There was once a pentecostal evangelist and after his conversion he went around writing the word ‘eternity’ everywhere to get people to think of….well of eternity!

Eternity is a long time!

As a former actuary my studies were in the area of life assurance and pensions!

What is a pension? Well in summary it is a savings fund for when you are old and will not be able to work!

I was horrified when I started work that I already had to put money aside for my pension. I wasn’t even 25 and was thinking ahead to 65.

When I lived in Australia I used to visit old people in the nursing home. I was surprised to see many times on the television advertisements for insurance for a coffin!

It went something like this

“You don’t want your loved ones upset when you die, so buy insurance and have a 5 star coffin with an en suite and flowers for $1000000000”

Anyway the point is the same, planning ahead for the inevitable….. death!

But even at a very young age I couldn’t help think of my second retirement, yes, life after death!

And why worry so much for life between 60 and 90 and forget about life after death!

The easy way out is to say there is no such thing but deep down the question will still haunt you, what if there is?!

Personally I didn’t see it as a responsible thing to ignore this question and live my life as if there were no consequences!

I begged God to reveal himself to me as every psychologist and mental health professional seemed to have avoided the book on God and eternity in their studies and seemed to be no wiser than a street cat!

Why Jesus let me go to the end of myself I’ll never know, why He let me touch death on earth?

Perhaps it is to tell you about it?

So here is some of what over 10 years of prayer and revelations have shown me!

Eternity is real, we live on!

Our retirement fund for eternity is what we save up in this life through prayer!

God is extremely merciful and saves many souls who never said a prayer because they were blinded while on earth!

Nonetheless these souls now need our prayers to be purified and get to heaven.

Although they get to heaven they will never enjoy the same degree of glory that they would had they lived prayerful lives on earth!

And so today is Friday!

Do you want your loved ones after your death praying and suffering for your soul to get to heaven?

Do you want your kids and grand kids suffering spirtually for your mistakes?

Of course you don’t!

So why not take out some insurance! Pick up your rosary and ask your mother to reveal the realities of eternity to you and start saving for eternity!

Tomorrow I will be going to Medjugorje again. Shoot me a message if you would like me to pray for you and once again prayer and any material or financial support welcome, needed and appreciated!

Bless you

Mike

Hello from in front of the Blessed Sacrament!

I am surrounded by old people and I feel that if I sneeze I will get into trouble!

Inside I would love to sing and danse for Jesus and yet unfortunately this is not allowed!

I think poor Jesus must get tired at times from the lack of enthuasism, in fact I’m sure of it!!

Which reminds me of what happened yesterday! The Holy Spirit told me after mass to go to a beach where gay guys hang out!

A little like a lepor colony it is on the outskirts of the city where these vile creatures may go!

Personally I love going up there and meeting new people and being a nude beach adds to the sense of freedom!

So as I was on my way I was wondering what Jesus was planning for me!

No sooner had I got there then out of nowhere pops a very good looking man. He had spoken briefly to me the day before as he was intrigued by my eyes! Some people seem to see spiriruality in me before I even open my mouth!

So I got undressed and we went for a swim and I began to share my story! He was a psychologist who didn’t believe in god and it became obvious to me that he was looking for more than a chat!

The male anatomy has many wonders but discretion is not one of them when it comes to sexual matters!

In any case I wasn’t bothered. It was nothing I didn’t see before and was sort of flattering that he liked me!

So I asked him about his life and he immediately got emotional. He asked me to hug him so I did even if we were both naked!

Anyway I sat him down and he told me his life story, abandoned by his dad, disorientated about God, into new age…

So I asked him if I could pray with him!

So there I was naked beside this guy praying over him! If somebody from church walked by I’d have a hard time convincing them of that!!

To my surprise he began to cry and cry before telling me of his suicide attempt a few months ago. I was the second person he told.

And so I spoke to him more about Jesus. He grew up catholic.

He asked me why catholics are so miserable and dead and why don’t they make some noise like the baptists!

Isn’t funny how atheists are looking for god and they don’t see Him in the church because of the dead ducks!

