Title:  "You must become willing to grow through and beyond your spiritual puberty."

(Notebook 57, pp. 2--6)

Live  †  Jesus

First Saturday, December 4, 1999

Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,

[Jesus speaks....]
On that day.....Which day is it?  Is it NOW, in your hearing?  For here My Kingdom is!  Is it today?  For I am calling.  Can you hear the sound of My Voice?

O little ones, DO hear Me and SHOW that you have heard My Voice, by achieving all I have set you out to do.  Would I set you in motion in a desert, if I were not with you?  Would I ask you to slay the giant if I had not first given you the strength?  Would I plant My Kingdom with a mustard seed, had I not known of its God-given ability to sprout up into a fine bush?  Would I not have reduced Myself to the Vine, had I not given you the ability to grow upon Me as My fruit?  Would I leave you to hunger and thirst in a world filled with "junk food" when *I* am always your Perfect Meal?  Would I leave you to live in a world governed by darkness, without the True Light of My Spirit?

Would I do these things?  Do I not provide for you?  Then I say:  Trust in My Word.  My Word is Truth.  I teach that you would learn, that you would LIVE.  In Me.  If you are the Light of the world, then you must become brighter.  For darkness is growing darker.

This Kingdom is MINE, and soon enough I shall shake it loose of all which does not belong.  But be not concerned with My "soon".....be concerned with where you are in Me.  For I come to each of you like a thief in the night.  That is why I ask you to live as if you are not asleep.  For the enemy would snare you while you are less watchful, or not watchful for Me.....

Again I say:  Where is your focus?  On Me.  Do you yet have the eyes of Stephen?  [Jesus refers to the first martyr.]  Had I not asked that of you?  Have I not Graced you in this regard?

O children!  I could talk and talk and talk.  But too many of you are like reluctant, recalcitrant teenagers!  You must become willing to grow through and beyond your spiritual puberty.  That you may become a complete, whole child in Me by your willingness to finally admit.....with your life.....that *I* am God and you are not!  For until this occurs, you shall be unhappy and your unhappiness shall be because you are willingly stuck in your growth in Me.  You are afraid of challenge.....and I tell you to bring all your burdens to Me.  Lift all your fears to Me.  Do you do this?  Now child.....I said....A-L-L!

Measure yourself in My Light.  Pray for willingness to see yourself in My Light.  LIVE all which has been taught, or YOU are deciding that My Lessons have no value.  I DO long to send you OUT but NOW you are all too often getting LOST where you are!  I would not send you where you should not tread.  Then why are you always inclined to enter a foreign land without Me?......I speak in Words deeper than the surface meaning, child.

Hear Me, lambs.  Live Me, lambs.  Now, because "now" determines your forever.  Amen.    †

(Is. 30:19-21, 23-26; Ps. 147:1-6; Mt. 9:35--10:1, 6-8)

With Love, in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
His Sarah