Title:  "Come to Me in prayer like a gentle child."

(Notebook 58, pp. 129--133)

Live  †   Jesus

Saturday, February 26, 2000

Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,

[Jesus speaks.....]
There are many paths one can take in life.  Prayer in each footstep means your heart is intending to walk the way with Me.  But prayer of itself is not a sign, an assurance, a guarantee, that where you are walking is My Way, unless your Faith becomes as a little child in My Hands.

Do you see the submissiveness that a child has to those in their charge?  I speak now, not about the conditions of abuse that prevail in your day.  The submissiveness of the child I speak of is of the one who truly trusts in the leadership about him.  The leadership I speak of is Godly, Just, Loving leadership.  THIS is the relationship I speak of.  And so, the relationship of your prayer, yourself, to Me, should be as this pure image of a child in My Hands.  I am God.  I am Love.  And in ME you may rest and be assured that all for which you pray is heard.  And for you, with the Trust of a child, you will rest in Me, to know that I Who am God, hears and answers you according to your need.  A mature Faith in Me is one which leaves self behind, offering self to Me.  Relinquishing pride and all which blocks us, to Me.  That I may forgive your repentant heart.  That you might lean on Me.  That I might be your support.

Little ones, your prayer should lead you to a willing submission in Me.  For it is where we ARE with one another.  It is the place, the state of our being one with the other.

If prayer is the lifting of one's heart, mind and soul to Me, then LET Me lift you.  Let us become one in this place of prayer.  Let prayer pour forth to action in Me.  Because in childlike submission to Me in prayer, you can better act for Me, better be My instrument.....My Hands, so to speak.....in this world.  Let prayer be the place of our Holy Intimacy.  The Glory of God resounds in your being.  Come to Me in prayer like a gentle child.

My little ones, hear Me.  I call you "My little ones" for that is how I see you.  Pray that you will come to see yourself in this Light as well.  Little before God.  If great in the eyes of the world, small in Me.  Prayer is where you can see the incense of your sacrifice rise to My Nostrils.  In prayer you can see your smallness as you lift your minds, hearts, even your hands to Me.  And like the little child who you are, I shall lift you, child, from your place and bring you closer and closer to Me.  And in the silence of our moment, you shall be more and more of Me in the world.  You will be a True child of God, visible to those around you.  Example to those around you by your desire for your smallness in Me.  How very attractive are little children!  Nary an eye cannot pause upon a gentle, quiet child.....one who revels in the innocence of life.

Little child, BE for Me in the world.  Prayerful.  Gentle.  Quiet in spirit.  Childlike in Faith.  Raised in spirit in My Hands.  Our eyes, one upon the other.  Child of God, looking to God in all things.  Smallness, that the Father might be Great.  .....O child!.....  How I Love you so!

[O Lord!  I Love You.  I adore You.  I believe in You.  I Trust You.  I Trust IN You.  By Your Grace, O Glorious God!  Thank You for this very, precious childhood in You!  My Lord and my God!  God be praised!  Alleluia!  Maranatha!  Come, Lord Jesus!]

(James 5:13-20; Ps. 141:1-3, 8; Mk. 10:13-16)

With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah