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Monthly Archives: Apr 2016

Thou shall not judge

30 Sat Apr 2016

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As I sit watching X factor waiting for my pizza I reflect on judging. How many times people say ‘you’re judging’ simply because you speak your mind.

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When Simon Cowell judges the songs, he is not judging the person but merely the quality of the contestants voice. Similarily if we go to the hairdresser we judge the quality of their work and similarily with priests or pastors we judge the quality and depth of their knowledge and its validity.

We are not judging the people but rather we are being careful to protect our hearts from false teachings.

When we find fault it is perfectly fine to speak the truth in love. I wouldnt send you to a bad hairdresser..how much more important is your soul!

Always pray for the person. Don’t expect to be loved, they didn’t love Jesus either. Instead learn to laugh and to live for God and God alone.

Pizza ready!!

Piles, haemmorieds….errrhg!

28 Thu Apr 2016

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When thinking of this posting I decided against graphic pictures feeling that nobody needs to see the full moon right now!

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Now everybody has heard of piles and indeed anyone that has had them knows only too well of the pain sitting on the throne can mean!

Where am I going? Piles are a medical condition that occur on a very private part of the body and so going to the doctor and having to be examined isnt pretty!

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But by going and letting the doc see the problem he can help. There would be no use in going to the doctor and just saying ‘i feel sick’. He’d probably just give you a panadol and send you home.

Yet when it comes to spiritual stuff, this is exactly what so many do. They say ‘pray for me’ without saying what exactly they need prayer for. Often fear, shame etc hold them back.

If I don’t know that you are suffering with depression then how can I help you. Often prayer does not take the problem away but it gives the strength to overcome it.

For years I could not accept my sexuality. In catholic circles it’s still the big taboo. Pray and God will look after you can often be the message. It took me a long time to accept that God wasn’t going to miraculously turn me straight saving me the terrible stigma of being ‘the only gay in the village’ but rather God was going to give me the strength to be weak, the strength to tell my Mum who threatened to commit suicide if the neighbours found out, the strength to seek help from others and yes the strength to be one of the only catholics who speaks about it and the criticism that goes with that.

Going back to the piles, God might not miraculously heal them but He will give you the strength to go to the doctor who will!

So please folks, allow the Holy Spirit to work more in your lives by daring to be vulnerable.

Back to my breakfast now…lots of fibre!! Lol

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God and business

26 Tue Apr 2016

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What has God got to do with the business world or for that matter with the world of work, politics and society in general?! Is God confined to the Church?

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If I bring prayer into my business will I go broke? St Francis was a darling but I’m not giving away all my belongings to the poor!

I used to ask myself questions like this. The answer came prophetically from playing a game of monopoly in Sydney where I ended up winning everything to the point of one almost thinking that I controlled the die. From.hotels to shopping centres I owned them all as I hopped around the table avoiding jail with no care in the world!!

What does God ask? All God asks is that we put him first in our lives and that we allow him to work through us in all dimensions of our lives, including our work or businesses.

You see God needs godly business men who can act in a Godly way, provide jobs for people, pay respectable salaries, make godly laws and policies….Money itself is not evil, it is the love of money that is evil!

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Now if your business is struggling or if you are struggling at work, God can do a lot. Just as forgiveness is important for individuals, it is important for businnesses! Holding grudges against both suppliers and competitors will block God’s grace and blessings as will lying, treating staff badly, avoiding taxes or having ungodly business objectives or ideas.

On the other hand, surrendering the business to Jesus, praying for your staff, competitors, forgiving as you go, allowing prayer to guide new ideas will all draw down the blessings of God and He will bless your business (Emm His business actually).

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All of this is already well known by others. Many big business leaders consult mediums and get black witches and warlocks to curse their competitors. At the extreme you’ll find full on satanism with black masses…..trust me, CEO’s would not bother with such things.if they were not real.

When Christian business people do not pray then they have no protection against such things. The devil is powerless in front of a man of prayer but he is very powerful in front of a mere man. Think of pop-eye, without his spinach he wasn’t much use!

As God’s grace hits your business thousands of blessings will flow. So next time you meet at the board room, do not sit on the directors chair. You are no longer director, Jesus is!!

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Prepare to be amazed!

Ps. If you have no idea where to start with all this then you need to call in the experts! Find a wise man of prayer familiar with the ways of the spirit and spiritual warfare who will help to guide you through the process of surrender and transformation and hold you up when your knees tremble!

Grey….Gay and Christian

25 Mon Apr 2016

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Gay and Christian

Some things are black and white and some are grey! I think this one is grey!

I am in quite the unique position of having both Church friends and gay friends. Some things I have observed…

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– Many christians feel people that practise homosexuality go straight to hell. They have learnt this from fire and brimstone teachings from their parents and church at the time

– In many christian circles homosexuality is the unforgivable sin and gay people are to be prayed for and avoided at all costs.

