ADVENTURES OF A PROPHET

PART II

“How much more then should I have pity on Nineveh that great city.”  (Jonah 4 :11)

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When some teachers of the Law and Pharisees demanded Him to perform a miracle, Lord Jesus, though supreme and sovereign over every creation, compared Himself to Jonah and predicted that on judgment day, the people of Nineveh would stand up and accuse the above people, as even they (people of Nineveh) had turned away from their sins when Jonah had preached God’s message and that there was something here greater (Son of God) than Jonah!  (Matthew 12:39-42)

In ancient ages, God the Father would wipe out His people if they disobeyed Him. 

He called out His chosen faithful servants, assuring and comforting them, and send them out with His warning message to the wicked people before devastation.

In the Book of Genesis (Chapter 19) mentions a place named Sodom, where Lot, the nephew of Abraham lived. A wretched city, not only filled with sexual violence but it was filled with pride and stubborn people. As described in the Book of Ezekiel (Chapter 16), they were overfed, unconcerned about the poor and the underprivileged; they did only what God hated and despised.

Finally, God’s patience was put off and He sent two angels to save Lot and his family, who the only righteous in the sight of God, before destroying the city.

Before the destruction, the angels warned Lot and his family, “Run for your lives, don’t look back and don’t stop in the valley.”

But as the Lord rained burning sulphur on the cities, Lot’s wife looked back; she was turned into a pillar of salt.

As years advanced, the character of God becomes slow to punish since His people began to repent and return to Him.

There were prophets who argued and questioned God when He changed His mind while others some who pleaded to God not to punish the people in His fury.

The Sovereign God who brings success to His prosperous plans does not desire to hurt or harm His creation.

We are nobody to question God’s plan or even point out it in casual talks regarding the creation of God.

For example : Why did God allow Eve and Adam to sin and put them out of Eden?  Why do we still suffer for it?  Why should I suffer for my ancestor’s sins?  Why are there hereditary disorders?  Can’t God abolish all this?

When hardships and brokenness occur, instead of committing sin against God by asking questions and making your situation worse; listen to His voice through your struggles. 

Because He is slow to anger He waits patiently.  God knows that death is the supreme punishment that He can give us.  God visualizes our future with bigger eyes, whereas our heart and dreams are very narrow and short sighted. 

If you try to run away from your responsibilities which God gave you as a covenant, you ignore it and turn away filing excuses like Jonah you may also experience the life Jonah had.  Can you imagine three days and nights of life in a whale’s stomach?  What did he get to eat and drink?  How did he sail through life those days?  God made Jonah confess in His way by taking him to the depth of the grave, again to the very heart of the sea where waves and breakers swept over him, sea weeds were wrapped round his head, etc.   

You may also be sailing your present journey in such situation.  If you  are in distress without hesitation call to the Lord with a repentant heart.  You may feel that your life is ebbing away and lamenting that I am better off dead than alive.

 If you give your ears to God’s voice you will come to your right senses – that God has a right plan at the right time and the right time is your repentant time, not the time when you question or argue or challenge God. 

Don’t take the Lord your Sovereign God casually instead give Him duly the honor and reverence that we ought to owe Him.

When you disobey God, disaster awaits you; be attentive then you will be able to hear God’s voice. If you are listening, stay assured, God will interfere.

When God commands, bow your head in submission and obey at the earliest before the devil twists God’s words and begins adding poison in us.

Our mere negligence can bring great miseries—it may be sudden or in the near future and alas you may not be given an opportunity to correct your wrongdoings.

The Holy Bible says, “Always obey the Lord, and you will be happy.  If you are stubborn, you will be ruined.”  (Prov. 28:14)

With love filled blessings

Your Sister in Christ

ADVENTURES OF A PROPHET

PART I

“How much more then should I have pity on Nineveh that great city.”  (Jonah 4 :11)

Two thousand years ago Lord Jesus taught His followers, “Love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you.”  (Matthew 5: 44) 

                                       

Almost everyone admires this command, yet the factual remains that it is one of the toughest lessons for a common man, and another section of mankind who find it hard to swallow the message.

