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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.
Messenger: When one person sins it affects everyone else. This can be seen in the case of an alcoholic parent, a drug addicted child, one who engages in sex promiscuously, one who watches unclean movies and television in the home.
The whole family is affected. It is tremendous cross for a child to grow up in an alcoholic home. It is also a tragedy for a child to be poisoned by unclean movies and television in the home.
If one sins, all those that immediately come in contact with the other are affected.
Tremendous wounds can accompany children all through life because of the sins of the parents. Children learn to do things incorrectly from an early age from their parents.
Jesus speaks: My Movement is a Family
SURVIVOR-RESCUER
In this family I have set down My lines for apostles to follow. If one underneath assumes leadership, he affects all others when he is operating incorrectly.
It is in humility and in not trying to be on top that you will progress in the lives of holiness. You operate according to God’s will.
Disobedience affects all the members.
A leader who disobeys rules is wrongfully teaching all under him and is responsible for all the confusion and misdirection that follows because of the disobedience.
All suffer when one is willful, operating against God’s will.
Do not create "cripples" in the family.
If you think Suzie needs your help to get along, you should look at yourself. You need to help yourself and let Suzie help herself. Who delegated you the one to help "booster" Suzie up?
In the reign of the Sacred Heart, all will be coming from a place of strength rooted in Me. If you are trying to make Suzie dependent on you because you need to be needed, stop it, you are hurting the family. Look at yourself. You are put here to grow in greater holiness yourself. Suzie is responsible for her personal holiness.
One who feels they have to rescue another is getting false power and realy hurting the other person and stopping him from advancing. There is healthy mutual dependence and there is sick dependence on another.
You must be attached to God. Having an unhealthy dependence with another gives one false power and stops the other from growing in healthy ways.
Q: How do I feel when I am treated dishonorably or persecuted by someone? How do I think Jesus felt being so abused by ones he loved?
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