-Many christians fail to see anything else in gay people’s lives except their sexuality and often both judge and condemn them…..

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– Some christians believe that homosexuals must change first before God or the Church should.love and help them….hardly unconditional love

Meaning that many gay people feel

-that Christians are very judgemental

-that they cannot be open about who they are to fellow christians without major rejection

-that God loves them but that the Church hates them and does not understand them or their needs

-that there is no place in the Church for them as they may not.be allowed join a religious order and marriage is not an option for obvious reasons.

And so unfolds a web of misunderstandings.

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It is my personal opinion that the Church must repent to the gay community and opens the doors of mercy and compassion to those beautiful people who like myself have often come from very broken backgrounds and who often have been rejected by family and need God’s love and support like anyone else. Repentence for the years of condemning people, for the total lack of pastoral support and of course for all men of God who for whatever reason have led or still do lead a double life themselves.

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Let us pray for our priests and bishops that they may man up and talk frankly and openly about these topics in public and come back to doing what it is they are ordained for. We have enough of milk and water sermons, books and empty words. May the Lord convict them and forgive them for their gross sins of ommission which have destroyed the lives of thousands and millions of men and women and may He turn our church into a true hospital of love rather than a den of sin and hypocricy!

Bless you all

Mike

Family, where heaven meets hell

24 Sun Apr 2016

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Family is very important to God, it is the basic unit of society and He made many commandments to preserve it such as honouring our parents and being faithful in marriage….

Yet it is often in family that our faith is most challenged and often where massive family divisions occur. Jesus speaks of this in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 10.

It can be most painful as those we love the most kick against us, stubborn as mules, refusing to respect us or our christian lives.

In my own life my family have never really embraced what I do. At best I’m tolerated, at worst I’m abused. Of course Satan knows this which is why he targets us through family. Indeed I look back now and can laugh at how much the bad spirit poisoned my life from an early age through many people but especially through a close family member, my God mother. One has to laugh at the irony of having a God mother who venemously hates the catholic church and priests and holds few if any christian values or virtues!

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Is it any wonder that there are divisions down the line! Of course in the ideal world such people would not be asked to have such roles and would have the integrity not to accept them. But it highlights the conflict, if my Mum ignored her only sister, she’d be upset and yet inviting her into my life basically meant I had the devil himself mothering me!! Now God bless her, she doesn’t see the evil of her ways but the devil can work powerfully through such spiritually blind people.

And so it is true, we cannot choose our family, but what we can do is choose what to do with them and to put God first.

Rows will come but personally I’d prefer to have a few family members angry with me than to have God himself against me!

‘he that chooses father or mother before me does not deserve me’

Father forgive them they know not what they do!

Hidden hatred!

14 Thu Apr 2016

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A man went skating on a lake, the ice broke from under him and he fell into the lake. Underneath the water he got swept away and he tried and tried to reach the surface. He saw the light, he saw the fresh air but until he found the hole through which he fell down he could not get back up!

Inner healing is similar! Often something happened to us many years ago. It may have been a bully in school or a vow we made or something that we did. Now 20 years later we find ourselves under the ice. We try and try to get back up but we just can’t find the hole!

One of old Satan’s jobs is to hide our sins from us! He uses many lies such as

– it’s not that
– it’s too painful to go there
– you’ve confessed that so it must be healed
– that’s only a tiny thing, it couldn’t be that
– nobody would believe you
– grow up, you are an adult now
– the past is in the past, you can do nothing about it
– tell nobody, you can’t trust them
– nobody will believe you
– Jesus wants you to offer him that suffering, not heal you
– you are being selfish, your problem is only small
– God is too busy to be bothered about that
– God had already been very good to you, don’t push your luck
etc.

Ultimately Jesus died to heal our hearts, now he must be pretty desperate if he went to the bother of actually dying for it!

So now I move onto the most deadly pitfall of all. It’s the hidden sin of unforgiveness….

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Suppose I killed somebody in your family. Society will all point out my sin! It’s big and obvious and staring me in the face. But suppose you hold onto a lot of anger and hatred towards me, society will tell you that it’s ‘normal’ and ‘justifiable’ and few will point out that while what I did was terrible, holding onto unforgiveness will actually destroy you!!

Many people that I meet (especially those that have been abused through no fault of their own) hold onto deep unforgiveness that they are not even aware of! Often I have to help them to see it so that they can let it go and move on with their lives. It is often very painful as they were never to blame for what happened.

So how do you know if you have hidden hatred or hidden unforgiveness in your life that is actually destroying you without you knowing it? How do you know if you really have forgiven that person that did that thing?

