I have to say that I was born almost legally blind. It is only through the mercy of God that I can see. This thought brings to me joy and a heart that cries out "THANK YOU LORD! God didn't owe my sight
Quite humbling. As Our Lord said to St Margaret Mary Alacoque when she asked Him why He chose her, in response Christ said: "I could not have found someone more insignificant to spread this devotion (of the Sacred Heart) than you."
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Wow, this really spoke to me. My husband was killed in a car accident a couple months ago, and I don't think I've felt like God owes me ... but maybe I do, because I've felt like it's unfair and horrible. I've neglected to be grateful for all the good things in my life that I don't deserve. Thank you for this word.
I don't know how often I hear "If God existed, then why is there so much cruelty in the world?" The way I see it, God don't make these cruel things that we see around us. People do.
Carrot Megpoid God doesn't give people cancer either. cancer is created by a combination of many things like viruses, lifestyle, smoking, unhealthy food and so on, and many peoole are genetically speaking even more likely to get cancer than others, no matter how good they live. We all had cancer close to our lives, and are still having it. But your opinion could easily be, that why does God allow good people to get cancer or other sicknesses? My own view is, that sicknesses like cancer, is yet another thing mankind had to live with since Adam and Eve were thrown away from God's paradise. But Jesus says in the bible, that he will one day return in a final battle against evil, and from that day, there will be no more sickness, cruelty or death. If God removed sicknesses like cancer and other cruelty like war and hunger right now, then there wouldn't be any point of waiting for Jesus return. That is just one answer to your question, but it is one big mystery for all people I think.
Thҽ Blɑςƙ Lҽg It is complicated when we only have our faith, in a world where faith alone isn't enough anymore. You do need evil to know what is good. The only reason we know about goodness, is because it's the opposite of evil which we also has experienced one way or another. But I don't think that God takes Peoples health or money, millions of people are in good health and have lots of money. And they don't need God, because they feel they have everything. But the bible warns us about the love for ourselves, where we don't need God.
Heavenly Father, in Jesus' name, I beseech thee. Please free me from the bondages of self. Help me to fathom what I cannot understand. Give me enough courage to stand up in the face of mine enemies and teach me to learn to love them, in the face of adversity. Amen. 💝😌
Also I LOVE the Bible study you did with Mark Heart and what not. Alteration. You should all get it. It's great and you will NEVER see the mass the same way again. God bless!
Fr. Mike, I do love to listen to you. You are super charismatic and go straight to the point. It is absolutely true: everything I am, my self-being it is an act of love from God to me. You and I are contingent persons. It is a mystery of God´s love our existence. Praise be the Lord, who is My Lord, My King, My God, the Only True Transcendence Meaning of my Existence, and I become The Temple of the Holy Spirit, when I receive Him the Eucharist in Holy Communion. Big and strong hug in Our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the only source of love and redemption, with the Sanctifying Grace of the Holy Spirit, in the Glory and Authority of God Father almighty. Amen.
I try to be mindful and just say Thank you as i wake up to another day with all my faculties and in a safe comfortable place. And then i get on with another grueling seemingly senseless day, same as the one before and the one before that one. I try so hard not to be negative, but I can't stop. Every day is a struggle, but i do try to be mindful every morning as I wake.
Thank you. Am slowly going through all your videos. This one was so needed today. I have a chronic debilitating arthritis. And lately been so drained - 11 years of chronic pain and no help in sight. I had breast cancer in 2022 and been trying to keep greatful. But currently struggling. So thank you for your videos. Even 6 years later this is helpful to me.
I heard somewhere that if someone doesn't know what the love of God means then the only place they'd have to look is at God's church. And like for the longest time I didn't see or feel it in the church... but for the past few weeks that I've been watching your videos, I feel like I have experienced the love of God through you! And now where ever I look, whether in the church or out... I experience the love of God constantly. Thankyou for that!
Churches these days are just businesses to milk "followers" of their money... People go to church but they are the biggest gossips and treat other Christians terribly..I live near a "church" and the "pastor" is so arrogant and makes noise without considering his neighbours
Recently, watching your videos has been more fruitful to me than it has ever been before. And I mean to say this just to tell you... God's really using you right now to help me... and other people, I am sure, as well.
I agree!!!! don't think you need to look at God and say " you owe me" looking at the good things and being grateful is good but Isn't what He did on the cross enough. We have enough peace joy and patience for every situation In Christ. YAY JESUS! :) JOY OF THE LORD IS OUR STRENGTH
I love my trials and problem. Because it showed me that I'm not worthy to be his children until the day he comes home and white Throne judgment and then we'll know who's going who's what. Even if we serve our Lord. We're still going to be judged according to what we did good or bad that makes me feel good. I love the Lord since I was 4 years old baptized at 12 and he's been good to me ever since now I am 68 years old. I always gave him the praise and the glory and the honor for all the trials that God giving us and I pray for those two that God would give them to strengthen the victory to go forward through his son Jesus Christ amen.
When a company makes a product, they offer customer services and quality standards and assume some responsibility. They don't go : just be grateful you have a product, even if it's broken, or else you pay a big fine.
Hello Jonney, God gave us the best quality standard in the universe, his son Jesus, who comes with a guarantee that if we believe in him, he gives us eternal life. We can never merit or deserve that wonderful free gift. I hope this helps.
There is a man I don't particularly care for. But he said something that is so true, it sticks with me. "We can not count all of our blessings." There's no way. But we can be thankful for them. Thank you, God!
What blessings do an abuse child have? Tell me? You’re probably going to say something very ridiculous. Why you think some people choose death than life.
Watching this in 2020, the Saturday before Pentecost - - we spent Easter at home and will now spend Pentecost the same way...Take my heart oh Lord and make thy own.
