"ASSURANCE OF SALVATION"

Most people think that we cannot have the assurance in us of being saved!
That we are not going to go to heaven without first being judged by God.
There, is where God is going to separate good from bad people and then,
and only then, we will know for sure that we are going to go, or not.
That is why, (They think) we have to do good deeds, so when God put us
on a scale, if our good deeds are greater than our bad ones, we will go
to heaven, otherwise, we will not! And it is because of these, that almost
nobody has the assurance ob being saved!
What they don’t know is that even if they do as many good deeds that
they could sink the scale plate al the way to the floor wouldn’t be enough
to pay the price of their salvation, because in order to obtain it, God had
to pay it’s very high price with the life of his only Begotten Son, and we
could not buy them with our good deeds. Do you understand?
Our faith in God moves us to do good deeds, our faith in Jesus Christ
moves us to accept Him as our Lord and Savior.
Is it possible that we may have in us the assurance of being saved?
OF COURSE IT’S POSSIBLE!
Our salvation is not based on our good deeds said the Bible because if it
where like that, people could be boast about it! Ephesians 2 :9.
Our salvation is in Jesus Christ! If we could work our own salvation it
wouldn’t be necessary that Christ died on the cross to pay for our sins!
Saint John says: He that believes on the Son has eternal life. John 3 : 36.
If you say you believe in Christ, that you have faith that He is going
to save you, and if you are doing good deeds, why do you doubt that
you are going to go to heaven?
If you are sure that Jesus thru his sacrifice on the cross paid in full
for all your sins, accepting Him as your Savior, you will have the
absolute security of being saved, and to know you are going to heaven.
“For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn it but that the
world through Him might be saved, he that believes on Him will not
be condemned, but he who do not believe, it is condemn already
because he had not believed in the name of the only begotten
Son of God. John 3 : 17 and 18.
The world is divided into two great groups: those that believe in the
Holy Son of God, and those that do not believe in Him! Those tat
Believe, are called saved, and do believe they are going to heaven!
ON WHICH SIDE ARE YOU?
To believe in Christ is to accept Him as their Lord and Savior!
HAVE YOU DONE IT? Jesus said:
Be of good cheer because I had overcome the world. John 16 :33.
With Him we will overcome the world also.
PRAISE THE LORD

José Salazar
S. de C.

"WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR CHRISTMAS?"

On a crowded street, a young man trying to find out what were
the most common presents people wanted for Christmas, he said:
Please tell me: If God grant you a wish, what would that be?
Well, I would ask Him for a new car, mine is trash already!
And you miss? Me?, I would ask Him for a bigger house.
And you mi friend, he asks another person.
I would ask that my team be the champions of the world.
And you, he asks somebody else, me? That I would be very rich!
And you sir, he asked a drunk card.
Oh, that my bottle of wine will never be empty! And…
That I could smoke all the cigarettes I want, and not get cancer!
I would ask… People continue talking…
Then, the young man noticed a beggar woman on her knees, she was
wearing rags for clothing and on her face she was showing pain,
cold and hunger, he came close to her and say:
Excuse me Lady: Can I ask you a question?
What would you ask God to give you on Christmas if you knew
for sure, He will give it to you?
I am already doing it son! I am asking Him to enter in my heart
and fill it out with love to share with all these people that only
think in themselves! Many people in the world would be very
happy if they could have a piece of bread to put in their mouths.
I am also praying for you, that you could ask God for the same
thing and learning his Word, you could take it to people
and they could be saved accepting Jesus as their Lord.
The young man crying, got on his knees close to the old woman
and said: Thank you Lady for praying for me!
I think your wishes were already granted by God!

“I wish that the peace of Christ abound in the hearts that already
have his Spirit in them, and that the ones that do not, to receive
Him and beginning a new life on earth, life that will continue
forever in heaven with Him”.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"OUR FOUNTAIN OF JOY"

We were born sinners, and sinning is what unfortunately gives us
pleasure, happiness and joy.
Without sin, everything is dull, simple, insipid, and boring!
That is why we are so far away from God, because the farther away
we are from Him, the easier for us is to sin! We say:
We have to obtain our happiness and joy at any price, at any cost,
later on, we will find some people to charge them with the bill!
ENVY Makes us to get angry when we see somebody else happy!
When others obtained what we always wanted!
PRIDE Tells us we are better and we suppose to have it not them!
HATE Makes us to curse, hurt and harm people we should love!
DRUGS Are the producers of false an unlasting Joy that makes us
sink when its effects subside.
We have to find a Joy that lasts! A never ending happiness!
A never ending source of Happiness! A Fountain of Love!
A FOUNTAIN OF JOY!
We are not going to be forever in this world! We are just passing by,
we are just travelers, visitors, tourists if you please, and we should not
be adhering with so much strength to the material things of it!
our home is not here, but above! Our home is in heaven!
“Don’t let your heart be troubled: If you believe in God, believe also
in me. In my Father house are many mansions: If it were not so
I would had told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go
and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you into
myself, that where I am there ye may be also.” John 14: 1, 2 and 3.
What a promise!
Nothing else seems to have more value than that!
Jesus is our Way to God!
Our Lord! Our Savior!
OUR FOUNTAIN OF JOY!
Don’t waste your ephemeral life hurting yourself and others!
Use it to tell people about our Great Savior!
He is knocking at the doors of your heart!
Open it up and enjoy his presence with you forever more!

PRAISE THE LORD!

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"I DON'T NEED A BATH"

Are you going to take a shower?
No! Not today!
Why?
Because I haven’t touched anything dirty! I‘m clean!
Listen: Even if you haven’t touch anything dirty, all around ourselves
make us dirty, smog, pollution, germs, also when we sweat, our body
eliminates all the impurities of our body thru the pores of our skin,
this produces a bad odor and make us stink!
That is why we do need to shower daily!
No! I don’t need to bath, I ‘m clean!
Same thing happens with people that refuse to get closer to God!
They say: Why should I? I am a “good” person! I don’t hurt anybody,
I have no sins! I don’t need God! I’m clean!
We are living in a sin world, and we absorb all kinds of contaminants
from it, and sin is not like dirt that sticks to our body and we can
eliminate it with soap and water, sin goes deeper, a lot deeper!
It goes all the way to our souls, and nobody can remove it from us!
When sin contaminates our bodies, it is manifested in our actions!
Also produces a bad odor, although, imperceptible for humans,
it is repugnant for God! In order to remove sin from us, God himself
had to come to the world in a human body and die on a cross to conquer
Grace to forgive our sins when we believe He is capable to do it!
When we ask him for forgiveness He forgives us! But…
When we ask Him to come into our hearts, He will forgive us forever,
because He will live in us, helping us to start a new life of love and
service to God and mankind! And then…
A never ending life with Him in Paradise! Won’t you love it?
We all are dirty with sin!
We all need Jesus to be clean!
When we accept Christ we produce a fragrant perfume that pleases God!
The fragrance of being saved!
Do you need a shower?
Yes I do! But I need Jesus more to be clean from sin!
For God’s glory!
Jesus, please: Come into my heart! Be my Lord and Savior!

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"ARMAGEDDON! ARMAGEDDON!"

After an astounding noise that blasted with an incredible sound
we had never heard before, the people fainted for so long that
nobody knew for certain what happened!
What time is it?
What day is it?
Where are we?
Everything was submerged in a deep darkness, so heavy, that
we couldn’t see the floor.
People were trying to find something to put in their mouths, but
couldn’t find anything, not even a crawling insect.
Everything was a plain desert; people were trying to find a place
to protect themselves from the intense cold wind blowing very
hard, and the elders without ceasing were shouting at the top
of their lungs: ARMAGEDDON! ARMAGEDDON!
We were worried because we did not know how or when,
this thing was going to end!
No electricity, no running water buildings or houses, nothing
was standing, everything was pulverized on the floor.
Sand! Sand! And more sand!
Everybody was crying for help but nobody was listening!
Water! Water! Please help us! But nobody answered!
How long had passed?
Was this caused by the holocaust of the third world war?
What was going to be with this people that ended in the
middle of nowhere?
Since the beginning of the world, God has given to men of his
creation everything they wanted, it was not a thing they asked
Him that did not have, but instead of being thankful to Him,
they were always rebel and disobedient, obscene, misbehaved
and spoiled, occupied only in the pleasures of sin.
God very patient and Merciful was tolerating all this until one
day couldn’t take it anymore!
God help us! I was shouting as hard as I could!
Jesus my Lord I said, and …
I heard another blast!
Everything was illuminated in the sky….
And sweating, shaking, trembling and scared, very scared…
I WOKE UP!

TO PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"EMERGENCY LIGHT"

I think we all have been immersed in darkness when the electricity fails,
and then, slowly walking and touching the walls we try to find a flash
light or a candle and something to light it so we could see.
Then we say:
THIS IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN TO ME AGAIN!
I am going to do something to prevent it!
Time passes by, the power fails again and what happened?...
Same thing! No flash lights, no candles, not light so we could see!
“GOD IS LIGHT AND IN HIM IS NO DARKNESS AT ALL”
I John 1:5.
Darkness is the absence of light!
God is our opportunity to leave darkness and find the Light!
Jesus said:
“I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD: HE THAT FOLLOWS ME,
SHALL NOT WALK IN DARKNESS, BUT SHALL HAVE
THE LIGHT OF LIFE.” John 8: 12.
When we get closer to God, He shines on our path with so much
intensity that does not leave room for any darkness.
When we receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, He illuminates
our minds, our souls, our hearts so we could take his light to
illuminate other people’s hearts that are sunk into profound darkness
far away from God!
Christ is like that emergency light we eagerly try to find when we
are in darkness!
He wants to shine in us, to shine in our lives!
DON’T REMAIN IN DARKNESS!
SEEK FOR THE LIGHT!
With Jesus in your heart, you never going to be in darkness again,
because the Light always be with you!!
He is far better than the best emergency light you could find!
He wants to shine in the most profound depths of your heart,
and remain with you forever!

