"GOD IS WITH YOU"

In a museum, a little mouse crossed a light projecting his shade
on the wall, scaring him to death.
Grandpa, grandpa, he said, but had no answer.
He started backing off and the size of the “dragon” that scared
him was getting bigger, then, he stopped and said:
If I have to die, I will die fighting, and started to walk forward.
As he was getting closer to the wall, the “monster” was getting
smaller and smaller, until it got his size; then he closed his
fists and started to throw some punches to the wall, when a ray
of light entering through the window announcing the new day,
erased the shade, and the little mouse said:
Coward, where did you go? I’m not afraid of you anymore!
Then, grandpa showed up and said: What is all that noise?
Grandpa, I was fighting with a big dragon, and I won!
Oh yea? I fought with that dragon also, and I won too, but,
forget about dragons, I saw a lot of cheese in the kitchen, lets
have breakfast together! Look son:
I want to confess you something: I was behind the light!
I wanted to help you in case you needed me!
Son: Fear is a test to increase our Power, our Love and our
Temperance (Self- control)
That means that you.. grandpa?.. Thank you! I love you!
As we back up, fear increases, when we confront it, disappears.
All, absolutely all of us sometime had been afraid of something!
Fear is a negative staff we could neutralize with something
positive! Sometimes fear makes us to get closer to God!
When we ask Him to be with us, we have his protection from
something that could hurt us. God controls everything,
and nothing bad could happen to us without his consent;
He is in control, we don’t have to fear anything!
My grandpa use to tell me: Son, fear does not exist!
It is just an unreal doubt product of our mind or from somebody
else to exhaust our energy and to steal our courage!
Happiness is to avoid fear, and to abandon all negativities!
Well, tell me: Fear exists or not?
Listen: Jesus told his Apostles: “Why are ye fearful, o, ye of
little faith?” Mathew 8 -26.
In other words: More faith, less fear! So, Get closer to God!

Be happy! Have a pleasant dream…With God within!
PRAISE HIM HE LOVES YOU!

José Salazar
S. de

"FEAR"

What is fear?
Fear is an unknown road we are traveling against our will!
Fear is a yellow light that advices us that we must stop;
wait until bad traffic clears and then, all rested out when
the green light shows up…continue!
Fear is normal!
They call it stress, anxiety, depression etc. but it’s just fear
in a disguise running through a red light! Watch out!
Stop! Stop! Stop! And relax!
Can we control it?
Yes we can! Listen:
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power,
and of love, and of a sound mind” (self control)
II Timothy 1-7
Fear is not to hurt us, but to protect us from something
bad it could come if we desire to continue riding toward
the red light with our eyes closed!
Someone said:
“If we fear the Lord, we won’t fear anything else”
Fear and faith cannot get together, they are like water
and oil, and water and oil don’t mix.
They are separated! We should keep them separated!
If we don’t use fear for protection, it could deviate in
stress and anxiety and paralyze us! Listen:
If a dear hears the roar of a lion, utilizes its fear to fight
or flight as fast as it can, but if it gets stressed or anxious,
paralyzes and remains at the mercy of its predators.!
Jesus told his disciples:
“Why are ye fearful, O ye, of little faith?” Mathew 8-26.
Fear is doubt! Faith is Trust!
Trust the Lord and all your doubts will disappear!
Where is fear? Where did it go?
I don’t know!
It’s probably following somebody else, because I…
I’m following the Lord!

PRAISE HIM… HE LOVES YOU!

José Salazar
S. de

"DON'T WORRY"

If by worrying
we could solve it all…
Well, then, worry!
But it’s not like that!

Instead of being worried: Pray!
Ask God with faith;
He will straighten out your ship
and keep it afloat!

Never get tired of praying!
Pray for people!
Pray for the sick ones!
Pray for the orphans!

Pray for all of those
far away from God;
so they can come back to Him,
and get saved!

