FIVE CARDINAL POINTS

1. Healing of families
seminar
26tH
nov 2014
Session III
5 Cardinal Points
Conducted by:-

2. 5 Cardinal Points
• To understand how the evil
one can infiltrate our
lives/our family system &
cause sufferings & pain, we
need to understand 5
fundamental points
• These are the areas where
the EO looks for an
opportunity to hook onto
• These 5 cardinal
points are very,
very important
• They apply to every
human being
• We ignore them at
our own peril!

3. 5 Cardinal Points

4. I. We’re created of both a physical & a
spiritual nature
• God created us with a
body & spirit
• St Paul in Rom8:16
“It is that very Spirit
bearing witness with our
spirit that we are
children of God..”
• God’s Spirit is the Holy
Spirit
Our spirit is human spirit
• Since God is Spirit, our
spirit is closer to the
nature of God than our
body is.
• This is where we relate
with God – Spirit to spirit

5. Body & spirit are one
• Our body & spirit are always
together – we only separate at
death
• Whatever goes on at any given
moment in my life, I’m both
physical & spiritual in it at the
same time
• Whatever happens in my body
happens in my spirit
• Whatever happens in my spirit
happens in my body.

6. Mutual Effect
• Things can come into my life
thro my body & reach my
spirit
• Or they come into my life thru
my spirit & affect my body
Eamples: sickness –
i) Sick body “can’t pray”
ii)Unforgiveness/ulcers
iii) “You may prosper & be in
good health, just as your
soul(spirit) prospers.”
3 John 1: 2
• They mutually affect
each other, for good
or bad

7. Instructing my spirit
• Just as I need to take care of
my body, so also for my spirit
• Just as I need to instruct,
educate or form my body, so
do I need to educate my
spirit.
• My spirit also needs to be
witnessed to- it doesn’t
naturally have faith in the
right God (effect of original
sin)

8. How does our spirit relate to others?
• I relate to others not only
physically but also
spiritually every time
whether I like it or not
• If I’m a parent, what’s
going on btwn the spirits of
my children & my own
spirit?
• What about btwn my spirit
& the spirit of my spouse?

9. • What about between my
spirit & that of my boss if
I’m an employee?
• What if I’m the boss?
• If I have any kind of
(physical) authority (as in
the physical world) the
effect upon the spirit of
another is greater because
our spirit nature is very
sensitive to authority
How does our spirit relate to other?

10. Price of Ignorance
• Our biggest problem is when
we don’t know/understand
or forget this cardinal truth
as we go about our daily life
• The evil one know this and
will take advantage of it &
make a mess of our life.

11. II. We’re created attached to other people
A Study in England found out
that every child born leaves
behind some of its cell so that
the next baby takes up these
cells in their body!

12. No man is an island !
• Many people like to think
they come into this world
alone – me & me alone
• Truth is we’re attached to
others
• We came from our mum
& dad – takes 2 to make
me!
• For 9 months, I was
attached to mummy
• She was my life line!

13. Attachment - God’s Gift
• Attachment is for my
survival & is intended by
God to bless me
• New-born babies cannot
survive on their own
• Many children in the
world today & in the past
die because of lack of
attachment!

14. Attachment – Physical & spiritual
• Attachment is not only
physical but also
spiritual (Cardinal Pt. 1)
• If I’m attached to my
mum physically, I’m also
attached to her
spiritually

15. • God uses this attachment not
only for my survival but also to
pass down the blessings He
intends for my family -
“Inheritance System”
• This attachment is the channel
by which the Inheritance
System works
Inheritance
System
Ancestors
Us
Descendants
Blessings
GOD
“Attachment” & “Inheritance System”

16. • Unfortunately, if these
blessings(intended by God)
received by our ancestors
are converted to non-
blessing because of their
freedom of choice, these
also get passed down the
same “Inheritance System”
• When sin gets into the
system, it corrupts it
“Attachment” & “Inheritance System”
Ancestors
Us
Inheritance System
Descendants
Non blessings
or curses
Sin

17. Consequences of Parental Choices
• When people we are attached
to refuse God’s blessings, we
miss out too
• If people we are attached to
make mistakes, we pay the
price(consequence of the
mistake)
Examples:
TYT Tun Taib Muhd & Saddam
Hussein & the fate of their
children

18. Effects of Choices
• TYT Tun Taib Muhmd
- children of a rich man
- benefit from their
father’s wealth
- surrounded by money,
comfort & luxury
• Saddam Hussein
- children of a dictator
- enjoy power for a while
- grew up terrorizing
people
- dead at 25
• Children of both are affected by the choices of their parents
• Many people pay a high price for the choices made by their
parents