Anyway I shared about the Holy Spirit and he left as he had a plane to catch!

But there are a few lessons that we can all learn from this!

Firstly not to judge. Jesus sent me up there to meet this guy, many would judge me for going!

Secondly God’s mercy which meets people where they are. I was sent to love him and not to condemn him!

Thirdly that all people are looking for God and often they don’t see anything particularily special about christians that convince them that he’s there!

And so I look up to the Blessed Sacrament and I think of what he said as he left!

“Next time you are in church, make some noise for me!”

Thanks for reading and remember if you like what I write and have the means, financial support is always welcome so that I may continue!

Bless u all

The other day I met a beautiful guy from overseas! He was visiting Split on his holidays and is gay.

I happened to mention that I have been in Split for 4 months but don’t know much about where are good places to eat as I often can’t afford much.

With a big generous heart he offered to bring me on a sunset boat trip and to an expensive restaurant!

He was a genuine nice guy and there were no strings attached, just pure goodness!

So off we go on the boat and beside us sat two americans. I’m not sure why they went on the cruise because from the moment I said hello they never shutup talking and if we had been on a night bus to the desert they would have appreciated it as much!

Anyway I disengaged and let my indian friend do the talking! All I was missing was ear plugs although now that I think about it throwing them all overboard may have worked too!

However during the conversation my friend kept talking about his girlfriend. Now in english ‘girlfriend’ usually means a romantic relationship, but depending on how you say it, it could also mean a good female friend!

So here I am listening to my gay friend talking to these strangers about his girlfriend! If there was a cash prize for the maximum amount of times one could say the word girlfriend in the same sentence, he would have won!

But as I tried not to listen I saw in him my own reflection! Often gay people live in terrible fear of being rejected and judged and are afraid to tell others!

Many gay people never tell their parents and are afraid to tell their work collegues!

Instead they feel that they have to lie or at least pretend to be straight!

The church teaches very clearly that gay people are to be loved and accepted and so it is very sad that they feel that they should have to hide

Afterwards how one lives their sexuality is another story but that goes for straight people also!

And so today’s message is simple!

Jesus loves you the way you are while human beings often only love the way you should be!

Come to Jesus as you are and allow him to be your friend and helper.

Anyone who judges you or does not accept you, shake like the dust from your feet because at the end of life when you die, Jesus holds the keys to parasise and not them!!

Good morning all and I hope you are feeling as full of joy as I am!

After mass this morning i was reflecting in prayer at how interesting life with Jesus is!

Growing up in a traditional catholic was boring. Besides babbling a rosary and saying a few prayers to an angel that might or might not even exist, being catholic was sooo boring!

And even worse was mass which I found to be the most boring meaningless event of all where everybody dressed up and after it was over forgot all about it!

As you can see I was no saint as a child and traditional catholicism did nothing for a young inquiring mind!

My mum used to tell me about my soul. God love her she did her best but I couldn’t grasp it and went away with a mental image of the sole of my shoe and even less interest or belief!

Hearing about Padre Pio shouting at young girls who came to confession did add a bit of life to it all. He seemed funny but not the type of guy you’d have over for tea!

And so you see, catholicism was like a black and white tv with 2 channels and was boring!!

So can you imagine my surprise when the Holy Spirit entered my life!

Perhaps Jesus heard me moaning and groaning and decided he’d show me! He certainly has!

The boring 2 channelled black and white tv has become a very colourful multi-channelled sky tv!

From learning about demons and curses to the miraculous power of the Holy Spirit to heal and transform lives, christianity is the most exciting, interesting and powerful religion on earth!

In His humour God made use of my technical skills from my maths background to teach me the technical side of the spiritual world!

I must admit that it is fascinating and I thank God for rescuing me from the monotony of the insurance world!

So friends! Give your lives to Jesus and you will not be short of excitement and adventures as you learn to live life in the Spirit and walk on water!!

Have a holy day!

With a title like that, this blog can only improve!

Today I was reflecting on the topic of lonliness. Many people are lonely because of the death of a loved one or because of a broken relationship. Many lose trust in life and get depressed!

