When blessings come from pain

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8 weeks ago, I asked Our Lord for a job that would glorify Him.
The next day this male at work came to me and asked me if I would like a Job. I took it and found that this male was a non practicing catholic who had been baptized in the Holy Spirit but now had a hate against catholics and Christians generally.
Other people at work asked how I could work with him, even my boss said the same, they even bet on how long before my workmate would take my new clothing of me.

We are the groundsman, he the leading hand, and he never finished a job, if I did a job well he would come and ruin it because of jealousy. I was offered the job becoming the lead hand wa supposed to be leaving and I would take over. Some things went wrong I never got the job, he stayed, I became so confused because of our differences, but I could not leave because i had asked for the job and knew that Jesus had a reason for my being there.

I tried to relate as St Therese did with the nun who no person would work with. I tried to do as Therese and smile so that Jesus could not see my discomfort. Jesus did a lot for me and it came in the form of changing ME not this person. I was to do what ever the workman told me, no matter what, even when the mulch was put down on the gardens first, and then he told me to weed the garden???

When he would break something eg, the 4x4 buggy we use to get around in which he used as a racing car. I noticed some things starting to happen to me. I would suggest to him to do so and so to correct what he had done and he wouldn’t listen. So i told him that maybe he should ring the mechanic which he did and he found that the mechanic would tell him the same as i did, much to his disliking and my surprise.

But, last night my wife asked me how come I had such a memory for different subjects while watching questionnaires on TV. I realized that Jesus was healing me through my doing what Jesus told me, my memory was coming back, I have much more peace, I am able to converse with my work mate and he listen, I have joy in doing what he tells me to do even though his gardening is back the front.

By doing what Jesus told me without moaning, I am becoming more at peace and gaining understanding of subjects i never had, and without confusion. I am gaining a smile in any situation like I used to have.
All this from pain subsiding from my past.

Godbless
 
Dear Brother in Christ, it is not easy to live the gospel in trust, but you are trying to do this. That you call yourself “little one” indicates that you do try to follow what this little Doctor of the Church sought to teach us in her love of Jesus and obedience to the gospel.

May she continue to intercede for you, and may you continue on the path of holiness and trust.

I thank God for the graces he has given and will give you, Trishie

I ask God for the healing and conversion or your workmate.
“Amen” to all your prayers.
 
I thank God for the graces he has given and will give you, Trishie

I ask God for the healing and conversion or your workmate.
“Amen” to all your prayers.
Thanks for that and I remember an old song the words are somewhat like this.
Not my brother nor my sister
but it’s me oh! Lord
standing in the need of prayer!

I call by the name “little one” not by my own doing but because mum named me Wayne Irish for little one, God must have had a hand in it maybe, because i didn’t even know St Therese the little flower and one day in a monastery I asked God for a person to lead me to Him and this book about St Therese came to my attention and before that I didn’t know she was called little flower or have the “little way”.
And yet, I love the way she thinks, l like what she wrote, and loved to do and I follow that very way of self denial, and yet I get laughed at, scoffed at for my mannerisms by my family and others for the things I do that seem (to them) stupid or at least strange. “Wayne will eat anything I give him they say”,

I guess i rely heavily on grace and Gods very needy mercy to come through. I am trying to keep my mouth shut except when i can say something positive, or up lifting and that, at times is not easy, and I falter and I don’t mind admitting because it keeps me going back to go forward positively in the name of Jesus.

How would we carry on without the mercy of God I wonder?
But at present I will soak in this grace so needy and so lovingly given to me, once again without my having done anything to deserve it but because God ordained that He will love little ones the way He does.
Any way,
Godbless
 
You know I believe that pain (in most cases) is the relationship between the flesh moving in it’s own direction and the spirit of God wishing to move us.
I liken this to the movement of the land mass formation underground. Huge land layers move one lower and one over the other, through this earth quakes are formed and this is the same as with in us as humans the movement between the flesh and the spirit, and it is the more powerful one that will show it’s dominance.

This is where the pain comes from.

