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"No one can serve two masters. He will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life-- what you shall eat or drink-- or about your body-- what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

"Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap. They gather nothing into barns, yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can any of you, by worrying, add a single moment to your life span?

"Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wildflowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was clothed like one of them. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will He not much more provide for you, oh you of little faith?

"So do not worry and say, what are we to eat? Or what shall we drink? Or what are we to wear? All these things the pagans seek. Your Heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

"But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil."

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[ANNOUNCER]

This is Mejanomics with a Friend of Medjugorje.

[SONG CLIP: GOD BLESS AMERICA]

God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her and guide her through the night with the light from above.

[CLIP]

This weekend the highways and resort places are jammed with millions of Americans celebrating a historic event when on July 4, 1776, 50 men gathered in Independence Hall in Philadelphia to declare this nation free from Great Britain.

[LIBERTY BELL SOUNDS]

From the day of our Founding Fathers until this July 4 weekend 1961, His hand of blessing has been upon America.

Pericles built a civilization upon culture and it failed. Caesar built a civilization upon power, and it failed. Our forefathers founded our nation upon religion, and America will only survive and be great as long as she honors God. History tells us that the picture of Moses was upon the first coin that was ever made in the United States. And today we still have on our money, In God We Trust. Our forefathers werent ashamed to talk about prayer, God, and faith. They built a building upon a firm foundation when they built it upon freedom, God, and religion.

Certainly, upon this 4^th of July weekend, we should be upon our knees thanking God for all that He has given us. This has been a country where everyone has had an equal chance. What a nation of opportunity, a nation under God, blessed as no nation in history! It is evident to everyone that freedoms, that have been purchased by the blood, sweat, and tears of thousands of Americans of history are now in danger this weekend. Were in danger from moral corruption within and Communist penetration from without. No nation can ignore God the way weve ignored God in the last few years and get away with it.

Christians, recognizing the seriousness of the hour, are beginning to awaken and are now ready to sacrifice, to see revival in our time. At this dangerous hour of history, we spend 200 minutes a day watching television, 32 minutes a day reading magazines, and 50 minutes a day reading out newspapers. We spend more time in our newspapers than we do in the Bible! We spend more time in recreation than we do in prayer. Yet, were enjoying our freedoms and luxuries today only because Gods mercy is from everlasting to everlasting. And He is a long-suffering God. But the Bible warns that God will judge any nation that forgets Him!

As we approach Independence Day, my prayer is that we shall use this day to soberly think about the reasons for our decline as a nation, and the dangers that lie ahead. There is grave danger that we take our great heritage of freedom for granted. Never in the history of any nation has money flowed as freely as it is today. Even the so-called poor people of America are prosperous and rich compared to the rest of the world. It is alright to have money, but too often money gets the man. Theres a poverty of prosperity that rubs the man of the true perspective of life. Money is the purchase of everything except happiness and a passport to every place except Heaven. Communism is a materialistic ideology and we condemn it. But here in America, were in danger of turning in the same direction! Godless materialism is devastating to the soul, whether it is found in Moscow or New York!

Before the pilgrims left for the New World, these words were read by Revered John Robertson, And I will make of thee a great nation. And I will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shall be a blessing. On this Independence Day weekend, let us renew our vows to Almighty God. Let us declare to the world that were one nation under God. Let us quit being apologetic about our faith in Him! Let us quit being weak about our witness for Christ! It is time for every man to stand up and to be counted and to say, As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

[SONG CLIP: GOD BLESS AMERICA]

God bless America, my home sweet home.

[REYES]

And you were listening to the Reverend Billy Graham from 1961, a very important message given over 50 years ago. And it seems as if that message could have been given today. Today, as we celebrate the feast of July 4^th, the birth of the United States, the beacon of freedom for the whole world. Were going to share with you an encounter with a Friend of Medjugorje from June 24, 2019. Now this was an encounter with the BVM Caritas pilgrimage group, but the most important part of what hes saying is hes giving a moral clarity for our times. And as we just heard the Revered Billy Graham from over 50 years ago, its important to understand how we become evangelizers of this time of this land, wherever that you live in the world.

