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Monthly Archives: Nov 2015

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30 Mon Nov 2015

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If any of you have sufferred with depression or another form of what the world calls mental illness then you may have visited a doctor or other professional.

One of the first things they do is to ask you about your past.

– How many were in your family?
– What were Mum and Dad like?
– Were you abused?
– Any history of this in your family?
– When did it start?

So you see, they are very aware that the past influences the present and then often set about medicating patients while offering counselling to make peace with the past.

But imagine if I go to a doctor with a heart condition and then decide to read books about the heart in order to better understand my illness. This will not heal me, I could still drop dead with a heart attack! However it might help me better cope with it!

And so it is with illnesses of the spirit and mind. Understanding why you are sick won’t heal you. Sure, it’ll help you a little but it won’t actually heal those painful hurts.

So what then? God can go where tablets can’t and grace which is like liquid love can melt away the hurts that are stored in your subconscious mind or spirit. Jesus can’t change the past, but he can change the consequences of it.

This is healing from the inside out and is amazing. This weekend I met several people who have been healed in this way after modern medecine failed them.

In conclusion I think it’s worth asking ourselves a question :

What does being mentally well look like?

Is it having a job, car, wife, enjoying life and its pleasures, sex, alcohol, money, success and not caring about God.

Or is it rather meeting God, allowing Him to direct our lives and heal our brokeness. Respecting moral laws and God’s ways and living responsibly while learning to pray and to have a personal relationship with God.

In conclusion, I’d suggest not using the word ‘mental health’ because there is almost an automatic dissociation with the spiritual. Instead why not use ‘health’ which encompasses mind, body and spirit and if you are unwell why not seek out somebody in the inner healing ministry and give God and his team a go as well as doctors!

On a lighter note! Next time you visit your doctor say a prayer for him, in God’s eyes he might be more unwell than yourself!

Healing and the Mass

28 Sat Nov 2015

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‘Many of you have been going to mass for 40 years and yet you see no change in your lives’ was the start of a wonderful teaching that I heard while in India!

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Why? It all hinges on the offetory!!

He went on to explain that the offetory is the moment when we are to offer all our lives to Jesus,our inner wounds, our inabilities to forfive, our fears, our health, concerns for our families, our dilemmas at work, our financial problems, our concern for the world…

What we offer, Jesus takes and then as we receive Holy Communion Jesus comes into all these areas of our lives and hearts.

The priest then smiled and said that instead of offering Jesus all areas of their lives that most people are too busy fumbling in their pockets trying to find some change and so they forget to offer Jesus what he really wants, hearts!

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And because they didn’t invite Jesus into the various areas of their lives and because Jesus doesn’t force himself nothing changes even after 40 years!

Sadly some then stop going to mass as it seems to be no good while others continue to go out of routine but have little faith that anything actually happens.

The priest then invited everybody to make a proper offering, and guess what? There were literally healings and breakthroughs everywhere.

So next time you are at mass, offer Jesus what He so thirsts for, your hearts and all the little and big things in your lives and begin to live even more from the extraordinary power of the Eucharist!

Also, teach others how to really participate and live from the Mass. It is life changing!

Casting out demons

28 Sat Nov 2015

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One of the most controversial areas in the church today is the area of evil spirits, primarily because most people don’t believe they exist and those that are supposed to know (priests, pastors. ) receive such poor training, if any, that a lot of their prayers wouldn’t cast out a fly not to mention a demon. But when you do meet a good one, that’s gold! So what does God do in light.of all this ?

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To assist the Church He gives very ordinary lay people such as myself charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit to discern spirits, cast them out and to bring healing to others!

There are many lies out there about all this, some including….

Only a priest can do this – wrong, if that were the case God would not give lay people these gifts. I have met hundreds of lay people with these gifts.

You are not an exorcist – There is a difference between deliverance and exorcism. Anyone can minister deliverance (though some get special gifts) while only an exorcist can do an exorcism.

Possession by demons are extremely rare so there is little use for this. False, full on possessions are rare but partial possessions and infestations are extremely common and so there is a massive need for healing and casting out spirits.

It’s all just mental illness. Well if that’s the case, Jesus himself is the greatest mental case in history and anybody who claims to love him but doesn’t believe in what he did and taught is a hypocrete.

You need specialist training. False, you simply need the Holy Spirit. He will train you on the field. Sure you’ll make mistakes but over time you’ll get better.

Satan will get angry and he’ll get you. Sure he’ll get angry and he’ll bite you a few times as you learn, but over time God will heal you of this fear. Satan is only small and weak when we are filled with God’s grace. After a while you’ll laugh at him.

