Prayer and the Demons

Everyone prays.  As God is all present, even knowing our thoughts, (Matthew 12:25) one way or another, everyone will communicate to God, weather it is your thoughts, desires, love or hatred.

Even the witches and warlocks pray, even though it is to a demon.  

Anyone, and I mean anyone who does an incantation or a spell with the intention of harm to someone else or for a benefit is seeking access from the fallen side of the eternal realm.   This is dangerous and may lead to demonic obsession or worse.  The demons CANNOT read your mind, but with their angelic intelligence, they can make an excellent guess.  

Be careful what you say about someone, if it is negative or cursing, you could attract something you don't want around.  

Demons do study us and at times it can appear that they can read minds, but they cannot.  Even though they are fallen angels, they still have their intelligence and rank - what changed was their permanent position with God and their task for which they were created.  Example:  An angel created to inspire peace in human beings would then try to cause strife and division in his permanent fallen state.  

The good news is this angel only has a short time to do his evil work on the earth.  While he seeks to wreak havoc on the earth, we, the ones in a state of grace in full communion with the Catholic Church,  are those who are chosen to fight them. 

Know that the demons are very legalistic.  They know the scriptures better then you do and their aim is for you to break God's word so that at your judgement they have a shot of dragging you to hell.  Demon's love Ghost hunters with their 'e.v.p.'sessions because these misguided paranormal investigators talking to spirits are destined to love God yet are speaking to demons, putting themselves in the territory of the demonic.  

These are just some of the scriptures they want you to break:

"Do not have recourse to the spirits of the dead or to magicians; they will defile you. I, Yahweh, am your God. (Leviticus 19:31) 

If anyone has recourse to the spirits of the dead or to magicians, to prostitute himself by following them, I shall set my face against him and outlaw him from his people. (Leviticus 20:6)

This is what they use for you to fall.  Study it, know the word of God.  The word of God is one of the armors given by God to keep you on the right path.  

We as Christians have many weapons that we can use in prayer to both armor ourselves and to fight for others.  

The Rosary is a great weapon of prayer. 

In addition to the Rosary: 

1.  We can pray silently and the evil one cannot know our thoughts, these prayers are direct to God.
2.  We can pray vocally, and by using the name of Jesus with reverence and love for God, the demons who are assigned to our destruction (yep, you have one, just like you have a guardian angel, you have a guardian demon) are tortured.  Remember where it says to pray constantly?  This will definitely keep evil at bay as they evil ones will not want to come near someone who is constantly seeking the presence of God

3. We can place images of holy things before our eyes and keep demonic influences at bay.  You see we are in eternity right now although we cannot perceive it.  When we view something Holy to God (crucifix, etc) while we pray we are accessing the eternal truth that the Holy Crucifix contains that is eternal and not bound by time, without doing idol worship for we know that the carved or created image is not God himself, but an access to the truth contained within the witness of the Cross. 
4. Keep St. Michael Close, it is he who can protect you against the Principalities.  (Yep, they're a thing.) 

So be a force on the earth to fight the demonic forces.  Pray constantly, either vocally or silently using the tools that God has given us to do what every Catholic is called to do...

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to make WAR on the earth.

The Mystery of Eternity

Contained within the mystery of Eternity are gifts that God has given us that we may access in our temporal flesh.  These gifts from God benefit us because they are of the realm of the eternal and can affect our eternal nature (the soul).  

God in His wisdom who made the soul eternal but the flesh to die has given us gifts that profit a soul for all eternity yet while it is in the flesh..  As sin damages eternally unless repented of and repaired, the soul that does not repent of sin will have an eternal wound that it will suffer with forever in hell.    But God in His goodness has given us gifts that if used with love for God can give the soul an eternal benefit.

What does the scripture tell us?  God is not bound by time, God cannot be bound by His creations.  

What are the aspects of time?  Past, present, and future.  Three, like the trinity.  When God took flesh, did God submit to the boundaries of time?  No.  God in the second person of the Trinity is equally 100% God and 100% man.  Yes, Jesus's flesh did grow and age as prescribed by time, but His nature as God was never bound to the timeline to which He had chosen to be born into.    So what does that mean for us?  This means that the life, passion and resurrection of Jesus are not moments to be seen in the past but can be used as if they are happening at present.  By re-presenting to God these moments in the life of His Son Jesus, God sees them as happening now in the eternal present, not in the past.  Therefore, with a heart intent on the good of another, we can re-present to God what to us is in the past, (the passion of His Son) but to Him is eternally present and an eternal oblation. 

