Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing        

June 5, 2016

June 6th Holy Spirit Novena
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                June 5, 2016
 

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.

 

                R. Emotions must be disciplined, like fear,
                if not properly disciplined can cause great disorders.
                Dear God, please help us to work in a pure
                spirit to do what is Your will for us.

                    Faith lifts a man up. A man can
                seek pleasures in things below him.

                    Faith helps a man have the vision
                of God. Man has to have as his
                goal on happiness found in God.

                Dear Jesus,

                    Please help us to pray for the priests, the Church
                and the world with great love for them. We want
                the world to be as You want it to be – living
                by Your commandments.

                    We are praying for healing and for help, Jesus,
                with this mission to spread the devotion to
                the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart. We ask
                for Your grace in everything we do.

                Jesus: My child – you have experienced very many
                trials, but have been given the opportunity
                to learn many more things you never knew
                before.

                    I am teaching you the love of My Sacred Heart.
                What you know of love is not all there is to know.
                Love in the heart is very deep, you weigh so
                many things by your vision which is still
                imperfect. You do not understand all you
                need to see. I am teaching you the ways
                of My Heart.

                    There is such a difference between a man
                being disconnected from their heart and
                trying to think their way through life. Thinking,
                rationalizing, trying to measure through
                imperfect eyes coupled with insecurities,
                pride, trying to get ahead, fears, comfort
                zones is keeping many men from really
                being free and loving, of living as I operate
                in them. Many men operate
                without their heart – having so many fears
                that are bad habits, why they are not free
                to really do what I ask of them – to live
                their vocation in love.

                The mind can be a trap door – A man can have
                so many fears – he tells himself – want his
                comfort zone being alone – that he closes
                in so tight he doesn't operate as he
                should – according to the heavenly Father's
                will.

                    I am with you. God dwell in your graced
                baptized soul. You must pray to the Holy Spirit
                to enlighten you – to know, to understand,
                to have wisdom, to love and respect God
                as you should. You must pray to the
                Holy Spirit to know your place. To know your
                place under God. To respect authority –
                to live in the proper order under God.

                    A man so focused on his head can leave
                out his heart entirely the more he keeps
                disconnecting from Me in control, in
                fear, in manipulation, in being shut
                down and living wounded and not healing.

                    The key is to see yourself as you
                really are. You are imperfect and you
                must recognize how you truly are –

                    No man is an island. You are here to learn
                to give and take, to work with your fellows,
                to love your neighbor as yourself and in
                that there may be great suffering, but love
                is abounding in your heart.

                    You operate to bear witness to God who
                lives in you and operates in you – You
                live to serve God, as God wants you to
                be – You are open to the Holy Spirit working
                in your life, guiding you, healing you,
                filling you with grace to love and to
                operate in love as the Holy Spirit moves and
                operates in you.

                    Say this: Dear Holy Spirit, come and possess
                my soul, fill me with Your healing grace,
                help me in every action I do today – to be Your
                instrument of love in the world. Help me
                to see through the eyes of God the Father,
                to really live and love and give of myself,
                as a witness to God. Help me never to give
                into bad habits that thwart my
                growth in the spiritual life. Fill my
                heart with love and help me not to be afraid
                or a coward about doing what God wants
                me to do. Help me to have courage and
                vision – as God imparts to me the grace
                to see through the eyes of the heavenly
                Father – to do the will of the heavenly
                Father – to dare to love – to give in love
                and not count the cost. Holy Spirit I love Thee –
                Be the guest of my soul – operate in me.
                Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my
                trust in Thee –

                When fear begins in my heart – I put
                my heart in the Heart of Jesus.

                I ask Mary, my Mother to take my heart
                deeply in His Heart –

                I ask Mary, my Mother to protect me and
                    love me, as my heavenly Mother and
                    Mother at my side.

                I am not alone –

                I am sheltered under the mantle of Mary.

                My biggest problem can be my fearful
                    thoughts, bad habits in thinking
                    that needs to change –

                My thinking can be so paralyzing that I do not
                    do what God is asking of me because
                    of fearful thoughts – when there is
                    no cause for these thoughts – only
                    bad habits of thinking coming from
                    fear and control.