The Book of Jonah acquaints us with the story of a prophet to whom God instructed to love his enemies in Nineveh.  He denied God’s command and refused to go to the people and instead runs away from the Lord.

Nineveh was a large and important city in Assyria situated on the river Tigris.  God of Love, one day said to Jonah son of Amittai, “Go to Nineveh, the great city and speak against them.  I am aware how wicked its people are.” 

Jonah did not want to warn the Nineveh’s citizens that they were about to be destroyed.  He suspected that if they would repent; God would forgive them.  Then people would laugh and mock at him and his message.

The Book does not indicate why Jonah hates Assyrians.  But if you read the book of Nahum which is dedicated to Nineveh, it describes about the people over there. It says, “They are ruthless, blood thirsty, even the Assyrians themselves left due to cruelty. They torture and slaughter their enemies.” 

So Israelites had reason to hate and fear Nineveh.  But God loved Nineveh and wanted to save the city.  Jonah planned to disobey God and set out his journey to the opposite direction in order to run away from God. 

God send a strong wind on the sea and it was so violent, that the ship boarded by Jonah was in danger of sinking.  As the calamities went on to become worse, the sailors emptied the cargo by throwing all things and cried out to their own gods.  At last they drew lots to find who the cause of it was.

Finally, Jonah’s name was drawn and after he admitted to them that he was running away from God; he agreed that they have him thrown out to the sea. Crying pardon to God, they threw Jonah into the sea and at once the storm calm down.  Seeing this, the sailors began to believe in the True God of Jonah, who created the land and sea, offering sacrifices and promised to serve Him.

Meanwhile, the Lord commanded a large fish to swallow Jonah and he was inside it for three days and nights.

From deep inside the fish, Jonah called out in distress to the Lord to save him; In his prayer he describes his present situation:

‘……threw me to the bottom of the sea.

The water came over me and choked me;

the sea has covered me completely

And seaweed was

wrapped round my head…

fear of being thrown to the bottom…

and I felt life was slipping by…’

Then God ordered the fish to spew Jonah up on the beach, and it did.

The moment he was on land, Jonah heard God’s voice repeating His earlier command, “Jonah, go to Nineveh, the great city and proclaim to the people, the message I have given you.”

 So at last, Jonah obeys God by starting out to Nineveh and proclaiming the message.  “In forty days Nineveh, will be destroyed!”

The people there and the king of Nineveh believed God’s message.  As a sign of repentance, the king took of his robe, left his throne, put on sack cloth and sat down in the ashes.  He then ordered and sent out a declaration that everyone, including cattle and sheep must wear sack cloth and was forbidden to eat or drink.  Pray to God earnestly and give up all wicked behavior and actions, perhaps God will change His mind, perhaps He will stop His anger and we will not die.

The Holy Bible says that God saw what they did; He saw that they had given up their wicked behavior.  So He changed His mind and did not punish them as He had said He would.  (Jonah 3:10)   Halleluiah!

Our God is full of love and mercy.  How enormous may be your wickedness and cruelty be, if you truly repent like the Nineveh citizen’s, giving up all pleasures and luxuries, your perishable throne and its fame, move downwards praying earnestly for God’s pardon by fasting and doing sin offerings, acts of mercy like feeding and clothing the needy ones, can change God’s anger to love, because He is our Creator who do not desire to punish us. 

So don’t lose heart, because of the opinion that God cannot tolerate you. Everything and everybody in this creation will forsake us but His everlasting love will never forsake us.. 

Jonah was greatly displeased and sulked at the Lord’s compassion and love.  He murmured to the Lord, “I knew this will happen and that is why I quickly fled to Tarshish.  I knew that You are a Loving and Merciful God always patient, always kind and always ready to change Your mind and not to punish.  