Don’t stop!
God is with you!
He is going to help you!
He is your friend!

Jesus said:
“Ask and it shall be given to you;
seek and ye shall find;
knock and it shall be open to you;
for everyone that asketh, receiveth;
and he that seeketh find it;
and to him that knocketh;
it shall be opened.” Mathew 7-7.

PRAISE HIM HE LOVES YOU!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"TAKE OFF YOUR DISGUISE"

How many people in the church adopt an angelical gesture
but as soon as the cult ends, we want to be the first ones
to get out because we try to get in our vehicles before the
traffic gets bad.
Take off your disguise!
Why do you have such a big eyes grandma?
And such a big mouth? And she left as fast as she could
because she had discovered the wolf!
Take off your disguise!
But I am a Christian and I don’t do that!
Really? Pride is one of the sins God hates the most!
“God resisteth the proud but giveth grace to the humble!
James 4-6.
Pride is the opposite of humbleness, without humbleness
we cannot sincerely love God and much less people.
When we receive Christ as our Savior, we born again!
We have in front of us a new man, ready to begin serving
God, but we have to get rid of the old man we were before,
so we could be guided by the Holy Spirit that Jesus Christ
put inside of us and not be just half New serving God,
and half old serving evil.
Strong isn’t?
And what do we need so we could change?
We need a new heart! Listen:
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit
within you, and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh,
and I will give them an heart of flesh;… Ezekiel 11-19.
“And that ye put the new man, which after God is created
in righteousness and true holiness. “ Ephesians 4-24.
Take off your disguise, and accept Jesus as your Savior..
and be the New man that God wants you to be!
Far away from evil and close to love and mercy that God
brought to the world when He sent his Son to save us!

GLORY TO THE GOOD LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"WHERE ARE YOU?"

Where are you? God asked Adam, and he answered:
Here Lord, I listened you where coming and I hide,
because I’m naked.
Who told you that you where naked? Have you eaten from
the tree I forbade you to eat from? The woman you gave
me to be with me, she gave me from the tree and I ate.
Genesis 3-10.
The first sin of man, was disobedience to God, they where
severely punished and taken out of paradise.
Christendom it is not just believing that Jesus exists but to
follow him and obey Him, not to ignore the one who had
victory over sin, to forgive us and guide us toward God.
However, most of us that we called ourselves Christians,
abuse of the Mercy of God attracted by the tremendous
power of the magnetism of sin, turning our backs to God
and walking away from Him.
This makes us to feel naked before God! And hide!
Christ makes us to think and repent, however, repentance
is not just to say: I repent, but to experience a change in
our direction, in our minds, and in our hearts.
The change in our direction makes us to see we are
walking away from God and we must return.
Our paradise is not the world, but God!
Our paradise is to have Jesus in us!
And if you haven’t received Him in your heart…
Invite Him to enter!
Where are you???

PRAISE HIM, HE LOVES YOU!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"THINK ABOUT TOMORROW"

Think about tomorrow but do not live in it, because you would
be living in a day that still hasn’t been born yet.
If we worry about tomorrow, our body stresses out, anguishes
and weakens so much that we just want to rest.
To think in tomorrow is not just to be worried about everything
but to do something worthy so we could have a better future.
Jesus said: Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the
morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Mathew 6-34.
Listen: “This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will
rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalms 118-24.
But if instead of rejoicing in this wonderful day we use it to be
sad and worry, we are not obeying the Lord.
“Fear the Lord and walk away from evil, it shall be health to
thy navel and marrow to thy bones.” Proverbs 3-7 and 8.
I asked a friend that is always smiling and greeting people all
day if he didn’t have any problems, and he answered me:
Yes I do, and big ones, but my God is Greater than all of them!
Problems, he continued, are not to ignore them or keep piling
them up on the desk, but to solve them!
I ask God for his help, I solve my pending problems, and yet,
I still have time to thank Him!
Yes! Today we could prepare our tomorrow so we could be
ready and happy to praise the Lord!

