#163 Thurs. Aug. 1, 2013, St. Theresa’s before the Blessed Sacrament
When you come into My Presence, you are experiencing an Eternal Moment with Me.
It does not matter the length of time on the clock. It matters that you come to be with Me.
I know, and so do you, that you can be with Me anywhere at any time.
Yet, this coming aside to be in My Presence before the Blessed Sacrament allows for a deeper relationship to develop and grow.
Now I know there are places where My Real Presence is not exposed and, fear not, the prayers of those people and their desire to communion with Me is answered in another way.
It is like going to a movie.
Does this sound like a trite comparison?
You can go to the movie and be in the presence of the other movie goers, or you may read reviews about it, or you may see snippets of it on tv.
Which brings to you the fuller picture?
So I encourage you to see the fuller picture – it is not just being in My Real Presence but it is making the effort to be in My Real Presence when it is so available.
There is no sin attached to coming into My Real Presence versus not coming.
It is just a chance for you to choose to commit yourself to a deeper opportunity to be with Me.
So, dare not condemn those who don’t feel called to come. Let Me speak to the needs of their heart in My Way in My Time.
Just be o so, so grateful that you recognize My Call to your heart and that you are so fortunate that you can come aside.
There may be some who ache to be before Me and, due to work or other circumstances, they cannot be.
Well, as you sit with Me bring all their souls into My Presence. Time and space do not hinder souls from coming before Me.
Thank Me that you are able to come and that I am here Present before you.
Now thank Me that I have given you insight and permission to bring the souls of those who ache to be here and can’t -- due to whatever the situation.
What a great gift you give them! They will feel refreshed and maybe wonder why but that is neither here nor there.
What is important is that we recognize their ache and also know how refreshed we feel when we come before You.
I want all of you who hear and listen to My Words to realize that I Love you so that I honor you with the task to bring souls into My Presence.
It shows that you trust that I am more than willing to employ you in helping Me sustain souls.
My Presence to you is that profound that you realize the importance of others coming into My Presence. None are to be left out.
So sit with Me now and bring to Me souls that ache to be with Me, souls that have not yet developed the ache to be with Me, souls that don’t even care that I AM.
My Real Presence becomes more real to you each time you trustingly bring souls into My Presence.
You need not pray for a person in a vacuum.
Just bring them before Me – their souls that is -- and thus proclaim to their souls and yours the importance of Me, “Really Present” in their lives.
Note that each time you affirm Me to them by bringing their souls to meet Me time and time again, you are also affirming to your own heart and soul the depth and reality and truth of My Real Presence.
You just told Me Margo, that you fear you will not serve Me well and then it dawned on you, with insight from Me, that I have not called you ‘to serve Me well’ -- I have just called you to serve.
Remove all of your judgment on how well or not well you are serving Me.
That sly remark comes from the evil one who will try to trip you up using your pride “o am I serving God well enough?”, “perhaps I am not?”, “I should try harder.”
He will take you away from serving Me to make you try, without success, to serve Me better.
All you have to say when I call you to serve is “Here I am Lord to do Your Will.”
Is that not a familiar phrase from the Bible?
So not “here I am Lord to try to do my best to serve you.” Such false service.
And it will come to nothing because you have taken the control from Me and re-inserted it into your broken self-striving-for-glory self.
These insights come, Margo, as each person I call to come sit with Me answers My Call.
I do not reward trust and faithfulness, rather by coming aside you are more open to hearing and accepting the Truths I want to place in your heart.
And what a marvelous reward, eh?
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