The Lord answered, “What right have you to be angry?”  (Jonah 4:4)

 He walked out and made a shelter of the East of city and sat in the shade waiting to see what is happening to Nineveh.  The Compassionate Lord made a plant to grow up over Jonah to give him more comfort.  Jonah was extremely pleased with it.  But at dawn the next day at God’s command a worm attacked the plant and it died.  After the sun rise, hot eastern wind was sent by God and Jonah was about to faint.

 Again Jonah got angry and said, “I am better off dead than alive.” 

God again taught a lesson to him and asked, “What right have you got to be angry about the plant?” 

He continued arguing with God….. With great patience the Lord explained to him, “You didn't do anything for that plant and you didn't make it grow—yet you feel sorry for it! How much more, then, should I have pity on Nineveh, that great city having more than 1,20,000 innocent children in it as well as their many animals!”

Dear ones in Christ, the Book of Jonah is a heart touching story of miraculous change of Nineveh citizens. It showcases Sovereign God’s Supremacy over all His creatures like the sea, earth etc; yet His gentleness and patience in bringing the disobedient and rigid Jonah to the fulfillment of His Saving Plan for Nineveh. Every time he runs off, from the call of God, he finds himself in trouble; yet the moment he is saved; his repentance lasts only till his self-respect is in question. Forgetting that he was saved by the same God whom he disobeyed, we find him arguing and questing when God would not carry out His threat on the repentant people.

 It is worth to meditate the message it conveys to us; do we run away from God’s Plan like Jonah or are we like the citizens of Nineveh who repented and accepted the message of Salvation.

(To be continued)

With love filled blessings

Your Sister in Christ

CHRISTEEN SECTION

DUTIES TO PARENTS

Children, listen to me; I am your father. Do what I tell you and you will be safe, for the Lord has given fathers authority over their children and given children the obligation to obey their mothers.  If you respect your father, you can make up for your sins, and if you honour your mother, you are earning great wealth.  If you respect your father, one day your own children will make you happy; the Lord will hear your prayers.  If you obey the Lord by honouring your father and making your mother happy, you will live a long life.  Obey your parents as if you were their slave.  Honour your father in everything you do and say, so that you may receive his blessings.  When parents give their blessings, they give strength to their children’s homes, but when they curse their children, they destroy the very foundations.

(Sir 3:1-9)

JEREMIAH QUESTIONS THE LORD

LORD, if I argued my case with You,

You would prove to be right.

Yet I must question You about matters of justice.

Why are wicked men so prosperous?

You plant them, and they take root;

they grow and bear fruit.

They always speak well of You,

yet they do not really care about You.

But, Lord, You know me; 

you see what I do,

and how I love you.

Drag these evil men away like sheep

 to be butchered;  

guard them until it is time for them

to be slaughtered.

How long will our land be dry,

and the grass in every field be withered?

Animals and birds are dying

because of the wickedness of our people,

people who say, ‘God doesn’t see

what we are doing.’ ”

The Lord said,

“Jeremiah, if you get tired racing against men,

how can you race against horses?

If you can’t even stand up in open country,

how  will you manage in the jungle of Jordan?

Even your brothers, members of your

own family, have betrayed you;

they join in the attacks against you,

Do not trust them, even though they

speak friendly words.”

The Lord’s sorrow because of His people

The LORD says,

“I have abandoned Israel; 

I have rejected My chosen nation.

I have given the people I love

into the power of their enemies.

My chosen people have turned against Me;

like a lion in the forest they have roared at Me,

and so I hate them.

My chosen people are like a bird

attacked from all sides by hawks.

Call the wild animals

to come and join in the feast!

Many foreign rulers have destroyed My vineyard;  

they have trampled down My fields;  

they have turned My lovely land into a desert.

They have made it a wilderness;  

it lies desolate before Me.

The whole land has become a desert,

and no one cares.

Across all desert highlands

men have come to plunder.

I have sent war to destroy

the entire land;

no one can live in peace.

My people sowed wheat, but gathered weeds;

they have worked hard, but got

nothing for it. Because of my fierce anger

their crops have failed.”

