Jerusalem - Holy Land
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Monday, December 28, 2015
the Spirit of Faith
In this year there were many assistants who fell. Everyone was warned and no one can say that he was not advised. They fell down because they did not give ears to the voice of the Holy Spirit.
You lack nothing in the Church, everything is done for you to remain firm and strong in the faith. There is the message of Bishop Macedo, there are the groups of the Church, Godllywood for women and Intellimen for men. There are Bishops, Pastors, men of God with enough spiritual experiences separated to help the assistants. Everything is done to preserve you in the faith. All of us have received the care of the Holy Spirit, not only the assistants, but also Bishops, pastors, wives and the auxiliaries. We all have been taken care by the Holy Spirit. He has taken care of us as souls.
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,”
Hebrews 12:1
The Holy Spirit has taught us to remove all the heaviness from within us that has prevented us from bearing fruit. This heaviness can be accusation of the devil, sadness, grudge, hatred, evil eyes, bad conscience, pride, doubts, etc.
An assistant was carrying the sadness and disappointment of being abandoned by her husband over another woman. Her husband had left her, but not the Lord Jesus. It is necessary to keep moving forward and get rid of the sadness she’s been keeping inside.
The Spirit of Faith encourages us to look straight to the promises of God, even if everything is against us. But the Word of God does not fail.
Which heaviness has blocked your spiritual life? What has been a heaviness in your life? Doubts, pride, malice, evil eyes, worries, accusation of a sin? Get rid of this heaviness because many assistants have been left behind because of that.
Are you going to remain in the faith in 2016? It all depends on you to hear and obey the voice of the Holy Spirit.
"Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us,and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us" Hebrews 12.1
Many people did not resist sin, they did not resist the attacks of the devil because they were not in the Spirit of Faith. When we are in the Spirit of Faith there is an immediate reaction against temptation which is by rebuking that evil. He who is in the faith always remember the Word of God when evil approaches him. When we use our faith in the Word of God, satan does not resist. This is the secret that many assistants used to practice, but they don’t do it today anymore. In our battles and struggles we have to confess the Word of God. For example; It’s written, for I am with you… Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endures the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of God the throne of God.
"looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."
Hebrews 12.2
What is to look firmly? It means to look straight only to the Lord Jesus without deviating to the right or to the left. Peter deviated his eyes from the Lord Jesus and he sank, but if you look firm to Jesus you will remain until the end
Bishop Carlos
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Friday, December 4, 2015
Uncovering the Roof
In the right place
"Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying.
When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, 'Son, your sins are forgiven you.'" Mark 2.3-5
There were many paralytic people in Capernaum at the time those four men brought a paralytic one to the Lord Jesus. But, the question is: Why did only one decide to come to the place where Jesus was? Why was he the only one who got healed? If there were so many others in the same situation.
The answer for these questions is not hard to find, of course! He was the only one who did not accept to be in that situation anymore, he was fed up, tired and revolted with that kind of miserable life. He used to depend on others to do everything he wanted to do. He could not go out by himself, he could not eat, or even bathe alone. But in the day that he revolted against his suffering his life changed because he went to the place where the Lord Jesus was. He went to the ALTAR. The four men who were carrying him knew that for him to be put in the place where Jesus was, they would have to make a sacrifice, and they did, they uncovered the roof and let him down in the right place.
"'I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.' Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, 'We never saw anything like this!'" Mark 2. 11-12
Dear reader,
Maybe everything in your life seems to be paralyzed, and because of that you have to depend on others for everything. You depend on your friends, your relatives, your boss, your family and many others, but if right now you revolt against your suffering, if you revolt against your situation and come to the place where the Lord Jesus is, which is the Altar, you will be able to change your life. It will happen exactly as it happened to the paralytic man who was not paralyzed anymore.
The Lord Jesus said to him, “ARISE”, and that’s what He wants to say to you.
The Altar is the place where you will become independent.
Bishop Carlos
"Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying.
When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, 'Son, your sins are forgiven you.'" Mark 2.3-5
There were many paralytic people in Capernaum at the time those four men brought a paralytic one to the Lord Jesus. But, the question is: Why did only one decide to come to the place where Jesus was? Why was he the only one who got healed? If there were so many others in the same situation.
The answer for these questions is not hard to find, of course! He was the only one who did not accept to be in that situation anymore, he was fed up, tired and revolted with that kind of miserable life. He used to depend on others to do everything he wanted to do. He could not go out by himself, he could not eat, or even bathe alone. But in the day that he revolted against his suffering his life changed because he went to the place where the Lord Jesus was. He went to the ALTAR. The four men who were carrying him knew that for him to be put in the place where Jesus was, they would have to make a sacrifice, and they did, they uncovered the roof and let him down in the right place.
"'I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.' Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, 'We never saw anything like this!'" Mark 2. 11-12
Dear reader,
Maybe everything in your life seems to be paralyzed, and because of that you have to depend on others for everything. You depend on your friends, your relatives, your boss, your family and many others, but if right now you revolt against your suffering, if you revolt against your situation and come to the place where the Lord Jesus is, which is the Altar, you will be able to change your life. It will happen exactly as it happened to the paralytic man who was not paralyzed anymore.
The Lord Jesus said to him, “ARISE”, and that’s what He wants to say to you.
The Altar is the place where you will become independent.
Bishop Carlos
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
The Value of a Sacrifice
THE VALUE OF A SACRIFICE
The value of sacrifice is not about the amount of money that a person puts on the Altar. For example no one can say that a person has not made a sacrifice for offering little on the Altar. And no one can also say that a person made a real sacrifice by giving a large sum of money.
Zacchaeus made a sacrifice giving much in the eyes of men; the widow made a sacrifice giving little in the eyes of men. Both Zaccheus with his very much, and the widow with the little that she had was a sacrifice in God's eyes.
The question is: What is the value of a sacrifice? I believe that the value of a sacrifice is the sacrifice!
The rich gave a lot of money, however, the widow made a sacrifice,although it was two coins. She gave her life !
Everyone should be aware that sacrifice awakens your faith, the rest is up to God. For it is He Who has the last say, as he did with Gideon. After all, the fire does not depend on gold to be at its most intense flames, but gold depends on the fire to be purified and to have more value. In the case of the Altar, the Altar does not depend on gold to have more value, but the offering presented depends on the Altar to be sanctified.
Everyone can sacrifice, both the rich and the poor, they just have to believe and be revolted.
One person gave their testimony that he gave a wagon worth more than 5 cars in a Campaign , and also another person gave their testimony and gave much less, but the interesting thing is that both were blessed. In terms of values there is a very big difference, but the two people made a sacrifice. The important thing is that the Lord Jesus sits on the Altar observing how people are climbing on it. He does not care about the amount if it's too much or too little, life is all about! I repeat: the value of sacrifice is the sacrifice!
The meeting between God and a person takes place on the Altar, because he is the Almighty. The Altar is a place for sacrifice, no one should go up there empty-handed, but with a REAL sacrifice.
When Gideon put the second bull on the Altar, He was presenting the true sacrifice to God to change his life
The value of sacrifice is not about the amount of money that a person puts on the Altar. For example no one can say that a person has not made a sacrifice for offering little on the Altar. And no one can also say that a person made a real sacrifice by giving a large sum of money.
Zacchaeus made a sacrifice giving much in the eyes of men; the widow made a sacrifice giving little in the eyes of men. Both Zaccheus with his very much, and the widow with the little that she had was a sacrifice in God's eyes.
The question is: What is the value of a sacrifice? I believe that the value of a sacrifice is the sacrifice!
The rich gave a lot of money, however, the widow made a sacrifice,although it was two coins. She gave her life !
Everyone should be aware that sacrifice awakens your faith, the rest is up to God. For it is He Who has the last say, as he did with Gideon. After all, the fire does not depend on gold to be at its most intense flames, but gold depends on the fire to be purified and to have more value. In the case of the Altar, the Altar does not depend on gold to have more value, but the offering presented depends on the Altar to be sanctified.
Everyone can sacrifice, both the rich and the poor, they just have to believe and be revolted.
One person gave their testimony that he gave a wagon worth more than 5 cars in a Campaign , and also another person gave their testimony and gave much less, but the interesting thing is that both were blessed. In terms of values there is a very big difference, but the two people made a sacrifice. The important thing is that the Lord Jesus sits on the Altar observing how people are climbing on it. He does not care about the amount if it's too much or too little, life is all about! I repeat: the value of sacrifice is the sacrifice!
The meeting between God and a person takes place on the Altar, because he is the Almighty. The Altar is a place for sacrifice, no one should go up there empty-handed, but with a REAL sacrifice.
When Gideon put the second bull on the Altar, He was presenting the true sacrifice to God to change his life
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Authority in the Spirit.
“The principalities, powers, rulers of darkness and spiritual forces of evil are under Satan’s command and authority to steal, kill and destroy, just as the Lord Jesus said. But they can only do that to those who are in the kingdom of darkness. They can’t touch those who are in the Kingdom of God! Satan’s authority in this ” “world is limited to affect only those who have not been born of the Spirit.
“We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.” 1 John 5.18
We see then that personal achievements, economic success, a well-established family, children set in good path or material possessions are not a person’s greatest glory. One day, all these things will come to an end. The greatest glory of all is the one that lasts throughout eternity; the one blessing that the Holy Spirit Himself performs inside the human heart: the new birth. The glory of one who is born of the Holy Spirit is the greatest of all honors because it is the birth of a child of God.
The birth of the Lord Jesus was the greatest manifestation of God’s glory here on earth. The entire heavenly host rejoiced as never before. The Bible says that “suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: ‘Glory to God in the highest’” (Luke 2.13,14). The same joy is repeated in heaven whenever “abandons his evil ways. The Lord Jesus said, “I say to you that likewise ” “there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance” (Luke 15.7).
He who is born of the flesh is flesh. He is a corruptible body subject to decay, which will eventually be destroyed. But he who is born of the Holy Spirit is spirit, and belongs to God’s world; therefore, he is eternal. The born again, or born of God, belongs to God; that is, he is a child of God just as the Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God!
Being a child of God means being issued out of God. This is exactly the greatest glory a person can have. Only those who have been conceived by God have His divine and eternal nature. In addition, they are also the only ones who enjoy exclusive access to His holy presence, since they too are spirit. “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4.24)”
Bishop Macedo
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