Do You Want to Be Well? 

*praying for anyone who sees this* UPDATE: Still praying, please pray that I may find work!

My father died back in March after a lifetime of tragedy and sorrow. There was happiness too, but a lot of mental and physical suffering. He was a very strong man, yet those sorrows defined him by extension they defined me. After he died, I had to determine whether I was going to continue to be defined this way. Almost all my family has died. I promised myself after he died that I would not turn down opportunities for community and growth . A friend asked me to join an adult group that studied the Bible. I am agnostic for over 30 years, but I decided to revisit the wisdom in the book and see how I could apply it to my life. And through that I found Father Mike. I listen to him everyday and try to apply his teachings. I don't know that I can go back to communion but I am edging towards confession. I have returned to Mass. I am not good at prayer so I use Father Mike to fill the gaps. It calms my mind and helps me grow

JUST ended a very emotionally abusive and crippling relationship last night. We've gone back and forth over and over and I finally ended it for good. I allowed Jesus to take it away and make me well. And all day today I've been praying and meditating on how I go forward now bc now EVERYTHING in my life is about to change. Fr. Mike I needed this. Thank you SO MUCH. God Bless you always.

So timely! I spent 3 years mentally and emotionally crippled by trauma and eventually sought help in 2020. It’s been almost a year since I started this journey to healing and it certainly doesn’t get any easier, especially when it’s so comfortable to stay sad and afraid of the world. But I don’t want to live my life this way. I know Jesus calls me to be more and to live my life in joy and peace. 💚 If you see this, please pray for me! I’ll be praying for your healing too ☺️

Pray for me please. While watching this I realise I have been ill for 38 yrs too. Jesus! I love you. I am willing to change. I want to be well. I want to follow you my Lord. Praise God & thank you YT for your prayers.

This video was made for me, this day, this minute. Thank you for your kindness and wisdom, Fr. Mike. You have blessed me greatly today.

Lord make comfortable with being uncomfortable..

Not to mention I'm 32 years old and was diagnosed with fibromyalgia almost 10 years ago. I lost my house, my job, my body, my lifestyle, even my friends when I got sick. I FULLY understand the paradox of comfortability in all you know even though it's a crippling terrible thing. It would be such a blessing but also terrifying if one day I woke up without so much as a headache. This is such a beautiful message. Sharing with all my fibro warriors on Facebook who NEED to hear this.

Received the Holy Eucharist from Fr. Mike this past Thursday. Such a blessing and something I won’t forget. God Bless ❤️

I've been struggling with lust recently so this really spoke to me. It's easy to say you want to change but actually allowing Him to change your life is so hard. Especially when it comes to such addictions as mine. I like to think of it as pushing a boulder. God will help you, but He won't push the boulder for you. You still have to put in the effort and struggle to change.

I feel like I have been emotionally crippled for 68 years. I do want to be well. I have asked and asked.

We only remember and dwell on the wounds, and we forget the wins.

Absolutely, the Eucharist is such an immense blessing. Cant live without it. You know I have heard Joel Osteen and Joyce Meyers speak, and I enjoy hearing them speak, however, when it comes to really feeling our Lords presence, peace, comfort and closeness, I only feel that in the Catholic Church with the Eucharist. Praise God Almighty...

Thank you, as someone with chronic pain, I really needed to hear this.

Thank you for all that you give to us. You are changing people!!! God Faith Family

Couple years ago I visited the place where this event happened in Jerusalem. I was challenged by those very same words... but I was not really ready. I said I wanted to get well, but I wasn’t ready to make changes. I had become comfortable with extreme obesity, it had become my identity. “I will probably be like this for the rest of my life.” A year ago the question came back. But this time I was willing to cooperate. Amazing things have happened. Now, 75 pounds lighter, I feel in my bones Jesus’ healing power. Thank you Jesus for never giving up on me. I am still on the journey... and you guide me by the hand. Yes, Lord. I want to be well.

That was almost difficult for me to watch. I have been disabled for a good many years and I don't know how I would survive if I was healthy again. It's to late to go back to school and who is going to hire a man who has no job history for the last 15 or 20 years. It gave me a lot to think about, thank you!!!

I underestimate your videos and yet every time I watch them, I am thankful that I did. I realised I do that with the Bible\prayer aswell and the similar thing happens. It seems to me that I am the crippled man saying ‘no’ to Jesus. Oh my God

Thanks Father Mike. Really needed this. I seem to have a heavy melancholy that I carry after being awakened towards the end of 2019. I was gutted by the enormity of my sins and the reality of good and evil. It still weighs on me and I want to be free of it so I can walk in His joy no matter the circumstances. Pray for me Father. Thank you All Glory to God my Saviour

I'm 38 years old. Listening

I want to be well. Been emotionally and physically handicapped for 18 years I want to be well. I will not look back!! i want to live the dreams You gave me Lord.