Focus on “The Goodness of Being Alive”… I did nothing to deserve the gift of life… to live a life of JOY be grateful for all the gifts you did not earn…” This is VERY Good!!! ❤❤❤
Born with a neurological disorder, that grows tumors inside and on my body. It also effects my speech effective giving me a speech impediment. Also affecting my eyesight and the development of my muscles and my memory plus a learning disability at top of that. I have to live off a Disability Pension because I'm unable to work even though that I want to work. Yeah I am blessed
Father mike, I'm Anglican and I want to pray the rosary and (possibly) convert to Catholicism, can you do a video of how to pray the rosary for complete beginners like should you kneel and how to actually pray it? God Bless; Adam
God speaks to me and I deny him a place in my heart. I feel his pull on my soul every single day of my life. I know he wants me to do great things but I just won't let him in my heart. I feel like God put me here to change the world but I deny my destiny. It makes me angry that God expects so much from me.
Everyday, I drive past a billboard with a picture of a soldier in a wheelchair with his legs gone and brain damage. I thank God I can walk, I thank God I have my cognitive abilities every time I drive by that sign and also I'm thankful I can see it and have this realization.
Hans Blitz No I don't understand English, I'm typing this by pure luck. [sarcasm] I understand your comment, my comment was asking what if *you* were in that poor disabled soldier's situation, then what would you be thankful to God for?
Yes he does. We did not ask to be put here and suffer in this world therefore the thing that put us here is the reason for all our problems and suffering. He should accommodate us in every way because of this imposition.
Any loving father, including God, owes his children the expectation of a good life, with minimal suffering. Not a single one of us asked to be created and brought into a world full of death and disease. The being who launched us into this situation most certainly does have a responsibility to offer us protection and happiness.
@@enshala6401 that's a judgement right there. Lots of faithful Christians are trying to do their best, not "rejecting God's gifts," yet many suffer serious tragedies, not simply not having their random wants satisfied. Lots of innocent children go through horrible stuff (or will you say they are "rejecting God's gifts"?) So, why don't you study the scriptures better and pray that God can grant you a modicum of non-judgemental compassion?... so that at least you'll have a drop of wisdom to realize that the problem of suffering is much more complex and essentially inexplicable in human terms, and it's not about "rejecting God's gifts."
@@zzc8505 my goodness, what in the world are you talking about. Firstly, regarding my education in Scripture, I have completed the 5-year in-person Protestant Bible Study Fellowship course, and two graduate-level courses from a Catholic University. What is your Biblical educational background? Regarding your problem with the statement that people reject God's gifts, are you saying no one on the planet does this? That's absurd. EVERYONE rejects God's gifts - it's called SIN. Finally, regarding the tragedies that people face in life, of course it's sad, and they deserve our tender loving care in practical ways, such as hugs, donations of time and money, prayer, etc. God loves everyone, and everyone experiences pain. Being people of free will, we can love God in spite of the pain.
I have a favor to ask. I have a good friend who is very devout in his Catholic faith. He has been working on a project to ensure that College students have the opportunity to do things like get to church and are fed. I ask that you pray for him as he does need it now. Thank you and God bless you all!
That's called having an optimistic and positive outlook on life. "I didn't do anything to deserve all the good things that God gave me"? True. But I didn't do anything to deserve all the bad things that God gave me either. Adam did. I'm paying the price for what an ancestor of mine did a long time ago. I didn't ask to be born. Sure, you're going to say that God could kill me anytime He wants, and yes, that is true. But why create me in the first place? Why bring me into this world? Did He ask me if I wanted to experience life? Did I consent to it before I was brought on Earth?
TheLHShowChannel When you say we are paying the price of the sin that Adam committed, that's kind of true in the sense that you are born with original sin but if you are baptized, you are washed clean and renewed by Jesus Christ. But we still need to be forgiven for the sins we've committed, not just Adams. And thankfully, He loves us so much that he died for us to rid us of our sin. And the reason he created you was so you can spend eternity with him in heaven. If you weren't born, you wouldn't have that chance. That's why he created you. Sorry if that was long but I figured I might be able to answer some of your concerns :)
Why don't you ask Him? Sit with Him in silence. Invite Him (Come, Holy Spirit! Come!) Bring those questions to Him, then just sit, quiet your mind (don't empty it, fill it with God). Don't expect Him to make you hear His voice, just sit and let Him speak to your subconscious. Then be patient. You'll get your answers.
God created you, and all of us, out of love. His love is so great, and as the Creator, he wants to spread His love around! He created us so we could/can know Him, love Him, and serve Him. He wants relationship with us. He loves each and all of us infinitely, and wants us to love him, too. This is our greatest and highest calling, as human beings. I hope this helps you.
I'm not a christian. I'm a muslim. We believe in what you believe tho and I understood it perfectly :D A lot of people hate on muslims because what is going on in the world but it's just not true. There are way more peaceful muslims than extremists but the extremists make their way onto the media. This is not good for muslims like us. All I'm saying is that I'm praying for God that I'll be safe :)
Hello Kushiwawah, it is sad that all Muslims are being painted with the same brush. I have heard that many Muslims are coming to faith in Jesus and pray you will too. God is leading you or you would not have found this video.
God suffered as a man the most excruciating death and humiliation he died for us I think he owes us nothing we owe him everything , the fact is humanity have being given the keys to great treasures on earth that are not equally shared out lets help one another more...
I'm thankful that Jesus gave his life for me. And the whole world. Because where are filthy rags. That's why he picked Jesus. Because he claimed him his only begotten son. And also said in whom I am well pleased. That says it all. Amen
I'm majorly depressed, I have no hope, I cry and pray and beg God everyday for help, I attend mass and do all I am meant to do with all of my heart. Forget earthly goods, if I am not even guaranteed happiness or joy in my walk with Christ, then what is the point in any of this?
And as for the depression I can only tell you that if the world tastes of ash, spit it out. Fill your day with rosaries and prayers. I used to do only what I was meant to do. Now I try do do everything that I can, putting God at the center of my life, making him my ultimate goal. Thinking of him in every aspect of my life, not just what will happen to me when I die. We don't have to be priests, nuns or missionaries to be saints, we just have to truly choose God.
As someone who has struggled with major depression, I suggest seeking therapy, and meditating on what exactly is making you depressed. Obviously pray and ask God for guidance through your trials, but also seek help. And you are guaranteed eternal happiness and joy walking with Christ, but not without trials. It is much more difficult to be without God and to suffer, than to be with God and to suffer.
