Our
Lord Jesus Christ is reassuring you thus....
There is no
miracle so wonderful as the
miracle of a soul being kept
by My Power.
Forces of evil batter and storm,
but are powerless. Tempests rage
unavailingly.
It is like a cool
garden with sweet flowers and bees and
butterflies and trees and playing fountains set in the midst of a
mighty roaring city. Try to see
your life as that.
Not only as calm and unmoved, but as
breathing fragrance, expressing
beauty.
Expect
storms.
Know this - you cannot be engaged in My work,
and in your great Love
for Me, and
not excite the envy, hatred and malice of all whom you meet who are not
on My side.
Where
does the enemy attack? The
fortress, the stronghold, not the
desert waste.
miguel
de
Portugal comments: It is when we
realize -
and believe - what
He has told us, that we will begin to recognize
the miracles which accompany our lives at every turn and understand the
root cause of the attacks from the evil one.
Attacks which many
times can be camouflaged as "
justified
temptations" or acts of alleged charity towards us by others.
When the evil one cannot harm you directly because of you spiritual
protection/shielding, he will use a close friend or family member to
get to you through any psychological weak point that you may have.
Recognize them for what they are and, in His Name, reject them!
Let us not forget, not even for an instant, that....
[11]
These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and your
joy may be filled. [12] This is my commandment, that you love one
another, as I have loved you. [13] Greater love than this no man hath,
that a man lay down his life for his friends. [14] You are my
friends, if you do the things that I command you. [15] I will not now call you servants:
for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have
called you friends: because all things whatsoever I have heard of my
Father, I have made known to you.
[16] You
have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that
you should go, and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you
shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. [17] These things I command you, that
you love one another. [18] If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath
hated me before you. [19] If you had been of the world, the world would
love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen
you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. [20] Remember my
word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they
will also persecute you: if they have kept my word, they
will keep yours also. [John 15]