365 Days Of Faith

Day 365 - The most wonderful being ever

2012-02-17T12:29:00.000-08:00

My Lord Jesus is so wonderful, He will do anything and everything to bring my heart close to his.

He is the greatest of all, He is God, the almighty, the graceful, the God of all there is.

I can't imagine myself without Him, I can't imagine the darkness and lack of everything that is good without Him. He is everything to me...everything...

Day 364 - minha alma anseia por ti Deus

2012-02-09T23:15:00.000-08:00

You are the lover of my soul, oh, Lord Jesus.
No one can bring me such fullfilment.
I don't recognize the person I used to be, don't know who that is, it is sure not me, not the real me.

"Seek the truth and the truth will set you free"

You are my love, my strength, the light on my path.

Thank you God for everything. For the joy, the love, the mercy and grace. Thank you for teaching me to be better everyday so that I can look more like you.

Day 363 - Poderoso Deus / Powerful God

2012-02-08T22:20:00.000-08:00

Because only you are all powerful and mighty to save!

Day 362 - Good night, Jesus

2012-02-07T21:35:00.000-08:00

Jesus, today I am really tired, but I came to say that I love you very much.
You are the one to whom I owe everything. I lay myself down at your feet, because you laid your whole life to death for me.

I love you, I adore you, you are my king, my universe, and without you, I can't do anything.

Good night, rest well.

Love,

Your child.

Day 361 - The way you end

2012-02-06T22:19:00.000-08:00

'The important is not how you begin things, but how you end'

Lot's of people have told me this sentence....and in a way, it makes sense to me...We begin life as a dependent, fragile little baby that doesn't know anything and we usually end life with a lot more wisdom and knowledge than when we began.

I have started my life as a sinner, and I can end it being saved by Jesus, being redeemed by His blood shed on the cross.
I can begin a friendship with someone really badly if something awkward happens, but I can end it pretty well if I have the humility to ask for forgiveness.

In summary, there is always space for a fresh start. Even if something has already started, we can refresh our minds, hearts, spirit, relationships, we can pretty much press the button 'stop' on whatever we are doing in our lives, 'delete' it all and start it again.

Jesus promised to renew our minds and souls, he is rest for a tired body and a tired spirit. He can help us start all over and end it really well.

Because He is God!

Day 360 - Keep loving

2012-02-05T22:40:00.000-08:00

People are people, God is God. That's a fact that is simple to understand, but hard to accept.

God said He will never disappoint us, He will never forsake us. People, on the other hand, may say to you "I will never leave you" or "I will always be there for you", and the truth is, what that person is really trying to say is "If my life doesn't change, and my emotions don't affects me, and I keep thinking the same way about you, I won't disappoint you, but if something changes, if I change, then, I can't really guarantee that". I don't think it's people who disappoint us, it's us who allow ourselves to completely forget that we are dealing with people, humans, fragile and little humans who are vulnerable and subject to mistakes, and so we fall into an abyss. We shouldn't expect from people what only God can give. Only God can give unconditional love, only Him can give pure forgiveness, only Him will never let us down.

'It comes around, it goes around' That's the true. Today I can make a mistake, tomorrow it can be my neighbor, my mom, my sister, my best best best friend. Our only choice in that case is to remember that if God, the perfect one can forgive and keep loving the way He does, who are we to not follow His example? And when it's hard to keep forgiving and keep loving, we can always rely on Him to give us strength and wisdom.

Keep loving, keep forgiving, and the world will become a much better place to live. Your heart will become a much better for Jesus to live in.

Amen.

Day 359 - Who am I compared to you, Lord?

2012-02-05T00:39:00.000-08:00

Lord, compared to you I am so small...I am just a little girl learning how to take my first steps...I am so silly and naive, and clumsy, while you is wise, gracious, perfect in all senses.

Teach me, Lord. Spirit of God, let your grace shine upon me that I may be closer to you. Because I am so small, Lord, so small.