Jeremiah 12:1-13

RECONCILIATION

Part II

How wonderful it is, how pleasant, for God’s people to live together in harmony………that is where the Lord has promised His blessings – life that never ends.  (Psalms 133)

Click here for the earlier part.

When you accept God, you will be bestowed with the grace to accept yourself and your partner. The relationship given by God should not be broken.

But, aren't there numerous broken chords that ought to be tied?

 You may be a son or daughter not accepted by your father or mother or it could be that you would not have accepted them.   

It is time to seal the cracks that you have with your parents as it has erected an invisible wall between God and you. Unless you strive to correct it, you will observe a downfall in your life, resulting in you being a unsuccessful individual.

Remember God does not want to see His beloved children like this.

 The more arrogant, stubborn and delay in correcting yourself, your actions will result in many people’s tears which will reach to the Lord, who cannot close His eyes to injustice.

By the arrival of other generation, events turn out to be more serious.

That is why is it more vital to clear the issues as early as possible and be free from misery.

 God is very thorough with the correction of His children; and therefore He chose and sends prophets among the people to deliver His message.

There are also instances when God uses our little children as His tools to correct and reveal His teachings and will for us.

 When you observe that your child reacts to your advice adversely, instead of punishing and reprimanding them, turn to the Lord and ask forgiveness for your wrongdoing. Be humble and eager to correct yourself.

 The Holy Bible says, “The children are a gift from the Lord, they are a real blessing. The sons a man has when he is young are like arrows in a soldier’s hand.” (Psalms 127:3-4)

Some parents tend to be too casual when their little ones get mischievous; forgetting that if they are not corrected at the proper time, may turn out to be serious offenders in the future.

Every moment God is watching such parents and warning them.

It is time to bring changes in your behavior towards God and your child.

Break the walls that were build up because of you and your attitude, as the wicked world with its fast, foolish growth is awaiting to swallow your next generation for the reason that if you are the cause for it, it is truly terrible for you.  

Check and reconcile with all the relationships so as to bring up your child with God’s blessings. Accept Lord Jesus as your Spiritual Teacher, learn about Him and as parents spend time together with God, because Lord Jesus says, “I tell you more : whenever two of you on earth agree about anything you pray for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.”  (Matt 18:19) 

You have been trying this for many years, but in vain.  Why? 

Take a look back again, there could be much many more walls put up by you against your blessings.

Don’t think Sister is being too harsh with you.  Never! dear ones. I am a lady who sacrificed her family for the sake of the Gospel as per the Will of God to win families.

It is my responsibility to help you with true spiritual knowledge, so that families may be saved. By spreading the knowledge we would be able to help save each other, successfully defeating the cunning enemy. It is only for your peaceful future and for the salvation of your soul from the cruel foe fighting against out Heavenly Father, who is so full of pure love.

If you have ears, listen!

Let’s take a walk down the memory lane to the early days of your life. Engraved in your thoughts will be your home a dwelling of  your family— be it poor, middle class, or rich, orthodox consisting of grandparents, parents, siblings, other relatives etc. surrounded by good neighbors, teachers, friends, and other well wishers etc;

Where are they now? How are they doing? Are you in good terms with them ? Do you visit, help or console them often? Are they in good health or bedridden? Or are you bed ridden? Could be that some are leading a lifeless and meaningless life? Are they visiting you? Do you invite them or they keep inviting you? Deep in your heart are you cheerful when they reflect in your memory?

Where is the good Samaritan who helped you to progress in your life by bringing up your child? There are other few who emptied themselves by helping you and your siblings etc;

These are the few among the numerous questions God your Creator is raising over you!

God wants us to renew every relationship for the welfare of our descendants.

How can you forget the old home where you were born and lived with your siblings in limitations? In the absence of your parents, how you overcame the fear of the heavy thunderstorm by tightly holding your sibling. The meals she/ he fed you when in hunger, sat, cried and consoled you when sick in bed, the roads traveled without caring the distance, be it to school, church etc; games you played together; learning the initial lessons of sharing and caring for each other; the movies you watched together, etc;

If possible, put a pause to your busy life to recollect and reconcile with them to make a complete family tree to introduce them to your children, inviting them to take a dip in the blessings that God has showered over you.

