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Meditation I Discerning God's Will!

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TESTS FOR DOING GOD=S WILL-MAKING DECISIONS, FIGHTING TEMPTATION, DISCERNING THE SPIRITS (Note: Get your Bible. Read and test, test, test. Pray. The words, Amy, mine, yours, ours, are interchangeable) (With help from Fr. Michael Scanlon and St. Ignatius Loyola) Pray, Pray, Pray, Consecration to Sacred heart of Jesus, Consecration to Immaculate Heart of Marry. Seven Glory Be=s to Holy Spirit, Seven Glories Be=s for Guardian Angel Help daily, Morning Offering, Prayer Beneath the Crucifix, Anima Christi, Daily Rosary, Daily Stations of The Cross(For the Rosary and Stations Promises, Daily Divine Mercy, Daily Mass-These are the basics, according to God, and Mary. Bonuses St. Michael Archangel prayer, Prayer to St. Joseph, Angelus, Daily communion, Memorare, Hail, Holy Queen God had said pray unceasingly. When Jesus was troubled, He increased His prayer. Taken out of order, ask God whether the proposal, thought, acts, decision, intuition these tests ask: Does the act/decision CONFORM to the will of God? A Lead to CONVERSION of hearts(holiness)(Yours/others) Do you A Have CONFIRMATION Do you have a strong CONVICTION? (Does your heart say AYes?@ Is the way of God CONSISTENT with how God speaks to you? Discern the SPIRITS THROUGH PRAYER 1. CONFORMITY To the Will of God(See below). 2.Confirmation (according to rightly formed conscience) (followed by Conviction) Closed doors open, Obstacles removed(see below). Means and assets become available. Possibilities turn into solid leads. Favorable circumstances appear. Seek the presence of the Fruits of the Holy Spirit in confirmation. Or note their absence. God, when He wills, grants signs, healings, visions, locutions, dreams. Guided works manifest the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Trust God. 3 Consistency. Has God talked to me in this manner in the past? GOD IS ALWAYS CONSISTENT. Question, AIs decision, the course of action consistent with the way God has spoken, worked with us before? @Speak, Lord, your servant is listening!@. If intuition is from God, you will be comfortable. If not, of God, YOU NEEDS LOT OF CONFIRMING PRAYER. If you are of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who loved and created all things, Welcome. If you are not of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, go to the foot of the cross, never to bother me, so that Jesus can deal with you as He will, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy spirit, Amen. One=s skills and roles with respect to the decision remain important. Still, not paramount. God may lead you from that which you are comfortable. God=s consistency tests our temperamental and emotional life. Your reaction to circumstances and objects could suggest God=s will for you, especially when this is inconsistent with that which is usual. TRUST IS THE ESSENCE OF GOD=S RELATIONSHIP FOR US.@Blood and Water, gushing forth from the side of Jesus as a font of mercy for us, I trust in you. HE WILL CARE FOR YOU! Test: Who? Does God usually act through other people? What: Has/does your life follow a pattern of a particular type of work? Have you gained skills and experience that point in a particular direction? Where? Do you hear God in certain places? Church? Doing dishes? While walking? When. Do you feel His guidance? How Do you hear the Lord. Compare: the inner, peaceful sense, with God=s revelation in other matters/ sources with respect to you. What is the cost of a direction(spiritual mental, psychological, emotional)? Is it too high, in balance with the proposed gain? (Focusing on the rules: He will care for you. He gives you no more than you can handle. Verify the call from God really is from Him. Prayer and meditation. 3. Conversion of hearts. This means Aholiness Will the proposed decisions get you closer to God, or draw you away from Him? Does it help in holiness, the conversion of your heart, others? Everything must be(lead to) the honor and Glory of God. Does it result in closer union with God? To a more faithful discharge of your responsibilities? Does it involve the unnecessary occasion of sin? Our end and purpose are to know, love, and serve God in this world, and to be happy with Him forever, in the next. Look to the fruits, manifesting. 4. Conviction (How strong is your conviction? Doubts? In His anguish. He prayed more earnestly. Test: Must be in conformity with God=s law, obedience to God=s Will, submission to God=s will? (Be aware when you are justifying or rationalizing sin, especially PRIDE: Placing rottenness, instead Divine Eucharist(assuming favor)or putting reason and I in place of A Divine Eucharist. Any existing commitment(s) affecting the decision. Any other Acalls from God bearing on the decision. God operates in the Holy Spirit of peace and joy. Which commitment(s), call/ lead you to joy, and other fruits of the Holy Spirit. Would the decision hinder your spirit of submission or obedience to God or to the Church? Conformity with commandments of God. Revelations, scriptures, (tradition rules, regulations, Vatican documents, relevant teachings of the church, Magisterium, moral theological texts, and tests. You witness God=s love through his Word. Tradition based, with scriptural understanding, church teaching is free you. Existing commitments bearing on the decision? Lift