Caminhada do Amor - Chicago IL

Existem coisas que nao tem preço, como por exemplo, estar junto de quem amamos e nos amam também. Como aconteceu na Caminhada do Amor em todo o mundo, provando que não ha barreiras para que possa impedir a forca do amor.

Palavra tem poder?

Palavra tem poder?

After 20 years of addiction, she is healed.

My name is Bethzaida and at the age of 3 I began being sexually abused by relatives and friends of the family. This caused great psychological trauma. My father was an alcoholic and besides taking me with him to bars, he also gave me alcoholic beverages to drink. This became my first addiction.

At the age of 15 I got pregnant and was a mother at 16. I had to leave school and because I couldn’t financially support my daughter, I started working as a dancer in a nightclub. I worked there for 6 years. There, I got involved with drugs such as ecstasy, acid and more alcoholic beverages, and used them every day to be able to sell my body and make money.

After some time, I became pregnant again but decided to get an abortion. I met another man and got pregnant again, and had my second child. But he left me for another woman. So I got some plastic surgery to improve my body. An infection spread and I almost died. The doctors gave me morphine tablets (synthetic heroin), and this is when I became addicted to heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine.

I ended up arrested for trafficking large amounts of morphine tablets. I was in prison for 5 years, spending loads of money on lawyers so I wouldn’t remain locked up for 15 years.

For this reason, I lost custody of my son and sank deep into the underworld of crack, marijuana and mushrooms for 10 years. Then, I started working for a pimp who told me to sell my body in exchange for drugs. I reached the point of selling myself for $3 or just in exchange for drugs. He collected the money and gave me drugs.

In total, it was more than 20 years of suffering, until one day a group from the Universal Church rang my door bell and invited me to seek the Living God. So I went to Church. I was yearning for such a change that, on the first day, I surrendered my life to the Lord Jesus and was baptized in the water. This is when the process of my deliverance began. When I participated in the strong prayer meeting, I manifested with demons, and after the deliverance prayer, the bishop made a challenge saying that if I wasn’t delivered, he would stop doing what he does and start selling bananas on the side of the road. I made the decision and God gave me the strength to fight. I did the chains of prayer for deliverance and continued persevering. Right away, I felt disgusted by drugs and stopped using.

Today I am free of all addictions and I can say that there is a cure for addictions.

Thank God!

Bethzaida – Fort Lauderdale – Florida, United States

Latino: do coreto ao sucesso

Latino: do coreto ao sucesso

The path of the Altar

…Which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
…Which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? Matthew 23.17-19

What you consider greater and more important becomes your goal.

Many say they choose the path of the Altar when they actually want the path of the gold. This is, they say they want to get to the Altar, but what they really want is to get to the gold. Because, for them, the gold deposited on the Altar is more important than the Altar itself.

Those who want to walk the path of the gold have their thoughts focused on the gold. Their concern is to find ways to benefit from it. So, they focus on filling churches with people, obtaining titles, being recognized by people, having their name exalted and conquering material goods for themselves.

But those who want to walk the path of the Altar have their thoughts focused on the Altar. Their concern is to find ways to benefit the Altar. So they concentrate on making disciples, serving God in all circumstances, leading people to know God, seeing Jesus’ Name being glorified and investing so that more souls can be reached.

These are two completely different paths that lead to opposite destinations but many still insist on believing they can take advantage of the “best of both worlds”. But there is no way you can serve two masters, or walk down two paths. Either you walk down one or the other; either you intend to benefit from the gold or intend to benefit from the Altar. What are your true intentions?

The path of the Altar is the way into the arms of God, but the path of the gold is the way to hell.

The faith that moved Abraham

Abraham believed for a long time, even when there was no longer any hope of seeing his dream come true, to then be able to become the father of faith and God’s friend. Not only did he have a son, but millions, just like he was told:

“So shall your descendants be. And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.” Romans 4.18-21

Those who are of the faith are guided by what they cannot see, not by what they can see.

If Abraham focused on the circumstances, he would certainly have become discouraged, just like any other person would. He had many reasons to feel like that. Nothing was working in his favor. He was no longer a young man married to a sterile woman, but an old man married to an old sterile woman.

Those who have a supernatural faith submit their natural plans to spiritual plans. Everything that is heavenly is above what is wordly and the spiritual is above the material.

Those who look to the difficulties become discouraged and lose the vision of God.

Abraham’s secret was that his faith was 100% immersed in God’s Word.

This is why he did not become weak! The years he waited did not overcome him, and his and Sarah’s physical conditions did not cause him to doubt what is most sublime and precious: the Word that was given to us!

Nothing in the universe is compared to the Word of God Almighty.

It is sovereign in Heaven and on Earth! Nothing can stop it!

There is no force or power that can oppose it. It is God Himself materialized. Where it goes, darkness dissipates and the impossible happens.

Abraham knew this! He had full conviction that the Almighty’s Promise would be fulfilled. The time required for this to happen did not matter. He believed, and that was enough to sustain him day after day and year after year.

His decisions were not understood by others. He seemed crazy! Exchanging the certain for the doubtful is not something that can be understood by those who have not received the revelation of supernatural faith.

But Abraham was different! His faith made him special among that generation. Physical eyes look for something physical as a reference, but spiritual eyes, which are of the faith, look to the invisible and persevere until the Promise is fulfilled.

Are you the kind of person who usually weighs the possibilities for a miracle to happen? Bishop Macedo

Nao apagueis o Espirito

"Nao apagueis o Espirito" 1 Tessalonicenses 5.19

O que mais tem feito apagar o Espirito Santo na vida de muitos Cristaos, é exatamente o dar ouvidos a maldita voz do coração, dos sentimentos, voz das emoções. Na maioria das vezes a voz que vem do coração soa suavemente e causa uma falsa sensação de bem estar, de algo muito bom, porem, por detraz desse falso bem estar, se encontra uma grande armadilha do diabo. Sem perceber a pessoa se afasta da fé e consequentemente ela se afasta do Altar, do fogo do Espirito. A sua queda é apenas uma questão de tempo. O Espirito Santo ja se apagou dentro dela. ja não ha mais desejo de ler a Biblia, buscar a Presença de Deus, participar das campanhas de fé, jejuar, ganhar almas, não ha mais forças para perdoar, e muito mais.

Cuide para que o Espirito Santo não seja apagado de sua vida, procure manter a chama do fogo de Deus ardendo constantemente dentro de voce. Fazendo assim, a sua vida estará sempre no Altar e sua salvação estará protegida.