A few months ago I was diagnosed with stage 4 Ovarian cancer. The cancer is in my liver, lungs and all through my body. God has blessed me with the best doctor. I know He is watching me as my husband and I pray to Him. This suffering I offer up to the souls in purgatory. I still have joy in my life thanks be to God!
God bless you Catherine! Our god is a God of miracles and is always blessing us. Your witness is amazing and your offering is so precious before God im sure.. May you be healed I pray.
Please watch the warning or illumination of conscience by Christine Watkins. The Papacy can NOT be destroyed. Don’t call protestant’s Christian! (there’s ONLY ONE CHURCH). Following padre Pio who shows the true beauty of Catholicism which is everyone’s true home! God bless. Praise Jesus and Mary always!!!
Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you today asking for your blessings as a single mom. I’m raising my children with strength and courage, despite the challenges I face with my sons being autistic. Lord as I struggle to pay my rent every month and as I struggle to buy groceries for my children. I ask that you bless me with your wisdom and guidance, as I navigate parenthood on my own heal my lupus and heart disease and continue to give me strength to keep going so I may watch my sons grow into men. ❤
For someone who's cross includes being prone to anxiety... Thank you For this "Ah ha!" moment... I often feel like I am failing because I don't know what God wants me to do.. I most often have no idea what I am doing, except not giving up. I was putting so much pressure on "I don't know God's plan." But you are right, its not in God's plan I trust... It's in God... Thank you... Indeed I will put this into practice.... God help me be patient and go by the pace of The Holy Spirit. One right task at a time... Amen!
Consider another way to consider the matter is that one need merely be present in the current moment. Be aware of yourself, your feelings, intentions, etc. Being so focused, you neither dwell upon what might have happened in the past, nor have anxiety about future possibilities. Instead, act upon what you know, and how you might be guided by the Holy Spirit to prepare.
I am the same! Constantly worrying about the future and past decisions. I've felt for a while now that I do not put enough trust in God. Being at University, I've prayed more than ever, received the sacraments and listened to Fr Mike Schmitz which has helped me tremendously in going the right direction. Despite anxiety still affecting me, it's gotten better these last few months. I've realised that my struggles have brought me closer to the lord in ways I never imagined before. Thank you God almighty! I will pray for you and others with the same cross we carry. God can do great things🙏❤
Yes! Me too... I am not the person I used to be years ago, and I know its all because of God. I too finally turned back to prayer and going to Mass every week (or more if I can). I also listen to the Bible in a Year! And listen to Father Mike and a few other amazingly on fire Priests and Nuns. It's helped me so much to maintain. I know God is behind it all. I cannot even tell you how I changed on my own.. because I didn't.... He did! My issues are still here, but with Him they are manageable. I do not disrepair even on down days because I know it will pass. AND I have prayers to get me through... Plus I have powerful friends/family behind me (Our Heavenly one)... That also helps me with the false lonely feeling that creeps in now and then... God truly is Wonderful! May God Bless you and Keep you! Thank you for replying, it made my day!@@humblejulia
We are called to trust in God. That is the hardest thing. We want to know, we just don't like the unknown. That is my biggest obstacle, to believe and trust God wants what is best for my soul, and not to worry. Thank you, Fr Mike, God Bless.
1 John 5 kJV ♥️ 13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
This video just came up when I’ve literally been crying all day because I’m in a place I have no idea why I’m here and what it is I’m suppose to be doing here. I’m so confused and uncertain. I have been praying to for patience waiting in his timing.
Joining the "same" club. Haha. I feel like I've hit rock bottom in my anxieties for how to move forward from here. I needed to hear God through Fr. Mike today. I needed to learn from Mary, too.
Dear Cheryl I know how you feel. I took was removed from my comfortable existence by English police eviction. I am in a very hazardous situation .I may have been left outside to freeze to death because I have no living relatives to aid me. God have me a temporary escape route which may end soon.
I definitely needed this. It says if God truly knew that I needed to hear this. I'm 29 years old Going on 30 and I'm in nursing school. I just failed my second semester in a row and it left me frustrated seeing my friends go even further and me being left behind. I was praying for God to show me his will this entire week whether to stay in the program or to keep moving forward. I've recently made the decision to keep going on with the program until I get that degree or I fail out. It was with great hesitation but I did it because I don't have a plan B at the moment. This video truly hit home for me. God bless you father Mike
I am a RN and got my PN first. There were a number of times I almost failed. Nursing school was the hardest thing I've ever done. It wasn't my original plan, either. Long story 😊. God is with you. Ask for His courage and trust in Him. I know it's so hard. Hang in there and prayers for success and His will to be done. When I was in school at times I looked like the last person to be a nurse.