Jesus gave us examples of what profits us.  He said, “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul.?    He also tells us, “The world may pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”   So the Word of God is eternal.  Everything that Jesus gave His Church has an eternal nature to it that can benefit us for eternity, if we will use it with good will in respect and love for God and who He is. 

We experience past, present and future in a linear progression.  God is outside of time and is not bound by it.  So God, experiences time as a perpetual now.   He experiences the past as “now”, the present as “now” and the future as “now”.  Please understand, this is not a linear progression.  When God experiences a future moment as “now”, it is not that the now "is" and the progresses to the next moment, no, He experiences each moment in eternity as a “now” present before Him as an eternal oblation either bad or good.  The good oblation works for our souls for our salvation, the bad, requires God’s justice.  While we are in the flesh and breathe, the eternal “now” that God experiences of our sins has only one remedy and that remedy would also have to be eternal,  the blood of Christ.  So the oblation of Christ is eternal, and able to cover an eternal wound of sin that would justly land us in Hell.  

  

We only have access to the divine mercy of Christ's blood while we are in the flesh.  Once we die we have left the transgression of time and are placed into the eternal “now” where all the “now” moments of our lives, good and bad, are presented before the throne of God for judgment.    Having left "time" and stepping into eternity the state of our soul at the time of death will seal our soul at that moment.   When we are before the judgement and have left the flesh, the gift of free will is no longer available and you can no longer repent .  Death seals the deal so to speak, and there is no more chances to repent.  

While we are in the flesh we can repent, at our judgment, we cannot.    

Our Protestant brethren who have rejected the Sacraments have rejected a great access to the eternal and infinite God given to us THROUGH the Sacraments.  The devil wished to greatly mute this heavenly access by sowing the seed of rebellion.    Our protestant brethren still have the many of the gifts that God has given to his people out of love.  They have the Word of God, the Holy Spirit and the Trinity.  

But because they have rejected the Sacrifice of the Holy Mass they may have lost some of the fear of God that can only be experienced by the heavens opening at every Holy Mass.  Any Catholic worth their salt fears God and trembles with what is taking place in the Holy Mass.  In the Holy Mass the Catholic encounters the eternal God that will someday judge him or her for all eternity.  Also, the Catholic will have to give an account to how they have sacrificed for their brother or sister outside of the Church.  Only a Catholic will be held accountable for our Protestant brothers and sisters that God has sent to them to sacrifice and pray for.  We have access to the Throne of God in the Holy Mass and as a result, is not only responsible for him or herself, but for the souls given to them to encounter in their life no matter their faith.  A Catholic will always be asked about the Protestant, Atheist that was sent to them in their life, even if it is just for a brief encounter in the checkout line.  

The grace of the Holy Mass is a great responsibility placed on those chosen to be Catholic and this is why it is a Mortal Sin to neglect the Holy Mass.    

This is how Catholics change the world.  Catholics are called to provide to their protestant, atheist or other brethren not of the faith access to God's mercy by taking Holy Communion for them, pleading to God for them at the offertory of the Holy Mass  and doing extra penance for them at Eucharistic adoration.

But there is a catch.  You see the devil seeks to be hidden in this world and work his diabolical plans very much under the radar.  So to be effective in seeking God's mercy for another, you too must be hidden and seek no notoriety or attention for yourself.    Do you recall the scripture where God said what was done in secret will be shouted from the mountain tops?  This isn't just for those evil acts done in secret where so many people wrongly thing God does not see.  But this is also applies to those who in a hidden way seek the good of another.  Hidden evil must be combated with Hidden holiness. 

What are the gifts that benefit us eternally?  I will touch on a few. 

1.  The Holy Mass. - We have access to the Throne of God.  This truly is the moment when Heaven touches earth.   

The Holy Mass is where the angels dwell.

2.  The Crucifix of our Lord.  Ever wonder why the Saints constantly gazed at the Crucifix?  First always because of love, but secondly, because it has a benefit to contemplate the Crucifixtion of our Lord for another.  For by our adoration of the Cross of our Lord, we connect with the Passion of our Lord which is an eternal "now" before God.   

