For the Greater Glory of God
Dearest Father, Thank You that in Christ, You make me great, all for the greater glory of God. As written in the First Reading today.
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Today's Readings
First Reading: Deuteronomy 26: 16-19
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 119: 1-2, 4-5, 7-8
Verse Before the Gospel: Second Corinthians 6: 2b
Gospel: Matthew 5: 43-48
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 26:16-19
Deuteronomy 26:16-19 GNBDK
[16] “Today the LORD your God commands you to obey all his laws; so obey them faithfully with all your heart.
[17] Today you have acknowledged the LORD as your God; you have promised to obey him, to keep all his laws, and to do all that he commands.
[18] Today the LORD has accepted you as his own people, as he promised you; and he commands you to obey all his laws.
[19] He will make you greater than any other nation that he has created, and you will bring praise and honour to his name. You will be his own people, as he promised.”
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8
R. (1b) Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!
Blessed are they whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD. Blessed are they who observe his decrees, who seek him with all their heart.
R. Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!
You have commanded that your precepts be diligently kept. Oh, that I might be firm in the ways of keeping your statutes!
R. Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!
I will give you thanks with an upright heart, when I have learned your just ordinances. I will keep your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.
R. Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!
Gospel, Matthew 5:43-48
Matthew 5:43-48 GNBDK
[43] “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your friends, hate your enemies.’
[44] But now I tell you: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
[45] so that you may become the children of your Father in heaven. For he makes his sun to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil.
[46] Why should God reward you if you love only the people who love you? Even the tax collectors do that!
[47] And if you speak only to your friends, have you done anything out of the ordinary? Even the pagans do that!
[48] You must be perfect — just as your Father in heaven is perfect!
Dearest Father,
Thank You that in Christ, You make me great, all for the greater glory of God. As written in the First Reading today.
Deuteronomy 26:19 GNBDK
[19] He will make you greater than any other nation that he has created, and you will bring praise and honour to his name. You will be his own people, as he promised.”
In another version, it says here:
Deuteronomy 26:19 AMP
[19] and that He will set you high above all the nations which He has made, for praise, fame, and honor: and that you shall be a holy people [set apart and consecrated] to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.”
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.
All for the greater glory of God.
When I heard this before from St. Ignatius of Loyola, the motto of the Jesuits living the Ignatian Spirituality, this stuck with me.
All for the greater glory of God.
I want my life to be a display of the greater glory of God.
That when people look at me, they will see how the Lord has blessed me and they will give honor, glory, and praise to God.
That's why I dream of impossible things. Things that will need the power of God to achieve in my life. Things that will help me embody these words of Jesus:
Mark 10:27 GNBDK
[27] Jesus looked straight at them and answered, “This is impossible for human beings, but not for God; everything is possible for God.”
Here are some of them:
I am a successful and famous writer and creator, and my message goes out through all the world, my sayings to the ends of the earth. (Psalms 19:3-4)
I inspire and encourage 1 billion Generous, Raving, Engaged, Apostolic, and Tribal SpeakChrist Angels, members of my SpeakChrist RichLife Club to live the RichLife in Christ daily. (Hebrews 6:14)
I have £3 million in reserve generating for me monthly passive, recurring, interest income for my business, ministry, and personal needs giving me and my family total time and financial freedom, freeing our shoulders from the burden, allowing us to lay aside the laborers’ basket (Psalm 81:6), and I’m able to focus my full time and attention in prayer and ministry of the Word. (Acts 6:4)
Become a trillionaire, earning £100 billion per month in recurring, residual, passive profits from multiple passive income rivers (Deuteronomy 1:11), quickly, easily, and effortlessly doing what I love and enjoy, working whenever I want, wherever I want with my family and friends in a business empire and family dynasty which my own flesh and blood will succeed after me (2 Samuel 7:11-16).
Generate 99% tithe to fund God's assignments in the world while still living well off with 1%. Right now I'm only able to give 20% yet. (2 Corinthians 9:8-11)
Bless billions of people in my generation and for generations to come with my generational wealth like the Rockefellers.
Have my own family with flesh and blood descendants even now when I'm still single going on 50. With a billionaire rich, doting, and loving husband.
Live 120 years old, like Moses, with sight undimmed and vigor abounding. (Deuteronomy 34:7)
Healing from all diseases inside and out (Thoracic Aneurysm, abdominal mass, skin allergy), without surgery. (Psalm 103:3)
Impossible dreams, right?
I know. I made my dreams so impossible, so that only God, with whom everything is possible, can do it.
I know that when I manifest these dreams, I can proudly say, God did it all for me.
He gets all the glory and honor. I get the paycheck. As my online pastor Gary Kasee, always say.
Why do I dare dream all these impossible dreams?
Firstly, because I'm standing on His word and promise to me when I asked Him for His vision for my life when I was 21 years old in 1996.
He will make me a source and symbol of blessing.
I will work on helping rebuild His Temple, His people.