every action to God. (This in effect lifts all our energies, and energies resulting from the actions, molecules, upon molecules, electrons, impinging upon electrons, up to God. Giving back God, the power, and ultimately using His power(see below) in all we do. Thus seek God in all you do. (This is the basis of offering creation [back] up to God, the acknowledgment. Testing the conformation to His will, are there existing calls from God contradict the current proposal(s). Each call from/by God builds on earlier one(s). Respond by submitting to God, living His gospel, His law. Test:: Would current inspiration/ proposal hinder submission or obedience to God and His church? We form our own conscience according to Church teaching. Pray the Holy Spirit for discernment. Offer God your will, AIf it is thy will. Choose God for eternity. Surrender your heart, spirit. CONVERSION OF HEART. Prayer, the gateway to conversion(Holiness). Read scripture. Pray over it. Ask, A is this for your/others conversion? Mary has said those that pray with humility, God answers during prayer. Will the proposal place Jesus/God first and do everything in His name? Our tasks then become prayer. Each decision should lead us and others closer to God. Will the proposed direction lead, us or others to a more faithful discharge of your primary responsibilities? God says nothing about success, He, God leads you to success. Does it involve an unnecessary occasion of sin? Does it allow Titus:2, 11:12? Reject godless ways and worldly desires. Look at the probable result, the fruits, love, joy, peace, patience kindness, generosity faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. These oppose works of the flesh: conceit, envy, provocations, proudness, passion, and pride. CONFORMITY TO THE WILL OF GOD, SURRENDERING TO GOD=S WILL: Does it conform to God=s will, tradition, scripture, teachings of the church, commandments, Magisterium, rules, and regulations? Lead to conversion? Pray the Holy Spirit for discernment. Open your heart, to see God=s face, and to be in God. The more you search for Him, the more he comes to you. Do not stand still. Examine everything you place into your system (body, mind, soul). You are amplifying (or decreasing) God=s gifts through your molecules, atoms and electrons. Stop worrying. Pray more. God says, A let me do my work. God also says through a famous sign. AHello this is God. I will not need your help today. Have a nice day! Except in matters to which we have been assigned to help, through our talents and graces, and gifts. He expects, HE WILLS we do something for our brothers and sisters, in His name, with those graces bestowed upon us. OR ELSE, THE JUDGEMENT AND ACCOUNTING. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REASON AND PRAYER. Through reason, alone, you will not know what to do. Prayer generates enlightenment. AOcean of mercy fountain of help, unfathomable Divine Mercy. Praise, reverence, respect, admiration, devotion. Raising up God, To see Him. To see His face. Your decision choice must mirror the end for which He created us. We must not fit the end to the means, but the means to the end. Do not have God conform to your inordinate attachments. And do not conform God to your inordinate attachments. Your first aim is to serve God, which is the end, and the means. Seek the end. Serve God. The means to the end is how?. Nothing must move you to use such means, or deprive yourself of them, save only to serve and praise God, and the salvation of your soul. Conviction: Does your heart say AYes?! . Does a sense of moral certainty, or anxiety, fear, doubt and worry prevail (See St. Ignatius= answer to that below). Peace in the heart, and certainty in the mind are different. Do you have a moral certainty? If not, appeal to the other tests. Of the alternatives, which do you believe is right. Which has the least negative consequences, re: the fruits, conversion, and for the body of Christ, and the purpose for which. What does your heart say, Interpreting spiritual signs? DETERMINING GOD=S WILL. Nothing must use such means, or deprive yourself of them, except only to serve God and the salvation of your soul. MATTERS IN WHICH TO MAKE A CHOICE: Indifferent and good in themselves. Not opposed to the church, nor unlawful. Things that cannot be changed-marriage or the priesthood, no further choice is possible. If not made with inordinate attachment, all calls from God ARE pure, undefiled, without attachment to flesh. Matters that may be changed In the sight of Our Lord, perfect yourself as much as possible . . . if one wants to produce worthwhile fruit that is pleasing to God. THREE TIMES WHEN A CORRECT/GOOD CHOICE MADE: 1. When God moves, the soul decisively does what has been presented to it. 2. When we have derived much light through consolation and desolation of diverse spirit. 