Sometimes I find myself addicted to sadness and pain. It becomes comforting in a way. The thought of "joy" bothers me and almost disgusts me. But when I'm able to break free from sadness, through God's help, and experience joy I realize how amazing it is and what I was missing out on, and what an idiot I am to not want it. But it's definitely a struggle to accept and want joy. It's a struggle to accept love. Being human is a struggle.

Thanks, God!!! This message is for me today. Father thanks for the comfort you give me, You are amazing as always. My God bless you abundantly!!!!♥

This video was made for me too. I want to be well from OCD I usually say I dont want to be well when Im upset but I really do want to be well through the mercy of Jesus

Father Mike you do great do not worry because you leave us with positive thoughts all the time Short solid and to the point Always thank you!

Jesus I want to be well. Thank you Fr Mike you are an awesome man of God. May God bless you and continue His Great works in you. I thank you for saying YES. My son is also a priest. I thank God for him saying YES to God and all priests. God bless and keep you all. Thanks for all these wonderful inspiration talks and helping me getting closer everyday to Jesus AMEN.

Thanks!

Funny how I was just thinking about a couple of spiritual illnesses that I've been carrying almost my whole life and wanting to change, then this video popped up on my phone

Have had 2 brain strokes, have fractured back bone, cripplg arthritis but most painful is going thru divorce after 15 years, trusting Jesus to be my Waymaker am age 77

my father, never complained or talked about being ill or sick... he never brought up feeling pain, and when he hurt... it was the way he was brought up, it was the way I was was brought up... he, passed away, from late stage cancer, because he didn't want to burden others with his troubles... and, even seeing the outcome, of my father's choices, I still let my pain and discomfort, go too long... because, I was comfortable, with the pain... rather then burdening others, and complaining... it takes, a strong will, to break through the pride, and cry out to the Lord... "yes, I want to be well"

I had to let go of a friendship of over 7 years I got so used to living my life with my best friend with me. I had to let that go and it was the hardest most uncomfortable thing to do. But I’m so thankful I did. I will always have love for this person however I was ready to move on to my next season in life. Thankfully I was willing to make the change. This video is just a reminder of how gracious our God is!!!

Yes please. Jesus I want to be well. I want out of this weakness, this pain. I want to be a new, whole person. Pray for me. Jesus I want you to make me well. 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

God bless you Father , I keep you in my prayers always . Thank you for your video .

Thank you Father Mike. God bless you

Fr. Mike Sometimes I feel like I could (respectfully) argue with you until there's no more air left in the world to breathe. But I get this. Anyone can become comfortable in their own illness. It becomes easier to live with the status quo than to change. I won't say, "Finally, we have something we can agree on". I just finished your BIAY podcast. And I agreed with more of what you said than not. I'm living this first hand. I would love to be healed! But I would have to be willing to change my entire life. At my age, I have fewer days ahead of me than I do behind me. But yes, I would love to be healed. So, we agree and you didn't even know we were arguing. 😂 May God Bless You!

The suffering of this world is temporary. There is spiritual suffering which the cure is repentance even after we disobey God and even after we confess our sins there might still remain an unhealthy attachment to those sins which is why there is penance and if we die there is a final purification after death Purgatory. Suffering can bring a person closer to God as Christ suffered during His Passion we might relate to Him in our our suffering and detach ourselves from these unhealthy attachments to our sins and find peace. It's sometimes good to suffer.

God Bless as well.

Thank you. Very inspiring as usual, I've been struggling with serious desease for over a year and it's so overwhelming... I pray to god he makes me well... I'm trying to become the new man he has foreseen from all eternity. I ask for your prayers, fr Mike.

This was very timely for me. Last year, I completed my 5th stay in treatment for an eating disorder and, thanks be to God, I’ve mostly done well in recovery since I was discharged late last year. However, Holy Week is always difficult for me, and I felt myself falling back into old, familiar, and comfortable behaviours these past few days. Daily making the decision to allow myself to be healed and being comfortable with being uncomfortable (like eating when I need to while almost everything in me is screaming at me to not do it) is so necessary to have life and recovery, even if it feels unsafe and dangerous. Part of the past few day’s difficulties has been forgetting that I am not alone, and he who conquered death by his death is with me as I struggle, too. Thank you for all that you do, for making the gospel challenging, yet accessible, to so many people. Your video on forgiveness helped me out so much last year when I was going through treatment and working on healing the wounds others inflicted upon me.

