“For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.” 2 Cortinthians 4:17
This morning at Mass I had what I can only say was an experience of a Priest who I used to know who passed away several years ago. It is not the same Priest that I dreamt about in years past. This Priest, like the one in the dream, did not preach truth. He did not believe in hell. He advocated for gay marriage and contraception. There were many other things he did that I will not go into here. I will also not state his name publicly because though I feel what happened to me at Mass came from heaven, it is not for me to be telling people where souls have ended up. I am not God. I would ask though that you pray to God for this Priest. God knows his name and his grace covers the details.
So while I was at Mass this morning, during the consecration and Eucharistic prayers while praying with my eyes closed, I was very overwhelmed with the presence of this Priest, who I really had not thought about in a long time until yesterday. I could see him weeping. I knew he was in purgatory and at a very low level in purgatory. In fact, it felt like hell but I knew it was not. He was being made to witness the Passion of Christ. The scourging, the crowning with thorns, the crucifixion. Over and over, like a continuous loop from Holy Thursday to Good Friday. He wept and he wept. Wailing actually.
I asked the Lord what was happening and the response I received was this,” he did not speak rightly of me. I did not come to die and take away your sins so you could be taught to remain in sin.” I asked if my prayers for him would matter. “Yes, everything for me is grace and mercy. He won’t be released though until I say so.”
I knew that this Priest would be in hell if not for prayers for him specifically by those in authority and of the faithful, and of course for the mercy of God, which is unfathomable. I sensed this Priest would not be released from purgatory for a long while, though only God knows.
I believe I was shown this so people will pray. But I also believe I was shown this because our eternal salvation is not something to mess around with. Jesus meant what he said in scripture, no matter what the world tells you.
This particular suffering in purgatory makes sense to me for a Priest who defies teaching. The purification of his soul involves really understanding what Jesus went through to save us. This Priest did not really know who Jesus was and is. But now, in being made to watch the Passion, he does.
Take your salvation seriously and cooperate with God to be purified here. As the Saints tell us all the suffering here amounts to very little compared to a suffering soul in purgatory.
I cried at Mass today because of seeing this. It is excruciating to be separated from God. I have had Masses said for this Priests soul.
Please God, purify your people. Let us know you, love you and serve you in this life so we can be with you in the next.
Blessed is that slave whom his master will find at work when he arrives. Truly I tell you, he will put that one in charge of all his possessions. But if that slave says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and if he begins to beat the other slaves, men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in pieces,and put him with the unfaithful. That slave who knew what his master wanted, but did not prepare himself or do what was wanted, will receive a severe beating. But the one who did not know and did what deserved a beating will receive a light beating. From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded. Luke 12:43-48
when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. Isaiah 43:2
On March 23, 2026 I went to the Cathedral to spend time in prayer and go to Mass. Three times in my prayer I heard, “war is coming”. I did not feel afraid, nor did I know exactly what it meant, except for a change in what is now. Of course, a cursory glance of the headlines and it doesn’t take a prophet to see this could be on the horizon. But I sensed this is more than just physical, it is the war for our souls that happens inside of us, and I sensed the need to pray for perseverance and pray for our loved ones. But I also felt a great sense of hope and of peace.
I went to the chapel today. I wrote down what I felt the Lord say to me. If what I have written the church says is wrong, then the church is correct and I am wrong.
April 7, 2026
Beloved Lily of the Father,
Burning but not consumed. I can alter the laws of nature. When you try to alter the laws of nature the fire consumes you, burning from the inside out because you make a god of yourself. A nuclear meltdown. When you humbly surrender to ME there is no meltdown. I AM overwhelming fire that does not consume you, I divinize you. For in everything, I glorify my people. I help them in all times and all places. War is coming. Do not be afraid. These things must come because man tries to glorify himself. My hand will protect my people. My people will pass through as one nation – the Kingdom of God is at hand. Do not be afraid, you were chosen for these times. Be at peace. It comes from within where you dwell in My will. Do not let anxious thoughts take you where I AM not going. Be with me Now. Loving. Believing. Persevering. Nothing is impossible with ME.