3. During a tranquil time when the spirits have not agitated the soul. And when (wo) man considers the purpose (s)he has been born, with a desire to choose as means to serve God A. Making a correct choice of the way of life. Place before your mind, the object of choice(e.g., study or fight). Focus on as your aim, the end for which God created you, praise of God and the salvation of your soul, without any inordinate attachment to a proposed choice, so not more inclined or disposed to accept the object in question or to relinquish it, to give it up. Beware of pride. B. Beseech God to move your will according to what His Will is for His Glory. Examples of prayers, The Wisdom of the Sacred Head prayer. Wisdom of the Sacred Head, guide me in all my ways. Oh love of the Sacred heart, consume me with thy fire. (Then three Gloria in honor of the Divine, Wisdom, Will, and Understanding), then, Oh Seat of Divine Wisdom and Understanding,may all minds know thee, all hearts love thee. All tongues praise thee. Amen., E.g., Divine Mercy prayer. (Or Come, Holy Spirit. Prayer). The choice should be like equilibrium, leaning neither to either side. All your actions are for the Glory and praise of your soul. If God gives discernment, ask Him to move your mind. In reverence, adoration, praying to, admiration, to see His face, to see the light of God in all things. Use understanding to carefully weigh the matter with fidelity(Evidence of things unseen). Make your choice in conformity with what would be pleasing to Him. 1. Weigh the advantages and benefits that would accrue to me if I had the benefice(what you are asking for) solely for praise of God and benefit of the soul. 2. Weigh(t) the disadvantages that might be in having it. C. Do the second alternative. 5th. Spiritually consider each advantage. Determine which alternative appears more reasonable. God says use the judgement I have given you. Decide because of the weightier motives. Not because of sensual ones. 6th Diligently, and prayerfully, offer the decision to God so He may confirm it. He will. (AAsk. You will receive. Seek. You will find. Knock, and it will be open to you). SECOND WAY: A Love that moves and causes must descend from above. (Love=help and work). See that the work proposed is solely for the Creator. 1. Spiritually, mentally recommend to yourself a (wo) man (YOU HAVE) never seen or known. Consider telling her/him what God would want him to do for the glorification of God and salvation of his/her soul. 2. What alternative would you choose, if you were at the moment of death? 3. See yourself standing at judgement(death) in the presence of Jesus. What decision would you have made, to fill you with happiness and joy? (Remember after death, there is only justice. At the moment of death, you have options, and could even be healed). Guided by the rules above, decide. AMENDMENT OF ONE=S STATE OF LIFE. Things we can change. Pray with great diligence. Direction of amendment in reparation. Where an (ecclesiastical) office in which you cannot make a change- marriage, or Holy Orders. Otherwise, recall the purpose of (your) creation-- glory and praise of God, and the salvation of (your) soul. As you pray, offer up all your duties and your actions. Your whole life becomes a prayer. Determine what you should do, to be pleasing to God? . Examine that way, looking at all the details. How should you act by word and example. Consider your resources. What part should you use? What percentage should be tithed? Seek. Pray. Accept nothing, except the glory of our Lord, as the aim in all you do. In SPIRITUAL LIFE concerns, we progress in proportion to our surrender of our self love TO GOD, and in proportion to the surrender of our own will and interest TO GOD. THREE METHODS OF PRAYER(Can Be Done Daily): METHOD #1. Examine the 10 commandments, Seven capital sins, the Three Powers of the Soul, and the Five Senses. The following represent(s) actions by which soul may prepare itself so its prayer is acceptable to God. (Despite the below, do not forget the great gift /grace of frequent confession) Preparation. Before entering prayer, recollect self for a while your normal way. For example, this may be sitting, walking up and down, doing chores. (Remember offering up all your actions, with its expenditures of energies, thoughts, focusing, or trying to focus on God, electrons firing, molecules being moved, atoms colliding by your intention, thought, actions-may all be harnessed in power of prayer to God. (The physics of motion cause and effect, desire, intention, thought, movement, power, force, we have just exemplified constitutes a tremendous power you can focus to God, for His intentions, and for your prayer intentions). Consider the decision/proposal/act, AND your life, where you are going and for what purpose(s). Offer up your method(s) or reading in sacrifice that it may be acceptable to God. Preparatory prayer, ask God=s grace to know how you have failed to observe the 10 commandments. Go through each. Ask how to amend you life in future. How can you serve God for His greater glory? Ask for a perfect understanding of the 10 commandments, to more glorify and praise God. On each commandment, say an Our Father, or three Our Fathers, and a Hail Mary. E.g., consider 1st commandment, how you observe it; failed it; how you attempted to rely on yourself, instead of God. Where you have failed, or committed faults recite the Our Father, and the Contrition, asking forgiveness. If meditating on a commandment not in the habit in committing sins, do not delay long upon it. Use the same method examining your conscience for breaches of the capital sins. Pray that the Holy Spirit enlightens you. ( Gluttony, Murder, Greed, Lust, Hate, Envy, Sloth). In the same manner, say the preparatory prayer, with the object of the sin to be avoided. Apportion your time, to better understand the faults committed. Meditate on the opposite virtues: e.g., patience, prudence, long suffering, endurance, love. To better avoid sin, ask God for the