A Word To Rouse the Weary

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Hello, family, many of us are going through various, trials, tests, and temptations. Some of us may feel on the verge of even wanting to give up. It may seem as though your situations have not changed but they have even become more intense as the fire seems hotter than ever.
Last week we got in our missal reading when doing the Lord’s Supper about Jesus being tempted for 40 days and 40 nights before starting his public ministry, and how Satan was relentless in wearing the Lord out, to give in, to buckle, to cave in, and to serve him and his lies. And now Satan is tempting us Heartdwellers in various ways to give in, to buckle, to cave in, and to serve him and his lies.

These past two weeks I had come under demonic attacks and oppression. First, in the form of night terrors and sleep paralysis with feelings of a demonic presence in my room. I offered these attacks and my sleeplessness to the Lord for the salvation of souls—especially the children who have been kidnapped, who will be kidnapped, sex trafficked, and tortured this month for Halloween.

Then the Lord made it clear that we had been cursed again and many assignments had landed upon the Body of Christ. When one suffers, we all suffer and the Lord, yet again, permitted this for the salvation of souls. When we back up our prayers with sacrifice and suffering it is so powerful.

Many times we want to be delivered from our trials quickly and swiftly and find it so hard to keep pressing on when the night seems so long and continues to get darker. As I have talked to others, many have been going through various trials in their marriages, in their ministries, attacks against their faith, with their relationship with the Lord, demonic attacks, you name it. All of us are being hit right now, and it may be the same trial that you have been battling that has just intensified. I just wanted to encourage you all that you are not alone, and the Lord has made it clear to me after the 40-day temptation reading and the attack that night, I heard in my spirit, “For 40 days, you all will have diabolical temptations that I will use to sanctify and purify you”.

I shrugged that thought of thinking that it was my mind but with this ongoing trial I realize that was the Holy Spirit. All of our trials look different. Mine has been a cross of contradiction, confusion, frustration, discouragement, and deep sadness. As the enemy attacks my faith in not believing anymore in any word that Jesus speaks to me. The fear has seemed like a mountain which I couldn’t move, which causes me to not only doubt every word given before but tremble to get another one. There were days when a garment of heaviness took over me, and all I could do was cry.

I just couldn’t seem to get out and away from this cloud of darkness as the demons were so loudly reminding me, especially in prayer, that I couldn’t trust the Lord’s faithfulness anymore. I would fight through it just so I can be available to the ladies and my responsibilities throughout the day, just to wake up and be hit all over again. It was like a pit I could not get out of, with exhaustion added that you cannot imagine, which was not normal for me.

For you it may be hopelessness, thoughts of suicide, loneliness, deep despair, anger, deep discontentment, division or strife in a relationship, relentless attacks against your mind, continual sexual attacks in the middle of the night, a deep yoke of condemnation, and shame that you’re drowning in. It may be extreme lethargy, anxiety attacks, depression, or slander and false accusations hurled at you by those you love. Whatever your cross may look like, that is just it—it is a cross the Lord has entrusted you to carry for your purification and for the salvation of souls.

When we are suffering, many times it causes us to take our eyes off the cross, and onto ourselves. We start asking the Lord; why me, what have I done to deserve this; Lord, how long will this go on; when will I be set free, when will things change? These are all the questions I had this week as I tried to reason through my sufferings. But the only answer is the cross. Although I was looking for a personal word from Jesus to me, I hadn’t heard from him in over a week and my heart was war-torn and aching unbearably. Even the Rhemas I was receiving were bringing no comfort as it seemed as if the Lord was hiding himself from me for a time. Until these scriptures came up in my Lord’s Supper.

Hebrews 5:7-9 Christ’s Obedience

In the days when Christ Jesus was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplication with loud cries and tears to the One who was able to save him from death. Son, though he was, He learned obedience from what he suffered, and when he was made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.

So even Jesus offered prayers with tears and cries many times. He understands your tears and your cries. He not only laid down his divinity but his perfection that he allowed himself to be shaped and formed through suffering so he could learn obedience to the Father. Jesus was without sin, and he still had to suffer to learn obedience. Then how much more us, who are full of sin, have to suffer to also learn obedience to the Father’s will.

