Wednesday, February 26, 2025

SIRACH 6:32-33, 37 (2025)

SIRACH 6:32-33, 37

If you are willing, my child, you can be disciplined,
and if you apply yourself you will become clever.

If you love to listen you will gain knowledge,
and if you pay attention you will become wise.

Reflect on the statutes of the Lord,
and meditate at all times on his commandments.
It is he who will give insight to your mind,
and your desire for wisdom will be granted.

---- mine,

Wisdom is unattainable for fools, those caught up in worldly affairs, who lack self-will self-mastery, and self-control. Those who are easily dissipated, those with a short attention span, those who actively seek a life of ease, and those who indulge every appetite as soon as they desire it. These will not inherit the Kingdom of God. For the Kingdom of God is righteousness, goodness, and self-control, and from these flow goodness, peace, peace, joy, and quiet contentment in the will of God and in pursuing the things that lift the heart, mind, soul, and spirit to God. Ask for the gift of being still, quieting your senses, emptying yourself of all distractions and restless yearnings of the flesh. Be still and listen. Ask and you will receive everything you ask for in prayer for God delights in pouring His gifts to all who ask with sincerity, with fervor, and without tiring. Wisdom is given to those who truly desire it and having received this gift they will treasure it and ponder it until it becomes a way of life. Ask, seek, knock, and all you ask for will be given to you in abundance, shaken together and overflowing for God delights in giving every good and perfect gift to those who ask sincerely.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

MARK 6:56 (2025)

MARK 6:56

And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms, they laid the sick in the market-places, and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched it were healed.

---- mine,

Come to Me. Touch Me, even the hem of My Garment. Clothe yourself with My Spirit, allow My grace to imbue your soul, and fear nothing fear and worry are useless they weaken you and fill you with anxiety. Rather, have confidence in My love, have faith in My Word. Let My Word nourish you, increase your faith, hope, and above all your love for Me, and extend the love I have put into your heart to everyone you encounter daily. Be still and know that I AM God there is no other. Run to Me with all your troubles nothing pleases Me more than childlike confidence, simplicity, and trust in Me. I have loved you with a love that is beyond measure and I desire that you seek Me in all that you experience in life - the good, the bad, the perplexing, the painful, the mysterious, the sorrowful. When you weep, weep in My arms, when you laugh lift your gaze to Me and bless Me, when you are sick rest in Me and let My healing love and power enfold you, when you are afraid run to Me and tell Me all your fears. Live in Me so I may live in you and you will experience the love of God, the power of God, and the presence of God alive in you. Have no fear about anything, ---- my own, for I have overcome the world, the flesh, and the dev.l Victory is Mine and this victory I share with all who are Mine.