A Friend of Medjugorje speaks a truth about family, the Church and he gives a startling statistic which should make one ponder where they stand.
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[ANNOUNCER]
Today is Monday,
November 26, 2018, and this is Radio WAVE.
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MUSIC]
[ANNOUNCER]
Broadcasting
across the world from the Radio WAVE
Studio at Caritas, Alabama. This is Radio
WAVE with a Friend of Medjugorje.
[A FRIEND
OF MEDJUGORJE]
So, were
just a few days from Thanksgiving, reflecting, thinking about family, all those
things that have taken place. And the plan for salvation was within the family.
Very amazing when you think about it, how the Son of God was going to come, and
how He had to redeem us, and God chose to put Him between two people, two
pillars. And in the Poem of the Man-God, Jesus even said, Between Mary and Joseph, I had Heaven on
earth, and that helped Me not miss Heaven. Thats a profound statement.
Is this
what your family was Thanksgiving? Is this what youre going home to? Youre
seeking it because more numbers than ever, people went back home. Even we
talked about last Mejanomics
on Thanksgiving Day, the stores are closing for the benefit of their employees
to be spending it with family. And one I called out for which was Recreational
Equipment Incorporated. They didnt just close on Thanksgiving Day for the families
and employees, they closed on Black Friday. Thats a big statement to give up
the biggest profitable day of the year. But what is it saying? Its also saying
somethings in the heart. Were seeking something were missing. And money is
not the end of the story. What we see is family. And thats what Our Ladys
message spoke about this 25th, directly about something in your
family that you need to do.
[JOAN]
Our Ladys
November 25, 2018 message to the world:
Dear children! This is a time of grace and
prayer, a time of waiting and giving. God
is giving Himself to you that we may
love Him above everything. Therefore, little
children, open your hearts and families, so that
this waiting may become prayer and love and, especially,
giving. I am with you, little children, and
encourage you not to give up from what is good, because the fruits are seen and heard of afar. That is why the enemy is angry and uses everything to
lead you away from prayer. Thank you for
having responded to my call.
[A FRIEND
OF MEDJUGORJE]
Its
interesting that Our Lady says: open
your hearts and families But what Shes saying is, Open your hearts, open your families. Open your families to what?
To prayer. For what purpose? So they may become more
love. And especially: I am with you,
little children, and encourage you not to give up from what is good
Family is good. There is more given up because of family than giving up
anything.
Families
are in destruction. Its been that way for decades. Its been declining. Why?
Because the most hated institution by the enemy is family. Its not the
Vatican, its not the pope, its not the bishops, its not us, its not the
Church. Its the family. he despises it, he hates it. he will do everything to
cause strife, destruction. Theres nothing he wont do. he and the system, not
just satan, but the system hes made, uses everything
to lead you, the family, not just an individual, but the family, away from
prayer. That drops his protection.
That can be
proven by a Gallup poll that was given that said that if you go to church and a
nonbeliever couple goes to church, one out of two divorce. So, its not
different. Just simply going to church, as opposed to nonbelievers that dont
go to church, its the same statistic. But,
if you pray as a couple together, Gallup poll found out, and it isnt saying
you have to go to church, just praying together, the
chances are 1 out of 1153 couples would get a divorce, that pray together. Just
1 out of almost 1200 couples.
Does that
not say something to you? [I am your
mother,] little children, and encourage you not to give up from what is good,
because the fruits are seen and heard of afar Thats a pretty big
statistic of importance that can be heard around the world. You might want to
say thats a shot thats heard around the world thats heard. [And] that is why the enemy is angry and
uses everything to lead you away from prayer Its not even just church.
Im not saying not to go to Sunday Mass, but if you pray together, as a family,
you stay together! And a secular organization, Gallup, proves that by
interviewing people and taking a poll.
Is it not
amazing? Is it not astounding? You think Our Ladys messages are just saying
something simple? Go deep into them. Our Lady is telling us never ever to
surrender no matter how difficult our situation is. Nobody wants to teach
people these things today, and nobody wants to know now. They dont want to
show you.