It's just wonderful that this video popped up right now when I was feeling uncertain about certain things in my life❤ It's truly amazing to see Mumma Mary's role reflecting her complete trust in God's plan even if it wasn't too clear to her🥺and how we too must be like her and trust God!😄Thank you so much for this, Ascension presents!
1 Peter 1 kJV ♥️ 23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. 1 Corinthians 15 kJV ✝️🩸 1-4 1 John 5 kJV 13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
@@eduardohoover2127 ♥️ amen Hebrews 5 kJV 9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; 1 Corinthians 15 kJV ♥️ 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: Romans 4 kJV 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. 🤔 Faith in what? Romans 3 kJV 🩸 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Well said, Fr. Mike. Giving up our will and our control over our lives is humility. Extremely hard, yes. It's true love. It's dying to one's self. You can only do it out of divine love. You do it only when you're madly in love with God.
God let’s you make your own choices, God gives you many paths but each path has good and bad, nothing is perfect because wants us to learn from our mistakes! 😊
Father I’ve asked this question in prayer countless times. And I think God answered it in a way, well kind of. You see, one night during adoration at my parish, I was sitting there, staring at the Eucharist. VariousThoughts flooding through my head, but there was one that stayed present: “what is my mission.” I was at a low point in my life, I had done a few things I wasn’t proud of and I had just gotten out of a relationship, I was just not in the best of shape mentally, emotionally and spiritually. So that thought of my “mission” kept poking me over and over, and I stared directly into the Eucharist. Then I heard it, a voice as commanding as thunder, yet as calm as the sea. It said to me “You are loved, Go and serve me” I was completely engulfed in tears and emotions, I didn’t know how to wrap my head around it at all. In fact I thought I was called to the priesthood!! But all I knew for certain was that I never had to ever again doubt if anyone loved me, because I know that the Almighty Father does. I did go to a vocation retreat this summer, very beautiful I met many Salesian brothers and Preists who live up in orange, New Jersey, but I felt as thought it wasn’t for me. I know God wants me to serve him but I’m still figuring out how, exactly.
@annem2922 Because Catholics also (particularly when fighting with Protestants) are alllll about people once saved becoming lost again, falling from his hand.
You helped me see how God wishes us to live in peace in the present. I struggle so much in this. I make long complicated plans and overthink everything.
I never asked God these questions. I don’t think I did, at any rate. I’m old now. I think He wants me to do, everything I do and say, and think, motivated by love of Him, and to do them WITH Him. That means doing everything I do with LOVE for others and Him. That means I have to be awake!
Thank you for this message! As a battle cancer treatment, it’s been a rollercoaster of emotions, but I tell myself I trust in His plan for me! I have learned throughout all this that I have to take it one day at a time and just thank our Lord and Savior for one more day of blessings. I know He has a purpose for me, but meanwhile I will serve as testimony of His love! He was there during my surgery, there during chemo (just rang that bell this past Friday 2/09), and He will be holding me tight during radiation! I trust in you Father Almighty! I know one day I will say I am cancer free!
So true. The true joy is giving your whole trust in God and do what gives you joy and peace in His name. I surrender myself to God everyday and knowing that He is in full control. And acknowledging this gives me a great sense of comfort, happiness, and joy. I AM A CHILD OF GOD AND ALL IS GOOD. AMEN.☺️❤️🙏✝️
I’m almost done with C.I.Y! Next year In January 1st through December…. BIBLE IN A YEAR! I hope next year will be better for me 😞😔 this year was rough and I hope my desires and prayers will be answered ❤️
Please pray that God gives me a reason to live. There is no, “next thing” for me. There’s not even a “right now” for me. The only thing I know is that I can’t end my life. This is exactly like working just enough to not get fired. That’s not enough to keep living. That’s nothing that can lead to joy.
Nestor, I do pray for you. I can say if I sincerely prayed, and then I looked back over a 5, 6, 7 year span, my prayers were indeed answered. And often in ways I could have never imagined.
