"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.