Tuesday, September 28, 2010

"YESTERDAY,TODAY AND FOREVER"

The future is like an oven in which we cook the dough
that with our own efforts, prepared.

The colors and flavors enhance,
when the dough is fully cooked.

Everybody is ready to receive a better future!
But nobody is quite ready to begin preparing their dough!

Time passes, the oven door opens, and we get frustrated
When we found something different as expected!
We are the dough!

The future is like a time machine!
If yesterday we loaded it up with trash,
now, out of nowhere, right in front of our eyes.. .
Trash reappears!

The rule is clear and simple;
We will always harvest.. what we sown!
If we haven’t sown anything good.. ..
Nothing good we are going to harvest!

If you want to enjoy a good tomorrow..
You have to prepare it today!
Sow good seeds today!
Good fruits you will harvest!


Don’t let the world shape your dough!
Christ today, will bring heaven for you tomorrow!
He was yesterday! He is today!
And He will be forever!

PRAISE THE LORD!


Jose Salazar
S. de C.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

"I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD"

A man watching how they were lighting up candles in a church, to be able
to see the objects they were worshiping, got an idea!
He said: If I could build a candle, a gigantic candle, God will listen to me! He will forgive my sins, and I could go to heaven!
He was a rich man, and contracted people to make his dream come true!
He told them to put inside the candle, the biggest laser they could get!
A laser that could reach all the way to heaven!
When the structure was finally complete, he invited all his friends for the
opening ceremony, and bought a lot of wine, food, music, and anything
they could think of for their entertainment and enjoyment.
He was very happy!
This light he said: It’s going to shine in heaven were God is!
At night, he had a dream were God was telling him:
I appreciate your good intentions, but.. ..
I do not need that light, because, I AM THE LIGHT!
AND THERE IS NO DARKNESS IN HEAVEN!
Darkness is in the world!
That is why I sent my beloved Son to give them Light!
But it looks like they prefer to live in darkness!
Far away from His Light!
My Son’s Light are, His Life, His Death and His Resurrection
to save the world from sin, and receive eternal life!
His Light is His Testament, so the people could learn and fill up
themselves with it ,and serve as carriers of Light to enlighten
other people that are walking in darkness!
You should have helped the poor and hungry instead of spending so
much money in that thing! To me, the light you built, is the same as
the other candles in the churches, not to worship me!
The Light I am delighted with, is the Light of my Son shinning on the
faces of people that get filled with Him!
Wake up! Repent! Turn your back to sin, so I could see your face!
Get close to my Son to obtain forgiveness!
Read His Good News about salvation and talk everybody about Him!
He is my Word, and His Word is Light! Get filled with it and light up
The whole world! Tell me you love me! But better yet,
show it to me, loving people thoroughly!
The man jumped from his bed trembling, he ran to an old book shelve
he had in which a dusty old Bible was forgotten! He carefully dusted
it out, and with tears in his eyes started to read:
In the beginning God created the heaven’s and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the
face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters, and God said: Let it be light; and there was light! Genesis 1-1.
J.S.Sde C.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

"IS MAN KING OF THE UNIVERSE?"