Nice to be back on a Wednesday after giving up RU-vid for Lent!

I’ve also had periods of illnesses during the past many years being bedridden and housebound a few times for a number of years but still manage to bounce back to health and recovery and when it happens we juz go back and adapt to being normal again through Gods miraculous love and Our Blessed Mother’ Mary’s intercession and even now Im waiting on God to heal me of a stroke I had a year ago, high blood pressure, brain aneurysm and digestive issues due to all the meds. Sometimes I fall into depression but bounce back up remembering how I recovered each time before with minimal medication so will not give up my faith, hope and trust in God to heal me again with Our Blessed Mother’s intercession 🙏🏻🙏🏻

To cease to change is death...DEEP...WOW...

I saw this episode on the chosen. Made me cry. Love you Jesus!

Father , the people that live in pain . You can fight it or you can accept. I lived in pain since I was 17 . I hear people everyday o I can't o the pain is real .when you change for Christ you become a new person in Christ. Believing in Christ is the most important thing you can do it is changing your heart .Doesn't mean you will live pain free .It does mean our eyes our ears turn to God instead of the God of the world .We have a choice .When you receive the holy spirit everything chances if you want it or not .when you say yes too God and no too sin . You become a new person .Gbu Father .

That is a question that in my heart I was saying no to for a long time while out loud saying yes. Now my yes means yes. Glory be to God!

I get it, I have been sick since as I was in my 20's, I am now in my 60's. I wouldn't know how to live any other way. Thank you Father!!0

Don’t let your mind wander... keep your eyes always on Jesus. Remember that your father is with you and fear no evil!

At first, I agreed with Mark M. Why would I want to stay with the familiar pain and limits that my disabilities force upon me, but then I look at what I do in medical research. I was looking at stem cell therapy to help reverse the effects of the stroke I had 25 years ago. Not until my aunt said something did I consider using it to fix the mess that is my heart deformity. God did not make me, originally, with a half dead brain, but he DID create me and allow the heart deformity. I have outlived EVERY prognosis I’ve been given. I understand that this IS God’s plan and I will follow him however he needs me. I did need to hear this today. Thank you and God bless!

Wow ! I needed to hear that. I am willing to be comfortable to be uncomfortable and be willing to change.

Whoop, there it is! You go Fr. Mike!

I love this! I was recently talking about this in therapy. I’ve been chronically ill my entire life. And when I get a glimmer of “normal life” I freeze. It really is scary! I don’t know any different, even though every day I wish it would stop. Probably one of my favorite videos ever ♥️

I lost my mobility 10 years ago. By that I mean I have osteoarthritis but worst in my knees. Now my ligaments and meniscus has a tear again and surgery is not an option. My right leg has athropy. And my body is so tired so I am. Yes I would change. To kneel again in church in the blessed sacrament after receiving Jesus. To drive without pain so I can attend First Fridays. To stand in church and give thanks. To volunteer at a food pantry and hospice. To be able to walk up and down steps without fear of falling. To see God's beautiful country out West. To be there for my niece when she has her first baby. To tell my story to those who are in need of healing that saying yes to change is nothing to.be afraid of.

Lol! Not sure I'd ever ever say "duh" to Jesus.

Lord, help me to change.

So true! It entails a change that many wouldn't be comfortable with.

I believe I know exactly what it means to become comfortable in suffering. I was and still am struggling with mental disabilities that make it difficult to find happiness or joy in anything. I feel powerless to find the strength to do much of anything. I let sin become a distraction from my sorrow and that has left consequences in my life. But I am trying to put God’s will above my own will again. I am not any happier than I was before, but it’s easier to bear the pain along with Jesus rather than without him. I thought of another way to phrase it a while back: The darkness is cold. But when all you know is the darkness, even the cold can feel more comfortable than the warmth of the light.

I was a jr high Catholic school teacher for 30 years. 7 years ago I suddenly had an unexpected mental breakdown and then developed physical ailments. Bc of these - even though I worked hard to get back to myself - I lost my position, could not get another, nor could I manage to arrange tutoring clientele. But I found the worst consequence of all this was no longer being able to serve God by teaching religion to my students. This I miss the most. And I feel there have been so many students that have missed the Christian stories and message of a personal relationship w The Trinity. As the years have gone by, my financial situation has taken a beaten, I have lost friends: family who might help,, & my emotional & physical conditions have become much worse. The pain is so severe that I can barely get around now by myself. I have prayed constantly for healing so that I may serve Him someway again. Maybe God doesn't need me anymore? Idk. It's difficult not to be discouraged when I can do so little. But my daily request in Jesus's merciful is YES! I want to be healed. I know the Lord does things in His Own time. So I persist in my prayer and wait. Perhaps you have an answer or recommendation for me, Father. I'd appreciate it.

