Day 20 Truth of the Spirit with Patti Brunner presents Daily Meditations for Lent.
Welcome to Truth of the Spirit. I am Patti Brunner. This is day 20 of “Daily Meditations for Lent” on Monday week 3. We will share personal revelations given during Lent for you to discern and other contemplations each day.
I heard the Lord say, “What is in a word? It can be the difference in life and death—the difference in eternity.
“In the quiet comes the anointing. In the quiet, the silence of the heart, I fill your mind with my words; your thoughts with my thoughts,” says the Lord. “As you let go of the concerns of the day, I fill you with eternal thoughts. An “idea” is a touch of eternity in the natural, an “inspiration.” Come into my heart. I am with you, child. This lesson, you must learn. I am with you.
“Each day you shall have the freewill to choose pleasing man or pleasing God. You are forgiven, go and sin no more.
“Continue to step out in faith with joy in your heart. The naysayers will not listen—their hearts are closed for now, but those who have ears let them hear, whose hearts are open—let them receive. I Am. Remember: I Am.”
The Lord says, “In the afterthought of time there are many ideas that surface. Regret not the past but look to the future. Draw from moments of splendor, moments of ecstasy but do not crowd the future with plans from the past. Today is the day I have made! Rejoice and be glad! When the time of darkness strikes the hearts of men, you shall have these consolations to draw upon. When one life is changed, so are many. When one turns from Me, rejects Me, betrays Me, it sets into motion a pattern of cause and effect. Only by the grace of God can such betrayal be used for good. The good is easily worked for the excellent.”
The Lord said to me, “Whenever the Spirit moves you to ministry know that My Love shall bring change. I have great truths stored for those who will listen. There is a time to be quiet.”
Matthew 24:35 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.”
Catechism paragraph 2660 says: “Prayer in the events of each day and each moment is one of the secrets of the kingdom revealed to “little children,” to the servants of Christ, to the poor of the Beatitudes. It is right and good to pray so that the coming of the kingdom of justice and peace may influence the march of history, but it is just as important to bring the help of prayer into humble, everyday situations; all forms of prayer can be the leaven to which the Lord compares the kingdom.”
The Lord says to us, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God. To this end you should live your life. Always weigh the consequences, the effect upon others when you make your daily decisions and especially the difficult and ‘important’ decisions.”
We are in the midst of a generation of Catholics who have truth before us, available in Scripture, in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, in the teachings of homilies, yet our eyes are closed; our ears hear but do not comprehend. Until by the sovereign grace of God we seek the Lord with all our hearts, we shall remain captives in a jail that has been unlocked because we have been pardoned by the Divine Mercy of God.
We seek the Kingdom of God most simply in prayer and reading the Word of God. We then seek the Kingdom of God by applying his Word to our lives.
This Lent the Lord has more to tell us about the Kingdom of God. This is Day 20. We invite you to listen each day for words from the Lord and Daily Meditations for Lent. Remember: “The kingdom of God is at hand: repent, and believe in the gospel.”[i] “Prepare for it, ready your heart.” The transcript of this episode is available at PatriarchMinistries.com/290. Come back tomorrow for more. With the Holy Spirit there’s always more. Amen.
[i] Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraph 541