But a Friend of Medjugorje gives solid advice on how to form yourself, how to approach people, and what is necessary to be evangelizers and light in our land and throughout the whole world. And so for this July 4^th, here is a Friend of Medjugorje.

[CLIP: A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Theres one thing thats very profound that I ran across several years ago. I put it in Seize the Moment. This is an incredible short book. Its about Endurance. I dont know if youve read the book, read it. It is incredible. Its about a ship that got frozen in the Artic and they spent their whole winter through there, how they survived. Its an amazing thing. But they seized the moment to survive and what they did.

And really Medjugorje parallels that. You can learn a lot of things by secular books. You dont have to just read the Bible and just read the saints. Those things are fortified by life. When you hear a priest on the altar talking stories and telling things and then bring it back to the Scriptures, it brings it to life. Just reading Scripture becomes sterile. Oh, is that naphtha? You know who said that? Pope Benedict, Cardinal Ratzinger, Father Ratzinger. He said, We cannot continue repeating Im quoting him Sterile repetitions of the Scripture. Thats why so many people like Dr. Tony Evans or Joyce Meyes, yall know who she is? Man, you can listen to this woman. Shes got the stories. And she convicts you. Then she ties it to the Bible. Tony Evans is a black minister. He was a Dallas Cowboys pastor for a long time. He built a 25-million-dollar church in Texas. Somebodys getting food. Youre not going to give that kind of money. If you want a good steak, if you want a good meal, you give. You got a good church, you give to that.

So, Our Lady is here because weve become sterile. Were not getting fed from the pulpit. And why? Because we just get words. There was a study done by the corporate world and they use this to sell products. And its an amazing, amazing thing. Our Lady told Ivan on June 21, our group was here, if you were here you were on the mountain. Speak less about the messages and live the messages more People are going to misinterpret that. You say, Well, were not talking about the message. Thats not what Our Ladys saying. Shes saying something else.

There are three ways to communicate in any given situation. The categories are first, words; second, voice tone and clarity; and third, body language. The greatest impact on delivering to others, your communications of what you want to say is in categories 55% for one of them, 38% for another, and 7% for another category. So, which holds the place of first? Words? Your tone and clarity? Or body language?

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Body language.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Youve been reading this stuff. Its amazing. The least impact, which is 7%, is words. Contemplate that. So, Our Lady said, Speak less and live more [the messages] So, the total composition of words is 7%. Voice, tone, and clarity is 38%. And body language is 55% in the total picture of communicating. So, does that mean you dont speak about the messages? No. We covered that ground yesterday, but Ill say a little bit about it for the visitors today. You can speak a lot about the messages. You can talk about that. But, your body language is your works. When people see what you do, then those words have power. Otherwise its just words. And thats what we get in the sterile repetitions of Scripture.

Cardinal Ratzinger went on to say, and this was about the third secret of Fatima. They put this out when Bertone was releasing it. They said that we cannot confine ourselves to sterile repetitions of Scripture which is public revelation. We need, and we need to accept, and we need to have the right mentality. He didnt say mentality, but he was conveying that, of private revelation because the invigorate public revelation. They bring the Scripture to life. So thats why Tony Evans and Joyce Meyers and Robbie Zechariah. Theyre so full of stories and everything and relating it to our time, to the Scriptures, and the Scripture turns to life and you can put it into life.

So, Our Lady wants you to communicate. She wants to you to speak to the messages. She wants you to tell people about it, first with your body language, how you carry yourself. In the Poem of the Man-God it talks about St. Joseph, that he did everything swiftly. He was quick at what he did, but he didnt look like he was in a hurry. He had a composure how he did. What about your modesty? Especially women. What are you communicating? What are you telling? Our Lady changes Her dress in Guadalupe to show that She was queen. She changes dress here in Medjugorje. Shes in a grey gown now, but its for feast days She comes golden dressed. Actually the gold is coming through Her dress. So, She adapts to that. But Shes not adapting to your fashions, especially the women today. Shes coming to a modern time, and yet this time Shes not changing to adapt to it.

It was in Fatima, There will be fashions that will greatly offend God. And were riddled with this so much that were blind to it. So, Our Lady is coming to give us sensitivity. So, body language says a lot. You cant just speak words. You have to put something into it. You have to put stories into it to communicate. And those stories are things that have happened to you that brings the message to life.

Im in Atlanta airport the other day. We pull from the gate and the air conditioner goes off. Its hot in Atlanta right now, and its dead. So the pilot tries to play with it a little bit. We have to go back to the gate. Were sitting there. Well, well just check it out, the pilot says. But we cant deboard because weve already gone through everything. And so we sit on the plane. We sit there 20 minutes. They had to bring other people. Then they diagnose the part. Were there an hour. Were literally full of sweat. And so, were sitting there, and Im in a nice seat, which is an aisle seat, but the guy in the middle is a big guy. Hes a stocky guy, military like. We end up an hour and a half there.

We just got in conversation. I wasnt trying to talk about Medjugorje. We start talking. Hes from Nashville. He lives in Germany. Hes black. He was in the military. Hes retired. And we start talking. Where are you going? What are you doing? I start telling him about Our Lady. We talked about Our Lady for two and a half hours probably. Maybe three hours before we went to sleep. I think he said hes Baptist. And he was so turned on to what was happening here he couldnt believe it. I gave him materials and he really got into it. He was so into it that he said, How can I get there? So, Ive got to call him back home when they wake up to get him a flight here to come in Friday. Hes got to work because he got a job after his retirement. He wants to come here this Friday. Hes got to be back to work by Monday morning. And he wants to get a flight. Hes a Protestant! I wasnt trying to convert him. Before we got off he said, Im not supposed to be sitting here. He was in the back of the plane and they overbooked, and they moved him up to the seat. He relayed God put him there. And He did.

The more you live your body language, the more clarity in your tones of what you do, the works of mercy, and Im not talking about feeding the poor. Im talking about people that, our poor that we should be after first, not this socialist justice garbage that weve adopted so much. But, those who are headed toward perdition. There are no more poor people than those people who eternally lose salvation. Thats the poor Im called to feed, and Im telling you, thats the call you are called to feed through these messages. Poor people are usually close to God if they are legitimately poor. They depend on God. We dont. Even middle class doesnt because we have every convenience that we spoke about yesterday.

So, here it is, people are impoverished in their soul, the injuries, the broken families, the broken marriages. People, theyre hurting. And he went through a bad divorce 10 years ago. And we talked about things. I talked about How to Change Your Husband, things Ive written. And here it is that God put me there with this appointment. So, this communication something is very important to understand, and to understand the context when Our Lady says, Speak less and live morethe messages You can speak a lot about the messages. You can talk a lot about it with just the 7% words if you have lived more of the messages. The more you live the messages, the more you have the authority to convict.

I didnt talk a lot about the messages in the beginning years. So little did I talk about the messages, I had to go about eight years, no nine years, after being converted and growing that Our Lady had to give me a message to Marija to say, Ok, youre at the point. I want you to start going out. Because I was passive. Because I saw that in the message. I saw it in St. Paul. He got converted. He had to live nine years, maybe 11 years before he started speaking. He had a history of living Christianity. He had to learn it. Those of the apostles, they learned three years. They didnt know anything about the Mass until the end of three years and they were with God Himself. So, he had to form them and train them. Look at how many mistakes and how many bad things they did. Peter said, Get away from me, for I am a sinner. Depart from me, Jesus.

So, all these lessons you have to go through cognition. I happened, in Italy with Marija, her in laws were coming down from upstairs. And they were coming to the apparition. And they called 5 minutes before Rosary starts for the apparition and say that they just suddenly got deathly sick. They both got into bed. Marija came to me and said, Strange. They went out the door, ready to come down the steps. They got sick. She ran up there and came back and told me. So we started the Rosary. At the end of the apparition, Marija said Our Lady gave a message. A message that changed my direction. My direction was, work on myself, do what I need to do. I went to Medjugorje in 1986. I found out about Medjugorje in 1982, 83. I couldnt find a way to get there. I told a priest, if you ever get there, dont even call me. Just book my whole family. Well go and Ill give you a check.