In addition to what Quinfan10 advises, I suggest a meditation on Christ's Passion, because in His Passion He experienced *every* suffering we do, including major depression. As you meditate on His Passion, go to that place where He suffered depression and hopelessness -- "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" Join Him in that moment. Step into His place, and ask God to accept your willingness to suffer this. Ask Jesus to allow you to console Him in that moment. You know He suffered the same thing you do *for* you, not so that you won't experience it, but to save you from the rightful consequence of original sin (which is torments from real demons and eternal separation from God). That's even worse than depression, it's unimaginably worse. But Jesus loves you so much that He suffered everything just to save you from that...and to be able to be with you for eternity. He wants you to be with Him forever. Are you willing to share a little bit of His suffering, knowing that it comforts Him on the Cross when He feels abandoned? At the Mass, when the priest raises the Host, it's symbolic of raising Christ on the Cross -- offer your suffering to Him at that moment, join your suffering to His, ask Him to allow you the strength to bear your suffering so that you might console and comfort Him, and thank Him for allowing you the gift of sharing in His Passion. Then you may find that joy isn't a "Jesus High," it's intellectual -- it's knowing what He did for you so that you might experience unimaginable joy with Him forever.
Fr. Mike, I appreciate you pointing out that God does not owe us things we do not need. However, it doesn't not mean that He does not owe us what we do need. There's a difference between demanding the things that we do not need, and begging for the things that we do (such as whatever is needed to bring us to Him). For example, in order to love, which Christ calls us to do, we need to be loved first. We know that in Christ there is enough love for us, and that God WILL provide what we need in order to complete what He asks, otherwise He would be lacking, which He in His essence is not. However, this opportunity may come to us through purgation and purification and mortification. But essentially, it's God preparing us for Himself to do His will. God does not owe us anything because He has already provided what we need, just as Azaria found in his sufferings means to worship God, while they might not have been what he imagine worshiping God to look like. To say that God does not owe us anything is more about God giving us everything that we need to obtain our greatest good, which is Him, than about the idea that God could if he wanted to just not care about us because He doesn't owe us anything (which can be the fear that arises in that statement). It is okay to ask God for things, but to trust that if He does not provide it, it is because He has found a better means of giving our souls what He has created them to need, which life His Son bought for us by His blood.
Owe No Man Anything. New Covenant truth, love is your responsibility for human exaltation. Do not be more Merciful than God...that being a grave decomp.
We owe God everything. He deserves all the glory and honor. Serve the Lord God with everything you have and with your entire being. What we give to God, no matter how small it may appear in the eyes of humans, is precious in His sight when we do it with all our hearts. Serve God.
Yes, I don't deserve everything God gave me, including all the misery, suffering and unhappiness He has put me through. And you tell me He loves me? Ha! Well, if He loves me and wants my soul in Heaven with Him then He owes me quite a bit. And He can start with an apology.
I'd like to suggest Scott Hahn's lectures about the Virgin Mary. I don't know why there is such misinformation about Mary, the hatred of Mary is inspired by the Jews and Satan. God announced Mary's role in Genesis, when He told the Serpent that He would make it (Satan) and the woman (Mary) enemies and that in the future, she (Mary) would crush Satan's head. God chose and created Mary without sin, so that Jesus could be born of an immaculate womb and receive perfect education and love. In the New Testament, after the Apocalypse, Mary is also in direct opposition to Satan. The first Marian Prayers recorded are from as early as 240 A.D, even before the New Testament was written and put together by the Catholic Church (around 400 A.D). For these reasons we shall honour Our Blessed Mother, as Jesus told his most beloved disciple from the Cross, this is "your Mother", and pray the Rosary every day.
People who met Mary and Jesus and saw Christ restoring eyesight to the blind, raising the dead and who witnessed his ressurection and who were later persecuted and also crucified, in good spirits, like Peter who asked the Romans to crucify him upside down because he thought he was not worthy of dying in the same way as the Lord; those people would disagree with you. They saw something way beyond the physical world and many of them could have avoided their deaths but didn't because they were never the same after experiencing the divine miracles and wisdom of Christ.
hoopoe bird "Worship" and "idol" are incorrect words. We Honour and Pray for and with Mary for her intercession on our behalf, when we are finally to be judged by Christ for our sins. Do not forget Christ has given the first 30 years of his life to Our Lady, and only 3 to his disciples, that's 10 times more. Mary is human, like us, but she was created without the original sin. You also have failed to grasp the distinction between "idol" and icon. Doesn't your church also has a Cross or a Fish symbol? Well, that is an icon, it can inspire, inform and make our faiths stronger. Just like photos or images of the Saints can. Through sinless Mary and Christ, God's second plan to substitute Adam and Eve, who were also created sinless but fell to sin, God intends to grant us Eternal Life after our death.
It's not worship, and I'll explain. You quote from the Ten Commandments, that might mean you are a Jew, if that is the case, you do know that God's Son is also announced in that book. He was with God from the beggining of Creation: "In the beginning, there was Logos, and Logos was with God, and Logos was God." Christ is Logos/the Word/ Reason. God the Father, the one you refer to, is the Creator and the Holy Spirit proceeds from them both. Christ was not 50% God and 50% human,rather, he was 100% God and 100% Human, fully human and fully divine; therefore it is natural for Christians to venerate his image, as He is God himself in flesh, that would not constitute idolatry, which is sinful. God created his Son, and also the angels and humans, out of His sheer kindness and a desire to share His own blessed life. I know where you are coming from, I too was once an atheist, agnostic, and simply theist until my theological understanding matured into Catholicism, it might be that, since you are here watching a priest's video for some reason, one day you will too.
You will find what you are looking for in the Gospel of John, where Jesus indeed afirms his Nature. Jesus' message is not of worshipping him, but of giving testimony to the Truth: the saved will be those who feed the hungry and clothe the naked, visit the ill, imprisoned, comfort the lonely, loving God with all our hearts.
And that is why I don't ever sing "God Bless Americ." Given the text and the musical composition, the song cannot be sung without a sense of triumphalism. That is, a sense that God owes us a blessing because we're such a great country. There is no tone of suplication, entreaty, humility in the song. I was pleased to find that the hymnal we use at my parish doesn't include this song. It's remarkably short on anything 'patriotic."