Is man the king of the Universe?
No! He is not!
Why?
Because The Universe already has a King: Its Creator: God Almighty!
Then, could man be the king of earth?
Let me tell you something:
When God created the world, He crowned man as king, He gave him authority
to rule over it, to name the animals of the air, land and seas, and to eat from all the fruits except from the fruits of the tree of good and evil!
Man disobeyed and ate from that fruit and SIN came to this world making man
slaves of SIN, The devil practically removed from him the crown and crowned
himself as king of the world! God kicked man from paradise and punished them to work to pay for what he eats!
Just from a simple fruit?
No! It is not just the fruit, it is disobedience to God! And that means death!God created man to be able to live forever, but because of SIN, death came in!
That means that man brought death to himself! Eternal doom!
That is why Jesus came to this world, to end with the works of the devil and rescue man from slavery of sin, and recover the crown for God!
That sounds interesting! Is that a fairy tale? Or you just made it up?
No my friend! That is the truth! Read the Bible, find the truth you will be free!
I believe it! But, why are you laughing about?
Oh, I was just thinking something that made laugh and at the same time, makes me feel sad, very sad!
Why?
Well I was thinking of the wonderful work the scientists are doing, devoting their lives trying to find other planets that could support life, planets with water and air, those,are not going to be very easy to find!
Why? There are so many millions of them, that it may be one like our earth!
Yes! It is possible, but, it’s going to take time, a lot of time.
That is why I was laughing, because while the scientists are trying to find another“Earth” for man kind, we don’t realize we are standing on the planet we are looking for, and we are destroying it! We have air everywhere we go, we have water right at our finger tips, we have oceans full of life to provide us food!
We may not be aware of it but, we are destroying our blue planet!
We are thinning the ozone layer that protects us from the danger of the
ultraviolet and cosmic rays because of so much refrigeration!
We are polluting the air we breath because of so many vehicles that put carbon byproduct gases that mixed with our air makes it poisonous, we are polluting our seas with dangerous chemicals and radioactive materials that contaminates the marine fauna and then we ate them and get sick!
But we all are guilty! You may be riding your bike to save some gas, but as soon as you get home turn on your air conditioning full blast, fridge, television etc.
Some people probably would say: Thanks God for electricity! It is clean!

To obtain electricity is not as simple as it looks, just turn a generator and “Voila” There it is!
Electricity is withdrawn from the magnetic field of the earth, and honestly,I would like to know if by withdrawing too much of it, could bring an unbalance in it that could affect our earth some how!
Anyway, in case that, we could be able to find another planet similar to earth,is not going to be earth, and we may not be able to live in it!
Why?
Because according to the Bible, God made the world first, and then made man! He did not made man first and then the world!
I don’t get it! What is your point?
God made man from earth, to fit into the environment that already existed!
Water is a lot closer to us than any planet and we cannot live in it unless we adapt ourselves with some equipment to provide us the “Air” we breath.
My point is that we could do something to help our planet, for the benefit of man kind, our children and children’s children! And so on!
We could change something if we really want to!
We just need a little responsibility that is all!
Is it not something to laugh about? That while they are searching for
other worlds for us to live in, there are a lot of people trying to end their lives puffing smoke into their lungs, drugs into their blood, pornography into their brains, SIN into their souls! That makes me sad! And.. .. .. I am not laughing anymore!
It is very serious!
SIN is disobedience to God!
Disobedience of man’s Law, brings punishment by the Law!
Disobedience to God’s Law brings God’s punishment!
That is called: The wrath of God!
Jesus came to save us from the wrath of God when He (God) Decide to make
us pay for our sins, but Jesus Christ paid on the cross for the penalty that sin brings, so God could forgive us through Him!
Of course! When we believe Christ could save us!
Do you believe in Him?
If you do! Tell Him you love Him and that you need his help!
If you are sincere, You will be saved!

READ THE BIBLE, PRAISE THE LORD!

GOD BLESS YOU!


Jose Salazar
S. de C.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

THE DEVILS AND THE ANGELS"

