Category: Spiritual, Inspirational

Joy!

My Garden of Sorrow

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2023 Is a year of blessed expectation . Twenty is the number of expectation and three is divine perfection, what else could 2023 indicates? So to receive that prosperity, we must learn to cultivate the rhythm of reflection.

This is my first message to my church this year and I love sharing it with whoever wants to read it. I am extremely grateful for the Word of God because it is my comfort in tribulation, my refuge in fear and my complete health.

I want to motivate you to cultivate a rhythm of reflection on His Word. I want you to cling to the Word of God as a drowning clings to a lifeline.

What is cultivating?

A. Cultivating in our theme is, putting all the necessary means to promote knowledge. Exercise the faculties of our intellect. Making the rhythm increase its intensity of warmth that enlivens.

What is rhythm ?

B. Rhythm, is what moves and refers to the speed with which a certain action is performed. On our theme: We are going to keep a good pace of reflection and we will end a fruitful 2023.

What is reflection?

C. Reflection, is the action of thinking about something again, with greater care and erudition.

Some synonyms: Think, reason, examine, deepen, meditate, etc.

Bible, is the human name given to it because it is a compilation of God’s instructions for human beings for all eternity past, present, and future.

It is vital to study and learn the Bible, because it is not just letters and words collected in a book. The Bible is the Word of God who is a Person. And all creations were made by this powerful Word of God, called Jesus.

Psalms 138:2MEV) “I will worship toward your holy temple and praise your name for your mercy and for your truth; for you have exalted your word above all your name.

This is my Story! What’s Yours?

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cultivating the rhythm of reflection

Today my vibrant heart did not receive that vital joy that the Word gives.

I wonder what really permeated from my encounter with God in the Word today?

My heart was a little sore instead of beating with joy like always.

I was so ready to start reading the amazing Book of Revelation. And I went into the narrative with great expectations. And my expectation turned into a probing question!

Chapter one, verse 20 explains the mystery and at the same time disturbs my soul with the searching question: Would I be in that category? Am I one of those angels?

“This is the meaning of the mystery of the seven stars you saw in my right hand and the seven gold lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.” (Revelation 1:20 NLT).

The Lord lovingly responded to me with an amazing testimony. When I was struggling with my probing question, an emergency arose. A mother found out that her son was using drugs, she confronted him and he violently assaulted her.

The Holy Spirit gave me the powerful tool to minister to her and her devastation and hopelessness dissipated. She said that she entered into a peace that she had not experienced for a long time. And that is the confirmation : Yes, I am in that category in the mystery!

Praise God ! My deeper search today, is satisfied. So can yours. Just a little talk with Jesus will do it. Try it!

This is my Story! What’s Yours?

I Serve an Awesome God!

When I think about colors, I know there is no such thing. There is no color, there is only light. No one can distinguish color in the absence of light.

I can enjoy the serenity and tranquility of this gray afternoon. The environment is loaded with humidity that blesses my plants. Gray is a very sophisticated color, I see it as a dim light that permeates the darkness and transforms it into a soft silvery gray.

Gray represents neutrality and balance. However, it carries some negative connotations, mainly when it comes to loss and depression. And so is our life, one moment everything is on balance, but all of the sudden some adversity visits us. And we are totally out of balance.

But the Holy Scriptures have wonderful promises to get us out of all calamities. And it’s so comforting to know that darkness has an expiration date.

“Nevertheless, that time of darkness and despair will not go on forever… (Isaiah 9:1 NLT).

“The people who walk in darkness will see a great light. For those who live in a land of deep darkness, a light will shine.” (Isaiah 9:2 NLT).

Problems, anxieties, sickness , poverty, etc., all of these darken our lives. But it doesn’t have to continue that way. God’s promise is fulfilled already!

“For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6).

You see that the Light has come, you no longer have to live in a gloomy environment. Because that Child who was given grew up and gave His life as a ransom for ours. We can enter into His light! Just ask Him to come to live in you.

This is my Story! What’s Yours?

Gray afternoon