3.  The Rosary - Both purification and mini exorcism for your eternal benefit.

4.  Confession. - Purification, exorcism.  You can repent of your sins verbally, but you are still chained to that particular demon until you go to confession.

All of these gifts are given to us for the OTHER.  The Catholic is the one that can plead to God for the blackest of hearts, retaking prisoners from the devil and retaking territory lost to sin and evil.

We must fight for everyone given to us...everyone. 

THE EXCHANGE*

The truth of our Salvation is far more terrifying on this side of the Cross than for the Jews before the Incarnation of God in the flesh.  

When you study His Passion, you only begin to understand the truth of what His Blood truly means to both those who accept Him and those who .....reject Him.

When you have touched the edge of Eternity and faced a second of your own future Judgement you are never quite the same again. This is why those that claim to be mystics and have messages from Jesus or Mary but then try to get WEALTH from these claims of mystical knowledge are LIARS.   When you have touched the edge of heaven, you never fully want the things of the earth again, because everything that sparkles is so dull compared to the beauty of Heaven.

I have sure knowledge of God's existence and He has confirmed every promise made to those who love and also fear Him.  I cannot prove His existence, because that is not how He works.  Do not ask God to provide you proof of His existence, ask Him to provide proof of His love, and then watch what happens in your life.

THE EXCHANGE

In the beginning God created with His word, and it was good.  Satan created with his word, and it was evil.   Adam and Eve listened to the devil and by their free will chose death and sin to come into the world.  Man, through Adam had EXCHANGED intimate relationship with God for a stain of sin and death that would be generational.

Because of the unfaithfulness of His people, God allowed His people to go through many tribulations and suffering in order to bring them to a state of purification.  He did this by the creation of life through a holy act of sexual creation.  (The "begat"s in the bible).  With each "begat",  This purification of the hearts of the Jewish people in one lineage (David) led to a heart so pure that the heart of the woman that had the potential to be a holy vessel for God himself to come into her womb.  At God's intervention, at Mary's conception, God made the chosen vessel of the Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, to be Immaculate, or free of the original sin of Adam in her Mother's womb.  

At the exact moment that Mary was perfected to be God's vessel of our Salvation, God rained His blessings on the Earth by sending an angel to say to her, "Hail Favored One!", and with her yes, the story of our Salvation begins.  She was always the first to say yes to Jesus.  She was presented with an EXCHANGE of her own, for this unplanned pregnancy could potentially cost her suffering and even her life.  God in His goodness sent her a protector in the form of Joseph her husband.  

At the conception of Jesus in the womb of the Holy Virgin Mary (for God cannot come into any place that is not holy) the EXCHANGE began.

God EXCHANGED heaven for flesh, and at His death on a Cross, God would leave a permanent sign of the way to heaven through the EXCHANGE.  The sign of this exchange is NOT an empty cross, but one with our Lord on it in His suffering.    

When Moses held up the snake on a wooden staff, those that looked upon it were healed.  Jesus even compared His passion to this event. "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; that whoever believes may in Him have eternal life."  [John 3:14-15].

Many deny Jesus on the Cross, and protest that He is no longer on the Cross.  True, but if Jesus compared himself to the event in the Old Testament, and did not instruct us to remove the image of the snake on the pole that represented His passion, then we must study the Lord's passion with Jesus ON THE CROSS.    Not to re-crucify our Lord, but to study the ULTIMATE SIGN OF THE EXCHANGE, and find our way to our own final suffering and passion as He wills it.    Only by studying the sign allowed by God which is Jesus ON the Cross can we fully walk the path that is laid before us and drink the cup of suffering that may be presented to us.  

The EXCHANGE  is simple.  A life for a life.  

God came and by His will laid down His life for us, submitting His flesh completely to the will of God, as God allowed His Passion to progress.  He did this not because He had to, not because it was something He could do for His Father, but because the LOVE in His heart brought forth His willingness to lay down His life for all of us. 

 Jesus didn't just begin pouring out His life for us at His Passion, He began pouring himself out at the beginning of His ministry.  Feeding the poor, healing the sick, raising the dead,  showing us not only holy poverty but God's providence in that holy poverty.   In His poverty Jesus paid his bills in holy obedience.  (The temple tax). 

As the shadow of the Cross passes over us, we know that we too must walk our own path to Calvary, not exactly as He did, but as we have been assigned and placed on this Earth and to the best of our abilities.  