INVITE HIM TO ENTER!
AND PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"REGENERATED NOT DEGENERATED"

Degenerated is a person that has not been yet regenerated, but…
What does regenerated means?
Regenerated means renovated, transformed, after been sunk into
a low and miserable condition because of sin!
Regenerated means: SPIRITUALLY REBORN!
We born clean, pure, sinless, but little by little because of sin,
we began to degenerate without any hope of regeneration!
Christ came to this world to regenerate it, to forgive it, to save it!
How ever, people do not seek regeneration, just forgiveness
of their bad deeds and then continue living in sin!
People do not consider themselves as sinners, and they believe
that their good deeds are all they need! Not Christ’s!
Our good deeds do not make us to be born again believers!
Only Christ can!
Listen:
Two sinners were trying to please God, one with his good deeds,
and the other repenting of his sins, trusting and obeying God!
which of the two is closer to God?
One was very proud of his good deeds, and the other crying was
asking God for his mercy and forgiveness!
My God! He was saying, I am tired to be a sinner!
Please help me! I want to change! Change my mind, my heart,
renovate my spirit! Fill me up with your Love!
People only can change when they feel in their hearts the
necessity to change!
Listen:
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
That whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.” John 3: 16.
Our good deeds are a must, not to save us but as a gratitude
to God for have been saved us!
Saved us from what???
From the divine chastisement to all that refuse to believe
in his Son as Savior! Do you believe in Him?
MAGNIFICENT!
Saved! Transformed! Renovated! Regenerated!
Born again to serve God! And our good deeds will be to say
to the world who saved us!
GLORY TO THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"SAINT PAUL'S LIST"

Who need to change?
Do you need to change?
No! I don’t! I don’t need to change anything!
I am very happy the way I am! Why are you asking me?
Because in the Bible, there is a list of people that will not be allowed
to enter in heaven, and I suppose you don’t want to miss it, right?
And if you think you could be in that list, you need to consider to
change, or you are going to be lost forever!
Tell me more about that list please!
Sure! But first I am going to tell you that in order to be able to change,
you have to check that list and accept you are a sinner, if you see
yourself in it, other wise, you will not change if you are not honest
with yourself!
O. K., but what if I am not in it?
Well, That would mean you are a righteous person!
But if you see yourself in it, and accept you are a sinner…
Repent from them and ask God for forgiveness!
Saint Paul’s list is in I Timothy 1: 9.and says:…
Wait! Wait a minute!
I read that list before, and involves every person in the whole world!
If these people cannot go to heaven who will?
If we continue living in sin… NOBODY!
But listen: Jesus said:
“They that are whole don’t need a physician: but there that are sick”.
“I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
Luke 5: 31, and 32.
“All have turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is no
one who does good, not even one.” Psalms 14: 3. Romans 3: 10.
Most people repent and then returns to sin without any change at all!
This change come to us, when tired living in sin, we call upon Jesus!
He transforms our minds and hearts to wish a life of righteousness
and love for God and people when we receive Him as our Savior!
God change sinners into righteous people when we believe that
Jesus died to save us and resurrected to give us eternal life,
beginning a new one, away from sin to serve our Lord and Savior!
Do you want to change?
Yes I do! Give me that list!
I like to read it! And begin to change!

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"RED ROSES"

A seed fell in rocky ground,
and rolling between a rock,
went all the way down,
and got stuck.

The seed was thirsty
and opening its mouth,
absorbed the dew of the night
and it began to sprout.

Poor seed, was lonesome!
She really wanted to live!
The rocks were pressing so hard,
that was difficult to breath.

A black cloud was passing by,
and it stopped right above her head
And pouring out its waters
softened the strong rocky bed.

The rose bush pushed out her branches
she was alive, she was aware!
She was shaking them so happy
Thanking God for all his care.

It was a beautiful sight,
In the rocky desert space,
when spring season showed its face,
red roses flooded the place.

For God everything is possible!
If you want to be free from sin,
I tell you right at your face,
You could be free today…

IF YOU GIVE TO GOD HIS PLACE!

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"ARE YOU A SINNER?"

Who? Me?
Yes! You!
Are you a sinner?
No! I am not!
Why are you asking me that question?
Well, because God says we all are!
Do you know that?
No, I don’t! Where did you get that?
From the Bible! It says it like this:
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves,
and the truth is not in us.
But if we confess our sins, He is Faithful and Just to forgive us
our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and his
Word is not in us. I John 1: 8, 9, and 10.
So, I am going to ask you again:
Are you a sinner?
Well, I guess I am!
Have you dealt with your sins?
What do you mean?
Have you ever repented of them, and asked God for forgiveness?
Have you ever wanted to stop sinning?
Have you ever wanted to change?
No! I haven’t! But…
I don’t think I am a bad person!
I love people!
Are you sure?
Sure I am sure! You don’t believe me?
Tell me: How is your relationship with your family?
Let’s not talk about it will you?
Ups! I’m sorry! But, how are you going to love people like that?
God says: Forgive and you will be forgiven!
How are we going to ask God for forgiveness if we don’t want
to forgive? Our nature of sin hates to forgive, but Jesus loves it so
much that not only died to forgive us, but, also to teach us to do it!
We can only forgive and forget with Christ in us!
And we have Him in us when opening our hearts to Him…
Beg Him to enter!

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"SALVATION IS FOR YOU"

I’m worried!
Why?
Because I want to be sure that Christ has accepted me,
and I don’t know how to do it! Can you help me?
Of course! Don’t worry!
He accepted you long before you had been born!
He died for all! Including you! What we have to know is:
HAVE YOU ACCEPTED HIM?
I thing so! But the truth is that I am not really sure!
Do you think you can help me?
Yes! I think I can! Listen:
Do you know what a contract is?
Yes I do! A contract is a mutual accord between two persons
or group of persons in which one offers something and the
other accepts or rejects! Of course! If are not fully satisfied!
When the two persons or groups are in complete accord, the
contract is signed!
Yes! That is correct! Do you know that Jesus already signed
his part of the contract with his own blood?
He gave his life to save yours if you accept his sacrifice as a full
payment for your sins and be free for ever!
Not free to continue sinning, but to help others to obtain their
Liberty, just as you did!
This liberty is yours when you recognize He died to save you,
and at the third day, He rose from the dead to give life eternal
to all the people that believes in Him.
This life begins immediately after you receive Him in your heart!
You will never going to doubt again if you are saved or not,
Because.....
His Spirit inside will make you feel an immense joy that
cannot be compared with nothing in the world!
You don’t have to sign any papers, just to be absolutely sure that
you have accepted Him as your Lord and Savior, opening the
doors of your heart and invite Him to enter!
Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior???
If your answer is: Yes! I have! Salvation is for you!
But if you haven’t, What are you waiting for?

GOD LOVES YOU!
PRAISE THE LORD!


José Salazar
S. de C.

"REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE"

Earth is like an island in the vast sea of the Universe.
We were created by God to have a friendship with Him, to adore Him,
to worship Him, to obey Him, to enjoy along with Him his creation.
But because of sin, a conflict began between God and us and a rebellion
started against worship and obedience to our Creator.
Making us to be:
REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE!
Sin came to the world to defeat the purposes of God to establish us eternally
in Paradise and instead of Paradise obeying sin, we trade it and converted
our Paradise into a “jail” opening ourselves the gates of hell!
Why?
Because of our rebellion to listen and obeying our Creator, but God being
So patient and Merciful with us, even not deserving it, He opened …
A WAY TO GET TO HIM!
A WAY TO REACH THE LOST PARADISE!
He gave us a new opportunity to change our rebellion into obedience!
So when the time is do for us to leave, we could be able to enjoy Paradise
with Him again!
This Way to Him is his Son who paid with his own life the penalty for our
sins, and is by accepting Him in our hearts that we begin to truly obey God.
Putting in us the joy of knowing that we are saved!
Accepting his Son in us, we become sons of the Almighty and coheirs
of his Universe.
How awesome! But…
We have two choices to choose from:
To remain “grounded” on earth, or to live eternally in heaven!
This comes with our decision of accept or reject his Son!
Jesus Christ!
OUR ONLY HOPE FOR HEAVEN!
Don’t waste it!
Open up your heart…
And let Him in!

GOD BLES YOU!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"FLOWERS OR THORNS"

We were born in a garden of flowers and good fruits to give everyone!
As we were growing up, we began neglecting attention to our garden.
It started to wither, and instead of flowers and good fruits, we were
producing: Thistles and thorns!
So instead of giving flowers to people, we were giving them its thorns!
Insults instead of attention, abuse instead of care, stealing instead of
charity, hating instead of love!
What ever happened?
Very simple:
The devil saw the beautiful garden God gave us and started planting his
own seeds, we didn’t do anything about it, and instead of removing
them, we began watering and fertilizing them making them to grow up
strong, so strong that we cannot get rid of them, and now we have
instead of a garden of flowers…a garden of thistles and thorns!
These bad seeds are called: SIN!
We learned to live with sin and the thorns were growing wild spreading
like an infectious disease all over the world.
How awful!
Is there something we can do to change all these?
Yes! There is! We have to ask the Greatest Gardener in the whole world!
He will instruct us, teach us, and make us to change!
This good Gardener gave his life to save ours!
The garden of thorns and thistles is our body full of sin!
By asking Him for his help our change begins, repenting of our sins and
opening our heart to Him, will make us to begin a new life destroying
all the bad seeds, wiping off all thorns and thistles we have!
He will teach you how to prepare and enrich your soil, and also how to
plant the good seeds from his Word and also how to maintain your garden
clean with strong and healthy fruits with your everyday prayers and
your love for people.
No more thorns and thistles!
Let’s recover our garden of nice flowers and good fruits!
Let’s get back our garden!
OUR GARDEN OF LOVE!