Our Ladys
messages have a purpose to show you, when youre in the night, and its cold
and dark, how to see the light. Shes telling us in this message, Fight! Dont give up whats good.
Marriage is good. Love between a husband and wife is good. Better than both of
those things are praying together. You have to pray
together! Its not an option. And if you think you dont have to then youre
following exactly what the anger of the enemy is wanting you to do, to lead you
away from prayer so he can destroy the family and destroy the culture and the
city and the state and the nation and the world.
The family
is splitting apart. We have to pray together. Our Lady
once said, The best prayer is community
prayer. The best community prayer is the husband and wife praying
together. These things are important. Weve forgotten this. But nobody wants
you to know that. And satan doesnt want you to know
it. The system doesnt want you to know it. hes built the system to keep you
away from prayer. I dont have to fill in the blank of what that instrument
that keeps you away from prayer more than anything else. If you dont know
about it now, over these years weve been talking about cellphones, youre
never going to get it. It is destructive, it is damaging. Youre crazy for
letting your children have one in the house! Its destructive to their soul.
So you have
to fight. You have to close all the doors. And if
youre uncertain about these things, all this is bringing you down. Never
surrender! Fight this, follow the message, and Our Lady will show you the way.
[SONG:
NEVER SURRENDER]
Just a
little more time is all we're asking for cause just a little more time could
open closing doors. Just a little uncertainty can bring you down.
And nobody
wants to know you now. And nobody wants to show you how.
So
if you're lost and on your own you can never surrender. And if your path won't
lead you home you can never surrender. And when the night is cold and dark, you
can see, you can see light. Cause no one can take away your right to fight and to
never surrender.
With a
little perseverance you can get things done without the blind adherence that
has conquered some.
And nobody
wants to know you now. And nobody wants to show you how.
So
if you're lost and on your own you can never surrender. And if your path won't
lead you home you can never surrender. And when the night is cold and dark, you
can see, you can see light. Cause no one can take away your right to fight and
to never surrender. To never surrender.
And when the night is cold and dark, you can
see, you can see light. Cause no one can take away your right to fight and to
never surrender. To never surrender.
Time is all
youre asking for. To never surrender. You can never surrender. Time is all
youre asking for. You stood your ground, never surrender. Never surrender, no.
[A FRIEND
OF MEDJUGORJE]
Theres a
little story I read the other day that was real
interesting. And then Our Lady comes out with this message: not to give up for what is good because
the fruits are seen and heard of afar And this story is way in Africa in
the middle of nowhere, a little village. And youre going to hear it. We have
people listening this mic
overseas, afar, and theyll hear it. And you can picture the scene of what
happened with this situation. Because what happened was a good with a price, but yet the fruits from it will affect you and many other
people.
[JOAN]
The
Russians are a rotten lot, immoral, aggressive, ruthless, hoarse, and generally
evil. They are responsible for most of the troubles in this world. They are not
like us. Thats pretty much the summary of the daily news about the Russians.
But sometimes something slips through the net of prejudice, some small bit of a
sign that is so clean and true and real that it wedges open the rusting iron
curtain long enough for us to see not an enemy, but fellow travelers joined to
us by membership in the fellowship of joy and pain.
See Nikolai
Pestretzov. I dont know much about him. I dont know
where he is now. But Ill tell you what I know. He was a Sergeant Major in the
Russian Army, 36 years old. He was stationed in Angola, a long way from home.
His wife had come out to visit him. On August 24, South African military units
entered Angola in an offensive against the black nationalist guerillas taking
sanctuary there.
At the
village of Engevia, they encountered a group of
Russian Soldiers. Four were killed, and the rest of the Russians fled except
for Sergeant Major Pestretsov. He was captured, as we
know, because the South African military communicate said, Sergeant Major Nikolai Pestretsov refused to
leave the body of his slain wife who was killed in the assault on the village.
It was, as if, the South Africans couldnt believe it, for the communicate
repeated the information. Quote, He went
to the body of his wife and would not leave it although she was dead.
