Tatatian RichLife Spirituality
Dearest Father, thank You that what may be impossible for human beings is possible for You. Like sharing the Tatatian RichLife Spirituality as a worldwide movement. As written in the Gospel today.
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Today's Readings
First Reading: Sirach 17: 20-24
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 32: 1-2, 5, 6, 7
Alleluia: Second Corinthians 8: 9
Gospel: Mark 10: 17-27
Reading 1, Sirach 17:19-27
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 17:19-20, 22-25, 27 GNBDK
[19] The Lord is always watching what people do; everything they do is as clear as day to him.
[20] None of their sins are hidden from him; he is aware of them all.
[22] When we give to the poor, the Lord considers it as precious as a valuable ring. Human kindness is as precious to him as life itself.
[23] Later he will judge the wicked and punish them; they will get what they deserve.
[24] But the Lord will allow those who repent to return to him. He always gives encouragement to those who are losing hope.
[25] Come to the Lord, and leave your sin behind. Pray sincerely that he will help you to live a better life.
[27] Those who are alive can give thanks to the Lord, but can anyone in the world of the dead sing praise to the Most High?
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7
R. (11a) Let the just exult and rejoice in the Lord.
Blessed is he whose fault is taken away, whose sin is covered.
Blessed the man to whom the LORD imputes not guilt, in whose spirit there is no guile.
R. Let the just exult and rejoice in the Lord.
Then I acknowledged my sin to you, my guilt I covered not.
I said, "I confess my faults to the LORD," and you took away the guilt of my sin.
R. Let the just exult and rejoice in the Lord.
For this shall every faithful man pray to you in time of stress. Though deep waters overflow, they shall not reach him.
R. Let the just exult and rejoice in the Lord.
You are my shelter; from distress you will preserve me; with glad cries of freedom you will ring me round.
R. Let the just exult and rejoice in the Lord.
Alleluia
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Jesus Christ became poor although he was rich,
so that by his poverty you might become rich.R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel, Mark 10:17-27
Mark 10:17-27 GNBDK
[17] As Jesus was starting on his way again, a man ran up, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to receive eternal life?”
[18] “Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good except God alone.
[19] You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not accuse anyone falsely; do not cheat; respect your father and your mother.’ ”
[20] “Teacher,” the man said, “ever since I was young, I have obeyed all these commandments.”
[21] Jesus looked straight at him with love and said, “You need only one thing. Go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me.”
[22] When the man heard this, gloom spread over his face, and he went away sad, because he was very rich.
[23] Jesus looked round at his disciples and said to them, “How hard it will be for rich people to enter the Kingdom of God!”
[24] The disciples were shocked at these words, but Jesus went on to say, “My children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God!
[25] It is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.”
[26] At this the disciples were completely amazed and asked one another, “Who, then, can be saved?”
[27] Jesus looked straight at them and answered, “This is impossible for human beings, but not for God; everything is possible for God.”
Dearest Father,
Thank You that what may be impossible for human beings is possible for You. Like sharing the Tatatian RichLife Spirituality as a worldwide movement. As written in the Gospel today.
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.”
What may be impossible for us men is possible for You, Father.
Today, I looked at the readings online and I saw the saint for today:
Ordinary Weekday/ Katharine Drexel, Virgin, Religious Founder
I researched how she became a founder. St. Katharine Drexel is an American who is an heiress, receiving the equivalent of $35k per day (that's 1 million per month) today from her father's Trust Fund set up for her and her sisters. So she’s a trust fund babay but she used her inheritance to fund the projects of the religious organization she founded to serve the Indians, Native Americans, and colored people. She actually is the patron saint of racial justice and philanthropists.
Suddenly, I feel in my heart a desire to become a religious founder too!
Not of a religious order like this or like St. Francis of Assisi and the Franciscans or St. Teresa of Calcutta and the Daughters of Charity she founded, where people come to live together and share in one particular way of life.
I want to found a movement, the SpeakChrist Movement, where at least 1 billion people, paying members of the SpeakChrist RichLife Club, live the RichLife in Christ way of life from wherever they are in the world, no matter their state in life, becoming God's sources and symbols of blessing, living extremely blessed and blessing others, so that by their very lives people around them become inspired and encouraged too to live the RichLife in Christ.
With my earnings from the RichLife Club membership and every other earnings I receive online, I will give, like St. Katharine Drexel, which I'm now making the patron Saint of my RichLife Club, 99% in tithes and love offerings to fund God's assignments in the world, whatever that may be as He inspires. Like, build a state-of-the-art Medical Facility for my home city which is really lacking a good hospital.
Right now I'm giving 20% of my personal income, 10% to my local church and 10% to one international ministry, Gary Kasee Ministries. I'm claiming I can give 99% and still live well off with 1% in God's time. In Jesus’ Name!
We will be known as SpeakChrist Angels, speaking Christ's words over our world, inspiring and encouraging others around us with the good news that we are already rich in Christ and that we don't have to be poor again in money, relationships, purpose, life, and spirit.
