused into yours. Then all messages and words shall be pure and holy because it comes from God who lives in you.

The Spirit of love and mercy shine from heaven through His Sacred Heart into the world. Those hearts that are opened will receive the Light of Christ that is the Holy Spirit. The amount of light entering depended on how wide and willing you open up your heart.

God's Spirit is powerful and mighty. He needed plenty of space in our heart to live in comfort and to deposit His infinite and unconditional love.

His Spirit is very generous. When He came into your heart and found that the 'house' is wide and full of space but the furniture, fixture and fitting all in disarray what would He do?

If you were the tenant of the house would you let the owner do the renovating, rearranging the fixture and fitting, furniture, etc which belongs to Him?

Would you invite him to come in and take center stage in your live or would you treat the house as yours and close the door to his face by chasing him away to mind his own business?

The owner came not as a busy body trying to mind your business but rather to see the 'house' continues to be fit, well maintain and comfortable so that you could live there eternally. He rented or leased to you free but something is expected from us that are our co-operation with the owner for him to do as he pleases with the house of which symbolizes our souls. The body is a tenant of the house, whereas the owner is God.

This is a fact no one can argue about. God owns our souls and leased them to the body.

Some tenants chased away the owner and claim the house as their own.

They manipulated the order of nature and make a pact or sign a contract with the world or the devil. They gave the right to their houses to them. They rejected the value of obedience, righteousness and holy living.

Where will this house finally belong? What shall be the destiny of souls, which exclude themselves from God?

God decided that this house is no longer fit to live, messy, smelly, and dirty with blocked drains and pipes. The compound of the house once planted with beautiful plants and trees are filled with thorn bushes. Creepers are climbing the walls of the house and covered up even the roof but the tenant refused to let the owner service it. All fixtures and fittings not functional, the paint corroded, the floor infested with termites and insects.

The house was never sweep, mop or clean. It was covered with thick layer of dust and dirt.

The fans and air-con spoiled and electricity disconnected.

The whole structure of the house almost collapses. If you had all the houses in this world, do you wish to claim back this house forcefully?

They represented the soul that refused God to enter their lives. They neglected the souls but filled themselves with the spirit of this world of which had its source in the evil one. God owns all the souls in this world. He can choose and pick whichever one is beautiful and the tenant appreciative and obedience can He not?

After all even if half of his houses gone and manipulated, He still had the other half, don't you think so?

Let God see in us as a good, obedience, faithful and appreciative tenants of His houses so that we would be chosen as a house that is beautiful in His eyes and heart, so that He will dwell there, freely and fully without obstacles in the Kingdom of God.

Physical houses are stationary but the soul is spirit. God gathers together all the souls into one big family of God.

There He nourishes, strengthen, enlighten and provide medication and care that is needed.

God's Spirit flow into our souls and in full package. God know what you needed most.

The Holy Spirit is a tunnel whereby God channels His love or grace to us.

Everything the souls needed is provided and moves through this tunnel.

The children of God are united into one through this common tunnel.

If the house you rented is manage and care for by the owner would not the owner feel satisfy with the appearance outward and inward, Surely! Because He arrange them according to His design and plan.

All serve a difference purpose and function. God in His plan of salvation always chooses a group of people for a certain task and purpose but rarely an individual.

God give us different spiritual gifts to perform different function and in order to bear fruit from this gifts, we must co-operate with the source of the mission so that our final journey in this life would be the 'hour of glory' to each and everyone of us.

This is the creation of saints. Our blessed Virgin Mother and all the saints are good and perfect tenants to God's 'house'.

God gathered them together into the communion of saints on earth and in heaven. God gives each of them tasks to perform.

Rejoice always if God give you a task to perform, for you are one of the chosen houses of God.

Make us Almighty God into a good and perfect tenant to your houses by co-operating with you fully.

Help us to be useful and hardworking workers in Your 'vineyard' always.

Help us to rejoice always to know that we are the chosen 'house' and help us to proclaim the 'good news' to others generously, patiently and joyfully with zeal and enthusiasm. Help us to be obedience, faithful, appreciative and co-operative house tenants by allowing Your Spirit a full house into our hearts, souls and mind.

Let there be no obstruction and obstacles in Your plan of salvation for each and every one of us.

I praise you Almighty God for Your far-sightedness and wisdom in managing your houses.

Praise the Lord. Amen.

 

 

Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.

Jesus said, "I am telling you the truth: if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in yourselves. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day. For my flesh is real food; my blood real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I live in him. The living Father sent me, and because of Him I live also. In the same way whoever eats me will live because of me" (John 6:53-58).

What is Jesus trying to explain here? He seemed to be making situation so complicated here. Why does He have to say all this?

To explain to any physical human being with limited understanding of the Spiritual World about the Kingdom of God is by itself so difficult. It would be far more difficult to enlighten people that indeed Jesus Himself is going to be offered like bread to be eaten so that people may have life and live.

To eat His body and drink His blood is to share in His Divine life. To make possible our communion of all saints on earth and in heaven, the souls that are tainted with sins needed to be purified by Jesus precious blood. For a physical beings to grow and sustain life we need at least the essential of food and drink.

So it is also true about our souls, which is spirit. It needed not physical food and drink but spiritual food and drink. Who can offer us this spiritual food and drink?

Only the body and blood of Jesus can really feed our souls. How does the soul absorb these nourishment?

We must ask ourselves what food does our souls really need, since it does not have a digestive system like physical beings. Souls are spirit and unique in its ways. The real food for our souls is to be love by the One who created them. They were created by God. They yearn and hunger for the love and touch of God of which we, who are still blanketed by physical took for granted.

Our souls longed to be pure and holy. The souls knew that only through purity and holiness can they come in direct contact with God, all the saints and angels.

The body and blood of Christ offered to God for the redemption of repentant sinners and by uniting with Christ during His crucifixion we are participating in His death. Like the Jewish people offering up burned animal sacrifices for redemption of sin, we too unite with Jesus who is the 'Lamb of God' and offered ourselves to God. By participating in His death, we continue to die to our sin.

Little Child in the Arm of Jesus (Mark 10: 13-16)

Jesus said that unless we are like little children, you and me would never be able to enter into the Kingdom of heaven.

So with Jesus' Words and affirmation, it is therefore crucial to ask God to recreate in us a childlike character and attitude in the presence of God. Again ask ourselves, 'What is so special about little children?'

Many of us would feel it is as though we are stepping backward. All of us would really like to grow up and mature. Be able to have full control of our emotions, thoughts, actions and in what we say.

Many of us would be fascinated by the idea of helping others to grow up and mature like we do.

But Jesus said as far as spiritual and our relationship with God is concern, we need to be like a little child in order to experience an intimate relationship with God. We had our choice when we look at the physical reality. A young child held very close to his parents. They protect, guide, clothe, bathe, nurture the child with gentleness, great care and with deep compassion. If we really want this relationship between God and us to be like this, we need to be like a little child who completely submitted themselves to their parents.

