Author: Jesus - My Great Master

“Help me, who am alone and have no help but You.” –Esther C:14, 25 We have been taught to always have something to fall back on. We have insurance, savings, a nest egg, or an ace in the hole. We avoid ever getting in the position where we would have to depend on God for our next meal. However, the Lord may be doing something almost the opposite of what we’re trying to do. He is trying to strip us and leave us with nothing but Him to depend on. For example, when He sent out His apostles on mission,...

“This is an evil age.” –Luke 11:29 Jonah prophesied to the people of Nineveh. “When the people of Nineveh believed God, they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth” (Jon 3:5). All 120,000 citizens of a city steeped in sin, violence, and murder (see Na 3:1ff) repented in one day (Jon 4:11). They expressed their repentance by communal fasting. Pope St. John Paul II prophesied to the people of the world, especially to Catholics in the Western world. He called our Western society a “culture of death.” He called us to pray that America...