I am this little baby, I know nothing and I am completely dependent on you. I need you, I love you and I want to learn how to be your daughter, to make you a proud daddy.

I am thankful God, for all the awesome things you do for me! You are just so amazing!

Thank you daddy. Bless me and bless those who make my life so wonderful!

Day 358 - the love of Jesus

2012-02-03T23:57:00.000-08:00

The love of Jesus is something no one can explain.
Its intense, true, its what we all hope and long for deep inside.

Jesus' love is the only thing that trully fullfils us, it gives us peace and it shows us the way.

Jesus is the only one that can give us freedom, it can heal the pain and calm the storms.

I miss you my Jesus, I miss you because I can never be close enough to you. I am weak, a sinner and so I am so far from being deserving of you.

I dont deserve you Jesus, I never have and never will. And even so you give me your love, a love thatis not comparable to anything. A love that no money can buy, no gun can destroy and no man can steal.

I love you, Jesus.

Day 357 - Mercy and Grace

2012-02-02T22:51:00.000-08:00

Day 356 - You told us not to worry

2012-02-01T22:49:00.000-08:00

You told us not to worry, Lord. And that's what I am doing. Forgetting about all my earthly things, and focusing on you.

You are my shelter, my strength, you are the oasis in the desert, you are the light in the darkness.

In you I find refreshment, protection, rescue to my poor soul.

Please God don't forsake us, keep us as your children, the children you love and place under your arms.

I love you Jesus, and because of you I don't have to worry about anything!

Day 355 - All I can say about you Jesus

2012-01-31T22:45:00.000-08:00

You are faithful, wonderful, loving and caring.

I love you, you are my everything, I need you, I will die without you.

Please give me strength, wisdom, a good character and a loving heart.

You are God!

Day 354 - Growth through pain

2012-01-30T22:11:00.000-08:00

I wish there was an easier way to grow, a pain free growth.

Teeth hurt when they are coming out, our bones hurt when we are teenagers, our skin is left with a bunch of stretch marks and more than all of those things, in order for our character to be built, we mostly go through a lot of pain.

The good thing about that is it doesn't last forever. Nothing is eternal in this life, both good things and bad things.

There has to be a way to go through it though. We need God's strength, courage, wisdom and patience. God can show us the way, Jesus is our best example of all those virtues. He is the way to follow.

Day 353 - Just have a little faith...

2012-01-29T23:04:00.000-08:00

By faith the woman with bleeding wound was healed,
By faith the blind was able to see,
By faith, the sea was divided,
By faith millions have been saved.

God just asks us for a little faith, because if we have faith the size of a mustard seed, we can say to a mountain: get up and move over there, and we will see it happening in front of our eyes.

By faith lives are changed,
marriages restores, death resurrected,
By faith the tax collector enters heaven,
the ill is healed, the lost son is found,
the barren gives birth.

Because God wanted to save us, He created faith, He made himself invisible to us, so that faith could exist.

He is the Lord of Lords, the King of the universe.

Faith is the assurance of what we can't see, knowledge of what hasn't yet happened.

By faith we can do all things, just have a little faith, and the Lord will set you free!

Day 352 - More of you and less of me

2012-01-29T00:11:00.000-08:00

I am not worthy of a God like you, Lord. My whole existence is so small compared to a single hair of your head. I am low, a sinner, wrong in all ways, hopeless, helpless, and all that I can do in this life is to worship you, and believe that you will have mercy on me. I need you Lord, to save me, to make me better, so change me so that I can be different than what I am today.

Humble me Lord, quiet me, empty me, change me, fill me with your Holy Spirit and show me your face!

Day 351 - Just trust

2012-01-28T00:14:00.000-08:00

When roads get dark, trust in the Lord
When the world falls apart, trust in the Lord

Trust the Lord in the evening,
by lunch time, and when the sun shines.