John 12:23-32

23 Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. 25 Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
27 “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” 29 The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him. 30 Jesus said, “This voice was for your benefit, not mine. 31 Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out. 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

So we are that kernel of wheat that must die to produce much fruit. We must die to our flesh, our self-love, our preference, opinions, expectations, our desires, and our pursuit of a selfish life, to gain the eternal one.

And what is eternal life? To know the one true God and to know the one he sent Jesus Christ. It is experiential knowledge of God. And how do you get to know God in this intimate way? Through suffering. Many times we can cry out like Jesus mentioned in the Scripture, “God save me from this hour of trial”, but Jesus responded and said, “No it was for this reason that I came” He was simply saying it was for this reason I was born, for this trail that my Father may be glorified. Our response must be the same. When you are met with a devastating trial or test that is so painful, and the enemy of your soul is tempting you, beckoning you to give up, you must then say, “No, it was for this reason that I, too, was born—that I came on this earthly exile that I may suffer this trial so that the Father may be glorified”.

Then Jesus spoke to all present and said that when he would be lifted up, he would draw all men to himself. He was referring to being lifted up on the cross. His suffering lifted him up—becoming an eternal sign and symbol of redemption of mankind. So you see, brothers and sisters, our sufferings, although you feel so low, so humiliated, and so debased—when you not only carry your cross but are nailed to it submitting yourself to the will of God, you are actually being lifted up. That through your life, through that testimony that will come from this trial, through the many souls that will receive the grace of conversion through your suffering, you will then draw all men to Jesus.

So remember, when the Lord lifts you up on the cross to be with him when you suffer, you draw all man to him. Nothing is wasted. We have a long road ahead of us family, and the Lord is going to ask of us many sacrifices—some small and some great. He will give to some burdens, trials, and others he may take away your rest, your relationships, your health, and even your loved ones.

But we must say yes to whatever he asks of us. We must not shrink back, give in to despair, and think we’re fighting alone. Because He understands and is right beside you, do not be shaken. And when the fire gets hot do not think that it will burn you but it’s being used to purify you and ignite you to be on fire with divine love and zeal for Him. As he answered the cry of the heart that souls would be saved as graces pour out through your melodies of praise in your storm and the melodies of prayer that come forth from your tears. None of it is or will be in vain preserver, my fellow weary brides, let us persevere and trust in his goodness.

And lastly, I will end with a reading from The Imitation of Mary, How to Offer the Sacrifices God Asks of Us.

Blessed Mother began,

“My Child,

“Be persevering and generous like me when God asks anything of you, no matter what it may be. He asked me to sacrifice what I loved the most. Yet what does He ordinality ask of you? Only the sacrifices of what you ought to hate! If you love God, generosity should be the main proof of your love. A heart that is mean, does not know what it means to love. If you are unwilling to do anything difficult for God— if you lose heart at the sight of difficulties to be surmounted, can you be said to love?

“True love proves itself in pain and conflict. Inability to suffer is incompatible with the outlook and practice of an authentic follower of Jesus. Do you want to please the Lord with your surfaces? Then off them promptly and without inquiring what they will cost you. The world asks harder sacrifices of its disciples, yet it need only speak, and they obey immediately and completely. Is God to be the only Lord to whom no one is willing to offer sacrifices without first inquiring whether He is asking too much? My child, we have but little love for God if we put limits to the proofs our love is willing to give. In the world, a person who acts solely according to whim and loves only when its suits his interests, when nonetheless not dare show a heart such as most Christians dare offer God. A son who does only what his father absolutely requires, a wife who is not interested in pleasing her husband when pleasing him makes demands on her—do such people show a sincere and acceptable love?

“God is infinitely good to all His creatures, but He is also a jealous God. He is not served as He requires and deserves to be served unless He is served with a Heart perfectly submissive to His wish. Be ashamed then, to do so little for Him when He has done so much for you. Do you find that He gives you orders sometimes difficult to carry out? My Child, He will give you other such orders, for you must earn His rewards. Prosperity, rest, reputation, health, life itself: all these He may ask of you, for He has right to them all.

“Do not be surprises that the more you give Him, the more He will ask of you. He does this in order to prepare you for the greater favors during your time on earth and to enable you to receive greater rewards in heaven.”