19. Family-link
• This attachment links up the
family members, even in the case
of adoption
• If there’s problem in the family,
it’s OUR problem, not just
individual because of attachment
• This attachment works both ways
- for good or for bad.
• God intends it for good but I have
been given the free will to choose
to use it for blessing or curse

20. “Family Scape-goats”
“You may eventually
come to understand that
because there was a
bondage in the family &
someone had to carry it,
your siblings carrying it &
thus not making it in life
freed you to become
successful, despite all
appearances of hard
work on your part.”
“In other words, you went
through because your
siblings didn’t & got
trapped. If they hadn’t
gotten trapped, maybe you
would have been trapped
instead!” (Fr Joe’s book)

21. Individualism is deceptive
• Reason why individualism is
so deceptive & destructive!
• If I only think of myself,
that I have nothing to do
with the family’s problem,
that I can do what I want
or like because it’s my life,
I may be the open door to
suffering & pain for my
loved ones now &
generations to come.
• Such attitude may
also prevent me from
detecting what may
really be going on in
the lives of the
family!

22. “Blind Spot”
• Individualism creates
“blind spot that
necessarily turns us in
the wrong direction as
we begin to look for the
answers to our
problems”
(Fr Joe’s book)

23. Jesus came to put right the System
• When God sent Jesus Christ,
He did not change the
system
• Jesus was part of His Holy
Family system!
• He came to correct the
faulty system and transform
it to be as God intended it to
work for us

24. III. Our most important & fundamental
choices in life are made for us by others
• Who are your parents?
• Their race?
• When & where
were you born?
• Which child are
you in the family?
• Were you given away
for adoption?
• What school did you
attend?
• What neighbourhood
did you grow up in?
• What was the religion
of your family where
your lived your
childhood?
• What kind of upbringing
did you have? Rich,
poor, happy family,
strife-filled family,….
• Etc…

25. Life’s Fundamental Choices
• Fundamental choices &
most important decisions
in our lives have been
made for us by others.
• God put the power for
such decisions for our lives
in the hands of others(our
parents/ guardians), to
make the best choices
because of
our age
• This is to ensure our
survival & also that we
become useful people in
life.
• These decisions are beyond
our control but have
profound impact on our
lives – shape & mould us
• Whatever later decisions
we make in life are built on
top of these fundamental
ones

26. Physical & spiritual effect of choices
• If those fundamental
decisions were
bad/wrong, we would
have turned out
differently!
(eg. religious cult)
• We’re both physical
& spiritual
• “Whatever choice our
parents or families made
for us in the body(*), had
a spiritual connotation to
it. And conversely, the
spiritual choices(**) they
made for us had bodily
connotations to them”
(Fr Joe’s book)
* choice of school
** Dedication to the
spirits

27. Effects of Guardian’s Personal choices
• The spiritual & bodily
choices our
parents/guardians
/ancestors made for their
personal lives also have
equally the same effect on
us & our lives – whether we
were there or even before
we came about!
• How? Through the
attachment link
• Egs. the job my dad
chooses (oil rig), the
occult my grandmother
practiced

28. Our personal history is Important
• Our “personal history” plays a very
pivotal part in our life & our
present situation, especially when
we want to discern how to pray
effectively for a particular sticky,
messy, problem confronting us or
our family.

30. IV. The power of our spoken words

31. IV. The power of our spoken words
• God creates the world out
of nothing just by talking
Genesis 1
God spoke & what He said
happened
• God made us body & spirit
& our spirit part is the
closest to God for God is
Spirit (Jn 4: 24)
• We share in our spirit
that godly quality of
God’s Spirit with which
He created things
simply by talking.
• Our spoken words have
the power to bring
things into existence
• We create our world
with our words!

32. Physical & spiritual power of words
• Since we are both body &
spirit our words are
therefore not only
physical but naturally
spiritual too.
“They therefore have a
spiritual effect on the
person, & consequently
end up having a material
effect that you finally
observe.”
(HOF Book)
• “We speak our words &
they become flesh on & in
people.” (HOF Book)
• That’s why we can build
people up with our words
or tear them down in the
same way.

33. Spiritual Power of words
• Jas 3: 6 -10 – “James
calls the tongue a fire, a
restless evil, a deadly
poison, & says that it
curses. All this because
it is a vehicle of
something with a
spiritual creative power
– the word.”
• Book of Sirach (23: 7 -15)
warns about the terrible
consequences of swearing
in one’s life:-
- such as Guilt, sin’s doubly
great, scourge/affliction in
the household, death
• Swearing are words
• Because of the terrible
consequences, God forbids
us from swearing & even
making oaths in His Name

34. Power of Words
• The power is in the nature
of the words we speak.
• Eg. Of a gun being triggered
unintentionally but the
nature of the bullet is to
shoot & kill

35. Creative Power to bless
• God shares with us this creative
power of words that we speak
goodness into the world around
us, into people’s lives
• That we may bless those under
our authority first, & any other
person we come across as well,
that they may be bless.
• The more physical authority we
have over another’s life, the
more spiritual power our words
carry for that person
Example:
Parent-child
Teacher-student,
Employer-employee
Priest-faithful
Bishop-priest

36. Power To DesTroy
• Many lives are filled with
unnecessary burdens because
human words of life were not
spoken to them or because bad
words of nonlife were spoken
to them
• Nonlife words affect people
negatively, even when the
speaker doesn’t intend a
nonblessing.

