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Spiritual Protection

30 Wed Mar 2016

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Consider your cooker at home and counter top where you prepare food. How clean is it? There is always some amount of bacteria but thank God for our immune systems that deal with it!

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However if there were mouse droppings on the counter where your food was prepared you could get very sick.

And so it is with spiritual things. Depending on our prayer life we have a certain ‘immune ‘ system to evil and so we don’t need to be going around afraid of every little thing or everybody that might be dabbling in alternative spiritualities.

However we should be wise enough to know that we have limits just like a weight lifter has limits and so to keep well away from experts in the new age as they are far more dangerous and carry stronger spirits. Some Christians have special charisms to deal with this but most don’t.

For the small stuff it is just like taking your morning shower, daily prayer and christian living will cleanse you so you don’t need to live your life in fear or paranoia. However if you feel that you have got into something dangerous either by accident or on purpose then seek out someone gifted to pray with you for healing and deliverance. This is very important especially to get healing and freedom from things we may have picked up before taking Jesus seriously.

In summary, the Holy Spirit is not a spirit of fear. Over time Jesus strengthens us and equips us when we seek him humbly. God’s love and Jesus heart is ultimately the greatest deliverer.

Bless you all and praise you Jesus for your love for us all!

Guardian Angels

29 Tue Mar 2016

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As I continue to learn a little about angels, here are a few facts about guardian angels:

Your guardian Angel was made at the beginning of time by God.

He has waited since then for you to be born….thousands of years!

His only purpose besides praising God is to love and help you and comfort you!

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God has infused him with all sorts of knowledge about you to help him on his mission!

He knows you better than you know yourself!

He is more intelligent than any human being that you know!

He can help you both with your prayer life but also with your human life…work, family etc.

He loves you more than any human being loves you!

He has feelings and loves when you acknowledge his presence and ask him to help you.

When you die he will stay with you for all eternity in heaven.

Every human being that ever lived has their own guardian Angel….so there are literally billions and billions of them!

Just as human beings can dress in different clothes so can your guardian Angel manifest himself in different forms

Your guardian Angel will always love you but will not be able to help you if you decide to pursue a life that is ungodly. Much like a parent with a troublesome child!

Guardian angels love to laugh and to be in the presence of God. They are particularly happy when we pray and praise and go to church!

Your guardian Angel is with you right now! Why not say hello, thank Him for his help and ask him to continue helping you!

Kill, steal and destroy

27 Sun Mar 2016

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The Bible teaches us that Satan comes to kill, steal and destroy while Jesus comes to give us life, life in abundance.

Here are what I’ve found to be some of the main ways that the bad spirit, Satan works. From now on I’ll refer to him as ‘slimey legs’!!!

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1. Slimey legs wants people to believe that he is equal in power to God. He does this by acting if it were the case through fear and intimidation. He particularily targets your weak spot. He’ll get you to slip up and then tell you that God didn’t help you so. God allows him to trip us up now and then to teach us humility but there is no contest when it comes to power.

Ever see a spider trying to escape from the toilet but he can’t get a grip? Flush and he’s history…..Slimey legs has even less power than that spider in God’s eyes!

2. Slimey legs.likes to make people think and believe that he is everywhere. Again this is not the case. He is only an angel and as such is very limited which is why he specialises in lies.

3. Slimey legs loves to make noise, loud music, films. He is very vain and loves to have people talking about him and even looking like him. He hates silence and he does not want people to have time to think less they see the error of their ways and he should lose his hold over them.

4. Slimey legs would like you to think that he knows all your thoughts. He tricks people into believing this by

a) He knows the thoughts that he inspires so if he gets you to believe that if he knows one of your thoughts then he tells you that he must know all of them…

b) He guesses some of your thoughts based on past thought patterns and again tells you he knows all of them

But he does not know your thoughts nor does he know what God’s plans are for you or what God may be saying to you

So you see folks, he is a liar. So flush that slimey spider down the sewer to where he belongs by turning your whole life to the glory and praise of Our Lord JESUS.