5:18 Ok, I am confused. So we are supposed to thank God for the good stuff like being able to see and hear, but can't get mad at the bad things like being disabled? I really don't get the logic here.
The problem I have with God not owing me anything is that you can't expect anything from God and therefore you can't trust Him. He seems to be more concerned about redeeming sinners than rewarding those who are trying to be faithful which frequently frustrates me. If God owes nothing does it make sense to ask for anything? Does it make sense to even pray or try? It's better to be a bad person, forcibly things you want and then ask for forgiveness, isn't it?
Father Mike I feel like Its hard to evangelize people when i dont even have good enough faith myself, and I feel like I would be kindoff lying to them. Then i feel bad.
I wouldn't emphasize what God doesn't owe you and answer that with Creation. Rather, understand that the Bible declares hardship from the moment of believing in Christ. A faulty understanding of God shows a faulty understanding of the Bible. Therefore, if a person thinks God is going to protect and provide all of our wants and desires, obviously has not read their Bible. But here is the difference of our emphasis: Friends, we live a sin fallen world. Hebrews 11:6 states that those that have faith in God must believe that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. But be careful here: God will reward us and give true believers what they deserve in Heaven Matthew 16:27, Luke 6:35; Revelation 22:12. Our rewards may never be realized here on earth, but after this life, God promises to reward every man and woman for what they have done in the New Kingdom of God, Heaven. Its not a matter of God owing us anything, its a matter of knowing that God is faithful to His promise. We can take that to the bank because its value is worth all eternity.
Does God owe me because He chose to promise Ask and you shall receive? Did not God voluntarily obligate Himself by choosing unnecessarily to make this promise and related promises?
Genuine question here what about the people who are born with so many health problems I'm not saying God owes them anything but is it wrong that they would want something good to happen for a change?
So do we earn or merit anything? Any blessings from God? Favor? I had people tell me during a relationship - as happy as they saw me with her that that i “deserved it” for all the good I had done or been to other people, Spiritual and religious study and service and she left me with that “I (she) deserve it” as if to say she had suffered enough in her life or that she had done enough for others or prayed enough to “deserve” better. Well, she did- probably was told that either by friends or someone she started seeing behind my back. Seems we often get what we deserve in the judgement, negative sense can we merit blessings in our life? Do we not deserve anything for our efforts in the spiritual and physical life? FML
Hello Daniel, I am very sorry about what happened to you (the woman in your life left you for someone else). I believe God blessed me in a way I didn't deserve, with a husband I loved but it was a difficult marriage, but that's how God showed me I needed to be "Born Again." I was blind to the sin in my heart and had to repent. We don't deserve blessings, but God will bless you when you don't even see it coming.
I wake up and thank God for my life. I would imagine most do . What I do want God to help me figure out is why I was put here in the first place. What is his will for me. I doubt people have the idea that God owes us anything but we go to him for his will for us.
I have a question...If God is my Father and he gave me life, isn't then his responsibility to take care of me? In other words, can I tell my own children that I don't owe them anything, whatever happens to them?
After reading the bible all the way through, there's not a single believer who hasn't suffered in some way. Jesus suffered the worst pain imaginable. A human would have passed out after getting whipped and carrying a cross. Everybody had difficult lives.
Father, if you have time , please answer my question, it really bothers me:after more than 20 years of absence I was to confession last year for the first time and after that regularily, but in my first confession I forget to tell varios sins of my adolescence that keep coming now to my mind. I am partaking, so I am afraid to do wrong. Please give me an answer.Thank you very much!
I have to say that I was born almost legally blind. It is only through the mercy of God that I can see. This thought brings to me joy and a heart that cries out "THANK YOU LORD! God didn't owe my sight
Quite humbling. As Our Lord said to St Margaret Mary Alacoque when she asked Him why He chose her, in response Christ said: "I could not have found someone more insignificant to spread this devotion (of the Sacred Heart) than you."
She was such a little dear! Clumsy and awkward, mocked for her gaffes, humiliated constantly. Just a precious darling! No wonder Jesus chose her.
I am Catholic with a Mother and a Father in Ethiopia 🦁and a Hat 🧢 and a Brain 🧠 to think! I have a Catholic Church ⛪️ in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia! I Love The Lion 🦁 Of Ethiopia for Eternity!
so true. we should be more grateful
Wow, this really spoke to me. My husband was killed in a car accident a couple months ago, and I don't think I've felt like God owes me ... but maybe I do, because I've felt like it's unfair and horrible. I've neglected to be grateful for all the good things in my life that I don't deserve. Thank you for this word.
Reading the kindle version of the bible and then got a notification of this video perfect timing.
Thank you again, father! Thank God for priests like you!
Priests are a blessing to this World.
I don't know how often I hear "If God existed, then why is there so much cruelty in the world?"
The way I see it, God don't make these cruel things that we see around us. People do.
good word :)
Archyski what about cancer and diseases that causes people to suffer?
Carrot Megpoid God doesn't give people cancer either.
cancer is created by a combination of many things like viruses, lifestyle, smoking, unhealthy food and so on, and many peoole are genetically speaking even more likely to get cancer than others, no matter how good they live. We all had cancer close to our lives, and are still having it.
But your opinion could easily be, that why does God allow good people to get cancer or other sicknesses?
My own view is, that sicknesses like cancer, is yet another thing mankind had to live with since Adam and Eve were thrown away from God's paradise. But Jesus says in the bible, that he will one day return in a final battle against evil, and from that day, there will be no more sickness, cruelty or death.
If God removed sicknesses like cancer and other cruelty like war and hunger right now, then there wouldn't be any point of waiting for Jesus return.
That is just one answer to your question, but it is one big mystery for all people I think.
Thҽ Blɑςƙ Lҽg It is complicated when we only have our faith, in a world where faith alone isn't enough anymore.
You do need evil to know what is good. The only reason we know about goodness, is because it's the opposite of evil which we also has experienced one way or another. But I don't think that God takes Peoples health or money, millions of people are in good health and have lots of money. And they don't need God, because they feel they have everything. But the bible warns us about the love for ourselves, where we don't need God.