“Rejoice always” I’ll say it again: Rejoice! Philippians 4 - 4.

God never abandon us! We walk away from Him! But…
He is always waiting for us with open arms!
Today is beautiful, because yesterday we did something good!
Tomorrow will be better if today:
To the Lord, we pray!

PRAISE HIM HE LOVES YOU!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"PAINTING WITH WORDS"

Believe it or not, when we go to bed at night if we really think
about it, during the day, everyday of our lives, we have been
painting pictures! Pictures painted with words!
Good words, bad words, kind words, ugly ones, and so on…
The words we use the most, are lined up close to our mouths
waiting for the moment we open it to come out!
And instead of calling a person moron or stupid we shall say:
Hey, you look nice today! So happy to see you! I miss you!
They will respond with a big smile, instead of an ugly frown
we don’t want to see!
If we check the pictures we painted at the end of the day,
we would be surprised how bad they are.
But, we could cover them with the white paint of repentance
and reuse the same frame to paint something nice.
We will be so happy, that proudly will hang them on the wall
of our minds. But, that is not all!
We will receive blessings instead of curse from the people that
surround us, and then, we will understand once and for all…
What love is all about!
“What you give you will receive.”
Bless and you will be blessed!
Forgive and you will be forgiven!
Don’t paint beautiful pictures with lots of promises you cannot
fulfill, time will prove with your own words if you lied.
Be Truthful!
Paint “pictures” with Values, with colors, with Joy, with Mercy
and most of all, with Love!
Don’t forget to remove the bad thoughts before become words,
you’ll see the difference in your “paintings”!

GIVE LOVE!
YOU WILL RECEIVE IT BACK DOUBLE FOLDED!

PRAISE HIM HE LOVES YOU!

José Salazar
S. de C.

LET'S PRAY"

Do you pray?
Who, me? No! I don’t pray or praise anybody!
Why?
Because I’ve got two hands and a brain to work and get the money
to buy everything I want!
Besides, I don’t think God is a magician to bring me what I wish
just by saying the magic words of a prayer.
I don’t need his help! I’m self sufficient, and I don’t need to pray!
Are you with me?
Well, I don’t think so! First, because you need his help!
You should ask Him for a little humbleness, your pride is over-
flowing from your heart! I agree with you that we should effort
ourselves by going to school to get a good job, and work hard
to get the money to buy what we like, but….
MONEY IS NOT ALL IN LIFE!
Money cannot buy true love! Or health, or the Gifts of the Holy
Spirit, money cannot buy the salvation of your soul!
And to obtain it, we don’t need money, we need God!
Salvation is an impossibility for sinners because the punishment
for sin is death! But God knowing this, sent his only Son to save
us forgiving our sins when we ask Him, for his help!
Prayers should not be used to obtain material things, but to ob-
tain the Gifts of the Holy Ghost which the greatest one is Love.
Prayers are to ask God to remove all hate we keep inside of us,
and convert it into love for people!
Have you asked Him for that? No? What are you waiting for?
Prayers are to thank God for our life, for our families, for our
health, but instead, we keep asking Him for material things!
Listen:
“But rather seek ye the kingdom of God and all these things
shall be added unto you.” Luke 12-31.
Some day you will find out that your money cannot buy your
happiness… Then… PRAY! God answers prayer!
Let’s pray! And very humbly…

PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"SOLID FAITH"

