#83 Jan. 13, 2013, Sunday, 10pm
Hear My Voice 0 Jerusalem.
Hear My Voice each person of God.
It will come to each of you in a different way. Do not wish to ‘hear’ Me as someone else does. Ask Me to speak to you as you need to hear.
I want to converse with you. So ask Me to. I want to.
Remember don’t try to figure out how you will do this. You do nothing but ask Me to speak in and thru you in a way that makes sense to you.
We often say “how can I do such and such?” You can’t and be very satisfied with that answer.
I can do it for you. You can’t. I can.
It is not up to you to open your heart to My knocking. You can’t do it. The only way you can is to ask Me to open your heart to My Love and My Graces.
We go around in little circles trying to improve ourselves, trying to have a closer relationship with Me.
And I have told you – you can’t. But pride and foolishness prevent us from hearing this Truth.
Just ask Me. Put Me in charge of each situation.
Do you want to be closer to Me, then ask Me to help you with these Special Graces that you can’t conjure up yourself.
You can’t grace yourself. You need My Special Graces to grow closer and closer to Me. And I am the Only One who has access to these Graces to hand them out.
I do not withhold them or hoard them. I just have them by My very nature. And by your very nature you do not have them.
I can give them to you in abundance if you ask for them.
So don’t waste your time trying to strive for this or that to get closer to Me.
It is a futile task.
But ask Me. That certainly is not a futile task.
Ask Me to quiet your mind. Do not try to do it on your own, thinking you have the ability to do this. You don’t. So ask Me.
When you have any problem ask Me to solve it.
You must learn to be TOTALLY reliant on My help. Does this make you feel foolish, or miniscule, or of little worth or ability?
It takes strength and grace to ask for help.
It is not a sign of weakness but rather a sign of great strength. Otherwise, we pretend we know all the answers and this is a False and a Most Deceptive way to live.
It does not make ‘you’ easy to live with ‘you’.
Harden not your heart. Let it melt into Mine. Ask Me to melt your heart into Mine if that is what you really want.
This is a form of suffering you know. You suffer losing the crutch of self-control and have to step out in faith to Trust only Me.
Sit quietly and contemplate the times you trusted in Me and the times you did not.
Did you see a difference in the outcome of Trusting Me compared to trusting you?
Climb down from your ladder that wants you to reach for success all on your own.
You do not need a ladder to reach Me. I am all around in great solid abundance.
You need to be willing to come aside and sit with Me. And do not give Me the excuse “I just don’t have the time.”
I mete out time and I always give time to be able to sit and contemplate My Words. On the other hand, you search to find something to fill this time, so you can say “No, I just don’t have time.”
Be careful, be aware, you do not have any control of time -- we think we do, but we don’t.
I move the hands on the clock. I tick time.
You can only take the time I freely give you and make it God-centered or you-centered.
Then you throw up the argument “then if I take time for myself, I am not taking God time?”
Oh, how readily we defend our right to ‘my time.” You don’t own it, be sure of that.
Whatever you are doing is it ‘what Jesus would do?” – i.e. is it centered on, based on, His teachings of purity, piety, honesty, kindness, stillness, love?
If so then it is God-centered time. If any of the negative feelings drive your time – jealousy, envy, gossip, etc., then you can easily see it is not God-time.
So treasure every moment that is centered on Me. And ask Me to show you how to gather more of these moments and center them on Me.
What an adventure – to fill your time busily serving the Lord whatever you are doing – reading, walking, dishes, making beds, giving a talk. There are so many moments that we can spend more with God. Just ask Him to show you these.
One of the prime ways is to hold your tongue. Talk less and honor Me more by your silence and lack of ‘knowing-it-all.’
I have seen you do it already and it makes Me smile when I see you stop the thoughts from flowing into unnecessary words.
You have asked Me ‘to cleave your tongue to the roof of your mouth’ and you have seen how I do this and you have been obedient to it.
Yet, don’t forget to thank Me each time you say less – just ‘thanks’ and I will know what it is for and for whom you give thanks.
Now to sleep. As you fall asleep ask Me to help you contemplate My Sacred Face. Just Ask and it shall be done.
God bless – I love you abundantly and beyond.
