PRACTICING HOLINESS ON EARTH - THE VOICE OF TRUTH PART 290

THE VOICE OF TRUTH PART 290 – PRACTICING HOLINESS ON EARTH

Dear Bishops, Priests, Religious Men and Women, and all dear viewers and listeners who are following today's live sharing session. Thanks be to God for choosing me in His work. He is the One whom all of us must worship and fear. I always love Him. He has power over all creatures He has made. My life is always in His hands. He has complete authority over my being.

Before I share what God wants me to tell you, today I also want to share a little about myself with everyone, about how God has power over my body. When God first came to me, I asked Him to answer me why everyone has the freedom to do as they please or as God Wills; God gives everyone that freedom, why don't I have it? God wanted me to do that. I felt it didn't align with my will, so I didn't do it, but when I didn't do it, God made me suffer. God made me suffer in various ways: sometimes a headache, sometimes a stomachache, sometimes I couldn't breathe. And when I followed God's will, my pain stopped. At that time, I was also upset with God.

I have been instructed by God. When God uses me, what must I do? When God uses me, He does not grant me the freedom that everyone else has. I must do everything under God's instruction. God instructs and molds me in His way because I still have human flaws, so He must teach me every day. Initially, when God first came to me, I didn't want to work for Him, I didn't want to write God's Word, because I said: “Who would believe that I could write God's Word? Everyone would mock me. I didn't want people to talk about me”. I said to God: “Does it mean that if I don't write God's Word, I won't go to Heaven? If I live a good life, I will also go to Heaven. God can use whomever He wants, just don't use me.” But God said He wants me to work for Him.

When I work for God, there are times when I act against His Will, yet I am still instructed and corrected by God every day. For instance, last Friday, November 5, 2021, when I woke up, my head was spinning, and I couldn't sit up. I asked Quang to get my notebook and pen so I could ask for God’s holy will, what God wanted from me. God said He wanted me to pray for Bishop Dominic and for the Father Truyen. So God made me suffer like that so I would just lie there and pray. I prayed until 12 PM, and then God made the pain cease. People brought me food to eat, and the pain stopped, but after I finished eating, the pain returned. I continued to lie there and pray until 3 PM, and at 3 PM, God allowed me to return to normal. I went back to work as usual. That is how God has power over my body. Whatever God wants from me, He makes me suffer; when I suffer, I must ask for His holy will, and when I have fulfilled it, the pain ceases.

Before, I was upset with God, but now I feel very happy because I have God, and He has taken away my freedom so that I do not act according to my own will, which helps me avoid sin. I don't know how you fear God, but as for me, I fear God and love Him immensely. I love no one as much as I love God. Whether sad or happy, I always come to God and confide in Him, because people cannot bring me peace and happiness like when I come to God. Only God can bring me peace and happiness. Therefore, I love God and fear God.

Here, I would also like to share one more thing that I have previously shared in the "Voice of Truth" videos. People often hear me say "God the Father speaks to me" and assume that I am excluding Jesus. I would like to tell you that God spoke to me like this: God the Father speaks to me through the Holy Spirit acting upon my hands. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are one God, so God the Son is also working with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. Therefore, when I ask for God's holy will, God the Father speaks to me along with God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

I would also like to share more about why I call her Mother God the Father, because I speak with God the Father. God calls her Mother God the Father. This is how God the Father addresses me; for others, they refer to Him as God and the Mother of God.

Ladies and Gentlemen, today God wants me to share with everyone that our enemy is the devil, yet people are terrified when they hear of the devil. God wants everyone to know that they should only fear God alone. When people have not yet lived according to God's word, have not yet sacrificed as God wishes, or whose faith is not yet firm, the demons will attack everyone, causing them to be afraid. Demons always sow suffering, hatred, resentment, and pride. God wants everyone not to fear demons, but to be courageous and confront them.

Today, God wants me to call on everyone to strive to live a holy life right here on this earth. To become holy, everyone must undergo God's purification, experience suffering, and endure trials. Each person faces different trials. He wants everyone to receive blessings in the eight Beatitudes that God bestows upon them. I will now read a passage from the Gospel.

The excerpt from Matthew Chapter 5, verses 1 to 12, 

“When he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them, saying: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you (falsely) because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven. Thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

The blessings God bestows upon everyone are a promise He proclaimed over two thousand years ago, and He wants everyone to receive those blessings. Every creature God created is granted freedom and peace. Regarding the creatures God has established, if He does not purify people and lets go, then human faithfulness will drift away, because humans are often very unfaithful to God. 

Every creature that God created is bestowed with freedom and peace in relation to the creatures God has ordained. If He does not purify all people, if He abandons them, then human faithfulness will wane, for humanity is often very unfaithful to God.

He purifies everyone, but does not allow them to suffer beyond their strength. God wants everyone to accept this purification. The divine grace that God wishes to bestow upon humanity is unity in His Sacred Tradition, a unity that renounces all self-will to follow God. God reveals that no saint enters heaven without undergoing suffering. Saints who performed good works on earth to glorify God had to endure humiliation, suffering, shed blood, and sacrifice everything to exchange for and to honor and glorify God right here on this earth. 

Everyone must know this. Whatever everyone does, whatever sacrifices they make, God has His Angels record their deeds. God acknowledges everything. Therefore, everyone should not think, 'Why doesn't God hear me speak, or see what I do? I am suffering too much.' These are thoughts that the devil sows into people's minds, causing them to complain and blame God.

What God wants to teach everyone is that when people suffer from illness or spiritual anguish, they must offer those pains to God so that He may suffer with them and accompany them. We pray to God for strength to endure suffering and to give thanks to Him in all circumstances, asking to joyfully accept it to please God. The gift that God bestows upon everyone is the eight Beatitudes, which are blessings God gives to humanity so that people may know how to receive them. When these are received, heavenly happiness belongs to us. This is God's faithful promise that has not changed over thousands of years.

God reveals that when a soul dies, it must undergo purification and atone for sins in the fires of purgatory to enter glory and be brought by God to Heaven. The Saints together welcome them and offer praise. Heaven exalts and praises God for bringing light from these souls to adorn heaven. God reveals: When souls go to heaven, they have not yet been canonized. And the souls must praise and bless God.. The living and the saints together pray for these souls. After a period of time, these souls are then canonized. When souls are in heaven and pray with the saints, through the prayers of these souls and the saints, God again intercedes for other souls not yet in heaven. This is the justice and arrangement in the mighty hand of God; He allows no one to suffer loss.

Loss in the eyes of humans is something no one accepts, but God wants everyone to accept it, and when everyone accepts it, they will find peace and be enveloped by Him. God reveals that God allows each person to go through different trials at different times. When facing trials and suffering, people often only complain, and the more they complain, the more the devil tempts them to resentment and hatred at that very moment. God wants everyone to be vigilant and cling to Him. The suffering in this earthly life will be repaid in the afterlife; He does not abandon anyone but always accompanies everyone. He grants each person a patron saint when they are baptized. Everyone must learn from the example of the saints, learn their virtues, and learn the way to become a saint on earth to be glorified as saints in heaven.

When people bear the name of a child of God, they have a saint always accompanying them. God wants everyone to remember the saint whom He bestowed upon them. Many people have forgotten their patron saint, while the saints always intercede and pray for everyone, asking God to forgive the sins of souls and the sins of all people. God reveals that when people suffer disadvantages, experience suffering, and must sacrifice, even their lives, enduring pain with God, they will be glorified. Their sanctity will be near God. But when they have not lived according to God's word, have not undergone His purification, have not endured hardship or sacrifice, then the fire of purgatory awaits everyone. God also reveals that the fire of purgatory is very hot and its punishment is no less severe than the fire of hell. 

Everyone's punishment will be very painful but will have an end and lead to heaven. However, as for hell, it is the most agonizing place that no words can describe. Souls there lament and scream day and night, repenting of their sins, being beaten by demons day and night, and burned by an ever-burning fire. These are the souls who rejected God, lived in sinful passions, and harbored hatred.

God wants everyone to always be vigilant, not allowing the devil to enter. Everyone must know to fear God, to amend their ways, to act according to His holy will, to know how to sacrifice and renounce. God understands that humans cannot change in just a minute or an hour, so He is always patient and waits for each of us to change hour by hour, day by day.

Today, God wants me to tell everyone how much He loves humanity. 

I love you more than My own body, I love you in the purification that I grant you. I love you, therefore I want you to be in My bosom, I love you through the sacrifices you offer to Me. I love you with the righteousness that God will bestow upon you, I love you so that you may be with Me every day until the end of time.

“I love you more than my own body, I love you through the purification I bestow upon you. I love you, and therefore I want you to be in my bosom, I love you through the sacrifices you offer to me. I love you under the righteousness that God will grant you, I love you so that you may be with me every day until the end of time.”

I also want to share with you that some priests preach that if one must meet conditions to receive grace when coming to God, or must go through intermediaries, then that is truly a human affair. When I heard these priests preach this, I sought God's holy will, and He answered me as follows: “God the Father speaks to you, God the Father allows you to tell the Priests that God loves humanity to the extent of dying to atone for human sins. However, humanity still does not change, still does not live according to God's commandments, still indulges in passions and sins without knowing when to stop. Therefore, God the Father used Thien Thuong to write God's word, that those who do what God teaches will be happy in this life and the next.”

That Father also preached that God's healing is unconditional, and His love is also unconditional. If one has to fast for a certain number of days or change in a specific way, that is God's bribery, and if the means become the end, then that is idolatry, which is superstition.

When I heard that, I asked for God's will, and He told me that God the Father wants me to tell everyone that because people only care for themselves and their bodies, the devil defeats them. Therefore, God the Father wants people to overcome the devil, and to overcome the devil, people must live according to what God teaches, must fast, pray, sacrifice, and renounce. Demons are very afraid of people's sacrifice and prayer.

I would like to add that because God loves humanity, He sets conditions for us to become holy right here on earth. Saint Augustine affirmed that God created humanity; He does not need humanity, but to redeem humanity, He needs human cooperation. Many people look at the Church's fasting practice, where fasting is now only two days a year, and the clergy and religious also follow the path Jesus walked, and they do not fast either.

The question many people ask is: what is fasting? I would like to borrow the words of Archbishop Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet, “What is fasting? Is it perhaps tormenting the body is not about tormenting or afflicting people to please God. To ask that way is to not understand the faith, to not fully understand fasting. God is not so cruel as to be pleased when He sees His children suffer. Fasting is partly a sacrifice for atonement, but the main purpose of fasting is to train the soul to fight against evil spirits.”

The above is the discernment of Bishop Ngo Quang Kiet.

I will continue to share

Today, people forget the presence of demons, but demons still exist and actively work to destroy the world and annihilate humanity. Demons are very cunning and insidious, making it difficult for people to recognize their schemes and traces. Everyone, be vigilant, recognize demons through material greed, money, and indulgence. Everyone, cast out from your souls the demons that cause division, discord, greed, arrogance, complacency, hypocrisy, and vainglory.

Thus, by our own strength, we cannot overcome demons. To overcome demons, we must rely on God's grace for help, we must ask for strength from God by fasting, praying, and training our spirit through humble self-abasement, renouncing our own will, and changing our lives. As we know, the story of our first parents, Adam and Eve, who fell to the temptation of the devil.

In the battle against demons, humans are not equally matched opponents and therefore often lose. In the very first battle, our first parents lost to the devil, and from then on, humanity has had to fight demons until the very last moment. Jesus came to inaugurate a new era; He defeated the devil when the devil tempted Him on three points: fame, wealth, and pleasure. Jesus liberated humanity from the wicked hand of Satan, casting out an entire legion of demons, who then asked to enter a herd of pigs feeding on the seashore.

He liberated humanity from Satan's dominion through healing. According to Jewish belief, illness was a sign of sin, and thus the sick person lived under Satan's yoke. Jesus healed many sick people and told them, "Your sins are forgiven. Go in peace and sin no more from now on.” Jesus was deeply committed to saving humanity from the slavery of sin, so He often associated with tax collectors and sinners. He did not just speak words of external forgiveness but truly converted them from within. Today, I also want to share one more thing with you: some people came and told me that coming to Father Long is also coming to God, and coming to God the Father's house is also coming to God. However, coming to God the Father's house is too difficult; one must fast and pray to be healed by God, whereas coming to Father Long requires no fasting or renunciation; just come to Father Long and attend Mass to pray to God, and they are also healed by God. Or they text Father Long, Father Long prays, and they also receive God's grace very easily.

Many people have come to Father Long and received many graces of healing and conversion. I would like to share with you that God has granted Father Long the grace of preaching. When Father preaches, all social strata find it very easy to understand; from the educated to the uneducated, everyone comprehends Father Long's sermons. At that time, I asked for God's will regarding how easily people received grace when coming to Father Long, and God told me that when people come to Father Long, God the Father heals their physical bodies, while for their souls, whoever sacrifices and lives according to what God the Father teaches in the Gospel will find happiness and healing.

As for the sick who come to God the Father's House, God the Father desires to save the souls of the patients and also their family members. God the Father also saves their physical bodies if God the Father deems it necessary for that patient. God continued to tell me that God the Father chose Father Long as His disciple, but does not use Father Long in God the Father’s work. Father Long is not aware of God the Father's work, nor does he receive the grace of humiliation from God. God the Father grants Father Long honor and allows him to be praised by everyone. God the Father allows Father Long to preach about God's mercy, so that everyone can hear and understand Father Long's words. God the Father chose Father Long to preach about God's mercy so that many people would come to know it.

