Faith, “In Hope He Believed Against Hope” (Romans 4:18)

It was not what Abraham did that made him righteous in the sight of God, but that he believed in God’s Words spoken to him. When the fire of the Holy Spirit convicts us with the truth of all the Words God has spoken to LC, then our faith and hope become extraordinary. This is the faith needed in the world today to live in the power of God!

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Faith, “In Hope He Believed Against Hope” (Romans 4:18)

10/23/25

St. Paul, in his letter to the Romans, highlights Abraham’s faith:

“Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.” Now to one who works, wages are not reckoned as a gift but as something due. (Romans 4:3-4)

It was not what Abraham did that made him righteous in the sight of God, but that he believed in God’s Words spoken to him. In hope he believed against hope (4:18). Even though Abraham was 100 years old and Sarah 90, he believed that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars in the sky. He believed that he would become the father of many nations (Genesis 15:5-6). Therefore, it was not what he did that made him righteous, but his extraordinary faith, for he did not doubt God’s Word, even though it was humanly impossible.

No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, being fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. Therefore his faith “was reckoned to him as righteousness.” (Rom. 4:20-22).

Thursday, as Maria and I were driving from Georgia to Miami, we had the blessing of speaking with Jack. Jack and Ammie are living this time of trial and great suffering of Jack's brain cancer with extraordinary faith and hope. We received Jack’s sorrows as he cried tears of a husband and father who desires to provide and help his family, tears of concern for their future. And at that moment, just as Aaron and Hur held up Moses' hands in prayer, Maria and I gave Jack the support he needed to remain in Love crucified, suffering as one heart with Him. The Israelites defeated Amalek through Moses' intercession, with his arms extended (Exodus 17:8-13). We reminded Jack of our Lord's words to us concerning the power of his tears, lived as one with Christ, and Mary's, as a source of God's wellspring of living grace being poured upon his family. Jack and Ammie, like Abraham, must be unwavering in their trust in the promises God has made to us. Believe, My daughter/son, believe!

Your lives, your bodies, your blood, your tears united in Me produce a living torrent of grace gushing forth from My Pierced Heart. 8/30/12

Your tears and sorrows of heart possess the power of God to bless the world. 7/5/12

God is permitting Jack not to be able to do much. He can't help Ammie with the children, nor with much of the daily work required in the home. He is struggling to remember things and to communicate. God’s will for him now is to be, to rest in the palm of God’s hands, believing without a doubt that He is present and working at this moment in Jack and Ammie’s family, providing all the graces they need.  Their faith and hope are being perfected in this trial of life. They must remain in the passenger seat, allowing Christ to be the driver on this journey, believing without a doubt in God's infinite love and presence, and that this journey, regardless of how painful and difficult it may be, is taking them all to heaven as God's saints of these end times.

It is through faith and hope in each moment of our lives, whatever it is we are living, believing that God loves us, is present in the now, working for our greater good, and driving us into our heavenly home, paradise, to live for all eternity in holy bliss, that we experience abandonment in God. Peace and joy are the fruit of this extraordinary faith, for as Macu reminded me, peace is Christ, and therefore, when we live through Him, with Him, and in Him in every moment, we experience joy.

Jesus said to us on July 9^th, 2012:

Trust, for there isn't a suffering I permit that will not bring you into the union of love I desire. Trust in the power of suffering all as ONE with Me. It is this power that will set the world on fire with My Spirit.

Have we come to believe in these Words spoken to us by Christ? When suffering and trials knock at our door, do we embrace them as a gift from God, fully convinced of God's love for us?

Faith, hope, and love are theological virtues, and therefore, gifts to us from God. Consequently, we must pray daily with great supplication, asking God to perfect and expand our faith, hope, and love. Jesus revealed to us how we grow in faith when He spoke these words to us in 2009:

Each time you respond in trust to Me, you open wider the doors of your heart, thus allowing Me, My power, and grace to fill you more and more. 3/9/09

We must choose at each moment of our daily lives to trust and cast out our fears, anxieties, and doubts. This requires us to persevere struggling with ourselves, processing our emotions, crucifying our desires and expectations continuously, and choosing to believe and hope against all hope. This is the beauty of what Jack was sharing with Maria and me.