That was the end of Blessed Mother’s message.

Let’s not refuse what the Lord is asking of each of us, let’s give ourselves to him generously …all for souls.

He Understands
Chandler Moore

I HAVE A FRIEND, HE UNDERSTANDS
I HAVE A FRIEND, HE UNDERSTANDS

THERE’S NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
QUESTIONS WE HAVE, HAVE BEEN SAID AND DONE
FULLY GOD AND MAN, HE FELT IT ALL, ALL, ALL
HIGH AS KING BUT STILL, HE’S LOW ENOUGH
TO MEET US WHERE WE ARE
HE UNDERSTANDS

HE WAS ALONE, LEFT BY HIS FRIENDS
FOXES HAVE HOLES, HE HAD NOWHERE TO GO
NO PLACE TO LAY HIS HEAD, SO IF ANYONE KNOWS
HE UNDERSTANDS
I HAVE A FRIEND, HE UNDERSTANDS
HE UNDERSTANDS

AND I’VE FOUND A FRIEND IN THE HIGH PRIEST
WHO’S NOT OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY
HE WAS A MAN, TEMPTED LIKE ME
SO I WON’T FEEL GUILTY
HE GIVES ME SPACE TO BE WHAT HE MADE ME
HE UNDERSTANDS

HE WAS ALONE, LEFT BY HIS FRIENDS
FOXES HAVE HOLES, HE HAD NOWHERE TO GO
NO PLACE TO LAY HIS HEAD, SO IF ANYONE KNOWS
HE UNDERSTANDS

I HAVE A FRIEND, HE UNDERSTANDS
HE UNDERSTANDS

THE PAIN YOU FEEL INSIDE
(HE UNDERSTANDS)
THE TEARS YOU CRY AT NIGHT
(HE UNDERSTANDS)
I KNOW YOU WANT TO HIDE
(HE UNDERSTANDS)
I KNOW YOU WANT TO RUN AWAY
(HE UNDERSTANDS)

WOAH OH-OH-OH-OH
(HE UNDERSTANDS)
I’M SO GLAD HE UNDERSTANDS
(HE UNDERSTANDS)
HE’S MY FRIEND AND HE UNDERSTANDS
(HE UNDERSTANDS)
I DON’T HAVE TO WORRY; I DON’T HAVE TO FRET
(HE UNDERSTANDS)

WOAH OH-OH-OH-OH
WOAH OH-OH-OH-OH

WOAH OH-OH-OH-OH
I HAVE A FRIEND AND HE UNDERSTANDS
(HE UNDERSTANDS)
EVEN IF NO ONE ELSE UNDERSTANDS
(HE UNDERSTANDS)
HE UNDERSTANDS

HE WAS ALONE, LEFT BY HIS FRIENDS
FOXES HAVE HOLES, HE HAD NOWHERE TO GO
NO PLACE TO LAY HIS HEAD, SO IF ANYONE KNOWS
HE UNDERSTANDS

YEAH, HE UNDERSTANDS
HE’S FELT EVERYTHING THAT I’VE FELT
HE’S LIVED THROUGH IT ALL
HE UNDERSTANDS
I HAVE FRIEND, HE UNDERSTANDS
HE UNDERSTANDS
I HAVE FRIEND, HE UNDERSTANDS
I HAVE FRIEND, HE UNDERSTANDS
I HAVE FRIEND, HE UNDERSTANDS
I HAVE FRIEND, HE UNDERSTANDS

HE’S FELT IT ALL, TEMPTED BY IT ALL
STILL HE WAS SINLESS, HE LIVED THROUGH IT ALL
EVERY QUESTION, EVERY FEAR
EVERY FEELING, HE’S RIGHT HERE
HE UNDERSTANDS

YOU’RE NOT ALONE IN YOUR CONFUSION
YOU’RE NOT ALONE IN YOUR DOUBT
YOU’RE NOT ALONE IN YOUR FRUSTRATION
HE UNDERSTANDS
HE UNDERSTANDS
I HAVE FRIEND, HE UNDERSTANDS
I HAVE FRIEND, HE UNDERSTANDS

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