For verily I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed
ye shall say unto this mountain: Remove hence to yonder place and
it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.”
Mathew 17-20.
Faith as big as a grain of mustard?
But faith is spiritual, and the spiritual is not solid…
How could we solidify our faith? Listen:
Water has three states: Solid, liquid and gaseous, when we apply it
cold it solidifies, when we apply heat to it, becomes vapor.
Positive faith is like a tiny vapor that comes from the sea when the
sun rays heat the water, the vapor goes up into the sky and converts
into a small cloud that navigates the heavens and when the vapor
increases, the cloud condenses changing from clear to dark and if
compresses enough, the hydrogen and oxygen in the cloud mixes
converting again in water and as it keeps moving, keeps blessing
the places on which the water falls, satisfying the thirst of the soil.
When the heat is stronger, vaporizes more water, and more clouds
will bring down more rain..
But when the heat is extreme, the vapor is so strong that starts
turning and together with the clouds, spins at great speeds produ-
cing winds so strong that begin destroying as is passing through.
What good would it be to have a faith so great if we can not
control it and use it to bless?
Well, the question was if our faith could be materialized or not!
And the answer is: Yes! It can be! Look:
Love is spiritual and materializes into Charity!
Our faith materializes in Believing! Believing there is a Supreme
God that can do all things!
And He could give us what we ask Him by means of our faith!
Small faith believes that God can give us what we ask Him!
Strong faith believes that what we asked is coming!
Solid faith believes that we already received what we asked …
And thanks God for it!

¡PRAYER SOLIDIFIES OUR FAITH!
THANK YOU LORD!
¡STRENGHTEN OUR FAITH!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"JESUS OUR JUSTICE"

As it is written, there is none righteous, no not one…
Romans 3-10.
Well if there is no one that is righteous…Are we all sinners?
Yes! It looks like that!
The opposite of righteous is a sinner, all who sins are sinners!
We are not righteous because sin condemns us!
Then, how could we be justified with God?
How can a sinner be righteous before God?
Good question! It is not by the Law of course, because the Law
does not forgive, it condemns! It is by faith!
By faith? Faith in what?
Our faith that believes that God is righteous and can justify us!
I don’t understand! If the Bible says we are not righteous, then,
who are going to be saved? Nobody is going to go to heaven?
Wait! Let me explain it to you: God is Saint, and we are sinners!
Our friendship with Him is not possible, unless our sins be for-
given blotted out, removed, erased from us! Listen to this:
Long before Christ were born, the Jews, on the day of Atone-
ment, or forgiveness day if you wish, placed their hands on a
sheep without blemishes, and firmly believing that their sins
were transferred to the innocent victim, was sacrifice to God
for the forgiveness of sins, and with the blood which was
previously obtained from the sheep, they use it to sprinkle it
to the people to sanctify them!
And feeling themselves clean from their sins, they were
praising and glorifying the Lord God. And then,
The following year, they repeated the same al over!
Well, what about us?
We are justified by our faith in Christ whom with his precious
blood justify us, bless us, and prepare us for eternal life.
We are justified because the justice of an innocent victim was
applied to us in order to be able to be forgiven of our sins by
God who declares us to be innocents of the guilt and punish-
ment of our sins by the Grace of the Lamb of God: Jesus Christ!
We are justified, not to continue sinning, but to begin serving
The living God who loves us so much, that sacrificed his only
Son to save us! It is not just!
What is not just?
That knowing this, we don’t fall on our knees and thank Him!
THANK YOU JESUS! THANK YOU LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"JUDGE NOT"

How easy it is for us to open our mouths and let come out all the
Bad staff we think about other people, this means we think we’re
Better than those we criticize, and instead of help we crush them!
To be born again is to have Christ in your heart!
Christians did not born again to criticize, judge or punish, but to
help to counsel and to forgive!
We born again to give not to take, to love not to hate, to be humble,
not to humiliate! To bless not to insult or ask God to chastise those
for something wrong they did to you, but to bless everyone and
show them how to find the true “Way” we could follow to heaven.
The negative force we generate when we condemn others,
could revert itself and hurt us!
Fill our hearts with your love Lord, so we could really love people!
Love is to feel compassion for others! Love is Charity! Listen:
“Judge not, that ye be not judged.
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged;
and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye?
but considerest not the beam that is in thine eye?
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, let me pull out the mote out
of thy eye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam of thine own eye, and then,
shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
Mathew Chapter 7.