Maybe God is calling you into this ministry or just to be spiritually aware in your own life? Lord call more people to the inner healing and deliverance ministry and please open doors so that future priests are trained, equipped and fearless in this critical area.

Healing, real or rubbish?!

19 Thu Nov 2015

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Many people have being going to Church all their lives, maybe 50 years. They have never maybe had an experience of God, their lives may be a mess, angry, bitter, families torn apart……and then somebody talks to them of healing….Can you see why they may doubt?

So how is this possible?! Easy! God can only bring healing to the areas of our lives that we give him! People want healing, on their conditions, not on God’s conditions! And guess what, it doesn’t work!

Sin blocks God’s grace. If you lie cheat and steal in say your business, you are not allowing God’s grace to operate in your business. Similarily, if you have an affair or bully your wife, you are blocking God’s grace in your marriage. If you hate yourself and can’t forgive others then you are blocking God’s grace in your own personal life. Again, if you don’t pray and go to Church you are once again blocking God. Your free will is working against you!

So if you are doubtful about spiritual healing or wondering why an area of your life can’t be healed…dare to be bold…ask yourself if you are blocking it yourself, either deliberately or subconsciously?

Can you apologize to your neighbour for what you did or said?

Can you repay any money you may have stolen or swindled?

Can you go back to Church and take up prayer?

In summary…can you recognize your mistakes, ask for forgiveness and then change your ways?

If not, then ask no more why God isn’t healing you, ask rather why you are preventing him!

God, give me the grace to give you my life, the humility to make changes to my life and the courage to follow them through!

God and cars!!

06 Fri Nov 2015

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I’ve always loved driving and well God knows it. As I reflect on my car history over the years I see that God has humour.

Before my conversion I drove a Volvo C30. Worth lots of money, a bit different, show offy, overpriced…..just like I was at the time!!

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When converted I drove to the south of France with this car. After a few weeks the Lord said ‘time to let it go ‘…it was subsequently put on the market! Then the Lord introduced me to a French man who was selling a car…..25 years old, no power steering, starter, choke, took 3 goes to start….I took a test drive…I said ‘dear Jesus, you must be joking’. I knew He wasn’t,  sold to the irish clown!

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It drove fine for a while, all over the south of France, up and down to Lyon but when I took it to Paris (900 k) the cable for the accelerator snapped on the motorway while I was overtaking a truck! I got it repaired but when the back tyre exploded 3 months later again on the mororway with a monk or someone beside I figured that it was time to say bye bye if I valued my life!!

Then came a long period with no car, this was to learn to trust Jesus as I sat in cars and motorbikes with every sort of lunatic in France from the best drivers to those who had got their licences by collecting tokens from cereal boxes!! It was an enormous mortification for me but with time and grace I quickly got out of the habit of being a ‘back seat driver’ or for that matter driving at all!

For 2 years I hardly drove at all and when I arrived in India that did not change. It seemed like utter chaos…though honestly I would love to have driven in India but nobody would let me!!!

So I arrived in Oz and had no car of my own for the first 8 months until a friend lent me a car!! It made more noise than a chainsaw and 20 years ago I’m sure it’d have been cool!!

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God has a sense of humour, I was driving around like a hoot in a police magnet. I got stopped countless times by cops. It made me laugh ‘don’t judge’ is what the Lord said, you never know anybody’s circumstances!

6 months later I had to give the car back and once again I was on my feet. This was to last for a further 3 months until I was randomly lent another car…. 8 cylinder Turbo…yea baby! .

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How I laughed a month later when I found all these guys looking at me at the garage in my $20 leather  jacket and borrowed car and empty wallet. I smiled at God and said ‘if only they knew, there is no need to be jealous of me’!!

An ambulance ramming into me as I made a dangerous turn put an end to that car a few months later!

So what have I learnt?!

1. Jesus really likes white!!!

2. Not to get attached to material things, He gives, He takes away..be ready to accept, be ready to part!

3. Not to care what I drive or what other people drive. Image is nothing, God is everything, don’t judge people by their cars or clothes…it may not be what it seems!

4. God protected me countless times and particularly during accidents and breakdowns…angels follow us

5. God is very unpredictable. ..He might give you a merc, He might give you a wheelbarrow…accept all.. trust..  expect the unexpected .. nothing lasts forever!

I wonder what’s next?!

Adoration

06 Fri Nov 2015

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Over the years I’ve read so many books on adoration…most of which I’ve thrown away because they sound so complicated!!