We need to be able to trust and depended on God entirely on all matters concerning our lives. In time of joy, mourning and in time of triumph, we bear the yoke of the whole situation with God. For He wanted to get Himself fully involve in all matters concerning our lives, our relationships with our neighbors and God. He wanted us to be completely open and sincere with Him. He is not so concern about our failures and weaknesses but rather how hard we try to please Him and to accomplish the task given to us.

Like a mother who always keeps watchful eyes on her child, God is also keeping a very close watch at our every movement.

Mothers would nurture, care and love the child that depended and trust in her more then others. Not that she is being partial but rather whether it is accepted by the recipients or vice-versa.

So God would carefully and wholeheartedly nurture, care, guide and love the children that would submit themselves fully to His care.

Parents would guide the steps that the child takes whether it concerns mental, physical or spiritual.

Parents would see that the child grows strong, fit and healthy. God manifested His love in a unique although imperfect ways through parents. God loves and touches His children through the hands and hearts of our parents or guardians. As their children grew strong, fit, mature and full of knowledge and wisdom, responsibilities are naturally given to them. They would accept them with joy in their hearts. They rejoice because they are being considered as worthy to contribute.

In God's Kingdom, those who had gain wisdom and knowledge should contribute to the growth of the Kingdom of God on earth. Be a good neighbor to those around us. Be Jesus' Hands, Feet and Heart. Be there when people needed us, may it be spiritually, physically or mentally.

Be a shepherd to Jesus' lambs and sheep. The lambs and sheep of Jesus listen to His voice. By this sign, we can know who were His lambs and sheep. Jesus' parable of the 'Lost Sheep' told us the way Jesus handles His flocks of sheep. How precious is every individual animal? How much joy He had when even a single on is found? How the whole flock celebrated when even one is found.

Jesus' Sacred Heart stays with those who belonged to His flock of sheep. We needed also to stay and dwell strongly in His Heart. The unity is through His Spirit, dwelling in each member of His flock.

Jesus would carefully care, nurture, protect and love all His animals. As a good Shepherd He would gently and carefully dress the wounds of those animals that had been attack and carry them home on His shoulder. He would separate them from the strong and healthy sheep initially. Those wounded animals would stay very close by Jesus' side. He would put them in intensive care if the hurt were so great. He would keep careful watch on those animals 24 hours per day until all wounds are healed and they had gained strength. He would then unite them with the other sheep and lambs and they feed together in God's green pasture and spring of living water.

How precious is our relationship with Jesus. If we are mentally, physically and spiritually wounded, Jesus as a good shepherd would treat us with special care. He would hold us in His Heart, dress our wounds, feed us with special prepare food and finally when all are well, He would release and unite us with the others. This is the truth proclaimed by Jesus Himself in the parable of the 'Lost Sheep' and 'The Lost Son'.

So we can see no one is neglected and inferior in the eyes of God. Every members of the flock is treated with special and great care. We can truly experience the power of His love if the Holy Spirit dwell actively in us.

Mankind would not be completely happy even though we try to mask that inner yearning for God by the souls, if we replace God with other gods of our choice.

Mankind would be truly happy if they are able to rest in the arms of God their creator. Just like little children, they would try with their hearts to gain love and approval from their parents even to the extend of fighting for it. Only when their parents finally approve of them, they would relax and rejoice. Our spirits or our souls would not be completely happy unless they can find approval and love in the arms of its creator.

Mankind tried to mask this truth by involving other gods into their lives. Some of their gods may be wealth, prestige, idol and evil worshipping, superstition, power and domination of others, etc.

These are false gods. If we had even one of them with us, it is impossible to submit ourselves and truly worship God in truth and in spirit. These are perfect worship that are sincere and true, which came from the depth of our heart. It is God's Spirit work in cohesion to worship, praise and thank God. In time when we need repentance God's Spirit unites with our souls pleaded with God. By this invisible action, we can guarantee that God would forgive and hear all our prayers.

Therefore it paid well to be a child in the arms of Jesus. The sincerity, purity, honesty, trust and their dependent on their parents are precious gifts no amount of money can ever purchase.

God loves all of us with the same measurement of love and we are to use this same measurement to love others too. Only then it would be really meaningful to each one of us.

THE BEATITUDES

Blessed/ Happy/ Fortunate

  1. Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor;

The Kingdom of heaven belongs to them!

Will fill us with the Holy Spirit, which brings us into God's Kingdom.

  1. Happy are those who mourn

E.g. Television, Radio, Cassette Disc, Internet, cinema, entertainment outlets, etc sin is widespread. Trying to destroy the young and innocence mind of children and also adults.

Attitudes and respect towards elders, morality is decaying as reflected by ways people dress up indecently by following the trend blindly, etc.

God will comfort them.

  1. Happy are those who are humble

They will receive what God has promised

  1. Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires

God will satisfy them fully

  1. Happy are those who are merciful to others
  2. God will be merciful to them.

     

     

     

     

  3. Happy are the pure in heart

They will see God

By faith they see God.

  1. Happy are those who work for peace.

God will call them children of God

  1. Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires.

The Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them!

  1. Happy are you when people insult you and persecute you and tell all kinds of evil lies against you because you are my followers.

Be happy and glad for a great reward is kept for you in heaven.

This is how the prophets who lived before you were persecuted.

The Beatitudes is a way of life for Jesus Christ as Son of Man and for all His followers.

'The hour of glory'

Jesus always describes the time when He walked the final steps in this physical world as the 'hour of glory'.

Our final steps in this physical world should also be the hour of glory for the spirit that is our soul.

Be wary the hour of glory might turn out to be the hour of judgement, if you had not walked behind as a shadow of Jesus.

Jesus is the 'Lamb of God' taken into the slaughter's house. He is to be offered up to God as a living sacrifice for the redemption and salvation of the world.

As a lamb, which is a victim of our sin, He never retaliates even while He was scourged, crowned with thorns and forced to carry our sin, which is the cross.

As a lamb, He was pierced and He was wounded. He suffered and bled to His death. He was exhausted and breathless yet no one sympathizes with Him. Like a snake squeezing the last breath from the victim before swallowing it up.

He was mocked, humiliated, provoked, spat at by His creature but He made no sound and complains.

He knew very well He had to endure and persevere to serve a Divine purpose. The world once soaked in darkness and disobedience would be supernaturally transformed into obedience as He became the first 'Son of Man' to lead people back to His Father.

The soldiers and even those in power and the authority had no power to set Him free or persecute Him if God did not give this power to them. He fulfilled the will of the 'Father' by obediently submitted Himself to God's plan of salvation.

He came to open up the jungle track and rebuilt the bridge that was once broken through the sin of rejecting God by Adam and Eve.

Jesus came so that the crocked, winding, mountainous, hilly, rough paths might be bend straight and smooth. Every valley must be filled so that the Lord may travel through without obstacle.

John the Baptist initiated and preached about this. He baptized people into the Kingdom of God and preached that the conversion of heart is utmost important in comparison to the Scribes and Pharisees outward sign only.