The devils and the angels are two teams in the “game” called:
“Life or death forever” They are playing against each other furiously because the prize is a great one: YOURSELF!
We have been playing with the devil’s team longer that we can remember, we
practically were born with the team because the sin of Adam and Eve!
We were born in sin, and we will keep living in sin because we do not know
a better way!
Both teams want you t o play with them because they know you are the “star”
Of the game, and which ever team you choose, they will the winner!
The after the game party, will be at the place which the team comes from!
And they can’t wait to finish with your game to start celebrating their victory!
The Angel’s team tells us the truth so we could join them and make them the
Winners! While the Devil’s team, tells a lot of lies, offering us excitement, sex,wealth and artificial happiness to make us to stay in their team.
They are not worried because they know we cannot leave them unless we pay
our debt in full, and we just can’t! What are we going to do?
The game lasts all our life, but while we are still alive, we have the chance to be hired for the other team: “THE ANGELS”
We have on our debt a long list of bad things we done to hurt people, and the amount of our bill is enormous, so we have to remain slaves of this team forever!
Unless God has pity on us, and helps us! God: will you please?
Yes! God already sent help for you! Don’t worry!
He is willing and able to help you! He had so much pity and mercy for you, me, and all the people of the world, that He sent His only Son to sacrifice himself to save us! He wants to pay your debt in full to make you free!
Your debt are offenses, to God and nobody can remove them from us, and the
penalty is death! Only one man can remove them and his name is Jesus Christ!
He died on the cross for you! Just to save you!
With Him: Your debt is paid off! Free and clear!
He paid it to rescue from the devils team, o you could play in the Angel’s team!
The manager’s name of the Angel’s team is Jesus and He is waiting for you!
What do I have to do to accept Him?
Very simple: Just say it! He died for us, and resurrected to give us life Eternal!
ASK HIM TO SAVE YOU AND YOU WILL BE FREE! But remember.. ..
We still are in the game! The game ends if you choose the Angels, or.. ..
YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE! C’MON, IS GETTING LATE!
YOU ARE CHOOSING DEATH IF YOU DON’T CHOOSE THE ANGELS!
SAY IT MY FRIEND! SAY IT! WE ARE LOOSING! YOU WILL BE NEXT!
DEAR GOD: PLEASE SAVE ME! I NEED YOU! IN JESUS NAME I PRAY!
THANK YOU JESUS! FOR DYING ON THE CROSS FOR ME!
THANKS TO YOU.. I AM SAVED AND FREE!
READ THE BIBLE,PRAISE THE LORD!
Jose Salazar
S. de C.

Friday, September 17, 2010

"THE BIBLE THE WORD OF GOD"

The Bible is the Light that floods our being,
Vanishes darkness in our inner depths
Comforts us, and warms up our soul.

We cannot swallow it to have it in us,
But we can slowly let it pass, through our eyes
And store it in our memory.

Allowing its music to vibrate in our ears
We illuminate our body, our mind and soul
And happiness starts bursting in our heart!

If we put together all we have learned
We could say nice things to suffering people
To alleviate the pain, from their heavy laden.

And at the same time,
We invite them to shine with the Bible, all their lives
Beginning a new one, closer to God!

With the Word of God
We light up our bodies, and obtain
life eternal for our souls.

The Word of God is a gift!
A delight for our sight!
The Word of God is Christ!

Blessed will be forever!


Jose Salazar
S. de C.

"TO THE OTHER SIDE"

God loves to multiply, although, sometimes He has to divide, I think
He likes to add, more than to subtract.
What in the world are you talking about?
Yes! Look: From a man and a woman, He made a huge amount of people!
He multiplied them to fill the world! From a chaotic mass in space, He made
suns, planets, and everything above and below and gave them the ability to
multiply themselves creating a vast Cosmos! How incredible is our God!
He created light and divided the dense darkness, giving place to nights and days.
He gathered the waters in one place and let the dry land appear.
He called the dry land Earth, and the gathering waters Seas. (Genesis)
He multiplied the inhabitants of Earth, Firmament and Seas.
But because of Adam and Eve’s sin, He separated, divided, put a great barrier
between Him and the human being!
Because the Saint and the sinner cannot live together! He removed them from
paradise so they cannot touch the tree of life and live forever!
Adam and Eve started a new life full of sorrow, pain, and work, and from then
on, nobody could reach God ! Man has been separated from God because of sin!
God divided:
Love from hate! Truth from lie! Life from death!
Time passed, and one day God chose, some people and made them His own!
And in order to sanctify them, He gave them a Law! His Law!
But nobody could really keep them all, and became violators of God’s Law!
If the people living closer to God could not jump over the great barrier of the Law
to reach God, much less the rest of the world who were further apart from Him!
But God with His great Wisdom, Mercy and Love, already had a plan of Salvation
for the whole world, ending with this, the enmity with Him trough the Sacrifice
of His holy Son : Jesus the Christ the only Way to get to the Father! John 14-6.
He, Christ, has the power to remove sin from our shoulders!
Sin is a heavy load that won’t let us to reach God!
Jesus Christ is the only Mediator between God and people! Timothy 2-5.
God hates to see us with anxieties, fear, sadness and pain because of our lies,
sin and crooked ways, He would like to see us instead, with peace, love, tranquility,
happiness! Walking in righteous ways loving His Son!
With Christ, we could cross to the “other side” where God is!
God would like to “add” us to His list, and multiply His sons, instead of subtracting
or dividing the people He loves!
Get close to Him! Read the Bible!
And God Bless You!