Our Good Loving Father desires a unity like the Holy Trinity i.e. the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. A tri-chord will not break easily. So reconcile with yourself, parents, siblings, children etc and then soon God will bless you and your dream home.

Certainly it is not easy to reconcile and patch up the differences because evil has pierced through it. But the Lord Jesus who is the same yesterday, today and forever can penetrate into our past and remove the obstacles. Certain incidents may be fresh and cancerous.

You may deny all this, saying that you have nothing against them.

But analyze for yourself, if you are peace when alone? Is your soul safe in God’s hands? Are you content when you offer prayer and sacrifices? Are you able to present peace to your partner and children? Are you truly guilt free?

The Lord is giving an opportunity to recollect and repent truly for having forgetting them when life was greener on your side.

Let us make use of this opportunity to discard any miscommunication and reach out to our siblings and relatives, forgetting what so ever may be the reason we drifted apart.  

The greatest gift we can give each other is the ‘gift of prayer’.

The Holy Bible instructs us: “First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, requests and thanksgivings be offered to God for all people.” (1Timothy 2:1)

The Lord is always looking for someone who will to pray. As their names or any memory comes before you simply lift them to the Lord in prayer. Ask Him to help them and release His Power and Love on their behalf.

Talk to the Lord as you would to your dad.

“Father, I pray, please meet their needs, as Your heart desire be done.”

The best way to begin reconnecting is by lifting them in Prayer to the Father.

“You are the God who works miracles; You showed your might among the nations.” (Psalms 77:14)

Lord, grant me your blessing and let your light adorn and shine on my family tree.

With Love filled Blessings,

Your Sister in Christ

THE  FINAL JUDGEMENT

“Here on Mount Zion the Lord Almighty will prepare a banquet for all the nations of the world – a banquet of the richest food and the finest wine.  Here He will suddenly remove the cloud of sorrow that has been hanging over all the nations.”    (Isaiah 25:6-7)

“When the Son of Man comes as King and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His royal throne, and the people of all the nations will be gathered before Him.  Then He will divide them into two groups, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.  He will put the righteous people on His right and the others on His left.  Then the King will say to the people on His right, ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father!  Come and possess the kingdom which has been prepared for you ever since the creation of the world.  I was hungry and you fed Me, thirsty and you gave Me a drink; I was a stranger and you received Me in your homes, naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you took care of Me, in prison and you visited Me.’

The righteous will then answer Him, ‘When, Lord, did we ever see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You a drink?  When did we ever see You a stranger and welcome You in our homes, or naked and clothe You?  When did we ever see You sick or in prison, and visit You?  The King will reply, ‘I tell you, whenever you did this for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did it for Me!’

‘Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Away from me, you that are under God’s curse!  Away to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels!  I was hungry but you would not feed Me, thirsty but you would not give Me a drink; I was a stranger but you would not welcome Me in your homes, naked but you would not clothe Me; I was sick and in prison but you would not take care of Me.’

Then they will answer Him, ‘When, Lord, did we ever see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and would not help you?  The King will reply, ‘I tell you, whenever you refused to help one of these least important ones, you refused to help Me.’  

These, then, will be sent off to eternal punishment, but the righteous will got to eternal life.”

(Matthew 25 :31- 46)

COMMEMORATION OF THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED
“I am the Resurrection and the Life, whoever believes in Me will live.” (John 11: 25)

During some months ago, at the onset of my dawn worship around 4 am, the usual calm and peaceful surroundings was replaced by bitter cries. All I could hear was a girl’s loud moans. It echoed, “Papa, Papa.” Sometime later, news spread that her dad had died due to massive heart attack at their home. She was their only child born after nine long years.

The demise of a beloved one is always bitter and heart breaking.