                R. Dear God help me to know Your Might at
                    work in me, now, washing the slate
                    clean of old bad habits in
                    thinking – so I will operate as I
                    need to –
                    in the difficult with courage –
                    in the indecision with the wisdom of God –
                    to be in the right place, at the right time –
                    to see – where before I may have been
                    blinded by fear and self-enclosure.

                Dear God, I report for your work – with
                    a holy heart rooted in the Heart of
                    Jesus. Give me Your love, come and
                    possess my soul that I can
                    operate without the paralyzing
                    fear that can work in me to hold me
                    back from what You are asking me
                    to do.

                Jesus: At first when you walk in a place
                    that is unknown you ask –
                    Where am I and what is next,
                    but as you become more familiar,
                    letting go and letting God – the
                    unfamiliar is the path you travel
                    with greater ease because you are
                    led by the hand of God.

                Let go of the bad, fearful ways of thinking
                    that paralyze you in thought –

                Listen to those who I have sent to direct
                    you, work in love to be transformed.

                A big plastic spoon was planted in a
                     garden –
                    5 years later it was still there and it
                        didn't change –

                    10 years later it was still there and it
                        didn't change –

                You see now a seed was planted in the
                    same garden and it was watered
                    by the rain and –
                the light helped it to grow as the sun shown
                    brightly on it –

                And 5 years later – there was a small
                    tree, that gave shade and beauty
                    in the garden

                And 10 years later it had grown in
                    such beauty and it bore
                    fruit and flowered before the
                    fruit –
                    It was a delight to the eyes and
                    the birds of the air came to
                    rest there and build a nest –

                Are you like the stiff plastic spoon – that
                    finds its place and never changes –
                    inactive and sterile?

                Are you like the seed planted in the garden,
                    full of life, growing
                    and bearing fruit?

                The man who lives his life to be sterile
                    doesn't live at all –
                    he sets his path, works alone,
                    makes a pattern and just looks
                    for a place to settle and . . .

                Why would you quit working with
                    others I send you –
                    and why would you box-up your
                        heart –

                You are to grow – to live – to witness –
                    to be alive –
                    not like a plastic spoon – boxed
                    and never changing –

                You are to grow more and more in My
                    image and likeness –

                I am love –

1 John 4:17-21

Love comes to its perfection in us when we can face the Day of Judgement fearlessly, because even in this world we have become as he is. In love there is no room for fear, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear implies punishment and no one who is afraid has come to perfection in love. Let us love, then, because he first loved us. Anyone who says 'I love God' and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen. Indeed this is the commandment we have received from him, that whoever loves God, must also love his brother.

 

                R. The man that is sterile has the arguments
                    under his belt –

                Did you ever see an abandoned shack –
                    the weeds grow up around it –
                    the door becomes tattered –
                    there is no sign of life –

                Your heart is for loving, growing
                    being vibrantly filled with love
                    for God and others and focused on My
                    love for you.

                Your heart is to be growing, healing from
                    old wounds and more and more
                    like Mine –

                My pilgrim – you are on a journey –
                    don't settle in to negative thinking –
                    don't settle in to sterile ways –

                Be alive in Me –

 

Galatians 2: 19-20

...I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me.

 

                R. Be alive!

                Live in Me!

                Know My love!

                Recognize you are imperfect!

                Forgive others –

                Ask to be forgiven.

                Pray for My mercy –

                Come to Me, My little treasure
                    I love you - so much!

                I love you

                I love you

                I love you

                Do not take your eyes off of My Heart
                    of love –

                Live to help to bring the Reign of
                    My Sacred Heart to the earth –

                I am God and I love you with
                    My Heart on fire for love of you –

                Don't listen to satan –

                He hates –

                He wants you fearful –

                He wants you to hold back –

                He wants to make your heart an
                    old abandoned shack –

                Do not fear, I am with you!