So, here it was May 31, 1995. Marija turned to me after the apparition and said, Our Lady gave you a message and for you and your family and the Community. She said, Little children And because her in laws werent there, I was the only one with her. And Marija, she knew immediately, it was a message directly for us, me and my family and Community. Little children, I desire that through your lives Its easy for us to live the messages, and its easy for us to sin because youre always a sinner. But that doesnt mean because you sin, youre not living the messages.

Our structure at Caritas and in the Community is built from 1986 to this point that the messages are part of our life. We speak about the messages all day long. Were working with the messages. Weve patterned our whole life on the messages which gives us the authority to speak. So She says, Little children, I desire that through your lives Thats what Im talking about, our life, daily life, 5:00 - 6:00 in the morning, praying, 7:00 praying again, Rosary time praying, 3:00 praying, do prayers at nighttime. And thats structed prayer. And the rest of it in between is prayer.

Our Lady, the first thing She said when She came to Alabama through Marija in 1988 was, Let your work be your prayer. Thats the first words breathed in our valley. We didnt know what She meant until later that She was going to give us a lot of work. And we work. We have a strong work ethic. Our kids work. Were known even around the region, even the people who are anti-Catholic, One thing we know about those people, they work. Let your work be your prayer. So, were blessed, or She told them here, You work too much. She wants you to pray more.

So, I developed a whole system on the messages about work. So, She said, I desire that through your lives you are witnesses, that you are my extended hands, my instruments. Get as many hearts as you can close to my heart and lead them to God, to a way of salvation. I asked Marija what She meant when She said, a way. Did She mean, the way? Because we know the way. The way of salvation is the Scripture and of course Christianity, what we do, etc. But we had a specific way. I had already written I See Far. I wrote How to Change Your Husband. I had written many things we already patterned in those nine years of a way of life. So, when She said through the witness of your lives, it confirmed to me that what you are living, you convey this way of life. A way of life! Not the way, you can go to Heaven in the way of salvation, but we have a specific way, an agrarian-based way. At the same time, were in the other side of the world of being very advanced to print and produce what we do which all I write about is what we lived.

So, at that point, when Our Lady back in 1995 gave this message, we were passive. I was. I was very low key because I had to become the message. From that point, Our Lady said no more passivity; I want you to make the passage and be proactive. And thats when we really started being proactive. And through that, youre here for some of those reasons. Im telling you this for your benefits because the first thing you have to do to attract people, or you get on an airplane and youre sitting next to somebody, you have to have the graces attached to your life that you can convict. We have people counselors, psychiatrists, all these people saying this, all people giving advice and all they have is a diploma, a PhD, that says that they can do that, that theyre qualified.

Well, how many people call us for marriage counseling and all kinds of things, all kinds of difficulties with their children? And we dont have a PhD. We have a PhD from Our Lady. And so thats what She wants to do with you. She wants to put you in that position. And a lot of people want to be in that position. I never wanted to be in that position. I hate homework and thats all I do, but God puts you where you would be the last place you would expect to be.

And now I understand obedience because those nuns told me over and over and I would get first place for saying and writing, I must obey. And that used to be the punishment in Catholic school and be 100 times, 500 times. And so I dont like writing because I had to do so much of that. And I mean a lot. And then you give it to the nun the next morning at school and they just throw it in the garbage. You did it for nothing. But one thing it did for me, it impressed to me, I must obey. So God did that. I really understand obedience. If authority is over me, Ill obey it. Where the Church as jurisdiction over me, they wont have any qualms with me. But if they dont have jurisdiction over me, Im obeying Our Lady.

And thats why in January, I announced on a Radio Broadcast and I had written, and I told everybody, if you heard it, Break-Out 2019: Green Light Medjugorje. No bishop is going to stop me anymore. No priest is going to stop me. No cardinal, no pope is going to stop me. Because they cant! because they dont have jurisdiction. That may shock you.