The Gardener’s name? Of course!
His name is Jesus!
Jesus the Christ!

Blessed be forever!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"TO LIVE AND TO DIE"

To be born is important!
To live is important!
To enjoy life it is important!, To go to school is important!
To get married and rise our own families is also important!
But there is something tragic! Very tragic!
What is that?
To die! To die is tragic! Don’t you think so?
Well, it could be, but…
There is something far more tragic than that!
What is it?
TO DIE WITHOUT CHRIST!
What do you mean?
You’ll see:
Heaven is so far away from us that on our own efforts we cannot reach it!
I know, but if God love us like you say He does, couldn’t He had provided
to us with some “way” to get there?
Yes! He does love us! And He did provide us with a “Way” to get there!
How?
God sent his only Son to rescue us opening the “Way” you’re asking.
“I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE, NOBODY CAN
COME TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME” John 14 - 6.
Christ is our passport to heaven! Our “Wings” to get there!
Dying without Him is walking away from God!
Can you explain me that?
Sure! When we accept Christ something nice happens:
We receive his Spirit who will be our Guide from earth to heaven!
Christ is the Door trough we will enter, and God is our Eternal Life!
Accepting Christ is to die to sin, and our resurrection to a new life!
IT IS TO BE BORN AGAIN TO SERVE GOD AND PEOPLE!
Check this out: We don’t have to be afraid to die anymore!
Our new life is in our spirit, our body of course, has to get old and die,
but our spirit will live forever with God! Listen:
“That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born
of the Spirit is spirit.” John 3: 6.
Could you tell me what can I do to accept Christ?
Certainly! Please go to Romans 10: 9
“If you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe
in your heart that God has raised Him from the death, you will be saved.”
THANKS TO JESUS!

GLORY TO GOD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"THE ILUMINATOR"

We all know that before Jesus came to this world, they were already many
people that were illuminated or enlightened by God.
These people, were gifted with a great wisdom and power to induce their
followers to get closer to God illuminating their path, with God’s light.
These people were preceding Jesus Christ, who says: “I AM THE LIGHT
OF THE WORLD. HE WHO FOLLOWS ME, WILL NOT WALK IN
DARKNESS, BUT SHALL HAVE THE LIFE’S LIGHT.” John 8:12.
Nobody before Jesus said they were the Light, but, Bearers of the Light!
Before Christ had being born, who were illuminating the world?
Wonderful question my friend! Let’s go to the first chapter of John, it says:
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, THE WORD WAS WITH GOD,
THE WORD WAS GOD. John 1:1.
The Word is Christ! And He always existed with God, because He is God!
God is Light! God is Love! God is Life.
The Enlightened person is the one who receives the Light of God to ilumi-
nate the people’s path to get closer to God, however…many people limit
themselves to remain into the light of the enlightened person, instead of
getting close to the true Iluminator: God!
Oh! This is so confusing!
Listen: None of the enlightened people claim to be The Light!
They say: GOD IS LIGHT! GOD IS LOVE! GOD IS LIFE!
So, why are they worshiped as “gods”? Furthermore:
It is sad to say it but, most people consider just one third of God, instead
of accepting Him in his three personalities but just: One God!
How is that?
Yes, look : Most of them accept only… God the Father, or God the Son,
or God the Holy Spirit, instead of having them all three in ONE.
When we pass a ray of light through a special lens, it divides into three
colors, red, blue and green, the union of these three lights form white!
The day is not just morning or afternoon or night, but their union!
The human being is the union of the body with the soul and spirit, not
just the body itself, soul and spirit also need God’s care to be healthy.
“He who receives the Holy Spirit I will send is receiving me, and who
receives me, receives the Father who sent me” John 13 : 20.
Praise the Lord: Father, Son and Holy Ghost…ONE GOD FOREVER!
THE ILUMINATOR!
God illuminates us trough his Word, Trough his Word, He allow us to
Know Him, and by our obedience to his Word, we receive his blessings.
Read the Bible!

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"PERSEVERE"

What is to persevere?
Persevere is to continue doing what we are doing, good or bad
despite the oppositions we may have!
However, this word is only used trying to encourage people to remain
in the good ways of the Lord.
Jesus said: “And you shall be hated of all men for my name sake:
But he that endures to the end, shall be saved” Mathew 10: 22.
We do not to say to bad people to persevere to the end because:
That is what they do! Instead we say to them: Stop! Turn around!
Come back! Get close to the Lord!
But we have to say to good people to persevere in the righteousness
of God until the end to be saved!
Persevere in what? People say!
Exactly! Because we have to have first a HOPE to persevere in it!
Our best HOPE in this life is to reach heaven walking toward God with
obedience and love following our dream to a new life forever with Him.
And this is obtained following his Son Jesus who wants to guide us
through the narrow road with stones and thorns to our goal.
I don’t get it!
Why not? It is very simple!
Just imagine a river with its stream going down from a mountain picking
up speed driving the small boats down very rapidly.
Jesus is at the river side advising them to stop because at the end of the
channel there is a water fall that makes the water underneath whirling
at such a high speed swallowing everything it falls on it.
But the people do not listen! They are so entertained with the ride that:
Don’t pay any attention until is too late!
Jesus very sad looking what is happening, said:
Wake up and persevere! Persevere in the good ways of God!
Some with terror reflected on their faces cried to Him for help:
Lord! Please! Help me!
Wake up and persevere!
Persevere in the good ways of the Lord!

ONE WAY, ONE TRUTH, ONE LIFE!
JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD FOREVER!
PRAISE HIM!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"THE WORD OF GOD"

The Word of God, The Bible, is like a mine full of the most precious jewels.
How ever, in order to be rich with these “Jewels” we have to “dig” them
very deep and learn to admire all their beauty.
In other words, if we have a Bible seating somewhere, but nobody reads it,
How in the world are we going to know all the wisdom it contains within?
“In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God,
the Word was God.” John 1: 1. THE WORD IS CHRIST!
“Use your energy to seek eternal life He said the life that I the Celestial man
can give you.; that is why God the Father sent me.” John 6: 27.
How could we please God? They ask Jesus and He answered:
“The only thing God wants is to believe in whom He has sent” John 6: 28.
“I am the Bread of life he who comes to me would not be hungry
or thirsty again” John 6: 35
Believe me repeated Jesus who does not eat the flesh of the man of glory
and drink his blood could not have life eternal inside of them,
but whosoever eat my flesh and drink my blood has life eternal
and I will raise him in the last days.” John 6 : 54
Oh my God it is nice! But… Could you explain it to me?
I’ll try! Look: John 1: 1 Says that the Word was God right?
Yes! And?
John 1: 14 says: “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us”
The Word is Christ! The Words of Jesus are Christ’s Words! Jesus flesh!
That is why Jesus is saying that who does not eat the flesh of the man
of glory could not have eternal life! Jesus continued saying:
It is the spirit that quickens ; the flesh profiteth nothing : The words that
I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life. John 6 : 63.
HIS FLESH IN US: HIS WORDS! HIS BLOOD IN US: HIS SPIRIT!
Teacher said Saint Peter: To whom will we go that had words that give
eternal life? We believe them and know you are the Holy Son of God!
John 6: 68.69
“YOUR WORD IS A LAMP TO MY FEET AND A LIGHT
FOR MY PATH” Psalms 119: 105.

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"VOLUBILITY"

Are you voluble?
Who? Me?
Yes, You! Are you voluble?
No way José, I’m not! Well, maybe! I don’t know!
What is to be voluble?
Voluble means to be unstable! Changeable!
Like a gas that one moment is here and later is somewhere else!
It is like a liquid that when you spill it on a floor it scatters everywhere!
To be voluble is to think one way now and change your mind later!
It is to be unsteady, inconsistent! Lacked of faith!
Faith is the container that gives form to water and keep it within its limits!
When faith is weak, the container brakes and the water spills.
To be voluble is to wish one thing and later desire something else without
ever having obtained what we wished at first.
To be voluble is to wish to go to heaven, get close to Christ for salvation,
and then obey sin, walking away from our dream!
“FAITH IS THE CATALYST THAT HARDENS OUR “CEMENT” TO
SOLIDIFY OUR DREAMS.”
We humans are voluble, but God by means of our faith in Him, gives us
Firmness to our humanity to persevere in our grate purpose of obedience
to God and at the end, to be able to reach life eternal trough his Son.
Our faith in Jesus Christ is the container that gives form and consistency
to the love we say we feel for God!
To be voluble is to be flying!
Flying between God and sin! Remaining in sin, and then…
Going to God just for forgiveness for later, returning to sin.
To be faithful in Christ is to remain Stable, Firm, Loyal, Humble!
With the desire to obey and serve God!
And persevering to the end, we will be saved!
Thanks to the love of Christ for all of us!

THANK YOU JESUS!

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar.
S. de C.

"IS GOD EVERYWHERE?

