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We forget sometimes that our Mother Mary loves us so much! We have only to turn to Her and Her arms will wrap around us. Her comfort and caring will carry us through any storm 🙂

What does it take to Answer God’s Call? God Opens The Doors, but we have to choose to walk through them. Sometimes that takes courage, sometimes strength and determination or humility. It always takes love…

Sometimes it takes asking Jesus to Help us.

It is not always easy to answer God’s Call, but it is always worth it 🙂

While praying the Rosary, I saw a freight train coming fast and close. And indeed one is coming. We need to be ready

And then while praying the Rosary, I saw a horse at the door. Are we ready for what comes next?

Is Jesus our top focus? Our first focus? Do we see the world as God sees it?

Call upon the Lord while there is still time!

It would seem so. And if America continues to betray Israel, Israel will stand alone. And what does the Bible say comes next?

Remember Job? What God gives, He can also take away.

The thing about Job is that even when God allowed everything good to be taken away, Job kept praising God. And because He did, good things eventually came back to him!

Our prayers may come through “gritted teeth”, but that’s okay. We just need to keep praying, and praising and thanking God, no matter how difficult the times.

For make no mistake, if we truly betray Israel, our country will pay a great price!

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” -Matthew 11:28-30

Jesus died for our sins (our inability to keep God’s Commandments), because God loves us! God knew that we would never be able to keep His commandments perfectly and so He made a way for us to come Home anyway.

Because God loves us!

 “The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,  and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false” – 1 Thessalonians 2:9-11

With July 4th just around the corner, many are already planning to celebrate. But what exactly are we celebrating? Our betrayal of Israel? Our surrender to Iran?

Let’s set aside President Trump for a second. For his strong support for Israel and his complete betrayal of Israel have not yet been fully explained.

But what of the rest of the nation?

Did many refuse to “love the truth” and therefore God sent them a “strong delusion”?

Because that my friends is what it seems like. That many just can not see.

” O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.” – Psalm 139

God knows our every thought, our every action…but He loves us anyway! That is why He sent His Son Jesus to rescue us and bring us Home 🙂

Answering the Call. We’ve all heard that phrase. Is our answer Yes? Really Yes? Because “Answering the Call” can have a cost. Sometimes a high cost.

Because Following Jesus; really, truly following Jesus can mean leaving some of those you love behind. Because Following Jesus means putting Him first. Really first. That means first, before your family and friends! It means putting Jesus first, even when it is not easy.

But the rewards of really, truly Following Jesus are immeasurable.

The above church was built in Kiev during the 11th century. Built in 1073 AD, it’s impossible to count the number of people who have worshiped Christ in this church or sought Jesus’s assistance there.

Today, Russia struck it “with ballistic missles”, which set it on fire. People died and the church was horrifically damaged.

The situation with Israel is heartbreaking. But the first sign of the Great Tribulation will not come from Israel, it will come from the Fall of Ukraine, whether it is from war or a deal that essentially is a surrender.

When Ukraine falls, look up, for our redemption draws near.