On the other hand when you read about Jesus, He too is lonely. He is lonely because He has almost nobody to love!

And so looking at the great irony! Millions lonely because they are searching for love and Jesus lonely because He has too much of it!

And so with this in mind I went to adoration today here in Split.

I was the young guy among a group of nuns dressed in black!

After about an hour a nun came out of a side door. Her face would turn milk sour or cause a clock to go backwards! She sat beside me!

She began to point to my feet. My flip flops had come off. After living in India and Australia one gets used to bare feet!

She insisted I put them on! I looked up to Jesus thinking “no wonder you are lonely with watch dogs like this in your church”!

Before I would have put on my shoes but this time I had enough. I’d spent half an hour crying, another half hour praying for all the people I have met and this is the best that she could do!

In front of me was the statue of the sacred heart and to my great amusement Jesus was barefoot!!

I carefully pointed it out to the nun who began waving a fan and saying my feet were smelly!

If my feet were smelly it is because I do not live in a luxurious religious house with all my needs catered for in the name of so called poverty!

However I’d just been for a swim so my feet couldn’t have smelt. It must have been her own bad attitude that she was smelling!

And so poor Jesus is lonely and He really enjoyed my company despite my smelly feet!

Nun! Get a life!

Let nobody keep you from Jesus!

In english there are many terms for the word father. The most commom include dad, daddy, da and other expressions like “my old man” etc.

In my family it was “dad”.

“Daddy” was a word that only very young children used and a child could well get laughed at by their friends for using it beyond a certain age!

I remember one such kid on school talking about his daďdy. Putting it quite frankly I thought that this kid was a total idiot who was missing some braincells!!

And so it’s ironic years later that God has shown me His love for the term “daddy” because that is who He is and how He desires that we get to know Him.

It is also ironic that many people think that I am missing some braincells!

To this day my younger brother gets taunted by some of the locals as to where his mad brother is!

I grew up with these poor guys who could barely read or write! Most are now professional alcoholics as far as I know!

However the lesson of the story is simple because God is simple!

God invites us to such a close, simple and loving relationship with Him that it can make others feel uncomfortable and even cause them to think that we are mad!

The solution of course is to forgive and to pray for others and to show them that they too can experience God with their hearts and become mad too!

So today, let us be bright lights of love and joy and madness for Jesus and our “daddy” and if people think that we are utterly crazy then it’s a good sign that we are on the right road!

So yea, let’s be crazy like a fool because of daddy cool!!

For 11 years now I see and sense the presence of demons!

After so many years of it I have come to realise God’s strength and their comparative weakness!

However one of the greatest challenges is talking about it!

In traditional church circles people like me don’t exist and fighting demons is left to exorcist priests.

In charismatic and pentecostal circles people like me are more common and the subject of demons more open.

I could write books on demons and how they work if I wanted. Quite frankly I couldn’t be bothered!

Being a very pragmatic type of guy I’d prefer talk about how to get rid of them!

Some ask me why I talk of them at all as it scares people. But the dentist is not put down for talking of tooth decay nor the doctor for talking of cancer and because these things need to be treated!

And so it is with demons! They are quite easy to get rid of as long as the person cooperates with the process!

Sadly the biggest blockage to being freed from demons is often the person themselves!

Very often I’ll enter a cafe or a church and see crowds of people affected by demons. For me I will see and sense them in my spirit in the same way as another may see and smell the stench from a homeless person who hasn’t had a chance to change their clothes or wash for weeks!

Often as I walk around a room the afflicted people will look away. They don’t know why but I see the spirits moving them!

One poor lady got a headache every time she was near me. The demons making her unwell so she’d have to leave!

If that doesn’t work the demons will inspire malicious gossip about me so people won’t listen to me or let me pray with them!

The demons are clever and people are often quite stupid when it comes to this stuff!

It is worth noting that after Jesus drove the demons into the pigs, the people were frightened and begged Him to leave!

They would prefer to remain demonised than to actually do something about it!