Jesus came so that by His poverty, He can make us rich. Just as it is written in the Gospel Antiphon today:
2 Corinthians 8:9 GNBDK
[9] You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; rich as he was, he made himself poor for your sake, in order to make you rich by means of his poverty.
We are already rich in Christ. Sons and daughters of the King of kings and Lord of lords. Heirs with Him in the Kingdom of God. In Him, we also receive power and riches, wisdom and strength, honor and glory, and blessing! (Revelations 5:12)
Imagine when people realize that and live in that truth everyday!
Nothing will be impossible for them! Because nothing is impossible with the God to whom they belong.
And what will the people around them say then? Wow, you are a people the Lord has blessed! Can you teach me how to live like that?
That has always been my dream, ever since God gave me His vision for my life, that He will save me and make me both a symbol and a source of blessing!
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!
I want to be God's source and symbol of blessing!
I want that when people look at me they will say, wow, is that how God blesses a person? I want to be blessed too!
That's how I started to dream to become a millionaire, then a billionaire, then in 2021, a trillionaire!
In this world, wealth speaks for itself. People honor those who are wealthy.
I want my wealth to speak of the Glory of God who made me wealthy!
But I found out, by experience, God can make me a source and symbol of His blessing even now when I still don't have millions.
My hospital job in one of the top 3 hospitals in the city and how I got in without any interview after being forced to resign from my first hospital job because of 3 medication errors was a symbol of God's blessing.
My condo in the middle of the city that God gave me even though I was just earning 15k a month then, just perfect for me who lived alone but still has enough space for when my family visits, was a symbol of God's blessing.
And now that I got it back miraculously from foreclosure, it became even more of a symbol of God's blessing.
My 2 online jobs, allowing me to become a source of financial blessing to my extended family where I subcontract to my 2 sisters and niece, is a symbol of God's blessing.
And recently the Lord showed me a fulfillment of a promise from Him - supernatural debt cancellation - a symbol of His blessing!
I learned to study deeply how to operate in God's Kingdom when I got deep in debts in 2021 and I was desperate for a solution.
God led me to my online pastor Gary Kasee, with whose ministry I've now become a partner, giving to his ministry 10% of my weekly income.
He showed me through Pastor Gary that the Kingdom of God is my answer to all my problems - freedom from overwhelming debts, abundance from lack, healing from diseases (I suspect I might have Thoracic aneurysm and abdominal mass).
From his teachings, God gave me a revelation that as a child of God, I'm already rich in Christ, in every area of my life - financial, professional, relational, physical, spiritual. And that as an heir of God, I have the same authority in Christ to govern my world: I reign with Him, I rule by decreeing His word, I reclaim territories for Him while resting in His care as His child.
These are the main lessons of my book, Give Thanks and Grow Rich.
I used these truths to reclaim back my condo from being foreclosed.
One of the truths I declare from God's word is supernatural debt cancellation.
I think, including my condo mortgage, I have PHP 1.5 million debt that I’m claiming to be paid in full so I can live debt-free and start giving more to God's work instead of to debt payments.
In 2022, God gave me this promise about supernatural debt cancellation that I have been decreeing over my debts since then:
Colossians 2:14 GNBDK
[14] He cancelled the unfavourable record of our debts with its binding rules and did away with it completely by nailing it to the cross.
I've memorized it and murmured it day and night especially when I remember my debts.
Thank You, Father, You’ve cancelled the unfavorable record of my debts with it's binding rules that work against me and doing away with it completely by nailing it to the cross. In Jesus’ Name! Amen!
One of my creditors’ collection officers has been coming to our home to collect but every time he comes, it is always when I don't have any money left to pay.
It's just 4k but I'm still not able to pay it. It bugged me but still, I decreed supernatural cancellation over it.
Last February 28, he came again and offered me a 50% deal, that if I pay him 2k, he will consider the debt written off.
I did and just like that, one of my debts had been paid off miraculously!
My mama and sister couldn't believe it! Wow, 2k debt written off just like that! I almost couldn't believe it until I got this text message from the company!
See? That's the RichLife we have in Christ.
Why do we chase after money when we have Christ in us, the hope of glory, the very essence and source of abundance?
Colossians 1:27 TPT
[27] Living within you is the Christ who floods you with the expectation of glory! This mystery of Christ, embedded within us, becomes a heavenly treasure chest of hope filled with the riches of glory for his people, and God wants everyone to know it!
Christ is the heavenly treasure chest of hope filled with the riches of glory for us, His people, where God holds all the riches, treasures, and whatever else we need as we live in Him in the Kingdom of God, here and now on earth and for eternity too!
Yesterday, in a live service at his Faith Life Now church, Pastor Gary reminded us not to chase after money because God promised never to forsake us as He promised in Hebrews.
Hebrews 13:5-6 GNBDK
[5] Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, “I will never leave you; I will never abandon you.” [6] Let us be bold, then, and say: “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?”
