***Hard to Get into Heaven, Then . . .

         To get into heaven, we have to get all our sins removed first. Since many of us rather "enjoy" remaining in sin, they will not be able to enter heaven. But there is a powerful way to make getting into heaven super easy, and that is accepting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Repent our sins to him and he'll take them away to make us heaven bound. Furthermore, he can even take away our tendency to sin! So even though going to hell is easy, going to heaven can be super easy/

***Easy to Go to Hell (a Serious Warning!)***

        Suppose you have committed a serious sin and try to forget it. That is, you may feel bad about it, but you never really feel sorry about it, and let's say you are not even a Christian. Do you think you should be allowed to enter heaven? I don't think so. For if anyone carrying a serious sin can enter, where would you draw the line? So you could be a person that's nice to others most of the time and lives a fairly peaceful life, but with that unrepented serious sin still on your soul, you may be shocked to find that after you die, the door to heaven is closed for you. 

***Total Fulfillment

        Communion experience. The Lord totally fulfilled me as I happily received him as he had asked. My joy was complete, ready fof his Coming! 

****Smart Way of Becoming Holy****

        St. Thérèse of Lisieux is known as the Little Flower. Her Little Way teaches us to become saints by doing every little thing with love for God. This is a smart way. You see, to build a whole brick house seems to be a lot of hard work, but if you just focus on laying one small brick at a time, eventually you'll have your house. We can also try living every second for God. Be holy every second (which shouldn't be hard) and eventually you will have lived an entire holy life. Start practicing the Little Way now.

****Christ, the Decisive Factor***

         We are completely dependent upon him for our existence. He knows all about us. Everyone will have to be judged by him in the end. We are free to say what we want, but he'll have the final word. Love and glorify him and we are saved; reject him and we get ourselves condemned. He is critically important to us, for he loves me to death. We must decide and not forget him!

***Today's Special Joy

         It's realizing that I have a heavenly Father who loves me, a holy Mother who cares for me, and the myriad saints and angels who all root for me.

*****Great Realization!

        If you realize that the Lord God can indeed change you, you look forward to have him make you holy and beautiful. This in itself is a huge change that greatly pleases the Lord! 

**Patience, a Sign of Holiness*

         It's easy to get impatient when things don't turn out the way you expect, but does that help any? Actually, that can make things worse. When you are upset, you become less clear-headed and is likely to become rash, act untimely or inappropriately, and end up makings things worse. Besides, all that negative emotion can ruin your health. It's so much better to believe that God allows all things to happen for your good. If you can accept them all with patience for love of him, you are on your way to sainthood! The wise always focus on the unseen eternity, while the foolish are bothered by many little thing that happen at any moment. The gap between the two is clear, but only the wise see it.    

****Yearning for Christ****

        If you yearn strongly for the Lord, it shows that you are in love with him, you are in union with him, and/or you are filled with the Holy Spirit.

***Key to Effective Preaching***

        All messages that preach about Christ address the intellect, affecting the mind only. So they are usually weak and unmemorable. Only messages that preach Jesus as our Lord and God speak directly to the heart and has the power to convert the listeners. What comes from the mind affects the mind only, and what comes from the heart affects the heart. This is why Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel is so popular today, drawing many to Christ!

***Jesus Is Coming Back***

         Jesus Second Coming is imminent. But it will be totally different from his first coming two thousand years ago. Let Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel make it clear to us!       

***Miracle of Abandonment to God***

        When you abandon yourself to the Lord, no matter how things turn out, you are happy.         

**Be like a Mirror*

         The Lord Christ alone is our shining light. The best we can do is to reflect his light for all to see. To do that like a mirror, we must be spotlessly clean. So surrender to him that he may make us clean. This is one best way for us to glorify him. 

***Ultimate Way of Following Christ***

        How do you follow Jesus? Do you follow him closely or from a distance just to make sure that he is in view? If you were really close to him, you'd be in union with him and carried by him the whole time! You now belong to him and there's no more following, so to speak. This is ultimately following the Lord, simply being with him and enjoying him.  

**Different Approaches

        When Satan wants you to remove your coat, he would most likely lure you with some kind of temptation to make you undress yourself, and you lose your pease. When the Lord God wants you to remove your coat, he would probably make the sun just warm enough to make you voluntarily take it off with no qualms.

****AMAZING LOVE****

        God's love is most beautiful because it's all pure and selfless. Once we sense that, we fall in love with the Lord. This is how he has made us. What's amazing is that when we love God, we become selfless and don't expect anything in return from him either! Loving him is our reward enough! 

*****Do-or-Die Time!*****

        Being sinners, we need to learn from the Lord as much as possible for the sake of our souls. In this secular world, we learns only secular things that do not benefit us spiritually at all; all the more we need the Lord to teach us so that we may keep our souls safe. This message is most urgent, for we are truly in a do-or-die situation!  

**False Freedom No Freedom

        We think that by being our own lords, we can be free. Then we find out that we become our own slaves and there's no way of freeing ourselves from sin. So the freedom we've been seeking is no freedom at all. This is where we need Christ, for he's the only one who can deliver us from sin. Once we're set free from sin, we are ready to inherit the kingdom of God our Father. Realize all this early to maximize our joy on earth and in heaven.