How we identify ourselves IS who we are to OURSELVES and OTHERS who know us well. Family dynamic, social economics, orientations, etc. in prison many of us for DECADES, if not lifetime. Change is too big of a risk and demand.i agree with everything you said in this video. Being sanctified; cleansed by the word, really helps a lot of us. Then one day you look back and say wow.

This struck me hard... thank you for delivering this message at a perfect time in my life. God bless you Fr. Mike

Fr. Mike. *MIC DROP*

For Priests O my Jesus, I beg You on behalf of the whole Church: Grant it love and the light of Your Spirit and give power to the words of priests so that hardened hearts might be brought to repentance and return to You, O’Lord. Lord, give us holy priests: You yourself maintain them in holiness. O Divine and Great High Priest May the power of Your mercy accompany them everywhere and protect them from the devils traps and snares which are continually being set for the souls of priests. May the power of Your Mercy, O Lord, shatter and bring to naught all that might tarnish the sanctity of priests, for You can do all things (1052) . . . I ask You for a special blessing and light, O Jesus, for the priests before whom I will make my confessions throughout my lifetime (240). 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

I like how you ask practical questions and not just give the answer.

"change is the only constant thing in nature" thanks Fr. I pray Jesus helps fit in my life what He sees to be missing

I completely agree. I remember a time when I felt that the Lord was dealing with certain fears I had had for a long time (now that they're gone I can't even remember exactly what they were), and part of me was afraid of this because I wondered who I would be once these fears were gone. I had carried them for so long that I wondered who I would be without them. It sounds like total madness but like you say, there is a comfort that comes from familiarity....even if you hate that thing you are familiar with, because uncertainty and new things can be scary. I was shocked to feel that way because I wanted nothing more than to be free from these fears, and I had asked for God to deliver me from them for such a long time.

Yes. After years of holding onto sin and especially anxiety, I am ready to let it all go and allow God to take His proper place in my life.

Hey I am from Gemany 👍🏼 your Channel is very nice. You tell very good the Message of God (in German Evangelium). much luck with your Channel. With me you have a new catholik Fan❤️

Wow!!! This was amazing!!

I really needed this

I’ve watched a video everyday since December and I love it

This is good. I wanted to think of illness, but this so much more. Wow!

This video just couldn't get to me at a better time... Thank you so much Fr. Mike! MGBYA!! God is so good!!

My uncle will be dead a year in May. Please pray for my healing. My emotional healing. It has been a hard year. I cried last night a lot. Thank you. GOD BLESS YOU 🙏

Lord Jesus I declare you have permission to heal me. I am open to change

I love your teaching I am not Catholic but I'm a Christian and you really make it simplify to help everyone to understand the scripture much better keep on doing the great work of God. I let a lot of people know about you. God bless you

I needed that

so true. needed this.

Thanks Fr. Mike! I sometimes think Jesus said and did some things that might seem unnecessary because they were teaching moments, and that because He's God He knew what was going to be said and eventually written down in order to help preach His accurate teachings to every nation as per His command to His disciples.

Yes God bless. Thank you

Amen

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. We all need to remember that everything is possible with God, but we fall when we think we can handle it all on our own. Love this video ❤️

Thank you father!

Whole lot of truth in there. Really look forward to each video. Thankyou!

You the best therapist ever!

This was very much appreciated. Thank you from this hospital bed for being a beacon of God’s love and message especially at this time for me 🙏🏾❤️

Thanks Fr. Mike.....

This change was written in my book and I have memorized it for years.

"to be alive is to change, to cease to change is to be death" - thank you Fr. Mike

Loved this. Thank you!

We need more frequent videos too please ✝️✝️✝️✝️❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥

Such a peaceful message!

Needed this today. Thank you.

...and God bless you too Fr Mike. Thank you.

So true - amazingly precise!

Thank you Fr. Mike!

This is a game changer. Thank you. I nearly did not listen to it.

Needed to hear this. Thank you Fr. Mike!

Thank you, Fr. Mike!

We Love You Fr. Mike! ❤️🙏🙌

Very good. Thank you

This is exactly what I needed. God bless 🙏🏽