And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For it is the gentiles who seek all these things, and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God[ and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
“So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today. Mtthew 6:28-33
On Saturday evening March 7, 2026, I went to the Vigil Mass. As I entered into Mass, I had a lot on my mind. I was troubled by the news of war in Iran and the prophecies of World War III. My heart was heavy and I prayed to the Lord to let him know.
As the consecration came, I was overwhelmed by a sense of profound peace and gratitude. The sense I got from the Lord was that there is nothing to be afraid of and that His grace really is enough. I sensed too that God wants us to stop relying on ourselves so much. We try and try to plan and think of future possibilities and this actually blocks us from relying totally on Him. When it comes to planning we need to listen to what He is telling us and not to the noise of the world. He showed me Blessed Alexandra Maria Da Costa. She is a Saint who subsisted on the Eucharist alone without any other food or water. It was not lost on me that the reading was the woman at the well.
but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.” John 4:14-15
Though for most of us this is a Spiritual Truth of baptism, for Alexandra, it was literally true. He really is enough. That is what I felt. I recorded in my journal what I felt God speaking to me. If the church says what I have written is wrong, then the church is correct and I am not. Know that as you discern.
March 7, 2026
Beloved Lily of the Father,
There is so much fear in the world. Do you not know that you have nothing to be afraid of? You cannot be defiled by things on the outside, it is what is in your heart that can defile or sanctify. Therefore, set your eyes always on me. You do not think enough of me. I can sustain you. You need nothing but me. Do not cling to your worldly ways, but surrender all that you are and all that you have to me and you will be in need of nothing because you will have everything of me. You will have your inheritance. A wellspring of living water welling up inside of you, the font of life. You will not hunger or thirst.
You look around and see darkness and evil. I make all things transparent. These things must come. Let them draw you nearer and nearer to me. Never doubt my goodness.
I am preparing you for a New Pentecost. You will do greater things because you will be in my will. Every kind of fruit tree will grow, the leaves will not wither, nor the fruit fail, because you are to be perfected in love. You are a temple. The temple houses me. You are a sanctuary, the river of life flows out. A wellspring of eternal life. Do not be afraid. I say again, do not be afraid. Eat from the tree of life and live. You have been chosen for these times.
“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.” – James 1:2-4
I am currently enrolled in a class to finally finish up my certification in Spiritual Direction through Avila Institute and Heart of Christ. It has taken me longer than I ever thought because I had to take a break from the classes when I was caring for my parents. God willing, I will be done in June.
The class focuses a lot on Ignatian teaching, combined with Carmelite teaching and it has been very helpful. Over the past several weeks we have been studying what Saint Ignatius said about discernment in decision making and he speaks about something called “the principle and foundation.” This is the opening of his Spiritual Exercises, and if you don’t have this down, it becomes very difficult to discern the will of God. The principle and foundation says this;
Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. All other things on the face of the earth are created for man, to help him attain the end for which he is created. From this follows that we must use created things insofar as they help us toward our end, and free ourselves from them insofar as they hinder us. Therefore, we should make ourselves indifferent to created things…so that we desire and choose only what is more conducive to the end for which we are created.
This means we should not desire wealth over poverty, health over sickness, honor or dishonor, long life or short, but we should only desire that which helps us praise reverence and serve God our Lord. It is called Holy Indifference and it doesn’t mean we are cold and unemotional, it simply means that the most important thing to us is what brings us closer to God. All else is an attachment that is not of God. We are to work on purifying ourselves of attachment. When we have the principle and foundation down, we are in the will of God.
I have pondered this often in my own life, particularly when I felt one path was better than another and I found out the Lord thought differently. I was attached to something he didn’t want for me. Often the thing I was attached to stroked my pride and ego. I pray to be purified of that.
This class coupled with a conversation I had with a friend about an immense suffering in doing ministry made me take all of it to prayer. And I felt the Lord speak to me about purgatory. If what I write the church says is wrong, then know the church is correct and I am not. I write as if the Lord is speaking to me based on what pops in my head in prayer. This is what I felt was being said about purgatory.
February 6, 2026
Beloved Lily of the Father,
Sin has consequences and though your sin is forgiven when you repent and confess the temporal punishment remains. This is the spiritual consequence of the sin committed, the repair to be made. Heaven has no need of repair. Heaven has no attachments other than to me. The temporal punishment means “in time”, so it is tied to the earth and the created things. While purgatory is a process of purification, it takes place in time and space. It is not in eternity. The consequences are tied to earth and to time and space because that’s where the sin and the spiritual repercussions took place. Gravity slows down time, purgatory is in the center of the earth where time is slower and the sense of it gets lost.