Jesus did nothing for Himself, and we see Him teaching and giving all for others, pouring Himself out for others through all His Ministry.  All of this was like the previews to what the final destination would be, but the message from all of it is the same.  

The road to heaven is to pour yourself out for another because of love for God and the one you pour yourself out for.  In order to seek the salvation and the good of another because you love God so much you would not wish to feel the heart of God hurt by the loss of a soul to hell for all time.  Knowing that you can do nothing for God, but as you love Him, you know that His heart will be moved by your love to work in the life and salvation of those you pray for. All of this must be done to seek NOTHING FOR SELF.  We only pray for a few crumbs from the Master's table to fall to us at the judgement.  This is giving a life for a life.  

This is what the Saints knew, and tried to teach us.  Fasting, prayer, works of charity, and with the greatest love of God in the hearts of the Saints, even miracles.   When we see the life of a person completely make a 180 degree turn, and every aspect of the person's life changes to reflect the life God wishes for us, we are witnessing a soul who has accepted the EXCHANGE.    St. Augustine of Hippo is one of these. 

The Saints that embraced Holy Poverty, Obedience, and Chastity, giving all that they had for love alone to God and others, where those that also realized the terrifying aspect of the Cross.

The terrifying aspect of the Cross is that before the moment of His Ascension into Heaven was 100% of God's mercy poured on the Earth in the form of the Blood of His Son.  On the judgement side of the Cross will be the Judgement of God when He returns.  Each of us will be presented with His Passion and Crucifixion in comparison to how we have lived our own Passion in our lives in our book of life.

While we live, we are still on this side of the Cross, the side of His love and Mercy.  We have time to repent and preach to other's the importance of studying the Passion of our Lord on the Cross so that those who would, will accept the gift of the EXCHANGE.

Look at the world.  How many are shirking the EXCHANGE in their lives, leading lives of complete "me, me, me..." selfishness.  This self centeredness leads to so many sins; adultery, lying, stealing, murder, all sexual sins.  How many are on the path of destruction because they wish their own will and not Gods.  

Jesus taught us this also.  

The Innocent must pay for the guilty.

Holy hidden souls are needed that love God and are willing to do much Penance and offer sacrifices for the sake of the Salvation of those who are running headlong into eternal damnation. 

If we have someone we love who is not saved, or living an atheistic life, then if we say we love them, we can offer some small sacrifice and do penance for this soul.   All of this must be completely hidden from the eyes of others, for if we seek acclaim for our holiness, we have cut off our communication with the ONE who can actually do something about the one we love who is lost.     

The time of  seeking mercy by the Holy Passion and Crucifixion of our Lord is a limited proposition.   There will come a time when our Lord will say..."That's it, time's up. "  

Do the sacrifice now, do penance now, for the one you seek to know God, and never give up on those that are lost, even to your last breath.   
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*Inspired by the writing of Bryan Melvin.

The Most Terrifying Answer to a Prayer.

There is great evil in the world.  One need only turn on the news and see that.  As such I have cause to pray much about what I see on the news.  When I see death, I kiss the crucifix and ask for mercy for a soul before the judgement and when I hear of great evil acted from one soul to another, I ask for conversion of that most blackest of heart that did the evil.

I don't usually get a direct answer to these prayers.  I don't even know the results of my prayers, and nor do I want to.  One day, God will show me all, I am happy to wait till then. However, during one prayer I realized that I was taking the very act of being able to ask God for mercy for someone for granted.  For even the ability to pray is a gift from God.

I will not name the soul I prayed for, out of respect to God and His child He created..  But there was a great evil act done on the earth, and although I was grieved for the lost, I was also grieved for the soul that did the evil.  As I saw the news on the t.v., I picked up the crucifix and was beginning to kiss it and begin my prayers when the Lord stopped me.  

"No."  

I stopped....and I trembled.  

Never had I been stopped in praying for anyone, and many times I have been greatly encouraged, but stopped, told 'no'...never.  Did I know it was Him, most assuredly.  The Father has a voice like a thousand oceans breaking on a thousand shore while thunder from a million heavens roars overhead. When you are given a small presence of your Creator, it is not anything you ever doubt later. 