                Is fear your biggest friend or
                    am I your best friend?

                A person can grow in fear and be set
                    so - in their ways – they are like
                    the plastic spoon - planted in a
                    garden –

                Pray to be possessed by God – pray
                    to be set free of fear –

                Fear can be paralyzing and crippling
                    in the spiritual life –

                Pray, Pray, Pray to be set free of
                    self incriminating fear –

                Let go –

                Look at your crippling thoughts that
                    hold you back from really working
                    with others, seeing as you need
                    to see to do My work –

                Have a heart that is active – that is
                    not an old abandoned shack –
                    If you suffer with others –
                    know they suffer with your
                        imperfections too –

                I love you, despite your imperfections
                    and faults –

                I love you and want you to love Me –

                I love you and want to be first in your
                    life –

                I love you – I call you to do certain
                    things – fortitude is the virtue
                    to do the difficult I ask of you –
                    does it matter if I ask for a
                    pebble or a boulder –

                Do what I ask for – it pleases Me and
                    My heavenly Father when you
                    are obedient –
                    when you are child-like and know
                    your dependence on God –

                The stiff man says he counts on himself –
                    he knows it all –
                    he walks around with his eyes
                    turned in on himself and misses
                    the sun lit day –

                His god is himself –

                He is limited in all he does by his
                    pride –

                He is blind and don't know it –

                The man rooted in God has vision
                    to see – is working like a
                    well pumping heart to give
                    life to the body –

                Let your life be alive in Me –

                I am the Master –

                You are to grow in your image
                    and likeness of God –

                Song: Give me Your Heart oh Jesus –

                Song: I Am Your Sacred Heart

 
               

23 Years Ago

Picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Cling to Me

May 13, 1993 

Jesus: My dear child, if you stay close to Me, then I live in you and you live in Me. I am He Who created you and I love you with such an intensity that you will never know. My words are your truth. You must abide in My heart in all things. There is no room for doubt. My ways are steadfast, direct, and without error.

    You must stay rooted in Me to ward off the power of the evil one. His grip is paralyzing and crippling. His power is stronger every day.

    When you live in Me, I am in your heart and he has no power over Me. I am your God. I am your true lover. I want to protect you. I want to guard you from this force. Stay rooted firmly in Me and he will have no power.

    I am He Who comforts you. My hand is upon you. Hold tight to Me, My child. My eyes are fixed right on you. You are My most precious child. I love you as no other can. My arms are about you. My tenderness surrounds you. My love is in your heart. You go not alone. I walk with you.

    I share every aspect of your life with you. Cling to Me, feel My presence. It is warm and secure within your chest. There is no room for fear, for I cast out fear and bring you comfort and joy.

end of May 13, 1993

 

24 Years Ago

October 5, 1992 - 3:30am

R.  Dear Jesus, Give me Your hand to write this book for you. I am your servant. I want to be Your hand to this world. If you, Lord Jesus, would write a book, what would you say?

Jesus:  My dear children,

   Today I come to deliver a message to each of you. I want to tell you of each person's dignity, of their beauty and their self-worth. Each child is, oh, so uniquely precious to My Most Sacred Heart. Each child is full of the talents I have given to them. Each person is divinely created by God and given all these gifts to be happy and love one another.

   The problem comes when you feel you will be left out. That you will be left by another who has trodden on you and will do it again. I see you all as My most precious children. I watch your every move and know all pain and anguish in your heart. My Heart aches, you have insecure feelings about yourself. I came to this earth I died for you. I felt cold, hungry, lonely on this earth. You need not worry that no one knows the pain and anguish in your heart. God created you with such special gifts and talents. It is important for you to raise above your wound and forgive those who hurt you.

   You need only turn your will and your life over to Me and I will guide you in all your ways. I have all the Power. Many are not of My ways. The key to life is to recognize your faults, but still know you are this precious gift of My Father a gift to this world. This world is in need of your strength. Running yourself down, blaming others hurting them can cause you misery and pain. At this very moment, you are the precious creation of God!! You must operate with Me in your heart.

