Life saver?
What is a life saver?
It's a pneumatic filled with air,donut shaped and it is used to throw it to
a person when in the water it’s drowning, the person holds tight to it and
it is pulled to safe grounds saving them from dying.
When somebody wants to learn how to swim, the person gets inside the
donut hole to help them to keep afloat and showing them the basic move-
ments for swimming, they start gaining confidence and begin to swim
without it, and after they learn, they seat on top of the “Donut” and they
rest floating on the water and enjoying the sun.
And then?.. .. What???
Oh yes! There is an analogy about this:
The people feel so comfortable seating on this pneumatic, that forgets how
to swim, or never learned how!
Many, many people hate exercising! Our body needs it in all three parts
of us: Our body, our soul, and our spirit.
There is an old Latin saying that goes like this:
“MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO” “Healthy mind in healthy body”
So if we want to have a healthy mind, we have to have a healthy body,
And there is just one way to get it: With our own efforts!
Eating well, sleeping well, exercising our body, and our mind,
we will have a healthy body, a sharp mind, and a happy soul!
Many of us are like this:
I am gaining weight! We take a pill!
I have a head ache! We take a pill!
My stomach hearts! We take a pill!
I cannot sleep! We take a pill!
I cannot wake up! We take coffee after coffee until we do!
I am tired! We take a soda pop or a beer and cigarettes!
I feel stressed! Give me a pill!
I feel depressed! .. .. .. Pills become our “Life saver”
Our arms get weak without exercise and we cannot swim on our own!
But if we take off our “Life saver” Before being prepared.. ..
We may drown!
But, what else can we do?
Open your eyes and see:
We are becoming drug addicts with so much dependency on drugs!
But we cannot get off the “Life saver” without first being conscious
of what we’re doing!
We have to begin exercising while we are still seating on our “donut”
until we feel absolutely sure we are strong enough: To step down!
We also have to start exercising our minds with the Word of God
to begin receiving the Peace of God instead of the peace of drugs
that nothing good will bring to our lives.
Our body has an invisible “spring” that keeps pulling us back to
our original position when we are trying to exercise for health!
We have to fight very hard against this “spring” with courage
telling to ourselves the truth: We are weak and we cannot do it alone!
But God is stronger than all our bad habits together!
He wants to help you if you ask Him for help!
The decision is only yours!
You may fall over and over, but believe me: You fell many times
before you learn how to walk! And you did it!
Now you are going to start learning again how to walk,
but this time with God! Drugs free!
Are you ready?
Get strength, courage, love, and wisdom with God’s Word!
READ THE BIBLE! And.. ..
PRAISE THE LORD!
José Salazar
S. de C.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
"BORN AGAIN"
Life span it’s a space of time between the instant we are born,
until the moment we stop breathing.
Life is a gift from God that we receive thru our mothers, to enjoy it
in this amazing blue planet called Earth.
We could use our life to help, or we could use it to hurt!
It is entirely up to us!
When our time span reaches its end, our body goes to the ground,
“our” spirit goes back to God who lend it, and our soul, free from
it’s body, face judgment with God for all the wrong things we did,
when we were inside that body we use to call : ME
It’s that it?
No! Not yet!
Later in life we find out that we were not making the right choices,
and now we don’t know what to do!
God: Could you help me?
Christ came to this world to give us the opportunity to change our
choosing ways! Without Him, there is nothing good we can choose!
Facing God without Jesus, will be our eternal doom!
Condemnation for our sins, but, Christ by means of his sacrifice on
the cross, He is able to pay for our sins, and even before we die,
He will make us to be born again!
That means that instead of God punishing us for our sins committed
in our flesh, we will be forgiven and pass directly to life, instead of
passing from life to eternal dead, we will pass from life to eternal life!
Without Christ our souls will have a hard time to find a place to rest.
But thanks to his sacrifice and resurrection, we will have life forever!
Eternal life with Him!
Life in the world, it’s only a test!
A test we all fail!
Thanks to the Almighty God that sent us his beloved Son to help us:
We will emerge Victorious!
The life we receive from our mothers it’s rather short! Very short!
But the life we receive from the Holy Spirit when we accept Christ
It is forever!
If you think that life does not have anything good for you.. ..
