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Todays Meditation: KEEP THE LAMPS BURNING CONTINUALLY.🔥 I went to confession today; it is the first Saturday and the blessed mother has asked for all of her children to make reparation for the sins, outrages and offenses committed against her immaculate heart by keeping the first Saturday of every month for 9 months. And part of the requirement is to go to confession, communion and also pray the rosary and meditate upon one of the mysteries of the rosary for fifteen minutes like the passion of our Lord. How do we keep our lamps burning continually? One way is to empty ourselves of us and allow Him to fill it with more of Him. So we are lights burning with, for and by the love of Him. He is the love you see, the love in me. Let us not forget also to love and honor His mother by making the 9 first Saturday’s in reparation to her immaculate heart. Along with the consecration of Russia; this was also required to bring peace to the world. 🙏 It is interesting that the requirement is for 9 months; as this is a baby’s normal gestation within the womb. So perhaps what is closest to Our Blessed Mother’s heart is the protection of Life from conception. She appears as a pregnant woman as Our Lady of Guadalupe. In This way we can honor her, by praying and fasting for the life of the unborn and making the first Saturday reparation to her immaculate heart so pierced by ungrateful humanity that dismisses the value of life. 🙏 
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Todays meditation: PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO HIM! I can’t imagine being led by an Angel of the Lord and not paying attention to him! But on the other hand, the Lord personally knows us and He knows our weaknesses through and through without sinning or falling Himself. Let’s be honest; we can be easily distracted like sheep without a Shepherd, and easily led astray. That is why we need to pay attention to the one the Lord has given us to guide us. Our guardian angels and The Holy Spirit! We must learn to listen to the Lord’s voice and discern Him And follow Him, His angles, And His instructions. We need to be on guard against false Shepherds and voices who lead the flock astray for personal gain or control. During our lives we have had an explosion of technology and advances in science that would boggle the early 20th century man. No wonder we could be tempted to not pay attention to Him! Think about fasting from technology for a set time each day and reconnect with the Lord. 🙏  Todays meditation: I WILL TEST THEM IN THIS TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT THEY WILL FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS. EXODUS 16:4 It is so important to follow instructions. But how many of us actually listen and do as the Lord directs? Maybe it is something small, like say hi to that person or smile at a stranger (God knows they needed that smile and hello). Much suffering in the world can be alleviated by the simple act of recognition of another. The other as an important being worthy of your attention and respect. Seeking the God in them; the face of the Lord. But Following Him requires Following His leading; and that usually means out of our own comfort zones. He is a good Father and wants to stretch us so that we can fit new wine into these old skins! Remember; He wants to see if we will obey Him And Follow His instructions; even when everyone else is doing the opposite or following their own path. There is only one way to heaven; and Jesus is the way. 🙏  Tonight’s meditation: AND IN THE FUTURE, your children will ask you! In the future; your children will ask you what? What does all this mean? What does it mean that God saved us from slavery? What does it mean that He saved us from Egypt? What does it mean that He did it by His mighty and powerful hand? In the future; will you have a story for them? Will you remember your past and His faithfulness in freeing and saving you by His mighty and powerful hand? Let’s remember and pray to give a good answer in the future. 🙏  Todays meditation: WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD I WILL PASS OVER YOU! The blood of Jesus must cover your bodies and souls so that He will pass over you and see His only Son in you and on you. Make sure you are marked by Him; by His blood. Let no other mark touch your bodies; but let His body and blood transform your body into His likeness. So That when He sees you, He sees His Son, Jesus, in you! For apart From Him, You Can do no eternally lasting or good thing. All of our best efforts are lacking, apart from the eternal love that He is. He shed His blood for you, would you do the same for Him? 🙏  Todays meditation: THE ASHES SPREAD LIKE FINE DUST! with the passing of my mother in law I am reminded that we are dust and unto dust we shall return. When God made Adam and all mankind, He made us from the dust or earth of the ground. And from this dust man sprang forth at His bidding. And when He calls us back to Him, we will return to dust. We don’t decide the length of our days, He does as it says in His word. For “what are mere mortals that you should think about them, or a son of man that you should care for him? When God acts He can bring forth His judgements upon the world with the very dust that we stand upon; there is nothing too difficult to Him. Do not worry about your enemies or the enemies of God. He will act when it is time. His mercy is allowing time for repentance; before justice. That is why we must pray for our brothers and sisters that they repent while they have time. 