How
strange. Why didnt he run and save his own hide? What made him go back? Is it
possible that he loved her? Is it possible that he wanted to hold her in his
arms one last time? Is it possible that he needed to cry and grieve? Is it
possible that he felt the stupidity of war? Is it possible that he felt the
injustice of fate? Is it possible that he thought of children, born or unborn?
Is it possible that he didnt care what became of him now? Its possible. We
dont know. Or, at least we dont know for certain. But we can guess. His
actions answer.
And so, he
sits alone in a South African prison. Not a Russian, or Communist, or Soldier,
or enemy, or any of those categories, just a man who cared for just a woman for
just a time more than anything else. Heres to you, Nikolai Pestretsov,
where ever you may go and be, for giving powerful meaning to the promises that
are the same everywhere, for dignifying that covenant that is the same in any
language: for better or for worse, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in
health, to love and honor and cherish unto death, so help me God.
You kept
the faith, kept it bright, kept it shining. Bless you.
[A FRIEND
OF MEDJUGORJE]
If you
reflect on this, its profound. Our Lady said: God is giving Himself to you that we may love Him above everything
If you do that, youll love in a way that doesnt make sense to the world. This
sergeant fled, and he realized his wife was dead. He goes back knowing what his
fate may be. But could he live with himself knowing that he didnt go back just
to at least say goodbye, hold his wifes hand? Grieve? Had he not would he have
gone crazy the rest of his life knowing he just left her there? And yet, he
fares better because hes in prison. And he knew what he didnt give up. What
was good? To go back and say to his wife, I
love you. And reflect on their marriage and, Youre my all. And nowadays you hear about it, and the fruits of
it are pictured in your mind and heard afar.
He didnt
do it to be on a stage. He didnt do it to make an impact. Every one of those
soldiers, everybody who saw this, was affected by it. And it reflects
back on a witness what they should have in their family. Contemplate his
thoughts, going to prison and sitting there for years. Did he regret it? Would
he do it all over again? I think he would.
Jesus said
about Judas He would die a whole crucifixion again just for him to save him.
And this is the kind of love Gods calling us to. And we dont see it, we dont
understand it. You have to reflect on this Gallup
poll, that if you just pray together, your chances are 1153, that youll
divorce, simply by praying together.
This
statement of Our Lady, the most important part of this message, is that he, or
the system, your environment, consumerism, materialism, all this will lead you
away from prayer. And thats all satan has to do. Thats his only goal. And were in a time of
grace now. We need to see these things. We need to understand these things. But
we dont. Just like the song said, We
dont know how. And nobody wants to show us how.
Our Lady is
here to show us this. Shes making us see things that we could never see
before. And Our Ladys wanting to show us that Shes going to see us through.
Shell never abandon us when we fall. She was always, and will always, be at
our side. She says, You can call me
immediately. I will come. Even in the middle of the night! Our Lady gave
those words exactly that way. Not in the night. But, Call me and Ill come immediately in best resolving the difficulty.
Weve got a
Mother, weve got a Woman who loves us, whos entrusted with the world, meaning
us, our families. And Shes showing and teaching us the way. But we dont want
that. In fact, many people want to give up. And thats why Our Lady says, Dont give up whats good. What is
good is family. What is good is neighbor. What is good is everything of God.
But weve traded all these things for things that are meaningless.
And today
many people around the world are doing the biggest shopping day now, which now
is new called Cyber Monday. They do the cyber shopping. Theyre expected to be
$100 billion spent or something, some crazy number. This is ludacris.
This is not of God. And these are the things we tire
of, and it causes us to give up, because its a struggle to stay with the good.
If your family doesnt want to stay together,
they dont want to pray together, dont give up! You have to say, I wont give up. Its up to you to do
that. Youre the one following Our Lady. They may not be. Our Lady
is teaching us to live the spirit as, I
wont give up no matter what happens.
[SONG: I
WONT GIVE UP]
Dont tell
me love is something you wont try again. Thats just not true. But now maybe
what you needs a friend. Well, I'm here for you.