Here is a very good test that I have learnt! Think of the person who hurt you. Picture them in your mind and as you do it ask yourself how you feel towards them. Many people tell me “I have forgiven because now when I think of them I feel nothing”. I sit and wait and pray that God will give me the words and love to explain to them that “feeling nothing” is a major sign of unforgiveness! When we have truly forgiven from the heart, Jesus will actually give us a grace to see our abusers in love! While we will always hate what they did, Jesus will show us how to look at them through the eyes of His love and mercy! So rather than feeling “nothing” we’d actually feel God’s overwhelming love and compassion for that person and His desire to bring them to Him in spite of anything that they may have done!

So how then do I forgive from the heart? It is a process, to forgive from the heart we must first be honest with ourselves and realise that we have unforgivness in the heart. We must then own it and give it to Jesus. When the abuse has been great this will take time. I know that I’m 8 years forgiving some people and while I don’t see them with pure love, I can certainly say that my heart has softened enormously towards them and that one day I’m sure that I will see them through the loving gaze of Jesus!

One of the best short cuts in this process is to seek out inner healing retreats where God has placed people with special gifts to help you free your heart from the hidden pains of the past. Another key point is to be gentle with yourself, God doesn’t expect your heart to be healed overnight! The important thing is to be on the journey.

So if you are struggling spiritually today and feel that you are blocked. Take a moment and ask God to show you if there are areas of your heart still holding onto hidden hatred. Let us always remember that the Lord is not accusing us, He simply wants to empower us to move on and to allow Him to fill our hearts with His love!

I hope this helps somebody today.

Michael

Holy Spirit

09 Sat Apr 2016

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Jesus, Jesus God of true love,
Came from heaven up above,
To save us men with the spirit,
Mercy, Mercy, Not our merit!

Spirit, Spirit, God of true love,
Came from heaven like a dove,
To fill us men with divine power,
Cometh the day, Cometh the hour!

Father, Father, God of true love,
Came from heaven up above,
To point his kids to the son,
To fill them with joy and much fun!

Love and joy and peace and grace,
Spirit send as we seek his face.
Gifts, charisms and miracles too,
Just like Jesus we can do!

Gentle Holy Spirit sits and waits,
For us men to be his mates.
How he likes to fill us with him,
Set us free from  old sin!

Loving waiting for our liberation,
To turn to him in cooperation.
Inviting him in, seeing our need,
That folks is our first deed!

He’ll bless our lives in every way,
Faithful friend, come what may!
Addictions, hatred, sex and power,
His healing love will utterly devour.

Meaning, direction and correction,
He’ll give to us sons of election!
Future, hope and eternal bliss ,
There’s a bargain not to miss.

Sadly many men do not know,
Of how much he loves u them so!
They seek peace in other places,
The pub, the bed the horse races!

The Gentle spirit gets so so sad,
To see his kids behave so bad!
But like a mother loving her son
He’ll never give up, not on one!

His love you see has no bounds,
Satan knows it and he frowns.
His generosity is beyond measure,
Better than Gold, eternal treasure.

Sex, drugs and rock and roll,
Will never fill us or make us while.
New age yogas and meditations,
Empy, vain,  just mere imitation.

How he longs to share his power,
Waiting and waiting for that hour!
Silly Satan trembles at his feet,
He knows he’ll be mince meat!

The Holy Spirit waits to devour,
Demons and their so called power!
The Witch, the warlock & the guru,
In His power will not fool you!

Holy Spirit and lover of men,
We need you not empty ‘Zen’.
O Holy Spirit please fill us more,
We ask you we humble implore.

Holy Spirit who wants us to live,
All your prayers evil he’ll forgive.
Yesterday’s Gone we’ve only today
Invite him in he’ll show the way.

Gentle spirit I’m so so sorry,
For ways I’ve caused you worry!
O spirit I didn’t mean to hurt thee,
Old Satan wanted to destroy me.

Holy Spirit, I trust in your love,
Descend now like a dove.
I open the gate of my heart,
That never again I’ll depart.

Holy Spirit transform my life,
Right the wrongs no more strife.
Fill me with love & joy now today
Unshakeable come what may.

Gentle dove that others may see,
The changes you’ve made in me.
In your love bring reconciliation,
Within my soul, with creation.

So now Spirit I give to thee,
All my life, me, me, me!
Take me fill me set me on fire
Your love is all I desire.

O Holy Spirit I’m ready now,
Come, come, wow, wow, wow!

Family tree..

07 Thu Apr 2016

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Why pray for your family tree? What’s it all about? Of what practical use is it?

Consider a train speeding along the tracks. Well at times our lives are like that train and sometimes we are on a track that we wish not to be on. It might be a job or relationship, it might be an addiction or lifestyle that we just can’t break. We may feel utterly stuck and wonder how on earth our lives got on this track and feel utterly helpless to get off. We look to the future, more of the same…..