If God is everywhere why do we have to look for Him pointing up?
Very good reasoning my friend but let me tell you something:
God is everywhere correct!
But when we are pointing down instead of up we would be pointing
to the “god” of the world: Sin! Besides,
God knew it was impossible for us to look for Him in heaven, so …
He sent his only Son to look for us on earth!
We don’t need to be pointing anywhere looking for God…
We just have to open our heart to his Son and invite Him to enter!
Our love for God is based on our obedience, when we obey God
accepting his Son, we become a new creation!
We separate ourselves from the world!
How could we do that if we still going to be here on earth?
Yes we will be on earth, but, separated from sin!
Could you explain me that?
Yes! Of course! Jesus will explain it to you: In John 17 It says:
“Jesus lifted his eyes to heaven and said: Father the hour has come;
glorify thy Son so your Son may glorify you as thou hast given
power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as
thou hast given him.
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
I pray for them: I pray not for the world but for them which you have
given me; for they are yours.
And all mine are yours and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.
I have given them your word; and the world had hated them because
they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Sanctified them trough your truth; your word is truth.
Neither pray I not for these alone, but for them also will shall believe
on me trough their word; that they all may be one; as you and I are one.
I in them and you in me. And the glory you gave me, I have gave them
that they may be one even as we are one.
O righteous Father the world has not know you but I have known you
and these have known that you have sent me.
And I have declared to them your name, and I will declare it;
that the love which you had loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
John 17. (Please read all chapter) And…

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"SIN,WHAT IS IT?"

The world is like a huge bull fighting arena in which we were thrown
to fight with a bull, (SIN) without knowing the real consequences this
will bring to us!
Compared to sin, we are weak! Sin is strong! Very strong!
And beautifully disguised!
Every bull, has the power to destroy us, but some times, we learned
how to grab a red cape and make to the bull, a nice pass!
But for sure that in one of this passes we will be caught in its horns!
What make us to be defying this bull knowing that it will kill us?
Sin is rebellion against God’s obedience!
Sin is: The opposite of Justice and moral righteousness!
Sin is: A lack of communion with God, turning our backs to Him!
What happened to us people???
Nobody is at the spectator places everyone is playing with the “bull”!
I looked again and I saw Jesus at the highest place, sad, just watching
at the center of the arena, how everybody were enjoying sin.
Wait! I am wrong! Not all!
Thanks to God, some of them are warning people against sin’s danger,
and how they could stop sinning by accepting Christ!
This will make them to be closer to Him leaving the sin’s arena!
Slowly but surely they were understanding that we cannot disobey God
without being punished, and that there is forgiveness of sins just by
asking Christ for it, beginning a new life as far of sin as we can!
Little by little, the people were walking away from the bull,
and opening their hearts to Christ , they accepted Him as their Savior
for God’s Glory!

Watch out!
The bull is coming!
Christ please help us!
We don’t want to die in sin!

Jump over the fence!
Get close to Jesus!
You will be saved!

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"PETER, DO YOU LOVE ME?

We all know that Saint Peter deny Jesus three times fulfilling Jesus
prophesy: Before the rooster crows you will disown me three times.
Poor Peter, he cried bitter tears of repentance for what he did!
But believe it or not… We all may have a Simon Peter in us
rejecting Jesus over and over until we accept Him as our Savior!
To disown means to refuse to acknowledge as belonging to oneself.
TO SET APART! If we set apart ourselves from Jesus now,
He will set apart himself from us in the judgment day!
When we are not accepting, we are rejecting! We are denying!
The very same thing Saint Peter did to Jesus!
After his resurrection, Jesus appeared to his apostles three times,
on the third time, He invited them to dine with him, and after dinner,
He asked Saint Peter:
Peter son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?
Yes Lord he said, you know I love you.
And Jesus said: “Feed my lambs”
Again Jesus asked him:
Simon son of Jonah do you truly love me?
He answered: “Yes Lord you know that I love you”
Jesus said: “Take care of my sheep”
The third time He said to him:
Simon son of Jonah do you love me?
He said: “Lord you know all things; you know I love you”
Jesus said: “Feed my sheep”
It is not hard to understand that Jesus wants proof of our love!
And that proof would be to take care of his sheep feeding them
not with material food but with the true spiritual food to grow up
healthy physically and spiritually with his Word: THE BIBLE!
Simon Peter repented and served the Lord the rest of his life!
We cannot accept and reject at the same time!
If we rejected Him before, now is time to accept Him!
And begin to serve our Lord as Simon Peter did!

PETER: DO YOU LOVE ME?
TAKE CARE OF MY SHEEP!

IS JESUS LORD OF YOUR LIFE?
PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"LOVE OBEY AND SERVE"

Do you love God?
Yes! I do!
Do you obey Him?
Not always!
Do you serve Him?
No! I don’t!
Then, how could you say you love Him?
To love God is to obey Him!
To obey Him is to serve Him!
All these three actions are just one!
“Why do you call me Lord if you don’t obey me?” Luke 6:46.
When we obey, we become servants, and servants are to serve!
The one we serve, becomes our Master! So…
We cannot say we love God and obey Sin!
Do you understand that?
Yes I do! But…
We humans are weak!
Very good answer! But…
By accepting Christ and receiving his Spirit, we become spiritual!
Even that we continue living in the flesh!
But now we are born again with our spirit renewed, changed!
And by obeying the Spirit of God in us, we could be able to overcome
the desires of the flesh, and that it is called: SIN!
By obeying Christ, we have the power to rebuke sin, we become
interested, not in the sin of the world, but in the joy of heaven!
Obeying and serving God demonstrates our love for Him!
Jesus said:
“I did not come to the world to be served, but to serve and give
my life as a ransom for many.” Mathew 20:28.

DO YOU LOVE GOD???
TO LOVE GOD IS TO OBEY HIM!
TO OBEY GOD IS TO SERVE PEOPLE!

LOVE DOES NOT HURT ANYONE!
AND THAT PLEASES GOD! Why?
Because…
GOD IS LOVE!

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"ERRORS AIN'T CHEAP"

Errors ain’t cheap, they are, mighty expensive!
You could say that again!
They are expensive and I know it!
Are you sure?
Yes I do!
Then, why do you keep repeating them???
That is a good question! Why?
I guess because we are humans!
Ain’t it?
I know what you mean!
To err is human! But… Are we going to be “human” all our lives?
What do you mean?
Listen: there is an old saying that says like this:
“Humans are the only “animals” that stumble with the same rock!”
If a cow hits a rock while is walking, the next time walks around it,
We humans don’t! We keep stumbling over and over because we are
Stubborn, and refuse to learn!
Jesus came to this world to “dehumanize” us!
What??? To make us like cows?
No my friend! On the contrary!
To give one step above humanism!
Listen:
Jesus was talking with Nicodemus a famous person of the Pharisees:
“If you want to go to heaven Nicodemus, you have to be born again!
Nicodemus answer: What do you mean?
How could an old man return to his mother womb and be born again?
I was saying answer Jesus, that it is not enough to be born physically
One needs to be born spiritually also if he wishes to enter in God’s
Kingdom.
“From man can only born human life, but from the Holy Spirit born
new life that proceeds from heaven.” John 3: 4 to 7.
Life never forgives our errors, we have to pay a high price for them!
Christ not only forgives them but makes us to see them and avoid them!
Making us to be born again into a new life of love and service!
LOVING GOD AND PEOPLE!

ARE YOU READY?

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"OUR EFFORTS COUNT"

It is incredible how nice sound the melodies sang by professional singers!
Without any problem they sing traveling over the whole musical scale
Nice an easy, without any efforts whatsoever! These are gifted people! But..
Just because we do not have this ability are we going to repress ourselves
from praising and singing to our Lord hymns of Glory?
Of course not!
The harder it is for us to speak or to sing, the greater it is appreciated by God!
Why?
BECAUSE OUR EFFORTS COUNT!
Listen to this:
Then, Jesus went to the offering boxes at the temple and sat and watched how
the people were making their offerings, the rich people were giving large
amounts of money then a poor widow dropped just two pennies.
He called his disciples and told them:
“That poor widow has given more than those rich men put together!
For they gave a little of their abundance; but she had given all she had!
All she had for her living. Mark 12:41.
That was a big effort for her and of course…
OUR EFFORTS COUNT!
How are you going to know if you have a good voice if you haven’t
tried to sing?
You don’t have to be a good speaker to say a prayer to God!
And also you don’t have to be a good singer to sing to Him!
He will appreciate all the efforts that come from your heart!
TO PRAY IS TO TALK TO GOD! TALK TO HIM!
TELL HIM HOW MUCH YOU LOVE HIM!
HE HAS NOT HEARD YOUR VOICE FOR A LONG TIME!
Magnify Him!
It doesn’t matter how much you tell Him how Good He is…
YOU WILL NEVER GET CLOSE!
PRAISE THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART!
HE WILLS APRECIATE ALL YOUR EFFORTS, BECAUSE…
FOR GOD…
OUR EFFORTS COUNT!

GOD BLESS YOU!

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"WATCH AND PRAY"

Jesus was praying in the garden of Gethsemane a little before He was
arrested, judge and crucified. He was praying with such sadness and
anguish that He was sweating drops of blood.
He asked to three of his apostles to be with Him, but they were so tired
that fell to sleep.
Jesus told them: C’mon! Watch and pray that ye enter not; into temptation.
THE SPIRIT IS WILLING BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK. Mathew 26- 41.
Commentary:
One day I stopped to some churches just to see what was happening at the
time of the sermons and this is what I found:
Most of the people, was stumbling on their seats, some yawning, others,
with their eyes fixed to the ceiling a thousand miles away from there.
Some of them, unable to stay awake, they were sound at sleep not knowing
what the sermon was about
Jesus was reproaching his apostles: How come you could not remained
awake just for an hour?
Tell me: Why in the world we woke up early, showered and put on our
best clothing to go to church to sleep, instead of being with our eyes and
ears open to listen and understand the Word of God?
Wouldn’t be better to stay in bed and when we wake up say a prayer with
the certainty of being dedicated to the Lord?
God sent his only Son to save the whole world, not just a few people from
some churches that think they are the “called” or the chosen ones!
All the world have the same opportunity of salvation!
Salvation is for all! For all who wish to be saved, of course!
However:
They are so many people that feeling a true love for God, they have not
felt in them the desire to read the Bible to know deeper our Lord!!
THE WORD OF GOD IS CHRIST!
And listening to the word of God with faith, we could be able to own
this Great Salvation thanks to Jesus Christ!
We walked away from God because of our sins! Can we change?
THE SPIRIT IS WILLING BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK!
How could we return to God?
Here is the secret:
WATCH AND PRAY THAT YE ENTER NOT INTO TEMTATION!
To accept Jesus Christ is: TO OPEN OUR HEARTS! AND THEN…
TO INVITE HIM TO ENTER!