“Lord wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven
and consume them even as Elias did?
But he turned, and rebuke them, and said; Ye know not what
manner of spirit ye are of.
For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but
to save them.
Luke 9-54.

GLORY TO THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"TRUST THE LORD"

Worries, anxieties, depression, fears, are like big pieces
of ice that bring us the blues.
Trust the Lord and the ice will melt bringing back our
true colors.
Our smile comes back,
Our eyes begin to shine,
Our love awakes,
Our strength returns.
Darkness goes away!
Our Hope revives,
Our kindness with people increases.
Trust the Lord and your fears will walk away!
Listen:
“For God haven’t give us the spirit of fear; but of power,
and of love, and of a sound mind.” II Timothy 1-7.

Trusting the Lord will make our path illuminated so we
could walk without stumbling.
Worry is the switch that turns on our negative thoughts!
Turn it off by trusting the Lord!
In a heart warmed by the Lord, worries melt down …
and go into the drain.
Listen:
God provides, but does not force anyone to accept
what they don’t want!

TRUST THE LORD AND SMILE,
HE LOVES YOU!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"THE CASSETTE"

A cassette is a string of magnetic tape enclosed in a plastic box…
where music or programs are recorded so we could watch or
listen its content by playing it on a tape player, but these old
cassettes have been substituted by an electronic information
or (data) sent directly to our computers….
Oh, well, let’s take the cassette as an example to illustrate this
analogy I’m going to tell you, it goes like this:
We all were born with two cassettes, one to record all the good
things we do, and the other, to record the bad things, but most
people use only one cassette, the one for the bad things, because
sin is an old and bad thing we could do without any effort what-
soever, but in order to record the good things we do, we have to
go to church, read the Bible, or simply do good deeds, but….
How people could do good if they are so far away from God?
And besides, now it’s not allowed to talk about God in schools
and working places!
How in the world people are going to know about God?
Why the world is surprised when the worse of man arouses
because they don’t know any other thing to do than evil?
That’s why Christ came to this world, to remove the bad tape
that makes us do all those bad things and replace it with his
Holy Spirit, Spirit of Love, Grace and Mercy to fill us up
with his virtues so we could pave our road to the Glory.
Start using your good cassette to increase your faith, and then,
put it at the feet of Christ to begin a new life serving God, and
people, turning on the Light that will illuminate your path.

PRAISE HIM HE LOVES YOU!

Chi cammina nella rettitudine teme al Signore, ma chi e
troviato nella sua via, lo desprezza” Proverbs 12-2.

José Salazar
S. de C.

"INVOLUNTARILY"

Since we were born, involuntarily, we allow sin to take over our
will, and we let ourselves to be taken by the wave of the world in
which we make the biggest errors in our life far away from whom
could have made us avoid our wrong doings and straighten out our
crooked ways opening for us a fountain of blessings instead of the
fears and anxieties that hound us for walking away from God
for so long.
If involuntarily because the bad influences that surround us in the
circle we grew up made us do things that now we considered wrong,
now is time to react and voluntarily surrender our bodies to God so
our minds could think in God things, our mouth could be used for
our Lord to proclaim the Kingdom of God and our hands could be
used for Jesus to help people.
But first, we need to clean our bodies from sin repenting with sin-
cerity from all the bad things we have done.
Asking Christ for forgiveness and requesting Him for the changing
of the heart of rock we have for one of flesh so we could feel love
for others, and also to change our spirit for his own so we could
obey Him, and be able to bless instead of damn and hurt people.
And then… We could proudly say:
I’m a Christian for the Grace of God!
Listen:
“Bless the Lord, O my soul:
and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee
with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth
is renewed like the eagle’s.”…..
Psalms 103.

PRAISE HIM HE LOVES YOU!
GLORY TO THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.