9.29.2010

Don't give up, God is on his Way!

Many of us at a certain point when life turns tragic and nothing makes sense, we've come across the thought of "it's time to give up on all hopes" and if you feel like this is you, it's time to re-gain that strength and let yourself be driven to the fact that "God, perhaps is taking his time to respond. 


We need to understand that he doesn't leave things half ways, he isn't like us, he doesn't get  tired of having the same results over and over again after so many tries, he doesn't seem to get mad when he knows he can't have a new toy to play, he doesn't get tired of people who surround him,  he doesn't say "I give up because people are driving me crazy" and at work, he doesn't have a lazy attitude, not giving the best of him simply because he is tired of the same results or even leave it as it is. 

If this rings your bell, allow me to advice you that God is perfect at everything he does and the time taken to respond to all of your needs is not in vain and sure not something with lack of passion, you may be fed up at how things are, right now, the situation you are in but even thou you don't see the results or feel his presence, he is there with you in every giving breath you take.

He knows our every limits, he knows how much as we can handle and every time you feel like you can't wait, think about Abraham, how everyday his blessings looked further away, how many negative thoughts came through his head and yet he was blessed:

 18Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, "So shall your offspring be."[a] 19Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah's womb was also dead. 20Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. Romans 4:18-21

Many times, we think God is slow at things but next time we think that, first, let's think of all of the possible variables available and mainly the fact that his timing is not the same timing as ours and perhaps for what we wish for at this moment, is not what we necessarily need and even thou you think you are ready to receive it, maybe you might ruin the whole purpose if he hands it to you before timing, simple as that, you might not be ready to receive.  

Maybe God is  sending his people to prepare you for what your blessings will be...
Just ask for tolerance, patience and understanding for when you do receive the blessings, you do get to acknowledge that God is blessing us.


   And remember, he is not like us... how many times has he tried to be-friend us and how many times have we rejected him?  I sure thank him for never giving up on me. Love is the answer to everything.


God Bless you.  




9.26.2010

Jesus, the Captain of our Lives.

I am reading a book named "An experience with Jesus" and I came across an idea expressed which is ultimately true. It got me thinking how many people turn their back on Jesus and never want to speak about the subject ever again because who knows, maybe they are mad or they just really want to stay away from jesus. I really can't tell but I can say that I have come across people whom they can't even hear the word Jesus or God. They become reactive to it and well I just send them my blessings.

Anyway, the book states that even in the times of worries, fears, anxieties, where there happen to be more wrongs than rights in our lives, God is present and he is moulding us for that when we come out of our crisis, our problems which we have managed to overcome, something good comes out it and brings us joy. For even the bible states that after a great depression, a great loss, comes a greater joy and a major gain. "Out of the greatest horrors God can bring, perhaps not every dream, but every kind of ultimate and glorious consummation."

We just have to trust him that we shall overcome every obstacle for he is always present. Instead, many people just choose to turn their back to Jesus, choose to say that many wonderful ideas, inspirations, even twist that made that small drop the difference, which according to you was your brilliant idea which made you come out of that crisis came from you; let me tell you, that was Gods' small drop, not yours.

    The reason why and maybe you did not know it, is because he knows our deep desires, our problems, our limits and until probably you didn't scream or cried your heart out within your inner self being completely true and honest with yourself, he didn't place that drop on you before. That is when you are probably able to say, my lesson has been learnt. Then again, it is much easier to think it was you who did it.

No masterpiece has been owned by men completely. Many times it's God inspiring us, illuminating us and opening our path ways and yet we choose to let our human side take ownership of it and abuse of his trust with his gift to us.

Nothing happens for no reason, there is a purpose to everything just let him work through you.

Have a drop of faith.

Be With Us: Putting Faith in God - Morning Prayers to the God of Hope- Beliefnet.com

One of the places I love to visit and read alot of prayers is beliefnet.

Here are a couple of morning prayers to the God of Hope I'd like to share them with you today. Hope you truly enjoy them and hope they become useful to you.
God Bless You.

Be With Us: Putting Faith in God - Morning Prayers to the God of Hope- Beliefnet.com

9.24.2010

Jesus Hold Us & Fights Our Battles

After they diagnosed me with throat cancer and in my thyroids, I took a four month vacation which made me leave the city and head back to my home town where my parents live.

Honestly I felt on the border of a depression because not only was I diagnosed with cancer I had also recently come out a damaged relationship which made me feel very vulnerable.. very sad. I felt like I needed to tie a knot and hold strong to it but even more to it I felt like God was holding me to not let me fall. If you've ever seen that picture where Jesus is holding a man through his arms to let him fall, i felt like if that was me.

I tried to occupy mind with things and goals I needed to accomplish before anything, before I leave, and I know I will accomplish my life goals before I die; so I started brainstorming, I came out with a few good ideas which are in developing stages but more than that I was anxious to gain my life back.


