I received this response this morning from the person who wanted help witnessing to a Catholic friend.
Dear Pastor Hoggard,
I have been quite pleasantly surprised by the large number of responses to my request for assistance regarding my Catholic friend.
Could you please post my thanks in your blog, and ask the kind hearted people to keep me and my friend in their prayers for a little while?
I wish to thank you very much for your help. I intend to email personally to each of the people who have been good enough to send in their advice and good wishes. If there are any others out there who feel genuinely led to email me regarding my request, feel free to forward whatever they have to say to me.
As it is, I have found myself blessed with a ‘multitude of counsellors’. They are all appreciated.
If my friend chooses to accept Christ as her Saviour in the future, I shall be sure to let you know so you can post the good news on your blog. It is the least I can do under the circumstances.
May 13th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Dear Friend,
I was raised in a Catholic Vatican practising home and was enrolled in a Catholic Convent school.
I never knew the significance of JESUS CHRIST.
All I ever saw was a man hanging on a cross at their mass services and yet I was instructed to pray to ‘Mother Mary’ and The Names Of Saints and these different saints had supposed powers to ‘Protect’ you be it against danger, financial problems and their favourite tagline was ‘Intercession’…..I did what they told me and yet I was feeling very empty.
My parents were superstitious half the time and even as a child…I could sense the contradiction of the behaviour of my parents and my distrust grew over the years over them….As they would quarrel over financial problems or get temperamental over the dinner table, in mass gatherings, etc.
The communication gap between my parents grew and my anger, sadness, resentment and pain of isolation and the world got bigger till I dropped out of college and started my working career.
That empty feeling that I was condemned and useless…all the readings of earthy philosophers or counsellors still could not feed that emptiness in my heart, mind and soul.
But then came the alcoholism and the indulgences that was ‘Escapism’ for me for that emptiness…even lesbianism.
You can bet on it that Alcoholics, Drug Addicts, Homosexuality and Addictions are traced back to those individuals raised in Catholic / Vatican practising homes other than pagan or agnostic homes.
Why?
Because they never knew The LOVE, GRACE & MERCY of GOD whereby HE came in THE FLESH AS A SONSHIP AS JESUS CHRIST (YASHUA) by whom HE was crucified, died and resurrected (Risen) for all who believe in HIM. GOD’S NAME IS YASHUA - THE GREAT MYSTERY REVEALED BY WHOM THE WORLD, THE UNIVERSE & EVERYTHING WAS FORMED AND CREATED.
His resurrection signifies that our sins and iniquities are all forgiven.
We are no more under The Mosaic Law when you have accepted CHRIST.
THE ONLY MEDIATOR BETWEEN MAN & GOD IS YASHUA/JESUS CHRIST.
Do not believe in occult, apostate intercessory ideologies of The Vatican/Catholism through ‘Mother Mary’ or ‘Saints’….Or False Apparitions/Spectres be it appearing all over the world be it in homes, churches, mountains, wilderness, etc.
It is NOT of our WORKS but GOD’ GRACE & MERCY that HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS is bestowed upon us through YASHUA / JESUS CHRIST.
GOD IS A SPIRIT. THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME IN THE FLESH AS SONSHIP AS YASHUA/JESUS CHRIST BY WHOM CHRIST’S SPIRIT IS A HOLY SPIRIT (THE COMFORTER) GIVEN TO THOSE WHO REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM BY FAITH.
THE WILLINGNESS TO BE CHANGED/RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YASHUA/JESUS CHRIST WHICH IS HOLY/COMFORTER.
Born again in The Spirit of Yashua.
Yashua Is The Living Manna(Bread of Life), Living Waters, Tree of Life, The Alpha & The Omega (Beginning & The End).
There are many false apostate denominations whom for centuries had manipulated the peoples over a ‘Church & State’ dominion to enslave and keep the peoples in bondages of The Law and their Pharisee, Scribes & Sadducees doctrines and practices that puts the peoples under condemnation.
And these end times apostate denominations are into ecumenism, unitarianism, slain in the spirit, babbling in pagan tongues, holy laughter, ‘Personal Relationship in Jesus Christ’ ideologies that has Esoteric Theosophical New Age - One World Governance, Religion & Currency Agendas of The Coming Anti-Christ & False Prophet.
God Is A Spirit And When Christ Was Resurrected…Christ Is A Spirit All Over Again And No More Carnal/Flesh.
Personal = Person = Cosmic Ascended Maitreya ‘Jesus’ and the false ideologies that Man can attain the same equivalent status as GOD/CHRIST through Meditational Levels Of Consciousness. This tagline was cooked up about 20 years ago and it is best not to use concocted taglines that is not mentioned in The Bible (King James Version).
We are in FAITH under GOD’S WILL for us and according to HIS WORD. It is not according to our will (Self-Righteousness) but GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS/HIS WILL for us.
New Age definition of Jesus would be a Maitreya and Ascended Masters ideologies that is Masonry (GAOTU = Great Archtect of The Universe/ Jah-Bul-On), Theosophical, Satanic, Kabbalistic, Vatican - Catholic and Pagan Religions…
GET A LIFE IN JESUS CHRIST! HIS KINGDOM & SALVATION IS ETERNAL!
May 13th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
And to add…When you are changed and renewed in The Spirit of Jesus Christ, you would pardon and forgive those who had hurt you be they your family members, friends, colleagues, etc.
No more grudges, anger and resentment that had kept you in bondages.
Liberty & Freedom in THE SPIRIT OF YASHUA/JESUS CHRIST!
Many of them are struggling with their apostate churches and do not know JESUS CHRIST.
You simply have to trust and rest in FAITH in YASHUA/JESUS CHRIST that only HE can guide them out of their misery and self-condemnational pathways instilledby these apostate false churches.