Jesus came to fulfill this plan of salvation, God put forward. Only through inner conversion by which baptism is the outward sign, mankind would be able to 'see God, hear God and feel God'. It would be very natural to communicate with Him if we know that He is really paying attention and giving us His ears, words of comfort and His heart to us.

Jesus 'hour of glory' was supposed to be our 'hour of glory' too. For at that moment when He uttered the Words, "Father into Your Hand I command My Spirit!" it was victorious moment for all those who had waited so long to see this happening, especially the prophets of the Old Testaments and all holy Children of God.

He went down to 'Limbo' with the 'Keys' to freedom. He came with the banner of victory to open up the prison's gates and lock-ups. He removed the chains of slavery from their hands, feet, hearts, minds and thoughts. He set them all free by His precious Divine merciful blood.

There was so much rejoicing, dancing and music in the Divine Spiritual world. The Kingdom of God had just began. It was just like the joy of the soldiers and their commander when they had triumph in their battle against their enemies.

There was a Wedding feast given by God in honor of His Son's victory. God the Father united with the Son in complete unity, love and submission. Spring out from this unity is the Spirit of love of the Father and the Son. With this love and bond between them they blesses, care, nurture, nourishes, sanctifies and purifies all their creations and especially His 'breathe' in us with one Divine purpose that is to unite all their fallen children who had repented to Himself.

On the contrary the evil world stumbled and fell. They thought that the death of Jesus was a victory for them. The devil can never understand the plan and mind of God. The Scribes and Pharisees acted like an instrument of the devil. After Jesus death the prince of darkness thought of celebrating his victory but loo from a distance they saw a bright and divine light shining. There was so much praising and rejoicing. The devil heard the sound loud and clear 'Victory to Jesus Christ, the Son of God'. The devil was shocked and gnashed their teeth in fury. The day they thought they had won the battle turn out to be the day they lost.

The Divine blood of Jesus flows out from His heart and wounds like hot volcanic lava, destroying all evil that pass along its routes. But to those children of God His blood was like spring of living water that cleansed them and quench their thirst.

They can no longer terrorize the children of God who come to the arms of Jesus for protection and shield. He can now gathers all God's children (New Israel) like a hen protecting her chicks in its wings.

Now on the third day was a day of triumphant and rejoicing for the physical world. The day when Jesus died was a day of darkness, shame, pain, sorrow, regret, disappointment and loneliness.

The physical world can now experience the joy that was experienced in 'Limbo' when Christ died.

Suddenly on the third day, God rose Jesus from the grave just like a seed that fell to the ground. It was not death but secretly it was germinating and growing. Up of the soil sprouted a strong and healthy plant. God gave Him a glorified body. This glorified body is called the mystical Body of Christ because from here the body continues to multiply and grew stronger and more powerful as time passes.

The Mystical Body is Jesus uniting all God's chosen children to Himself. Jesus purifies and Sanctifies the Children gathers by God to Himself. Jesus unites Himself to all Saints and also those on the road to sainthood. Jesus together with all the saints and to-be saints unite themselves to God the Father. Jesus united Himself with his bride and presented them to the Father. They shall be one spirit in unity and love. This is God's plan of salvation for all fallen children of Adam and Eve.

This Mystical Body had no particular shape and form but wherever and whenever there are hearts that accepted and opened up to Him, there He will dwell.

Jesus now dwells in the hearts of all mankind who sincerely wished to follow His way of life. God continues to strengthen, nourishes, sanctifies, purifies us on our journey back to heaven.

The Mystical Body is a very powerful communion of saints led by Jesus to combat evil force and all adversaries or obstacles along the pathway to heaven.

When the Divine Light shine, all evil tries to fled and escape from its route, or else they would be burns in pain and humiliation.

All the humiliation, pain, suffering that was inflicted on Jesus during His hour of glory was now thrown back to the evil world. They spat at Jesus during His agony, now they had to swallow them back. The serpent bites the heel of Jesus, now Jesus is going to crush its head.

How can we as human being who are physical, experience the hour of glory with Jesus even while in this world and finally the climax at the end of our physical lives?

If we journey with Jesus as His shadow for He is the one walking, the moment of joy, sorrow we shared, we will also experience the moment of triumph which was His but He shares it with all of us.

We are just His shadow. He is the one acting and doing all the works. If we humbly, sincerely and with great gratitude and appreciation accept and admit it by letting God use our physical for His glory then He will reward us by sharing His glory with us.

Eventhough our physical moves and acts but it was God's Spirit that was doing all the jobs and functions in each one of us.

All glory and honor shall be His not ours forever and ever.

Praise the Lord God Almighty for Your Divine inspiration in presenting this.

Amen.

The Victory Won by Christ

After the resurrection, Christ's body was glorified. He shed off His physical covering mysteriously without any decay.

He can command Himself to appear and disappear as He wished. He no longer stayed very long in any particular place. He can eat and drink; yet the power of nature has no control over Him.

He is the Lord of nature, for He is the one who writes and commands how nature should function. Nature had no control over Him but the opposite is true.

Let's ponder on this! Will our resurrected body be similar to Christ's body? Is this His way of showing us the trophy of our union with God? Is this His ways of showing us that after the hardship, pain, suffering and rejection by the people of this world we would also be rewarded with this glorified body. Time and space cannot hold the spirit prisoner. At a split of a second, you will be where you wished to be.

Jesus ate and drank with His disciples. Is this His ways of showing us that we do eat and drink just like what Jesus did?

Do we actually be given material food at all? Jesus walked through wall. Is this His ways of showing us the nature of the resurrected body of which He is going to give us if we journey in union with His Mystical Body?

During the transfiguration, His Father who is in Him transformed His body, hiding the physical and exposing the spiritual. If we had Christ living in us to the fullness, will our body be similar to Christ's glorified body, if God is to hide the physical and expose our spirit?

During the transfiguration, Jesus' body was glorified to show that after the third day, what remain would also be similar to what was witnessed by the disciples on the mountain.

The story of transfiguration gave the disciples hope and courage to face persecution. Although they failed God by deserting Jesus to suffer and died death but after the resurrection their once hopeless dream and vision live again.

They may ponder on the wonders, actions and His power. Although before the coming of the Holy Spirit they dared not preach opening but their hearts were growing stronger and with courage.

Jesus continued to appear to them for forty days. Invisibly the Kingdom of God started its reign after Christ's died.

As a Kingdom there had to be a king and a defense system. Who is the King of this Kingdom? Who is the one defending the Kingdom?

This Kingdom of God or Mystical Body or the Church has no specific boundary. It extends to where there is a heart opening and accepting Him, there He would be.

The seed that dropped to the ground, germinated, sprouted and now growing stronger and stronger. God is the gardener of the plant of which in the Gospel is symbolized by the 'vine and God the Gardener'.

He would chop off useless branches so that the plant would grow well. He would pull the weed, if it come too close or near to the plant. He would be the one watering, fertilizing and give it plenty of sunlight so that it would produce plenty of fruits.

