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Isn’t it beautiful how at times God shows how much He loves us. I want to tell you of this and ask also if you will share your time of Grace and blessing.

I had a time recently when something sad happened to me. When I got home that day after it happened I got home and a young friend came over and said “Wayne the Holy Spirit told me to tell you He loves you”. Wow!! I wasn;t ready for that and had to think for a while. I have been wanting to love the Holy Spirit the way I love Jesus and I have not really understood how to. But Iam learning.
So I would like to share one of those times of blessings, it is Pentecost Sunday this Sunday. I am blessed with being a reader at mass this Sunday, however it just happens that it also is my birthday. Wow what a gift and for no other reason than God loves us all.
I would like you to consider blessing the Holy Spirit by sharing please any time you have been blessed, because maybe we take for granted the workes of the Holy Spirit and maybe not, but would you ? Thanks.
God bless
littleone
 
Oh yes, I believe you very much! 🙂
I had something happen to me. I went thru something about 2 yrs ago. It was a hard time for us all.
My sister works for the school district here and a man went in with his son because his son needed to be tutored. All of a sudden this man turned to my sister and said “Your sister is going thru something right now.” He said “The Holy Spirit is telling me to tell you that she will be ok” then he said “God wants her to dedicate her life to HIM” and my sister told him “She is already. She goes to church” then the man said “God wants more”
My sister had NO idea who this man was. I still get chills when I tell about this.
So, this is why I will be a CCD teacher. 🙂 I really believe that God is calling me to do this.
I have become HIS vessel so to speak. 🙂
 
Praise and glory to God on Highfor ever.
Yes unless I become a littleone then I live for other than God who is Love. Blessed be the Holy Spirit

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may I pray for 6 apostles of Jesus Christ?

God bless
littleone
 
I was blessed very abundantly this morning.

Rather rough night last night and this morning.

It’s hard for me sometimes because I love certain people very much and I want even more for them to come to the Lord.

I was praying before Mass and I said, “Lord, my heart hurts. I know that it is ok to ask for consolation so long as it’s not presumed. You told me through [a friend of mine] that it’s ok to ask, and so I ask, Jesus. Help me.”

And so I continued to pray, then Mass began. I was saddened because so many of the people that go to that Church talk and carry on before Mass about anything but the Lord. Then there was much talking after Mass. And it just hurts very much sometimes.

Anyway, I began to think about my girlfriend, my sisters, my friends, my Uncle, everyone I love, and I thought about how they just don’t know my love for them. I want very much for people to know that I love them. I took this as understanding a bit better the love God has for all of us. “If you only knew how much I love you.”

I went and got breakfast for my mom and brought it to her work. It was silent in the store (before it opened) and I felt a deep pain in my soul. My mom understands as only a mother could, and I wanted to just pour everything out onto her and I started to tear up, trying not to show her, waiting for her to sit down and relax so I could cry with her.

Then someone walked in the door and sat down (my mom works in a pharmacy with an old time fountain area where people can have coffee and shoot the breeze) and that pretty much interrupted my plans. But I thought, that’s ok, because Jesus knows.

So I sat down, had some coffee, and listened quietly as more people came in and my mom comforted them and talked about this or that trouble. She’s a mom! She’s just there for people, whether they know it or not (this is how Mary is too.)

Anyway, I eventually left and felt a call, need, and an urge to pray before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament at my Parish. I walked in and just worshipped and poured my soul out. I said “Lord, take my heart now.”

And He did. Then the consolation came. I cried and cried for about 20-25 minutes and just told Him everything. I said “What are you doing to me? I said I wanted to love but Lord, it hurts!” But that’s ok too.

So I continued to just weep and sit at His feet, just telling Him about all the different people in my life. I placed everyone around me in my mind and sat with Jesus and asked for Him to save us. I begged, I pleaded, I said over and over, tears pouring down my face “Please save us. Please! Please! We don’t know! We don’t know! Please!”