Thank you so much for that explanation :)
Jesus gave me life gave a beautiful place to live gave us inteligence and consiousness. Every thing else is grace and kindness
Amen, Fr. Mike.
Heavenly Father, in Jesus' name, I beseech thee. Please free me from the bondages of self. Help me to fathom what I cannot understand. Give me enough courage to stand up in the face of mine enemies and teach me to learn to love them, in the face of adversity. Amen. 💝😌
Bravo 1 miillion times, what did we do to deserve a speach like that, thank you Fr Mike, thank you Jesus.
..we owe God our gratitude. ..
Thank you Father.. God bless you . ❤️🙏🏻
Perfect way to begin my day! Beautiful teaching Fr Mike😄
Thank you Lord, for the gift of life
Also I LOVE the Bible study you did with Mark Heart and what not. Alteration. You should all get it. It's great and you will NEVER see the mass the same way again. God bless!
Fr. Mike, I do love to listen to you. You are super charismatic and go straight to the point. It is absolutely true: everything I am, my self-being it is an act of love from God to me. You and I are contingent persons. It is a mystery of God´s love our existence. Praise be the Lord, who is My Lord, My King, My God, the Only True Transcendence Meaning of my Existence, and I become The Temple of the Holy Spirit, when I receive Him the Eucharist in Holy Communion. Big and strong hug in Our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the only source of love and redemption, with the Sanctifying Grace of the Holy Spirit, in the Glory and Authority of God Father almighty. Amen.
Thank you Fr, for this beautiful message! Got my conscience clearly.
I try to be mindful and just say Thank you as i wake up to another day with all my faculties and in a safe comfortable place. And then i get on with another grueling seemingly senseless day, same as the one before and the one before that one. I try so hard not to be negative, but I can't stop. Every day is a struggle, but i do try to be mindful every morning as I wake.
Thank you. Am slowly going through all your videos. This one was so needed today. I have a chronic debilitating arthritis. And lately been so drained - 11 years of chronic pain and no help in sight. I had breast cancer in 2022 and been trying to keep greatful. But currently struggling. So thank you for your videos. Even 6 years later this is helpful to me.
I heard somewhere that if someone doesn't know what the love of God means then the only place they'd have to look is at God's church. And like for the longest time I didn't see or feel it in the church... but for the past few weeks that I've been watching your videos, I feel like I have experienced the love of God through you! And now where ever I look, whether in the church or out... I experience the love of God constantly. Thankyou for that!
Praise God, Natasha! You are loved!
You are being deceived - Catholics are not Christians.
Churches these days are just businesses to milk "followers" of their money... People go to church but they are the biggest gossips and treat other Christians terribly..I live near a "church" and the "pastor" is so arrogant and makes noise without considering his neighbours
Thank you Father Mike. You are very real and say it like it is. We need that. God Bless.
I feel this way a lot, and am thankful to the Lord for having allowed me to take part in creation itself.
Alleluia. God is great. 🙌🏻🙏🏻🙌🏻
Fr Mike, you are one of a kind. I thank God for you. Helen
Wow, how I needed to hear this yesterday, especially. Just like Saint Therese said “everything is grace”.
Recently, watching your videos has been more fruitful to me than it has ever been before. And I mean to say this just to tell you... God's really using you right now to help me... and other people, I am sure, as well.
Praise God!
I love seeing your videos father !! You always remind me of Gods love 💖💖💖💖💖💖
Bless you all my brothers and sisters !
I agree!!!! don't think you need to look at God and say " you owe me" looking at the good things and being grateful is good but Isn't what He did on the cross enough. We have enough peace joy and patience for every situation In Christ. YAY JESUS! :) JOY OF THE LORD IS OUR STRENGTH
I love my trials and problem. Because it showed me that I'm not worthy to be his children until the day he comes home and white Throne judgment and then we'll know who's going who's what. Even if we serve our Lord. We're still going to be judged according to what we did good or bad that makes me feel good. I love the Lord since I was 4 years old baptized at 12 and he's been good to me ever since now I am 68 years old. I always gave him the praise and the glory and the honor for all the trials that God giving us and I pray for those two that God would give them to strengthen the victory to go forward through his son Jesus Christ amen.
Thanks Father. What a timely video for me.
When a company makes a product, they offer customer services and quality standards and assume some responsibility.
They don't go : just be grateful you have a product, even if it's broken, or else you pay a big fine.
Hello Jonney, God gave us the best quality standard in the universe, his son Jesus, who comes with a guarantee that if we believe in him, he gives us eternal life. We can never merit or deserve that wonderful free gift. I hope this helps.
Thank you for that word Fr Mike. Real eye opener!
There is a man I don't particularly care for. But he said something that is so true, it sticks with me. "We can not count all of our blessings."
There's no way. But we can be thankful for them. Thank you, God!
What blessings do an abuse child have? Tell me? You’re probably going to say something very ridiculous. Why you think some people choose death than life.
Father Mike Thank you for this word. I would like to hear a talk on renewing our minds.
Nice message. Thank you Father.
Watching this in 2020, the Saturday before Pentecost - - we spent Easter at home and will now spend Pentecost the same way...Take my heart oh Lord and make thy own.
As always, great video Father! I need to work on this in my own life, and I am making a commitment to do so.
God bless you and your ministry!
Whow! Father's reading the Bible again! lol Thank you Father Mike!
This is so humbling and convicting
Wow father.....truly an eye opener!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fabulous. So needed to hear this life explained like that. THANK YOU.
Focus on “The Goodness of Being Alive”… I did nothing to deserve the gift of life… to live a life of JOY be grateful for all the gifts you did not earn…” This is VERY Good!!! ❤❤❤
Thank you. I needed that. Praise Jesus!
I love the Grace of God. This was really good :)
gosh father, that hit home. thanks
I was so used to hearing them called Shadrach, Meshach, and Abendego.
AMEN TO THAT! if something, WE owe Him everything we are.
Born with a neurological disorder, that grows tumors inside and on my body. It also effects my speech effective giving me a speech impediment. Also affecting my eyesight and the development of my muscles and my memory plus a learning disability at top of that. I have to live off a Disability Pension because I'm unable to work even though that I want to work. Yeah I am blessed
Thank you .I am thankful for everything .Thankful to you for making a viedio .