As I trembled, I thought about what this meant.  No.  He said, "No."  It only meant one thing, and that was quite terrifying.  With this one "No"., I understood the whole meaning of what this soul was facing at their judgement. 

 God wanted and would have His judgement upon this soul. This was the most terrifying thought of all.  For God has infinite love and mercy for us, but He also has infinite justice, and His justice will not be perverted, He will execute His justice perfectly, and even if at our own judgement we were condemned to Hell, we would have to agree with the perfect justice of God and say it was right and just that we go there. 

With the evil done by this soul I knew that the chances of him facing hell was great, and with the "No" from God, I was even more terrified.  Because who would tell God He is wrong and get another judgement? No one.   God is infinitely merciful, but because He is perfectly just, His justice is perfect.

"God cannot act wickedly, the Almighty cannot pervert justice."  Job 34:12.

We must never forget that every thing we think and do here on earth we are sowing seeds for all eternity.  The will of God IS perfect, the justice of God IS perfect, and we all must reap what we have sown. 

Bad Confessions Mock God and Damn Many Souls

Do you know what you are doing when you walk into the confessional?  Such a grace is present there that it cannot be adequately put into words.  The confessional is one of the greatest gifts God gives us to reconcile us to Himself and to have the possibility to attain heaven.  Walk quickly to the confessional when you err, but only with the true intention in your heart to amend your life and never hurt God again.  You cannot use the confessional as your own 'fire' protection, and then continue your life the same way you did before you walked into the confessional.  Don't you know that the confessional is the fire of heaven?  The same fire that Elijah called down and burned the wood that was soaked in the water, for there is nothing it cannot change.

I went to Holy Confession to Father Bob at St. Matha's Catholic Church..  Father Bob laid his hands on my head at the end of my confession and gave me absolution.  The next day I was at St. Michael praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy in front of the Crucifix and studying the five wounds as I prayed.  As I studied His hands nailed to the cross and what He must have suffered I heard our Lord say to me, "Those are the hands that absolved you of your sins yesterday."  

It is Christ, through the Priest that lays His hands and absolves you of your sins, how do you think you can 'hide' your sin?  Isn't this mocking God and the confessional? Jesus knows your heart, He knows what you did, but only you can begin the healing of that sin by SPEAKING IT with a repentant heart in the confessional.   Hidden confessions in the heart are most likely to hide vile sins and to block true repentance, because when you SPEAK IT, you release it and it cannot be hidden in the heart.  You have free will, God will not make you confess your sins, but if you truly want heaven, you must confess your sins, ALL of them, no matter how vile.  The Priest's desire is the same as our Lord's, that you be put back on the path to Him, not to judge you here, he knows that we shall all face our own judgement in due time.

I tell you the truth, if we walk into the confessional to use it as a temporary 'cleansing' with no intention to amend our lives of the most vile sins then we are playing into the hands of the devil.  The demon takes the greatest delight in those that hide sins for fear of what the Priest might think of them.  When we seek Holy Confession we are driving the demon out of our lives and he knows it.  The confessional is the constant reminder to the evil one of where he shall be for all eternity, for if he is present with a soul at the time of that souls absolution the pain the demon endures during absolution is like the lake of fire he will know for eternity.  This is why it is also like a 'mini' exorcism, for this is too painful for the demon to endure and he must flee.

Let us say you are my friend, I love you, but I come up to you and slap you in the face.  You are hurt, but I say, "I'm sorry." and you forgive me.  After all is forgiven, I slap you again in the face.  But I say I love you and ask your forgiveness.  You forgive me.  For the third time I slap you all the while while I say I love you.  A fourth and a fifth till a hundred times I slap you, but ask for your love and forgiveness.  Obviously, I have no intention of amending my behavior, but I most surely desire your forgiveness and your love, not only desire it, but EXPECT IT.   If we do not change our behavior, although God still loves us, we do not truly love Him.  God is not required to forgive you and give you heaven, it is because of His love and justice that He has loved us and seeks our repentance.  This is why Confession is a "GIFT".

Don't be afraid of the Confessional.  Ask God to show you where you have sinned and what you need to confess.  Ask Him to open your mind and your heart to make a true and pure confession.  Tell Jesus everything you did through His Priest, and seek to change your lives.  We think this is so hard, but again we have such help in the Holy Mass and the Holy Rosary.  Go to Holy Mass everyday and you will fear sin greatly.