How true. When I was low, lying in a hospital bed in a city where I really knew no one, so sick I couldn't hold down water, the phrase "Your will be done" kept rolling through my mind. It wouldn't stop. Then it dawned on me. I had said those words thousands of times without really thinking about what they meant. I looked around and I saw where my will had led me. I got it. I'm stubborn and willful, but I got it. I said okay God, Your will be done. Right away I felt a weight lift. I wasn't practicing my faith at that time but I was smart enough to know what I was doing wasn't working, so I decided to go on a quest. After a while I figured out it's an ongoing quest, one we never really get to fully figure out until it's our time to go home. I'm a work in progress, and it beats being a piece if work all the live-long-day. I'm still so far from where I want to be that I wonder daily if I truly am worthy, but then I remember: "Only say the word and my soul shall be healed." That's enough for me. I need to keep it simple, the faith of a child.
Heavenly father is compassionate. Numerous times, I had answers to prayers, long before I recognized the spirit was telling me that this is the path Heavenly Father wanted me to take. It was only years later, I changed course and listened to the promptings of the spirit. I think often times God is willing to guide our path. We just have to be receptive and willing to hear him.
Till a god starts telling people what his strange plan is, how about doing what you like? Obviously gods "plan" is that pretty much everyone and everything is suffering and dying in horror and pain.
Perfect timing for this now So much uncertainty in world but as Christians we just need to walk with Him on step at time Reassuring we don’t need to worry He’s got this !!
I am blessed to have experienced this. I was engaged, in graduate school and focused on making a career in academia. Everything was going wrong. My car was stolen, my advisor was controlling, my computer crashed (early 2000s), and my job required I work long hours. One day during my adoration hour, I knew God was telling me to stop going down my path, get married because I was going to be blessed with children, follow his path for me and he would take care of me. I left the chapel, told my fiance and we got married 6 months later. So many blessings outside of the wedding came from the ceremony and the reception. I became pregnant two months after we married. My life took a different path, but I finished my degree, have three beautiful children, don’t work as a professor but still work in academia. It’s been about 19 years, and I am so glad I trusted in God. I would not change a thing about my life. His plan has given me a sense of peace that I did not have.
Father Mike, I have learned to trust God everyday more and more by listening to you. Today I felt my body breath better, and, anxiety lifted. There's no medication I have taken that has medically done this no refills needed this is an endless cure. Thank you for your guidance
Thank you Father Mike. What you have just shared can be understood only by going through such situations. By knowing Jesus - by having a relationship with Him makes a world of a difference in the life of a Christian. We are so blessed to have such a wonderful & loving God. Life is worth living because of Him.
Thank you father for this reading God bless you peace be with you I pray for you and your family. Pray for my family and everybody who’s listening to this God bless.
Father, when you said “ I don’t need to know” my sister and I started cracking up. Something about it was so ridiculous but also applicable and so unheard of. but also if an angel ever approaches me and tells me something I’m not gonna ask any questions.
I told God not only did I desire to serve Him, but that I needed to serve Him in whatever capacity He chooses because if my life is being lived according to His will, then it’s always the best and safest place I could ever be.
Thank you God as I trust in you for all you do for me. I know you know what's best for me and I trust my life with you. Thank you Fr. Mike for another great video, you are truly blessed to be able to say the right things to left up people's spirit and life.
I've just had a cancerous tumour removed. Not the plan i had in mind. Awaiting further treatment and don't know the outcome. Thank you for this message which speaks to my heart, to trust in this moment, the One who is leading me. Would appreciate the prayers of others here. Blessings and peace
Thank you father Mike I just finished the Bible in a year and I didn’t think it was going to be emotional but it was . You had beautiful and simple send off and I was actually sad I remembered how much I went through the whole year . I don’t know what to do next . listening to the Bible in it’s entirety has been my biggest accomplishment to date . Please pray for me that I can become a woman of prayer and have complete faith in our God . Love to you all ❤
Wow it’s straight to the point as every other Ft. Mike’s video. That’s so true! I was so annoying Jesus, asking Him that same question over and over again. And then one day a few years back, in front of Him in adoration, I heard Him with such a gentle voice: “Martina, you’re asking hard questions”. It instantly made me laugh and then He said: “Be here where you are.” Meaning, stay here on this path, follow me, and you will know in time and place what’s next to do. I loved this explanation Father Mike! Thanks for sharing!
I just prayed to God to help me know his plan for me and then I found your video within days... Thank you for being Jesus' answer to me and countless others. Thank you for allowing God to speak through you... Now please pray for me to actually believe and TRUST in Jesus enough to Surrender fully to his will in my life in every present moment!
I like this topic; as a woman in her 50's, I have found that when things are going ok, even if somewhat rocky, it must be part of God's will. I think that God really only wants us to do the next right thing/choice, and trust Him alone. Even when I got abandoned for 3 years on the streets of Lincoln NE from 2020 to 2023, I just trusted God in the moment. That's all I could do. Thanks, Father Schmitz.
