Act of Consecration to the Holy Ghost

On my knees before the great

multitude of heavenly witnesses,

I offer myself, soul and body to You,

Eternal Spirit of God.

I adore the brightness of Your purity,

the unerring keenness of Your justice,

and the might of Your love.

You are the Strength and Light of my soul.

In You I live and move and am. I desire
never to grieve You by unfaithfulness to
grace and I pray with all my heart to be kept

from the smallest sin against You.

Mercifully guard my every thought and grant

that I may always watch for Your light and

listen to Your voice and follow

Your gracious inspirations.

I cling to You and give myself

to You and ask You,

by Your compassion, to watch

over me in my weakness.

Holding the pierced Feet of Jesus and

looking at His Five Wounds and trusting in

His Precious Blood and adoring

His opened Side and stricken Heart,

I implore You, Adorable Spirit,

Helper of my infirmity,

so to keep me in Your grace that

I may never sin against You.

Give me grace, O Holy Ghost,

Spirit of the Father and the Son,

to say to You always and everywhere,

"Speak, Lord, for Your servant heareth."

Amen.

The Six Phases of Faith

By Rick Warren

"Then Jesus touched their eyes and said,

"Let it happen, then, just as you believe!"

Matthew 9:29

God takes our belief and he blesses us through it,

and that makes life a great adventure.

It is critical that we cooperate with

God as he builds faith within us.

Because of its importance, I want to review

the six phases of faith we've

studied over the past week.

This will also let you see them all in one place.

Phase 1

Dream: Do I have a dream planted in me by God?

If you don't have a dream, start praying,

"God give me your dream."

If you can't write down the dream God has given you,

you need to be praying. If you don't have a dream,

you're not living, you're just existing.

God placed you on this earth for a purpose.

Phase 2

Decision: Do I need to make a faith-decision

that will help that dream become a reality?

Some of you have a dream from God,

but you haven't made a decision to follow it.

You're still on the fence. God's word for you is

"Go for it!" Some of you may need to make the

decision to give your life to Christ.

Some of you may need to make

the decision to join a church.

Some of you may need to make the decision

to get involved in ministry.

Phase 3

Delay: What has caused my dream to be delayed?

If your prayer hasn't been answered, that's okay.

It just means you're in God's waiting room.

Now is not the time to detour.

When things don't happen on our timetable,

we tend to run ahead of God and

create detours to make it happen.

You may end up making the wrong decision.

Wait, wait, and wait for God to work his hand.

Phase 4

Difficulty: What difficulties have I faced

waiting for the dream to be fulfilled?

You are being tested, but it's not going to be the last time.

You'll go through many, many tests in life.

God says, "I know exactly what you're going through.

I see it. I'm watching.

Don't think I've forgotten you—I haven't."

Phase 5

Dead End: Have I come to a dead end yet?

Some of you are there ready to give up.

But the truth is—you're right where God wants you.

You're getting prepared for deliverance.

God's word for you is

"Hang on! Keep on believing! Don't give up!"

Phase 6

Deliverance: Do I expect and trust God to deliver me?

"According to your faith will it be done to you."

(Matthew 9:29 NIV) God is faithful.

What he tells us to do, he will do.

But it doesn't happen overnight.

You go through the faith-phases of Dream,

Decision, Delay, Difficulty, and Dead End . . .

and then comes Deliverance.

Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart

I, [state your name], give myself and consecrate

to the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ

my person and my life, my actions, pains, and

sufferings, so that I may be unwilling to make use

of any part of my being save to honor, love, and

glorify the Sacred Heart.

This is my unchanging purpose, namely, to be

all His, and to do all things for the love of Him,

at the same time renouncing with all my heart

whatever is displeasing to Him.

I therefore take Thee, O Sacred Heart, to be

the only object of my love, the guardian of my life,

my assurance of salvation, the remedy of my

weakness and inconstancy, the atonement

for all the faults of my life, and my sure

refuge at the hour of death.

Be then, O Heart of goodness, my justification

before God Thy Father, and turn away from me

the strokes of His righteous anger. O Heart of

love, I put all my confidence in Thee for I fear

everything from my own wickedness and frailty,

but I hope for all things from Thy goodness and bounty.

Do Thou consume in me all that can displease

Thee or resist Thy holy will; let Thy pure love imprint

Thee so deeply upon my heart, that I shall nevermore

be able to forget Thee or to be separated from Thee;

may I obtain from all Thy loving kindness the grace of

having my name written in Thee, for in Thee I desire

to place all my happiness and all my glory, living and

dying in very bondage to Thee.

Amen.

Mother Mary

"Mother Mary,

I love u and I need u,

come into my heart now.

I consecrate myself to you entirely"

Deeply Rooted in God

Trees that grow tall have deep roots.

Great height without

great depth is dangerous.

The great leaders of this world

- like St. Francis,

Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr., -

were all people who could

live with public notoriety,

influence, and power in a humble way

because of their deep

spiritual rootedness.

Without deep roots we easily let

others determine who we are.

But as we cling to our

popularity, we may lose

our true sense of self.

Our clinging to the opinion

of others reveals

how superficial we are.

We have little to stand on.

We have to be kept alive by

adulation and praise.

Those who are deeply rooted

in the love of God can enjoy human

praise without being attached to it.