Generosity: The Greatest Spiritual Gift

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7 жыл бұрын

In Matthew 17:20, Jesus tells us if we have faith as small as a mustard seed we could move mountains. The problem is most of us don’t put our faith to use. In this video, Fr. Mike invites us to make use of the gifts God has already given us. In doing so, we may become so overjoyed by our natural gifts that we can’t help but share them with others.
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@arturoramirez689 7 жыл бұрын

*if you are reading this i hope you have a beutiful day* :)

@sanderb1769 7 жыл бұрын

Arturo Ramirez thanks mate!

@arturoramirez689 7 жыл бұрын

Sander Braken :)

@lorenaramirez1327 7 жыл бұрын

Arturo Ramirez thanks

@phoebej1332 7 жыл бұрын

Arturo Ramirez nahhh go away

@lcthefirefox9137 7 жыл бұрын

Arturo Ramirez thanks.you have a good day to

@fboehlke 7 жыл бұрын

"'Cause God calls me 'Dude'." Hahahaa! I know that wasn't the point of this lesson, but seriously funny. 😂

@anafuentes5261 7 жыл бұрын

Jenn B. completely distracted me too. lol

@lukeruss8370 6 жыл бұрын

Jenn B. I Know Jesus definitely would call you his friends,m what's uppp

@Givethanks24 7 жыл бұрын

Fr Mike, thank you for using your gifts to teach us about our Catholic Faith, this video was simple, yet profoundly true.... you are in our prayers!

@Henryk516 6 жыл бұрын

You just got to love this priest.

@michelleriley4267 6 жыл бұрын

Father Mike you have the ability to listen to God whereas when I try my mind is all over the place 😔

@pootprancia1956 2 жыл бұрын

I have been frustrated thinking how I could feel Jesus. Because no matter I pray I can't feel him. Even if I think of him all the time. But when I do something to help others like when I work a lot at work, I can somehow feel him. This is what really needed. Generosity.

@hunnyb8vball 7 жыл бұрын

Fr Mike, you have impeccable timing as the FOCUS missionaries begin their summer season of mission partner development. Thank you for calling us higher, to use the gifts He has already given us!

@imommtube 7 жыл бұрын

Ohhh I don't know about you, but this are the most usefull and different videos I can find in the whole KZfaq, really thanks God and Fr Dude love each one of this videos, this one ... woww it opened my eyes

@kimfleury 7 жыл бұрын

Fr Dude! lol

@chrismoellering695 7 жыл бұрын

We are all educated far beyond our level of obedience. Thanks for the encouragement.

@julieolmscheid2025 6 жыл бұрын

Generosity: Love with feet! I love it!!

@GodsCommunity 5 жыл бұрын

_Today is a good day._ 💗

@jackiefitz2904 7 жыл бұрын

Thank Goodness sake for him... he keeps me grounded in the times I can't myself~ God Bless this soulful Priest.

@andreamedina5535 7 жыл бұрын

Who caught the last part?? 4:54 😂😂 I thought it was funny Fr Mike!

@giovannipagliari1537 7 жыл бұрын

Another inspiring, faith filled moving video that applies to all of us! God bless you Father Mike.

@Fungies92 6 жыл бұрын

Wow. You just opened my eyes. Thank you fr. Mike. By the way, I come from Indonesia, so little people could speak English here. So I really wish I could sub some of your videos on Ancension Presents so my youth community could grow in faith like I do after watching your videos. God bless you and people from Ancension Presents ☺️

@matttrue5302 7 жыл бұрын

Yay Fr Mike!!

@phdstudio102 7 жыл бұрын

Thankyou Fr.Mike. for changing our hearts and the world one video at a time. May God be forever praised!

@funnynickline 7 жыл бұрын

"Father Mike, Bless me also, and always attached to your prayers, it can help me of my life forever amen"🙏👴.

@djfountain78 6 жыл бұрын

Amen! 1st Corinthians 12:9 mentions the gift of faith. St. Paul instructed born again, baptised in the Holy Spirit believers to earnestly desire the better gifts. If we don't make use of what God gives us, why should He give us more. Jesus said, if we make good use of God's gifts, then God will give us more. Matthew 25 14-30

@caryulmer5578 5 жыл бұрын

Just seeing this in 2019. It's a time I needed this message. God sure knows when to give us what we need.😄

@jonathanfairchild 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Fr. Mike, very timely in my life right now!

@fermo1895 7 жыл бұрын

thank you Fr. Mike I needed to reflect on this today God Bless

@KB_Grimweaver 7 жыл бұрын

"Cause God calls me 'Dude'." Haha!! I imagine He would if you wanted Him to. He's a cool Dad.