Godbless
 
You know I believe that pain (in most cases) is the relationship between the flesh moving in it’s own direction and the spirit of God wishing to move us.
I liken this to the movement of the land mass formation underground. Huge land layers move one lower and one over the other, through this earth quakes are formed and this is the same as with in us as humans the movement between the flesh and the spirit, and it is the more powerful one that will show it’s dominance.

This is where the pain comes from.

Godbless
…excellent insight!..
 
I would like your prayers please, since today my workmate seemed very happy and I know that some of it is akin to God’s healing and changing my heart. This in turn seems to be changing his.
Today he asked me to prayer for a person we needed to come to our work. WOW! this was a bigge for me. And in not too long a time the person came.

How ever I know that war will probably follow although not more than I could take, so please prayer for strength for me. It usually happens that the person changing might start to feel ill at easy and want not to speak or be part of the situation.
What ever the situation I ask for strength for me and prayer for my work mate, please.
Thanks
Godbless
 
I took it and found that this male was a non practicing catholic who had been baptized in the Holy Spirit but now had a hate against catholics and Christians generally.

If he hates ANYONE, much less other Christians, it’s not the Holy Spirit he was baptized in.
 
I took it and found that this male was a non practicing catholic who had been baptized in the Holy Spirit but now had a hate against catholics and Christians generally.

If he hates ANYONE, much less other Christians, it’s not the Holy Spirit he was baptized in.
I believe that your bible will read that if we teach our children when they are young about God even though they spread their wings to see the world they will come back (Isaiah).

This person has been deprived of a father and was thrown into a number of orphanages, he does not know where his father is he was forced into accepting Jesus and has lived in a borstal. No one has accepted him and most people put him down, and make fun of him. He has been living a survival life for the thirty years of his life, and now lives with a woman who tells him that she will take her life should he leave. But she and he have gone from the frying pan into the fire.

We have no right to say this,
B]If he hates ANYONE, much less other Christians, it’s not the Holy Spirit he was baptized in., only God knows his heart, only God is the judge. We have only the right to discern and relate lovingly towards any person at all in any situation.

“Brothers let us all love one another and in this way the world will know that we follow Jesus” (bible, St Paul).

Godbless
 
There are many people who suffer seemingly for no reason.I have an auntly who for 44 years has suffered excruciating pain in her leg’s, arms losing sight and hearing. She is not 86. On two occasions over that time she asked Our Lord why she was still here.
Jesus answer to her was very straight forward, that He wants her to pray.
Now to me this is the greatest power God could give to any person, to carry the cross in the painful way Jesus did for mine, yours, and others sins.
How could this faith, mercy be ever repaid? Never, it’s already paid for.
Godbless
 
I took it and found that this male was a non practicing catholic who had been baptized in the Holy Spirit but now had a hate against catholics and Christians generally.

If he hates ANYONE, much less other Christians, it’s not the Holy Spirit he was baptized in.
Mathew 12:43 And when an unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none. 44 Then he saith: I will return into my house from whence I came out. And coming he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. 45 Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation.

This may be a case of the same.
 
Mathew 12:43 And when an unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none. 44 Then he saith: I will return into my house from whence I came out. And coming he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. 45 Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation.

This may be a case of the same.
From the other side though, What about God’s mercy? I asked for a job where I could glorify God , this man comes up to me offers me a job, I ask God to change me to help this man and I pray for him and although the filthy language is there he has started speaking about God from time to time in a positive way, and asked me to pray over a situation last week. He now is comfprtable in telling me his troubles sharing hurts and following through with suggestions I give. he told me he could not understand how i don’t get head up when things go wrong and so he was going to try changing to my way.
He knows it is through Jesus but he hasn’t taken that step yet.Other work mates and our boss has asked me what i am doing to him because he seems to have changed become more con formative and enjoyable to work with.

This surely is change since it is only 4 months Could that not be change little by little.
I think so.

