(c)Mateo Ivankovic 2018
March 20, 2018
Dear Family of Mary!
Dear children! My earthly life was simple. I loved and I rejoiced in small things. I loved life - the gift from God - even though pain and sufferings pierced my heart. My children, I had the strength of faith and boundless trust in God's love. All those who have the strength of faith are stronger. Faith makes you live according to what is good and then the light of God's love always comes at the desired moment. That is the strength which sustains in pain and suffering. My children, pray for the strength of faith, trust in the Heavenly Father, and do not be afraid. Know that not a single creature who belongs to God will be lost but will live forever. Every pain has its end and then life in freedom begins there where all of my children come - where everything is returned. My children, your battle is difficult. It will be even more difficult, but you follow my example. Pray for the strength of faith; trust in the love of the Heavenly Father. I am with you. I am manifesting myself to you. I am encouraging you. With immeasurable motherly love I am caressing your souls. Thank you. (March 18, 2018)
"Dear children..."
Here
is what St. Paul tells us about being children of God! His description
has much in common with Our Lady's exhortation in the March 18, 2018
message. "The Spirit himself bear[s] witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs...!!!" May we drink in these bold words of faith!!!
Romans 8: 14-39:
For
all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not
receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have
received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, "Abba! Father!" it is the
Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of
God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with
Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be
glorified with him.
I
consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth
comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation
waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the
creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will
of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set
free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the
children of God.
We
know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together
until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the
first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as
sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now
hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we
hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Likewise,
the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as
we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep
for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind
of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to
the will of God.
We
know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who
are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also
predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he
might be the first-born among many brethren. And those whom he
predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified;
and those whom he justified he also glorified.
What
then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us? He who
did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also
give us all things with him? Who shall bring any charge against God's
elect? It is God who justifies; who is to condemn? Is it Christ Jesus,
who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of
God, who indeed intercedes for us? Who shall separate us from the love
of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, "For thy sake we are
being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be
slaughtered."
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through
him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor
powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will
be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 8:14-39)
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
(c)Mary TV 2018
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"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world."
Saint John Paul II
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