Zechariah 8:13 NLT
[13] Among the other nations, Judah and Israel became symbols of a cursed nation. But no longer! Now I will rescue you and make you both a symbol and a source of blessing. So don’t be afraid. Be strong, and get on with rebuilding the Temple!
Hearing that God will make me His source and symbol of blessing, I began claiming to be a millionaire. That’s what I thought.
This is because people really look up to rich people, especially millionaires. That way, I can be a symbol of God's blessing. And then I can have plenty to share to others, making me God's source of blessing.
Then I found out, there are billionaires, obviously higher than millionaires. So I started claiming that just so God will get greater glory.
And then in 2021, I found a video about Solomon becoming one of the 15 richest men in history with a net worth of 2.2 trillion in today's dollars. He's a trillionaire and it's all because he asked God for wisdom to serve Him and His people wisely in a way that will please Him. God gave him wisdom and then wealth, treasure, and fame besides.
I figured, if God can bless Solomon with wisdom and he became a trillionaire, He can make me one too.
And would that not give God so much glory? If He can make someone like me, a nobody, with no obvious skills, a trillionaire?
So that started my trillionaire dream. I started claiming £100 billion per month in recurring, residual, passive profits from multiple passive income rivers.
I got all the more encouraged when God gave me this promise to increase me a thousand-fold more than I am and bless me just as He promised me.
Deuteronomy 1:11 NASB2020
[11] May the Lord, the God of your fathers increase you a thousand times more than you are, and bless you, just as He has promised you!
By then, I had been claiming $100 million per month so I could earn $1 billion a year.
So I literally went from claiming this:
To this:
I saw this YouTube channel that investigates the trillionaire lifestyle of the rich. Like this:
And I found out that most are heirs, sons and daughters of kings, inheriting billions from their family fortune and increasing it with their own skills.
That encouraged me all the more.
Am I not a child and heir of God, Creator of the universe, King of Kings and Lord of Lords?
Galatians 4:7 GNBDK
[7] So then, you are no longer a slave but a son or daughter. And since that is what you are, God will give you all that he has for his heirs.
Who is God's heir? Jesus. And what does Jesus have for His inheritance?
Revelation 5:12 AMP
[12] saying in a loud voice, “Worthy and deserving is the Lamb that was sacrificed to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.”
Wow. That's our inheritance with Jesus that God gives for his heirs: power and riches, wisdom and strength, honor and glory, and blessing!
That is our rich life in Christ. Dives Vitae in Christo. In Latin. Nice ring to it, huh?
Yes, we can live the rich life in Christ.
All we have to do is remain as people consecrated to Him, a people called His own.
Deuteronomy 26:19 AMP
[19] and that He will set you high above all the nations which He has made, for praise, fame, and honor: and that you shall be a holy people [set apart and consecrated] to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.”
God will show Himself mighty and powerful in You as His own child and heir, raising you up on high so He can be glorified in you.
How am I sure of this? Because He has done wonderful, impossible things in me.
I got into one of the top 3 medical centers in our city, as a nurse, without any interview after I was forced to resign from my first nursing job because I committed 3 medication errors. Just when I thought it’s impossible for me to work as a nurse again. Isn’t that amazing?
I got my own condo in the city at a price I can afford when I thought it’s impossible for me to afford my own place with just 15k a month salary as a nurse.
I won my condo back from foreclosure, set to be auctioned 4 days after we got the foreclosure notice, miraculously, when everyone was saying it was impossible.
I got 2 online jobs with very flexible time which allowed me to earn 4x more from 15k to 60-80k a month, and work from home with my family back in my home city which I thought was impossible back then.
God turned impossible to amazing!
God has done so many wonderful things for me, things which I can proudly say, God did it all for me.
Deuteronomy 26:19 GNBDK
[19] He will make you greater than any other nation that he has created, and you will bring praise and honour to his name. You will be his own people, as he promised.”
He'll do the same for you and so much more.
So dream as high as God wants to bring you. The greatest that you can dream. Your GodX vision. Because you have a Great God, the Great I Am!
Pursue that GodX vision for your life. But remain in Him as His child and heir (your Divine Identification), trusting Him completely and standing on His word (your Rock Foundation), while doing what He wants you to do now and today. (24-hour activation)
If you want to be great and do great things for the greater glory of God, live the RichLife in Christ. Vivo dives vitae in Christo. This is my Tatatian Spirituality, the spiritual path I follow. Join me in our SpeakChrist RichLife Club. We'll do it together. St. Katharine Drexel, pray for us.
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Do you want to be great?
Bring glory and honor to God's Name.
Live your GodX vision.
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Dream big.
For the greater glory of God.
Deuteronomy 26:19 GNBDK
[19] He will make you greater than any other nation that He has created, and you will bring praise and honour to his name. You will be his own people, as he promised.”
Now Your Turn
(Questions to ask yourself when scripture journaling)
What verses spoke to me strongly and powerfully from the scripture readings?
What is God saying to me in these verse or verses?
What does God want me to do today?
Journal prompts of the day
Are you dreaming as great and high as God can make you?
What are the dreams you hold in your heart?
Are you dreaming and doing all for the greater glory of God?
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