Very often when I speak of demons and the inner healing and deliverance gifts Jesus gave me I am asked to stop talking about it!

People get so afraid of the demons that they somehow think that they will get posessed by talking to me!

The other big criticism I get is the “but you are not a priest’!

Of course I am very aware of not being a priest and am even more aware of many priests not being priests and not even believing in the reality of demons not to mention freei g and healing people.

So Jesus gave a poor fool like me a gift not to replace priests but to help souls and even to help priests if they have the humility to listen!

And so returning back to my life! Can you imagine if I came up to you and said

“Excuse me, I see demons all around you, can we pray”!!

You’d probably think that I was the demon!!

And so to conclude, the most cunning and powerful demons today are the ones that try to make you laugh at this blog. They are the ones that keep intelligent people locked in stupidity! They are the ones that blind people from even believing that they exist and keep people in a mindset of atheism and rationalism!

If today you are a christian and you do not believe in the reality of demons, then you are blind!

If you are christian and are afraid of demons then you don’t know Jesus or trust in Him protecting you!

So let’s not be afraid to talk of these things and give all praise to Jesus who desires to set us free!

Very often as I walk around I see people’s spirits weighed down.

Upon them I see a weight, a burden and see the souls of their ancestors begging for prayer.

This negative energy is like an inherited debt from their ancestors that robs their spiritual joy.

We live in a church and world where people like me are laughed and at considered crazy for talking about such ‘old-fashioned’ things!

We live in a church and world where psychiatrists and tablets have replaced healing priests and the sacraments!

We live in a church and world where spirituality has been brushed under the carpet and science has been proclaimed God!

And yet the Church and world has never been more broken. People spend fortunes on tablets and doctors and counsellors and often to no avail!

Perhaps the saddest thing is how people who do believe in spiritual realities are treated so cruelly!

The Church teaching is not being taught and the power of Jesus to heal is not being proclaimed!

Recently I went to confession to a good priest. He is studying moral theology in Rome!

When I told him about my life he was very positive and suggested I join a pentecostal community (while staying catholic).

How sad it is that the hardest place to be a true catholic is in the catholic church. It is truely “cathosick”!

Jesus did not give his life for a group of swindlers in Rome. Jesus gave His life for the poor and the needy. Jesus desires to heal, to be proclaimed in power. Jesus desires all people to be aware of how the spiritual world works and thus of the importance of prayer.

Jesus desires to be at the centre of the church. After all it is HIS church. Jesus desires that we all come to know him!

Unfortunatetly today’s church is so sick that instead of bringing people closer to God it is often driving them further away.

We can spend hours talking of the evils in the world and condemning gays and abortionists and those “living in sin” but quite frankly God’s mercy will be on these people.

Be not fooled, the greatest evil today is not in the world. The greatest evil today is in the church itself where bishops and priests parade around in scapulors and live lives in luxury like politians while they neglect their true calling of prayer and spiritual healing.

You may ask who am I to say this?

Well I am a broken soul who Jesus rescued and who the church battered and nearly killed in the name of ‘religion’ and “politically correctness”.

Jesus has no interest in being politically correct. He was not politically correct when He was alive and He still isn’t!

Jesus’ main interest is the truth and how He cries that His church is hiding the truth of His healing power from poor broken people while using religion for power and control and politics.

And so going back to the Holy Souls. Pray from your hearts for your ancestors, especially here in Croatia for those who were in war.

They desperately need your prayers and you need their help!

Have a great day!

Michael

Tko je Isus? Bog? Çovjek? Luđaka?

Who is Jesus? God? A man? A lunatic?

Here are some of the questions everyone asks from time to time!

It is ironic that Jesus whom I believe to be God who draws us all to a union in love is also such a source of division!

The world’s 3 major religions, Judaism, Chrisrianity and Islam all agree on the person of Jesus without agreeing on who he is!

• To the Jew He is not God (the jews of 2000 years ago did crucify him after all).
• To the Christian He is God and
• To the Islam He is a big big prophet but is NOT god.