You don’t need to get rid of it, what you need is:
TO BE BORN AGAIN!
Death is for nonbelievers! Wake up to a new life!
Accepting Christ as your Lord and Savior is to be born again!
Do it! And tell everybody : CHRIST LOVES YOU!
PRAISE THE LORD!
José Salazar
S. de C.
Click on view my complete profile for a Spanish version.
until the moment we stop breathing.
Life is a gift from God that we receive thru our mothers, to enjoy it
in this amazing blue planet called Earth.
We could use our life to help, or we could use it to hurt!
It is entirely up to us!
When our time span reaches its end, our body goes to the ground,
“our” spirit goes back to God who lend it, and our soul, free from
it’s body, face judgment with God for all the wrong things we did,
when we were inside that body we use to call : ME
It’s that it?
No! Not yet!
Later in life we find out that we were not making the right choices,
and now we don’t know what to do!
God: Could you help me?
Christ came to this world to give us the opportunity to change our
choosing ways! Without Him, there is nothing good we can choose!
Facing God without Jesus, will be our eternal doom!
Condemnation for our sins, but, Christ by means of his sacrifice on
the cross, He is able to pay for our sins, and even before we die,
He will make us to be born again!
That means that instead of God punishing us for our sins committed
in our flesh, we will be forgiven and pass directly to life, instead of
passing from life to eternal dead, we will pass from life to eternal life!
Without Christ our souls will have a hard time to find a place to rest.
But thanks to his sacrifice and resurrection, we will have life forever!
Eternal life with Him!
Life in the world, it’s only a test!
A test we all fail!
Thanks to the Almighty God that sent us his beloved Son to help us:
We will emerge Victorious!
The life we receive from our mothers it’s rather short! Very short!
But the life we receive from the Holy Spirit when we accept Christ
It is forever!
If you think that life does not have anything good for you.. ..
You don’t need to get rid of it, what you need is:
TO BE BORN AGAIN!
Death is for nonbelievers! Wake up to a new life!
Accepting Christ as your Lord and Savior is to be born again!
Do it! And tell everybody : CHRIST LOVES YOU!
PRAISE THE LORD!
José Salazar
S. de C.
Click on view my complete profile for a Spanish version.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
"THE UMBRELLA OF SIN"
What benefits will I receive if I accept Christ in my life?
Is it going to be different? Or everything will be the same?
Wow! That is a million dollars question!
Of course it’s going to be different!
We were living in sin since we were born, and sin bring us all kinds
of problems into our lives. Although, not everything it’s going to be
wine and roses, we will have a lot of thorns too!
Look: We were born in the world, live in the world, learn in the world
and do what the world does, when we decide ourselves to follow Christ,
we “separate” from the world, and then, the world, stop loving us,
and start hating us because we are not like “Them” anymore!
But don’t worry! Now we have God on our side!
Sin, is like an umbrella that do not allow the Light of God to shine on us!
The heavier our sins are, the thicker the umbrella we carry above us!
When we repent from our sins, and get close to Christ for forgiveness,
If our repentance is genuine, He removes from our heads, the “umbrella”
And we begin to receive from God His blessings!
The desires of worldly people are money, goods, pleasure, vanity, pride,
luxury, and so on.
The desires of God’s people are: The well being of everybody!
So the decisions we are making by following Christ it is practically
not to benefit us, but people!
Are you finished?
No! Not yet!
Since the instant we accept Christ and deposit our faith in Him,
Our names are written in the book of life!
The people that are going to be saved and will have life eternal!
That means, living with God forever! Aren’t you excited?
Don’t take me wrong! I am not saying that Salvation is not free!
You don’t have to do anything to earn it, just your decision to accept Christ,and when we do, He puts His Holy Spirit in us to make the change!
We obtain freedom, from the slavery of sin and become FREE!
Not free to continue living in sin, but to love people as ourselves, working hard for them so they could get what we already have thanks to Jesus.. .. OUR SALVATION!
When we accept Christ we born again into a new person!
A BORN AGAIN BELIEVER!
How thick is your umbrella of sin? Get close to Jesus and..
PRAISE THE LORD!
Jose Salazar S. de C.
“Seek the kingdom of God first, and everything else will be added unto you!”
Mathew 6:33.
Is it going to be different? Or everything will be the same?
