 Little children, You are mine! (c)Mike Nolan 2010 |
| May 16, 2012
Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear children! I am inviting you to a complete surrender to God. Pray, little children, that Satan may not carry you about like the branches in the wind. Be strong in God. I desire that through you the whole world may get to know the God of joy. By your life bear witness for God's joy. Do not be anxious nor worried. God himself will help you and show you the way. I desire that you love all men with my love. Only in that way can love reign over the world. Little children, you are mine. I love you and want you to surrender to me so that I can lead you to God. Never cease praying so that Satan cannot take advantage of you. Pray for the knowledge that you are mine. I bless you with blessings of joy. Thank you for having responded to my call." (May 25, 1988)
Back in April, Isabel C. asked me to consider writing about this message from 1988. She said that this message really impacted her, especially the part about being"branches in the wind." She thought we all might profit from a look at this message. I agree completely, Isabel. It is a powerful message, and beautiful!
It fits very much with something that the Lord has been showing me lately. It has to do with my heart, and the ways in which it is still in bondage to satan. The very idea that we can be in bondage to satan frightens many people. They don't want to admit that he even exists. But Our Lady is not afraid to talk about him, as this message demonstrates. She speaks openly about him because he is real, and he is actively trying to harm all of us.
How can this be? Very simply, God made us with the great dignity of having free will. He wants us to be able to freely choose to love Him, to unite with Him, to be happy with Him forever. God made us free because He loves us so much. But satan hates us and wants to take away our freedom, and to harm us. So he takes advantage of our free will to drag us away from God and make us un-free, bound to him. It is the battle for our souls that began in Eden.
Well, how does satan carry us about like branches in the wind? He lies to us. He inserts lies into our hearts and minds (temptation). These lies are disguised as good ideas, true ideas, helpful ideas, but they are lies. And if we believe them and agree with them, they cut us off from the vine (Jesus) and we can then be carried about like branches cut off from the source of life.
Example: When someone hurts us, especially when we are young, we retreat into our sacred center, our soul, and there we cry. We suffer. Satan comes and whispers to us, "You will never be safe with that person again, so you should defend yourself from them by never forgiving them." We can perceive that this unforgiveness makes sense. We might feel that unforgiveness is justified, and even right. We are hurt. We never want to be hurt that way again. And so we agree with satan. We say "yes" to his lie, and we bind ourselves to unforgiveness. From then on, we are not free, not free to love, not free to forgive, not free to let the person who hurt us reconcile with us. We are in prison in our anger and unforgiveness. This is how satan takes advantage of us, as Our Lady says in the message.
We can live with that lie stuck in our heart for years and years. And the longer it is there, the more detached we become from God. We also become more and more unhappy, joyless. Just the opposite of what Our Lady wants us to be: "By your life bear witness for God's joy." How can we live joy when we are bound to lies, to satan? Impossible.
So the answer? "Do not be anxious nor worried. God himself will help you and show you the way. I desire that you love all men with my love. Only in that way can love reign over the world. Little children, you are mine. I love you and want you to surrender to me so that I can lead you to God. Never cease praying so that Satan cannot take advantage of you. Pray for the knowledge that you are mine. I bless you with blessings of joy."
Don't be anxious. Don't worry. Let God show you the way. Love all men with Our Lady's love. Let Mary possess you. Surrender to her so she can lead you to God. Never cease praying. Pray for the knowledge that you are Mary's child.
Through surrender and prayer, we can weed out all the lies that satan has planted in our hearts. We can renounce those lies in the name of Jesus. We can begin to build a life based on the truth. What truth? That God loves us, that we are Mary's children, that we can forgive everyone with God's help, that we are on the way to heaven, that the only way is love...All the things that Our Lady teaches us in her messages. The truth sets us free! Then we are again as God intended us to be. Free and happy!!
To be free is to be grafted onto the vine of life, not branches carried off in the wind of lies. To be free is to be joyful children of God, joyful children of Mary! When we live our lives in surrender to Our Lady through constant prayer, and she is with us, satan will not come close to tempt us because he can't stand Our Lady. Her purity and power drive him away. So we will have much more peace in our thought life, less temptation, more freedom and truth.
Our Lady says, "I bless you with blessings of joy." She means it!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan |
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