As the Spirit was placing this reflection on faith in my heart, He gave me an impactful experience this weekend that showed me how easily my faith and hope can be weakened. I was confronted with the brokenness of people I know and how they could hurt those I love deeply. These different situations brought forth from the depths of my heart anger that felt like a tidal wave consuming me. As I reacted to my anger, I immediately focused on the lack of change and growth in the hearts of these individuals, and I felt a deep sense of hopelessness. I was able to go to confession to repent and receive Jesus's outpouring of mercy.

The story of Moses interceding for Joshua and the Israelite army against Amalek is very significant to who I am, to my identity and mission as a Mother of the Cross. Moses would grow tired from keeping his arms extended in prayer, and then the Amalek army would gain control of the battle. Therefore, Aaron, on one side of Moses, held up his hand, and Hur, on the other side, held up the other hand. In this way, the Israelites triumphed in the battle (Ex 17:8-13). Moses prefigured Jesus, crucified —the unblemished Victim-Intercessor. It is through Jesus's sacrifice of love, present continuously, that the great battle today between the forces of good and evil is being won. I am Christ's victim soul, one with the Victim. I must, like Moses, remain continuously participating in Jesus's agony of Heart through my union of sorrows with Him as the perfect prayer God asks of me. This weekend, as my eyes turned to my anger and the weaknesses of others, my arms came down. I lost focus of being one with Love crucified, and therefore, my faith and hope diminished. Yet, God in his infinite goodness provided for Maria to come on my one side to help raise my arm, and Fr. Ron, on the other side. These two souls helped unite me to Love crucified to live who I am, and thus my faith and hope were strengthened. My faith can never be placed on the progress of others, but anchored ONLY in who God is, Love. It is not within my power to change anyone or any situation. The only thing the Lord has asked of me is to remain faithful to suffering all with Him in his perfect sacrifice of love, and to believe that through His sacrifice, the triumph of love will be fulfilled on earth as it is in heaven. If my faith is firm, then I will be firm in my identity and mission (Is 7:9).

Jesus asked us, “Do you think my death and resurrection were useless and powerless?” The answer to this one question is the foundation of our faith and hope. If I truly believe that God so loved the world that He sent us His only begotten Son so that I could have eternal life, and that Jesus voluntarily sacrificed His life to redeem me and restore me as Abbas’s daughter, and that the power of His sacrifice is present and active through the Eucharist at every moment of my life, then my faith and hope is anchored in God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit whose love and mercy are active and present at every moment of my life.

To live in faith and hope is to live in the silence of being in God, one with God. What makes each of us God's saints of these end times are not mighty works, great teachings, nor powerful preaching, but becoming, being one with the Victim, believing with all our hearts, minds, and strength that the union in God's sorrows is the power of God to transform the Church and world. To believe that this hidden life lived in our hearts with God, unseen or known by others, is the most tremendous power of God to usher in His Kingdom on earth. To believe that our tears, as one with Christ’s in the tabernacles of the world, are touching the lives of countless souls beyond time and space. To believe that to be one with the Crucified is to be one with perfect Love, which is God's power that has defeated Satan and penetrated all darkness, and as we become one with the Light, we become the triumph of the Cross in our families and world.

I am making all things new. Do you think that My death and resurrection were useless and powerless? No, My little one, I am making all things new, yet few believe, they have not come to know Me, My Father, and the power of the Holy Spirit. They live in the deception of Satan’s lies and darkness. Their gods have become money, wealth, power, self, but the truth is that I am alive in the world, present with all My power and glory, and at the designated time, chosen by our Father, I, united to My faithful remnant of victim souls, will cease the dragon. Many will be lost because their pride kept them from believing in Me, the God of heaven and earth. Persevere in the mission I have entrusted to you.

