Move Forward with Gratitude and Faith

If you are grateful with what you have and move on in faith, God will multiply it. When Jesus had to feed 5,000 men accompanied by their wives and children, he took what He had on hand, five barley loaves and two fish and the first thing He did was to thank God for those five loaves and two fish; then He sent His Apostles to distribute them to the people and the miraculous multiplication made the five loaves and two fish enough for everyone and they ate as much as they wanted. This can be read in Chapter 6 of the Gospel of John. Let us praise God’s name and come to him with thanksgiving, for The Lord is good! His faithful love endures forever. Happy Thanksgiving Day.

Do More and Get Less

We work to have More but we ended up with less. Humans struggle all their lives to increase their wealth and have more assets. That doesn't look bad at first glance, the problem is that the accumulation of wealth and property, is the main goal of our lives, and this approach makes our principles to adapt to match that value or primary goal. This adjustment of principles makes negative attitudes to be seen as positive and we end up destroying our core values by mainly seeking  financial success, eliminating the time required for the development of our spiritual life, our family and personal relationships and our health. The pursuit of wealth as a core value, make us achieve more quantity of goods, but less quality of life. Jesus taught us: And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but are yourself lost or destroyed? That one who stores up earthly wealth but not have a rich relationship with God is a fool. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. Let us learn the lesson and make sure we seek God and get in this life what is important and significant.

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God loves you. No matter what you've done, your heavenly Father loves you and awaits you with open arms to receive you with a fatherly hug. Repent and return home with Him. To illustrate this teaching, Jesus told the story of a man whomhad two sons. The younger son asked his father for his share of the estate and packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, where he wasted all his money in wild living. About the time his money ran out, a great famine swept over the land, and he began to starve. When he finally came to his senses, he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. His son said to him: Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. But his father said to the servants, we must celebrate with a feast, for this son of mine was lost, but now he is found. This passage is in Luke 15:11-32. Return to God. He is waiting for you with open arms to embrace you!

Do you recognize Jesus? Do you accept His Word and see His Light? Do you know that you were created through Him? Jesus was in the world's creation and He was the Word of God. The Father created all things through Jesus who is the Word. Jesus gave life to everything that was created , and his life brought light to everyone. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it. Jesus who the Word and the true Light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He came into the very world he created, became human and made his home among us, full of unfailing love and faithfulness, but the world did not recognize him. But to all who believed in him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. They are reborn, through a birth that comes from God. No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is himself God, is near to the Father’s heart. He has revealed God to us. This is explained in the Gospel of John, chapter 1, verses 1 to 18. Believe in Jesus, accept Him into your heart and you will receive your rightful inheritance as a child of God.

Leadership Is Service: Break the world paradigm. Leadership is not political figuration, vanity and arrogance, putting personal interests above the interests of others. Those of us who follow Jesus must be leaders, but not following the lidership paradigm of the world, but as Jesus came to serve. Once the Apostles began to argue among themselves about who would be the greatest among them, but Jesus told them: In this world the kings and great men lord it over their people, yet they are called "friends of the people". But among you it will be different. Those who are the greatest among you should take the lowest rank, and the leader should be like a servant. Who is more important, the one who sits at the table or the one who serves? The one who sits at the table, of course. But not here! For I am among you as one who serves. We can read this passage in Luke 22:24-27. Jesus came to serve us and today He is the King of the Universe. Let us follow His example.

Porn Addiction

Porn Addiction: Some people want to make us believe pornography is a healthy pastime, harmless, acceptable, and natural. They also promote the idea that only people with over-active guilt complexes disapprove of it. However, the reality is much different.Though one could argue that nudity and sex are natural, in pornography, sex is about individual own selfish pleasure and not about the self-giving, mutually reciprocating intimacy that it was designed for by God. As a result, adults and children are inundated with unnatural and distorted sexual content, made available through media, all around them. Also, it has been proved that pornography is addictive, and neuroscientists are beginning to map the biological substrate of this addiction. This is a very real problem that needs to be discussed and addressed openly. Jesus said: Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light. But when your eye is bad, your whole body is filled with darkness. And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is!

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Always Together.

Always Together. One of our friends had a pretty serious problem, and we come together to support her at this very hard time. The pain was so great that none of us dared to speak, all he did was hold her and cry with her. Surprisingly, that helped calm our friend and she found peace. The bond between humans has a very special power. In chapter 17 of the Gospel of John, Jesus asks Gos to keep us united, as if we were one one and that we experience perfect unity. Years later Paul appeal to us to live in harmony with each other, without divisions and united in thought and purpose. The lesson to be learned is that together we can accomplish anything we set out to do. Let's stop seeking personal protagonism and the power to control others. Let's enter together in the power of the union. We need to practice here, because in heaven we will all be together without any personal protagonism.