Private revelation, if theyre not condemned, every single Catholic has the right to promote the devotion, to spread it anywhere you want to. And the Church just clarified that bishops now can come here, priests can come here, we can speak in the dioceses and in the parishes. But theres been bad interpretations, Medjugorje, if a parish starts adopting it, it divides the parish. Why? Because Our Lady here divided this place. And the messages of Our Lady is dividing all this.

Everything in Washington between Democrat and Republican, all this is dividing. Light is going to be light, and dark is going to be dark. Its growing more strongly in clarity instead of being amalgamated. If you have 50% Christians, 50% pagans together, nobody shines out. Were all diluted. The early Christians separated and the Roman history said, See how they loved one another. We dont have power mixed in with the culture. Separate from it. So, you have to understand the dynamics of the structure of by yourself you cant do anything, but with Our Lady and following Her way, we gravitate toward that. She said, Prayer is important. Verbal prayer is important. The most powerful pray is community prayer. Theres power there.

And wherever we go, the restaurants, we do the Our Father, the Hail Mary, the Glory Be, and Bless us O Lord. And we do dont it to show, thats just who we are. No matter where we are, what were doing. If its apparitions time or were traveling, we stop, we knelt down, 20 of us, at the airport, praying, looking out the window. That impacts people. When we were in Athens four weeks ago below the Acropolis which is the god of Athena thats up on the mountain. So we were praying on this grassy area, and theres wrought iron there, and the whole group that went to Patmos, Greece, we were all kneeling down, were not looking behind us. We did the whole Rosary. We got out of the way so we could have some privacy at this point. After we get through the Rosary, theres how many people behind us just standing there? Seven people. They stopped. And one woman asked me, said, This is beautiful. This is peaceful. What were yall doing? She didnt even know what we were doing. But she stayed there. I said, Well, we prayed the Rosary. I ended up have some material and gave it to her. We didnt even know they were behind us, but people are searching. Theyre seeking. Now if just one person theyd say, Thats a nut back there. But whats 30 people sitting there, whatever the number was? What are they doing?

Theres a hunger in the human heart today to seek what Our Lady is bringing to the world. And its through you who bring Her to others through your life, how you live that life.

[REYES]

And, that was a Friend of Medjugorje June 24, 2019 speaking to us a very important message that we need to hear on this special feast of the birth of our nation and how we can bring light back to the people around us, light back into our nation through our own conversion and how we change people through the way we live, through our witness, and how we approach them. Our prayers continue to be with all of those who continue to support and fund this mission. We are in great need of your support for the future and for many things which we have.

As many of you heard a Friend of Medjugorje say on the broadcast last night, Medjugorje is just beginning. Were just now at the starting point. And so, it has been training up to this point. Now it is time to fulfill the mission. And so, we need your prayers and your continued financial support for this mission and we ask you to give from your heart. We ask you to give a tithe every month to this mission. And, in order to give that tithe, you can contact Caritas in the U.S. at 205-672-2000. Outside the United States, you would dial 001-205-672-2000. Or you can visit mej.com and click on donate.

We constantly put that in front of you. We know the importance of Our Ladys work. We know that many of you know the importance of Our Ladys work. And we, along with a Friend of Medjugorje, have the advantage of being able to see the global view of people who are being touched, that you may not be aware of. And so, continue to keep this mission in your monthly financial giving.

And so on this feast of July 4^th, on behalf of a Friend of Medjugorje, Caritas of Birmingham, the Community of Caritas, BVM Pilgrimages, the Medjugorje Mission House, Medjugorje.com, and Radio Wave 24-hours, goodbye.

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The subject matter contained in this presentation is based on Biblical principles and designed to give you accurate and authoritative information with regard to the subject matter covered. It is provided with the understanding that neither the presenter nor the broadcaster is engaged to render legal, accounting, or other professional advice. Since your situation is fact-dependent, you may wish to additionally seek the services of an appropriately licensed legal, accounting, real estate, or investment professional.

This ends the Mejanomics broadcast with a Friend of Medjugorje. These broadcasts are available as CDs which are sent directly to your doorstep on a monthly subscription. For information, contact Caritas in the U.S. at 205-672-2000.