37. Parents Take Note !
• If parents say negative
words of nonblessing to
their child, more often than
not those words will carry
through because God does
not suppress the effective
nature of the gift of the
power He has given for the
good.
• God’s gifts are irrevocable
(Rom 11: 29)
• As parents, we need to
avoid nonblessing words,
esp. curse words!

38. Make a difference with words
• “Bless those who
persecute you, bless & do
not curse them.”
Rom 12:14
• As we bless, we speak life
into them
• We effect some
improvement in them to
which God will add as He
sees fit
• If I curse instead, I’ll be
adding sth bad & things
will only get worse!
• Blessing is survival for us
& improvement for the
persecutor.
• Both come out better!
• In real life situation, more
often than not, we
response with nonblessing
words!
• And the situation worsens!

39. For the “boss” – From Fr Joe
• “Speak good things to
your employees & they
will do better; the
workplace will become
fun, & at the end of the
day, you will even make
more money because
everyone is working
better.”
(HOF Book)
• “Instead, we unknowingly
use our own power of the
word against our own
workplaces & our
employees even when we
are the boss, injuring our
own finances while
earnestly, and devoutly
sometimes, praying to
God to improve them!”

40. God’s Call to Bless
• As God’s people(priests or
laity), we have been
commissioned &
empowered by Him to
speak to others in
His Name
• This God is always
blessing(His nature) & He
wants us to continuously
convey that nature of His
so that His people may be
blessed.
• Even when they are bad,
they are to be blessed. In
fact, that is when they
most need the blessing,
that it may help them
revive them.
• Use our words to bless,
bless, bless. It is good for
everybody, anywhere, all
the time.
• Fr Joe’s practice of
blessing baby in the womb

41. • 1st
Miracle after Pentecost
in
Acts 3
• Peter & John, using the
Name of Jesus, brought
healing to the cripple
• The Jewish elders asked-
“By what power, or by
what name, have you
done this?” Acts3: 16
“Let it be known to all of
you, and to all the people
of Israel, that this man is
standing before you in
good health, by the Name
of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth….for there is no
other Name under heaven
given among mortals by
which we must be saved.”
Acts4: 10-12
V. The power of the Name of Jesus

42. • “And these signs will
accompany those who
believe: by using My
Name they will cast out
demons,…”
Mk 16: 17
“Therefore God also highly
exalted Him and gave Him
the Name, so that at the
Name of Jesus every knee
should bend, in the heaven
and on earth and under
the earth, and every
tongue should confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father.”
Phil.2: 9 – 11
V. The power of the Name of Jesus

43. Power & Jesus’ Name are
synonymous
• The power & the Name
of Jesus are synonymous
• Many times in the
Gospels, Jesus told His
disciples to pray in His
Name to the Father &
the Father will hear
those prayers
• Many prayers of the
Catholic Church end :-
“We ask this in the Name
of Jesus the Lord”
“Grant this through Our
Lord Jesus Christ Your Son”
• “In” & “Through” are the
same thing in the language
that Jesus spoke

44. Salvation in the Name of Jesus
• St Peter declared that
only by the Name of
Jesus we can be saved.
• Goodness alone doesn’t
saved people
• When Jesus came into
world, there were good
people
• He came because
goodness alone does not
save anyone. We are
saved because we believe
in Jesus. Jesus saves!
• Parable of the Talents
Mat 25: 14 - 30
The man’s honesty(v25)
didn’t earn him heaven-
he was thrown out!
Mat 25: 30

45. The Most Powerful Name
• When we used the Name
of Jesus, we call upon the
whole salvific act – Jesus’
passion, death,
resurrection, Holy Spirit,
etc…
• There’s tremendous
power in the Name of
Jesus – the most powerful
Name
• When we pray in the
Name of Jesus, we shall
be using the power
naturally invested in
our words & also
calling upon the most
powerful Name, Jesus
• The power of spoken
words & the power of
the Name of Jesus are
power tools given by
God to us !

46. 5 Cardinal Points -Recap

47. Conclusion
• These 5 Cardinal Points are
meant to bless us
• We need to understand
them, use them & safeguard
them as God intended
• Failure on our part can result
in so much pain & sufferings
in our lives & future
generations because of satan
who is always distorting
God’s gifts for the purpose of
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