You can live your purgatory on earth while alive – body and soul together – by loving in the middle of the sin and the consequences of sin. Often, you feel separated from me, but the more you learn to rely on me, the more you love. I AM love. It is far better to suffer on earth than to feel those consequences after you die because that feels like hell but isn’t. The separation you feel now, is small in comparison to the separation you feel after you die, but your love becomes perfected which is why the suffering is so immense because you know what you’re separated from.
You cannot merit grace on your own because all grace is from Me. But you do merit by participation with me. When you resist concupiscence, endure suffering and choose love when it costs something, there is real spiritual fruit I attach and that is what you merit. Your actions and your participation mean something. Your choices matter.
If you die imperfectly attached to something not of me, you learn what real separation feels like and you work out those consequences in time and space surrounded by what you once knew, feeling the effects of the needed repair.
There is so much more that you do not see and do not know. But the earth is affected by all of this. The earth is affected by sin, the earth is affected by Godliness. All things are connected.
Participate in your purification now. Be detached from your lowly desires and attached to heavenly desires. You’ll fly to heaven when you accept and do not battle against My Will.
Pray for the souls in purgatory. It is a great sorrow for those who have no one to pray for them.
Therefore, he had this expiatory sacrifice offered for the dead so that they might be delivered from their sin. 2 Macabees 12:46
This painting by Edith Pons known as the Triumph of Saint Michael won honorable mention in the Catholic Art Institute Sacred Art Prize. It took my breath away. Please remember our Scared Artists and those who promote Sacred Art.
For rebellion is no less a sin than divination, and stubbornness is like iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.” 1 Samuel 15:23
Over the past several weeks in the daily Masses we have been reading about the first King of Israel, King Saul. We learn that Saul wasn’t a very good King. Before David ever even enters the picture, Saul is in rebellion against God’s commands. We see in the book of Samuel God gave a command to destroy the Amalekites and all the spoils. Saul does not obey, spares the Amalekite King and takes the spoils to “sacrifice to the Lord.” And here we learn;
rebellion is no less a sin than divination.
Rebellion is equivalent to witchcraft, rebellion against God is the same as seeking insight, knowledge and practicing occult. These things seem to go hand in hand. All these things are an effort to control, which really leads to things being out of control. Over and over we think we can control things and save ourselves. Over and over when we don’t turn to God, we get humbled by chaos and fear. When we disobey the commands of God, discord becomes our way of life. Discord is a spirit.
We see later, in Saul’s jealousy and murderousness towards David, that discord has taken over his heart. David on the other hand keeps his eyes on the Lord and spares Saul, even though in human terms it wouldn’t make sense to do so. David is not in rebellion. Even though David is a sinner, he is quick to repent and gentle of heart. A man after God’s own heart.
All of these things make me think of America today. How much of what we see happening is a rebellion against Gods commands and an effort to control. A discord has taken over and along with discord comes lies. It’s as if a demon stands between people like a fun house mirror distorting perception and causing division. Lies of misperception are constantly spewed and demons latch onto the words spewed out carrying discord to each ear that will hear. This is a Principality. Law and order go by the wayside and a stronghold overtakes certain geographical areas. Hatred is fomented.
Last night I dreamt about the movie the Blair Witch Project. It was a movie from the late 90’s. The kids in the movie go in search of the Blair witch. To do something like this is an act of rebellion. We should always go in search of God, not in search of witches. Though I never watched the whole movie, nor do I want to, my understanding is that the kids start to mistrust one another. This is what the spirit of Discord does. This mistrust is cultivated into a frenzy, a frenzy fear feeds, and bad decision after bad decision is made. This is because the mistrust that Discord causes focuses on evil.
When we distrust everyone and everything, we are focusing on knowledge of evil. This knowledge of evil, grasped when we’re not aligned properly with God leads us to judge souls, and have hatred in our hearts about our fellow man. It is why Adam and Eve who grasped at the tree of knowledge of good and evil before God offered it, fell so hard. They weren’t in a place of maturity to repent and ask for mercy. A heart that is not mature cannot handle it. A heart that doesn’t fully know the goodness of God runs with the evil straight into the pit. As it gains knowledge of evil it loses focus on the knowledge of the goodness of God.