You need
someone who knows you from the inside out the way I do. I've seen you walk the
wire never looking down. I believe in you.
I will be by your side if ever you fall deep in
the dead of the night, whenever you call. And I wont change my mind. No, Ill
see you through. And I wont give up. No, I wont give up. I wont give up on
you.
I will be by your side if ever you fall deep in
the dead of the night. And I wont give up. No, I wont give up. I wont give
up. You can call it love. But I wont give up on you.
[A FRIEND
OF MEDJUGORJE]
How
beautiful it would be if what the words of this song said was the mantra for
everyone and every situation, that, I
wont give up. Our Ladys not doing that. And She said on yesterdays
message on the 25th: I am with you,
little children, and encourage you not to give up from what is good This
soldier clung to something that gave him a consolation and a mental clarity
that would keep him from going insane because he gave up years in prison just
to stay a few moments with his wife. Had he left, would he be able to be
healthy mentally? Who knows? But I bet he wouldnt.
Love is the
basis for sanity and sanctsanity (26:32) and sanctity. You choose. A broken
family, you wont pray together. One out of two divorces versus 1 out of 1153.
Drill that into your heart. Its real.
[JOAN]
Moving onto
another section of the message, Our Lady connected two words together that, to
me, gives you some pause as to why She connects the two. The words waiting
and giving. That we are in a time of
waiting and giving And then She says further down that this waiting may
become, She says, prayer, that it will become love,
but especially that it will become giving.
When you
think of waiting, a lot of times you think its a passive word. Youre just
sort of waiting for the bus to come, or youre waiting for your birthday to
arrive. So, what are your thoughts about why Our Lady is speaking about the
word waiting?
[A FRIEND
OF MEDJUGORJE]
Well, when
you put it in the context of Christmas, waiting for the Messiah, the Jews
waited. They missed that time. They are still in waiting for the Messiah to
come. And the Messiah will come back. It will be their first time, it will be
our second time. So, theyre not necessarily in error, except they missed the
first time.
Our Ladys
warning us in so many stories, in so many ways, so many lessons. Dont miss the moment. Shes here on earth for the second
time, and its an impossibility for Her not to be here in preparation for the
second coming. A lot of the Jewish people are going to be surprised at the
first coming because theyll recognize Him. Everybody will. And theyll grieve.
And not all of them will go to hell because of that, or any of them in that
matter. Its just their hardness, their ignorance, and we all have that - us as
Christians, those who deny to see God when He comes in
our presence.
And how
many people today are ignoring Our Lady, denying Our Lady, as the Jews did in
Christ 2000 years ago? Theyre missing the preparation for the second coming
and waiting and sparking the moment to be in wait for the second coming of
Jesus. Were in a marvelous moment. Were in on the top of the wave. Knowing
that the Virgin Mary is here, and Her being in expectation, pregnant, bearing
us into holiness.
She said
that: As I bore Jesus in my womb I
bear you unto holiness See the symbolism of Her words? Also understand
that in a literal way. She is walking with us. She said: I am with you For what? To: encourage you Why? Because you want to give up whats good.
Dont abandon the family. Dont abandon the Church. The Church is very much in
trouble, very much in trouble.
Ivanka said
September 7, 2011, quote, From 1981 to
1985, I had daily apparitions. Through those years, Our Lady shared with me
about Her life. What was Her life? Family, Joseph, Jesus, Her in the
house. Ivanka continues, Through those
years, Our Lady shared with me about Her life, about the future of the Church,
and about the future of the world.
I can tell
you now, and I wont go into it today, but there are some big, big things
happening right now in the Church that are very disturbing. And I am not
talking about the scandal. Its worse than that. Ive been looking at it for
months. And I dont get scared of anything, and Im not scared of this, but
this puts the fear of God in me. Because there are some dramatic things
happening that not even the bishops understand and what very few and almost
nobody can see unless you were immersed in the messages for years. And its
frightening. I dont know whats going to happen, but theres something coming
down the pipe thats not good.