The Lord is our Savior, our mighty powerful Creator.
He will never leave you, never forsake you.

He loves you, He is jealous for you, His heart bleeds when you cry,
His love intensifies when you deny,
All He has done for you, all the days He has kept you alive.

But He forgives, He lets go, and He loves even more,
Just because He is GOD.

And because He is the Lord our God, we will trust Him!

Day 350 - There is a place...

2012-01-26T22:04:00.000-08:00

There is a place of peace, of rest, of victory, of love, of strength...
There is a place separated to us, a special place

for us in HIM.

Até o pardal encontrou casa, e a andorinha ninho para si, onde ponha seus filhos, até mesmo nos teus altares, SENHOR dos Exércitos, Rei meu e Deus meu.
Salmos 84:3

Yea, the sparrow hath found her a house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts, My King, and my God.

Psalms 84:3

E disse-lhe Jesus: As raposas têm covis, e as aves do céu, ninhos, mas o Filho do homem não tem onde reclinar a cabeça.
Lucas 9:58

And Jesus said unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven [have] nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head

Luke 9:58

Day 349 - Persecution

2012-01-25T21:36:00.000-08:00

The Bible tells us so many stories of persecuted Chritians. It pretty much stated that if you are a Christian you will be persecuted. The reason for that is because we go against the world. We say what people don't want to hear because we say the truth, and they would rather live in lies. The enemy has told the world so many lies that people are completely lost and upside down. What should be wrong is sold as right at price of death.

Jesus was the one who was mostly persecuted of course. There was always someone questioning His truth and His credibility as Son of God. People would rather trust the prisoner coming from jail than Jesus.
On the persecuted, after Jesus, there is John, Peter, Job, and so many more. Faith is something that bothers the world because we contest what they believe in.

There is a good side of being persecuted though, and that is to know that we are building in Heaven and that God is being pleased because His will is being done. As we lay our lives to Him, He blesses us and exalts us in a better and much richer way than we would ever experience if we simply followed the crowd.
He said "Blesses is the one who is persecuted for the sake of God's kingdom", therefore we just need to stand strong and remember always why we are here for.

God is good, He is bigger than anyone and anything. Whenever there is persecution, there is the chance of changing the world and chance of seeing God's Glory in action right in front of our eyes.

I pray for all of those who are being persecuted right now aroung the globe because of their faith. I pray, Lord Jesus, that you will touch them, give them strength, give them the courage they need to keep going or their good work. Bless them, Lord, give them help, fill them up with your Holy Spirit and nurture their bodies and soul. Amen.

Day 348 - In our stubbornness

2012-01-24T22:30:00.000-08:00

Stubbornness: the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome.

"For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding." Proverbs 2:6

"They would not be like their ancestors — a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him." Psalms 78:8

"But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts; they have turned aside and gone away." Jeremiah 5:23

"I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze." Leviticus 26:19
"He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored." Mark 3:5

Stubbornness makes me angry. It also makes God angry, the irony though is, all of us in some level are very stubborn. I myself, admit. I used to be very very stubborn, now I am a little better and still learning, but far from being as humble as I should be.

I just feel like stubbornness takes us away from our focus, it leads us into this empty dark bubble, where we only do the things we think we should, the way we should, and in that way, we close our eyes, our ears and our hearts to the truth.

I honestly pray the world would become less stubborn overtime, that people will realize their mistakes, and say hey, maybe there is a better way to do this, and yeah, maybe other people are right too and there could be peace instead of distress. I pray that I will become less stubborn, and that I will also help the ones around me to become better. Amen.

Day 347 - We are one

2012-01-23T23:12:00.000-08:00

Jesus is one with God
We are one with Jesus,
Therefore we are one with God

God created all there is, out of him everything came. God is in everything, and everything is in God.

We don't exist without God. And when God created the earth, the skies, the waters, the animals, the men, he saw that it was all good, because it was all part of one creation.