These fruits from the vine are symbol of the Holy Spirit. Only through submission to God could the gifts of the Holy Spirit be visibly in view. For example you were baptized and with a heart to live a fully Christian life but you find it very difficult because you look with hunger and thirst for the material and wealth of this world.

By your action, your soul cannot grow because it was given a limited space. Just like a plant, you place a wire-guard above the plant, even if it receive plenty of sunlight it still become a dwarfed plant and bear very little if not hardly any fruit.

If you put the plant in the dark, it would wither and died. Therefore we can see our soul ability to grow and produce spiritual fruit would depend on how much you would surrender yourself to God.

If you are to allow God to have complete control over you. It could be symbolized by the plant without any wire-guard or not under any shade so that the sunlight would penetrate and nourished the plant. The rain would water it and God would take great care of it. It would bear plenty of fruits and continue to multiply.

God gives us the Holy Spirit, which was a complete food for the souls. Jesus said to the Samaritan woman, "I am the source of the spring of living water, when you drink from it you shall never thirst again.

The defend system of the Kingdom of God is the Holy Spirit. It also dwells in the angels and the saints on earth and in heaven. The Holy Spirit dwelling in a person is a mark of God's ownership on it.

No power is greater than the power of the Holy Spirit.

No power is gentler than the power of the Holy Spirit.

No power is patient, kind, compassionate, merciful and loving like the power of the Holy Spirit.

The souls shall hunger and thirst for no other food rather than the grace from the Holy Spirit.

What is grace?

Grace is a supernatural gift from God. It empowered us to live faithfully and patiently as Children of God.

It gives us the ability to see, touch, hear and feel the presence of God eventhough the physical bodies covered us.

The curtain or cloud of the physical blinded us from the complete spiritual sight, understanding and wisdom.

God's wisdom cannot penetrate our human wisdom because of conceit. We held high opinion of ourselves and the value of this world.

God surely wished to give us His wisdom if only we open up our hearts to Him.

Surrender ourselves to the prompting of the Holy Spirit. Let Him moves our limbs, hearts, mind and our soul to function to His Divine will of which would benefit our immortal souls. God never want to hide the precious treasure of wisdom and love from His creatures but we rejected God's wisdom for we think that God's value is impossible to achieve and absurd in contrary to our human worshipped values.

Human nature always worshipped material, wealth and prestige. Materialistic people live for the sake of accumulating as much wealth as possible, which is a sign of success in life. But woe to these people who are blind. What they accumulate turned into dust and bacteria will digest all. Where would the immortal soul find a peaceful resting-place when we cannot even take our backyard chicken huts with us as shelter?

We cannot even take a pet we love so much to the next world. What more to take our loved ones with us?

All our visions crumbled and stumbled like a house built on the sand. When rain came pouring down, flood came up and the whole structure fell and was washed away by the tide and thrown about by the waves and wind.

Our souls would be just like the house washed away and thrown about by the wind and waves if we accumulate earthly treasures and ignore our heavenly treasure department.

In this world, while we are still alive whatever seeds we sowed, we would reap exactly the same crop we planted. If we concentrate on nourishing the spiritual, we would reap spiritual benefit. But if we nurture and care only for the material, our benefit would also be material. Whatever is physical last only in this live but whatever spiritual benefit we gain, they would carry us to the world of the immortal.

We can either be a slave to material or the spiritual. To many people's thought submission to God would deemed us weak but the truth is submission to the physical would be foolish. God is a God of might, power and held in His storage of treasures are Spirit of wisdom and understanding of which the world had not discovered.

Amen.

Parable of the 'Ten Virgins' (Matthew 25: 1-13)

Put oil in your lamp, keep it burning,

Keep it burning till the break of day.

Fill yourselves with the strength of the Holy Spirit, so that the fire of love would continue to burn till the Lord comes again.

Let our bodies be like the 'lamp' and its oil container.

Fill our body with the Holy Spirit, let it burns in the open so that those who come near it would feel its warm and see its light.

Don't cover the light that is in our bodies but let the light shine out.

The 'good news' of salvation that had been channeled to our body is assimilated with the assistant of the Holy Spirit, should also be channeled out to others.

Jesus is the light of the world, so we who are the storage of light should shine out the light of Christ.

Let our bodies filled with the light of Christ be like a transparent glass of a lamp.

Five wise virgins received the 'Words of God', thought about them, keep them in their hearts, spread them through their mouths and express them into actions.

They continue to grow in faith and bear fruits. In the parable of the 'Sower and the Seed', they are like the perfect soil for seeds to grow, mature and produce good harvest.

The wise virgins fill up their spiritual account with good deeds. How do they fill up their good deeds' account in heaven?

Jesus said that we should store up treasure in heaven where we do not fear of being snatched away from us and the treasure would not rust. Therefore when we leave this life, we would be astonished to find that the account had been mysteriously filled up.

The other five foolish virgins listen to God's Words, stay in their head or heart for a while but later because of their thirst and hunger for material prosperity caused them to withered and died.

Just like a lamp that burns for a while but later the light went off.

In the parable of the 'Sower and the Seeds', they are categorised as those seeds that fell on rocky ground or among the thorny bushes. They grow for a while but later they were starved of soil and nourishment, so they died off.

The foolish virgins save up all their treasure on earth. Their material account is bursting with earthly gold and diamond but they never bother about the salvation of the soul.

Judgement Day arrive, what would happen?

The physical and whatever is tainted by sin had to be destroyed and our souls are naked. What would God see in each of the soul?

Our soul is just like a hand with glove. We worked and toil all days working with protected hand. Some people continues to wash their gloves so they stays clean all days so were their hands.

But there are those who never bother to wash their gloves. What would happen to the naked hands inside?

Soon the dirt got deeper and deeper into the gloves and dirtied the naked hands.

Asked ourselves this question. Isn't gloves meant to protect the hands? If it is so why are we not bother to keep it clean?

When our souls are exposed to God, He sees the souls the way we see our hands when gloves are removed.

While in this world a daily examination of conscience is very important. We had been toiling all days and nights committing sins here and there without ourselves realising it, but only God can see the stain and hurt we had inflicted on the souls.

Just like a room, shone by the sunlight, exposing the dust and dirt in the air. So let God's divine light shines through our souls to expose the sin and allow Him to do the cleansing and purification with His precious blood.

If we wear clothing after a day would we still put it back into the closet and reuse them again?

Most of us would wash our clothing everyday. So what about our souls?

We should also do the same to our souls that are like diamonds inside. It should at least be cleansed and polished everyday.

When Judgement Day come, He would find us pure and holy like the first five wise virgins who stocked up enough oil because they knew that the groom is late in coming.

But for the unfortunate five foolish ones thought that there were no point waiting so they did not bother to get extra oil.

People, who are like these continue to accumulate as much wealth as possible selfishly but never bother, fear or think about that least or helpless brothers of ours who are Jesus' loved ones.