Why would
Our Lady share with Ivanka about Her life, we understand that, but about the
future of the Church? We know its going to be here always because, The
gates of hell wont prevail against it. But is our church going to be
transformed into something else? Is it going to be different? Is it not going
to be understood in the context as we know it now? There are things happening
that are going to be such a big change in the Church that we wont recognize it
as we recognize it today.
So, this is
a big hint from Ivanka and from Our Lady, just knowing this knowledge. And about the future of the Church and
about the future of the world. I was writing down all of that, and when Our
Lady says to me when and to whom I will give it. I will give it to them.
Ivanka, September 7, 2011. Were in moments that
nothing is more prioritized above the messages and above your family, above
love, above your neighbor. Thats where you have to go to. And your family is to be an institution that is not to
be belonged to itself but to sacrifice itself for the salvation of the world
and the salvation of souls. Thats your purpose.
If youre
an introverted family, you only care about yourself, you only think about what
you want to do at Christmas, or what you want to do on Thanksgiving, youre off kilter. Mary and Joseph never looked at
themselves, Well, weve got Jesus, were
going to keep everybody away. Weve got everything. Weve got Heaven with us.
No, they knew what their purpose was. And when it came to give way to that, Our
Lady did it. And thats why no one has suffered more than Jesus, and no one has
a second place of suffering more than the Virgin Mary, what She went through
when She gave Jesus up.
We live in
a moment thats very, very serious. You cannot give up, you cannot separate,
you should not be an escalator of situations, but a de-escalation. Dont incite
things and make them bigger than what they are. And often, the things that
youre making something may not even be there.
Weve
talked about this before on the radio, because all human relationships are
really about forgiveness. The Crucifixion was about what? Forgiveness. Jesus
died on the Cross for what? For the Father to forgive all of mankinds sin. And
so, forgiveness is setting the prisoner free. If you do that, thats what
happens. And, by doing that, then you realize that the
prisoner was you. If you dont forgive, you put yourself in prison. If you
dont forgive, youre giving someone a rent-free place in your heart. Do
you want to live that way? Do you want to be that way? Youre destroying
yourself.
God has
called us to be what Jesus was, and thats why when we say, Forgive us as we forgive others, in
the Our Father. Thats the way it works. It happened with the Pharaoh. He
pronounced the judgement. It came back on his own son, because he wanted all
the first-born Jews to die. And what happened? All the first-born Egyptians
died.
How much
does God have to speak to us through the Scriptures? How much clearer can He
get? Why do they celebrate, to this day, the Passover, the Blood of the Lamb on
the doorstep? Our Lady is coming here to show us that. My Son forgave you. Youre a sinner. You must do the same thing.
And this is how things work, and youre liberated, and youre free.
Ive got a
lot of enemies for what I do, and I always forgive them constantly. And some
now are my friends. Some actually are supported. I
never dreamt that they would be back in that position. But love conquers
everything. And thats what this song was saying, Never surrender. Quote, Without
the blind adherence that has conquered some.
We see this
with our shepherds. They are blindly adhering to something that is conquering
themselves. Theyve lost the path of where they need to be on it. Thats why Our
Lady is here with us, to raise up apostles. Ive said it before, and Ill say
it now, we need them for the sacraments, but were the ones that are taking
over the Church. Its going to be a new kind of Church, a Church that may shock
everybody. I cant give you the details, but theres something coming.
Otherwise, even the logic of Ivanka being shared with the future of the Church,
why? Unless something is going to be different. Weve got 2000 years of what
the Church is. But its coming to be something different. Why? Because the
anti-Christ system is too powerful not to infiltrate the Church.
Perhaps
thats tied to the words of Marija when she says, Every family is a small church. Thats
where it begins. Its not in the cathedral, not in your local church. And yet
the statistics show prayer is the most important thing. And Im not saying and
not advocating to not go to church, but if you pray together, you heard the
statistics. If you go to church together, youre 1 in 2, still get divorced.
That is a statistic from a few years back. We dont know where it is now. But
its a truth.