Tell My family (LC) to pray for greater faith to believe in the words I have spoken (I understood His messages to us). If My words remain in your hearts, you will persevere through the many trials predestined for you to suffer for the glory of God and the salvation of countless souls. I desire to see each of you rejoicing ALWAYS, in good times and in bad, because you have come to believe that I am with you. You have come to taste the goodness of the Lord. Joy is the fruit of trust, and therefore, My followers live in praise of God. My witnesses will be known in the world through the light of praise and joy that radiates from your lives. My little ones, believe that amid this darkness, I am making all things new through you, with you, and in you. Proclaim what I have done in you (plural) through The Simple Path I have been leading you in. Go forth and be My disciples of Light, for the Light has already conquered the darkness.  3/14/19

Jesus is asking us in this message to pray for greater faith to believe in the Words He speaks to us.

Are we praying daily for the grace to believe in all that God has said to us? Are we praying to have His Words branded in our hearts so that we can persevere with extraordinary faith and hope through all the trials predestined by God for us to suffer? Do we believe that our daily sufferings suffered as one with Christ are saving countless souls from hell, and therefore, we are becoming people of praise and joy? God has promised us that He is making all things new amid the consuming darkness and chaos of our world, like Abraham, do we live “convinced that God is able to do what He has promised”?

The Heart of God desires profoundly for His people to be righteous. He desires for all of us to have the faith of Abraham. God is blessed and consoled by our faith in Him, and He suffers deeply from our lack of faith and hope in Him. At the end of the parable of the widow and the unrighteous judge, Jesus asks a question that has the power to draw us into His Sacred Heart to experience His deep sorrow and the thirst of His Heart. He asks:

When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? (Lk 18:8)

Allow this one question from the Heart of Jesus to penetrate your heart. When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? Jesus laments the lack of faith of God’s people. He continues to agonize over the lack of faith in our world today and thirsts for our righteousness. In fact, Jesus answered this question in the Scriptures in a message given to us on October 15^th, 2021:

The words of Scripture are being fulfilled, “and when I return will I find any faith left?” (Lk 18:8) Yes, I will, My little one, I will find My faithful remnant. They will be very few, but they will radiate the light of God, for they have been purified in My precious Blood and endured the time of the great persecution.

God is speaking to us, His little mustard seed, telling us of what is to come, preparing us and forming us as His saints of these end times and desiring for us to believe in His Words with all our hearts, minds, soul and strength and to witness to the world the love of God through our extraordinary faith, hope, and love. Jesus said to us on June 23^rd, 2021, that our faith is needed to live in the power of God.

I desire for you to know the sorrows of your Beloved. The sorrows of the heart are only revealed to the person closest to us, the one who loves us and that we can trust ourselves to. Therefore, it is to you that I reveal the depths of My Heart. My sorrows overflow from My Heart as an overflowing stream. My Heart cries for a lost humanity. I seek hearts that know Me and love Me, but I find very few. The deception of Satan has darkened the human heart and mind. My little one, trust in My goodness, trust in My mercy, trust that God is working to pierce the darkness of Satan consuming the minds and hearts of humanity. You, my little one, and the few following My Simple Path to Union With God are God’s force to defeat Satan and pierce the darkness of his destruction in souls. Your faith is needed to live in the power of God. Encourage the few following My path to ponder in prayer My Words. They will set you free; they will reveal My Way, which will set you free to be My light in this darkness. Remain in My peace and joy because you have come to believe in My Words spoken to you. Follow the Simple Way I have laid out for you for these dark times, and you will not go astray. Believe, my little one, believe.

When the fire of the Holy Spirit consumes us and convicts us with the truth of all the Words God has spoken to us, then our faith and hope become extraordinary. We dare to be the Mothers and Missionaries of the Cross He has created us to be, radiating the light of God on earth, even to the point of martyrdom. This is the faith needed in the Church and the world today to live in the power of God! We must become the few who know the Heart of our Beloved and love Him as we choose to remain sharing in His sorrows.