And I had to go in the back room to wipe the tears and clean my face a bit. I came back, and just sat with Him, quietly. I rested. I accepted that it’s ok to admit you’re weak. It’s ok to feel hurt and pain. I learned to not deny your feelings, but to embrace the Cross and trust completely in Jesus because He understands. I looked up at the crucifix and understood why He would do that for us.

I continued to sit, staring at Him in all His beauty. He’s beautiful you know. Tell Him that. He thinks you’re beautiful too.

Jesus is good to me, to you, to all of us. We don’t have to deny the longings and feelings in our heart; we hold on to Jesus and say “Lord, look at me without you!”

May God richly bless you, may Mary teach you and may St. Joseph protect you.

In the end, it’s all about Jesus anyway. He’s the only one you want.

Mordocai
 
I love the Holy Spirit because it’s that part of God/Jesus that flows into our hearts and lifts us up.

My recent experience. I am a celibate gay man (for 5 years now). I was having difficulty being “chaste” though (self-love). For me this compulsion led to a horriblly obsessive habit of self-love…so much so that it became my prime focus and was of course drawing me away from God (I knew this was bad but felt I had no self-control). I would rationalize, “well, at least I’m not having sex with other men.” The problem was, I was in the sinful grip of self-love. I would pray, “God you don’t know what this is like. You gave us passions and desires and I can’t control them”. I would pray and pray for God to give me strength to stop. Pray to the Holy Spirit. He gave me many graces to try and stop but I ignored them and always fell back into sin. One night I was sitting their and thought, “God, obviously you don’t care about me because I have been praying to you for many years to get control of my sin and you apparently aren’t interested in giving me the power to control myself. If you can do “anything” why can’t you make me stop what I’m doing?”

Well, He finally did. Boy, did He. And only a couple days after that conversation I came down with an infection at the tip of my private parts. Very painful. I had no idea what it was because I have been celibate for years. The circumstances that led up to this moment left me wondering it’s exact cause…a mystery. I believe when you pray to God for grace and He gives it to you repeatedly and you ignore it, that finally He steps in and “breaks you” only to fix you. This incident happened a week before Easter. So, after remaining lukewarm for the last year I started praying the rosary again (and reciting the Divine Mercy chaplet) and spent many nights praying and crying my eyes out asking God to help me heal and forgive me of my ignoring Him and falling into self-love again. My new affliction forced me to “leave things alone” or deal with pain. It forced me to not sin. God had stepped in and said, “Well, if you can’t do this yourself, I’m gonna fix it so you have no choice.” And He did, trust me.

On Good Friday I let my sin go (really had no choice). I also quit smoking that day also. Two vices being eliminated was extremely trying. But I have succeeded!!! I felt since Christ died that day for me that it was time to sacrifice something for Him. Even though I had been praying all week I couldn’t bring myself to go to Church on Easter Sunday because I was in pain and not feeling well at all. That afternoon I set up a little alter on my night table and prayed incessantly. When I went to bed on Easter Sunday night I laid in bed crying. I was feeling incredibly vulnerable for God. I told God I wished I could just sit face to face and talk to Him. And this is what happened:

I know this sounds wacky, but as I was laying their praying to the Holy Spirit to come into me. I heard a voice as clear as a bell say, “Hello Bob, I am the Holy Spirit and I want you to know I love you very much.” I started crying very hard because I knew this was real. It was a very gentle masculine voice within my head. I told Him I loved him and I was sorry for ignoring God’s grace and not going to Mass that day. He told me, “You are forgiven. It’s Easter Sunday and because you have turned to God in your heart and shown repentance on this day, you have made Him happy, and He is going to show His mercy on you. I will always love you, Bob.” I then told the Holy Spirit that I live alone and was scared, in alot of pain and not feeling well. He then said (and I know this sounds odd), “Do not touch yourself (self-love), do it for me, your affliction will be gone in one month…(long pause)…or two. Leave it alone.” I then started to really cry and told the Holy Spirit, “In my entire life since I was of sexual age I have never been chaste for 2 months. I will abstain for 2 months for you and keep my promise, but after the 2 months is up you have got to help me control myself. Keep me just. I really love you Holy Spirit.” His last words were, “And I love you very much, Bob.” I was completely blown away and cried myself to sleep.