Just like Mother Teresa of Calcutta said that when she dresses the rotten wounds of anyone, she always knew that she was doing this to Jesus. With these thought in her, it inspired her to do even more for the unfortunate.

We too must see the Christ in each one of us, even our enemies because we are all creation of God. We all posses the souls that are God's Spirit. When we are incensing people in church during High Mass, we are actually doing it to Jesus who is the King that dwells in our hearts.

When we call people holy or blessed, we are actually worshipping God through the person we addressed the honour. So when we addressed Blessed Virgin Mary as holy, we are actually addressing this to God because she is a creature of God just like all the rest.

Saints are masterpiece of God's amazing creation. If we admire the Artist's work of art, we are actually honouring the Artist.

The five foolish virgins waited impatiently for Jesus to come but Jesus was late so they lose faith.

There are many in this world who knew about the Judgement Day but they knew that God is merciful, patient and kind. They seemed and though that they could manipulate the kind part of Jesus' Heart.

They knew that somehow they are already baptised and God will somehow save them.

They continued to accumulate as much wealth as possible starving the souls of even basic necessities of food and drink, what more to say the love of the souls' creator.

We are depriving the souls of parental love.

How wicked are we, if we try to ponder deeper about it?

How can God be patient to see His beloved children trapped in a cage of solitary confinement, starve of love and comfort from their parents, brothers and sisters?

We think that God would wait till we could no longer serve the world and desires of ours then God would call us to serve Him?

Think carefully about this. For the days will come Jesus will pronounce Judgement on the whole world. The authority and power given to Him by God.

Where will we hide, if we had been dwelling in darkness for so long?

Even indoor plant that had been starved of sunlight for too long became fragile and weak, suppose we brought that weak plant to the direct hot sunlight what would happen?

Most probably the leaves would dry up and soon the whole plant dies.

If our souls had been starve of precious nourishment from God for too long they shall be just like the weakening plant.

LET OUR PHYSICAL BODY BE THE LAMP AND LET GOD BE THE OIL AND THE FIRE IN OUR LIVES.

PRAYER FOR STRENGTH TO RESIST TEMPTATION

Almighty and Eternal God, in the fullness of time You sent Your only Begotten Son Jesus Christ as a symbol of love and strength.

He is the only one who had conquered all forms of temptation. Until death on the cross, for the love and redemption of all sinners.

Death in Jesus Christ is a triumph. As love is manifested to the fullness. He conquered death by rising again from His sleep, so that all mankind who was united with Him would also receive this hope, joy and happiness of a new resurrected heavenly bodies of beauty and splendor.

The stones that were refined, craved, purified and polished to fit into the new Temple of Jerusalem.

Help me, Jesus Christ by giving me Your Divine strength and power to conquer all forms of temptations, whether that comes from our mind, heart or the world.

Help me to persevere by depending on Your strength, love, protection, and guidance and help me to put my whole life and being into Your precious Hand. Help me and give me grace. Give me faith in You.

Open up my spiritual sight, ears and my heart. Help me to remove pride from my life. Help me to grow up spiritually, mentally and emotionally. Help me to feel the great happiness and joy of maturity, even though we are all suppose to be a child depending and trusting in You in all things.

Help me to resist all forms of temptation that comes along my way. Help me to be faithful to my spouse, children and my family. Help me to know that the core of love comes from this. They are likened to our heart. If we had a heart of selfishness, hatred and pride, there is really no use to pretend to be holy and good outside.

Help me; purify my thoughts, desires, words and my actions. Help me to live for others.

Remove all obstacles that prevented me from loving You wholeheartedly in all my life.

Help me to love others more then I would to myself.

Help me to feel the joy, happiness of my submission to You. Help me never to satisfy my human passion and desire that are evil.

Help me never to hunger and thirst for relationship that is immoral and evil.

Transform, chastise, mould, and shape me, O God into the likeness of You.

Help me Almighty and Eternal God to satisfy the passion and desire of Your Spirit that is dwelling in me and over me.

Help me to be humble and obedient. Help me to feel Your compassionate love and care.

Fill me with Your Divine power and Spirit of love and gentleness so that I can love the world the way You do.

Help me never to desire for any other pleasure in life but to be completely Yours in all my being.

Receive me back O God into Your Kingdom of love, peace and joy.

Forgive me for all the sin I had committed against You. Forgive me O Jesus for crucifying You, whenever I disobeyed You.

Help me Jesus through Your grace to give myself entirely to the service and love of You and all mankind.

Help me not to judge others but help me to love and pray wholeheartedly whenever Your children fell down, while they tried to walk. Help me to have a gentle, loving and compassionate heart like Yours, Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

Thank You Jesus for dying for all humanity and especially for those who admitted their sinfulness. Help us and strengthen us to be able to accept all forms of crosses, which You put on our shoulders. Help us to journey with You even until Calvary. Only when we reached and die in Calvary with Jesus Christ, our lives are still imperfect.

Give us grace to journey until our destination so that we can rise with You, to share in Your glory and splendor.

Help me to deny myself. Help me to give my whole being and life to the service of Your Name.

Whatever things and works that are being put on my table, help me to do it with love, care, joy and zeal.

Help me never try to gain a name for myself in the heart of mankind but instead to gain a name in heaven, which is hidden in the material world.

Help me to surrender myself in charity to be Your Hand, Feet and Heart to serve the world.

Help me and take away all spirits that are different from Your Spirit O God.

Wash me clean with Thy Divine precious Blood that flows from Calvary.

Help me to wash one another's feet, like You had washed Your disciples' feet, so that we can share in Your life.

Jesus Christ, please take away my pride, guilt, hurts, disobedience, selfishness, envy for material possession, my worship of human values, lustful thoughts and desires, my passion for affections that are evil and sinful, my unconcern for my family, spouse and children. My unconcern for my friends and enemies, my judgmental attitudes, my laziness, my anger, my worry and all my sinful and selfish thoughts, words and actions.

Purify me O God from these sinful and evil ways. Change me and transform me to fit into Your ways of heaven.

Give me grace to depend and trust in You to transform me. Help me to give myself wholeheartedly into Your Hands of love and care.

You are my Almighty, powerful, omnipotent God, but most of all You are my loving heavenly Father and Lord of my whole life. Take me O God into Your precious Hand that I might do Your will.

Give me Your Spirit of humility, love, joy and peace. Let Your Spirit find in me a Full House to operate, dwell and move about.

Move my heart to feel Your presence and joy. Move my hands to serve and love You in one another.

Move my feet to walk Your Divine ways. Help me not to stray away from You. Hold my hands as I walk Your ways. When I am too tired and my feet sores please help me to allow You to carry me in Your arms.

For You are my heavenly Father. My God and my Savior. Take me, chastise me, mold me, and transform me, into Your image and likeness. Amen.

Simple prayer for the gifts of the Holy Spirit (Grace)

Almighty and Eternal God,

Jesus journeyed physically once upon the earth. He is the manifestation of God.