@ACatholicMomsLife 7 жыл бұрын

Being a Catholic KZfaqr this was great for me to hear because I always feel like I am not very good but I am just trying to be faithful to God's calling for me. This video was very encouraging to me so thank you!

@Victoria-rn9yi 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@mi2401 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you Fr Mike for another great video. Keep doing what you're doing 😀 God bless you and your family

@jamesschrang3712 6 жыл бұрын

Once again great talk Father!

@deborah5303 2 жыл бұрын

I love watching and listening to him. He is one of the reasons I went back to my Catholic roots. Thank you Father Mike.

@gmacch Жыл бұрын

Dang, Fr. Mike... this is DEEP.

@randyacker753 5 жыл бұрын

Remembering when Fr. Mike had me chug chocolate milk (the holy spirit in my soul) and I won a bet and got $10 off him at my confirmation retreat! 😂

@noreenroux4041 7 жыл бұрын

Good lesson!! And reminder. Thank-you Father Mike.

@nickbogush9553 7 жыл бұрын

This is a fantastic lesson and message! Thank you Father Mike! God Bless You!

@Trini2DeBone 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks...have taken this one to heart

@sweetz829 7 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@Rbreaux87 6 жыл бұрын

..thanks Father Mike!

@funnynickline 7 жыл бұрын

"Yes, Father Mike, Godbless",.👴

@andrewclark180 7 жыл бұрын

This was literally exactly what I needed to hear.

@patricks1560 5 жыл бұрын

Very true. I ask God for synchronicity - "Agnes Dei, Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi, Misere Nobis". Compassion is almost the worst gift, who can bear the sins of the world.

@Rbreaux87 6 жыл бұрын

in action...omg...Thanks! Happy Sunday!

@danettekarls5699 5 жыл бұрын

Generosity is love with feet!!

@JasonSpano 7 жыл бұрын

Amen! Thanks for another awesome video!

@ManuelJrAdeva 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Fr. Dude! I'm blessed today!

@zereacristosnew6634 5 жыл бұрын

I have no words but to say amazing !!! Coz I'm one of those people who asks for more but not use the once I have.

@p.e.gottrocks4528 6 жыл бұрын

Lord, please give me a better Internet provider so I can better watch Father Mike tell us to stop asking for stuff, and use what we have.

@palace_pro4923 7 жыл бұрын

JESUS CHRIST bless!!!

@Bitsypatito420 5 жыл бұрын

I absolutely needed to hear this message! Thank you Fr. Mike!

@jorgecampos5223 6 жыл бұрын

Amen.

@v-mariewilliams7058 4 жыл бұрын

thx Father!

@FreedomandBaconHomestead 6 жыл бұрын

Well said!

@IDMon6 6 жыл бұрын

Hey, Father Mike, I brought up a thought to my friend that led to a discussion, the thought was: "God is Perfect but in having, trusting in us We make him less than perfect though our failing, We are imperfect but in having God in us We are made perfect" thoughts?

@suzettefox7808 7 жыл бұрын

Great video. This opened my eyes and revealed to me what you said is true. Amen. Love the bloopers. They make me laugh. Keep up the good work!

@scottyhotty1003 6 жыл бұрын

Good stuff

@erickmartinez312 6 жыл бұрын

Amen God bless ! 🙏🏽❤️ hope you all have a great night I have you all in my prayers! ❤️❤️❤️Thanks this helped alot

@michaelgrant169 5 жыл бұрын

Recommended viewing > a video > (Co ops mondragon Thom Hartman interviews Richard Wolff) PHD. It's a better workplace system invented by a Catholic. It's better than the capitalist system. priest. 10 minutes 3 seconds. Thought it was worth mentioning.

@milyvento5537 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful message ... Faith hope love 💕 Ty Father Mike 🙏🏻✝️

@sandylee4422 4 жыл бұрын

Tq Father Mike. All your videos are the best ..... so inspiring and amazing 🙏

@gogogolyra1340 6 ай бұрын

Amen!

@clarafierro6921 5 жыл бұрын

Very interesting point. Thank you Father Mike !

@lcthefirefox9137 7 жыл бұрын

this is great

@roniquebreauxjordan1302 5 жыл бұрын

Great message!

@andreaarthur2258 4 жыл бұрын

Pray for those unsaved and less fortunate people

@tMatt5M 7 жыл бұрын

If we could fly we would consider it exercise and not do it.