🙏  Todays meditation: THE HAND OF THE LORD! What does the hand of the Lord look like in action? How do we recognize His hand and His works? These are good questions to ask. Have you seen the livestock and fish swimming in circles and walking in circles? Have you seen the livestock and fish just washed up on the shores or laying dead in a pasture? I wonder if this is what it looked like to the Egyptians when the Lord struck down the Nile with blood so all the fish died, and then when He struck down all of the livestock of the Egyptians. It was really scary and yet each time Pharaoh hardened his heart and would not believe. He didn’t believe this was the Lord. His magicians could do similar things up until the time that Moses made gnats appear out of the dust; from that point on Pharoah and his officials noted the hand of God. Yet they and he would not yield or bend to Gods request to let His people go. These plagues did not effect the Israelites or the land of Goshen, only the Egyptians. When the hand of God is at work, His enemies will tremble. Pick your sides well! Team Jesus is all about love and forgiveness; we let God deal with His enemies. For if God is for you; who can be against you? His hand is just. 🙏  Tonight’s meditation: THIS IS THE FINGER OF GOD! Even Pharaoh’s magicians knew that all the plagues of Egypt weren’t accidental; but were in fact plagues caused by the finger of God against a hard hearted people. So God at times needs to make His finger very plain for all people to see and exclaim, “This is the finger of God!” Especially, because the people of God were living among a non believing people; ones who worshipped many gods; and were full of their own pomposity and presumption. In other words, their hearts were hard. So how does God deal with people when their hearts are hard and cold? He makes His majesty and grandeur even more apparent so none can deny His existence. So keep your eyes open and watch for the Finger of God as He invites us deeper into relationship and trust in His true presence. 🙏🔥❤️  Todays meditation: HE WILL KILL US WITH THE PLAGUE OR THE SWORD. Here Moses and Aaron are trying To explain to Pharaoh, the Lord God expects the Israelites to be let go in order to worship Him, and He was in fact calling them into a desert experience for a time of pure worship. Without this time of worship, so that God could have his time with His people; punishment was promised as in plagues and the sword. But God knew that Pharaoh would be hard hearted; and so God did send punishment upon the people; except that He protected His own; who are called by His name; the Israelites who lived in Goshen and those who spread the blood of the lamb over their doorposts! Remember to call on the precious blood of Jesus for your protection and also to use heavens remedies for all pestilences and plague. God bless! 🙏  Tonight’s meditation: GREAT ACTS OF JUDGEMENT! we pray Oh Lord for your mercy upon this world and our nations as we meditate upon these words. Although we deserve judgement consider our fragility and look kindly upon us. Send us angelic forces to help us as we cry out to you in our distress and be mindful of your faithful servants who seek your face. In Jesus name we pray and ask for eternal rest for the faithful departed most especially my mother in law Joan tonight. Amen 🙏  Todays meditation: I LIFTED HIM OUT OF THE WATER! Many years ago, when I was just a teenager, I almost drowned in the water. And in my distress I cried out to the Lord to push me up toward the surface of the water so I could swim the rest of the way once I saw the top. When you are in deep waters everything looks murky and black, it is difficult to see the light or even where you are oriented. It was like that for me; and it is like that for so many who are not close to Christ. They are disoriented, lost, they don’t know their way, they are in darkness and don’t know which way to swim to get out out of their predicament. Call upon the Lord in your distress and He will answer you! When I called on the Lord that day as I was trying to swim to shore and was crushed under the swirling surf the waters looked like this. I was pushed upward by a hand that pushed me toward the surface and the water went from murky to dark to clear in an instant and sun kissed. Faith in action leads to life & salvation.  Tonight’s meditation: I HAVE HEARD THEIR CRIES OF DISTRESS! God usually knows about our difficulties even before we do. Like the Israelites in Egypt; they had been calling out to God in their distress and He heard them. He also had a plan to save them and release them from their slavery while punishing Pharaoh for his hardness of heart. God has everything in His hands. His plan is for the Israelites to leave Egypt and go into the desert where they would be free to worship Him and free from their labors. Not only that, but He also made sure that they plundered the wealth of Egypt before they left! God is good. He is for us and will Provide for all of our needs. If God is for us, who can be against us? Let that sink in. Not even the gates of hell can stop Gods remnant people from achieving His plan. 🙏  |
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Finances and tithing:
Also remember to tithe to the Lord! This is extremely important to Him. He will give to you to steward His finances as He knows that you already steward well what He has given you. And putting Him first in the finances; giving Him dominion and reign there, trusting in Him like a child trusts their Father knowing He will provide for you! All of this is so important.
It is all about the heart!
Make sure you give unto Cesar what is Cesar’s and give unto God what is Gods!
100 fold Blessings!
Maria
Also remember to tithe to the Lord! This is extremely important to Him. He will give to you to steward His finances as He knows that you already steward well what He has given you. And putting Him first in the finances; giving Him dominion and reign there, trusting in Him like a child trusts their Father knowing He will provide for you! All of this is so important.
It is all about the heart!
Make sure you give unto Cesar what is Cesar’s and give unto God what is Gods!
100 fold Blessings!
Maria