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar.
S. de C.

"HUMBLENESS AND PRIDE"

God is Wisdom, Power, Humbleness, Love, Truth, Life, and He wants to put
Himself into every person who accepts his Son as Lord and Savior.
But Pride our worse enemy, won’t let us do it! Why?
Because it tells us we are self sufficient and we do not need anybody’s favor!
And in order to accept Christ as our Savior, we have to fall at his feet, repent
of our sins, and humbly ask Him for forgiveness!
Repent of what??? I haven’t done anything wrong! All at the same time…
We proudly answer!
However, humbleness cannot be faked!
It comes to us when we truly feel in ourselves the necessity of God’s help!
When we feel emptiness inside of us! When tired of sinning we desperately
are seeking for Love! God’s Love!
Remember the story of Samson and Delilah?
God raced Samson to help his people! He had power!
The Power of God was in him!
But his pride made God to abandon him and without God he was weak.
In every Christian may be a Samson when we obey God!
God is all powerful all wise and ready to live in any person that forgetting
their pride humbly accept his Son Jesus Christ as their Savior! However:
In every Samson also, there is a Delilah (sin) ready to destroy him!
Our new life depends on our obedience to the Spirit of God in us!
Our obedience to God is our success!
Our disobedience, our doom!
When we obey sin, we turn our backs to God!
And this gives “Delilah” the pair of scissors she needs to get rid of our
“hair” that makes us to loose our Power!
The Power of God in us!
God wants to guide us to a better life, but our pride covers our ears and…
We cannot hear what He is telling us!
Pride makes us to think in ourselves alone!
Humbleness makes us to think in others!
Do you want to know a humble man?
Read the Bible and know Jesus!
GOD IS LOVE! RECEIVE LOVE!
LIVE WITH LOVE! DIE IN LOVE!
Humbleness is something that when we think we have it…
Flees away from us!
When we learn to shut up our pride…
We will hear Humbleness to speak!

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"THE GREAT COMMANDMENT"

Master: Which is the great Commandment of the Law?
Jesus answered: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all
your soul, and with all your mind.”
This is the first and great Commandment. And the second is just like it:
“Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” On these two Commandments,
hang all the Law and the Prophets. Mathew 22. 36 to 40.
The first one requires all we are! Our whole being!
A complete heart, mind and soul, not a divided one!
The second one, it’s to share with others the love we feel for ourselves!
I don’t understand!
All right! Look: GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD!
“You should not have other gods before me” You should not make for you
any image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in
earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you should not bow
down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord your God
Am a jealous God. Exodus 20:3 to 5.
As you can see, God does not want to share your love with any other “gods”.
I still don’t understand! All right, do you believe the Bible is the Truth?
Yes! I do!
Then, let me to ask you another question: Who are greater, saints or angels?
I believe angels, why?
Listen: Saint Paul in Revelation said:
And I fell at the feet of the angel to worship him and he said to me:
Don’t do it! I am your fellow servant and your brethren that have the
Testimony of Jesus, worship God: Revelation 19:10.
What do you think Saint Peter along with all the Virgins and Saints would
say if they see you on your knees trying to worship them? Of course!
The same as the angel: Don’t do it! Worship God!
Listen:
Satan tempting Jesus took Him to a high mountain and told Him:
If you fall down and worship me, I will give you all these kingdoms!
And Jesus answered to him: Get out of here Satan, because it is written:
You should worship the Lord your God and only Him you should serve.
Mathew 4 : 8 to 10.
While Jesus was preaching a woman in the crowd shouted out:
“Blessed be the womb that bared thee and the breasts you sucked.”
But Jesus said: Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the Word of God
and keep it! Luke 11: 27 and 28.

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"YOUR FAITH HAS SAVED YOU"

A Pharisee invited Jesus for a dinner at his home.
They were eating when a woman from the streets, a prostitute,
when she realized that Jesus was there, very shyly entered that house and
with a flask of perfume in her hands, she knelt behind Him at His feet
and started crying until His feet were wet with her tears; and she wiped
them off with her hair and kissed them pouring her perfume on them.
When the Pharisee saw what was going on, he said to himself: If Jesus
were a prophet, He would had known what kind of a woman she really is.
Jesus knew what he was thinking and told him: Simon:
Tell me Teacher he answered.
And Jesus said: A man loaned money to two people, five thousand to one,
and five hundred to the other, no one could pay him back, and being
merciful he forgave their debts to both of them.
To your understanding: Who do you think will love him more after that?
I suppose the one who owed him the most Simon answered.
Yes! You judged correctly Simon, Jesus answered, see this woman?
When I came to your house you did not gave water to wash my feet.
But she has washed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
You did not great me with a kiss, but she has not ceased to kiss them.
You did not anointed me with oil as we usually do, but she has covered
my feet with an expensive perfume.
She loves me much because her sins that were many were forgiven,
But one who is forgiven little, little loves.
And He said to her:
Your sins are forgiven.
Then the men at the table said to themselves:
Who this man thinks He is forgiving sins?
And Jesus said to the woman:
Go in peace!
Your faith has saved you!
Luke 8: 36 to 50.

PRAISE THE LORD!

"THE DEVILS AND THE ANGELS 2"

A pitcher from the baseball team “The devils” tired of living in sin,
was claiming to Jesus the Manager of the Angels team for help.
Please Jesus help me he said, I want to work for you! I know
you died to pay the penalty of the sins of anybody who ask you.
I will bury my past and begin a new life with you helping people!
The Manager of the Angel’s team, grab his telephone and called the
Devils team manager asking for the price of that particular pitcher,
Oh no, said the devil, his price is very high!
It does not matter Jesus said, I want him!
He is asking for my help and I died to pay for his rescue!
LET HIM GO!
They negotiated and a new pitcher was acquired for the Angels team!
The new pitcher very humble fell on his knees to Jesus and said:
Thank You! I am very grateful with you!
From this very moment on, I am going to forget everything related
with my past and begin a new life serving You!
Very good Jesus said, I want you to know that in this team we have
Rules to obey, check them out and if you don’t like them you could
go back to your former team!
No please! I want to serve you!
I am tired of hating people, now I want to help them!
Very well, Jesus said!
Let’s beat the devils and after the season we will have a nice vacation
that it will last forever in Paradise!
The devil was asking their team how in the world this person knew
about Jesus, and one of them said : We found a Bible in his locker!
Get rid of it!
We cannot afford to loose another member of our team!
In the mean time, all the players of the Angel’s team were praying:
Thank You Jesus!
For dying on the cross to save us!
All of us play in one or the other team!
Is Jesus your Manager?

PRAISE THE LORD!

AND YOU… IN WHICH TEAM ARE YOU PLAYING???


José Salazar
S. de C. For Spanish goto:sopadepescadoparaelpecador.com

"A GARDEN TO PRAY"

Sin is the burden
we carry on our back
One plus one were coming
making a big pack!

All those sins were so many
That I filled my biggest sack
and it really was so heavy
that I couldn’t move or walk!

My past was so full of them,
That I tried, but couldn’t get out,
I have to find somebody,
somebody to whom I could talk!

Who else could be better?
whispered to my ears my luck!
Yield yourself to Jesus, it said,
Jesus is from heaven’s the Rock!

Forgive me Jesus!
Remove from me all sin
Repented and very humbly
on your bosom I would lean!

The past is forgotten!
Jesus cleared the way,
The future is open!
I can see a Garden!

A GARDEN TO PRAY!

PRAISE THE LORD!


José Salazar
S. de C. W.W.W.fishsoupforthesinner.com
For Spanish go to: W.W.W.sopadepescadoparaelpecador.com

"THE GAS STATION"

The Bible is the “Gas station” from God that provides the combustible
to run the good spirituality to induce our bodies to produce good fruits.
When our heart which is “The tank” is empty of it, hate takes over!
And when our heart is full of hate we could do serious harm to people!
Hate begins to enter in our hearts as soon that love starts to flow out
and we do not take provisions to continue filling it up, sooner than we
think we will be filled with HATE!
HATE IS THE DARKNESS THAT COVERS OUR EYES!
LOVE IS THE LIGHT TO DISSIPATE IT!
AND HELPS US TO GET CLOSER TO GOD!
Hate is everywhere!
But Love could only be found in God’s “Gas stations”
Churches could be the “Gas stations” but not all churches serve a
clean “Gas”, In many it is contaminated! Pure and uncontaminated
“Gas” is found in the Word of God! The Bible!
If you could find a “Gas station” that serves clean “Gas” Wonderful!
Open your account with them!
Otherwise you could be your own provider!
Reading the Bible on your own, with God’s help of course!
In the mean time you find one that satisfies your requirements!
It is obvious that I am not talking about a regular gas station in which
you fill up the tank of your vehicle, but to your heart which is the motor
that provides the energy to move your brain and your muscles which
activates your whole body!
Don’t wait until the needle of your heart points to empty of Love to
begin looking for a place to fill it up!
Because just like it happens with a bottle of water when is full…
Air begins to enter as soon as the liquid is removed!
By all means!
OPEN YOUR BIBLE!
FILL YOUR HEART WITH LOVE!
AND HELP PEOPLE TO GET CLOSER TO GOD!
And when your heart is full of Love…
You could see how ease is…
TO PRAISE THE LORD!

GOD BLESS YOU!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"FILL YOUR WORLD WITH LOVE"

“God is Love; and he that lives in Love lives in God and God in him.”
I John 4:16.