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What on earth has this to do with our family tree? More than we think. Often we get our values and direction in life from our families so we could say that they put us on the track! The strength of their convictions determines the speed of the train and so it makes sense that if we want to change tracks we need to slow that train down and then change our life direction.

Consider the engine of the train. Suppose it’s fuelled by coal. If we remove the coal then it will slow down! The coal fuelling the values of our families are the deeds of our ancestors. As we pray for them we remove them and “for no apparent reason” things in our lives change.

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Taking an example in my own life. After getting prayer for my family tree I suddenly felt much lighter and more confident and suddenly as if by magic things started going right for me.

Others who have battled helplessly with addictions or unemployment or “bad luck” such as cronic illness that doesnt respond to medication suddenly experienced inexplicable break throughs.

So what to do?

Make a list of your ancestors and then list areas of their lives where they missed God’s best for whatever reason. Be specefic and include also things you suspect. Now bring all these things to Jesus on their behalf. For us catholics we can do this at the offetory at mass but we can also do it in our personal prayer time. Remember that Jesus loves them too and so it’s not about blaming or condemning. If you are catholic.then praying for the holy souls in purgatory amounts to pretty much the same thing. In pentecostal circles it’s referred to.as generational healing. It’s all prayer and there are many ways to skin a cat!! Ouuuch!!

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Now usually this will need to be done many times. It takes several blows for an axe to knock a tree but be encouraged because each blow will weaken the situation.

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It’s also great fun watching how peoples lives change and nothing is more rewarding than seeing the joy on peoples’ faces when they are lifted out of the cycle of despair!

Many blessings on all of you

Michael

Love is the answer

06 Wed Apr 2016

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Ever feel totally lost with no idea what your life is about or what your vacation is? Well I have!!

So many people want to know their vocation, is it to be a priest or a doctor or a teacher or is it to play music or be a missionary or is it to get married and have kids or pursue a career…

At times we are like a car going around and around the roundabout not knowing which exit to take. Society puts so much pressure on  to be something, to have a job, to be “normal”.

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But who we are is not what we do. Who we are is how we love. We are children of God, following Him and as we follow Jesus the other things may change.

Taking my own life as an example, I started off with a career as an actuary in finance, then I went to France seeking God, I discerned the priesthood, I worked all sorts of small jobs and jumped into the new evangelization….then I moved to India where I taught English and helped look after orphans and then I moved to Australia where again I discerned religious life before jumping into the ministry of healing in Sydney and coming back to Ireland d

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In the eyes of the world perhaps I seem totally unstable and off the wall. In God’s eyes I’ve been walking a straight line, following the inner promtings of the spirit and growing in intimacy with God while detaching myself from what others think of me and the “norms” of society!

So if today you are confused about your future, let me help you. Your vocation is not in the future, it is in the present and it is called love!! It involves getting up today and loving the people around you even when you haven’t a clue where your future is going!

Love is like water, you can’t grab it, you can’t  contain it. If you don’t use it then it will go stagnant. Love takes the shape of the object it fills much like water

Our vocation is love. Everything else will fall into place and when we die the only thing that God will look at is how we have loved.

We have to be very single minded to follow this call but it’s worth it. For the wisdom of God is foolishness to man.

Go on, dare to be different. Love and see where it leads us in utter abandonment to God!

Sin

01 Fri Apr 2016

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Suppose I go along to the doctor for a check up. Suppose I get some blood tests and scans and suppose the results indicate that  I am ill…..very ill!

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Now suppose the doctor says to himself “poor Michael, he’ll be devastated. I really don’t want to hurt his feelings so I’ll just tell him that the test results were fine! ”

So I go back and get my results and I am so delighted that I sing the praises of this wonderful doctor who has given me such wonderful news all the way home !

A month later I get sick, very sick and maybe I even die. I then discover what the doctor did and am furious. This was not mercy, it was dangerous.

Now if we wouldn’t like to be treated like this by our doctors, why is it that so many people don’t want to hear about the truth of their spiritual illnesses from the spiritual doctor, the priest. We are all sinners and so we are all “ill”. As scripture says, the man that says there is no sin in him is a liar.

The poor priests isn’t there to condemn but rather to help us grow spiritually.

Lord give us the humility to be able to both give and accept correction in love so that our lives and hearts may be transformed more and more into your image and likeness. Give priests the grace to be able to speak the truth in love knowing that whatever the spiritual ailment there is a cure, your grace obtained from a life of prayer and Christian charity. We must take up our cross each day…

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Jesus, I surrender my life to you.  I want to love you more. Please convict me of any areas of my life that are not pleasing to you so that I may bring them to your loving mercy and be set free to love you and my neighbour even more.

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