@kimfleury 7 жыл бұрын

That sounds so G.K. Chestertonish lol

@sallyjo13 6 жыл бұрын

omg yes

@OReily08080 4 жыл бұрын

tMatt so true

@Realidyne 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Fr. Mike! You're so rad :)

@lorenzanaodip125 Жыл бұрын

Great advice

@chissstardestroyer 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, exactly: go for the small things, ignore the bigger gifts, to avoid hubris. Also, if you had a face the size of a mustard seed, nobody could see what you were saying, and you certainly couldn't ever eat enough to survive.

@cristianoromor583 5 жыл бұрын

God bless

@joseteixeira6960 3 жыл бұрын

Amen

@Marie-um9zh 6 жыл бұрын

Can you do a video in why women cant be priests. My classmates and I had this conversation and there were some who agreed that women should be given the opportunity. I personally dont agree but I would like to hear a priest like you talk about it

@truegirl2anna 7 жыл бұрын

What's that you say? Fr. Mike made another inspiring and uplifting Godly video?! HOW SHOCKING!!! *that was obviously sarcasm 😎 GOD BLESS YOU ALL

@ruthgeorge6208 7 жыл бұрын

💙

@archangelmichael706 6 жыл бұрын

Jacques de Molay

@kimfleury 7 жыл бұрын

I'd like a large order of prudence please, with a little hope on the side, and enough faith to move a mountain for dessert. And for an appetizer, I'd like the wisdom to recognize my natural gifts, with the sweet and sour sauce -- courage to respond by accepting my gifts, and fortitude to use them.

@Holly-kj6rs 7 жыл бұрын

Do you want fries with that? just kidding :)

@jleemkup727 6 жыл бұрын

How would you guide them the person who watches inappropriate things online. Wanting to stop but has that temptation

@valerietucker7340 3 жыл бұрын

I used to struggle with this but mine was reading online. What helped me was staying away from the websites where these temptations were. Dont go to them, don't think about them, nothing. If I started to be tempted to think about it I would immediately just start listing things around me. Chair, pencil, wall, water, shoe, etc. And I would keep doing this until it passed. It provided a great distraction and I still use this method today. 🙂

@tracieh215 6 жыл бұрын

Father....does this channel also have a Twitter account I can follow?

@leilawni 4 жыл бұрын

I just came across your channel and I'm binge watching. Father, could you please elaborate on how to use the faith we already have? God bless you.

@socratesandstorybooks1109 6 жыл бұрын

#askfathermike hey I struggle a lot with internal perfectionism and feeling like Gods not going to protect/provide for me Do you have any tips on trusting God?

@corinaavelar5752 6 жыл бұрын

anna little I struggle with that too so much, we got this though

@corinaavelar5752 6 жыл бұрын

anna little God is with us

@v-mariewilliams7058 4 жыл бұрын

same girl, I'm going through his videos for answers, this one was really useful because I ask God anlot for things to make me I guess more 'perfect' which is all well and good to desire but how am I using the gifts I currently have. Really good food for thought there.

@nobertpaul4102 7 жыл бұрын

#AskFatherMike. In your opinion father, do you think demons or even Lucifer himself can be inside the church in front of Blessed Sacrament?

@e.w3935 7 жыл бұрын

Demons are found in the church too and are doing everything to distract us from the mess. For example when your mind wonders off , or when you start judging the clothing of the person sitting in front of you. Ofc Lucifer can also hide as people who are supposed to serve God, like priests nuns and christains in general but instead give the whole Chruch a bad name

@ruthnoelmarie...9061 3 жыл бұрын

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@AJ_Jingco 6 жыл бұрын

#AskFrMike Is the Rapture before the Tribulation or after the Tribulation?

@dylant8110 7 жыл бұрын

How much do priests get paid?

@claireclarke7789 6 жыл бұрын

#askfrmike Hey Father Mike, I was wondering if testimonies of people having near death experiences of going to hell or heaven and back, such as the book, "23 minutes in Hell," were anti christian or real horrors. As a catholic, of course I believe in hell and heaven, but are these people's nightmarish tales of hell or miraculous visions of heaven are real?

@nobertpaul4102 7 жыл бұрын

I argree but we are living in a dangerous world. Don't let other use the good side of you against you. God Bless!

@ajaa3116 7 жыл бұрын

Nobert Paul as long as u r not the one doing the bad deed u be fine.