And even within christianity Jesus causes division! Whether or not He is present in the eucharist seperates catholics from protestants, His relationship with the Holy Spirit caused a divide with the orthodox!!

So with a bit of humour we could say to Jesus that He sure left a holy mess!

Jesus could have waited to come in 2018. With a facebook site and a Wattsapp account He could have set us all straight!

And yet our hidden God revealed Himself much more discretely!

So why does a God who do desperately loves us remain so hidden?

It is a mystery! The solution seems to lie on the inside! Jesus draws each one of us in our “inside world’ where He has placed in our hearts a yearning for love, for Him!

Saint Augustin famously said “I was looking for you on the outside, I found you on the inside”!

God is love and by its nature, love is an intimate thing and that is why Jesus draws us away in the silence to prayer.

Personally I pray for maybe 5 or so hours each day. Even when I’m not praying I am praying! Prayer becomes a way of life and Jesus your best friend!

But going back to the question of who Jesus is, how should we answer this?

For me all those years ago I asked Jesus! He showed me. You can read about that in a previous blog if you want to know that story!

https://michael4jesus.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/piece-of-cake/

Today no matter who you are Jesus desires you to get to know him!

If you don’t even believe in God, that’s perfect, God believes in you!

If you are already a christian, that’s also perfect. Jesus is God, He is infinite, we can never know Him enough!

And if you are confused and don’t know what to believe, know that God has an extra special love for you because you are searching! Ask God in prayer to guide you and reveal Himself to you!

So guys, I’m off to mass to fill up with more grace from my best friend and God, Jesus!

Good morning from my favourite cafe in Split 3. My progress in learning croatian seems somewhat akin to a snail crossing the road!

In english we say

“Every cloud has a silver lining”

In other words, there is something good behind even bad things.

In christian terms we might say that something is a “blessing in disguise” or that God brings good out of everything, even bad things!

So first lets have a look at a few examples:

Nick Vujicic. Born with no arms or legs he hasn’t let it stop him. He travels the world giving inspirational talks and recognises the presence of God in his life!

Turia Pitt, runner and model almost burnt to death and left with 3rd degree burns all over her face.

When we see these lives we see that God did not heal these people. He did not give Nick arms and legs nor did he heal Turia’s burns!

But what He did do was give them an internal transformation to look at life differently!

A while back I gave a talk on homosexuality to a group of christians. They seemed somewhat bothered that I had accepted my sexuality and seemed to think that I should do all possible to become straight!

But God showed me different. Just like Nick who has no arms or legs or Turia who is burnt all over, homosexuality isn’t ideal!

However accepting it as my challenge in life has brought far more blessings than trying to become straight!

What is your challenge in life?

Have you accepted it or are you desperately trying to get it healed?

Do you not see that God loves you all the more with your brokenness!

Is not the real healing to accept love in your broken state!

Over time you will learn to laugh at your cross and yourself!

I have a great time winding people up that I’m mad or crazy! I may as well joke about it! What’s the worst that can happen? A breakdown!

As for being gay I like to joke about that too and there are many advantages of being single and not having a wife and kids!

Saint Paul recommended the single life to all!

So today, take a moment and think of your cross in life. See how it makes you more human, more vulnerable and more needy.

See how it makes you normal and helps you to understand with your heart the pain of others!

Allow your pain to become your gain, your tears to become healing balm of hope to others!

You may never be famous like Nick or Turia but you may be famous in the eyes of your son or your daughter or your brother or your sister.

You may show them the way and of how to be full of joy despite life’s struggles.

So to finish! Jesus does not judge us on what cross life has given us. He judges us on how we carry the cross life has given us!

Are we trying to cut a bit off the top of it or maybe to throw away the side?! Are we trying to exchange it with a lighter type of wood or are we trying to lie down and let others carry it for us?!

Or with God’s grace do we wake up and say “if God gave me this, there is a reason, I can handle it and good will come from it”!

So have no shame of your cross, pick it up boldly this morning and say

“get out of my way Satan, I’m on the way to heaven”

Blessings to all today of joy, joy and more….joy!!