Messages From on High
"I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 427
Title: " It is a matter of focus on Love. "
Also see: "My Blessed Sacrament"
(Notebook XLII, pp. 37--42)
Live + Jesus
Saturday, February 21, 1998
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
[Jesus speaks.....]
My lambs, hear Me. I would speak to you in earnest. Where is it that I have been asking you to go? Yes, to Me. To BE in Me. Why? Because if your focus is on Me, then all else will fall to its proper position. Distraction of even good things.....anything which distracts you from Me, must find its proper place. I do not say cast aside the good, but always check to make sure that *I* am leading all good, and that YOU are always following ME! The purpose of these Words which I have spoken are to cause you to be aware that I truly mean for you to adhere to My Words: FOCUS ON ME!My apostles were in a boat with Me. The winds rose. The seas were tossed about. They were in fear of drowning. They entered fear. They lost their focus on Me. I was sleeping, quite comfortably I might add, and so they formed an opinion of Me.....that I did not care. They have presumed Me. They did not trust Me in that instance. They faltered. Their focus turned from Trust, to opinion, to judgment. THESE thoughts fogged their minds. Their hearts became more stormy than the seas. They lost their focus on Me, just Who I am. Panic of heart is not of Me.
These things: fear, doubt, confusion, are not of Me. They initiate in you. It is the place where you create an environment in which the enemy may enter your thought, your heart, to whisper further words of doubt, of confusion, of fear. Your eyes become fixated on the pain you are in. You have lost your focus on Me.
Do unto others as you do unto Me. Focus on the heart of another in your relationships. Be more concerned with the heart. See Me there. Find Me there. An action may be right or it may be wrong, but the heart is where I judge. And so, I say, let the outside fall away, and Love the heart of one another. The outer shell of a person may be displeasing, and so you elect not to enter the heart. It is a matter of focus in Love.How do you look at the world? Is it an arena of personal gain? Or is it a tool to assist you in your journey to Me? I have said that the world will fall away, yet you shall live forever. So why would you focus on that which will cease for you. Why would you ignore that part of you which would live forever?
Children, shall I make it easy for you to know how I Desire you live? Shall I teach you a simple way to be in Me. Shall it be a new teaching? It is new, only if you have never lived it: Love the Lord your God with all of your being: heart, mind and soul. Love your neighbor as yourself.
What has changed? Have YOU? Look to the world around you. HAVE you changed? And as fears are tossed on the sea around you, where shall you turn? As confusion buzzes in your ears and before your eyes, where shall you look? And as you grow in doubt of one another's ability to lead, never doubt Me! For *I* am your Good Shepherd! That a wolf has entered the sheepfold to scatter and disperse you, does not deny the fact that I still stand before you, staff in hand. Do you think I am sleeping? Or is it that you do not see Me, truly see Me?
Now, once again, I speak of My Peter of Rome. [...as opposed to "from" Rome...] My Rock who leads My Church. There is one Rock upon which I have built this Church. Notice I say "Peter of Rome"......."Of Rome." There is a difference. There is symbolism in the words, for the Authority I give to him, walks with him wherever he goes. The address "of Rome" is in his heart. Wherever he goes, there am I leading My people, staff in hand.
Look to My Peter of Rome, now My John Paul II. See the focus in his heart. It is Me. Where is your focus? Follow his shepherding lead. ALWAYS follow Me. Follow My Pope, John Paul II and anywhere he leads you. I say: anywhere. My blessings are upon him.
And now, I shall issue another Message to encourage your prayer, your prayer for My Peter of Rome. Prayer for yourselves. Prayer for My Church. Follow My Directives. They will lead you home. They will keep your focus on Me.
Daughter, connect these words. Again, one to the other, that they be known. Today, this is My Message. What will follow, remains as a way of life. True Life. In Me. Amen. +
(James 3:1-10; Psalm 12:2-5, 7-8; Mark 9:2-13)
With Love, in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
His Sarah