JESUS.. I give you my life, forgive me if I’ve ever believed some of these slimey lies. Come flush out my heart of all that is not of you and fill it to overflowing with your grace!!

Angels

26 Sat Mar 2016

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Recently I’ve been learning a little about God’s angels….here is some of what I’ve learnt.

Angels are supernatural living beings created by God to give Him glory and to be his messengers and assistants in governing the heavens and the earth.

Like flowers they are all very beautiful and come in various different shapes and sizes.

Unlike human being angles do not breed and so there is no such thing as ‘family’ in the angelic world as we understand it humanly.

As such each angel is then totally unique and is a species of its own.

While angels are not related to each-other like human beings can be, they are however grouped together by their function.

There are 9 groups of angels and they from a sort of spiritual pyramid or ladder joining heaven to earth. Some angels such as our guardian angels spend most of their time here on earth in the ‘lower heavens’ while other spend most of their time in heaven with God.

Angles work together and work quite like our postal service. A bit like when you send a letter abroad and it passes from your local post office to the national one and then to the international one….it is similar with angels. Depending on what you pray for the angels carry your prayer like letter and bring it to the appropriate place…. Fortunately they do this much more quickly than the postman…although at times we wonder if they don’t lost a few letters in transit!!

Each angel has unique gifts of intelligence and a particular mission. Healing angels will know all about healing of our human minds and bodies, angels that look after the financial world will know all bout that sort of thing etc.

God’s Holy Angels cannot sin but they are free to use their gifts and intelligence appropriately.

Time as we know it does not exits in heaven but nonetheless there is  a sort of angelic time too complex for us to grasp. To understand this we just have to consider the fact that angels can’t be everywhere at once and even if they can travel very quickly, it still takes them some amount of ‘time’!

Angels continue to learn and study. God is infinite in every way and so no matter how much they know,  there is always more to learn! No fear of boredom in heaven folks!

Angels do not sleep but they do get ‘spiritually tired’ and they recharge by turning toward God whose love recharges them much like the sun that awakens flowers in the morning.

Angels have an enormous respect for men because God Himself became man in the person of Jesus Christ thus bestowing on this little creature far inferior to the angels in both power and intelligence a greater dignity!

There are many angels all around you right now as you read this and they love it when you pray and praise God!

Little blessings

26 Sat Mar 2016

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Matthew 6:33

33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Sometimes scripture can sound a bit detached to us or something for the super spiritual that doesn’t have much to do with everyday life …..but here is a very simple testimony of God’s blessing in a very simple life event! Parking my car!

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As I recover from a period of illness I have been spending quite a bit of time in prayer at the Blessed Sacrament chapel in my local town. Earlier in the year I was shown a place where I could park for ‘free’. It was in fact a private property but apparently nobody ever got clamped despite the warnings. In my heart it didn’t feel  right and so I decided to make a leap of faith and park in town where I had to pay.

Every now and then I was tempted to just go back and park there

“Nobody will know”
“Everyone does it ”
“It’s only a little thing God will understand:

BUT

I”ll know, God will know, God doesn’t ask me to be like “Everyone” and yea, God will understsnd alright, he’ll understand very clearly that I don’t trust him! Get behind me Satan!

So a few days ago which was a few weeks later as I exited the chapel to feed the ever hungry parking meter I ‘just happened’ to make a joke to an older man who was carrying a wooden cross to the Church. He laughed and asked me

“Are you Michael?”

How did he know me? A mutual friend had spoken to him of me. Making small talk I said that  I was simply running out to pay the car meter. Then he says…

‘I’m the care taker here, you can park here at the Church any time’

And he showed me how to get in as it was a private car park!

So long story short I now have free parking in the middle of town much better than the other place and right beside the Lord Jesus!

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33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Now it took a few weeks for this to happen and many times I was fed up with it but yet persevering in God He came through…as always! Why do we doubt?!

Bless you all guys. He loves you like crazy, it’s not easy, there are many trials and tests but let me encourage you to always trusy Him even when everything in you screams that it’s over!