Internal Reengineering

Internal Reengineering: When people want to change their life, usually try to change external factors and decide to leave their parents, get a divorce, change jobs, move to another location, etc.. But if the product is bad, changing the packaging does not improve the product. You have to change the product design, the formula. The design of your life is in your mind and the formula is in your thoughts. If you want to change the results you are getting in your life, you must change your way of thinking. This is the process: Your thoughts produce feelings that guide your actions. Your actions produce habits that form your character and your character forge your destiny. Summary: Your thoughts forge your destiny. But many times, we don't even know the destiny we want and we can not have the thoughts that forge the destiny we deserve. In Matthew, chapter 6, Jesus says that the things of the world dominate our thoughts, but if we seek the Kingdom of God above all else and live a righteous life, God will give us the destiny we deserve as His children. Seek God, fill your thoughts with His Word and you will reach the destiny God has for you. A destiny you may have never dreamed about.

Is Not Your Burden

Is not your burden. My friend Marisol was sometimes violent and sometimes depressed, besides having some addictions. Some friends and myself tried to help her, but we didn't know how. Until one day she told us she had been abused as a child. Child abuse is the physical, sexual or emotional maltreatment or neglect of a child or children, by a parent or guardian, which causes physical or psychological harm, affecting the normal development of children. Besides the physical effects caused by abuse, all types of child abuse result in behavioral, emotional and social disorders. My friend Marisol trusted us and talked about her abuse, beginning with that step her recovery. If you have suffered from child abuse, you must understand that it was not your fault and who abused you probably was also abused. Talk about your abuse with qualified professionals in counseling and especially talk to your heavenly Father. God loves you and wants to hear you and heal you. That burden is not yours, talk about it and drop it with the help of God.

Look To The Sky

Look to the sky and feel God. When we are sad, depressed, stressed or anxious, we tend to lower our head and look down or close our eyes, but when we need peace, motivation and strength, we look up, searching the sky. No one knows why this happens, but we all do that. It is as if our spirit were connected with the sky above us. That is why, all cultures, in all the history of the world have looked to the skies seeking God, without knowing why. Psalm 19 says: The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display his craftsmanship. And in the first chapter of the book of Acts says: Jesus was lifted up on a cloud while they were watching, until they could no longer see him and they strained to see him rising into heaven. Try this: Sit or lie down outside and look to the sky. Relax and connect with God. Seek Him, speak to Him, feel Him and connect with Him and your Father who is in heaven, will speak to your heart, to your mind. Put your eyes, your mind and your hope in God and not in this world. Then this world will make sense to you.

Evil Kills

Evil kills: My friend Armando cared deeply about the negative news he followed daily on TV, Radio, Newspapers and Internet. The result was that by not knowing how to handle this information, he was getting sick, and for health reasons the doctor forbade him to follow the news. There is evidence that the content of media showing bad things as crime, war, violence, famine, political unrest, poverty and injustice, to name but a few, can generate a negative mood experience, including anxiety, sadness, anger and disgust. This affects many aspects of your thinking, behaviour and psychological health, because these experiences will affect how you interpret and worry about events in your own life. Do not let negative messages defile your heart, because Jesus taught us that from the heart come the evil thoughts, words and actions. That is why we read in the book of Proverbs:Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. Now I tell you: Guard your heart filling it with the word of God.

Do Not See Human Works

Do not see human works. Do not see God in the works that humans do in the name of God. See God in the works of Jesus. Human beings are imperfect and sometimes we do not act according to God, even though we proclaim we act on his behalf. This has confused a lot of people. However, Jesus was perfect and his work was the work of God. Jesus said in the Gospel of John, chapters 10 and 14: The Father and I are one. Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! The words I speak are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me. What do we see of God through Jesus? That anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. Because Jesus said: I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and to seek and save those who are lost. I have come as a light to shine in this dark world, so that all who put their trust in me will no longer remain in the dark. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life, for I did not come to be served but to serve others and to give my life as a ransom for many. Jesus is love. God is love.

Choose Between Life and Death

The abortion is the natural or induced termination of the development of a fetus during pregnancy. The idea of making induced abortion, a women's right and a legal option, has been gaining ground and has already been adopted in many parts. Proponents, identifying themselves as pro-choice, contend that abortion is a right that should not be limited by governmental or religious authority, and which outweighs any right claimed for an embryo or fetus. Opponents, identifying themselves as pro-life, assert that personhood begins at conception, and therefore abortion is the immoral killing of a human being. Is the fetus a person and has rights? That is complicated and becomes a legal discussion. The fact is that the fetus, whether or not, legally a person, is alive and after the abortion is dead. Those are the facts. A question for those who advocate freedom of choice: Would you have liked to have freedom of choice when they were in your mother's womb? Would you have liked to be aborted? Jesus taught us the golden rule: Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. In our case: Do to the fetus as you would have liked them to do to you when you were a fetus. The choice is to love the fetus as myself.