Help us to follow His ways to love You Almighty God in one another.

To recognize Your presence in another human being.

Therefore to be able to serve You by loving and caring for those whom You love especially those who needed our help most.

After ascended into Your Kingdom, Almighty God He gave us the Holy Spirit that originated from Your union of Father and Son.

Give us this Spirit of Your bond and union so that we can be one with You, with all the saints and angels.

The Holy Spirit presents to us His wonderful gifts of wisdom, knowledge, understanding, patient, fear of the Lord, courage humility, gentleness and compassion.

They are all simplified as gifts of love, which is infinite.

So my Lord and my God give us Your wisdom to accept the gifts of love from You.

Your love touches and enters my heart. Let the love that enters my heart, mind and soul also be an instrument to love others with this same measure and quality of love You showered on me.

Thank You Almighty God for hearing my prayer and may You answer them according to Your will always through Jesus name.

Amen.

 

 

 

The power of God rest in my family

Almighty and eternal God, Lord and Master of all Your creations.

We Almighty God are Your creatures.

You shaped and molded us to whatever image you wished.

We are from the scum of the earth as useless as the swamp in the river.

All Your creations are to serve Your purpose. It is Your Spirit dwelling in each of the creation that gives life to Your creatures including the environment.

Let this power of creation rest in my family. Give each member of this family a sincere and open heart designed to serve and love You.

We as parents are Your instruments to nurture and care for the physical and material need of each member. As for the spiritual part, our limited physical proved incapable of handling.

As an instrument of yours, help us to impart whatever knowledge and wisdom descended from You.

You created each member of the family very unique and special in their own ways.

Give me Your Spirit of knowledge and wisdom so that I would not judge the ways You handle the whole situation in the life of our family.

Help me instead to praise and thank You for Your wisdom in handling each complicated situation with patient, love and deep compassion.

So let Your Spirit moves into the heart of each of the member and complete the circle of spiritual communion. Remove any obstacles in the hearts that prevented this from happening. Unite all of us into a full communion with the saints, especially our heavenly Mother Mary, all the angels and finally to Your Son Jesus Christ. For only through Jesus we are acceptable to You, Almighty God.

Lord God we offer up our sacrifices, the pain and joy of bringing this family up.

Help us to praise and thank you for out of Your goodness, You had given children and spouse to me, to care and to love them.

Thank you and praise You for giving us this great blessing in disguise. Help us to be more appreciative of Your gifts to us.

For the heart of charity began at home and from there, shine out for the community and society as a whole.

Help us to practice this charity of which is Your love, at home and make us Your model for a true Christian, so that others may really see the Christ in us.

Bless us with great patient, love, mercy, understanding, and wisdom, with hearts full of love, gentleness and kindness. Help us to be appreciative and look from Your point of view rather then our point of view so that we can see the mysteries of Your interventions. For if it is Your will, the final outcome shall be a great blessing in disguise for Your children.

Help us to co-operate to the fullness, the working of the Holy Spirit in our family.

Made and mold us into a domestic church, where Your Words and Name are held up high and worshipped forever.

Amen.

Journeying Closer to God

 

The Virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity

It is never easy to submit or surrender ourselves to God! To say it is much easier than done!

But where is our commitment and where is our priority? Where do we aim to go? What type of friend or savior you wanted Jesus to be?

If you walk or journey closer to Him, we can feel His burning and compassionate love. If you journey further away from Him, so is your sense of His presence.

What does Jesus demand of us to fulfil in order to be able to journey closer to Him? First faith, second hope and third love one another.

How do we start with faith? Can you believe, love, obey and trust a person we don't know about? How can we reach out to God?

But the truth is, God is always showering His Sanctifying Grace on every one of His creation, just like the sun is shinning all year round. People in the equatorial zone are actually very fortunate to get the warmer heat from the sun than those in the poles. Can we consider the equator zone as the members of the Mystical Body dwelling much closer to God, so is the experience of His burning love, than those further away?

God reveal Himself to us through Sanctifying Grace and without this love of God we would grope in darkness trying miserably to search for a Mysterious God. Every human being can sense the presence of the Almighty God who created everything but not all want to admit and then follow Him.

But Jesus said that many are called but few are chosen. Many are called to be a Christian but not all want to deny themselves and carry our/their own crosses. Without these actions of our cooperation, salvation is not possible.

Can you trust a person whom you had very little idea of who he or she is? We surely can't but do we realize that when we fell in love with a person, we tend to trust him or her without properly investigates their background? Where does this magic come from? It was the mysterious power of God to draw a person into a covenant of marriage. In this case, the couple are really hopelessly in love and the joy cannot be properly expressed. Only they who fell in love really know what is happening.

This power originated from God and this power is also apply to our relationship with God. If you really know who God is, even a glimpse of Him in action, you would surely fall deeply in love with Him.

If you are blessed and God decided to reveal the essence of His Most Sacred Heart, the journey of a thousand miles on rough and hilly journey would really only be a mile on smooth and carpet floor and this is a real experience that I have found.

Everybody has this opportunity if we deny ourselves, give up our imperfect value of selfishness and foolishness to God. Our problems are also His problems. Our joy is also His joy. Our achievements are also His achievement, our weaknesses, worries are of His utmost concern and as a whole He is a perfect father in every way.

Can we really find this type of father on earth? Some people are blessed with this type of father and they can understand better what quality a perfect father has. Let's go to the second spiritual virtue of the Kingdom of God!

It is hope. What hope we as children of God had after this earthly life? First expression of God's love is His Sanctifying grace showering like sunlight. Second expression of His love is in the Sacraments of the church which is the Mystical Body of Christ. The Universal Church that is our Roman Catholic Church had its origin in St. Peter. He is the first vicar of Christ after His ascension into heaven. The Popes continuously take up this Vicarage from generation to generations. So whatever is consider bound on earth is also bound in heaven. The Pope does not use His power to manipulate or exploit people but rather as a service to others. The Sacraments are channel where the Mystical Body of Christ is continuously fed nurtured and cared for.

Physically, we are all conceived in the wombs of our mothers, which contents fluid or water. Secondly we were born and fed with our parents' warm caress, special nourishment, bathe, cloth, shelter, toys and entertainment. They may also wanted to conceive again to see you feeling so lonely.

When you are unhealthy, they bring you to see doctors. When we hurt and offend our parents we ask for pardon and reconciliation. When you grow up they bless your marriage and so the stories of unending and unselfish love goes on.

So what about our spiritual needs? We needed to be reborn again, not in our mother's womb but through the Sacrament of Baptism in water and Spirit. We needed to be caress with warm and love of our heavenly Father and our source if life. We needed to be fed with His Body and Blood (Holy Eucharist). In order that the Sacrament receives its full meaning it needed to come with many forms of crosses and yokes. We are to accept this as sign of our cooperation in the redeeming power through Christ Jesus.

We needed to be clothed with His Divine Love that is grace given through the power of the Holy Spirit (Sacrament of Confirmation).

