The following are words given by participants at the streamed meeting. 1 Corinthians 14:29 says that "Two or three prophets should speak, and the others weigh carefully what is said." 1 Thess 5:19-21 tells us not to despise prophecies, but to test everything and retain what is good.
Scripture Reading Phil 2:9-11 - "God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
Scripture Reading Matt 12:28-30 - "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light."
Scripture Reading Proverbs 21:2-3 - "All deeds are right in the eyes of the doer, but the Lord weighs the heart. To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice."
Word of Knowledge - I kept getting that the Lord is taking away fear from us tonight, fear from all things that are not of him.
Scripture Reading John 10: excerpts from10-14 "I have come so that they may have life, and have it to the full. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd is one who lays down his life for his sheep. The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and the sheep do not belong to him, abandons the sheep and runs away. I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me."
Prophecy - "My little ones, I have been preparing you for my coming. I have been working very hard in your souls, in your hearts, in your spirits. I ask that you would pay special attention to me tonight. I will speak deeply in your hearts. I am calling you into a new era. I have prepared you myself. I have done everything because you were chosen for this day. You were chosen for these times. Do not worry about what you are to do, where you are to go, when you are to go. Follow me. Be very sincere in following me. Do not look to the left or to the right. Look ahead. I am right there in front of you. Follow very closely in my footsteps. I have specific work for you to do, each one of you. I have prepared you. Remember I have prepared you, I have called you. Do not be afraid. Do not worry. It is coming. Soon, soon my time is coming. I love you, my little ones, and I am very pleased with each one of you. I have created you very specific to work in different areas, to do different things, but always, my little ones, always with you and me and my Spirit. You are ready. Do not worry. Soon, soon we will begin a new ministry."
E. felt angels singing with us.
Fr. Dave Swantek spoke on Forgiveness. Luke 6:27-38 - "Jesus said to his disciples: "To you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. To the person who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person who takes your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic. Give to everyone who asks of you, and from the one who takes what is yours do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you. For if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same. If you lend money to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, and get back the same amount. But rather, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back; then your reward will be great and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give, and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you."
Love your enemy: Most people think that love is a feeling. Jesus does not mean that as a feeling. Agape love = self-giving love. Do good to those who hate you. Loving someone who hates you is not returning evil for evil.
Fr. Dave gave an example of someone he had to forgive when he was in the seminary. His car was hit from behind by a drunk driver. His spiritual director told him to say a simple prayer every time his angry thoughts came up. The prayer was "Lord, bless him, change me." It took three months for all the anger to be gone.
We have to love our enemies and sometimes that is the hardest thing to do. God never rewards evil. Proverbs 3:11-12 - "The Father prunes and disciplines the son whom he loves." You can judge an action but don't damn the doer.
The bless and change me prayer works generally for regular people sinning against you but when you have something really hard like abuse, it's not strong enough. He finds for certain kinds of sins that really rip, it's best to take one day of the week and pray for your enemies specifically on that day and his advice is to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet. When Fr. David does this, he also imagines himself standing side by side with the people who have done evil to him and the people he cares about. He asks God's mercy upon all of them.
St. Faustina reflection: "Let your pain meet Divine Mercy in your heart and you will be forever changed." Surrender your pain and He will transform it into mercy and love. Especially emotional and psychological pain that needs healing.
David thanked everyone for their prayers for his grandson, Cooper. He had gone three weeks with high temperatures and pain. There were a lot of very serious possibilities. At one point, the doctors thought it could be cancer. We prayed and God healed him. He is a 100% back to his normal self. Now the doctors are saying it must have been just a severe viral infection. Whatever the truth is, it's gone. David thanked God for healing his grandson.
Leslie B.'s praise report is that her son is now going to AA.
Patt had a revelation on her holiday. Some time ago at a prayer meeting, there was individual prayer for the participants. One of the prophetic words given to Patt was that the Lord was going to heal her of something big. Then on her holiday, she started to think how the Lord was the lord of time and space. As she was meditating on that, then suddenly it came to her. He was talking about healing her from the car accident that hadn't happened yet. Before she left on her holidays, she told us the word the Lord had given her about twice death had called for her but she wasn't home. When Patt got back from holidays, she got a letter from Manitoba Public Insurance about what was wrong with her from the accident. After the accident she was three and a half weeks in the hospital. Then two weeks later she went to Mexico for three weeks, came back for two weeks and then she went on a cruise and she just came back. She figured that she had not been that bad. She was glad that she didn't get the letter before she went. Just some of the things it says that the accident caused: acute rib fractures of 1 rib, 2 rib, 3 rib, 4, 6 rib, 7 rib, 8 rib, 9. She was very grateful rib 5 didn't crack. Pulmonary embolism, cervical sprain, etc., etc. Had she read that first, she would have been quite upset. She said it seems like when you are in the hospital, it's your life and you sort of deal with it. But she is so grateful. When she read that, she realized how very much she needed all of us and she is so very grateful to us for our prayers and our kind considerations because some have spoken with her, some visited her, etc. Any thought we had of kindness or prayer for her, she said it's very obvious that she really needed it. And she didn't even know how much she needed us all. So she thanked us again......and we say, "Thank you Lord for this miracle!"
We have been praying for Maria K. since her head injury. She shared that she saw an eye specialist on February 20th. He made an appointment for her with a retina specialist. She's seeing him already on Monday (March 3). That's a real praise report because it's so quick. Thank you Lord. And we ask for complete healing for Maria!
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