Thank you Fr Mike! Lately, God has been answering my prayers through videos like this from you. I am certain the Holy Spirit led me to you and I can never thank God enough. God bless you more!
On a practical basis: if you go to mass every Sunday and daily if you can, confession frequently, pray the rosary and especially have a devotion to Mary under the title of Our Lady of Sorrows, and surround yourself with good people to mentor and guide you and be friends to support you, God will move things around in your life to give opportunities to understand His Will vocationally and in every other aspect respective to your state of life
God only gives us short term directions because it tests our faith in God. We have to blindly trust that the creator of everything might know what is best for us, even if we can't see into the future.
I literally have been in a spiritual battle, wondering and questioning about my future in a certain relationship, God has trusted me with some knowledge about HOW to act around it, BUT what's missing is that I just need to TRUST. Anyway, amazing vídeo.
Great perspective. I started at the seminary with the "Hear I am..." thought and it was nearly 4 years later before my path (at least change in direction) was more clear. BUT the preparation, waiting for the answer, formed me better, like clay for my life and have been so blessed because of it.
Part of our nature is to skip to the end because we think that we know better. So, like a Wise Father, He gives us what's next.We don't know what's better or quicker. God does. This is just what I think. Thank You Sir.
my goodness. Im 16 and was so ready to give up because 1st sem of our pre-college program beat me up so bad that i felt that nothing i ever did could ever be good enough. Trust God!!!!!!
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A few months ago I was diagnosed with stage 4 Ovarian cancer. The cancer is in my liver, lungs and all through my body. God has blessed me with the best doctor. I know He is watching me as my husband and I pray to Him. This suffering I offer up to the souls in purgatory.
I still have joy in my life thanks be to God!
How old are you? Have you tried herbal remedies and boosting your immunity?
@@DanaMay-r6qProbably took the jab.
God bless you. Keep the joy ❤
God bless you Catherine! Our god is a God of miracles and is always blessing us. Your witness is amazing and your offering is so precious before God im sure.. May you be healed I pray.
God Bless You. Prayers 🙏🙏💕💕💕💕
Father Mike was instrumental in helping me convert to Catholicism this past year; his videos are second to none. Always will appreciate him forever!
Same with me!!! Fr Mike actually made me trusts priests again 😂. I didn’t think that was possible
Same here!!
Me too!
Agree!
Please watch the warning or illumination of conscience by Christine Watkins. The Papacy can NOT be destroyed. Don’t call protestant’s Christian! (there’s ONLY ONE CHURCH). Following padre Pio who shows the true beauty of Catholicism which is everyone’s true home! God bless. Praise Jesus and Mary always!!!
Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you today asking for your blessings as a single mom. I’m raising my children with strength and courage, despite the challenges I face with my sons being autistic. Lord as I struggle to pay my rent every month and as I struggle to buy groceries for my children. I ask that you bless me with your wisdom and guidance, as I navigate parenthood on my own heal my lupus and heart disease and continue to give me strength to keep going so I may watch my sons grow into men. ❤
Im praying for you! 🙏
Me too
God bless and guide you and your family🙏
You have a different problem every time you post.
no ones gonna send you money and God does not reply in youtube comments
For someone who's cross includes being prone to anxiety... Thank you For this "Ah ha!" moment... I often feel like I am failing because I don't know what God wants me to do.. I most often have no idea what I am doing, except not giving up.
I was putting so much pressure on "I don't know God's plan." But you are right, its not in God's plan I trust... It's in God... Thank you... Indeed I will put this into practice....
God help me be patient and go by the pace of The Holy Spirit. One right task at a time... Amen!
Consider another way to consider the matter is that one need merely be present in the current moment. Be aware of yourself, your feelings, intentions, etc. Being so focused, you neither dwell upon what might have happened in the past, nor have anxiety about future possibilities. Instead, act upon what you know, and how you might be guided by the Holy Spirit to prepare.
umm... thank you but.. what? Thank you.. I didn't post this for help. I posted this because what Father Mike said will help me.
