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Oct2012

The Tree of Life

Mankind’s success begins with the Cross.
It is the source of spiritual and moral principles.
First the spiritual, then the moral.
When there are spiritual principles, there will also be moral principles.
When the fear of God exists, there will also be love, faithfulness, respect, honor, consideration, and compliance in your marriage.
Your spiritual character is reflected in your moral character.
The Cross guides the spiritual and the moral.
The vertical beam on the Cross represents man’s personal relationship with God. This beam was established in the First Commandment of God's Law: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment," Matthew 22.37-38
In practical terms, this means that the Lord God has to occupy the First Place in a man’s life, and be the Focus of his attention, consideration, respect, faithfulness and fear.
God does not accept to divide this position with anyone else. This is why Jesus made it very clear when He said:
"He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.  And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it," Matthew 10.37-39
Once this principle of faith is established, the next step is the formation of the horizontal beam of the Cross.
The Second Great Commandment, which is similar to the First, is:
"You shall love your neighbor as yourself," Matthew 22.39
Who is closest to you, if not your husband or wife?
Therefore, the horizontal beam of the Cross is made up of two parts: a husband and his wife. Nevertheless, these parts must be extracted from the vertical beam, so that the Cross can be built with wood from the same tree: the Tree of Life.
Once the Cross is established in someone's life, this person, undoubtedly, will be “as a tree planted next to rivers of water, that in due time gives its fruit and whose leaves will not wither, and everything this person does will be successful,” Psalm 1.3

Don't Be Greedy!

'Then He came to Capernaum. And when He was in the house He asked them, 'What was it you disputed among yourselves on the road?'
We live in a world where most of people have been very greedy they never get tired of searching for more no matter what it takes they want more and many times for them to conquer a better position at work, at school or in any other area of society, they lie and corrupt themselves, in some cases they even kill each other, it doesn't really matter because what they want is above anything. Well, to see this type of attitude among unbelievers is not a surprise for us but among Christians is unacceptable. There was a dispute among the disciples to decide who was the greatest among them, they were fighting for a position.
When we become servants of God the most important thing for us is to serve Him no matter where or how we are going to serve, either cleaning, cooking, preaching, evangelizing, opening or closing doors, etc... the pleasure of a servant is to serve and for a servant there is no good or bad place because he is a servant and his priority is to please His master.

Um dia para a história

Um dia para a história

Save a youth, this will definitely be the best opportunity ever for you who want to help someone and this can be your own son or daughter. To save a youth means to have one youth less lost in the streets. October 28th 9:30am.

Two Ways

Life is made by choices and decisions and we all have opportunities of choosing whatever we want in life knowing that sooner or later we will reap the fruits of any choice or decision made in life. God in His everlasting mercy, always gives us this high privilege of deciding what to do in life and no one can still this power from us.

"Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently OBEY the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I give you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth". Deuteronomy 28.1.28.1 This is one way.

"But it shall come to pass, if you DO NOT OBEY the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you; Deuteronomy 28.15 This is another way.
Which way have chosen?

Victory And Defeat
Inside of each person there is a power called faith that can be used to bring victory or defeat, it depends on how you use it. If every time you are about to do something you allow negative thoughts to possess your mind and you start to doubt about yourself or about what you are going to do, then you will definitely be defeated not by the difficulties of what you want but because you are manifesting a negative faith. On the other hand, if you don't care how hard is for you to conquer what you want, you don't care how far you got to go nor how long it's going to take, you will definitely be successful in everything that you do.

Penhor do Espírito

 

Colocar um patrimônio como garantia do pagamento tem sido prática comum nas sociedades. Já acontecia na época de Paulo que, dirigido pelo Espírito Santo, aproveitou esse costume para conscientizar os cristãos, em Éfeso, sobre seu futuro promissor e eterno.
“…depois que ouvistes a palavra da verdade, o Evangelho da vossa salvação, tendo nEle também crido, fostes selados com o Santo Espírito da promessa; O qual é O Penhor da nossa herança, ao resgate da Sua propriedade, em louvor da Sua glória.” Efésios 1.13,14
Numa linguagem mais simples podemos ler:
…após terem ouvido a mensagem do Evangelho vocês creram no Senhor Jesus, foram salvos e selados com o Espírito Santo. O Espírito Santo é o Selo de Garantia da nossa salvação até o dia do Resgate da Sua propriedade para louvor da Sua glória.
É claro que o texto não diz respeito aos cristãos piratas ou carnais. Mas apenas aos nascidos do Espírito.
É extremamente glorioso viver na fé de que o sacrifício da vontade da carne, pela causa do Senhor Jesus, tem essa compensação imediata.
Não vimos Jesus, não O sentimos, não O tocamos, não vimos os Céus, nem anjos, nada…
Tudo o que possuímos de garantia do eterno é uma convicção íntima.
Esse tipo de certeza já foi profetizada por Jesus, quando disse: “Porque me viste, creste? Bem-aventurados os que não viram e creram”. João 20.29
Portanto, como Tesouro Particular de Deus, os nascidos do Espírito têm Esse Selo de Garantia. Enquanto estiverem emprestados neste mundo para o Seu serviço de ganhar a outros, eles têm o Espírito Santo da Promessa que testifica no seu espírito o resgate na volta do Senhor Jesus.
São propriedades da Sua glória.
Bispo Macedo

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Faith and Trust

Faith and trust work together, many times to believe only is not enough to conquer what you need the most, many people give up on their dreams because they are not able to persevere until they materialize what they dream of. Not everything that we want comes to us in the day and time we want, it's necessary to trust to go all the way until we see our victory.

I Can Make It

One of the most important thing in a person's life is exactly the power of making decisions, we were born bringing this power inside of us but unfortunately many don't use it as they should, they rather allow others to use it on their behalves and they suffer chaotic consequences in life. There's no one better than yourself to make your own decisions, every time you depend on someone else for you to do what you are supposed to do it doesn't come out in the it should. Therefore, make sure you decide whatever you have to do by using your abilities and your faith then, you will be able to say, I can make it. But if you always depend on others you will never win.

The Apollo Theater has always been a place where many famous singers began their carriers, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Luther Vandross, Aretha Franklin and many more, this list can be much bigger than that but this last Sunday, September 30th, everything was completely different of what usually happens there because there wasn't just one famous singer but over 1500 people singing all together and praising the God Almighty, it was simply amazing and awesome, unforgettable and remarkable proving that when we set in our hearts and in our mind to do something by faith we definitely do that and that's what happened Sunday, the Godllywood Concert was one of many that without a doubt will come soon.

I'll post more pictures soon.

Bishop Carlos