Praise our Lord Jesus i say
Godbless
 
From the other side though, What about God’s mercy? I asked for a job where I could glorify God , this man comes up to me offers me a job, I ask God to change me to help this man and I pray for him and although the filthy language is there he has started speaking about God from time to time in a positive way, and asked me to pray over a situation last week. He now is comfprtable in telling me his troubles sharing hurts and following through with suggestions I give. he told me he could not understand how i don’t get head up when things go wrong and so he was going to try changing to my way.
He knows it is through Jesus but he hasn’t taken that step yet.Other work mates and our boss has asked me what i am doing to him because he seems to have changed become more con formative and enjoyable to work with.

This surely is change since it is only 4 months Could that not be change little by little.
I think so.

Praise our Lord Jesus i say
Godbless
Wayne, You can better assess the situation with your co-worker then I could by far. I was mostly responding to the poster who said that he wasn’t baptised by the Spirit if he now holds distain towards christians. The scripture from Mathew was to show that folks can backslide after an experience like that and I should know from experience, that “seven more” can come back. Not knowing your co-worker, I used the word “may”, but that could have been even rash. I can understand your want to bring the truth to your friend. I tried the same thing with a friend who was an ex car thief. He was my friend and I hired him as a painters helper painting cars with me. It eventually cost me my job, but he now has a good bible to turn to when God finds the right time. I still call him and asked “have you read that bible yet” and he just laughs. But he is no longer a thief. Keep planting those seeds. Tim
 
Wayne, You can better assess the situation with your co-worker then I could by far. I was mostly responding to the poster who said that he wasn’t baptised by the Spirit if he now holds distain towards christians. The scripture from Mathew was to show that folks can backslide after an experience like that and I should know from experience, that “seven more” can come back. Not knowing your co-worker, I used the word “may”, but that could have been even rash. I can understand your want to bring the truth to your friend. I tried the same thing with a friend who was an ex car thief. He was my friend and I hired him as a painters helper painting cars with me. It eventually cost me my job, but he now has a good bible to turn to when God finds the right time. I still call him and asked “have you read that bible yet” and he just laughs. But he is no longer a thief. Keep planting those seeds. Tim
Tim I apologize for mistaking what you wrote and understand where you came from. No offense taken.
The one thing I will not do is to try to persuade him or lead him by words unless HE FIRSTLY gives me a hint. He knows the bible very well so I just love him and keep the smile up and accept him and his works helping when he asks me what I would do at times.

I only try to use denial of self to cleans myself so that I can be open at all times ( where I am listening) to how / what the Lord is doing directing etc, so that the best outcome will happen.

Godbless you brother
keep praying for me please.
 
Tim I apologize for mistaking what you wrote and understand where you came from. No offense taken.
The one thing I will not do is to try to persuade him or lead him by words unless HE FIRSTLY gives me a hint. He knows the bible very well so I just love him and keep the smile up and accept him and his works helping when he asks me what I would do at times.

I only try to use denial of self to cleans myself so that I can be open at all times ( where I am listening) to how / what the Lord is doing directing etc, so that the best outcome will happen.

Godbless you brother
keep praying for me please.
Hi Tim you might like to read the “If You wish to love” it covers what i now understand is happening (I think)

Godbless
 
Hi Tim you might like to read the “If You wish to love” it covers what i now understand is happening (I think)

Godbless
Wayne, I did a search for the book on google and amazon without any hits. Do you have a link? Thanks, Tim
 
Wayne, I did a search for the book on google and amazon without any hits. Do you have a link? Thanks, Tim
Sorry, it is a thread called “If you wish to love!”, do you think this is wrong?
I started to write this thread because of what it seems the Lord is doing and I need assistance because of the depth of it for me.
Thank you
Godbless
 
There must be many ways that blessings come from pain. For instance if a person say, is hammering and hits their thumb and offers the pain up to Jesus because of their sins. BUT straight away with no thought that this could happen the pain is taken away from them.
Or I wonder how many times Jesus takes our pain any way without our thinking about or knowing.
I wonder if this happens often.

Godbless
 
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