grace to obtain the seven virtues contrary to capital sins. But always use preparatory prayer. Repeat the process for the five senses of the body: hearing taste, sight touch, smell, (and intuition-on this one, God has said if He wishes to locute to you, He would gently break into(your psyche and spirit and do so. Note. Note anything coming with violence, fury, anxiety and storm is not of God.See below). Go through the same exercise. Anyone wishing to imitate Christ in the five senses, should recommend himself to Jesus in preparatory prayer, then say a Hail Mary. Three Powers of the Soul, repeat the preparatory prayer. Consider each sense, say a Hail Mary, and Our Father. To imitate Our Lady, recommend yourself to her in preparatory prayer, Pray to her. Ask Mary to take it to her son, then say Hail Mary, Our Father, after each consideration. You cannot say, Oh how good I am. You should be saying, forgive me Lord, for you have given me the grace to bi-locate, and walk on water, and multiply the bread and the fishes. If you have not been usingHis gifts.@And greater things than this shall you do@. Not to do is an abuse of God=s grace, and a thing for which you have to account,. You must take a pro-active stance. God asks: Did you multiply bread and fishes for the benefit of my hungry?Did you calm the waters, and walk on them to save, one of my drowning? Did you raise the dead, or at least raise the dead of spirit, the sinful, those depressed, in need of a smile? Did you minister to the sick of heart, with a smile a hug? Depart from me, I never knew you. While God may not be as rough to ban you to hell--voice, I would be just as hard to those who waste my spirit, my grace . . . what did you do with my graces? Repeat with respect to the Theological Virtues: faith, hope, love, charity, magnanimity, meekness, fortitude, Justice, Prudence, Humility. METHOD#2. Reflect on the meaning of each word in the prayer. Kneel or sit, as you prefer. Keep your eyes fixed, e.g., meditating on the word of the prayer. For example, the Our Father, on the Aword A Father@, or another word. Discern various meanings. Meditate on each of them. For an hour(or the time led by the spirit), contemplate (study) the different alternative meanings, of each word, each synonym. Then say a Hail Mary, or Hail Holy Queen. If you lock on one or two words, spend the time on them. Finish during the next meditation period. As necessary, take the whole( hour) period on what occupies you for the time. Another day, meditate on the other words, saying the remainder in the ordinary way. (Unless the Spirit has you lock onto them). Do the Hail Mary , then the other prayers in the same way. When you pray for a person ( petitioning God the Father, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Mary, St. Michael, the other angels and saints) ask for that person for whom the prayer is directed, according to the WILL OF THE FATHER, JESUS AND THE SPIRIT,( FOR THE GRACES AND WORDS GOD SEES (S)HE NEEDS MOST. METHOD# 3. : Be conscious of measured, rhythmical breaths or respirations with each word. You (will) pray a single word in a space of time. Direct to the greatness of the Holy Entity/ person we are beseeching(The Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Mary), being conscious of our humility and our own littleness. Go through the other prayers, Our Father, Hail Holy Queen, I Believe, in this measured rhythm. If you wish, spend all the time in measured prayer. Say a preparatory prayer. YOU (WE) ARE LOW BECAUSE YOU( WE) ARE Not in heaven looking down. So you(we) are little. RULES FOR THE DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS, UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENT MOVEMENTS PRODUCED WITHIN THE SOULS, AND FOR RECOGNIZING THOSE GOOD to admit them within the soul. For those who go from mortal sin to mortal sin, to still another, The evil enemy is accustomed to proposing imaginary pleasures(SENSES, FEELING, SMELLS), or the propensity, thought, or the possibility of those pleasures, even if one does not get them. WHEN ONE DOES GET THEM, they have USUALLY LET the soul DOWN(after all, hell is Adown@). The soul THEN FEELS REMORSE, BUT FEELS IT CANNOT GO BACK TO God, or does not want to, or is too ashamed. THIS IS WHY GOD SAYS, GET UP IMMEDIATELY, SEEK FORGIVENESS, RESOLVE NOT TO DO IT AGAIN, WITH THE HELP OF GOD=S GRACE. (If Catholic, or Orthodox, go when possible to confession). This is why GOD=S GRACE IS A LIFELINE, TO A HEAVEN HELICOPTER, AS evil has TRAPPED us BEHIND THE ENEMY LINES OF SIN, we are STUCK IN THE BATTLEFIELD AND MUD OF DESPAIR, ANXIETY, DOUBT, WORRY, FEAR, SIN, HOPELESSNESS. God=s chopper, and the rescue team of Mother Mary, Saints, angels, apostles, the church militant can get you out. This is WHY MARY SAID, DO NOT LET YOUR IMAGINATION RUN AWAY WITH YOU. DO NOT SPEND TOO MUCH TIME IN IMAGINATION. Do NOT HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH EVIL. The evil one fills the person with more mental delights and imaginations, and weaves the soul in the web, stench, and mud of mortal sin. It fills imagination with sensual delights and gratifications. (Why Jesus says, if your right eye offends you, better to pluck it out, then has the whole body cast into hell). Ever wonder why in Hollywood AScary movies, all is (thought) lost. Nobody calls on God. Evil triumphs, except to the last, because of the controlling fears in