@@Vzzdak
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I am the same! Constantly worrying about the future and past decisions. I've felt for a while now that I do not put enough trust in God. Being at University, I've prayed more than ever, received the sacraments and listened to Fr Mike Schmitz which has helped me tremendously in going the right direction. Despite anxiety still affecting me, it's gotten better these last few months. I've realised that my struggles have brought me closer to the lord in ways I never imagined before. Thank you God almighty! I will pray for you and others with the same cross we carry. God can do great things🙏❤
Yes! Me too... I am not the person I used to be years ago, and I know its all because of God. I too finally turned back to prayer and going to Mass every week (or more if I can). I also listen to the Bible in a Year! And listen to Father Mike and a few other amazingly on fire Priests and Nuns. It's helped me so much to maintain.
I know God is behind it all. I cannot even tell you how I changed on my own.. because I didn't.... He did!
My issues are still here, but with Him they are manageable. I do not disrepair even on down days because I know it will pass. AND I have prayers to get me through... Plus I have powerful friends/family behind me (Our Heavenly one)... That also helps me with the false lonely feeling that creeps in now and then... God truly is Wonderful!
May God Bless you and Keep you!
Thank you for replying, it made my day!@@humblejulia
I needed this beyond words. Thank you 😪❤️
We are called to trust in God. That is the hardest thing. We want to know, we just don't like the unknown. That is my biggest obstacle, to believe and trust God wants what is best for my soul, and not to worry. Thank you, Fr Mike, God Bless.
So freaking true
I found this very relieving because I always felt I wasn't understanding what God wanted of me long term.
1 John 5 kJV ♥️
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
This video just came up when I’ve literally been crying all day because I’m in a place I have no idea why I’m here and what it is I’m suppose to be doing here. I’m so confused and uncertain. I have been praying to for patience waiting in his timing.
I feel the same way, just trying to take it day by day now. Giving up control is something I’m learning.
The same
Joining the "same" club. Haha. I feel like I've hit rock bottom in my anxieties for how to move forward from here.
I needed to hear God through Fr. Mike today. I needed to learn from Mary, too.
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Dear Cheryl I know how you feel. I took was removed from my comfortable existence by English police eviction. I am in a very hazardous situation .I may have been left outside to freeze to death because I have no living relatives to aid me. God have me a temporary escape route which may end soon.
I definitely needed this. It says if God truly knew that I needed to hear this. I'm 29 years old Going on 30 and I'm in nursing school. I just failed my second semester in a row and it left me frustrated seeing my friends go even further and me being left behind. I was praying for God to show me his will this entire week whether to stay in the program or to keep moving forward. I've recently made the decision to keep going on with the program until I get that degree or I fail out. It was with great hesitation but I did it because I don't have a plan B at the moment. This video truly hit home for me. God bless you father Mike
I am a RN and got my PN first. There were a number of times I almost failed. Nursing school was the hardest thing I've ever done. It wasn't my original plan, either. Long story 😊. God is with you. Ask for His courage and trust in Him. I know it's so hard. Hang in there and prayers for success and His will to be done. When I was in school at times I looked like the last person to be a nurse.
I asked God what he wanted from me and two things came to mind: pray and love. Peace be with you father.
You, Fr Mike Schmitz, are truly a God send to us. Thank you for serving.
I ask this question alot these days.
It's just wonderful that this video popped up right now when I was feeling uncertain about certain things in my life❤ It's truly amazing to see Mumma Mary's role reflecting her complete trust in God's plan even if it wasn't too clear to her🥺and how we too must be like her and trust God!😄Thank you so much for this, Ascension presents!
1 Peter 1 kJV ♥️
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
1 Corinthians 15 kJV ✝️🩸
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1 John 5 kJV
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
@@AlexanderBrown77 Jesus is the Eternal Word of God.
@@eduardohoover2127 ♥️ amen
Hebrews 5 kJV
9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
1 Corinthians 15 kJV ♥️
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
Romans 4 kJV
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
🤔 Faith in what?
Romans 3 kJV 🩸
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
She had complete trust in God.. something God wants from all of us
Meaning and fulfillment in one's life comes easy with Christ.
Well said, Fr. Mike. Giving up our will and our control over our lives is humility. Extremely hard, yes. It's true love. It's dying to one's self. You can only do it out of divine love. You do it only when you're madly in love with God.
The worst part of being traumatized is that people expect you to behave as if you aren't.
So true! May God bless you.
Prayers for healing. Peace be with you. God bless
Praying for your healing. Know you weren’t made for hurt, but for LOVE. You are loved. My prayers are out for you ❤
Good point that. But does it not seem to you that untraumatised people basically all seem the same
God let’s you make your own choices, God gives you many paths but each path has good and bad, nothing is perfect because wants us to learn from our mistakes! 😊
Thank you Fr. Mike. God Bless You and everyone watching.