The Holy Spirit wasn’t making a deal with me (be good for 2 months and go back to your sin). He was telling me “Do not worry yourself, it’s going to take 2 months for you to heal, after that it’s up to you”.

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…continued…

Over the next couple weeks I was in lots of pain. Made lots of doctor visits. Was given lots of medication. No one was really sure what I had. All my test kept coming back negative. It remained a mystery to the doctors…and still is. But I do know this, God finally stepped in to help me because I was incapable of doing it myself (I always found celibacy easy, but chasteness has been difficult). I have always prayed in the past, “God please help me, but don’t hurt me”, but he knows when I suffer that I turn to Him heavily, so He allows pain to enter my life because He knows it’s the one thing that will stop me in my tracks and correct me.

I am coming up on the beginning of my 3rd month completely chaste on June 8th. I feel great and at peace. My affliction is clearing up finally, just in time for the end of the 2nd month, just like the Holy Spirit told me it would. I thought I was going crazy, maybe hearing voices, and I was worried, “What if the 3rd month rolls around and I’m still sick?” But, the Holy Spirit has shown His promise to me. It wasn’t in my head. Finally after almost 2 months it’s going away. He talked to me Easter night and told me what to do. I gave my promise (and it’s been tough). I remind myself, “Keep your promise to the Holy Spirit.” Make Him smile down on you. That’s my priority right now. Not self-love. I believe this was God’s way of showing me that i can truly conquer this sin.
 
Here is one that I haven’t grasped yet.
I work nite shift ok!
Over the last three months I have been feeling dizzy at times and at work. I have mentioned it to certain people and Dr’s but no one thought much about it.
Monday last week I had a good day but come the afternoon I started feeling hot and cold head achs started and by the next morning (Tues) I coldn’t take it, I said to our Lord that I would take this for my sins and that He knew what was happening.

I went to the Dr not being able to hold my head up and held up by my wife, The Dr took my blood pressure and told me with a strange look on his face that told me something was not right. He said you should have had a stroke and probably be dead??? What ! I asked him what the reading was and he told me that it was 180 over 110 :bigyikes: . Well that meant nothing to me I wasn’t dead had no stroke and just felt so sick and the worst head ach :hmmm: .
He gave me an injection and in 15 mins it went down to 170 over 100. He said looking at the chart of other Dr’s that in the last 9 years my ressure has always been 140 over 100.
So I told others who are more in the know than I abot the situation, and they couldn’t believe it I just thought back to the prayer and I knew that it was the power of the spirit of God who kept me from dieing.
AMEN:bowdown2:
Thank yYou Lord thank You Holy Spirit, thank You Father of ours.

God bless
littleone (:rotfl: 👋 :whistle: still alive, on this earth)
 
I am glad you are ok now, littleone. Watch out for your heart - don’t let it jump out of your chest. 🙂 Keep it closer to the love of the Holy Spirit. 😃
 
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I am glad you are ok now, littleone. Watch out for your heart - don’t let it jump out of your chest. 🙂 Keep it closer to the love of the Holy Spirit. 😃
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Thanks I will , Yes to love with the heart of Jesus is all we could ever want. At present Jesus has me going through 1 Corinth 13 one of my favourits. But this time He has asked me to take each word ( patience, kind, etc) seperately and study them taking the understanding from the Dictionary and then read over it often and write paragraphs on each one. Then it seems that He is putting me through the pace to have it sink in the word made flesh.

Very hectic, very hard, the first one Patience, Kind and Trust wooow that was hard without His being there I don’t think I could have gone through it. Three people txting me telling me how bad I was no phone from my children for birthday and then have the three come and one apologise one not able to and the other young 12year old I have never known him to be so ,everything against the Corinth13. And I was to practice Patience Kindness and Trust, that God had His hand in this :bigyikes:
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Never mind he is there, and St Therese is always helping I know and our Dear Mother. But without the guidence of the Holy Spirit I could never, I mean never make it.
Well stage two now Jealousy bastful, conceited, rude, selfish offencive and resentful, well I’m glad God’s taking me through this if it were anyone else I would fail imediatly and misserably.
Thank God for His “mercy”.