When his son Absalom died, David moaned deeply, “O my son! My son Absalom! Absalom, my son! If only I had died in your place, my son! Absalom, my son!” (2 Samuel 18:33). 

Again when his friend, Jonathan died David wept saying “I grieve for you my brother Jonathan; how dear you were to me! How wonderful was your love for me, better even than the love of woman.”  (2 Samuel 1:26)

It is factual that we can no more see the face or experience the love of those who have left us. The very thought transports anguish and helplessness to us who are left behind.

At the same time one can neither prevent nor delay death which makes it all the more bitter.

For the Holy Bible says, “No one can keep himself from dying or put off the day of his death.  That is a battle we cannot escape; we cannot cheat our way out.”  (Eccl.. 8:8)

King David while conversing about death was not very sure where he would go after death. So he described it as the valley of deepest darkness.  Before the death of Christ Jesus, people had no clear picture of death and resurrection so they talked about it with bitterness. 

“In His life on earth Jesus made His prayers and requests with loud cries and tears to God, who could save Him from death.”  (Hebrews 5:7) 

Many times Lord Jesus told His disciples about His death.

“The sorrow in my heart is so great that it almost crushes me.” 

(Matthew 26:38) 

Lord Jesus moved with compassionate heart to those who were broken and desperate because He Himself was a victim of sorrows and rejection.  He gained courage and grace to overcome it through His fervent cries to His Father in Heaven.

Even before His death on the Cross, Lord Jesus told His disciples, “For I tell you that the Scripture which says, ‘He shared the fate of criminals’, must come true about Me, because what was written about Me is coming true.”  (Luke 22:37) 

He bore His sufferings patiently and might have reported to the Father that He had finished experiencing death on the cross as well.  So Lord Jesus told His Father, “Father I have fulfilled all that You commanded me to do on earth even the last – the death on the cross.”

By raising His friend Lazarus from the dead, Jesus demonstrated to the world that God has given Him the authority to raise the dead and through that the people on earth may not have the wrong belief that their lives ends with death. 

The Holy Bible says, “Listen to this secret truth: we shall not all die, but when the last trumpet sounds, we shall all be changed in an instant as quickly as the blinking of an eye.  For when the trumpet sounds the dead will be raised, never to die again and we shall all be changed.”  (1 Cor. 15 : 51-52)

From the above said holy verses we might know the truth about what will happen at the end of the world.  There is a life after death - the true life in eternal.  

The graveyard is the altar of each body to be adorned for the resurrection.

When a righteous man’s body dissolves in the dust, the soul will join its Owner -that is God Almighty; that is called Eternal Life.   “He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases.  He keeps me from the grave and blesses me with love and mercy.”  (Ps 103)  

And again Christ Jesus says, “I am telling you the truth, whoever hears My words and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life, he will not be judged but has already – passed from death to life.”  (John 5 : 24)

But overlooking the life after death,  just to enjoy this worldly life, denying God’s commandments and when you die, the soul will join its owner, that is the Devil – that is life in eternal abyss (hell). 

After the death of a devotee of Christ, still the soul needs purification because God cannot accept the soul until it is fully holy.  So the soul is sent for purification in the place called ‘purgatory’.  Once the souls leave this world they cannot help themselves in their purification.  That is why the Holy Bible teaches and urges us to offer mass, sacrificial prayers, fasting, abstinence, almsgiving, acts of mercy, etc. on behalf of the poor departed souls. 

However some take it in a very casual manner and ignore to pray for the departed souls of their loved ones.  It is our responsibility to save the souls in purgatory.  There are many families suffering with various misfortunes, hereditary disorders, sicknesses, and lack of prosperity, accidents and unhappiness with reasons unknown.  If such hardships and brokenness is troubling you then surely a cry of a departed soul is behind it. 

We are the only mediators given by God to comfort the departed souls and help them to attain eternal life.  Christian love is a covenant relation, which exists even after this earthly life.  The sacrificial sin offerings and prayers done for departed souls especially on ‘commemoration day of the faithful departed’ (i.e. 2^nd November) are precious in the sight of God.  If you will save even one soul, that soul will pray for you and save you from all adversities here as well as the soul will assist you in your death bed and your soul will be safe. 