The world as big as it is,
from the milk of love it’s empty
feeding hate with its nipple,
to such a big crowd of people!
Every one of us,
lives in its own world of fantasies,
all around the globe!
One by one, take them out,
and fill your world with love!
If life for you is a heavy chain
You’ve got to be strong
and remove its pain,
Filling your world with God’s love!
Fill your room with prayers
take your Bible as your sword,
your house will keep vibrating
singing and praising our Lord!
The same happens with your heart
when you fill it up with love
there is no place for any stress,
not for hatred nor for bitterness!
Your world with love should be full!
Don’t let anybody criticize you,
if they are not willing to help
let God Himself show you
the road you always should take!
Open your heart, open your ears!
Get away from the mob!
Fill your world with love!
Remember our Merciful God
From the brake of dawn
And even after the sun light is do,
and sleep peacefully…
Jesus is with you!

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"SALVATION A GIFT FROM GOD 2"

“ARE YOU SAVED?”

Salvation of the soul is a present Christ obtained to give to anyone
who believes He could save us!
This present is for the ones that extending their hands ask Jesus for it!
It is not obtained by our good deeds because how are we going to know
we already done enough to save us?
It costs God to sacrifice his only begotten Son on a cross to obtain it!
And we cannot buy it at any price!
But we could obtain it just asking Christ for it!
Repenting of our sins, and asking Him to forgive us, we will empty our
Hearts from sin and offering it to Christ, and stretching our arms to Him
We will receive His Spirit inside of us! SALVATION IS CHRIST!
His Spirit in us will take us to heaven when the time comes and also
He will welcome us when we enter heaven!
When we invite Jesus to live within us, He bless us with his holy Gifts
To help to spread His Good News of the kingdom of God!
We are not inviting a lazy person to seat next to us to watch violent or
pornographic movies but somebody who will fill us with the knowledge
of God! After we invite God to live in us, we will be his servants, and
He will become our Lord! By our obedience to Him we become
SONS OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD!
AND AT THE SAME TIME CO HEIRS OF HIS KINGDOM!
We will obtain also the assurance of being saved!
And after that, if somebody ask you:
If you would die right now…
Do you think you will go to heaven?
You will answer them:
YES! I WILL!
NOT BECAUSE I AM GOOD, BUT BECAUSE HE IS GOOD!
AND PAID THE PRICE OF MY SALVATION ON THE CROSS!

ARE YOU SAVED?

OFF COURSE!
THANKS TO JESUS!
GLORY TO GOD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"SALVATION, A GIFT FROM GOD"

“ARE YOU SAVED?”
I asked a friend of mine, a simple but some how, a daring question that
most of the times, it is not easy to answer!
The question was: Supposing that you die right now!
Do you think you would go to heaven?
His answer was: I don’t know! I wish I know, but, I am not sure!
Why not? I asked!
Well, because at the last minute of our lives, we could sin and loose it all!
Don’t tell me you are sure of it!
Of course I am! I answered, and let me tell you why:
It is obviously not because I am good, because I am not!
But Thanks to Christ who died for me and paid with his life for my sins!
And because that all my confidence and Faith I had deposited in Him!
Listen my friend I said, HEBREWS 11;1 says:
“FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR,
THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN.”
It is Like a present somebody sent us but has not yet arrived!
By Faith we know we are saved! However…
Our doubts that are the opposite of Faith, laughing tell us that it is a lye
and we have to earn it if we want to go to heaven!
Our job is to choose who we are going to believe, our Faith, or our doubts!
Let’s see what the Bible tells us about this:
“God says that He will accept us, purify us, and take us to heaven, if we
trust Jesus to take away our sins we all can be saved this way by
coming to Christ no matter who we are or what we have been like.”
Romans 3- 21 and 22.
“Our forgiveness is not base in our good deeds, but in what Christ
has done for us, and in our Faith in Him!” Romans 3-27
“Did God accept Abraham because of his good deeds? No!
Because if it had being this way he would have had something to boast!
The scriptures said that Abraham believed God and because of that,
God forgave his sins and declared him Innocent! Romans 4.
In other words, it is not enough to believe in God, but:
WE HAVE TO BELIEVE HIM! AND BELIEVING…
IS THE BASE OF OUR FAITH!
In Romans 4 – 4. We find:
“Did Abraham obtain his right to heaven for his good deeds?
No! Because: SALVATION IS A GIFT!
If somebody could obtain it for being good, it wouldn’t be free!
AND FREE IT IS!

To be continued!

TO BELIEVE, WHAT IS IT?"

Do you believe in God?
Of course! I do believe in God!
Do you believe in Jesus Christ?
Yes! I do! Why are you asking me these questions?
I’ll tell you in a minute, but first, let me tell you that, as you know:
Every day we listen in the news about kidnappings, rapes to innocent
children, people stealing, deceiving, murdering without mercy
It is incredible, but people are walking away from God at giant steps,
allowing all these things that astonishes the whole world to happen.
Do you believe in angels?
Yes! I do believe in angels why?
Because the Bible says that God created everything including the angels.
One of them named Lucifer began to envy the Almighty because he
wanted to be, not only like Him but he wanted to be God!
The Creator of the Universe, had prepared for the devil and all his hosts of
fallen angels along with all who wishes to follow him, a lake of fire and
brimstone in which will be tormented day and night for ever and ever!
All right, but what do all these, has to do with your questions?
Listen:
At the beginning, I asked you if you believe in God and you said yes!
I asked you if you believe in Jesus Christ and you also said yes!
I asked you if you believe in angels and the devil and your answer
was the same! YES!
So: Do you know what you believe in?
Oh! You got me all confused!
All right ! let me explain you something: The word TO BELIEVE is:
TO AKNOWLEDGE THE EXISTANCE OF SOMEBODY OR
SOMETHING ONLY! So: TO BELIEVE IS NOT SUFFICIENT!
A quotation from the Bible says:
“Do you believe that there is only one God? Even demons believe it so
strongly that they tremble in terror, fool, when will you ever learn that
Believing is useless without doing what God wants you to do? James 2;19.
Anybody could believe in marriage, have kids and a complete family
Without ever being married! We are considered married after we say:
I DO! I DO ACCEPT! Not: I DO BELIEVE!
Probably many times you have said: I believe in Jesus Christ!
But: have you ever said: I ACCEPT YOU JESUS! FORGIVE ME ALL
MY SINS, I WANT TO START A NEW LIFE WITH YOU!
Have you ever said it?
To believe in Jesus Christ is not just to believe He exists, but:
TO ACCEPT DEEP IN YOUR HEART THAT HE DIED TO FORGIVE
OUR SINS AND HE ROSE TO GIVE US ETERNAL LIFE!
We accept his salvation when we open our hearts to HIM
The Joy of being saved makes us jump of happiness and make us to tell
everybody about it, just the way I am doing with you!
ACCEPT HIM! And say:
DEAR JESUS: YOU ARE MY LORD AND MY SAVIOR!
COME INTO MY HEART!
THANK YOU LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"MASTER OF MY SOUL"

Dear Jesus: I believe in you!
Guide my life, guide my soul
Help me in everything I do!
Teach me to love people
from all and every nation!
Your love is for all
without discrimination!
You love the poor
You love the rich.
The bad you try to reach!
And never get tired
of every one to preach.
Earth is your garden
the Universe your domain
your sacrifice to save us
it sure was not in vane!
Millions have been saved!
Millions yet to come,
our dream it is to live,
in heaven your great home!
Is Jesus the Lord of your life?
It will be awesome, it will be neat
when you read the Bible
and Jesus you will meet.
Don’t just care about the honey
that comes along with the money!
Life on earth is not for ever,
It passes like one day..
Life from death…
It is just one step away!
Oh God: Change my life,
Be the Master of my soul!
Your name I will always greet!
And my soul…
I place it at your feet!

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.
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"THE TREASURE CHEST"

I had a chest in which I kept my Treasure!
It was full of valuable things!
Much more valuable that gold, jewels and diamonds!
I was very happy having with me such a Treasure!
I was very happy just in thinking that this Treasure was mine!
I thought that nobody could take it away from me!
However, one day… Somebody snatch it from me,
making me the most unhappy person in the whole world!
I looked for it everywhere without success, until one day, God,
had pity on me and I recovered!
And together with it, my happiness came back!
Now I say: From now on, I’ll be more careful!
I am going to defend it with my life if necessary!
Wow! How nice! But..
Did you really have a Treasure chest like that?
Yes I did! But this is just an analogy!
An analogy? Of what?
You’ll see: The Treasure I am referring to is Jesus Christ in the heart
of all the people who accept Him and become a Christian!
But as soon as you receive Him as your Savior, the devil begins tempting
you trying to steal from you such a precious Treasure! He wants to make
us fall so we could go back to the life we had before we had God’s Spirit!
However, after we tasted the life with Christ in us, nothing else will reach
that level of happiness!
There are no sin that will be too attractive for us to make us return
to the life of sin we had before!
Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ! Romans 8:35.
So, if you have been tempted, or you fell from grace and had returned
to the sin world….
NOW IT’S TIME TO SERIOUSLY THINK TO COME BACK!
Take your Bible, and on your knees ask God for forgiveness!
Ask Him to help you to recover your precious Treasure!
The Spirit of Christ in us, is the Greatest Treasure anybody could find!
And this Treasure it is yours to keep! But this time if you are sincere…
Nobody can take it away from you!
Thank you Lord! I don’t want to go back to sin!
With you at my side..
I am saved!
I WON’T WALK AWAY FROM YOU ANYMORE!

