Divine Encouragement and Inspiration

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 commented then:

It is only 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 charity towards us by others.

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]

Amazingly simple for those who have Eyes to See and Ears to Hear.