Wow! That is a million dollars question!
Of course it’s going to be different!
We were living in sin since we were born, and sin bring us all kinds
of problems into our lives. Although, not everything it’s going to be
wine and roses, we will have a lot of thorns too!
Look: We were born in the world, live in the world, learn in the world
and do what the world does, when we decide ourselves to follow Christ,
we “separate” from the world, and then, the world, stop loving us,
and start hating us because we are not like “Them” anymore!
But don’t worry! Now we have God on our side!
Sin, is like an umbrella that do not allow the Light of God to shine on us!
The heavier our sins are, the thicker the umbrella we carry above us!
When we repent from our sins, and get close to Christ for forgiveness,
If our repentance is genuine, He removes from our heads, the “umbrella”
And we begin to receive from God His blessings!
The desires of worldly people are money, goods, pleasure, vanity, pride,
luxury, and so on.
The desires of God’s people are: The well being of everybody!
So the decisions we are making by following Christ it is practically
not to benefit us, but people!
Are you finished?
No! Not yet!
Since the instant we accept Christ and deposit our faith in Him,
Our names are written in the book of life!
The people that are going to be saved and will have life eternal!
That means, living with God forever! Aren’t you excited?
Don’t take me wrong! I am not saying that Salvation is not free!
You don’t have to do anything to earn it, just your decision to accept Christ,and when we do, He puts His Holy Spirit in us to make the change!
We obtain freedom, from the slavery of sin and become FREE!
Not free to continue living in sin, but to love people as ourselves, working hard for them so they could get what we already have thanks to Jesus.. .. OUR SALVATION!
When we accept Christ we born again into a new person!
A BORN AGAIN BELIEVER!
How thick is your umbrella of sin? Get close to Jesus and..
PRAISE THE LORD!
Jose Salazar S. de C.
“Seek the kingdom of God first, and everything else will be added unto you!”
Mathew 6:33.
Friday, August 12, 2011
"PROVE IT! "
In a church, a praying person said:
Father:
On my knees before You, here I am!
To tell You that I Love You!
To say that I believe in You and,
That I am convinced, You are the only One Creator!
The only One God!
That anything that exists above and below, before and after,
beyond the outer reach of the Universes, before the beginning
and after the end, without any comparison with nothing in the material
or in the invisible realm, the Infinite, all Powerful, all knowing, all Present,Self existing,Eternal,Loving and Merciful,Almighty God,are YOU!
Now I know that only You are worthy of worshiping! Only You! My God!
I know You sent your Son to rescue us from the terrible jaws of sin that
wants to devour us like candy in its powerful and unsatisfying snout.
Now I know that by receiving Jesus Christ in our hearts we will be saved!
We will be saved from your terrible anger toward unbelievers that refuse
to accept Him after all his sufferings for paying with his own life,
the penalty for our sins.
And with pain in your soul, You did not hesitate to send Him to die for us.
I will never get tired to tell You that I love You!
I will never get tired to tell You that with all my heart I believe in You!
I will never get tired to tell You that :
I LOVE PEOPLE AS I LOVE MYSELF!....Pause…
For an instant, tired, he closed his eyes.. .and heard a voice saying:
Son: I am listening! Just by opening your mouth the words start flowing out
like water in a cascade!
It does not cost you a cent to say you love people!
But if you consider that Charity is Love, and my Son is your Savior…
I think it is time to PUT ACTION TO YOUR WORDS!
There is just one thing to say:
PROVE IT!
PROVE IT TO YOURSELF!
AND YOU WILL BE, BLESSED!
His dormant eyes awaken! And shaking, with his heart pounding, he said:
Forgive me Father! I accept Jesus Christ your Son as my Lord and Savior!
With his help, I will learn how to truly love people! Thank You Lord!
It was silence! But in heaven, all the angels rejoiced and said at one voice:
Hallelujah, Thanks to God a new Christian has just been born!
PRAISE THE LORD!
José Salazar S. de C.
Father:
On my knees before You, here I am!
To tell You that I Love You!
To say that I believe in You and,
That I am convinced, You are the only One Creator!
The only One God!
That anything that exists above and below, before and after,
beyond the outer reach of the Universes, before the beginning
and after the end, without any comparison with nothing in the material
or in the invisible realm, the Infinite, all Powerful, all knowing, all Present,Self existing,Eternal,Loving and Merciful,Almighty God,are YOU!