We needed to allow God to come into our body and accompany our souls to journey heavenwards. Without this Divine companionship we would all lose track of our journey like a blind man walking in a strange and new environment and route.

When we offended our Heavenly Father, we ask for pardon and reconcile with Him through the Sacrament of Reconciliation and daily Act of Contrition, if possible. If we are physically sick we seek a doctor. The doctors or medical personnel are instrument of God to impart physical healing.

So in situation of terminal illness or serious illness it is only wise to seek the blessing of God through the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick before making our major decision in operation or other high risks procedure.

When we grew up and God had chosen a marriage partner for you, you receive His blessing through the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. Partners whom you/we fall deeply in love with is not directly determined by our parents, yet in appreciation of their/our love we asked for their blessing and approval.

Most of all it was God who chose a partner for you/us and we obtain His blessing and approval so that in this marriage journey, He would be the ultimate strength in holding them/us together in love and reconciliation as long as they/we could live.

The gift of intimate love comes from God, should we not thank Him first and then in appreciation of His gift to us, we cherish the gifts. Some people seemed to be very selfish and think that it was through their own beauty and astuteness that they attract the opposite sex but for how long?

Let's go to the virtue of charity or love!

Jesus said before He departed from this earthly life that we love one another, just like He had and always will love us, so that through this action of ours other may know we are Jesus' disciples.

So the third virtue is love one another with a charitable, kind, humble and compassionate heart like Jesus does. Charity does not expect anything in return. It is never jealous, selfish, arrogant, deceit and think not of himself but others as their priority. Charity comes from the heart and soul accompanied by God who is the strength and power behind charity.

Charity uplifted the morale of those suffering in poverty, in illness, handicaps, those suffering in fear and hopelessness. As a whole charity gives hope and courage for them to endure and persevere for those who are physically, mentally and spiritually oppressed.

Praise and thank you Lord for guiding me in this presentation. Amen.

 

 

Communion of Saints, especially Blessed Virgin Mary

 

Saints are masterpiece of God's creation. If you are an Artist, your work of art to the perfection is your life, because you have put all your effort, talents, heart, strength, mind, spirit into that piece of precious art.

You skipped even meals, functions and other entertainment to produce this piece of art. What would you do if people take no interest in this works of yours?

This art is my life and if they took no interest in it then they are also not interested in me at all. Saints are specially molded, craved and purified by Christ's precious blood. This blood of purification comes with His Divine life.

He took upon Himself the suffering and pain of this world, put His Divine shoulder, carries it to Calvary and buries them there.

With His precious blood He shed, our sins are washed away. If we do not appreciate and love the saints who are the masterpiece of God's creation, we are doing what those who take no interest in the masterpiece of an Artist. When we honor saints, will Jesus be hurt at all? No definitely not!

If you admire and wished to own that Artist's masterpiece, would the Artist feel hurt or angry at all?

Of course not! He would instead feel very glad and he rejoiced that someone out there really appreciate his whole-hearted effort in producing this art.

Though we cannot own the saints, just like the artist's masterpiece is not put out for sale but for his own gallery.

Jesus as God is very happy that we unite ourselves with the saints in worshipping Him. Jesus unites Himself with the Father and the Holy Spirit. They unite themselves with the saints and angels.

This is a perfect sign of unity in the Kingdom of God in heaven and on earth, including those under cleansing and purification in Purgatory.

If you are a king. You had a beloved mother. What would happen if people take no notice of your mother during your wedding feast?

It would surely be an insult to the King. He would surely introduce his mother to all present, don't you think so?

God, the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are king of kings. His mother is our Blessed Virgin Mary. He entrusted His beloved mother to be care by St. John the Apostle at the foot of His cross at Calvary. He brought her home and cared for her. She acted like a mother to John and John as a son to our blessed mother. Now she lives with us in our heart and our home. We honored the last Words of Jesus when we invite His mother into our home and into our lives, don't you think so? The last words of any person should be taken very seriously, should we not?

Jesus said, "Woman this is your son (John). John this is your mother (Mary)" Jesus is saying to His mother and to each of us now, "Woman this is your children (all of us). Children this is your mother (Blessed Virgin Mary)".

How should we treat her, since Jesus entrusted her to us? What do you think Mary who is the Spiritual Mother of all God's Children would like to do to help her ailing and wounded children?

Praise the Lord for Your Divine enlightenment. Amen.

 

 

 

 

The Evil of Infidelity

 

(MOMENT OF COURTSHIP)

She looks into his eyes and he looks into hers. There is a spark and secret communion taking place in between them. What communication or sign language is that? It is to say in a soft voice, "I love you from the bottom of my heart." This is a very common expression during the time of initial courtship and later fall in love.

And it is said that true love endures all trials and emerges triumphant at the end. From there, they are enforcing their foundation of love.

 

(THEIR MARRIAGE)

Wedding bells ring and they are happily married in church, witnessed by priest, relatives and friends. They smile and their heart beat faster than ever as they celebrate their love. They want the whole world to know that they are the happiest couple ever lived. For them, the whole world is shared in between 'she and he' who are deeply in love. Everything seems so perfect and God is very glad to have united two people into one.

 

(CHILDREN BORN)

Naturally, children are born into this marriage and they share their joy and love with them. They plan their children's future, save up as much money they could for the children's education, buy a huge and beautiful house with large compound and everything seem like paradise for their family. They have everything money can buy.

 

(INFIDELITY THE WORK OF THE DEVIL)

The devil is not happy. They are envious of the family's happiness. Slowly, they plant seeds of evil into the mind of the couples and they no longer see things 'eye to eye' anymore. The desire to stray causes them to make a million unreasonable excuses of which has never crop up before.

Then, the devil plant another seed of evil into the mind of the third party to portray him or her as a hero or heroine to rescue them from this unhappy union. Their actions and words are indeed tempting and almost seem very real and sincere. They are indeed the agent and instrument of the devil unknowingly.

 

(MARRIAGE BREAKUP)

Finally, you fall into their traps and thought of settling down with this new lover of yours. The devils celebrate and laugh at you for not making use of the grace from the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. Traps are laid out everywhere to test your marriage's strength. For marriage to go through trials after trials and still stand firm and stronger than ever, prayer is very important. Let God be the backbone of your marriage life.

Children are innocence victims of parents' infidelity. They suffer greater hurt and pain, especially mentally as they witness their family is torn apart. Parents actually are a source of inspiration for their children success in their future. They look at them as a role model. If parents whom they trust fail to show the way, who should they turn to? Why are human beings too blind to recognize the tricks of the devil? Why do we want to satisfy the devil instead of following the gentle and compassionate God who would leads the entire family to a greater height of happiness and love?

The family is a domestic church and the cell of it. If your skin cell dies, pus is formed and it tarnishes your beautiful skin.

The entire church would suffer as a result of our carelessness and none acceptance of each other's as a human being together with weaknesses. If only couples would see the white and purer spot of each other's heart, separation and divorce would not have taken place at all. Praise and thank you Lord for Your Divine Revelation.