Jose Salazar
S. de C.

"IN GOD HANDS"

Tired of so much sin, we cry aloud to God for forgiveness,
He sends us to his Son in whom He deposited the power to remove it all,
when we believe in him, and put all our faith at His feet!
“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God” Romans 10-17.
Jesus takes our faith and through it.. .. He forgives us!
And on top of it, He puts his Spirit in us to end once and for all with all the
bad “programs” that had inflicted in us so much pain!
He fills us up with “Virtues” Programs with Values, programs that help us
to understand the true meaning of Life!
He teaches us that Charity is Love, and there is no Love without Charity!
Love is for God and Charity is to Love people!
He fills our heart with Love, and shows us how to increase it loving others!
He removes HATE and fills the emptiness with LOVE!
He removes FEAR and gives us COURAGE!
He removes PRIDE and turns it into HUMBLENESS!
He removes ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, SADNESS, and in it’s place,
He fills us up with PATIENCE, JOY and PEACE!
He exchanges BITTERNESS and REVENGE, for FORGIVENESS!
He pulls us out from the cold arms of DEATH, and gives us LIFE!
With Love, our soul does not have to choose between Good and evil
Because, THERE IS NO EVIL IN LOVE!
Love does not hurt anyone!
Our soul does not have to be judged for God, because it has been forgiven!
The bad “programs” we had before, do not exist anymore!
God eliminated them from us completely! HE CHANGED US!
We have nothing to fear!
GOD IS POWER!
Now we belong to Him! We belong to God! We belong to Love and we should
share His Love with everybody specially those who are walking in darkness
tying to find with the touch of their hands.. The exit door!
No more fear! No more hate, bitterness or revenge! Only LOVE!
Pray with all your soul!
No more quick sands!
We are not alone!
We are in God hands!

PRAISE THE LORD!


Jose Salazar
S. de C.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

"FORGIVE ME BUT I CAN NOT FORGIVE YOU"

“FORGIVE ME, BUT I CAN NOT FORGIVE YOU”

Forgive me, but I cannot forgive you!
Why?
Because I am not God! And if you want forgiveness, go to Him!
Look my friend: All of us can forgive!
Further more: ALL OF US MUST FORGIVE.. ..
IF WE WANT TO BE FORGIVEN BY GOD!
Have you ever read the Bible?
No! To tell you the truth no! I haven’t!
But, you already have read or listen the Lord’s Prayer don’t you?
Yes, of course I have! That is my favorite prayer, and I say it everyday!
Is that true?
Yes it is!
Well, then you will remember the part in which says:
“AND FORGIVE MY TRESPASSES AS I FORGIVE THE ONES THAT
TRESPASSES UNTO US”
As you see, every time we are praying this prayer, we are telling God:
FORGIVE ME JUST THE SAME WAY I FORGIVE!
That means that if we do not want to forgive, we are not going to be forgiven!
Can you see that?
Yes! But, you don’t have any idea what they have done to me!
Then why you don’t pray: FORGIVE ME EVEN WHEN I REFUSE TO FORGIVE?
Because it would not be right!
What is it right then?
TO FORGIVE!
THEN, DO IT!
Every night before we go to bed we should recall all the events during the day and
forgive everybody that willingly or not they offended us! And then ask God to
forgive us for offending others! That way we are going to have a good sleep!
If we do not forgive, we will keep all resentment and hate in us that will bring us
a life full of sorrows, sadness, pain and nightmares!
But if we forgive, we will begin a new day helping others instead of hurting them!
We will have a clean page in our life full of happiness peace and love!
Some people believe that apologizing is a sign of weakness and they don’t do it!
I think that apologizing is a sign of strength, confidence and security in one self!
Time passes by and people get old and die without ever forgive and being forgiven!
Closing to them, the door of opportunity for friendship once again!