Conversely, the one who is in right relationship with God, who does not rebel, who obeys even when it’s difficult, has a mature heart. In fact, this kind of heart has the Holy Spirit. While the Spirit brings peace and joy, that is not the only nor even primary mission of the Holy Spirit;
And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. John 16:8-11
Did you catch that? The Holy Spirit comes to convict. This means He comes to correct you. He will show you your own sin and how it has harmed the church, that is, harmed your relationship with God and in turn harmed other people. He will show that Jesus is the way. He will show who is the judge. He lets you know who is in control and it is not you. He will show you how demons distorted your vision.
Much of the lies and distortions we are seeing and reading today are distractions meant to make you keep your eyes on a storm rather than on the Keeper of the storm, Jesus Christ Himself. If you allow your soul to focus only on the evil you will eventually rebel. You will think you have some secret knowledge that perhaps others don’t know. And you won’t see that you have been distracted and it will blindside you. You will find yourself trying to control through human means that which only God can set right. You will find yourself in the way of the Holy Spirit. Because of your knowledge of evil you will try to save yourself.
I often ponder the confidence of the prophet Elijah. He walked into the worst of situations, yet his focus was on how good God is. His focus was on the knowledge of the goodness of God. And this focus called down fire on the gods of Baal. Do you realize how fearless he had to be? This too can be said of David. Scripture this past week told us;
As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. 1 Samuel 48
David ran quickly towards Goliath… my Lord and my God, that is complete confidence in you. That is total focus on your goodness. That is perfect love of you that has cast out fear even in the face of the knowledge of the evil confronting you. It wasn’t that David wasn’t a sinner, it was that David completely knew who God was and is and who he was in light of that. That is why David was a man after God’s heart. David’s mistrust of others did not keep Him from obeying God and being confident in him. David was laser focused.
Both Elijah and David had time to listen to God. In the stillness and the quiet. There were no 24 hour news reels, no cellphones, no TikTok or Instagram.
I urge you brothers and sisters to turn off the noise and listen in the stillness. Ask, no beg, the Holy Spirit to convict you, and when He does don’t justify, just humbly submit. And remember how good God is. He can shut the mouths of lions. He can send angels to minister to arrow wounds. He can make the sun spin and dry out the wettest of rain. The opposite of rebellion is obedience. A word most of us don’t like. Ponder it though. It is the thing that will help save your soul.
This is an AI image of what I saw in my prayer at Mass on January 6, 2026. While I really don’t like AI art because it steals from the human artists whose ability to create is heaven given, this was a helpful tool to show what it was that I saw.
While at Mass on January 6, normally the Feast of the Epiphany, I saw an image in my head in prayer that resembles closely the one above that AI created when I described what I saw.
As this image came over me, I seemed to have this understanding that I want to try to relay. The image was relaying to me a truth about Mary and the Church.
There is but one mediator between God and man and that is Christ Jesus. Christ brought forth the perfect satisfaction to atone for our sins, to atone for the fall, which had infinitely offended because God is infinitely good. This infinite gap, this distance between God and man, was reconciled because He is true God – which is what was needed to atone for the sin, and true man – so it atones for all of mankind.
But there was a pathway God chose to take to bring this reconciliation to us and that pathway was through the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She was made immaculate by God through the prevenient grace of the Cross. But from the beginning of her existence, she prepared her heart and her soul to be receptive. A long mediation. The first place God came to on earth was the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary. That is actually where the incarnation took place. The Incarnation was inside of her. He became flesh inside of her. Bone of her bone and flesh of her flesh. God was so in her, both spiritually and physically, she gave birth to Him. God did not give Himself more fully to anyone but her. She mediated for God and man; not the same way Christ did, but she was part of the plan. The plan is all God’s design. The execution of the plan required her free will consent. Her role – to point us to Him and His glory.