Father I’ve asked this question in prayer countless times. And I think God answered it in a way, well kind of. You see, one night during adoration at my parish, I was sitting there, staring at the Eucharist. VariousThoughts flooding through my head, but there was one that stayed present: “what is my mission.” I was at a low point in my life, I had done a few things I wasn’t proud of and I had just gotten out of a relationship, I was just not in the best of shape mentally, emotionally and spiritually. So that thought of my “mission” kept poking me over and over, and I stared directly into the Eucharist.
Then I heard it, a voice as commanding as thunder, yet as calm as the sea. It said to me “You are loved, Go and serve me”
I was completely engulfed in tears and emotions, I didn’t know how to wrap my head around it at all. In fact I thought I was called to the priesthood!! But all I knew for certain was that I never had to ever again doubt if anyone loved me, because I know that the Almighty Father does.
I did go to a vocation retreat this summer, very beautiful I met many Salesian brothers and Preists who live up in orange, New Jersey, but I felt as thought it wasn’t for me. I know God wants me to serve him but I’m still figuring out how, exactly.
"His hand is a hand that will never let me go" is a tremendous truth I never thought I'd hear a Catholic say. This is so encouraging.
@annem2922 Because Catholics also (particularly when fighting with Protestants) are alllll about people once saved becoming lost again, falling from his hand.
You helped me see how God wishes us to live in peace in the present. I struggle so much in this. I make long complicated plans and overthink everything.
This is profound. To trust unconditionally.
I never asked God these questions. I don’t think I did, at any rate. I’m old now. I think He wants me to do, everything I do and say, and think, motivated by love of Him, and to do them WITH Him. That means doing everything I do with LOVE for others and Him. That means I have to be awake!
Place your trust in a PERSON, not a Plan. Thank you, Father Mike!
Thank you for this message! As a battle cancer treatment, it’s been a rollercoaster of emotions, but I tell myself I trust in His plan for me! I have learned throughout all this that I have to take it one day at a time and just thank our Lord and Savior for one more day of blessings. I know He has a purpose for me, but meanwhile I will serve as testimony of His love! He was there during my surgery, there during chemo (just rang that bell this past Friday 2/09), and He will be holding me tight during radiation! I trust in you Father Almighty! I know one day I will say I am cancer free!
thank you Fr.Mike.....God bless you
So true. The true joy is giving your whole trust in God and do what gives you joy and peace in His name.
I surrender myself to God everyday and knowing that He is in full control. And acknowledging this gives me a great sense of comfort, happiness, and joy. I AM A CHILD OF GOD AND ALL IS GOOD. AMEN.☺️❤️🙏✝️
Well said Fr Mike! Ill remember this! God bless
Thank you, Fr. Mike🙏❤️
I’m almost done with C.I.Y! Next year In January 1st through December…. BIBLE IN A YEAR! I hope next year will be better for me 😞😔 this year was rough and I hope my desires and prayers will be answered ❤️
Thank you Father
Please pray that God gives me a reason to live. There is no, “next thing” for me. There’s not even a “right now” for me.
The only thing I know is that I can’t end my life. This is exactly like working just enough to not get fired. That’s not enough to keep living. That’s nothing that can lead to joy.
Don't worry your not alone im in the same situation Im about to turn 29 no kids no wife. But keep your head up dont give up pray go to your church.
Nestor, I do pray for you. I can say if I sincerely prayed, and then I looked back over a 5, 6, 7 year span, my prayers were indeed answered. And often in ways I could have never imagined.
How true. When I was low, lying in a hospital bed in a city where I really knew no one, so sick I couldn't hold down water, the phrase "Your will be done" kept rolling through my mind. It wouldn't stop. Then it dawned on me. I had said those words thousands of times without really thinking about what they meant. I looked around and I saw where my will had led me. I got it. I'm stubborn and willful, but I got it. I said okay God, Your will be done. Right away I felt a weight lift. I wasn't practicing my faith at that time but I was smart enough to know what I was doing wasn't working, so I decided to go on a quest. After a while I figured out it's an ongoing quest, one we never really get to fully figure out until it's our time to go home. I'm a work in progress, and it beats being a piece if work all the live-long-day. I'm still so far from where I want to be that I wonder daily if I truly am worthy, but then I remember: "Only say the word and my soul shall be healed." That's enough for me. I need to keep it simple, the faith of a child.