The Incarnation of God into 'man'

God is Almighty and He lives in Divinity. Heaven is His dwelling place and His Kingdom. He wanted to enter into our time and into our space. He wanted to put Himself into our shoes. He is searching for the right time to come along. He didn't come suddenly but He prepared the world for His Divine entry into our time.

Can you imagine a mother giving birth to a son? Does it make her less than who she is in the beginning? Of course not. She is still the same person but now she has a son. Can you imagine God as a mother giving birth to a son? This Son of His come from within Him. He is part of Himself.

When a child is born into this world, he/she is still human being like his/her mother. With the same quality or characteristics of any human being. Come with complete physical parts; the hands, feet, body, etc and internal organ of any human being.

God came into this world. He entered into the womb of His mother. This God came into this world is the same God that is His Father. We may be born into this world different from our parents in term of intelligence and appearance, but God is born into this world with the complete essence of the Original.

But He came as God the Son. He is full of the Holy Spirit. He is full of the power and authority of God. He is God becoming man to enter into our dirty and unworthy shoes. He walks the valley of darkness. He walked the soil of this earth, which was tainted, with all forms of sin.

He entered into our time in order that we, who are so human that our naked eyes and sight are our priority, may see God. But let us open our 'Spiritual Eyes' and see God through Faith. We can never see God without faith. Faith is God's gift and grace to all mankind who hunger and thirst for it. It came miraculously as you allow God to open up your heart.

As God walks the valley of darkness, His divine light shines through and the path that He trotted was brightened up and the light was never put out since that day of victory over darkness. He walks the path of sorrow and blesses those who mourn. He walks the path evil colonized and purifies those who come to Him. He walks the path of death and overcome it by His own power. Those who follows Jesus from behind shall not be lost but they shall find themselves sharing His Divine life. Jesus is the 'Way', the 'Truth' and the 'Life'. No one can come to the Father except through Him. Praise the Lord God Almighty. Amen.

Can Pagan Gain Merit in the Eye of God For Good Deeds?

 

It was 8:00pm on January 4th, 1999 while I was doing laundry, this question popped up suddenly and God answered me in this parable.

You had a son who does not recognize even your existence. He disowned you as a mother. He told you sternly and fiercely that whatever credit he gains in his undertaking is none of your business.

One day, he became one of the most successful businessman in the world. As a mother who knew very well her son's words would be ashamed if he is to tell her relatives or friends that she is proud of her son. What would she do, if her relatives or friends were to praise her for the son's achievement?

In her heart, she would be greatly hurt to remember the words of his son who shouted at her and mean it, "You are not my mother, whatever I do is none of your business!" Will those who are pagans who think that they do not need God or any religion in order to do good gain their reward in the next life?

Many people may think that they most probably will. Let us give God the opportunity to speak.

"Who are you working for? For what purpose are you working? If you work for an employer, he is the one who receives the profit and then shares it with his employee. Who is your employer then? Are you self-employed? If you are then you already gain your reward as you start operating your business. Your profit shall be immediate."

"So let Me tell you if you all do not consider Me, Your God as your creator and employer, who will share whatever profit that I gain from this business, through your participation, you are not going to receive the reward in profit-sharing too."

Praise and thank you Lord for Your Divine revelation. Amen.

 

P/S: As I was typing this into the computer, the above parable voluntarily comes up and without even thinking, the Lord spoke to me again. Praise the Lord.

 

From here we know the Lord will not give reward to those who are not His children amd also those who hated, departed from the presence or God with full knowledge of the consequences. Those who are ignorant or not given opportunity to listen to God's Words are spare from this dilemma.

The Storms and Boat

Jesus calms a storm - Matthew 8:23-27

Jesus walks on the water - Matthew 14:22:32

 

What are the scenarios of the two? The waves were hitting the boat and it was about to sink. Jesus allowed this to happen. Don't you think so?

Quotation from a Chinese saying, 'A boat was meant to go out to sea and to serve its purpose.'

What is the purpose of a boat? It was built very strong and concrete to face the storm. To face whatever untoward incidents. It was meant to go out to the sea to catch fishes, carry passengers, cargoes, or for leisure cruise.

It's the same with our bodies, mind and our spirit. We are like a boat built to face the challenges in life. What are the categories of the challengers? There are those challenges we face in living as obedient and loving children of God. We had to face many obstacles in life, which may be physically, mentally and spiritually. 'Even when we are in the midst of a storm and our boats are swaying in all directions. Please remember that at least we still had a boat or else we would sink right in'.

When we thought that we are hopeless because of so many obstacles and challenges in life, be complacent and thankful because at least we still had a strong physical body God had given us to face the challenges in life.

To God, life is like arranging a Jigsaw puzzle. If you are the one arranging them, how do you find? There are some that may be basic and easy but there are those more complicated and needs plenty of time and brain to solve it. But to God who created everything, He is the one who invented the Jigsaw puzzle. He is the one who knows how to fill the next missing gap.

When you are trying to put your life in order, it is not prudent to mess up the whole puzzle but it would wise to sit down and try to figure it out plans to solve it, don't you think so?

God is the one whom you can consult when your life is like living in the midst of a great storm of which you are about to sink.

Jesus was sleeping in the boat undisturbed when the boat was hit by a fierce storm in danger of sinking. Why is Jesus not disturbed? Off course physically we can explain. He was very tired but there are greater lesson to learn from here beside He is the Lord of all natures is that concerning our life.

We may be hard hit with the trouble in life, yet Jesus may not be disturbed by all the troubles, why? Repeat this again. Isn't boats built meant to go out to the sea to face all the obstacles and challenges of sea so are our life!

We are to face it. Jesus who is the Lord of all creation is the Captain of the ship. He is steering and in charge of the control system. Have you anything to fear at all?

Jesus walking on the water towards the disciples when they were sailing in the middle of the lake. Strong wind caused the boat to sway and about to sink. They were so full of fear that they were blinded. They could not even recognize Jesus when He walked towards them, In time of trouble Jesus would walk through stormy water toward you and calm the wind and the waves. Jesus commanded the wind: "Be quiet and the waves to calm down". So it was done.

In time when you are faced with this physical turmoil in our life, our spirit may be crushed but Jesus would come walking towards you, knowingly or unknowingly. Jesus promise not to test His followers and God's Children, beyond our ability to cope. When we are in the midst of trouble, we close the door and slam at Jesus' face and put ourselves in dark and lonely solitary room. Even if Jesus comes knocking and rescuing us, we could not hear Him.

Open up our eyes therefore, recognizes and accepts His help. For in His entire journey with us as a human being, He gave us the 'Beatitude' and all His actions and words reflect the real meaning of the Beatitude. He expresses them into actions. His Heart goes out to those who are downhearted and low in spirit. Those who are hopeless He will give hope. Those who mourn will be comforted. Those who long to do God's will, God will fulfil their wishes.

Praise the Lord for Your Divine inspiration. Amen.