charge, anxiety, doubt, worry, despair, hopelessness. Ever wonder why the sets are so dark, black, little light? Who is doing the movies, and television shows, videos, and programs. WHO IS REALLY BEHIND IT? ******* Where the soul seeks to rise in greater perfection, cleanse (through God=s grace) itself of sin, and rise in the service of God, the evil spirits harass with anxiety, afflict with sadness, tear the soul downs, depresses, raise obstacles, backed by fallacious reasons that disturb the soul. It seeks to prevent the soul from advancing. GOOD SPIRITS use the light of reason, arousing the sting of conscience and filling you with remorse. It is characteristic of the Good Spirit to give courage and strength, and consolation tears. (Tears are often signs of a healing). For example, Good Angels(Spirits and saints) give encouragement, inspiration, and peace. (S)he does it by easing your way, making all easy, and removing obstacles so that the soul goes forward doing good. So say the Angel of God prayer always. The Good Spirit removes obstacles to that the soul goes forth doing good. Say Angel of God prayer every day. SPIRITUAL CONSOLATION. When an interior movement (feeling inside you) arouses and inflames the soul with love of the Lord God. Consequently the soul can love no creature for its own sake but only in the Creator. Example: that an interior movement is aroused with the flame of love of God. When you sheds tears that moves to the love of God, because of the sorrow for sins, or for the suffering of the Lord. Every increase of hope, love, and all interior joy invites and attracts the soul by filling it with peace and quiet in its Creator and Lord. (Trust God. He works out a plan through a period of years). DESOLATION is darkness of the soul, turmoil of spirit, inclination for what is low and earthly, restlessness, rising from many disturbances and temptations that leads to want of faith, want of hope, want of love. The soul is wholly slothful tepid, separated from the Lord. Consolation is the opposite of desolation. Thoughts that spring from consolation are the opposites of those that issue from desolation. So in times of desolation never make any change. Remain firm in the decision(s) you made before the desolate period. Commit to the choice(s) to which you adhered in time of consolation. In desolation the evil spirit tries to guide and counsel. Following evil counsel, we can never find the right way to a right decision. In consolation, the good spirit guides and counsels us. Following desolation, never change any former( consolate) resolution, nor your firmness for it. Intensify your activities against this feeling of desolation. Increase your prayer and meditations. Try to do penance. Remember when Jesus was in anguish, He increased His prayer. In desolation, never change your firmness, nor resolution. The goal of evil was probably to tempt you to change. Do not fear it. Prayer drives it away. Fear only God(love God, be humble before Him. Be cognizance of His justice, but also of His mercy). Know that God left you in your natural power to resist the temptations of the evil enemy that might try you. You can resist with the help of God that always remains. God has said, AMy grace is sufficient. Though He momentarily removes the abundance of fervor, and appearance of overflowing love and grace, the remainder grace is to persist and for your eternal salvation. You can persevere with patience. Ask for that grace of patience. For fortitude, according to Mary. Consolation will. We suffer desolation because we have been tepid and slothful, through negligence in piety. Through our own fault, God has taken consolation. God wills to try us, to see how much we are worth, (He wants us to know) how much we would advance in service and praise without the reward of consolation. (Like an eaglet being kicked from the nest, with the Mother eagle ready to swoop and catch it, if we call out). God deigns to give us a true knowledge and understanding of ourselves, so we can know it is not within our power to find and obtain love, tears. (Indeed, we should pray for the grace that we see ourselves as God sees us). Nevertheless, all is in the grace of God, Our lord. God does not wish us to build on the property of another, to arise up in spirit to be vainglorious. When you enjoy consolation, consider how you will conduct yourself in desolation. Humble and lower yourself as much as possible. Know what you could not do in desolation, when left without grace or consolation. If in consolation, know that with the sufficient grace God offers you, you can withstand all your enemies. Find strength in your Creator and Lord. If you inconsolate, or desolate, let yourself know Evil speaks with evil intention. It is displeased if you reveal its evil suggestions and depraved intentions. When evil tempts a just soul with wiles and seductions, it requires secrecy. The evil enemy conducts itself as an adulterous woman. (For illustration by St. Ignatius, not for political correctness). It is a weakling before a show of strength, and a tyrant if it has its will. Characteristic of such a woman in a quarrel with a man to loose courage and take to flight if the man shows himself determined and fearless. If the man shows weakness, and flees, the anger and vindictiveness of the evil flares up and shows no bound. In the same way the enemy flees when the one leading a spiritual life, parries his temptations with prayer. Nevertheless, if