“I HOPE HE’S WILLING” – REMEMBERING DOLORES

This morning I asked Billy if the lengthy video documentary he was working on would be ready to post today. He said… God willing, it would. I responded by saying… I hope He’s willing! We both knew why I said that. I was fondly remembering Delores, a woman we met when my father, Giuseppe, was in the nursing home. It was the first time that I heard anyone say that, and it was a phrase we always associated with Delores. I loved it!

One day, as we were conversing with someone in the nursing home lounge, Delores walked in. In true New York style, she joined the conversation as if we all knew each other. I liked her immediately, and to my delight learned that she was a Christian! Family members of the residents often bonded, because we all had loved ones living at the nursing home. Delores’ beloved husband, Hilton, was a resident there, and she was constantly by his side. I remember one day sharing the lyrics of God on the Mountain with her, a song we were learning for the Sunday services…

“And the God of the good times
Is still God in the bad times
The God of the day
Is still God in the night”

Billy and I often wonder about the many people we met at the nursing home all those years ago. We did services there on many a Sunday and met some wonderful people. So, this morning when Delores came to mind I wondered if she was still alive. When I googled her name, I found her obituary. Delores went home to be with the Lord just a few weeks ago, on September 18, 2022. Although we’ve lost touch over the years, and I’m feeling sad learning of her recent death, I know we’ll see Delores again in glory!

Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

Photos of Delores, her husband Hilton, and my dad Giuseppe

I WENT FISHING THIS MORNING!

Matthew 4:19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

I left the comment below at a YouTube site that promotes the Marian apparitions at Medjugorje. My husband and I both came out of that deception. Someone clearly witnessed to me, telling me about the error of praying to Mary. I then witnessed to my husband. I wrote the following comment hoping there was someone whose heart was open to the truth.

“In October 1981 the apparition masquerading as Mary said that “Members of all faith are equal before God.” Scripture clearly tells us JESUS is the only way to heaven. You can’t believe both Scripture and what the apparition says because they contradict each other. Scripture tells us…

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 

Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. 

1 John 2:23  Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. 

There are many other contradictions of Scripture coming forth from this apparition. I was a follower of the Medjugorje apparitions until I started reading the Bible. Praying to Mary is idolatry. I used to do that but stopped because Scripture tells us… 

1 Corinthians 6:9  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind.

Mary is not divine nor does she possess the attributes of God. She is not omnipotent, omniscient, nor omnipresent. She cannot possibly hear the prayers of so many in the world. She was a humble servant of the Lord who also needed a Savior…

Luke 1:46 -47 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

I pray the Lord open eyes to the truth of the Scriptures. I say these things in love ♥️ as one who has been set free by my Lord and Savior JESUS CHRIST.

Luke 8:8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.”

TESTIFY

There will be suffering and persecution when we witness and the Gospel is rejected, but there will also be great blessings because we are doing the Lord’s will and souls will be saved.

TESTIFY

Will I testify for Jesus,

And proudly bear His name?

Will I tell the world about Him,

Or will I be ashamed?

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Will I put up with the mocking,

Bear for His Word disdain?

Will I keep proclaiming Jesus,

Though it may cause me pain?

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Is the Lord my pearl so precious,

The treasure that I’ve found,

So valued and so wonderful,

I must tell those around?

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Or will I shun to tell the truth,

Because it may offend,

And in my silence compromise,

My knee to this world bend.

Cathy White 2008 ©

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

TESTIMONIES

BIBLE STUDY [8] – COME SEE A MAN WHO TOLD ME EVERYTHING THAT I EVER DID

WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT THAT PIECE OF WOOD? I AM NOT THERE

I remember those very first days when the Lord began drawing me out of Roman Catholicism. I was very involved with the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, and my husband and I were following a priest from church to church where healing Masses were being held. One day the priest said to go to an empty Church, and seek God. So off I went one afternoon, to a local parish, Our Lady of Lourdes. The church was dark and it was empty, but the doors were open and I went in. I knelt down at the altar and stared at the crucifix. I stared and stared until my knees hurt, so I sat down in one of the pews where I continued to stare some more. I don’t remember the timeline so well, if I had begun to read the Bible yet at that point. I don’t think so, but I may have. As I sat there staring I heard in my spirit… “Why are you looking at that piece of wood? I’m not there.” It was the Lord. I think the Scripture below best reflects the meaning of those words…

Luke 24:5-6 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,

At the same time I felt the Lord telling me to look at the beautiful flowers at the altar if I wanted to see him. Before you stop reading let me explain. Even in my ignorance I knew that the Lord wasn’t saying that He was in the flowers, or that I should worship the flowers. I think the Scripture below best reflects the meaning…

Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

On another day my husband and I went to Mass at the same church. There was a bigger than life mosaic of Mary on one of the walls. We both thought, why this huge mosaic of Mary. It seemed so wrong. We were thinking, what about Jesus. The mosaic seemed to portray Mary as more important than Jesus, and at that point we were beginning to see that there was something very wrong with that.

You have to remember that all of this was at the very beginning of some sight of truth to two very spiritually blind people. Little by little the Lord led us out of Roman Catholicism, the cult of all cults, and we will be forever grateful.

You can read my full testimony here, beginning with part one.