A Chink in your God Armour

#237  Tues. Feb. 18/14, 10am., St. Theresa’s chapel, before the Blessed Sacrament

I called you from doing something you planned to do to do something I want you to do.

Both were good.  However My Invitation holds much more soul merit --- obedience.

Hear My Voice oh My People.  Listen for I have much to share with you. 

Endeavor to become accustomed to asking Me in all circumstances. 

Should I clean the kitchen now, brush my hair, seek something to read, work on my computer?

Now some of these may appear so mundane and even silly, yet I want you to build up the habit of depending on Me for ALL things.

You do not have to ask the question each time necessarily like ‘should I brush my hair?’ but listen to My Urgings, My Directions.

Do not think that you are in charge of some things and I am in charge of others.  Not so.

Be attuned to My Presence in your life at all times, in every instant.

When you surrender your day to Me, you do so willing that I will direct you to do all that will bring Glory to Me.

Seek not to separate us by dividing our roles in your day.

You be in charge of this in my day Lord, and I will be in charge of that in my day.  Almost as if you don’t want to get in My Way, but, even more so, that you don’t want Me to get in your way.

Oh, oh, oh.

When you surrender your day to Me, you allow us to work together in harmony.

I told you that you would be My Hands and My Feet. But you can’t be if you do not give Me charge over your hands and your feet.

When you put your slippers on at home, ask Me to bless them so they will take you where I want you to go.

When you put on your winter boots, ask Me to bless them so they will take you where I want you to go.

Hold out your hands each day to be blessed by Me so they will do what I want, need done in this World.

Offer yourself to Me so I can bring the World to a closer union with Me.

Do not hesitate to come aside and learn how to offer yourself in total surrender.

Even those of you who have been saying this prayer, I beg you to continue to come aside to learn more and more how to surrender.

You all know truly that even though you are saying this prayer, there are many times when your surrender is incomplete.

I don’t tell you this to discourage you, but to challenge you to continue to seek a closer union with Me.

It is what we all want and need and yet we still may want to cling to pieces and parts of ourselves otherwise we feel we are lost, or smothered, or lack initiative.

Don’t let your foolish pride tell you that there are still parts of you worth keeping away from My Love and My Grace.

Do you hear the devil whispering?

Do you hear that he still hopes to find a piece, even a small piece of you that you don’t want to give over to God?

All he needs is a slight chink in your God armour to worm his way in to start to try to rule in your life again.

You noted the other day the reading regarding Solomon, who was so wise, when he got older he fell away from God to worship false gods.

So even the wisest can be brought very low.

That it why I encourage you to seek to know throughout your day anywhere where there may be a chink in your armour.

It is like an examination of conscience.  Yet I encourage you to allow Me to advise you throughout the day if these are parts of you that you have not surrendered yet.

Let Me instruct you ‘at the moment’ otherwise you may feel that list at the end of the day is too long to bother with, and for some it will seem even too big to tackle.

So each day as you say the surrender prayer “O Jesus I surrender myself to you, take care of everything”, do so willingly.

Willing to let Me show you whenever the occasion arises how your surrendering isn’t as full as you could make it.

The surrender prayer and the recent prayer “O God strengthen my soul” go so hand in hand.

Because as you willingly surrender yourself to Me, also willingly ask Me to strengthen your soul, so that any ‘corrections’ I point out to you, you will not take as hurts but as marvelous helps for your soul that you know needs strengthening daily and even moment by moment.

Your strengthened soul will not mind Me pointing out to you where you can even surrender more and more to Me.

We get hurt and feel hopeless when we perceive My ‘Corrections’ for you as a deliberate attack on poor you, and thus you will be inclined to give up surrendering to take a lot of time out to try to be with and feel sorry for your hurt self.

Here is the devil again.  He has found a chink in your God armour – you trying to feel sorry for you and he quickly hastens to fill it with more of ‘you feeling sorry for yourself” medicine that is so deadly poisonous.

Jump out of this slump quickly and into My Sacred Heart.  I will welcome you and nourish you and love you. 

Not to satisfy the hurt and thus let you feel justified in feeling hurt, but rather to love you out of this darkness into My Light.

It is only the Light of My Love that can bring you back from feeling sorry for yourself.

You all know what I mean.  Take a moment right now and think of an instance when you went into the ‘I feel sorry for me” mode.

That is a serious chink in your armour, but, if I do not tell you this, you may let it persist for all day.

That is why I ask you to beg Me to jump in ‘at the moment’ and to reveal to you the lack of Me in your life.  Then you see it does not get to persist for very long and thus the devil does not have all that extra day time to bring in more and more legions.

You must surrender each moment to Me and each moment allow Me to strengthen your soul.

You will know when both are needed because you have asked Me to strengthen your soul.  A strong soul will be more aware of what is happening and what needs more of My Care.

A strong soul will welcome My “Corrections” not as chastisement but as bountiful food for my soul.

So, this new, holy day open your new heart that you have gone and had filled with My Divine Love and relish in the fact that you are more than willing to have Me bring more Graces into your life today than yesterday.

With New Graces comes your realization that there are many more moments in your day that can be filled with more Graces.

Do you see each moment in your day more in need of more Graces?  Count the number of seconds in your day.  Ask Me for all the Graces needed for each of these moments.   I have them ready and willing to pour over you.

Sit quietly in My Love.  Adore Me the Giver of Moment to Moment Graces.

I love each one of you.  I want you to know how much I love each one of you.