FATHER, FORGIVE US!
TEACH US TO FORGIVE AND FORGET AS YOU DO!
JESUS CHRIST YOUR SON IS OUR FORGIVENESS,
WHEN WE BELIEVE IN HIM AND ACCEPT HIM AS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR!
THANK YOU LORD!
Jose Salazar
S. de C.

"CHAINED"

“Who will make me free from this mortal sin nature?
Thanks God it’s been done by Jesus Christ! He has set me free!” Rom. 7-24.

“CHAINED”

I found myself in a jail paying for a life sentence! The place is dark, it is dirty,
and in order to increase my sufferings, I am bounded to a long and heavy chain.
I tried to escape climbing up the tall wall, but I slipped and hit the hard floor!
What can I do?
Alone and without hope of a near day of freedom!
Suddenly, in the neighbor cell, it was a newcomer!
Who are you? I asked him!
What are you doing?
The same as you he answered, to pay for my sentence!
Are you for life also?
Yes! he said but I.. .. I am going to find the way out!
Are you kidding me? I said!
There is no way out in this prison!
Yes! There is, he answered!
Oh, yeah? I said! Do you know a black smith to cut from us these chains?
No, he replied but they told me that it could set us free, the Son of a carpenter!
A carpenter’s Son?, I said, I don’t understand!
Yes! Look:
His name is Jesus!
And in order to give us freedom He gave his life on a cross to pay for all our sins.
If we believe in him, even that we still be here bound to these chains, we will be
happier, and when we complete in the world our condemn, our souls will be
good and healthy and in heaven forever we will live!
The liberty of our souls will bring us peace and calm, and even that our bodies
In the jail of the world remain secluded, deep inside of us, we will be free!
Many people live outside with their souls bound to sin preparing for themselves
to dwell in hell forever!
But with Jesus help, and thanks to his mercy.. ..
For all eternity.. ..
We will be free!

Glory to God!


Jose Salazar
S. de C.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

"COME INTO MY HEART"

We could be sad, we could get angry or mad!
We could get down and cry,
or shout with all our strength up high,
Saying: Why, my God: WHY?

The truth gives us stress!
We are sinners! We are a mess!
We need compassion to cure our illness!
We need Love, we need forgiveness!

Be smart!
Open your heart to Christ!

He is not far! He is close!
If you don’t know what to do.. .. .
Tell Him you love Him!
He will come to live within you!

Just say:
Jesus, forgive me!
Come into my heart
Don’t you live me ever!

You will be saved!
You will be free!
You will live forever!

Thank you Jesus!


Jose Salazar
S. de C.

"KEEP GOING"

“But they wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run,
and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint” Isaiah 40-31.

“KEEP GOING”
To be Christian is fun,
It is to praise and not to damn,
It is to smile, and not to frown
It is to go up, not down!
It is to give, not to steal!
It is to be true, not fake!
It is to love, not to hate!
It is to be honest and have Faith!
It is to be with hope and joy!
It is to construct, not to destroy!
It is to be humble, to stand for God!
Not to stumble!
It is to grow up wings!
Not to cripple!
It is to tell the truth, not to lie!
It is to keep going without faint!
It is to walk with God within.. .. ..
And then, alone with Him..
To fly!

Jose Salazar
S. de C.

To be a Christian is to invite Christ to live in your heart!
If you haven’t done it, Do it!
God will love you more!

PRAISE THE LORD!