I see that God chooses and uses each person for different tasks, but those whom God chooses and uses must be vigilant, must know who they are, and that they are merely instruments used by God. If one is arrogant, the devil will interfere, and one will be defeated by evil spirits. I have researched and observed that those who attend mass at Father Long's and ask for God's grace receive it immediately; from religious people to non-religious people, most receive the grace of healing or whatever grace they seek from Father Long, they receive it as soon as they come with God's mercy. They come to God and receive grace, then they go back and share it with others so that others may also come to ask for and receive God's grace.

As I see it, people come to ask God for grace for themselves and their loved ones, but they have not sacrificed, nor do they need to sacrifice, nor do they need to please God. People only come to God with their own needs. If they are in pain, they come to ask for healing; if they face difficulties, they also come to ask God for help. Previously, when I did not understand God's work, I thought it was excellent because God performed miracles that everyone could witness firsthand, demonstrating God's power. Therefore, I was very eager to share with everyone about Father Long and God's mercy, so that everyone could receive the grace they requested.

As I see it, if one simply asks, God will grant grace unconditionally. When God grants grace, I wonder how many people truly give thanks to God for being healed, give thanks to God by changing their lives, knowing how to sacrifice, abandoning sinful passions, knowing how to love, knowing how to forgive, and knowing how to pray to please God. Or, if one comes to God and receives His grace, gives thanks to God at that moment, but then returns to daily life, still living selfishly, still indulging in sinful passions, not praying, not attending Mass, then that will deeply grieve God.

Everyone should know that when God calls them home, they must atone for what they have lived on earth. Let me give an example: God grants our family abundance in all things, money earned through our own efforts, but we only know how to enjoy it, only care for our own family, and do not share with the poor. In the eyes of people, in the eyes of the world, there is no sin because it is our own effort, but in the eyes of God, we are sinful, the sin of not loving.

I would like to share a second example: if a sister speaks ill of you and slanders you, if you speak ill of them back, you commit a sin. But if you forgive that sister and pray for them, you will be blessed and God will credit you. Third example: those who are religious must observe Sunday Mass; missing Sunday Mass is a mortal sin. Not reciting prayers or praying for souls is not a mortal sin, but when that person is called home by God, God will be just in judgment. If, while alive, one never recited prayers or prayed for souls, then now that they are dead, even if their family prays and requests masses, God will share those masses with other souls, because while alive, one did not know how to love or sacrifice in prayer, and therefore must atone for the sin of not knowing how to pray or think of others.

I would like to read the Gospel passage from Saint Luke, chapter 16, verses 19 to 26. "There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man's table. Dogs even used to come and lick his sores. When the poor man died, he was carried away by angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried, and from the netherworld, where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. And he cried out, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me. Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering torment in these flames.' Abraham replied, 'My child, remember that you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented. Moreover, between us and you a great chasm is established to prevent anyone from crossing who might wish to go from our side to yours or from your side to ours.'

Before, when I did not know God, upon hearing this Gospel passage, I used to wonder why God was like that. The rich man had no sin. He worked diligently, he was wealthy and thus enjoyed life, so why should he go to hell? Now that I know God, I understand that our wealth and happiness are only possible because God has granted them to us. Therefore, when God grants us abundance, we must know how to share with those less fortunate than ourselves.

I would like to continue sharing that for those who come to God the Father's house, God wants everyone to sacrifice, renounce passions, fast and pray, love and forgive, be humble and self-abasement, confess, receive communion, and attend Mass daily if they are Catholic. If the sick person can do what God teaches, they will be healed by God; if they cannot, they will not be healed by God. God gives everyone the freedom to follow God's will or their own will. Indeed, the conditions God sets are difficult, but if everyone can fulfill them, they will become saints right here on earth.

Everyone should continue to sacrifice and practice according to God's teachings. When God calls them home, if they have atoned for their sins on earth, they will not have to atone further, nor suffer punishment in purgatory, but will be taken by God to heaven. As for those who live satisfying carnal desires, indulging, not sacrificing, not abandoning sins, not fasting and praying, they will have to atone for their sins when they die. Everything we do, good deeds will bring blessings, and bad deeds will bring sin. When we die, we bring nothing but empty hands; only blessings and sins follow us.

To conclude today's sharing, God wants me to convey to everyone that humanity must endure much suffering to reach glory. My sharing session concludes here. Thank you all for listening to my sharing. May God and Mother Mary grant you peace. I wish you a peaceful night and look forward to seeing you in the next program.