the spiritual one(YOU) get(s) frightened, evil will maliciously carry out its attacks and temptations If YOU lead a spiritual life, evil takes to flight, if you show yourself fearlessly. (This is why the Our Father, and the prayer to St. Michael remains excellent). If you become/show weakness-- the anger of the enemy shows no bounds. If you begin to be afraid and lose courage, it will carry about its intentions with ferociously. Before strength, evil is weak. Before the weak, evil is determined. (Read that bible passage, put on the breastplate of righteousness, (Ephesians, 6:14; Isai 59:17; the helmet of salvation, id; , and faith and love as a breastplate-1 THS 5:8; ..Put on the armor of LIGHT Romans 13:12 Testimony. God said go to the bible, I did, something that did not work . . . worked). The evil enemy tries to hide and does not want to be discovered speaking with evil intention in its deceits. Like one in an adulterous relationship, it wants the solicitations and words with which it tempts kept secret. It is dismayed if you publish the words. When the enemy of human nature tempts a just soul with wiles and seductions, it wants secrecy. Should you try to do good, evil gets angry. If you do not do the good, you=re supposed to do, God and all heaven become disappointed. Which is greater? Do not fear evil. If you pray (and sometimes fast) it must flee from you. Call on the name of God/Jesus, because He said it was so. Fear God. And trust in Him. When one manifests the evil scheme to a confessor or another spiritual advisor, it vexes the evil one. It cannot succeed, where the deceits have been revealed. ANOTHER EXAMPLE Evil is also like a commander of an army, probing, attacking at the weakest point in defenses. It investigates all our virtues, theological and moral. Where it finds a breach of defenses in our eternal salvation armor--the weakest and most deficient break, there it violently attacks, trying to take us by storm. ADDITIONAL RULES FOR DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS(understanding the different Movements produced in the soul: GOD, His Angels and saints, being light, when they act upon the soul to give true happiness and spiritual joy, banishing all sadness and disturbances caused by the enemy. The evil ones fight such happiness and consolation by proposing fallacious reasoning, and subtleties, and continual deceptions. God alone can give consolation to the soul, without any previous cause. Only the Creator can come into a soul, to leave it, to act upon it in His Divine Majesty, to draw it wholly to the love of God, without any preceding perception or knowledge of any subject where the soul might be led or by which a soul can come to by any cause of its own will. Jesus has said you can invite evil into your sphere, by music you listen to(There exists music from heaven, and music from hell, He has said), programs you watch, people with whom you associate, things you touch, or bring into your abode. If a cause precedes, both the good angels, and the evil spirits can give consolation to a soul, but for a different purpose. The good angel is concerned with the progress of a soul to advance and rise. Evil concerns itself with its own intentions, to draw the soul down for its own purposes and wickedness. Evil spirits can appear as angels of light. It is normal(for most were once angels). THIS IS WHY THE BIBLE HAS TESTS FOR DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS. This is why the CHURCH SACRAMENTALS OF HOLY WATER, SCAPULARS, CANDLES, OUR LORD made THE SACRAMENTS AND PRAYERS TO GIVE GRACE to combat them. It begins by suggesting thoughts suitable to a devout soul, wholly in conformity with holiness and the sanctity of the soul. The deception(s) end(s) by the evil spirit suggesting its own, Afterward and little by little, it tries to draw the soul into hidden snares and evil designs. Review the course of( your) the thoughts. Detect if the beginning, middle, and the end of the thoughts are wholly good, and directed toward what is entirely right. This signifies it is a sign from a good angel, or spirit. If the suggested course of thoughts will terminate in something evil distracting, or less good than what the soul had proposed thoughts that are weakening to the soul destroying the soul causing disturbance, anxiety of the soul ruins the peace and tranquility These are signs the thoughts are coming from the evil enemy of our progress and salvation. During thoughts suggested to us may end in something less than or less good than what the soul had formally proposed to do, destroys the peace, tranquility, and quiet the soul had before. Evil or distracting, or are less good . . . ends in what weakens the soul, or disquiets it. . . these are clear signs the thoughts are coming from the evil spirit, the enemy of our progress. When you or others detect the evil enemy of our human nature and it is recognized by the trail by the wicked end to which he leads us review immediately the whole course of thoughts and temptations. How it proposed us to step down from good delights, and good thoughts, and step to his wicked designs; how the evil one gradually (tried to or) pushed us to step down from the good thoughts. And how(it tried to or) pushed us or draw us to the weakened end and its wicked designs. Once we review and determined the experience, we may guard ourselves from the enemy. HERE PLACE PROBLEMS AND GRACE text)