So, we have
this one thing Our Lady says, That is
why the enemy is angry What is the enemy? Why does She say that? Why
doesnt She just say satan? Shes only said that one
other time. She said on February 11, 1982: Do
not let the enemy take possession of you in anything And here it is, from
the beginning of the apparitions to now, 2018, that the enemy uses everything
to lead you away from prayer. In 1982, dont let him take possession in
anything!
What is the
enemy? Why not just satan? It could be your spouse,
it could be your children, it could be your boss, it could be a system out
there that is, not it could be, it is a system out there. Look at what keeps
people from prayer.
We just
heard a pastor talk about football this past weekend on the altar. And his
enthusiasm was ten times more than what he did in the homily. And actually, it was more interesting, even though I wasnt
interested in it, in what he was saying, because he had more power in it than
the Word. The word on the pulpit was nothing. Again, like I always say, its a
good sleeping pill. No interest, no substance, no food, starvation.
The Church is in a trial, and its going to go through
something. So, what is the enemy? It could be right there next to you. Often,
its the person thats closest to you. But that doesnt mean that youre not to
love that person. Youre to preserve
(he said preserve) persevere. And dont let the enemy take possession of
you. Be courageous. Forgive. And its hard to do. But you have to do if you want to stay sane and go towards sanctity.
This is the way it works.
Our Lady
says this is: A time of waiting and
giving Those two words tied together is what God did in giving Himself to
you, that you may love Him above everything. And theres everything out there
above that now, materially.
So, Our
Lady gives us a real hard pill to swallow. You may think youre going to choke.
But, Our Lady can give you the graces, that even if
youre underwater, and often we say that we just barely have our nose above the
water here at Caritas. There are so many things were doing, so much were
looking into for the future, the anticipation. Weve been waiting to get into
certain points to be ready. Because She said, Be ready And sometimes were underwater. But the miracle is,
Our Lady, through Her messages, and what Shes bringing you to gives you the
ability to breathe underwater. Its miraculous. We feel like sometimes were
drowning. You out there feel the same way.
Because, to go through conversion, to go through a change of
mentality, puts you under the water. And you have to tread water. But, if youre with Her, you can
breathe like that, and it will feel like youre flying. Youll feel the
victories. She brings that to us. And its freedom. Its
freedom because Our Lady shows us how to fly when were underwater and we think
its too dark and were all alone. And its safe to say, Mary, help me. And She can come to your aid and to your help.
[SONG:
BREATHING UNDERWATER]
I believe
in miracles 'cause it's a miracle I'm here. Guess you
could call me spiritual 'cause
physical is fear.
And it's
safe to say the storms gone away and Im dancing on the morning after. Yes I'd love to stay, but my home's the other way and I miss
the love and laughter.
Every moon
and every star knows who you are, you know. So ever if
gets too dark, you never are alone.
And it's
safe to say we surrendered a day to pay back all the love you borrowed. And
hope that I had survived yesterday and today is jealous of tomorrow.
Something like flying, hard to describe it. My
God, I'm breathing underwater. Something like freedom, freedom. My God, I'm
breathing underwater.
Something like flying, hard to describe it. My
God, I'm breathing underwater. Something like freedom, freedom. My God, I'm
breathing underwater.
Something like flying, hard to describe it. My
God, I'm breathing underwater. Something like freedom, freedom. My God, I'm
breathing underwater.
Something like freedom, freedom. My God, I'm
breathing underwater.
[A FRIEND
OF MEDJUGORJE]
This is a
time of grace and prayer, a time of waiting and giving What
does that mean? you might ask. Were always in waiting. The biggest moment
of our life, the highest peak of our life, is at the end. The waiting will be
over. And youll give an account to Our Lord of what you did, and
youll understand eternity at that moment and where youre going.
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[A FRIEND
OF MEDJUGORJE]
So, in this
time of waiting, give to God what He desires, and His desire is His will for
you. Dont resist, dont hold back. Be generous with God, as generous as He is
with you. Youll never know it if you dont reflect. Youll never understand it
if you dont think.
We wish you
Our Lady. We love you. Goodbye.
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