We humans look at things through the lens of competition as if when one good thing happens for one person, it takes something away from another. This is a deficient ungodly view. God’s view is very different. It is not a competition for God, who IS love. Because God IS love he shares His love with all His creatures. He elevates. And no one was more elevated by God than the Blessed Virgin Mary, so much so, she is given a share in His mediation. She is the pathway through which God became Man. God shares His gifts. God shares Himself. Even the Saints become mini-mediators when they spread the good news of the Gospel. It isn’t complicated to understand.
And too, the Blessed Virgin Mary represents the Church. The graces of the Sacraments, the graces of the Eucharist, come through the church, so in this sense the Church is mediating between God and man as well. This is the image I saw. I saw grace from God flowing through Mary and flowing through the church. Mary far surpasses any creature, she gave birth to the one who as the second person of the Blessed Trinity holds the universe in existence. The Church, whom she is Mother of, brings the sanctifying grace to God’s people. The Holy Spirit brings Jesus down in the Consecration, but the church is the place where this happens. God wants to share His glory with His people. He isn’t a glory hoarder.
There’s a passage in the book of Zephaniah that says;
The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing as on a day of festival. Zephaniah 3:17
This is the only passage in the bible where God sings. The passage is about Jerusalem. Mary is the new Jerusalem. She is the City on a Hill. I imagine when she was assumed into heaven God was singing.
God wants to give us a share of her Immaculate Conception, so through the grace the church provides in Christ, one day we will experience the Resurrection of the Body and there will be no more tears. This is why I have repeatedly said, Consecration to Jesus through Mary is a wonderful thing. Consecration to the whole Holy Family is a wonderful thing. We can be mini-mediators and know the glory of God.
In these times of chaos, look up, and believe in the power and glory of God like Mary did.
“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14
I went to the Carmel Center in Liberty TN to give a talk and while I was there we prayed a Patriotic Rosary. I thought I would share it here with you.
THE PATRIOTIC ROSARY FOR THE CONSECRATION OF OUR NATION
Make the Sign of the Cross
For the Conversion of the Nation’s Capital: Apostles Creed
For the Holy Father: Our Father
For Bishops, Priests, Deacons and Religious: Three Hail Mary’s
For the Conversion of our Country: Glory Be
(Mysteries- Joyful on Monday and Saturday, Sorrowful on Friday and Tuesday, Luminous on Thursday and Glorious on Sunday and Wednesday)
The First Mystery
For the Presidency of the United States
Our Father
Before EACH Hail Mary state: “We plead the Blood of Jesus over (name the state) and every soul in that state.”
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
For the Conversion of our Country: Glory Be, O’ My Jesus (Fatima Prayer)
The Second Mystery
For the Supreme Court of the United States of America
Our Father
Before EACH Hail Mary state: “We plead the Blood of Jesus over (name the state) and every soul in that state.”
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
For the Conversion of our Country: Glory Be, O’ My Jesus (Fatima Prayer)
The Third Mystery
For the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America
Before EACH Hail Mary state: “We plead the Blood of Jesus over (name the state) and every soul in that state.”
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
For the Conversion of our Country: Glory Be, O’ My Jesus (Fatima Prayer)
The Fourth Mystery
For the Office of the Governors of the United States of America
Before EACH Hail Mary state: “We plead the Blood of Jesus over (name the state) and every soul in that state.”
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
For the Conversion of our Country: Glory Be, O’ My Jesus (Fatima Prayer)
The Fifth Mystery
For All county, city, board of education and municipal offices of the United States of America
Before EACH Hail Mary state: “We plead the Blood of Jesus over (name the state) and every soul in that state.”
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virgina
Wisconsin
Wyoming
For the Conversion of our Country: Glory Be, O’ My Jesus (Fatima Prayer)
Closing Prayers
Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
V. Let us pray,
R. O God, whose only begotten Son, by His life, death, and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal salvation. Grant, we beseech Thee, that while meditating on these mysteries of the most holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that we may both imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise, through Christ our Lord. Amen.
And may the Divine Assistance remain always with us and may the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen.
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
“Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” Ephesians 5:14
I gave a talk today at the Carmel Center in Liberty, TN. Though many of you have heard my story, I do speak about some current events in this talk as well.
Additionally, the Carmel Center prays a Patriotic Rosary. I will be posting that in the next few days. It is a very powerful Rosary for our country.