Now I know that only You are worthy of worshiping! Only You! My God!
I know You sent your Son to rescue us from the terrible jaws of sin that
wants to devour us like candy in its powerful and unsatisfying snout.
Now I know that by receiving Jesus Christ in our hearts we will be saved!
We will be saved from your terrible anger toward unbelievers that refuse
to accept Him after all his sufferings for paying with his own life,
the penalty for our sins.
And with pain in your soul, You did not hesitate to send Him to die for us.
I will never get tired to tell You that I love You!
I will never get tired to tell You that with all my heart I believe in You!
I will never get tired to tell You that :
I LOVE PEOPLE AS I LOVE MYSELF!....Pause…
For an instant, tired, he closed his eyes.. .and heard a voice saying:
Son: I am listening! Just by opening your mouth the words start flowing out
like water in a cascade!
It does not cost you a cent to say you love people!
But if you consider that Charity is Love, and my Son is your Savior…
I think it is time to PUT ACTION TO YOUR WORDS!
There is just one thing to say:
PROVE IT!
PROVE IT TO YOURSELF!
AND YOU WILL BE, BLESSED!
His dormant eyes awaken! And shaking, with his heart pounding, he said:
Forgive me Father! I accept Jesus Christ your Son as my Lord and Savior!
With his help, I will learn how to truly love people! Thank You Lord!
It was silence! But in heaven, all the angels rejoiced and said at one voice:
Hallelujah, Thanks to God a new Christian has just been born!
PRAISE THE LORD!
José Salazar S. de C.
Friday, August 5, 2011
"BIG CROWDS"
PRAY FOR THE WORLD!
We were born long after big crowds of people came to this world.
Everything we do or say, it has to be done around great crowds of people.
But, even that we are in the midst of billions of people.. ..
Sometimes we feel alone!
We feel lonesome, depressed, sad, and sometimes: sick!
Magically, we feel in us the urge for praying! We go to church and then,
we realize that we also are surrounded with people.
And all our prayers have to pass thru those people before they get to God.
Why?
How come they don’t pray for their own problems?
My prayers are going to be mixed with theirs, and God is going to receive them at the same time, that is probably why it takes so long for God to answer them!
Besides, I barely have time to pray for me!
Look: why don’t you turn your head up to heaven?
You will bypass all people but your prayers have to cross the air, the planets,constellations, and more before they get to heaven, and when they get there,they have to pass also thru all people that surround God!
A big crowd!
Oh yeah? Why they do not pray for themselves?
I barely have time to pray for me!
ENOUGH! Stop being so selfish!
Christ says that we should pray for others!
Oh yeah? Where?
Right here! Look:
“Love your enemies!
Pray for those who persecute you!
If you do, you will be acting as the sons of your Father in heaven!
For He gives sun light to good and bad, and sends rain to all!
If you love only those who love you, what good do you have?
Everybody does that! Even bad people!
Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect!” Mathew 5-44.
PRAYING FOR OTHERS IS THE END OF SELFISHNESS!
And opening the doors of our heart to Jesus Christ, and invite Him
to come inside of us, we could pray directly to God!
WE WILL HAVE NO CROWDS!
But: WE DON’T HAVE TO PRAY FOR OURSELVES ANYMORE!
WHEN WE PRAY FOR OTHERS,WE RECEIVE BLESSINGS
FOR BLESSING PEOPLE!
OPEN YOUR HEART TO JESUS! PRAY FOR THE WORLD! And...
PRAISE THE LORD!
José Salazar S. de C.
Click en view my complete profile para una versión en Español.
We were born long after big crowds of people came to this world.
Everything we do or say, it has to be done around great crowds of people.
But, even that we are in the midst of billions of people.. ..
Sometimes we feel alone!
We feel lonesome, depressed, sad, and sometimes: sick!
Magically, we feel in us the urge for praying! We go to church and then,
we realize that we also are surrounded with people.
And all our prayers have to pass thru those people before they get to God.
Why?
How come they don’t pray for their own problems?
My prayers are going to be mixed with theirs, and God is going to receive them at the same time, that is probably why it takes so long for God to answer them!