Heavenly father is compassionate. Numerous times, I had answers to prayers, long before I recognized the spirit was telling me that this is the path Heavenly Father wanted me to take. It was only years later, I changed course and listened to the promptings of the spirit.
I think often times God is willing to guide our path. We just have to be receptive and willing to hear him.
God bless you, Father Mike.
Have Hope in God!
Interesting points. Thank you Father.
God told you to read us the entire Bible. Miracles! It was so exciting I gotta do it again!
Well... God just gave me Joy through this video ✨❤️
God bless you Father Mike. The Lord is with you.
Thank you father Mike. May God help me to know his plan for my life.
Till a god starts telling people what his strange plan is, how about doing what you like?
Obviously gods "plan" is that pretty much everyone and everything is suffering and dying in horror and pain.
Fr. Mike I'm on tears watching this video. I wish I could give you a hug.
Divine timing for this message. Thank you Father Mike!! 🙏🏼
I do not open the Bible when I need to but I am always on RUclips and here you are making it so easy for me to get on track. ❤
Perfect timing for this now
So much uncertainty in world but as Christians we just need to walk with Him on step at time
Reassuring we don’t need to worry He’s got this !!
"God does not always want us to fully understand his doings, but rather to align our will with his in complete filial trust"
I had this doubt and asked myself what's your plan for me god before sleeping and this morning i saw this.You're truly a blessed soul Father Mike ❤
I am blessed to have experienced this. I was engaged, in graduate school and focused on making a career in academia. Everything was going wrong. My car was stolen, my advisor was controlling, my computer crashed (early 2000s), and my job required I work long hours. One day during my adoration hour, I knew God was telling me to stop going down my path, get married because I was going to be blessed with children, follow his path for me and he would take care of me. I left the chapel, told my fiance and we got married 6 months later. So many blessings outside of the wedding came from the ceremony and the reception. I became pregnant two months after we married. My life took a different path, but I finished my degree, have three beautiful children, don’t work as a professor but still work in academia. It’s been about 19 years, and I am so glad I trusted in God. I would not change a thing about my life. His plan has given me a sense of peace that I did not have.
God bless you Father and the whole team
We must walk in faith.
AMEN. GRACIAS Father Mike👍💯☝💯💯✌💯
Father Mike,
I have learned to trust God everyday more and more by listening to you. Today I felt my body breath better, and, anxiety lifted. There's no medication I have taken that has medically done this no refills needed this is an endless cure. Thank you for your guidance
Just shaking my head in God’s timing, I love it. Thank you for this message at this time Fr Mike!
Amazing and comforting words! I love the connection to Mary and her lack of anxiety. Trust. Thank you, Fr. Mike! 🙏🏻😄
Thank you Father Mike. What you have just shared can be understood only by going through such situations. By knowing Jesus - by having a relationship with Him makes a world of a difference in the life of a Christian. We are so blessed to have such a wonderful & loving God. Life is worth living because of Him.
He tells us not to worry about tomorrow. Trust in God and focus on today. ❤
Father Mike you always say what I need to hear at that moment. Thank you for being here for us ❤😢
Thank you, Fr. Mike! God bless you and all!🙏❤️
Very cute.
Beautiful and heartfelt. ❤ You spoke to me.
That is how I experience Him, He shows the next step and I gotta be curious where he leads me. ❤
Yes! Mary is our model! Be it unto me Lord! 💜🙏💜.
Thank you Father Mike!
St Joseph and our lady heal my daughters mind and her relationships with her sister. Myself. I trust in you
Thank you father Mike, God speaks through you
Thank you father for this reading God bless you peace be with you I pray for you and your family. Pray for my family and everybody who’s listening to this God bless.
Father, when you said “ I don’t need to know” my sister and I started cracking up. Something about it was so ridiculous but also applicable and so unheard of. but also if an angel ever approaches me and tells me something I’m not gonna ask any questions.
❤The hand of God is always on me. Amen❤
I told God not only did I desire to serve Him, but that I needed to serve Him in whatever capacity He chooses because if my life is being lived according to His will, then it’s always the best and safest place I could ever be.
Father Mike I have heavenly blessed to first receive your preaching today and I am so grateful for The Holy Spirit!
Thank you, thank you, thank you Fr Mike. You are divinely blessed and God talks to me through you.
Blessings
I think this may be my favourite Fr. Mike video
Your very cute.
This has been my prayer all throughout the year. Little did I know that I gained a lot of patience in this season of healing.
Thank you God as I trust in you for all you do for me. I know you know what's best for me and I trust my life with you. Thank you Fr. Mike for another great video, you are truly blessed to be able to say the right things to left up people's spirit and life.
