Messages From on High
"I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 453
Title: " here is a suffering in the Church. "
(Notebook XLIII, pp. 1--8)
Live + Jesus
St. Joseph, Thursday, March 19, 1998
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
[Holy Mother speaks.....]
My spouse, Joseph, would speak to you, child. (Holy Mother! I can see you both, hand in hand!) [interior vision][St. Joseph speaks.....]
And I would speak this day. Child, I am permitted. (Dear St. Joseph! Then may I ask YOU why every time I have prayed in your intercession this morning, I have become teary eyed? Why I have cried as even now?)The emotions have been well spent on the Church. (The tears are for the Church! Thank you, St. Joseph. Because I have prayed that the Holy Spirit remove all that should not be. Blessed Mother has taught me that emotions are not an action plan. May God leave only that part of me which is able to serve Him!!)
Child, you are pleasing to the Church, Which is Christ, my Son. It is He Who is Church. The Body is His. Child.....(Yes, St. Joseph?)
The Body aches. The Wounds of Christ are inflamed for the hurts in His Church. They are one and the same. One Body. Mystical, yes, but one. (Dear Patron, Protector of the Church, pray for us. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, pray for us.)
I look and I see from afar, as I did on that Crucifixiion day. All I could do then is what I do now: I pray; I intercede.
There is a suffering in the Church. So invisible to so many. It bears a resemblance to the suffering of Mary , quietly pondering all which had been spoken of her Son, our Son, Jesus. For to raise a child and know there would be death, is a great pain for a parent. It is a stab to the depths of a heart. It is a wound that can become a place of further death, or a place of rising.
The Will of God. The Will of God! Trust, dear ones, in the Will of God. This Jesus, this Christ, this Son of mine has begged you to be one in Him. This is the Place of the Will of God! To be at ONE in Him. For all that goes on which inflames His Own Wounds would not exist if true oneness were in place. The place is in the heart. Not as a charade on the outside, but within the heart.
The heart is a kingdom, just as He has taught. Here one comes to know and to trust in the Will of God. I know. I have trusted. I have heard. I have accomplished what was requested of me. Yes, all can seem impossible, all can appear improbable, but in the heart a certain discernment occurs. By the Grace of God, yes. All by the Grace of God. For to do His Will is the very purpose of our existence.
Quietly, I have been called "father." Gently, I have been called "husband." That I have served my God, my Lord, is the pleasure of my soul. Mary.....how I have loved her, this creature of God.....my wife! Our family, so ordinary; yet not. O! The ponderings in the heart of a parent! O! The thoughts of a father and son! O! The Love borne between a husband and wife! O! The struggles to raise Him! He Who is the Son of God. God's Son, my own. Such a mystery is my life!
Yet, He Who is Church has been raised in my home! He Who is Church permits me still, to be its Patron. Children of Him: LISTEN to the whispers! Do discern the spirits! But KNOW that God DOES speak to His people. To accomplish His Own Gain. He Who is God, chooses to use us. How lowly are we, yet He IS the Creator. His Hand has made us, His Hand may use us. If we allow it. If we trust Him. If we obey Him.
Trust, Faith, Confidence. These are the virtues needed to follow God in the way He would lead you. I know. I have done the most unthinkable because I have followed the way set by a messenger of the Lord. Disgrace became a beautiful Marriage, because I listened, trusted, obeyed. His Life was spared because we followed the escape route planned by Almighty God! We survived in a foreign land, because in Him there is no bound. We are home, in our hearts, in Him.
I have fathered [fostered] the King of the World! Its Saviour! My bride, my wife, Mary, has held our Son in her hands. At birth at the manger, in death at the Cross. Blood-stained hands of birth, blood-soaked hands at Death.
Trust, Faith, Confidence, Humility. To serve God. And all in His Church are called to serve Him. If the Will of God is to be accomplished, let it be in the heart, that Kingdom where He alone should rule. Do not depose Him. Your world will become wary. A king must sit on his throne. And if it is not Him, then who rules you?
I pray for the Church, yes, that it, She, His Bride, would be ruled by whom the Spirit leads. That bowing of ego is the most profound, always to the Will of God, and never to the will of man. For there IS a life in the desert, by His Protecting Hand. And murderous attempts SHALL be survived by His Guiding, Protecting Hand. And birth SHALL occur, even in the humblest of hearts. And UNION shall be, because it is His Holy Will.
There is a Spirit in this Church; and it is God. Know that it is Breath, Life and Love: This Spirit. Know that Truth prevails. True Life never dies. O children of this Church Which I am asked to protect, know that I am in prayer for you constantly. Because it is the Will of God. Because I am blessed to serve Him Who I trust. With my very life. With all my heart. With all my soul.
God has blessed His people! Emmanuel! God is with us now. Children.....may I call you "children?" Let the Church be Grand. Be grand in the Church. By serving. By obeying. He is God. We are not. He is Great. May His Church be Grand. May His Grace fill your hearts. May His Light shine for all ages through you. Bow in reverence! The King, the Saviour, this Jesus, my Son is Church. He has invited you to be in Him. Achieve His Request. For if you refuse.....where shall you be? I have asked myself these questions and I have responded with my life. What shall YOUR answer be?
I pray for the church. I pray for you To be. In the Gentlest of Hands. His. Amen. +
(2 Sm. 7:4-5, 12-16; Ps. 89:2-5, 27, 29; Rom. 4:13-22; Mt. 1:16-24)
With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah
