March 22, 2013 by Christina King

Becoming an “Unbound” B.A.K.E.R.

This past weekend I attended the “Unbound Leadership Conference” put on by Heart of The Father Ministries. I was able to meet Neal Lozano, who has written a number of books helping people to find real freedom in Christ by utilizing this very simple and duplicable model of deliverance.

The word deliverance can scare some people but I like what Neal say’s about it. To say that deliverance is about the devil is like saying that the Exodus story in Genesis is about Pharaoh. Deliverance is about Christ setting the captives free. It is about the power of Jesus Christ that is given to us in baptism, renewed and refreshed through repentance and reconciliation and empowered by the gifts of the Holy Spirit released in confirmation. However, some of us have not been renewed and refreshed. Some of us have not been reconciled and have not asked for the Holy Spirit to release the gifts of confirmation.

When we are not free to love and be loved then we are not making the invisible visible through our lives and our example. We are to be the body of Christ, yet some of us are still bound up from the lies we believe, the vows we have made, the judgments of others and when this effects our identities we are cut off from the very life giving source that we must draw upon.

So how do we listen to the Holy Spirit? How do we find freedom? How do we refresh, reconcile and release the Holy Spirit in us and through us?

The first thing we have to do is pray to the Holy Spirit. COME HOLY SPIRIT COME! It can begin with simplest of prayers, really it can.

Before going through the 5 Keys of Unbound, we need to call upon the Holy Spirit and we need to learn to listen to what the Holy Spirit desires to do in our hearts. If you rush into the 5 keys without the Holy Spirit, the 5 keys can become like the keys you have in your junk drawers at home. You know they open something, but you don’t know what.

Here is how you begin. Call upon the Holy Spirit. Pray for Him to release the gifts within and through you.

I would like to show how those that use the examination of conscience taught in the book “33 Days to Morning Glory” can really benefit by incorporation the 5 keys taught in the Unbound model.

Fr. Michael Gaitley’s “B.A.K.E.R. examination of conscience, when utilizing the 5 keys of Unbound, can be truly effective because you can then hear what the Holy Spirit desire for you to know. Rather than just using introspection or merely “thinking” about your shortcomings or sinful patterns or behaviors.

It is a gentle way to go into what I like to call the “bad neighborhoods” of our past. There may be many things we need to repent of. Where do we start so we do not get overwhelmed? I heard a Catholic Answers speaker say that our pasts are like bad neighborhoods, you would not want to go in there without some protection or you will get the cr*P beat out of you. So before we go looking at all the places we have failed and come up short or down right sinned, let us first begin by having the Holy Spirit remind us who God is and who we are. So we begin with B

B=Blessings

We begin by looking at the places in which we have seen the blessings in our lives. We begin with going to the truth and seeing who the Father is and how He has blessed us. This is our “consolations”. Our identities may have been beaten up by the broken people of the world sinning out of their own wounds and this can cause us to have difficulty with knowing who we truly are. Some of us self-justify, or have shame or feelings of unworthiness, we misinterpret God’s intentions or circumstances in our lives and others just do not believe God desires to share intimate secrets with their hearts alone. Whatever the struggles, we must begin with looking to our consolations and blessings and rest in the truth that God is good and that He loves us as we are, right now, today, faults and all.

A= Ask

Now we call once again upon the Holy Spirit and ask for the Holy Spirit to enlighten our minds as to what God desires for us to know about where there are barriers to Him, or where we are in need of repentance. This is the first Key of the Unbound Model.

1. Repentance and Faith

When we ask the Holy Spirit He can reveal the root issue instead of the surface things that continue to plague us. For instance, if we have anger issues, raging when things feel out of control or when someone “attacks” us or our worth, we could think our issue is anger. This is how clever the Father of lies is. Anger and rage is a distress symptom of a deeper issue. The Holy Spirit knows the gentlest way to guide you to truth and freedom and He desires to woo His bride gently, He does not desire to kick in your doors or expose you in shame. When we ask Him to lead us to the root, we then can have our hearts moved by His tender Mercy to true repentance.

He can show us that the anger is a reaction to a lie in our heart, an inner vow we have made that locks His healing truth out or perhaps of a judgment we have made about other people or even about God Himself. Anger is a symptom of an idolatry of control. Control is an idol we use to protect ourselves or manage our fears due to powerless wounds or perhaps even fear bonds formed that cause us to believe that God does not save, or He does but will not save us.

When walked through the repentance key, it is so comforting to hear the words of the Prayer team acknowledging and affirming your fear and your deeper desire while at the same time, asking God to forgive you for your judgments, your lack of faith. “In the name of Jesus Christ, I ask your forgiveness for not believing I could trust you.” “Forgive me Jesus for using control as an idol instead of coming to you.” This “Asking” is a beautiful way to know what God desires to start with. If we merely think about our shortcomings, our failures and our limitations to love, we will soon despair. When we look at our sin without the Mercy of Jesus Christ and can easily be convinced by the father of lies that we are not forgiven, our sin is too big or perhaps our God will not save us. If we do not ask the Holy Spirit to lead us in this, those that do repent may do it out of shame, fear of judgment or to be “good” rather than to find healing and reconciliation. This will not set the captives free, but causes the lies to dig themselves in deeper. If the root wound is powerlessness and fear, then we find other ways to “control” so as to not open to God. Anger is symptom of an idolatry of control as a means to self-protect so you see repentance must come from the heart. It is handing the reigns over to Christ, both of them. If we continue to hold onto one of the reigns, we cannot go in the direction God desires to take us in.

2. Forgiveness

When we ask the Holy Spirit to reveal where we need to forgive we become aware of places we are bound up that we may never have even realized we were not yet set free! He knows all and everything. He knows where pain has caused us to not yet forgiven someone. He knows where we still believe someone does not deserve our forgiveness. He knows where we still desire someone to make atonement for what they did to us. He knows where we are so afraid of dealing with our emotions or anger that we have made unforgiveness and our anger a means to protect our hearts. He sees past false humility to the pride that tries to justify our unforgiveness, He knows where we still do not understand the depths of His ocean of Mercy and He even knows which evil spirits are binding us up of our own free will. The Holy Spirit will gently reveal where we need to forgive, He will lead us there and He will help to set us free.

“In the name of Jesus I forgive my Father for leaving me as a baby and never getting to know me as a daughter. In the name of Jesus I forgive my father for not wanting to be in my life and for not coming to my graduation from high school or college”. In the name of Jesus, I forgive my father for not holding my hand, for not holding me in his arms and for not being there to protect me as a child.”

Forgiveness is not about giving up your rights or even excusing what someone has done to you. It is about allowing God to work it all out to His better good and glory and relinquishing it’s power over you by trusting in the Father. When an intercessor gives you the words, just hearing them said to you out loud is a validation that what was done to you requires forgiveness. When you repeat them, you can feel the healing salve being administered to your heart. It is freeing in that very moment.

K=Kills

What killed or desolated you today? When did your heart drop in your chest from what was done to you or what you had done to someone else? We are not to make major decisions in times of desolation because the father of lies is so good at manipulating our emotions that we are not free to see rightly. When we ask the Holy Spirit to show us the daily desolations, we see where we the wounds of others were at work and it may not have been our cross to carry. We also see the places the enemy is stirring up our emotions to cause us to believe his lies, to make more judgments or vows that separate us from God and in doing so cause us forget that our Father in Heaven knew what He was getting when He made us, we are no surprise to God, yet He so desired us that He willed us into existence despite how He knew we would fail Him. This leads me to the third key.

3. Renounce

“In the Name of Jesus Christ, I renounce the spirit of control. In the name of Jesus Christ, I renounce the Spirit of Anger and unforgiveness”. When we renounce, we break any agreements we have made with the liar and turn our faces back to the Father. We are breaking the ties that bind us. I also believe the renewal of our baptismal vows is a powerful way to renounce the enemy and his lies. It is renouncing Satan, his pomps and works and empty promises. Many of us have had relationships outside of covenant marriage or have been involved with the occult. There are tarot cards, Ouiji boards, wearing crystals and more. These things must be renounced. “In the name of Jesus Christ I renounce any physical or spiritual ties with NAME and I take back what I gave to HIM/Her.” Every day we should be going through B.A.K.E.R. with the 5 Keys of Unbound. When we get to the 3rd key, we need to renounce anything that the Holy Spirit has inspired for us to renounce.

4. Authority

“In the name of Jesus Christ, I command every evil spirit and spirits associated to it that I have renounced and every spirit behind the sins I have confessed to leave me right now and go directly to the foot of the cross”. “Thank you Jesus for setting me free from the influence of evil spirits. Thank you Father for sending your son to save me.” Amen

This is about being set free and Jesus Christ has that authority and power. We, by virtue of our baptism can call upon this power of Jesus Christ and command what we renounce in His name as well as any of the powers and principalities infesting or oppressing us to leave! We need to stand in the authority that we as Christians have been given. Christ said that we would do “all these things and even greater things than this” and He meant it.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.” John 14:12

Greater works? Yes!!! We will be set free so that we can bring Christ to others so that they too can find healing and freedom!

E=Embrace

This coincides with the final key of Unbound. When we embrace the love of the Father we embrace the greatness of God’s love, the gifts He desires to share with the world through our yes, we embrace the Fathers Blessing.

5. The Fathers Blessing

Did you know that your name is very important? For all of the years I have traveled and spoke around the country I have noticed that peoples names strangely revealed how God was using them as instruments of His divine will. I began experimenting and by telling people (before they told me) what it was that I thought they were doing in ministry. Not only would I be right but when I was wrong it was not because I was wrong at all but it was because it was on their hearts to do but they had not answered that stirring in their heart.

All throughout the bible we are shown that names matter so much that even Paul was renamed to ensure his name matched his calling. Isaac was so named because his mother laughed. All of us have names that were inspired in our parents because of the movements of the Holy Spirit because our name was written on God’s heart before it ever was uttered on our parents lips. At the moment He names us our name lit up the heavens and flashed like a comet through the stars and throughout the entire universe heralding our goodness as unique and unrepeatable persons with dignity, honor and great worth beyond price. I challenge you to look up your name. If you cannot find your name to mean something that reveals your call then email me because I guarantee I can. What is your confirmation name? I have been told we do not pick our confirmation Saint, the Saint picks us. The Holy Spirit attracts us to that Saint because they will help protect the mission in which we have been chosen to fulfill.

The Fathers blessing is something that all of us must embrace because it heals the wounds it fills the empty and formless void so that we can see what was always there but never realized, we have been chosen, we have been called by name.

R=Reconcile

The final examen peace is to reconcile. This is another word for being set free! When our hearts are freed to love we desire to reconcile, to bring healing and freedom to others. When we realize we reacted in a way to self-justify and in doing so hurt someone we love, our first inclination upon healing is to run to them like the prodigal son and say please, please forgive me! I desire to make amends and to restore what was broken between us.

If you have not heard of Unbound I challenge you to discover what has continued to bring me great freedom and healing. If you have not consecrated yourself to Mary I would prayerfully suggest you read my article on why she is the one that helps us to receive our triple portion of the Holy Spirit. If you desire for the Holy Spirit to permeate you, transform you and make you a new creature in Christ, then Mary is the perfect mold from which to pour ourselves into because she formed the body of Christ in her womb.

We are going to set the world ablaze with Fire of Christ’s love! Come and Join me as there are many, many captives that need to be set free. Will you join me?

What is Heart of the Father Ministries? It say’s this on their website.

“Heart of the Father Ministries empowers people to reclaim their true identity in Christ as sons and daughters of the Father through Unbound:Freedom in Christ ministry.

Heart of the Father is dedicated to equipping people throughout the world to take hold of the freedom they have been given in Christ and to help others do the same by using the principles of the Five Keys as found in Unbound.

The Five Keys are taught and implemented at the Unbound: Freedom in Christ Conferences and through a growing network committed to proclaiming this message.”

The 5 Keys of Unbound

1. Repentance and Faith
2. Forgiveness
3. Renounce
4. Authority
5. Father’s Blessing

February 7, 2013 by Christina King

The Wedding March

We were made for union and communion. We were made by love to love.

A few years ago now I was watching Good Morning America and they featured a newly married couple’s Wedding March Youtube video. As I watched the video I began to cry. My first impression was that I was the bride and Jesus was the Bridegroom and the wedding March would be the day that I passed from this life to the next and it would look just like this couples Wedding March. I sent the video to a friend of mine asking if my first impressions were sacrilegious? After all, I was not saying we should profane a Church or be irreverent to the eucharist in the tabernacle or that we should use pop music in a Wedding Ceremony, rather I was merely looking deeper into the intrinsic beauty of what a Wedding is through the lens of Theology of The Body.

He affirmed me in my initial observation and reminded me of 2 Samuel where David danced naked before the tabernacle because He was overcome with joy, and love of God. I heard later he used it that same month in teaching Theology of The Body to a group of students at the center in which he works. Media really can help us teach and even enter into the mysteries of God especially when it is music or art because it penetrates our hearts and this is what Christ says He desires to do, to give us hearts of flesh to replace the hearts of stone that have become hardened by sin.

As I listened and watched the video (as I encourage you to do now before reading this blog as it will make more sense to you) I imagined my Wedding March with me as the Bride and Jesus Christ as my Bridegroom. I would be surrounded by the Saints and they would be filled with joy and exuberance, they would be like David in 2 Samuel, dancing and singing at my celebration of union and communion with my Bridegroom.

The words to the song became the words of the lover of my soul, He sang to me all that He has desired since my creation.

It’s you and me
Moving at the speed of light into eternity
Tonight is the night
To join me in the middle of ecstasy

Feel the melody and the rhythm of the music
Around you, around you

I’ma take you there, I’ma take you there
So don’t be scared, I’m right here, ready?
We can go anywhere, go anywhere
But first, it’s your chance, take my hand, come with me

This first part reminds me of Pope Benedict the XVI’s encyclical on Love in which he gives us a thorough understanding of ecstasy. In fact, the Holy Father reminds us that when rightly understood, this is not about sex but is about the love of the trinity and it tries to express a depth that is unfathomable to us, no words in the human language can express it, but ecstasy is close. In fact, St. Theresa of Avila often went into “ecstasy” when she was having visions. There is a famous sculpture that tries to depict what it looked like, but what we are told is that is is like a piercing of our hearts with a fiery arrow that sinks and penetrates into the deepest recesses of our souls. Christ the Bridegroom desires to penetrate the hardness of our hearts and set it on fire like the burning bush on Mt. Sinai, like the Seraphim Angels that are the closest to God.

There are some saints that say that we were sung into existence, St. Francis says when we sing we pray twice. There are many that have near death experiences that said they heard music that was so beautiful they could not equate it to anything here except a choir of angels. St. Juan Diego heard singing on the Tepeyac hill so it is safe to say, that the we will feel the melody and the rhythm of the music around us.

The Bridegroom tells us “Be Not Afraid, I go before you always, come follow me and I will bring you home”. This was also the motto of Pope John Paul II, “Be Not Afraid”. The taking of His hand is the submission of our will and the body speaking the language of our soul which is yes, I agree, I acquiesce, I submit, I give my fiat, my hand in marriage to be united to you in all things.

Feels like were on another level
Feels like our love’s intertwined
We can be two rebels
Breaking the rules, me and you, you and I

All you gotta do is watch me
Look what I can do with my feet
Baby, feel the beat inside

When we consecrate ourselves and become receptive as Mary showed us in her own yes to the wedding proposal, we are espoused to the Holy Spirit, intertwined and it feels like we are on another level. We are in the world but not of the world and suddenly our hearts feel like rebels against the ugliness of the world and often we are not accepted but persecuted as if we truly were rebels. We break the rules of political correctness and society’s rules of what is and is not successful and all we have to do is watch Him, keep our eyes fixed on Him. What can He do with His feet? He can walk on water! Can we trust Him enough to step out of our boat?

I’m driving, you could take the front seat
Just need you to trust me, oh oh oh
It’s like now

It’s a long way down, we so high off the ground
Sending for an angel to bring me your heart
Girl, where did you come from? Got me so undone
Gaze in your eyes got me saying

Jesus I trust In You. For those of you that read my blog regularly you know how I had an epiphany this year when I realized that those words mean relinquishing control, handing over the reigns, being willing to renounce the Idolatry of control and allow God to drive. But He does not ask us to take a back seat, in fact we are next to Him. We still get to navigate the direction of our lives, we are just allowing Him figure out How and if we get there and that is how we truly live the words, Jesus I trust in You.

He sends each of us an angel, our Guardian Angel’s sole purpose (no punn intended) is to bring us Christ’s heart and to bring our heart to Christ. He also give us St. Michael to fight against the powers and principalities of this world that continually try to infest and oppress us so that we become over burdened with lifes hardships and FORGET that we are destined for the Wedding March to the Wedding feast the Wedding Banquet of the Lamb and we are His honorable guest. No, we are His bride.

The eyes are the window to the soul and when we truly see the person in front of us, not look at them, but we see them, we enter into what I have been calling “intercourse of the heart”. I wrote an entire piece on what that is in case you do not know. I believe we are all called to see one another in this way. Babies innately know how to gaze into our eyes in this way, seeking us out, going deep down into our hearts as they gaze lovingly upon their mothers. Any breastfeeding mother and even those holding a bottle has seen this gaze and it is more than looking.

What a beautiful lady, no ifs, ands or maybes
I’m releasing my heart and it’s feeling amazing
There’s no one else that matters, you love me
And I won’t let you fall girl, let you fall girl

I won’t let you fall, let you fall, let you fall
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah

Many of us do not feel beautiful or even beautiful but that is because we set our standards based on what society and culture say is desirable. In some cultures being obese is beautiful but in America it is equated to a sin. Each and everyone of us are beautiful in the creator eyes. When we go to Him for our identity and worth we no longer need to prove ourselves academically, or concern ourselves with how big our breasts are how large our muscles are, how small our waist is, how white our teeth are, we are unique and unrepeatable persons that He chose to create out of nothing and our soul is immortal and will exist for all eternity.

He released His heart to all of us on the cross. Christ died for us, releasing us from the effects of original sin, the trinitarian love of God expressed to us through the incarnation of Christ, gives us a snapshot into how God loves and how we are called to love one another and to love Him. We are called to give ourselves as a free, total, faithful and fruitful gift. Even though God has created innumerable souls, each one of us matters to Him, each of us are written on His heart and He desires a relationship with us. I have 8 children, do I love any one of them any less? Would I give my life for any one of them to prevent their deaths or their suffering? How much more does God love us when we, as flawed as we are, can love our own children imperfectly? The cross and Christ’s gift of self to the Father, has given us the bridge to unite ourselves once again to God and to come to the Wedding Feast.

It’s like I waited my whole life for this one night
It’s gon’ be me, you and the dance floor
‘Cause we only got one night
Double your pleasure, double your fun

And dance forever-ever-ever
Forever-ever-ever
Forever-ever-ever
Forever
(Forever)

We were made for union and communion. We were made by love to love.

God waits our whole lives, for some He must wait longer than others. He waits to be re-united to us at the altar. Our whole lives are about the “one night” the night of The Wedding March. We will appear before our Bridegroom, surrounded by the saints that are dancing, doing handstands and cartwheels because our joy is their joy and their joy is our joy. As we dance down the red carpet towards the lover of our soul, He will do a summersault to us expressing is jubilation and His unless we are like a child we cannot enter the Kingdom of God so of course God would do summersaults for us. As He takes our hand and threads His arm through our own, we will approach the Father together (I chose to believe the woman in the video is Mary, welcoming me to the Father’s house) and there, we will dance forever-ever-ever
Forever-ever-ever
Forever-ever-ever
Forever

February 6, 2013 by Christina King

Zombie Apocalypse; We are the walking wounded

The movie Warm Bodies depicts how love is what transforms the heart from the zombie back into a person instead of a creature.

Have you noticed there are a lot of zombie movies and television shows lately? It is as if Hollywood can see what so many of us are refusing to see. We are the walking wounded. We may not live in the biblical times of leprosy but we certainly live in a time of spiritual leprosy. We live in a fallen world and with fallen people. The new normal is not man and wife with three kids a dog, a house and a white picket fence. In fact, I am not even sure what the new normal is, but it is definitely not the “traditional” family. The movies we watch that are depicting human beings as zombies, are closer to the truth than most tv sitcoms.

We are all wounded in some way. Some of us are living with the effects of sexual abuse or physical abuse; some of us were abandoned by our parents. Still others were emotionally abused or psychologically traumatized by alcoholic or drug addicted parents or even others were ritualistically abused. Whatever the your childhood, chances are you either experienced abuse or neglect yourself or someone very close to you did. The effects of abuse wounds us and it is in through these wounds that we begin to form our understandings and beliefs about who we are, who God is and whether or not we believe in anyone or anything.

The wounds that are inflicted upon us are openings to evil or negativity. Call it what you will, it is through wounds that we are opened up and it is as these moments we can become bound up as prisoner to our pain, our fears and the vows that we make to ourselves.

If you or someone you know feels they are nailed to their cross instead of carrying it, then this book may be an answer to prayer. I have endured many of the abuses listed above. I have done what most do, I have gone on to wound others in the very way in which I am wounded. It is an irony that is not lost on me. However, it is helpful to recognize this because it helps us to discover the root wounds buried and hidden deep with us. When we see how we wound others, or we meet people that create a distress in us, usually it is a neon sign, pointing us to an area that we need healing in.

I am hoping that those of you that are seeking healing are inspired by my story but are also given the courage to be vulnerable in ways you have dared not to for so very long.

It is in being vulnerable that we are able to open ourselves to the Bridegroom. Jesus is the Bridegroom and knows all of the secrets of our story. He desires to make us whole and it is only through His grace that we can be transformed. I am here to say it is not only possible, but what you might believe to be your greatest flaw or ugliest secret may just be the birthplace of greatness.

Each of us were created by God and chosen out of all the “potential” people God could have created to come into existence. God knew what He was getting when He created me, He knew how I would fall, how I would fail Him and yet He did it anyway. I am no surprise to God. He chose me! When we created me, He chose to make me female because God has a plan for my life and being a woman is part of His plan. People do bad things. Our free will allows for that. It’s called God’s permissive will. He does not actively will it, but He promised after the flood that He would not interfere directly against our will. He sealed it with a promise for all to see with a rainbow.

God gives each of us gifts and charisms to enable us to more perfectly carry out our calling yet each of us are given a choice as to whether or not we chose to live out our calling. When we are abused, we begin to lose our ability to function as a “whole” person because our very personhood is wounded. These wounds go very deep and actually separate us from being able to see truth, to love and to be loved and may even destroy our lives in the process. Joy becomes an abstract concept and not a personal experience for the person with wounds.

The wounds created in us many times lead to sin. Many people wound in the very ways in which they were wounded as a means to protect themselves. Many people who abuse were abused themselves.

Here is the Good News! Christ came to restore us! He makes all things new! When our wounds are redeemed and washed clean in the blood of Christ we are made new. The very places you feel the most broken become your most beautiful gifts. He will shine out of your wounds in ways that will not only transform you, but it will transform the people around you. His light shines through our wounds revealing hope and healing on the other side.

Come and put your fingers into my wounds so that you too will believe. Open your hearts and minds to not only believe but to receive your own healing because today is the day of freedom!

I want to issue a warning for those of you that are easily disturbed by stories that include abuse. While I am not descriptive in every detail, I do share my story of abuse. Please feel free to skip over areas that may be to troubling to you to read. Make note of anything that you read that stirs up fear or anxiety in a journal so you can go back to it later in prayer. Often times, our reactions that are distressing are actually distress symptoms of something within our own hearts that God desires to heal in us. It is the distress symptom that acts as the treasure map so that we can find the hidden areas within us that once discovered and healed, will be our greatest treasure and pearl of great worth.

This book is about my journey of healing from the wounds of my childhood. It is because I did not want to pass on my wounds to my own children, and because I no longer desire to live out of my wounds, that I embarked on a journey of self-discovery. The reason I have decided to write this book is because of the freedom I have found on that journey. I have received more healing in the last year by this method than all of the 30 years of counseling combined.

I was three the year I was sexually abused for the first time. But I have been healed and created anew!

I cannot contain it for myself, I must share it because I see so many people in my travels that are broken, hurting, alone, lost and suffering under the weight of their own weaknesses and I desire to be Simon to them. In fact, once we gain freedom from our wounds, they become transformed and begin to radiate Christ to all those around us. Let me share my own journey with you and say a simple prayer of agreement now, “Come Holy Spirit, Come” so that perhaps you too will be made new.
If one person finds freedom and joy because of my story, then I will know I did the right thing in sharing my story.

January 29, 2013 by Christina King

How to Overturn Roe Vs. Wade

“I survived Roe Vs. Wade but Roe Vs. Wade will NOT survive me!” were the words proclaimed by a young 12 year old girl named Zoe at the Youth Rally held in the Hyatt Regency this year at this years March For Life gathering in Washington DC.

While at the March For Life in Washington DC this year I encountered many, many amazing pro-life speakers and apostolates. However there was one person in particular that moved me to tears and made my heart rise into my throat as she spoke. “I survived Roe Vs. Wade but Roe Vs. Wade will NOT survive me!” were the words proclaimed by a young 12-year-old girl named Zoe.

As I listened to her passionate cry for an end to abortion and listened to the cheers of the huge crowd united in purpose and passion echoing her, I asked myself this question. What can we do to ensure that Zoe’s children do not have to grow up in a country that does not protect unborn children? This is the answer I came up with.

We must Unite, Encourage and Unify In Our Purpose. The opposite of that is to Divide, Discourage and Distract, which is what the enemy does to pro-life ministries and apostolates.

We Must Unite

The enemy divides us using Selfishness. It causes persons to say “do it my way or no way” because my way is best. Lack of Fellowship says you go your way and I’ll go my way because I will not share any of my resources. This is why we still have not found a cure for breast cancer. The labs have patented their research; they do not share their work or their findings or their resources to accomplish their common goal. They are competitors and not co-workers. However, I would propose that it is in sharing that we would cover more ground and get faster results. Together we can be much more powerful than working alone.

Let us be Co-workers not competitors. When we disassociate ourselves because someone has hurt our feelings or slighted us, we allow ourselves to separate from the pack. It’s like a lion that separates a gazelle from the pack. It is easier to attack when it is on it’s own. We are divided and eventually we fall from disappointments, discouragements, distractions and division. We are all flawed, so it is not easy to work together but if we want to overturn Roe Vs Wade, we must find a way.

Blessed Mother Theresa said that when Christ draws us close to Himself, the thorns on His crown will pierce our forehead as He leans in to kiss our cheek. There is suffering in this life and I am guessing that in Pro-life ministry there is a lot of suffering. Why? There are two reasons. One, many people in the pro-life movement are part of the walking wounded. They know the pain and ache of abortion and that’s why they want to help bring an end to it. Secondly, because Christ suffers in seeing the murder of the innocent unborn and the lack of reverence for life by those that participate in it. If you give your life to be with Him in this battle, your going to suffer with Him. So what are we to do? Bear one another’s shortcomings patiently, love one another and He loves us and finally we should embrace the suffering that comes from this work, knowing that we are perfected in suffering.

We Must Encourage

It is in the encouraging of one another’s success and helping others that we become encouraged. It is in giving that we receive. Each ministry and apostolate plays a part, no matter how different, and that part is crucial in this battle. We are many parts but we are all one body. My leg cannot hear and toes cannot see but I need my legs and I need my toes. There are so many ministries involved in this pro-life movement and all of them are necessary and none are more important or better or worse than another.

Well, actually they are all the “best” in their area. Those fighting in the political arena are much better at it than a sidewalk counselor and a ministry training side walk counselor is better at that than a ministry that works with politicians to create pro-life legislature, both are important and necessary.
Wherever God has called you to fight this fight, be encouraged because it is the MOST IMPORTANT PLACE YOU CAN BE. We need you all right where you are at, but we need to unite so we can encourage one another and help one another in our fight.

We Must Unify In Purpose

Finally, we need to unify in purpose. What is the goal? It should be to save souls. Our goal is to bring Christ to others in and through our own life. Each and every person is a unique and unrepeatable person, created by God, with an immortal soul. Isn’t our goal to save souls? When we realize the goal is to save souls we remember to be charitable in every thought action and deed.

When we remember the goal is to save souls, we remember that Shawn Carney of 40 days for life sat in his kitchen with David Bereit and said “what can we do to bring down the number of abortions?” Through their exploration of that question they began an apostolate that is one of the most successful initiatives I have ever seen cross denominational lines as well as borders to countries, in closing down abortion clinics. Their focus on the goal of saving souls, allowed their hearts to love Abby Johnson right out of being a director of Planned Parenthood. Now, the fruit of their efforts has brought Abby into the pro-life movement and she is now focusing on the goal. She too is now working to bring more souls out of the abortion industry.

Does it matter if there are abortion clinics on every corner in America if no works in them and no one ever goes in? We must Unite, encourage and unify in our purpose and then we will become the Culture of Life, Love and Truth that accurately reflects the face of God.

Thank you Zoe, you reminded me that God raises up people every day to fight for Him and I am confident that Roe Vs. Wade will NOT survive your generation just so long as we all work together toward our common goal.

How about a Pro-life conference on the 40th Anniversary of Roe Vs Wade to showcase where we have been and what we have done so we can educate and train those that attend so we do not have 40 more years. I would love to see a pro-life conference out of Chicago (make it central) that features pro-life speakers helping others to unite in purpose and resources.

We have now created so many great ministries we need them all to come together and network. Have them donate the speakers fee’s so that everyone can come. Have it be a weekend conference so there are speakers Friday Night through Sunday. Some people can come just for Saturday or all of it, they can pick which parts are suited to their calling in this war.

The cost of tickets could cover the event. There could be a teen rally going on simultaneously. There can be several workshops to choose from How to start a blog, how to use media, how to raise money, how to get volunteers, how to do sidewalk counseling, how to support your legislatures, how to start a pro life high school group, how to write a book, how to make a movie, how to start a support group for healing etc.

We could have keynotes as well as workshops in different areas. Here are some examples of the kind of speakers it should have.

Father Pavone speaking on faith and politics
Avede King; Abortion as Genocide to African Americans and Hispanic Communities
Abby Johnson: How to Convert the Workers of Abortion Clinics
Shawn Carney/David Bereit: Coordinating 40 days for life in your area
Mnsgr Reilly, Helpers; Side Walk Counseling how love and prayer converted Bernard Nathanson
Pam Stenzel: Conceived by Rape sharing our personal stories to convert hearts
Rebecca Kiessling: Conceived by Rape
Jason Jones: Being Present in Hollywood
Spirit Juice Studios: How to Make Films that are pro-life
John Morales: Father Hearts
Fr Tadeusz Pacholczyk: Fetal Stem Cell Research and Medical Ethics
Bobby Schindler: Euthanasia
eduardo verastegui: Being a Pro-life actor
Dr. Janet Smith: Contraception Why Not?
Damon Owens: Theology of The Body understanding the meaning of fruitful love
Lila Rose: Uncovering Scandal through Investigating journalism using New Media
Vicky Thorn: Project Rachel offering healing after abortion
Jeannie Hanneman: Elizabeth Ministries Establishing a pro-life presence in Churches (rose program)
Christina King: Our Lady of Guadalupe as an Icon for Life, Love and New Evangelization
Will Goodman: Sidewalk Counseling
Fr. Chris Crotty: Fathers of Mercy Priest Spiritual Warfare abortion as a demonic sacrament
Fr. Grob: Spiritual Warfare
Zac King: Ex-Satanist and knowledgable about abortion as sacrifice

December 21, 2012 by Christina King

Become A Star of Bethlehem

The Star of Bethlehem was a light in the darkness that guided men to God. We too are to become like a star. We are to shine like a light in the darkness and lead humanity to God.

Missionary Intention: Christ, light for all humanity. That Christ may reveal himself to all humanity with the light that shines forth from Bethlehem and is reflected in the face of his Church.