I real love these videos
Wow. I was just thinking about this last night. What the heck.
God owes me everything.
Father mike, I'm Anglican and I want to pray the rosary and (possibly) convert to Catholicism, can you do a video of how to pray the rosary for complete beginners like should you kneel and how to actually pray it?
God Bless;
Adam
Fr. Mike doesn't have a vid on this at the moment but hope our friends at Catholic Answers can help you! www.catholic.com/tract/the-rosary
That was GREAT!
This is beautiful. ❤️🙏
I love my Catholic faith!
God speaks to me and I deny him a place in my heart. I feel his pull on my soul every single day of my life. I know he wants me to do great things but I just won't let him in my heart. I feel like God put me here to change the world but I deny my destiny. It makes me angry that God expects so much from me.
Everyday, I drive past a billboard with a picture of a soldier in a wheelchair with his legs gone and brain damage. I thank God I can walk, I thank God I have my cognitive abilities every time I drive by that sign and also I'm thankful I can see it and have this realization.
Hans Blitz So why should that poor soldier thank God? What did he do to deserve his unfortunate life? Why did God let that happen to him?
SuperFly25 "you may not understand now, but one day, you will know why." - Christ
JB Mills Yeah, that's a cop out. You have no answers.
Did I say he should be thankful? No. I said people should be thankful they're not in his situation. Do you even understand English?
Hans Blitz No I don't understand English, I'm typing this by pure luck. [sarcasm]
I understand your comment, my comment was asking what if *you* were in that poor disabled soldier's situation, then what would you be thankful to God for?
Great video! So inspiring
Think you fr mike I needed to here this
Couldn't AGREE MORE
Yes he does. We did not ask to be put here and suffer in this world therefore the thing that put us here is the reason for all our problems and suffering. He should accommodate us in every way because of this imposition.
Any loving father, including God, owes his children the expectation of a good life, with minimal suffering. Not a single one of us asked to be created and brought into a world full of death and disease. The being who launched us into this situation most certainly does have a responsibility to offer us protection and happiness.
Except... he does offer those, in massive abundance. Rejecting God's gifts is not his fault - it's ours.
@@enshala6401 that's a judgement right there. Lots of faithful Christians are trying to do their best, not "rejecting God's gifts," yet many suffer serious tragedies, not simply not having their random wants satisfied. Lots of innocent children go through horrible stuff (or will you say they are "rejecting God's gifts"?)
So, why don't you study the scriptures better and pray that God can grant you a modicum of non-judgemental compassion?... so that at least you'll have a drop of wisdom to realize that the problem of suffering is much more complex and essentially inexplicable in human terms, and it's not about "rejecting God's gifts."
@@zzc8505 my goodness, what in the world are you talking about. Firstly, regarding my education in Scripture, I have completed the 5-year in-person Protestant Bible Study Fellowship course, and two graduate-level courses from a Catholic University. What is your Biblical educational background?
Regarding your problem with the statement that people reject God's gifts, are you saying no one on the planet does this? That's absurd. EVERYONE rejects God's gifts - it's called SIN.
Finally, regarding the tragedies that people face in life, of course it's sad, and they deserve our tender loving care in practical ways, such as hugs, donations of time and money, prayer, etc. God loves everyone, and everyone experiences pain. Being people of free will, we can love God in spite of the pain.
I have a favor to ask. I have a good friend who is very devout in his Catholic faith. He has been working on a project to ensure that College students have the opportunity to do things like get to church and are fed. I ask that you pray for him as he does need it now. Thank you and God bless you all!
That's called having an optimistic and positive outlook on life. "I didn't do anything to deserve all the good things that God gave me"? True. But I didn't do anything to deserve all the bad things that God gave me either. Adam did. I'm paying the price for what an ancestor of mine did a long time ago. I didn't ask to be born. Sure, you're going to say that God could kill me anytime He wants, and yes, that is true. But why create me in the first place? Why bring me into this world? Did He ask me if I wanted to experience life? Did I consent to it before I was brought on Earth?
TheLHShowChannel When you say we are paying the price of the sin that Adam committed, that's kind of true in the sense that you are born with original sin but if you are baptized, you are washed clean and renewed by Jesus Christ. But we still need to be forgiven for the sins we've committed, not just Adams. And thankfully, He loves us so much that he died for us to rid us of our sin. And the reason he created you was so you can spend eternity with him in heaven. If you weren't born, you wouldn't have that chance. That's why he created you. Sorry if that was long but I figured I might be able to answer some of your concerns :)
Why don't you ask Him? Sit with Him in silence. Invite Him (Come, Holy Spirit! Come!) Bring those questions to Him, then just sit, quiet your mind (don't empty it, fill it with God). Don't expect Him to make you hear His voice, just sit and let Him speak to your subconscious. Then be patient. You'll get your answers.
Food for thought. So often we are not thankful for God's gifts.
God created you, and all of us, out of love. His love is so great, and as the Creator, he wants to spread His love around! He created us so we could/can know Him, love Him, and serve Him. He wants relationship with us. He loves each and all of us infinitely, and wants us to love him, too. This is our greatest and highest calling, as human beings. I hope this helps you.
I'm not a christian. I'm a muslim. We believe in what you believe tho and I understood it perfectly :D A lot of people hate on muslims because what is going on in the world but it's just not true. There are way more peaceful muslims than extremists but the extremists make their way onto the media. This is not good for muslims like us. All I'm saying is that I'm praying for God that I'll be safe :)
Hello Kushiwawah, it is sad that all Muslims are being painted with the same brush. I have heard that many Muslims are coming to faith in Jesus and pray you will too. God is leading you or you would not have found this video.
awesome
I wish all videos on this channel would be subtitled in multiple languages so that this content can reach as many people around the world
God suffered as a man the most excruciating death and humiliation he died for us I think he owes us nothing we owe him everything , the fact is humanity have being given the keys to great treasures on earth that are not equally shared out lets help one another more...