When detected OF SUCH A DISQUIETING SITUATION OR SPIRIT, The purpose of such a profitable review, once we detect such an action is, we can guard ourselves in the future against the customary deceits of the enemy. ACTIONS of the Good Angels (and saints) on souls progressing to greater perfection are delicate, gentle, delightful. Like a drop of water upon a sponge.

Actions of evil spirits upon such souls are violent, stormy, like a disturbing drop of water falling upon a stone. The reason, if the soul=s disposition is more contrary or different to the(evil) spirit, they (evil spirits) enter with noise and commotion, and are easily perceived. Where the disposition is similar to that of the spirit, they enter silently as one coming to its own house as if the doors are open.

Thus, with souls worsening, actions of spirits are just the reverse and different. The reason for this is the opposition or similarity of souls to the different kind of spirits. (Jesus said they can attack you if you are in a state of mortal sin).

When CONSOLATION is without previous cause, there can be no deception in it. For only God can cause such. A spiritual person must distinguish the time of the consolation from the period that follows it.

Check the time, (your) activities, and conditions preceding and following. However, during the latter period, the soul may form resolutions and plans not coming from or granted by God. These may stem from our own reasoning, relations, or from the good or evil spirit. Discern, Pray, and carefully examine them before carrying them out.

Where enthusiasms followed by unrest in the spirit, or difficulty anxiety, pray, do not act yet. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage. Where plan exhibits deep anxiety and lack of inner conviction-do not act. Where inner peace follows sadness, give God the benefit of the doubt, when you do all you can.

Conflicting signs, time to pray on it. Unclear signs, discern: is it unrealistic? Based on what facts? GIVING GUIDANCE pray, use your mind, the judgement God has given you. Weigh the options. Do you believe this is the right thing to do? Do you experience a release and a pouring out, in a AYes? Or do you experience, anxiety and uncertainty. Is it the best chance or on information you have-- best not to act, then pray on it. USE THE TESTS ABOVE.

Give Our Lord the benefits of the doubt . . . conflicting signs, take more time to pray. No clear signs, check is it unrealistic thinking.

Learn about your weakness. Where deep anxiety and lack of ambition accompany a plan, best not to act. Pray. Use your mind! Pray! Do you experience hesitation and uncertainty? Take more time, pray on it. If deep anxiety and you lack confirmation, not acting is best. Rethink with the TESTS ABOVE. Conform to God=s law, is it consistent with how God leads us?

Spiritual dryness, a sign of spiritual growth or setback, but not one of God=s displeasure. Enthusiasm giving way to uncertainty and unrest, do not push forward. Pray, wait for God. Roadblocks . . . Anxiety and reluctance that give way to peace, okay to move. Erratic emotions, unrest-do not push forward, wait for God.

Pray for patience and the time God intends you to move. God said AMy Holy spirit is the gift I have given to people to live in My Will. If you are in the state of mortal sin, evil spirits can harm you. You are in darkness. Darkness attracts darkness. St. Ignatius says pray on each sentence.

The kingdom of heaven is the kingdom of love, of complete surrender to God, to God=s Will, of complete fortitude of patience. Obstacles? Thy kingdom come, thy Will be done. God says I desire you to live in me. When the will is merged, the heart(spirit) is merged. When the heart is merged . . . The more you want God=s will. God says our wills are merged with his will and our heart is merged with his heart.

Become in perfect union with God, in every action, every will and every word. The highest action is living in God=s will. If you desolate, you have sufficient grace. Live in perfect union with Him. Whoever, keeps his Word, lives in Him, truly loved. For God is perfected in him. Walk in the same way that God walked. Jesus is the example. See as God sees. Living in the Divine Will is living in holiness brought to Divine perfection in union with God.

God said with respect to AMy gift of the Holy Spirit . . . if you are in mortal sin, you do not have the light, you have the darkness. Darkness attracts darkness. See in the Bible, the manifestations of the Holy Spirit(the gifts see 1 Cor 12:8, and the fruits of the Holy Spirit). The kingdom of heaven is the kingdom of love, fortitude, patience, The kingdom within.

When the will is merged, we merge the heart. Merging of the will all becomes in perfect union with God, every action, every thought . . . every vibration. Our highest action is living in God=s will. God will give you the grace to stand, according to Saint Ignatius says, when you are desolate. Be Holy as God is Holy. Living in His Divine Will is living in holiness. The Divine Will for each soul is perfect union with God, the Creator.

This purification to the perfect union will come about in the greater tribulation. Because the power of darkness succeeds when you turn your will over to them. Surrender your will to God. God=s Will is the will of selfless love. Stay close to Jesus, Stay close to Mary. God=s way is a journey of selfless love. Human will lacks every virtue. Only in love will it begin to blossom.

Meditate. You gave God expressions of love. It=s emptying yourself. Devotion, submitting yourself to God=s will. Close your eyes to the Interior love(and thus power) of God. When you choose to close your eyes of your own free will. , begin to use your senses to seek God, to find God. Strive to be enveloped in God. Find God in a deeper way. In hearing in sense, sight, and touch. Surrendering your will to God is obedience. He will never hurt you. Begin to God through each of your senses.

Love is life. Life is love, the fullness of life. See love, see the cross. Begin to see God through each of your senses, and He will draw you unto Him. The soul goes beyond the senses. The senses are limited entry unto God. Seek God by praying for His will be done. Love is to do the will of God. Carry your cross, -- the trials, and tribulation. Yet in reality, ASK HIM TO CARRY IT--HE WILL.

Ask Jesus to model you as he WILL. Offer yourself entirely, to truly please Him. Practice the corporal and temporal works of mercy. The Holy Spirit will direct you. Recollect yourself. All the Lord is seeking is your heart. If you offer Him your heart, He will give you the gift of His love. Heaven, which is your home. Return to the Lord, and offer Him your will. Want to be with God, feel God, contemplate God. To be converted is to please God. Make peace with God, with your whole soul. With all your heart, please God and live his messages, His book, the Bible. Tell Jesus, I love you,@then act. Words are meaningless. Actions are paramount. Rest in Him.