Right or wrong….this is what I’ve been led to do at adoration!!

I do not go to adoration to adore Jesus, He’s God, He already is fully himself and has no need of my love at all!

No, poor miserable wretch that I am, I go to adoration to let Jesus love on me..yes…as wretched and horrible as I am, Jesus adores me at adoration …and you!!

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So I sit there and let him love me and it is so liberating. He might not always like what I do, but He loves  me just as I am…warts and all.

Sometimes memories of past sins come up…though already confessed the memories are not necessarily healed…I tell Jesus abour them and just like the sun melts ice, God’s love melts the pain, the shame, the guilt….demons hate it…’Satan, you are the weakest link, goodbye!!
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Sometimes I sit there and nothing happens, but just like getting a Sun tan, the divine rays are shining on me all the same!

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Of course when I’m touched by the Lord I love Him back, but that is the thing, it is He who makes the first move!! I liken it to a little boy who has no money to buy his Dad a present and then the Dad gives his son money. The son then runs off to buy his Dad a present!! Similarly, God pours love on us….whether we love Him back with it or not is up to us!!

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So my suggestion, next time you go to adoration, don’t try to love Jesus, rather let Him love YOU!

P.S. it’s more challenging than it sounds

Piece of Cake?!!

05 Thu Nov 2015

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“Is Jesus really present in the Eucharist”…. I wondered just after my conversion!

After He appeared to me in a vision I was certain that He existed but was He really present in the Eucharist?

Quite honestly I didnt know, I had serious doubts and I told Jesus in prayer ..i always tell Jesus what I think and feel even if it may be heresy!!

So one day in the South of France I had a particularily difficult day. It was Wednesday and ‘la Messe’ (Mass) was at 7pm.

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My prayer that day was ‘Lord, I’m desperate, I’m in a foreign country, I’ve no friends, they think I’m mad….Either I go to Mass this evening.or the psych ward…I’ll go to Mass…I know I’m not mad…help’.

The Church was a minute walk from my house. Feeling helpless I struggled accross the road.

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As i’d only recently arrived in France, I struggled to understand all the Mass readings and sermon, those of you who have had to learn a foreign language will understand this frustrating trial.

Communion time arrived. I was feeling awful…this was my last chance! I received communion and (not recommending this) allowed the host to stick to the top of my mouth and after mass rushed back to my tiny studio accross the road.

Still feeling like death I turned off all the lights, turned off all my phones (Irish and French) and lay on my bed. I said

‘Jesus, I can’t leave this host stuck to my mouth forever…you are my.last hope…here goes’

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I then let the host dissolve in my mouth and what happened next changed my life…a warm sensation came over me, warmer and warmer until suddenly I erupted crying, tears from the pit of my soul, pain beyond words, hope beyond pain. It lasted 15 minutes…i thought I might die so intense was the love…then I erupted in a mix of laughter and song.

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From that day on I knew that Jesus was really present. Can Jesus heal us today ….yes, piece of cake!!

The Rosary – Joyful

03 Tue Nov 2015

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7 years ago I was given an old pair of ‘granny beads’. With them I began to pray the rosary, laughing at first I quickly grew to enjoy it….Here is how I felt led to pray the joyful mysteries

1. The Annunciation

As I think of how Our Lady’s world got turned upside down by Gabriel I ask God for

– ears to get direction from God and to be open to something ‘outside the box’
-grace to say yes, like Our Lady did, despite the onslought of suffering likely to follow!!

2. The Visitation

I imagine Our Lady visiting Elizabeth and helping her. I pray for

– christian friends with whom to share, pray and exercise spiritual gifts such as prophesy

-the grace to come back to earth and wash the dishes, clean the toilets, do the simple..

3. Birth of Jesus

As I think of Our Lady in a random stable with strangers coming to see Jesus who had been guided by stars….i say…crazzyy

-grace go be so fixed on Jesus that I’m oblivious to the craziness of this world and to God’s crazy ways

-some wise men to pop along into my life out of the blue with gold!!! (still waiting on this to be honest)

4. Presentation of Jesus at temple.

I pray for

-respect for Church and traditions

-openess to and discernment of supernatural signs and prophesy, especially in charismatic circles

5. Finding Jesus

Well if Our Lady was sinless and managed to lose Jesus, and Jesus was sinless and didnt bother to say where He was going for 3 days…i pray for

– grace to be about God’s work even if it gets me into trouble after

– grace not to be too hard on myself when I lose Jesus on the road (he’s a nightmare for running off on me!!)

My suggestion, pray the rosary and make your own meditation up!!

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