GLORY TO GOD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"SPIRITUAL WARFARE"

We were born in sin, grew up in it, and having nothing better to do,
we followed the desires of our hearts in a world ruled by sin.
We had “peace”, the “peace” the world offers when we obey it,
and in return for our obedience… The world loves us!
Inside of us there is no fighting, because as we know, it takes two
to tango, therefore, we cannot fight against ourselves.
Everything was O. K. then, somebody comes talking us about God!
Talking about getting rid of sin, and begin a new life, with Christ!
Immediately, the devil gets himself on guard!
The “world” tries to convince us there is nothing better than the
desires of our heart obtaining the material things it offers us, and then…
Inside of us begins… A SPIRITUAL WARFARE!
The spiritual warfare starts when we feel inside, the urge to know God!
When we begin thinking that life in this world is not all there is!
When we begin understanding that after death, THERE IS LIFE!
And this life could be obtained by believing that God sent his Son
to give us this life eternal when we believe, and obey Him!
To know God is very important, but, more important is to obey Him!
We have been obeying the spirit of sin for so long we can remember,
mow that we are trying to obey God and the warfare began, we have
to be sure on which side we are standing! We cannot fight on both sides!
We cannot say we love God and keep obeying the devil hating people!
We have to demonstrate our love for Christ obeying Him!
Are we fighting for God? Or against Him!
When we accept Christ and invite Him to live in us, the war is won!
Even that we continue suffering the worlds hate!
IT IS FINNISHED! Said Christ when He was dying at the cross!
John 19-30.
He won the war for us! The war against sin, Victory against death!
Conquering eternal life for everyone who wants to receive Him!
The “peace” of the world was obtained neglecting Christ!
The Peace of Christ is obtained by inviting Him to enter in your heart!

“I am leaving you with a gift, peace of mind and heart;
And the peace I give isn’t fragile like the peace the world gives.
So don’t be troubled and afraid.” John 14-27.

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"THE DREAM"

In every person there is a dream!
In every dream a Hope!
In every Hope a Faith,
In every Faith a road.

In every road an end,
In every end a prize,
In every prize happiness
in happiness a satisfaction.

If your dream is to go to heaven
And your Hope is in God’s Might,
You will be taken to the Father
by his Son Jesus the Christ.

But if you always walked in sin,
You won’t find anything nice…
You won’t find Jesus!
You won’t find a prize

Get closer to God!
His Son for you has given,
when you truly repent……
For sure you’ll be forgiven

His Light will shine upon you!
He will be with you 24- seven,
And when you’ll reach the end..
You will wake up in heaven!

The “Way” to heaven is open!
You could ask Mary his Mother…
Like her Son: Jesus the Christ…
In the world… There is no other!

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"A HEALTHY HEART"

Our digestive system is the “factory” that processes all the foods we eat
Extracting from them all the necessary nutrients to maintain our bodies
In good health!
We know that they are healthy foods, and unhealthy ones!
The non healthy ones are harder to digest them causing in us: Indigestion!
But the worse problem is that we are completely aware of this and because
it taste so good… We don’t care! No wonder they call them “Junk foods”
an excess of red meats, pastries, and carbonated drinks, are the major cause
of our over weight, and you know it! Then…
WHY DO WE INSIST IN MAKING THEM PART OF OUR MENU?
Gain control of your weight again!
Eat more vegetables, fruits, and slow down with sugar by products!
Try it by one month and check your weight again!
YOU WILL BE SURPRISED!
Decreasing the consumption of red meats, saturated fats and carbonated
drinks, will help us to balance our blood pressure, and get rid of our fat!
A laxative will help us to clean our digestive track from impurities that
our unhealthy food brought to us, and changing our diet, will make us
to see in us… the difference! Yes! Physically speaking yes!
But how about spiritually? Let’s see:
Our heart was made to be fed with love!
But same as our stomach, we insist in feeding it with:
HARD TO DIGEST PRODUCTS like : HATE!
Hate makes our hearts angry, worry, depressed, anxious, impatiens!
Increasing our blood pressure we become exhausted , cold, and if we
are not careful, we could get seriously sick!
Our heart needs cleansing!
If we give away all the hate we got, we will receive more, and will be a
never ending story! What can we do?
REPENTING AND ASKING GOD FOR FORGIVENESS WILL
ELIMINATE FROM THE PROFOUNDITIES OF OUR HEART
ALL THE HATRED WE GATHERED FOR SO MANY YEARS!
But after it is empty, it will be refilled with more hate if we do not
ask God to put His Love in us!
His Love in us will open up new horizons in our lives
The more love we give away, the more we will have inside of us!
And of course! We will also have: A HEALTHY HEART!
TO WELCOME GOD IN IT!
GOD BLES YOU! And……

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"WHICH SIDE?"

Two armies in the world
Always engaged in a fight
The light fighting against darkness
Darkness against the Light!

Darkness’s army is big!
Light’s Army is very small!
But there is a third one:
It is the worse of them all!

One helps, loves, cares, and heals,
The other hates, destroys and kills!

Good against evil! Evil against Good!
And the third one?
Just watching them both to fight!

Not hot or cold,
They want to be on both sides,
God hates lukewarm people,
From his mouth will spit them out!

Good people are not many,
Bad ones by the millions,
Indecisive ones?
They are million of the millions!

Open your eyes when you are walking
Is light or darkness you see?
For God sake please tell me!
On which side would you like to be?

On our knees we gave Christ our heart,
Tired of so much indecision,
God forgave us, and …
We received from Him Salvation!

Give your heart to Christ!
Cure your wound, end your sore,
Love people!
Sin no more!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT"

Our planet Earth is like a grain of sand buried into the beach
of the great ocean of the Universe.
How lucky we are!
But… How did we get here?
God, from the darkness of the soil formed man, and from his rib,
made as his companionship: A woman.
Since then, from the darkness of her womb, God took humans
to light, and filled up the world with them.
Our sun is a great provider of light, but even with all its bright,
the world do to sin, it is in complete darkness.
So, Christ, came to the world to take us out again from darkness
to light, His Light!
I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD! He said!
He that follows me, shall not walk in darkness. John 8 - 12.
So, all that refuses to believe in his sacrifice to save us,
will remain in darkness.
When we receive Him as our Savior, His Light shines on us
to show people who the Light of the world Is!
And when our time comes to an end, our bodies will go to the
darkness of the ground, but our soul, if we believed in Christ
will continue shining.
What about our bodies, are they going to be in darkness forever?
No! God again will send His Son to rescue us! Jesus said:
I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE!
He that believes in me; though he were dead, yet shall he live;
And whosoever live and believe in me, shall never die. John 11-25.
Through resurrection, Christ will take us once again …
FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT!
When we accept Christ as our Lord and Savior…
We will remain in his Light forever!
While unbelievers will remain in darkness!
After we see the Light, we will never want to go back, to darkness!
To accept Christ is to have the desire to be illuminated by God!
To accept Christ is to go out …
FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT!

THANK YOU JESUS!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"ON THE WAY SIDE"

In a city, there are roads, streets, avenues, and bridges that connect one
side to the other! Before the sun starts shinning, these places are full with
people trying to get to their work or to travel from one city to the other!
And when the day is over, they return to their homes to rest to replenish
their strength, getting ready for tomorrow. But sadly to say:
Many people have no homes, no families, no place to go!
They get a few pieces of clothing, or a plastic bag to protect themselves
from the wind, cold, rain or snow without any hope for the next day.
Maybe wishing, it will never come!
This people got stuck in the middle of nowhere!
THEY GOT STUCK ON THE WAY SIDE!
HOPE.- Is the picture we hold in the eye of our minds as a reminder of our
tomorrow’s goals!
FAITH : Is the “Battery” that furnishes the energy to light up this picture so
we could be able to see it clearly!
CHARITY, gives us the opportunity to obtain those batteries!
CHRIST IS OUR HOPE TO GET TO HEAVEN!
HEAVEN IS THE “CITY”, CHRIST IS THE “WAY”!
THE ONE AND ONLY WAY, TO GET THERE!
Our Faith in Christ illuminates the “Picture” of our tomorrow’s dream!
This Faith makes us to believe without a doubt that:
He will guide us safely and securely from this side, to the other!
CHARITY is the full payment for this “trip” He paid in full at the cross!
TO SAVE US!
Christ converts our dream into a reality!
DON’T GET STUCK ON TH E WAY SIDE!
I feel very sorry for those people, but I am sad and angry at the same time
for those that having everything in life, they don’t want to know anything
about heaven! They don’t want to know anything about Jesus the Christ,
They don’t want to know anything about God!
They are obviously not on the “Way side”, they are running very fast!
But in the wrong direction!
Running on the wrong road!

Christ has his hands trying to pull us up!
Hold to Him with all your might!
Heaven is near!
Heaven is close!
It is at sight!

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C. Para Español vaya a: sopadepescadoparaelpecador.com

"THE MOVIE STAR 2"

And Christ came to this world to remove all specks of sin from us
To present us to his Father, clean from all unrighteousness!
But if we wait to be on the death bed to call Him, we would not
Have much of a “good” film to show in heaven!
Christ not only “cuts” all the bad ratings from our films, but He also adds
a brand new film to begin recording our new life as Christians!
Nobody else can remove all the bad ratings from our “films”!
ONLY JESUS CAN!
Trough out our lives we already have put together:
A LOT OF FILM IN NEED FOR ERASING!
The devil on the other hand, is ready to cut from our films, all our “Good”
parts if any, and take us to hell to enjoy with him, your movie!
Could you picture yourself what could happen if you die in an accident,
or on a violent act of “Mother Nature” and you don’t have the opportunity
to repent and ask Christ to cleans you from all your sins?
Just close your eyes and imagine yourself watching all your recorded film
since you were a baby to your present age!
Do you think you will be pleased if this “film” is shown in heaven?
If you are not!....
Why continue recording something that it makes you to feel ashamed?
Don’t you think it is time to invite Jesus to enter into your life and make
in you a complete change?
THE TIME IS NOW!
Our new Director will be the Holy Spirit!
Our film name will be change from “OUR ETERNAL DOOM” To:
“OUR ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN”
Our representing Agent will be Jesus Christ!
Call Him!
HE IS WAITING FOR YOU!
And begin rolling your new film!
Your pride will not be in you anymore!
But in Jesus Christ your Savior!
Your film will be shown in a festival! And you may…
Win an award!
Thank to Jesus our Lord!