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. Genesis 2:15
The other day I was praying for my children the usual prayers I pray for them. I pray for them to be holy and happy. I pray for them to have transforming union with God. I pray that if their vocation is marriage that they have holy and happy spouses and that if it is religious life it will be made clear to them. And because of the culture we live in I also pray in Jesus’ name against evil spirits coming after them, particularly the spirits of rejection, abandonment, rebellion, addiction, never, murder, anxiety and depression – spirits I see so prevalently in the world.
As I was praying I had the thought, “I wonder if this matters.” A little creep of doubt about whether my daily prayers matter. And as quickly as I had the thought (perhaps a fiery dart), I had an answer, “you are keeping the garden.” And I knew in a most humble and small way I was actually doing what Adam did not. I was praying for our hearts to be guarded against the serpent entering. And it absolutely matters.
I began to think of all the things that Jesus taught and said about prayer.
He taught us to pray with persistence.
Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my accuser.’ For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.’ ”And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” Luke 18:1-8
That last line always gives me pause – “And yet when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
Lord, under no circumstances may I tire of prayer and under no circumstances may I lose faith in your goodness.
He taught us to pray with humility.
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all my income.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven but was beating his breast and saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his home justified rather than the other, for all who exalt themselves will be humbled, but all who humble themselves will be exalted.” Luke 18:9-14
Lord, let me see others with your eyes. May I not Lord myself over another.
He taught us to pray in solitude.
Meanwhile, he would slip away to deserted places and pray. Luke 5:16
Lord, may I seek you everyday and may you come into the most hidden places of my heart.
He taught us to pray in faith.
So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. Mark 11:24
Lord, you made me for these times, help me in my daily life to love like you love.
He taught us to pray for forgiveness.
Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. Mark 11:25
Lord, help me forgive those who have hurt me. Lord help me to forgive myself. Be merciful on me a sinner.
He taught us to pray for deliverance.
Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me, yet not my will but yours be done. Luke 22:42
and deliver us from evil Matthew 6:13
Lord, deliver me from evil. Thy will be done.
He taught us to pray for strength and to stand firm.
Be alert at all times, praying that you may have the strength to escape all these things that will take place and to stand before the Son of Man. Luke 21:36
Lord, let me keep my eyes on heaven and not let the suffering of this world bring me to despair.
He taught us to pray for help in the mission of the Kingdom.
therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Matthew 9:38
Lord, send us help in the fight for your Kingdom.
He taught us to pray for our enemies and persecutors.
But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you Matthew 5:44
Lord, help me to pray for those who despise me and who have harmed me. May they be converted and come to know you fully.
He taught us to pray in His name.
I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If in my name you ask me[a] for anything, I will do it. John 14:13-14
Lord Jesus, in your holy name, I ask that you make me a Saint.
He taught us the High Priestly prayer.
Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do. 5 So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.
“I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me is from you, for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I have been glorified in them. And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.[d]14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.
“I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
“Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them and I in them.”
Father, may I be one with you as Jesus and you are one.
I pray all these things as Jesus taught us, just as he taught us the Our Father in order that I may keep the garden of my heart and help the hearts of those around me. My my sin be taken to the Garden of Gethsemane. May my heart be restored to the Garden of Eden.
Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; abstain from every form of evil. 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22
I have told you that God has been relatively silent for awhile, but this day was different. I was praying a Rosary and I received a word in prayer. “Pray it will not be winter.”
That was it. That was all that was said to me in my prayer. I recognized it from scripture.
The whole passage states;
So when you see the desolating sacrilege, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains; the one on the housetop must not go down to take things from the house; the one in the field must not turn back to get a coat. Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days! Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. For at that time there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved, but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look! Here is the Messiah!’ or ‘There he is!’—do not believe it. For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and produce great signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. Take note, I have told you beforehand. So, if they say to you, ‘Look! He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look! He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Wherever the corpse is, there the eagles will gather. Matthew 24:15-28
I don’t really know exactly what all this means, except I feel we must do as Jesus commanded in scripture. And I felt it important enough to tell you.
I am not an eschatologist, nor do I proport to know timelines of events. I only know what I heard in prayer and that it matches something in scripture that Jesus told us to do. So for me, I will pray that our flight may not be in winter or on a sabbath. Prayer changes things.
Veil of Veronica 