@kimfleury 7 жыл бұрын

Today, July 6, is the Feast of St. Maria Goretti, who was more concerned for the destiny of her attacker's soul than she was for her own life. In the investigation of her Cause for Sainthood, the man who attacked her testified that she warned him that he was committing mortal sin, putting his soul in danger of suffering hell for all eternity, and she prayed that he would repent and be saved. He left her mortally wounded. She was discovered by others and taken to hospital, where she later died of the wounds suffered in the attack, but not before forgiving her murderer and praying for his repentance and conversion. He repented and he converted, and all of heaven rejoiced with even greater joy than that with which the Angels and Saints greeted innocent, virginal little Maria Goretti, but none will forget that her sacrifice brought his soul home. So, no, don't "let others use the good side of you against you." Instead, take control of your "good side" and use it to bring souls home, not counting the cost in this mortal life. Your reward will be sweeter in heaven than the satisfaction of eternal justice imposed on others. Besides, when we pray the Our Father, we ask God to measure out mercy for us in the same way that we measure out mercy for others. May God bless you!

@tommasyao2546 7 жыл бұрын

Christ died for us in front of evil. Will you willing to die for God?

@nobertpaul4102 7 жыл бұрын

Tommas Yao of course that what martyr is.

@tommasyao2546 7 жыл бұрын

I know that's what martyr is. But the question I want you to think is "Will I willing to do anything for God, be make fun of for God's seek, be hurt by trying to loving others, even to be killed for God as a martyred."

@lukeruss8370 6 жыл бұрын

Jesus calls his real close friends his bro or his dude.

@susanne9032 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for this encouragement. Unfortunately even within the church you need to be entitled to act and become active as otherwise you would be regarded as a egomanic prophet not humble enough to obey to the order and hierarchy. So "sitting between two chairs" means on one hand wanting to get into action publicly for Christ because of loving HIM so deeply but on the other hand keeping humble and patient enough to be called for action by wiser and in hierarchy higher persons. What to do ?

@gogogolyra1340 Жыл бұрын

Always strive for humility. U cant go wrong with obedience

@ajas.7014 6 жыл бұрын

"If you had a face...." ^_^ Lol

@anafuentes5261 7 жыл бұрын

cause God calls me dude. xD

@powergirl530 5 жыл бұрын

"Cuz god calls me dude" ha ha

@BlackMoonPalladium 5 жыл бұрын

#ASKFRMike, I want to know what you think about people who've experienced the Holy Spirit and then didn't continue on the right path, never denying that it was the Holy Spirit and bearing testimony but not doing its promptings. Is that unforgivable? I experienced the Holy Spirit one night that it was holding me while I slept. I had just barely started going to church for the first time in my life. I wanted to know I was forgiven for my sinful life. It came to me that night and comforted me. I woke up with a knowing like instructions to do three things - read the bible, help others continuously and not to brag about my experience or be careful who I bear my testimony to. I then struggle to read and understand the bible and couldn't. I stopped going to church and continued to sin, yet still told people of the huge gift of the Holy Spirit. I do not understand why I stopped. I regret all those years I ignored the promptings and am just now coming back to Christ but the remorse I feel is so beyond painful as if I cannot be forgiven. Can I be forgiven of not listening and grieving the Holy Spirit?

@boatsofoats298 7 жыл бұрын

father mike looks like don draper

@lenorecatalogna9752 5 жыл бұрын

Why would St. Joseph rather live in Loja, Ecuador then Burmingham, alabama? The whole city eveolves around the Blessed Mother. Why? They had the miracle of Our Lady of the Swan(Nuestra Senora del Cisne) . They have fireworks even that could break my eardrums too if I wanted to get too close to them at churches and cathedrals all day to show the joy of the Blessed Mother. The c hurches are packed all the time no matter which one you go, and there nis very little crime even.

@leann123 6 жыл бұрын

I'm technically baptised and Christian but I don't practice. Was giving you a shot in turning me Christian . not working. The moral of your story is that God is inside you. He's no where else.

@goodgood8641 3 жыл бұрын

Oh people obey the only one God who created you and follow the last messenger Muhammed peace be upon him and listen and understand Quran so you be happy in life and enter paradise afterlife

@ruthnoelmarie...9061 3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@benshithero3037 Жыл бұрын

Seeing Roman Catholic teachings in public spaces sure does help people say, well doesn't that just completely figure. Generosity the most important spiritual gift to Catholic clergy. Definitely, figures. I think the most important spiritual gift is the holy spirit though, or technology God the father himself/love itself. "Silver and gold have we none but that which we have we give" Generosity itself isn't even a fruit of the spirit. Why all this stuff so physical world attached ? What if I don't got nothing but a miracle to give you, preist? You gonna starve cause the fish jumped in the boat?