GOD BLESS YOU! and…

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.
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"THE MOVIE STAR"

Every one of us is: A MOVIE STAR!
A Star of our own film!
A Star of our own show!
The movie we are making it could last from a split second to maybe,
one hundred years, or more!
The longest movie than anybody could ever watch!
We begun recording it since we were very young and we will continue
until our batteries become exhausted and our cameras stop rolling.
As we grow up, we were rating our movie from “A” to “B” to “C”.
But when we were ten, eleven years old, or more, we begun thinking
that our movie is a little bit, “boring” and started adding some action!
We added “Adult language” Violence, sex and so on, and our movie,
climbed its rating from A, to X, double X and sometimes triple!
But that it is not very funny at all!
Why?
Because this movie, after all our efforts to make it “Brilliant”…
IT CANNOT BE SHOWN IN HEAVEN!
Because God hates SIN!
But it can be shown in hell, without any problem at all!
So in order that this “Film” of ours could be shown in heaven, first…
Needs to be “Edited”!
That means to remove all the exes! The X ratings from it!
To make it a clean film!
But if we start “cutting it out” we probably are going to end just
with a few feet of our Film! When we were babies!
By filming this picture for so many years, we already have thousands
and thousands of footage, that we probably are ashamed if it is shown
in heaven! But they cannot wait to be seen in hell!
Many people do not care at all about their “movies”, and do nothing to
“clean” their films, but when they are on the death bed, and feel
the flames of hell ready to engulf them, they are so afraid and call
somebody to help them and comfort their spirits, but this will not
remove all the X ratings from their films!
This X ratings, are called SIN!
Sooner or later, we all are going to be on that bed it is true!
But, why wait the last minutes of our “battery” life to accept Christ,
instead of accepting Him now that are full charged and the light
of our Star it’s shinning with splendor?

TO BE CONTINUED!

"ON A CROSS"

With his arms wide open, hanging on a bloody cross,
with his hands and feet pierced with nails,
And a crown of thorns bleeding on his head,
Jesus Christ died to conquer for all, Salvation!

Tears of blood were rolling on his cheeks,
His eyes developed anguish and despair,
His countenance revealed the agony of his soul,
and from his throat came out a desperate shout:

Father forgive them,
Because they don’t know what they’re doing,
Forgive them Father because they don’t know who I am!
Into your hands I commend my spirit He said,
In his last breath and in a pray!

Later, He came back to life,
He woke up into his resurrection,
at the right hand of God now He seats,
And from there we receive his protection,

Believe! Believe in Him!
In his life, in his death,
and in his resurrection!

Guide my Lord, guide my steps to follow you!
Give us the strength to obey your call,
shine on our path, so we will not be in darkness,
And into bad ways we could fall!

The world my Lord goes so fast,
that in it’s travel could run over me,
But when you're near me I fear no evil,
And very happy I know I’m safe!

Please send us your Holy Spirit,
So we could learn and His holy gifts receive,
And when everything in this life comes to an end,
In your home in heaven, with magnificent view,
Thanks to your Grace.. .. ..
We will live with you!
Thank You Jesus!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"IN GOD WE TRUST"

Do you really have your trust in God?
Absolutely! My trust is in Him!
Do you know that when we trust somebody we deposit our confidence
and our faith in that person?
And when we doubt, our faith stumbles, our confidence crystallizes,
our trust shatters and wastes?
Yes, but not with me!
My trust is unbreakable!
That is what Saint Peter said to Jesus, remember?
You know what happened next!
Are you trying to destroy my faith?
Not at all!
On the contrary, I want it to be real!
I wanted to be true!
What destroys our faith is doubt, and doubt comes to us when we sin!
We cannot put our trust in God and sin at the same time!
One destroys the other, and in this case, doubt is stronger than trust
and God don’t want us to doubt, but to have faith!
No! no! no!, My faith is stronger than any doubt, I guarantee you that!
Oh yea?
Then, answer me this:
Have you ever felt lonely?
Have you ever felt down?
Have you ever felt anxious and despaired?
Yes, but…
But what?
All that is caused by doubt, and doubt is not having enough faith!
And let me tell you something:
When we really trust God, we deposit our faith in Him!
Ask Him to live in us…And then…
We will never be lonely again!
He will put his Holy Spirit in us when we accept His Son
to strengthen us! To give us Courage, Peace, Love, Happiness!
Listen:
DO YOU REALLY HAVE YOUR TRUST IN HIM?
OPEN YOUR ARMS TO CHRIST
HE IS WAITING FOR YOU!
TELL HIM YOU LOVE HIM! and…..

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"AT THE CONTROLS"

Who is at the controls?
I am! I am at the controls!
Are you sure?
Yes! Who else?
Remember what you are saying when you feel depressed, anxious, with fear.
You are going to find out that you are not really at the controls!
No? Then, ¿who? Who is at the controls if it is not me?
God! God is at the controls, and our faith in Him, makes us to feel happy,
secure, courageous, then, sin comes, our faith fails, and we start doubting,
and hating, we become sour, angry, depressed, and instead of asking God
for forgiveness, for patience, for love, we close our eyes and take a pill
to make us feel good, calmed and “happy!”
Jesus said:
“If you had a faith as a mustard seed, you could tell to a mountain to move
and it would obey you, nothing for you would be impossible!” Mat. 17-20
We may never have a faith that will move a literal mountain, but, we have
inside of us “Mountains” of problems that could be solved just by putting
our faith at the feet of Christ!
If sin created inside of us negative mountains of doubts, why don’t we
destroy them with our positive faith?
Faith in God, is to believe that:
Christ can remove from us all sin, and its negative effects!
GOD IS AT THE CONTROLS!
He does not want to control us, on the contrary….
HE WANTS US TO BECOME FREE, FROM THE SLAVERY OF SIN,
WHEN WE PUT OUR TRUST IN HIM!
God is at the controls!
There is nothing to fear!
There is nothing to be afraid of, when we put our trust in Him!
How wonderful really is…
TO PUT OUR TRUST IN CHRIST!

PRAISE HIM WITH ALL YOUR HEART!
YOU WILL BE SAVED!

José Salazar
S. de C.
For Spanish go to: sopadepescadoparaelpecador.com

"DO WHAT I SAY"

Dad: what are you drinking?
A beer!
Does it taste good?
No son, it tastes bitter!
Can I try it dad?
No, son, you are under age! Why do you want to taste it?
Well dad, just to know which one to drink when I grow up!
No son, I would not let you do it!
Why?
Because it could make you ill!
Then dad, why do you drink it?
Dad: I noticed that when you are drinking, you are also smoking!
Does that taste good?
No, son, it tastes awful!
I don’t understand dad, if it tastes bad, why do you continue using it?
I am your son, and I am watching everything you do, so when I grow up,
I will follow your steps!
No, son, I would not recommend it at all! Hey…
What are you doing in front of the mirror with a pencil in your mouth?
Oh, I ‘m just trying to see how I am going to look when I start smoking!
No son! Don’t do what I do! Do what I say!
Sorry dad! Your actions talk so loud that I can’t hear what you are saying!
Remember I am your son and I will choose what ever you choose to do!
Dad: Somebody told me that heaven or hell it is just a matter of choice!
Heaven is to choose God’s obedience, and hell it to choose not to choose
to obey Him! Is that right?
The man begun to cry, fell on his knees and started to pray:
Thank you Lord for giving me this angel to guide me to your way, I don’t
want him to follow me in my wrong choices, from now on, I choose
to obey You! Please forgive me and help me to remain faithful to you!
Come on son! I don’t want you to follow me, get next to me!
From now on, we will choose together!
We will choose right!
We will choose God!
Forever!

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C. For Spanish go to:sopadepescadoparaelpecador.com

"THE TRASH PICKER"

You are going to be surprised if I tell you that a very important person
is picking up trash from the streets!
Oh yea? Could you tell me who he or she is?
Yes! I‘ll let you know it in a second, but first I have to say that:
You know this person!
Really?
Yes!
That person uses a bag to collect it, and that bag is full!
But the worse part is that it is not done for necessity, but for pleasure!
Wait! Wait a minute!
You are making a serious mistake!
I don’t know anybody that picks up trash on the streets! And for pleasure…
Hell no!
I am going to tell you who this person is, and you tell me if you know it!
Go ahead!
This person is YOU!
Me??? Are you crazy?
When have you seen me doing that?
When you buy a pack of cigarettes!
When you buy alcohol or drugs!
When you curse a person on the streets!
When you are watching pornography!
When you go to bed with some one else!
When you are not worshiping the True God!
Oh God I am sorry! Forgive me! Please!
And fill me up with your Spirit!
God wants to give you his greatest treasure: HIMSELF!
He wants to fill you up with his Spirit but your heart, where He would
live, is full already! Full of trash!
You need to empty it confessing your sins to Him! He will forgive you!
And forgiveness empties our hearts from sin!
The Bible says that if we confess our sins to God, He is faithful to
forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” I John 9.
If we are picking up trash from the streets, our bag is occupied, and if
we find a treasure, where we are going to put it if our bag is full?
Of course! We have to empty it so we could fill it up with the…
Treasure we just found!

The greatest Treasure anybody could find is The Grace of God!
Grace is forgiveness! And Forgiveness is Christ!
Go on your knees, read the Bible, and… PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C. Para Español, ve a : sopadepescadoparaelpecador.com