   You need not run yourself down. I am with you every day guiding your ways, lest your foot stumble and you lose your way. You will not wander far from your path if every day you keep bringing your focus back to Me. If you dare let Me be at the helm, if you dare to really let Me run your life, I will do with you such wonders that you yourself would be amazed. But you will know with such ease when you did these things that you did not do them alone. You will know My power, moving the mountain, My power chipping at the stone, My power working on your hardest problem and you will be set free.

   Oh yes, you will be set free and know a serenity that only comes from letting go and letting Me run your life. To you, My child, I have given all that is good. I made you My holy soldier, My warrior in a world of pain and hatred. You are the light that shines in the darkness, you are the coat to a cold child, you are the smile that warms a troubled and lonely heart. You are the comfort for everyone you meet, because My most precious Heart powers you, smiles through you, understands and loves through you.

   Love your fellows for Me. There are so many troubled hearts that need to know My love. I can love through you if you let Me, I can be their friend through you if you let Me. I am He who comforts you and you are he who comforts them. My power is endless, it never runs out, there is not a power failure EVER. In your darkest hour, My light shines in the darkness and I say to you, "Oh blessed of My Father, look at yourself with awe, you are My creation, you are indeed so precious to Me, you are My light to this world, you are My hands and My feet and most of all My Heart."

   Oh, you are My loving Heart, to those who are bowed down, to those who are lost in the darkness, you carry My smile and wear My armor in a world that is trying to tear one another down with hate and ugliness. There is gentleness, there is love, there is hope in you, if you open yourself up to Me. Be My knight to the world, wear My armor. I am your God and I will protect you from the darkness. Plug into My power, be not afraid, I go before you always and you can rest in My arms when you feel weary. You can put your head in My lap and weep, you will know, I am truly with you and you are My light to this world. I created you so special - to cast out fear in the darkness, to clothe the naked, to give hope to the oppressed, to be as I live in you and love through you and you are My smile and I touch My hurting ones through your love.

   You are he who loves this world. You must stay plugged into My power-source. This world is hungry for My love. It needs My love, I give to them through you. I am your God and I made you as a gift to the world. You are filled.

    Focus on Me and your life will be abundant and whole, joy in suffering, freedom — but  you can take the knocks because you will know you do not go it alone, but with Me. I love you My precious child.

end of October 5, 1992

   

                Sing: The Prayer for Union

   

Song: 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.

    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. (refrain)

    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.

    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. (refrain)

    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.

    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. (refrain)

    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.

    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. (refrain)

    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. (refrain)

 

                R. We were created by God with a free will
                to choose God or to reject God. God intends
                us to seek Him and we are to put
                effort in this acting with a free will –
                saying 'yes' to God. We choose happiness
                for ourselves. We decide to seek God.
                God wants it this way – where we
                choose Him first because we love
                Him.

                    True happiness can be found only
                in God and is everlasting – perfect
                happiness can only happen in the
                next life –

                A man chooses happiness by his
                actions – God has created us so we
                must with our free will, choose
                Him to obtain eternal happiness and
                we must die to the ways not like
                Him and grow in the life of Christ.

                    We cannot have complete happiness
                in this life – We must put our
                goal on eternal happiness in our actions
                and live by the heavenly Father's
                plan to gain eternal happiness –
                It is a reward given to those who
                loved and served the Lord, given by God.
                Fear can be an enemy to man's freedom.
                Man can choose in his actions to
                let fear control them or he can
                let pride control them, greed control
                them, envy, pride, anger control
                his actions –

                A man's actions should depend on seeing
                    as his goal eternal happiness.

                A man can be slothful and tell himself –
                    I did not do it, so I am not wrong –
                    Making a choice to ignore God's
                    will for us and then plead it
                    wasn't my fault – I did nothing –
                    is wrong thinking –
                    Making a choice to plead ignorant
                    and ignore what God asks of us is
                    acting – it is acting opposed to God's will.

                It is an action to do nothing and
                    ignore what we had a responsibility
                    to do.

 

   

 

 

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