He said, if you have a choice between $2 billion and the promises of God, what would you choose?
I would choose the promises of God because can $2 billion give me a long life in this world and eternal life after?
Yes, $2 billion can make me rich now, but can it make me rich forever?
I think that's the essence of my RichLife in Christ spirituality, my RichLife way of life.
Yes, it's a spirituality. A way of life. A spiritual path.
The word spirituality comes from the Latin “spiritus” which literally means “breath”, signifying Life. The most important thing we have is this gift of Life.
True Spirituality is the life that comes, not from our own efforts, but walking in step with the Holy Spirit, God's breath of life.
I read this of an example of Spirituality, the Theresian Spirituality.
“Theresian Spirituality" refers to the spiritual path based on the teachings of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, particularly her concept of the "Little Way," which emphasizes finding God in the ordinary details of daily life through acts of love and self-sacrifice, accepting circumstances with trust and offering everything to God as a simple act of love; it is often characterized by a focus on living with active faithfulness and finding joy in small acts of kindness.
There's also the Franciscan Spirituality from St. Francis of Assisi, Ignatian Spirituality from St. Ignatius of Loyola, and many more.
Spirituality is a spiritual path that connects our life with a higher purpose and meaning.
Well, I figured, why not have a spirituality of my own?
Here goes.
Tatatian Spirituality is the spiritual path based on the teachings of Tata Velasquez (that's me 😆) particularly her concept of “The RichLife in Christ” which emphasizes living the rich and satisfying life that Jesus came to give us according to John, becoming God's sources and symbols of blessing, extremely blessed and blessing others.
John 10:10 TPT
[10] A thief has only one thing in mind—he wants to steal, slaughter, and destroy. But I have come to give you everything in abundance, more than you expect —life in its fullness until you overflow!
I just realized that earlier at Mass hearing the priest talk about the Gospel today where the young man couldn't give up his wealth and instead gave up following Jesus.
What a sad thing to do! He asked Jesus what he must do to get eternal life, Jesus told him the one thing he should do, give up his wealth to the poor and come follow Him, and he said, no?
I remember St. Francis, also a young man in Assisi, who was a rich heir of a merchant. When he decided to follow Jesus, his father threatened him with being cut off from his inheritance. St. Francis humbly took off all his clothes, gave them back to his father and said he wanted nothing of his riches, then lived what is now known as the Franciscan Spirituality - a life of poverty totally surrendered to God, His will and His provision.
St. Francis totally surrendered his life to God, even his will in decision-making.
One day, he and his friends, those who decided to follow him and live his way of life, were walking and came to a cross-road, when his friends asked him where they were to go, he covered the eyes of one of his friends, I think it was St. Bernard, and instructed him to turn around and at what direction he'd stop, that's were they'd go. They did and witnessed for God in that town they came upon on that road, turning many people into believers of God.
I realized earlier that I, too, have a way of life I want to share, a spiritual path of navigating this world. It's Living the RichLife in Christ, the RichLife Spiritually.
It is living out daily the 4 pillars of the RichLife Playbook, our Divine Identification as children and heirs of God, pursuing His GodX vision for each of our lives, while deciding and decreeing a thing with His words as our Rock Foundation that we execute daily in a 24-hour activation window.
Living that way, our daily life becomes our RichLife Spirituality where we live richly the perfect life to the full that Jesus came to give us - everything in abundance, more than we expect, until we overflow.
That's the RichLife that we have in Christ.
I realized that again when I was listening to Neville Goddard’s teaching on Manifesting Multiple Things at Once. He says there we already have it all, everything we ever dream of - abundance, true love, success, good heath. We don't have to choose which one to receive first. We have everything.
And yes we do. In Christ. We already have the RichLife in Him that He came to give us.
So is this impossible?
Sharing this way of life, this spirituality to a billion people, creating a SpeakChrist Movement of SpeakChrist Angels, members of the SpeakChrist RichLife Club, living this RichLife daily, becoming God's sources and symbols of blessing, extremely blessed and blessing others, inspiring and encouraging others around them too.
Is it impossible, Father, to establish such a movement, impacting 1 billion people with my Tatatian RichLife Spirituality?
Father, could you make me a religious founder of this great worldwide movement? The SpeakChrist movement where 1 billion SpeakChrist Angels live to inspire and encourage in Christ everyone around them with the Tatatian RichLife Spirituality! In Jesus’ name!
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.”
So be it. Amen and Amen!
If you want to be a part of the SpeakChrist Movement and live the RichLife in Christ daily, join me in our SpeakChrist RichLife Club in my practice of the Tatatian RichLife Spirituality. We'll do it together. St. Katharine Drexel, pray for us.
Live the RichLife in Christ today
Your impossible dreams are not impossible at all.
Not with God.
Dream, then, with God.
All things are possible with God.
Is anything too hard for the Lord to do?
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.”
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:
What are my impossible dreams?
Do I realize I am the child and heir of God, with whom everything is possible?
Is anything too hard for the Lord to do?
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