One month before my vacations were over, I recieved a call from my cousin whom got married and now lives in a town called Higuey, about 45 minutes away from my town. She decides to invite me to her new home to spend some time together which I decide to take the invitation and go. I left on a Saturday afternoon and spent a nice week besides the fact that I would hear strange things in that house which I didn't bother to mention.

The day I was leaving, they asked if I could come back soon and we agreed that I would come back after spending a week at home. I stated I missed my niece.

The week passed and I went back to my cousins house. I got there on a Monday to find that the service woman was back from her two week vacation. That week I spent a lot of time in the house and talking to her. She is an evangelical cristian who has been walking with the lord for possibly her entire life. We got to exchange a lot of point of views and a lot testimonials and in one of those days she had mention that she once invited people to pray over the house and they did, to her surprise, the women that had prayed commented that there were bad spirits in the house to the cause of the people who once lived there before who practised witchcrafts.

She began to understand many weird things that had been going in that house, right then and there I was able to understand and tell her that the last time I was there I would hear things moving and people walking. Her response to it was that she hears it all the time and much more.

One of the mornings I which I was there I was awaken by a loud shout in the voice of my cousins husband and a knock on the door, when i opened the door thinking that it was my cousins husband in need of taking a shirt out of the closet, there was no one there. Something inside of me ordered me to get out of bed as I was crawling back to it, which I jumped out of bed and after coming out of the bathroom and walking down the stairs I asked the service woman(maid) whether my cousins husband was in the house, and she replied that he had left before she had woken up. It wasn't seven in the morning yet.

I sat there and told her why I was awake so early and also commented that I had a vision about a hole and a man who seemed to want to come into the house, as soon as I said that she said, "wow, God really does exist and I thank him you are here, because last Sunday a woman came by to advice us that there was a big hole on the wall where the laundry room is and probably someone tried to do it with the means of getting in." I freaked OUT.

That night, I prayed. The next night, I saw black smoke out of nowhere in the room where I stayed at the end of my bed. I prayed. The following days I decide to advice them that there was probably something strange in the house with means of suggesting to bring people over so they could pray over the house and liberate it from any bad spirit.

All I received were insults such as: "you are crazy", "you woke up with the paranoia activated", now you think you are "visionary", and the worst one was "God does not exist"... and the voice my cousins husband changed to the voice I once heard when a man transformed himself in front of me years before once I met the Lord for the first time, the devil itself. That moment, right then and there I was able to determine his presence yet chose not to keep on stirring the waters. I left it as it was but what bothered me the most and worried me the most was not their reactions or statements towards me but a comment which my cousin said and it was that she would dream with snakes every night crawling on top of her and that it doesn't mean anything.

For crying out loud, she lost a pregnancy while living under that roof with no cause whatsoever. That day, that Friday after all the negativeness, I decided to go to church group to pray and to ask the Lord to help me overcome the situation while there and to protect me. I asked all of my family and friends from group ministries which I belong to in Santo Domingo to pray for us in that house. They all advised me to get out of there as soon as possible.

Honestly I didn't want to, I felt like I was leaving my cousin in deep dark waters. The next day, Saturday, everything marched fine during the day but during the night, while I was listening to gospel music on my laptop which I brought along with me, and asking for the Lords presence, the voice inside of me advised me to stop listening to music because I would alter the enemy; his advice were my orders, I shut it down and began to crawl into bed. As I turned the lights of a woman's voice was heard as if she'd be standing between the walls and was making fun of me. I turned the lights on and there was nothing or no one there. I started praising and as I was trying to sleep with my eyes shut I saw a black shadow of a man walking... I panicked and I immediately started saying "take care of my baby", my inner voice demanded me to pray and to ask for the holy spirits' presence; as I turned to lay on my backside while praying and blessing I opened my eyes to see a white spot flying on top of my bed, over me, battling and scaring away the black spot every time it would come near me. As I maintained myself praising I would hear voices shouting and demanding me to leave and mocking me at the same time.

I suddenly stood up to wear some long pants and I as I was doing that I saw the black smoke again coming up from where I was laying down on my bed.

I began praising again and thanking the Lord that night for his presence, I asked him to liberate me, to save me, to have mercy upon me and to heal me of anything. I thought I would never manage to close my eyes that night and as soon as I asked him to do these things, I felt a sudden ease within me that I didn't even notice when I fell asleep while praising and after that night I thought I had come to the end of my stay there and haven't even managed to even call the house.

I came back home. I only ask for the Lord to protect them while in that house but since he said he was not moving out, may God bless them and always protect them.


I now clearly understand that as his child, he fights my battles and I am never alone.

Blessings,

LR.