Besides, I barely have time to pray for me!
Look: why don’t you turn your head up to heaven?
You will bypass all people but your prayers have to cross the air, the planets,constellations, and more before they get to heaven, and when they get there,they have to pass also thru all people that surround God!
A big crowd!
Oh yeah? Why they do not pray for themselves?
I barely have time to pray for me!
ENOUGH! Stop being so selfish!
Christ says that we should pray for others!
Oh yeah? Where?
Right here! Look:
“Love your enemies!
Pray for those who persecute you!
If you do, you will be acting as the sons of your Father in heaven!
For He gives sun light to good and bad, and sends rain to all!
If you love only those who love you, what good do you have?
Everybody does that! Even bad people!
Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect!” Mathew 5-44.
PRAYING FOR OTHERS IS THE END OF SELFISHNESS!
And opening the doors of our heart to Jesus Christ, and invite Him
to come inside of us, we could pray directly to God!
WE WILL HAVE NO CROWDS!
But: WE DON’T HAVE TO PRAY FOR OURSELVES ANYMORE!
WHEN WE PRAY FOR OTHERS,WE RECEIVE BLESSINGS
FOR BLESSING PEOPLE!
OPEN YOUR HEART TO JESUS! PRAY FOR THE WORLD! And...
PRAISE THE LORD!
José Salazar S. de C.
Click en view my complete profile para una versión en Español.
Monday, August 1, 2011
"REPENTANCE"
What is repentance?
Repentance is the intense desire to quit sinning!
It is not just receiving forgiveness and getting back to sin!
Repentance is the “Excuse” God is waiting from us to present us to his Son
And when we receive him we obtain from him: Forgiveness of our sins!
However, we think that as sons of God we think we are, we have the right
to obtain forgiveness, without having to repent!
After all we say, it is not our fault!
He made us as we are!
So what am I going to be repenting of?
Let me tell you: Son of God it’s not the one that says he is, but the one that:
LOVES HIM AND OBEYS HIM!
In order to be considered son of the Almighty God, first, we have to:
TURN OUR BACKS TO SIN!
We have to make a one hundred and eighty degree turn! Half a circle!
And show our faces to God for forgiveness.
True repentance is: To begin to walk toward God!
But there is a slight problem: True repentance comes from above!
We have to ask God for it!
True repentance is ours when we ask Him with all our heart!
We cannot just say I repent, but, to show it with deeds of repentance!
Repent?
Repent from what? I don’t hurt anybody!
Does it sound familiar?
And in the meantime, we will continue sinning, and rejecting God,
increasing all the heavy weight of sin on our backs pushing us down!
God is waiting for you to forgive you!
He wants repented people!
Christ is our forgiveness!
Doom is ours without Him!
Get close to Christ!
You will never be lost again!
With Christ you will live forever!
GLORY TO GOD!
José Salazar.
S. de C.
Repentance is the intense desire to quit sinning!
It is not just receiving forgiveness and getting back to sin!
Repentance is the “Excuse” God is waiting from us to present us to his Son
And when we receive him we obtain from him: Forgiveness of our sins!
However, we think that as sons of God we think we are, we have the right
to obtain forgiveness, without having to repent!
After all we say, it is not our fault!
He made us as we are!
So what am I going to be repenting of?
Let me tell you: Son of God it’s not the one that says he is, but the one that:
LOVES HIM AND OBEYS HIM!
In order to be considered son of the Almighty God, first, we have to:
TURN OUR BACKS TO SIN!
We have to make a one hundred and eighty degree turn! Half a circle!
And show our faces to God for forgiveness.
True repentance is: To begin to walk toward God!
But there is a slight problem: True repentance comes from above!
We have to ask God for it!
True repentance is ours when we ask Him with all our heart!
We cannot just say I repent, but, to show it with deeds of repentance!
Repent?
Repent from what? I don’t hurt anybody!
Does it sound familiar?
And in the meantime, we will continue sinning, and rejecting God,
increasing all the heavy weight of sin on our backs pushing us down!
God is waiting for you to forgive you!
He wants repented people!
Christ is our forgiveness!
Doom is ours without Him!
Get close to Christ!
You will never be lost again!
With Christ you will live forever!
GLORY TO GOD!
José Salazar.
S. de C.
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