Thank u Fr...for this insight...yes to trust God with our lives,to really trust him...
I've just had a cancerous tumour removed. Not the plan i had in mind. Awaiting further treatment and don't know the outcome. Thank you for this message which speaks to my heart, to trust in this moment, the One who is leading me. Would appreciate the prayers of others here. Blessings and peace
Thanks 🙏
This is the reason I am becoming a stronger Christian 🙏🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽❤️❤️❤️
Thank you Father Mike😊
Thank you father Mike I just finished the Bible in a year and I didn’t think it was going to be emotional but it was . You had beautiful and simple send off and I was actually sad I remembered how much I went through the whole year . I don’t know what to do next . listening to the Bible in it’s entirety has been my biggest accomplishment to date . Please pray for me that I can become a woman of prayer and have complete faith in our God . Love to you all ❤
Keep moving forward. God is with you. Praying with you🙏🏾
Wow it’s straight to the point as every other Ft. Mike’s video. That’s so true! I was so annoying Jesus, asking Him that same question over and over again. And then one day a few years back, in front of Him in adoration, I heard Him with such a gentle voice: “Martina, you’re asking hard questions”. It instantly made me laugh and then He said: “Be here where you are.” Meaning, stay here on this path, follow me, and you will know in time and place what’s next to do. I loved this explanation Father Mike! Thanks for sharing!
I just prayed to God to help me know his plan for me and then I found your video within days... Thank you for being Jesus' answer to me and countless others. Thank you for allowing God to speak through you... Now please pray for me to actually believe and TRUST in Jesus enough to Surrender fully to his will in my life in every present moment!
I like this topic; as a woman in her 50's, I have found that when things are going ok, even if somewhat rocky, it must be part of God's will. I think that God really only wants us to do the next right thing/choice, and trust Him alone. Even when I got abandoned for 3 years on the streets of Lincoln NE from 2020 to 2023, I just trusted God in the moment. That's all I could do. Thanks, Father Schmitz.
Thank You , Father Mike! May God continue to bless You & All Our Priests! 🙏
He has me in the palm of his hand. Somedays i feel like i am in te dark but his light shines in the darkness. Praise be to god.
Put myself in Mary’s shoes I would be scared to death. Thanks for this video Fr. Mike.
Thank you Fr Mike! Lately, God has been answering my prayers through videos like this from you. I am certain the Holy Spirit led me to you and I can never thank God enough. God bless you more!
On a practical basis: if you go to mass every Sunday and daily if you can, confession frequently, pray the rosary and especially have a devotion to Mary under the title of Our Lady of Sorrows, and surround yourself with good people to mentor and guide you and be friends to support you, God will move things around in your life to give opportunities to understand His Will vocationally and in every other aspect respective to your state of life
God only gives us short term directions because it tests our faith in God. We have to blindly trust that the creator of everything might know what is best for us, even if we can't see into the future.
I literally have been in a spiritual battle, wondering and questioning about my future in a certain relationship, God has trusted me with some knowledge about HOW to act around it, BUT what's missing is that I just need to TRUST. Anyway, amazing vídeo.
Great perspective. I started at the seminary with the "Hear I am..." thought and it was nearly 4 years later before my path (at least change in direction) was more clear. BUT the preparation, waiting for the answer, formed me better, like clay for my life and have been so blessed because of it.
This is so good to hear, especially when you have your own business and you don't know what tomorrow will bring. Thank you, Father Mike.
God is Love and anyone who loves Lives in God Trusting in any circumstance that Gods Grace will get us through so Thank you
Thank you god for loving me and having a beautiful plan for me. Amen
Very important video.
Thank you Fr. Mike and Ascension Presents.
I finished CIY yesterday and so I'm hear cuz I need my daily dose of Fr. Mike :) Thanks Fr. Mike for being a part of my spiritual journey!
Lol me too. The short podcast is perfect food for thought.
Praise Jesus! Thank you for this, Fr. Mike.
Yes Amen. Never reduce God to be like a fortune teller like those pagans do. Trust Him. For His plan is always good for us.🙏
Part of our nature is to skip to the end because we think that we know better. So, like a Wise Father, He gives us what's next.We don't know what's better or quicker. God does. This is just what I think. Thank You Sir.
my goodness. Im 16 and was so ready to give up because 1st sem of our pre-college program beat me up so bad that i felt that nothing i ever did could ever be good enough. Trust God!!!!!!