I'm thankful that Jesus gave his life for me. And the whole world. Because where are filthy rags. That's why he picked Jesus. Because he claimed him his only begotten son. And also said in whom I am well pleased. That says it all. Amen
whoa, i think fr mike's psychic. I'm disabled(walk with crutches), but i still dont deserve life
Adam LaCrosse
We owe God everything brother ♡
Praying for you brother. You are important.
What did you do to not deserve life?
Adam LaCrosse
I love u
I don't have to exist, God just wanted me to
AMEN AND AMEN!!
I'm majorly depressed, I have no hope, I cry and pray and beg God everyday for help, I attend mass and do all I am meant to do with all of my heart. Forget earthly goods, if I am not even guaranteed happiness or joy in my walk with Christ, then what is the point in any of this?
God doesn't have to do anything for us. But he does. It's not about if God chooses to let you in heaven it's about if you would truely choose God.
And as for the depression I can only tell you that if the world tastes of ash, spit it out. Fill your day with rosaries and prayers.
I used to do only what I was meant to do. Now I try do do everything that I can, putting God at the center of my life, making him my ultimate goal. Thinking of him in every aspect of my life, not just what will happen to me when I die. We don't have to be priests, nuns or missionaries to be saints, we just have to truly choose God.
U. I will be praying for you my dear brother/sister. Read the sacred scriptures it'll help you.
As someone who has struggled with major depression, I suggest seeking therapy, and meditating on what exactly is making you depressed. Obviously pray and ask God for guidance through your trials, but also seek help.
And you are guaranteed eternal happiness and joy walking with Christ, but not without trials. It is much more difficult to be without God and to suffer, than to be with God and to suffer.
In addition to what Quinfan10 advises, I suggest a meditation on Christ's Passion, because in His Passion He experienced *every* suffering we do, including major depression. As you meditate on His Passion, go to that place where He suffered depression and hopelessness -- "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" Join Him in that moment. Step into His place, and ask God to accept your willingness to suffer this. Ask Jesus to allow you to console Him in that moment. You know He suffered the same thing you do *for* you, not so that you won't experience it, but to save you from the rightful consequence of original sin (which is torments from real demons and eternal separation from God). That's even worse than depression, it's unimaginably worse. But Jesus loves you so much that He suffered everything just to save you from that...and to be able to be with you for eternity. He wants you to be with Him forever. Are you willing to share a little bit of His suffering, knowing that it comforts Him on the Cross when He feels abandoned? At the Mass, when the priest raises the Host, it's symbolic of raising Christ on the Cross -- offer your suffering to Him at that moment, join your suffering to His, ask Him to allow you the strength to bear your suffering so that you might console and comfort Him, and thank Him for allowing you the gift of sharing in His Passion. Then you may find that joy isn't a "Jesus High," it's intellectual -- it's knowing what He did for you so that you might experience unimaginable joy with Him forever.
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Fr. Mike, I appreciate you pointing out that God does not owe us things we do not need. However, it doesn't not mean that He does not owe us what we do need. There's a difference between demanding the things that we do not need, and begging for the things that we do (such as whatever is needed to bring us to Him). For example, in order to love, which Christ calls us to do, we need to be loved first. We know that in Christ there is enough love for us, and that God WILL provide what we need in order to complete what He asks, otherwise He would be lacking, which He in His essence is not. However, this opportunity may come to us through purgation and purification and mortification. But essentially, it's God preparing us for Himself to do His will. God does not owe us anything because He has already provided what we need, just as Azaria found in his sufferings means to worship God, while they might not have been what he imagine worshiping God to look like. To say that God does not owe us anything is more about God giving us everything that we need to obtain our greatest good, which is Him, than about the idea that God could if he wanted to just not care about us because He doesn't owe us anything (which can be the fear that arises in that statement). It is okay to ask God for things, but to trust that if He does not provide it, it is because He has found a better means of giving our souls what He has created them to need, which life His Son bought for us by His blood.
You pay your own mistakes daily ,not Jesus.And as a grown women like you are, i am suprised that you never ever thought about it.
He has already provided what we need.
Really .. go tell that to people that are chronically ill or disabled through acts of God .
Owe No Man Anything. New Covenant truth, love is your responsibility for human exaltation. Do not be more Merciful than God...that being a grave decomp.
We owe God everything. He deserves all the glory and honor. Serve the Lord God with everything you have and with your entire being. What we give to God, no matter how small it may appear in the eyes of humans, is precious in His sight when we do it with all our hearts. Serve God.
Yes, I don't deserve everything God gave me, including all the misery, suffering and unhappiness He has put me through. And you tell me He loves me? Ha! Well, if He loves me and wants my soul in Heaven with Him then He owes me quite a bit. And He can start with an apology.
could you please talk about Mother Marry? Some of us europeans have lot of love for Marry and rosery but get misunderstood alot of times
I'd like to suggest Scott Hahn's lectures about the Virgin Mary. I don't know why there is such misinformation about Mary, the hatred of Mary is inspired by the Jews and Satan.
God announced Mary's role in Genesis, when He told the Serpent that He would make it (Satan) and the woman (Mary) enemies and that in the future, she (Mary) would crush Satan's head.
God chose and created Mary without sin, so that Jesus could be born of an immaculate womb and receive perfect education and love. In the New Testament, after the Apocalypse, Mary is also in direct opposition to Satan.
The first Marian Prayers recorded are from as early as 240 A.D, even before the New Testament was written and put together by the Catholic Church (around 400 A.D).
For these reasons we shall honour Our Blessed Mother, as Jesus told his most beloved disciple from the Cross, this is "your Mother", and pray the Rosary every day.
People who met Mary and Jesus and saw Christ restoring eyesight to the blind, raising the dead and who witnessed his ressurection and who were later persecuted and also crucified, in good spirits, like Peter who asked the Romans to crucify him upside down because he thought he was not worthy of dying in the same way as the Lord; those people would disagree with you. They saw something way beyond the physical world and many of them could have avoided their deaths but didn't because they were never the same after experiencing the divine miracles and wisdom of Christ.
hoopoe bird "Worship" and "idol" are incorrect words. We Honour and Pray for and with Mary for her intercession on our behalf, when we are finally to be judged by Christ for our sins. Do not forget Christ has given the first 30 years of his life to Our Lady, and only 3 to his disciples, that's 10 times more. Mary is human, like us, but she was created without the original sin.