Saturday, September 4, 2010

"TEETER TOTTER"

Life is like a tether totter in which hate rock us up and down, up and down as it pleases through our lives and with so much tottering we feel dizzy, we feel anxious, we feel tired and depressed, we need to rest a little, but we refuse to stop hating, and with that much practice, we became masters in the ugly sin of HATE!
This causes a severe insecurity in us, we feel sad, we feel lonesome and some times, we may have had insane thoughts thinking in ending our story trying to take something that does not belong to us: Our lives!
We have always thought that we have the absolute ownership of our lives!
We say: IT IS MY LIFE! And I can do what ever I like to do with it!
IT IS MINE!
But that it is not true! Life is like a candle that God made and light it up for us to Illuminate other people lives, but IF WE ARE FULL OF HATE, we can only irradiate a “Hate light” that does not help anyone!
This “candle” made and lighted by God, gives Him and only Him the right to blow it out, whenever He pleases because it is His and not ours!
This unique opportunity of life in us, should be used to give light to others, not to quench other people lives, but to revive them, and put them at God’s service.
Oh Lord! What can I do? Is it something you can do to help me?
Magic words! Of course He can!
How many times have we received His help, but as soon as we overcome the problem we go back to the “See Saw” in which HATE on the other end of the board, continues rocking us without mercy, until we sincerely chose to jump off the tether totter and run into the warm and loving care arms of God and decide once and for all, to remain in them!
God is Love! And He wants to share His Love in us with others!
In His arms are not ups and downs!
Our faith in Him, keep us secure and invites us to know Him more trough His Word!
Our faith is like the anchor that keeps the ship in the dock in which we live secure and able to convert all the hate we have into LOVE for people!
Our anxieties will turn into patience, our insecurities, fears, depression, sadness,will change into peace, tranquility, humbleness, courage, happiness!
God practically, yank us out from the tether totter, and deposit us on firm grounds,beginning a new life with Him, that will continue forever!
But.. .. What if we do all that you say and still continue suffering?
Well, the whole world is suffering,we were born to suffer,but it's better to suffer doing good, than to suffer doing evil! Big and small, handsome and ugly, rich and poor from all races and colors, we all, suffer and have pain, but all these sufferings are much less when we LOVE!
Even God in the flesh, suffered until death to give us His Love!
Our life belongs to Him and to Him only!
If you put your lofe at the feet of Christ, along with your faith, you could say good bye to the tether totter!
And begin a new life thanks to Jesus Christ!
Blessed Be forever!

Jose Salazar
S. de C.

"JUST TO THINK IS NOT ENOUGH"

And God thought: Let there be light, and there was light!
Wait! It is not like that!
No? Tell me then how should it be!
And God said: Let there be light and there was light!
True! You are paying attention! I like that!
The bible says: ASK and it shall be given to you!
SEEK and you will find!
KNOCK and shall be open to you! Mathew 7-7.
It is not just to think about it! It needs to be said, and done!
Because salvation that is obtained trusting Christ that is the one we preach,
It is so close to us as our hearts and our mouth is! And if with your own lips
You confess that Jesus is the Lord; and you believe it in your heart that God
Raised Him from the dead, you will be saved! Because believing in the heart
Is for justice! But with our mouth we confess for salvation! Romans 10-9.
That means that it is not only to think that God exists, or just to think we
want Him to help us! It is not just to think that we love Him and we want to
accept Him in our lives, but.. .. ..
WE HAVE TO SAY IT!
To read in silence as you probably are doing, is PASSIVE!
And in order to surrender ourselves to Christ, we need: ACTION!
For God sake! What are you waiting for?
Stop thinking!
OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND SAY IT! God is listening to you!
Lord Jesus:
I believe in you!
I know you die on a cross to save me!
And You were risen to give me eternal life!
Do with me, what ever You have planned for me to do!
I repent from all my sins!
And I accept you!
I accept You as my Lord and Savior!
Blessed You will be forever!

PRAISE THE LORD!



Jose Salazar
S. de C.