God bless
littleone
 
Mordocai said:
I was blessed very abundantly this morning.

Rather rough night last night and this morning.

It’s hard for me sometimes because I love certain people very much and I want even more for them to come to the Lord.

I was praying before Mass and I said, “Lord, my heart hurts. I know that it is ok to ask for consolation so long as it’s not presumed. You told me through [a friend of mine] that it’s ok to ask, and so I ask, Jesus. Help me.”

And so I continued to pray, then Mass began. I was saddened because so many of the people that go to that Church talk and carry on before Mass about anything but the Lord. Then there was much talking after Mass. And it just hurts very much sometimes.

Anyway, I began to think about my girlfriend, my sisters, my friends, my Uncle, everyone I love, and I thought about how they just don’t know my love for them. I want very much for people to know that I love them. I took this as understanding a bit better the love God has for all of us. “If you only knew how much I love you.”

I went and got breakfast for my mom and brought it to her work. It was silent in the store (before it opened) and I felt a deep pain in my soul. My mom understands as only a mother could, and I wanted to just pour everything out onto her and I started to tear up, trying not to show her, waiting for her to sit down and relax so I could cry with her.

Then someone walked in the door and sat down (my mom works in a pharmacy with an old time fountain area where people can have coffee and shoot the breeze) and that pretty much interrupted my plans. But I thought, that’s ok, because Jesus knows.

So I sat down, had some coffee, and listened quietly as more people came in and my mom comforted them and talked about this or that trouble. She’s a mom! She’s just there for people, whether they know it or not (this is how Mary is too.)

Anyway, I eventually left and felt a call, need, and an urge to pray before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament at my Parish. I walked in and just worshipped and poured my soul out. I said “Lord, take my heart now.”

And He did. Then the consolation came. I cried and cried for about 20-25 minutes and just told Him everything. I said “What are you doing to me? I said I wanted to love but Lord, it hurts!” But that’s ok too.

So I continued to just weep and sit at His feet, just telling Him about all the different people in my life. I placed everyone around me in my mind and sat with Jesus and asked for Him to save us. I begged, I pleaded, I said over and over, tears pouring down my face “Please save us. Please! Please! We don’t know! We don’t know! Please!”

And I had to go in the back room to wipe the tears and clean my face a bit. I came back, and just sat with Him, quietly. I rested. I accepted that it’s ok to admit you’re weak. It’s ok to feel hurt and pain. I learned to not deny your feelings, but to embrace the Cross and trust completely in Jesus because He understands. I looked up at the crucifix and understood why He would do that for us.

I continued to sit, staring at Him in all His beauty. He’s beautiful you know. Tell Him that. He thinks you’re beautiful too.

Jesus is good to me, to you, to all of us. We don’t have to deny the longings and feelings in our heart; we hold on to Jesus and say “Lord, look at me without you!”

May God richly bless you, may Mary teach you and may St. Joseph protect you.

In the end, it’s all about Jesus anyway. He’s the only one you want.

Mordocai
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Oh Ilove your heart it is a hert of Jesus be it little or large, but you have just told people one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that is not spoken of much. Intercessory prayer, Iknow you were asked in the spirit in your heart to interceed as Jesus did often of us “Father forgive then they know not what they do”.

God bless you, you are on my prayer chain from this day, especially for fortitude, endurence, long suffering Patience and a sure Trust in Jesus love for you.
God bless
littleone.
 
Archangel 63 that is the most beautiful story and I cry my heart out knowing that others are hearing the Holyt Spirit speak to them He is a loving person who is soooooo gentel and so loving.
Never take your hert of Him He is a gentle man and will come when we ask for His interceeding in any situation.
Oh how we should always love Him.

God bless you
littleone.
 
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