November 6, 2019

R. God gives us perfect love.

Love that gives for the glory
of God.

                Jesus showed us perfect
                    love in the bloodstained
                    cross.

Love gives for the glory of
God.

                The heart is filled with
                    light, purity and
                    love.

The cross shows us perfect
love –

Love in giving and doing
the will of God.

Love in emptying Himself
perfectly.

Philippians 2: 6-8

Who, being in the form of God,
did not count equality with God
something to be grasped.

But he emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
becoming as human beings are;
and being in every way
like a human being,
he was humbler yet,
even to accepting death,
death on a cross.

                R. He gave the last beat of
                    His Heart, the last
                    drop of His Blood.

This is perfect love.

Prayer for Union with Jesus

Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

    I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.

    I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.

    When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.

-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994

John 6: 22-58

The discourse in the synagogue at Capernaum

Next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side saw that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not got into the boat with his disciples, but that the disciples had set off by themselves. Other boats, however, had put in from Tiberias, near the place where the bread had been eaten. When the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into those boats and crossed to Capernaum to look for Jesus. When they found him on the other side, they said to him, 'Rabbi, when did you come here?' Jesus answered:

In all truth I tell you,
you are looking for me
not because you have seen the signs
but because you had all the bread
   you wanted to eat.
Do not work for food that goes bad,
but work for food
   that endures for eternal life,
which the Son of man will give you,
for on him the Father, God himself,
   has set his seal.

    Then they said to him, 'What must we do if we are to carry out God's work?' Jesus gave them this answer, 'This is carrying out God's work: you must believe in the one he has sent.' So they said, 'What sign will you yourself do, the sight of which will make us believe in you? What work will you do? Our fathers ate manna in the desert; as scripture says: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.' Jesus answered them:

In all truth I tell you,
it was not Moses
   who gave you the bread from heaven,
it is my Father
   who gives you the bread from heaven,
the true bread;
for the bread of God
is the bread
   which comes down from heaven
and gives life to the world.

'Sir,' they said, 'give us that bread always.' Jesus answered them:

I am the bread of life.
No one who comes to me will ever hunger;
no one who believes in me will ever thirst.
But, as I have told you,
you can see me and still you do not believe.
Everyone whom the Father gives me
   will come to me;
I will certainly not reject
anyone who comes to me,
because I have come from heaven,
not to do my own will,
but to do the will of him who sent me.
Now the will of him who sent me
is that I should lose nothing
of all that he has given to me,
but that I should raise it up
   on the last day.
It is my Father's will
that whoever sees the Son
   and believes in him
should have eternal life,
and that I should raise that person up
   on the last day.

    Meanwhile the Jews were complaining to each other about him, because he had said, 'I am the bread that has come down from heaven.' They were saying, 'Surely this is Jesus son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know. How can he now say, "I have come down from heaven?" ' Jesus said in reply to them, 'Stop complaining to each other.

'No one can come to me
unless drawn by the Father who sent me,
and I will raise that person up
   on the last day.
It is written in the prophets:
They will all be taught by God;
everyone who has listened to the Father,
and learnt from him,
comes to me.
Not that anybody has seen the Father,
except him who has his being from God:
he has seen the Father.
In all truth I tell you,
everyone who believes has eternal life.
I am the bread of life.
Your fathers ate manna in the desert
and they are dead;
but this is the bread
   which comes down from heaven,
so that a person may eat it and not die.
I am the living bread
   which has come down from heaven.
Anyone who eats this bread
   will live for ever;
and the bread that I shall give
is my flesh, for the life of the world.'

    Then the Jews started arguing among themselves, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?' Jesus replied to them:

In all truth I tell you,
if you do not eat
   the flesh of the Son of man
and drink his blood,
you have no life in you.
Anyone who does eat my flesh
   and drink my blood
has eternal life,
and I shall raise that person up
   on the last day.
For my flesh is real food
and my blood is real drink.
Whoever eats my flesh
   and drinks my blood
lives in me
and I live in that person.
As the living Father sent me
and I draw life from the Father,
so whoever eats me
   will also draw life from me.
This is the bread
   which has come down from heaven;
it is not like the bread our ancestors ate:
they are dead,
but anyone who eats this bread
   will live for ever.