You also have failed to grasp the distinction between "idol" and icon. Doesn't your church also has a Cross or a Fish symbol? Well, that is an icon, it can inspire, inform and make our faiths stronger. Just like photos or images of the Saints can.
Through sinless Mary and Christ, God's second plan to substitute Adam and Eve, who were also created sinless but fell to sin, God intends to grant us Eternal Life after our death.
It's not worship, and I'll explain. You quote from the Ten Commandments, that might mean you are a Jew, if that is the case, you do know that God's Son is also announced in that book. He was with God from the beggining of Creation: "In the beginning, there was Logos, and Logos was with God, and Logos was God."
Christ is Logos/the Word/ Reason. God the Father, the one you refer to, is the Creator and the Holy Spirit proceeds from them both.
Christ was not 50% God and 50% human,rather, he was 100% God and 100% Human, fully human and fully divine; therefore it is natural for Christians to venerate his image, as He is God himself in flesh, that would not constitute idolatry, which is sinful.
God created his Son, and also the angels and humans, out of His sheer kindness and a desire to share His own blessed life.
I know where you are coming from, I too was once an atheist, agnostic, and simply theist until my theological understanding matured into Catholicism, it might be that, since you are here watching a priest's video for some reason, one day you will too.
You will find what you are looking for in the Gospel of John, where Jesus indeed afirms his Nature. Jesus' message is not of worshipping him, but of giving testimony to the Truth: the saved will be those who feed the hungry and clothe the naked, visit the ill, imprisoned, comfort the lonely, loving God with all our hearts.
God owes ALL of us an APOLOGY.
Tell that to the starving children in african. He brought them into to this world to suffer. He owe humanity a lot.
Exactly
No he doesn't.
Father, can you pleas do a video on ,what it is like being a priest, and about seminary?
And that is why I don't ever sing "God Bless Americ." Given the text and the musical composition, the song cannot be sung without a sense of triumphalism. That is, a sense that God owes us a blessing because we're such a great country. There is no tone of suplication, entreaty, humility in the song.
I was pleased to find that the hymnal we use at my parish doesn't include this song. It's remarkably short on anything 'patriotic."
5:18 Ok, I am confused. So we are supposed to thank God for the good stuff like being able to see and hear, but can't get mad at the bad things like being disabled? I really don't get the logic here.
there is no logic in Fr Mike's argument here. He has some good vids, but this is not one of them.
The problem I have with God not owing me anything is that you can't expect anything from God and therefore you can't trust Him. He seems to be more concerned about redeeming sinners than rewarding those who are trying to be faithful which frequently frustrates me. If God owes nothing does it make sense to ask for anything? Does it make sense to even pray or try? It's better to be a bad person, forcibly things you want and then ask for forgiveness, isn't it?
Father Mike I feel like Its hard to evangelize people when i dont even have good enough faith myself, and I feel like I would be kindoff lying to them. Then i feel bad.
I wouldn't emphasize what God doesn't owe you and answer that with Creation. Rather, understand that the Bible declares hardship from the moment of believing in Christ. A faulty understanding of God shows a faulty understanding of the Bible. Therefore, if a person thinks God is going to protect and provide all of our wants and desires, obviously has not read their Bible. But here is the difference of our emphasis: Friends, we live a sin fallen world. Hebrews 11:6 states that those that have faith in God must believe that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. But be careful here: God will reward us and give true believers what they deserve in Heaven Matthew 16:27, Luke 6:35; Revelation 22:12. Our rewards may never be realized here on earth, but after this life, God promises to reward every man and woman for what they have done in the New Kingdom of God, Heaven. Its not a matter of God owing us anything, its a matter of knowing that God is faithful to His promise. We can take that to the bank because its value is worth all eternity.
Can you make a video addressing mental illness?
Does God owe me because He chose to promise Ask and you shall receive? Did not God voluntarily obligate Himself by choosing unnecessarily to make this promise and related promises?
Genuine question here what about the people who are born with so many health problems I'm not saying God owes them anything but is it wrong that they would want something good to happen for a change?
So do we earn or merit anything? Any blessings from God? Favor?
I had people tell me during a relationship - as happy as they saw me with her that that i “deserved it” for all the good I had done or been to other people, Spiritual and religious study and service and she left me with that “I (she) deserve it” as if to say she had suffered enough in her life or that she had done enough for others or prayed enough to “deserve” better. Well, she did- probably was told that either by friends or someone she started seeing behind my back.
Seems we often get what we deserve in the judgement, negative sense
can we merit blessings in our life? Do we not deserve anything for our efforts in the spiritual and physical life? FML
Hello Daniel, I am very sorry about what happened to you (the woman in your life left you for someone else). I believe God blessed me in a way I didn't deserve, with a husband I loved but it was a difficult marriage, but that's how God showed me I needed to be "Born Again." I was blind to the sin in my heart and had to repent. We don't deserve blessings, but God will bless you when you don't even see it coming.
I wake up and thank God for my life. I would imagine most do . What I do want God to help me figure out is why I was put here in the first place. What is his will for me. I doubt people have the idea that God owes us anything but we go to him for his will for us.
Amen :)
I have a question...If God is my Father and he gave me life, isn't then his responsibility to take care of me? In other words, can I tell my own children that I don't owe them anything, whatever happens to them?
After reading the bible all the way through, there's not a single believer who hasn't suffered in some way. Jesus suffered the worst pain imaginable. A human would have passed out after getting whipped and carrying a cross. Everybody had difficult lives.
Father, if you have time , please answer my question, it really bothers me:after more than 20 years of absence I was to confession last year for the first time and after that regularily, but in my first confession I forget to tell varios sins of my adolescence that keep coming now to my mind. I am partaking, so I am afraid to do wrong. Please give me an answer.Thank you very much!
You are forgiven! And thanks be to God that you went to confession!! Just mention it the next time you go. And I am so proud of you.
But what about the promises of prayers like the Rosary or the Chaplet? Can't we be assured of these when we pray them?
Switch "you" and "god" and the statement is still correct