He wants you perfect. God knows all things because he made all things. Whatever powers or abilities a person has--God put them there. The essence of God is trust. Reliance and hope. His test calls us to understand our temperament and life, consistent with His earlier calls. His determinations remain part of a larger plan.

I Invoke the Divine Will, the Trinity, Angels, and Saints come. Walk in the same way Jesus walked. He was the example. Living in the Divine Will(like using the Divine Power) is living in holiness. Divine Will was broken when sin entered the world.

Be holy as God is holy. Holiness being brought in perfection in God. They must purify the hearts of men all over the world. We must remove darkness from the world, which will come about through the great tribulation. Stay close to Jesus, Mary. Surrender your will to the Father, son, Holy spirit. God=s will is a journey through selfless love.

Human will is lacking every virtue. Love is to live in the will of God. All the Lord seeks is your heart. Return to the lord and offer HIM your will. To be converted is to please God desire to be with God. To long for HIM have a holy fear of GOD.HE talks with us in a familiar way. He will care for us. Many decisions lead from previous decision, from a larger plan. So, too, with God.

How is it consistent? Is it an anointing, hearts stirring, senses sharper? Is it consistent with whom God has used in the past, to lead you to His will. Consistently trying in God=s love and grace. Trust God works out a plan in a period of years.

Have you heard his call, in the same time, same way, quiet moments. In the prayer closet. Is it the God of scripture, Is it worthy of God? What is the cost of feeling this? Is the direction, will pursue it of a lesser good? Will it undermine a higher good? God has already given us? If a locution, or something of the Lord seems strange or upsetting, need much prayer. Demand careful reflection.

First weigh whether this is consistent with the past. Have you heard His call in the same place and under the same circumstances? , How much is the cost, including possible negative effects of? Have you heard his call in the same time, and the same way? How much does it cost?

Is there an emotional pull, where is it leading? Is it leading toward an emotional good? OBEDIENCE TO HIS WILL, is it confirmed by apparent, natural, or miraculous signs. OFFER EVERYTHING TO GOD. REPARATION, REPARATION, REPARATION. Seek help from HIS ANGELS, FROM HIS FAITHFUL.

Always look at the circumstances in the eyes of faith. Is it from God? To what purpose. The spiritual life is the priority in life. See God first, and God will give you all you need. Fruits of the spirit, are they present or absent.

Do His will intuitively, without contemplating. Repeated circumstances, and barriers can cause us to reexamine our decisions we thought the Holy Spirit guided. Pray God leads us in obedience and faithfulness. Prayer of Wisdom, Before the Crucifix, Mary.

Listen and test for any response. Does your heart say yes, or is it not quite right? Conviction is a test of the heart. Examine past decisions you believe were made by God. Pay attention to peace of heart. Do you believe in your heart? This is the right thing to do? Have a desire to follow God. Go to confession. Pray to be purified. Contemplative, consider what God wants. What is pleasing to Him? To be convinced, according to HIS will, All for the Greater honor and glory of God.

Experience God in each of your senses. Think about the word resign. Seek God=s will and not your own. HUMBLE YOURSELF BEFORE ME, GOD SAYS. He is the creator of the universe, and he still asks. Jesus says, LET NO ONE BE PRIDEFUL BEFORE GOD. Whoever, will humble themselves as this little child is greater in the kingdom of heaven. Living in Divine Will is holiness, being brought in perfection with God, in perfect union with God the creator. A soul cannot come to God, unless a soul surrenders its will to God=s will. God always gives His love unconditionally.

Surrender yourself to God=s love, trust, and confidence. God only seeks what is good for your long range welfare. You will no longer seek to sympathize with your desires. You will do it for God. Give God=s grace a chance.

God sees all the reasons we see, and those we do not. Every petition, end, Lord if it is really good for me, . . . but if you decide differently, I want what you want. Want to accept God=s decision in every matter. Place your hopes and ambitions at God=s feet. Never think of talking to your creator as an equal. Speak to Him with humility. Rely on His wisdom and love. He will bring peace to your heart. Submit yourself to God in all things God wills to be glorified. Do not become foolish but understand what the will of God is.

Pray unceasingly, for all spiritual wisdom and understanding. To be converted is the desire to be with God, contemplating God. Tell Jesus, I love you. Rest in Him. He wants you perfect. Have a holy fear of God, in his divine justice. Fear of God, give god loyalty, prayer, submission of your will to His will. Give god adoration, to venerate God, love and respect God. To see God, speak and pray to God.

To pray to God, praise, thanksgiving, contemplation, meditation. Recognize him as our Father. Fear God, recognize who He is. Glorify, attribution of His perfection. To reveal, or makes clear the glory of God. To give praise. Thanks. Deals with aspects of light. Act of making formal reverence to God, deference to His holy will.

Have a show of kindness, compassion, thanks, charity graces, kindness favor, love altruism, honor.