John 16: 12-15

I still have many things to say to you
but they would be too much for you
    to bear now.
However, when the Spirit of truth comes
he will lead you to the complete truth,
since he will not be speaking
    of his own accord,
but will say only what he has been told;
and he will reveal to you
    the things to come.
He will glorify me,
since all he reveals to you
will be taken from what is mine.
Everything the Father has is mine;
that is why I said:
all he reveals to you
will be taken from what is mine.

John 6: 51-52

"'I am the living bread
which has come down from heaven.
Anyone who eats this bread
will live for ever;
and the bread that I shall give
is my flesh, for the life of the world.’

Then the Jews started arguing among themselves, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’

R. Fr. Joe teaches us about
love –

Help us reach the priest –

Help us with Blue Book 19.

Pray for this.

So Beautiful –

God's love is perfect!

We are to be so one
in love with God –

Jesus is the bridegroom
of our soul.

Satan wants us closed in
focused on ourselves.

Perfect love gives –

God gives perfect love!

Excerpts from Blue Book 19

A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.

April 1, 1998

This is a Spouse of the Lamb Entry

My Bridegroom,

I love You my Bridegroom, give us what we need to make Your light known on the earth, my Bridegroom. Please I plead from the depth of my soul for this, my Bridegroom, my Bridegroom, my Bridegroom. Please help us.

April 2, 1998

This is a Spouse of the Lamb Entry

My Bridegroom,

    The model is the all perfect heart of the woman clothed with the sun. Mary is the beauty, she is the pure and Immaculate one. This pew indeed is a gift, I have been close to Him in this pew. I thank You, for today, today I see the sun shine, tomorrow I may see a dark and cloudy day, today You have given me the gift of Your life within me. When I receive Him I receive His Body, His Blood, my desire to be most like Him. The desire of my heart is to be pure and holy like the Lady clothed with the sun. So today it is shining, this sun, in my heart, the Holy Spirit has filled me with His light and I can see into the dark corners of my heart as never before. I see the pride and the selfishness, I see that constant focus on the self. I see the selflessness of the Savior, Jesus. I see the woman clothed with the sun and she speaks, “Thy will be done.” I see Eve in the garden, Eve said, “My will be done.” I see Mary the New Eve, standing tall adorned in a crown of 12 stars and she speaks, “Thy will be done.” I see the angel and I see the handmaid of the Lord, the angel speaks, “Do not be afraid, Mary.” Mary says, “Not my will, but Thine be done.”

    Harmony you say, this will be the days of peace when the wills of men are conformed to the will of the Father.

    But let us look at the will. He commanded us to love God, love one another, yet we see the woman in the garden chose her own will. God gives us freely our will. He wants our love willingly. Would it be love if we were forced. He teaches us that love gives freely, He gives us our freedom.

    In no way is a person in the Shepherds of Christ Movement forced to stay. A child in a family is taught about God the Father’s will by the way the child is taught to obey the earthly father.

    A little family - our family.

    A bigger family - the family of God the Father, a life in the spirit in which we are children of God.

    Genesis 3: 20 The man called his wife Eve, because she became the mother of all the living.

    A physical mother, our mother, too, tainted by sin, we learn from our mother about God.

    Many families today, do not teach the ways of God. Many do not see what they should see.

    We see birds, we do not see the Creator. We watch the seeds increase and multiply. The Word must be planted in the hearts of men.

    Our job is to lead children to God. To bear fruit for the kingdom.

    We see the married couple, the olive plants about the table, we do not see the royal banquet, the Father’s table in which He feeds us the banquet for our souls the Body and Blood of Jesus.

    I say this to you my beloved brothers and sisters. We live in families with fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters but we do not see and learn about the kingdom of God. The Bible teaches us the plan of the Father.

    The Father is the Father of this family, we are one family living according to the Father's will. Our Mother is our heavenly Mother Mary, she is all pure and Immaculate.

    The rules given to live by are given in the ten Commandments and His Word.

        I am the Lord thy God thou shall not have any gods before Me.

        Remember thou shall keep holy the Sabbath day.

        Honor thy father and thy mother.

        “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it.” (Luke 8:21)