The Holy Bible says about the destiny of the righteous.   “But righteous people are protected by God and will never suffer torment.  It is a foolish mistake to think that righteous people die and their death is a terrible death.  They leave us but it is not a disaster.  In fact righteous are at peace.  They have suffered punishment but they have the confident hope of immortality.”  (Wisdom 3)

So let us prepare ourselves to welcome the month of November which is dedicated for the departed souls. It is a noble thing to do sin offerings to save souls, as God wishes that everyone be saved.

 “Do not be worried and upset,” Jesus told them, “Believe in God and believe also in Me.  There are many rooms in my Father’s house.  I am going to prepare a place for you….. I will come back and take you to Myself so you will be where I am.”  (John 14)  

Let us commit our deeds and prayers to save the souls in purgatory awaiting the Mercy of Eternal Father. 

Can you imagine the pain of a father who spent all what he had to build a home for his child receiving the news that he is dead and no more to enjoy that joy of living in that home?   So let us pray for our co-brothers that the perpetual light may shine upon them and may their souls enjoy the eternal life in Father’s home. So that none of the rooms in our Almighty God’s home would remain vacant.

Here is a powerful prayer for souls in purgatory.  (Our Lord told St. Gertrude the Great that the following prayer would release 1000 souls from purgatory each time it is said.  The prayer was extended to include living sinners as well)

Prayer

Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus in union with the masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family.  Amen.   

(You may learn the prayer by heart or keep it in your wallet. I request you to join us in reciting the above prayer once a day at least throughout this month for the departed souls.)

With love filled blessings

Your Sister in Christ

Kindly Note:

As per the message from God of KLWC, our team will be conducting an in-house Night Vigil service from 11 pm (1/11/2015) to 6 am (2/11/2015)   Your Thanksgivings and Prayer Requests are welcome.

A READING FROM

THE BOOK OF REVELATION

“You have made us for Yourself O Lord and our heart is restless until it finds its

 rest in You.-St. Augustine

And I saw another angel coming up from the east with the seal of the Living God.  He called out in a loud voice to the four angels to whom God had given the power to damage the earth and the sea.  The angel said, “Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees, until we mark the servants of our God with a seal on their foreheads.”  And I was told that the number of those who were marked with God’s seal on their foreheads was 144,000. (Chapter 7:2-4)

After this I looked, and there was an enormous crowd – no one could count all the people!  They were from every race, tribe, nation, and language, and they stood in front of the throne and of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.  They called out in a loud voice: “Salvation comes from our God, who sits on the throne, and from the Lamb!”  All the angels stood round the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures.  Then they threw themselves face downwards in front of the throne and worshipped God, saying, “Amen! Praise, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might belong to our God forever and ever! Amen!”

One of the elders asked me, “Who are these people dressed in white robes, and where do they come from?”

“I don’t know, sir.  You do,” I answered.

He said to me, “These are the people who have come safely through the terrible persecution.  They have washed their robes and made them white with the blood of the Lamb….” (Chapter 7:9-14)

A prayer

Gracious Father in Heaven, we stretch our hands to You one minded and thank You so much for giving us various methods and helps to overcome the lust of our eyes, body and world.  With the communion of all saints today we plead to protect your children through the merits of your Son and our Redeemer Jesus Christ and make us worthy to meet you face to face.  

Give us the grace to imbibe the beatitudes of Jesus Christ to obtain You to reign in our hearts.  Grant us we pray Your gift of forgiveness and grace of acceptance as how we are in our present state to receive Your Kingdom here and above.  

Holy Trinity and Holy Family be our assistance forever.  Amen. 

Kindly Note:

As per the message from God of KLWC, our team will be conducting an in-house Night Vigil service from 11 pm (1/11/2015) to 6 am (2/11/2015)   Your Thanksgivings and Prayer Requests are welcome.