Title:   "Discern first, the value of your own prayer before you cast an eye of jealousy upon your neighbor."

(Notebook 57, pp. 137--142)

Live  †  Jesus

Saturday, January 8, 2000

Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,

[Jesus speaks.....]
My lambs, hear Me.  Be on your guard lest you let your own humanity lead you into sin.  So easily do you make so many things your false god, your idol.  So many times, you do not even realize this.

If I give to you a Word, it is to bring you more fully into Me.  If you do not properly understand My Word, then come directly to ME, lest you fall to pride.  Let Me explain.

I am a God of Understanding.  The Spirit of Understanding resides in Me.  So, why would you try to understand My Word aside of Me?  Is it because YOU want the glory, aside of Me?  .....That YOU have acquired certain knowledge, aside of Me?  O LAMBS.....be VERY careful of this.....for that was the first sin.....to seek knowledge aside of Me, rather than to come to Me first.

Now, how do you come to Me first?  In prayer.  What is prayer?  The lifting of hearts and minds to Me.  Discern first, the value of your own prayer before you cast an eye of jealousy upon your neighbor.

Let Me explain.....The followers of John [the Baptist] were jealous of My Mission because they had lost sight of Me.....that MY coming was the purpose of the Mission.  John, however, when questioned, was focused.  He never lost sight of Me.  Once he knew Me, he chose to follow Me.  He leapt at our first meeting [in the womb] and he knew Me in the Jordan [at Baptism].  But moreso, his focus was on his God during the entirety of his Mission.  He knew his place, bowed before God.  He knew of being a servant, a true son of God.  He knew he was to prepare the way for Me, Who is the long awaited One.....the Messiah, ONLY Son of God.

And so, the prayer.....for those in sin.  Who among you is excluded from this?  Do you see the difference between the water of John and the Water from My Side?  One blessed.   The Other has become the Flow of Forgiveness, of Cleansing, of YOU into ME.  Baptism removes the stigma of original sin and gains you entry as true heirs of God; sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, in Me!

Sin blocks your entry into Me.  Baptism opened for you, the doors of heaven.  But sin along the way blocks your progress into Me.  It is a spiritual battle, little ones.....for evil would thwart, at every opportunity, you from Me.  There is no sin which cannot be forgiven, save the sin against My Holy Spirit of refusing, absolutely, the Grace of Mercy.  And so I say, PRAY for yourselves.  PRAY for one another.  Pray for My Mercy, so that like a flood of Grace, I shall continually bathe you to prevent you from denying My Mercy.  Instead, you shall come to CRAVE My Mercy.  You shall prefer My Mercy to the world's despair.  DO be like John and recognize Me, undeniably, as your Saviour, your True Source of all Grace.

There is much to be taught here, much to be learned, much to be LIVED!  Live as John lived:  in Reverence of Me, in waiting, that I should enter your every moment.  Do not become busied with thoughts of self, or self-generated thoughts.  Be constantly in prayer, be always in focus on Me.  See that all too often, man honours man, aside of Me.  For the goodness that man achieves is always in Me.  And if the man is becoming good, like John, he will divert all Honour and Glory to Me.  It is for YOU to seek MY Presence in all things.

Be not SO QUICK to act, lambs, for like John's disciples, your focus may be wrong.  They were being guided by a jealousy, a possession of mission.  And so, they did not see My Presence in My Mission, as they clung to the security of John's Mission.  Do you see?  John was willing to decrease that I might increase.  So.....it comes to you.....where are YOU in ME?  Have I not asked this before?

Children, come to Me often.  Come to Me constantly.  You spend far too much time in concerns of your own, aside of Me.  The Whole Purpose of My Life among you is to bring YOU, little lamb, to Me!  One lamb, as if the others did not exist.  And I ask of you, that same attention to Me.

Ah, now!  Where are you in Me?

Amen.    †

(1 Jn. 5:14-21; Ps. 149:1-6, 9; Jn. 3:22-30)

With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah