Anytime the Lord sows thoughts in my heart, I experience great joy, for it's like hearing him speaking directly to me. I now feel his holy sweet, fragrant presence at all times. I no longer know what feeling lonely is like.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
***God's Great Mercy
Communion experience. Receiving the Holy Eucharist was a most impressive experience. Here I approached the Most Holy Lord as a lowly repentant sinner and the Lord entered me to bring me into full union with him. The vast gap between us was completely bridged. He reached down to me, making the impossible possible. Such was his great mercy.
***Christians Are Special
When we believe in Jesus, we are freed from sin and become connected to God. Instead of drifting aimlessly toward oblivion, we are now heaven abound! There cannot a changeabout that's more dramatic, fundamental, and joyful. This makes being a Christians truly special.
***Our Only God***
In today's Gospel reading from John 3, Jesus said to Nicodemus, "No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man." This is absolutely true for every single one of us except Jesus, so we'd better listen to him alone to learn the whole truth. It also shows that the God of Christ is our one and only God. Let us worship, adore, praise, and love him!
**Letting God Enter Your Heart*
If you truly desire to know the Lord and are humble enough to be wide open to him, he will come to you. People say I am open and waiting, and I feel nothing. But have you told him that you truly desire him? God is so much greater than us and knows all about us. If total humility is absent, any pride will block him from entering your heart.
Monday, April 8, 2024
***Forgiveness Principle
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel's talk on forgiveness: God will forgive us as much as we forgive others. If we forgive others 100%, God will forgive us 100%. A forgiving person is a happy person.
***Great Miracle of Love***
Communion experience. If you only realized how the Lord truly miraculously changes the bread and wine into his own body and blood to be given up just for you, you'd be converted instantly by his love.
*****Spiritual Intelligence Test*****
Keep sinning and you hurt God and destroy your own inner peace. Repent to become holy and the whole heaven rejoices and you enjoy peace now and eternal bliss later. What's your choice?
*****Freedom in Union with God*****
In union with God, you can do whatever you want and you are free and happy. You see, in union with God you will find joy only in doing his will, and whatever you want to do is always accomplished.
*****Cause for Rejoicing
Today is the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord. It is the Holy Spirit that made it possible for Virgin Mary to conceive and bear a son, Jesus. Indeed nothing is impossible for God and we can all believe that, for how can God manage the whole universe if there were something he cannot do? So trust in him fully and rejoice, as you can't get any better than having an omnipotent God who is also your most loving Father!
**Dealing with Prophecies*
If you go on YouTube nowadays, you find so many videos warning us about all kinds of imminent disasters and how we can prepare ourselves for them. Many of these presenters use clickbait headlines or titles. You watch the video and what you expect to hear is not even mentioned. Sometimes you see the image of a well-known religious figure posted, but how the message is related to that figure is not made clear. Truth should always be presented clearly in every respect, but that's not the case at all. Also, these videos use pretty much the same AI voices and stock images and follow the same pattern of starting out a prayer before getting to the main message. By the way, some of the messages are from those whose past prophecies didn't come true. So should I deal with them? I feel that the Lord just wants me to hold onto the big church-approved prophecies such as the Fatima and Akita ones, be as holy as possible, and not be concerned about anything else.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
***Most Rewarding Belief***
The Gospel came from John 20. Here are the concluding statements of this chapter: "Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not written in this book. But these are written that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in his name." Yes, believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and you'll have life eternal—it is the belief that brings you the greatest possible reward.
***Faith's Greatest Victory
In today's second reading from 1 John 5, we heard read "The victory that conquers the world is our faith. Who indeed is the victor over the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?" I totally agree with the Apostle John here. My faith in Christ has already conquered the world, for the world no longer attracts me. I have even been freed from death as I shall be living forever with Jesus. This has to be the greatest possible victory of my faith!
**Evidence of God's Love**
I know that the Lord God of Christ loves me. I only need to realize that he's the one who keeps me alive in this life and will keep me living forever in the next.
**Thought of Great Comfort
I thought of the many things in my past, they came and went away. It hit me that once I have the Lord God, he's with me forever! This greatly comforts me.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
***Sure Way to Holiness***
I greatly admire the Little Way of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. It's about being both small and doing the smallest things with great love. This is how we can become saints. I bring this up because the Lord made me see at Mass today that if we let everything that happens to us in life draw us to the Lord and make us appreciate and love him more, our spiritual progress will be phenomenal!
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