What does this mean? It means that we are to become tabernacles, carrying within us the light of Christ. We are bring Christ to others through our hands and our feet. We are to radiate something so magnificent that they cannot help but to see His Truth, His Life and His love. It should be reflected from our own faces as if those who encounter us are experiencing the living God in our own presence. It is not because of anything we do or say, but rather it in opening ourselves to God, receiving Him deep inside of our hearts, that He Conceives Divine Life within us and when humanity is in it’s presence their own personhood, their own spirit within them will encounter Him with us.

The star of Bethlehem guided those seeking for truth to the one true God. We live in a world where everyday there are people seeking to be filled and the only thing that can make them whole is God. In fact, that desire, that ache, that hunger was infused into them at the moment of their conception so that they would always reach outside of them self to be completed by the one and only thing that will satisfy. That “thing” is God revealed in the trinity.

How do we become a star of Bethlehem? We first have to receive Him ourselves. We cannot give what we do not have for ourself first. St. Ignatius said it is not enough to become holy for ourselves, the goal is to be filled to overflowing so that the graces fill us and spill out over us onto all that we meet. We must first receive Him but more importantly we must be transformed by Him before we can effectively help anyone else. When we are transformed, it is He would then attracts souls, not us. We radiate Him, we cannot help ourselves because we have become permeated into every part and participle of our being. We become smaller and He becomes bigger because what is visible to others is our nature perfected by Grace. We then bring Hope, Love, Kindness, Peace, Mercy to those who are falling under the weight of their own weaknesses. The world desperately needs us to receive Him. Ask for a triple portion. He desires to give it to you.

When we receive Him, He begins to conceive within us a transformation of love. We then are to ask the Holy Spirit to release the operational gifts of the Holy Spirit given to us at baptism and confirmation. These are what will make the person in front of us KNOW that God is real and seeking them out PERSONALLY.

When we speaks prophetic words, or words of knowledge, exhortation, wisdom, tongues or their interpretation we emanate like a light, we radiate Him and that is what will draw humanity to Him. Like St. John in his mother’s womb, deep within their own hearts there will be a leaping for joy as well as a reverent bow within them as they realize they have encountered the power of the living God.

It is the same with healing gifts and charisms, discernment of spirits, miracles, giving, hospitality, mercy gifts and more. We are to co-operate in the plan of redemption. We are to enter into His plan by bringing Christ to the world as well as to guide others out of darkness.

I will be writing on these in turn over the next weeks and months to help you recognize them, embrace them and live them out with courage and fortitude because before we can Catechize we must Evangelize and these gifts are what open peoples eyes to see, their ears to hear their minds to believe and their hearts to become transformed.

Pray for the gift of receptivity. Pray for the Holy Spirit to permeate you and conceive Divine Life within you and then become a star of Bethlehem.

November 23, 2012 by Christina King

Online “Healing The Whole Person” Retreat!

“To speak of prayer for the healing of the soul is primarily to speak of prayer for releasing someone from psychological sickness and emotional pain due to hurts and deprivations of the past.

Prayer for healing of memories is in this category.

When someone has such a need he has a psychological barrier to freedom in Christ.” Leanne Payne

Though the human spirit is united with Christ, God’s Spirit cannot radiate through this problem area until the person gets help to understand and deal with it.” Leanne Payne

Are you ready to become more fully alive, more fully capable to love and more fully whole? Then inner healing is for you because it free’s us from compulsions to sin by helping us identify where we are wounded, how the enemy has oppressed you or your family?

If you answered yes, then listen to these 6 talks and take this powerful mini retreat to heal the wounds that bind you and prevent you from being able to fully be free in Jesus Christ to love your family, love your neighbors and love your enemies.

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October 30, 2012 by Christina King

St. Joseph Terror of Demons Prayer

St. Joseph Terror of Demons from St. Joseph Oratory in Montreal Canada

St. Joseph, Terror of Demons, pave the way for Mary and she paves the way for her son, Jesus Christ into the world, our families and our hearts. Help protect us from the Jezebel spirit and all demons operating in the feministic world that emasculate men.

Intercede on our behalf. You protected Mary, your most chaste spouse and in doing so, did what Adam did not do in the garden, you protected.

Therefore, St. Joseph, Terror of Demons, conquerer of this failure of Adam, bestow upon all fathers the grace of authentic masculinity and purity of heart so that they too can defend and protect the family.

Prepare the way for Mary in our homes as terror of demons, cause them to flee from us. St Joseph, help cast out all demons that are preventing our hearts from being receptive so that she, who IS receptivity, may pour out her graces into our hearts and thus enable us to more perfectly receive, retain and share the merciful love of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. St. Joseph, Terror of Demons, Pray For and Intercede For Us. Amen

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