The birds, the flowers, the babies, the water, it's all made of the same chemical root composition, therefore, we are all one.

We are connected, we need connection. By ourselves we are nothing. We need relationships, contact with others, contact with life.

Let us rejoice in God's creation, love it, live for it, and praise His name for it!

Day 346 - God's presence

2012-01-22T22:53:00.000-08:00

I wanted to check how much in the Bible the factor of God's presence appears, and how much we sing it and talk about it, so here it is:

"Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob" Psalms 114:7

"the earth shook, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel" Psalms 68:8

"He was with God in the beginning." John 1:2

"And the people of Beth Shemesh asked, "Who can stand in the presence of the LORD, this holy God? To whom will the ark go up from here?" 1 Samuel 6:20

"The angel said to him, "I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news." Luke 1:19

"May he be enthroned in God's presence forever; appoint your love and faithfulness to protect him."
Psalms 61:7
"Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose." Deuteronomy 15:20

With those verses I conclude that being in God's presence is something more complex than we think, it means having this privilege, being blessed, VIP, chosen; at the same time it means being holy, and protected by His grace. His presence is so powerful that earth trembles, incredible things happens, and then at the same time, it means being His children, playing around Him innocently, with no fear and with no pride. His presence is wonderful, it's overwhelming and just inexplicable.

Day 345 - There is no in between

2012-01-21T23:56:00.000-08:00

"Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters."

Matthew 12:30

Unfortunatelly, most people out there have been told a lie, which is, satan doesn't exist, everyone is good, and everyone is going to heaven after they die....People believe in God, but they don't believe in satan, and that's why so many people out there are just lost. They can't turn away from evil and into God's ways, because they have nothing to fear.

But the truth is, Satan doesn't stop working....he gathers his strength to attack us, and he does that all the time, he doesn't need to sleep, we do, and so he works to get our souls and torture us because he has nothing better to do, and because he is been rejected from heaven, he wants to do the same to all of us.

We are either with Jesus or with Satan, and if we are not with Jesus with are with Satan, period. Then don't come with "she was such a good person". No, she wasn't, just as everyone of us, the only good thing that could be in us is Jesus presence, and then God is merciful to spare us.

Lets not waste our lives living a lie....it's just not worth it. To live this life with all indulgences possible and then to burn in fire forever afterwards. Let us be wise.

Day 344 - He is jealous for us, He wants to love us

2012-01-20T23:39:00.000-08:00

God loves us. He loves us so much that He can fix anything that we may not be able to. We pray crocked, He listens straight. He writes straight, we read crocked, but His will is still the ultimate absolute.

He is at work when we pray, He is at work when we don't pray, He works when we are looking and even when we aren't.

That's the God who created us; He is so wonderful, so genuine, so perfect; with Him, there are no flaws; without Him, we are subject to the same wretched nature.

I want to surrender to you, Lord. To put everything in your hands and trust, that they couldn't be in better hands. But I am human, and sometimes I forget. But you still save me from myself.

Day 343 - We do need you, oh Lord

2012-01-19T10:28:00.000-08:00

God,

When we think everything is okay, is when we need you the most. When we let our guards down and we stop seeking, stop pressing in, it's when everything falls apart.
We need you, we certainly do. We need to watch out, we need to pray, to praise you, to surrender to you. It's a daily action, and if we don't, if catastrophic.

You are the everlasting God. The centre of the universe, and we are so small, so incapable, so weak. We need you so we can breathe everyday, and become better, and change, otherwise we will fall flat on our faces.

Nothing good comes from us, only from you God. Help us, we need you!!!

Day 342 - By faith alone

2012-01-18T20:33:00.000-08:00

"one Lord, one faith, one baptism" Ephesians 4:5

"You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did." James 2:22

"Have faith in God," Jesus answered. Mark 11:22

E disse-lhe: Levanta-te, e vai; a tua fé te salvou. Luke 17:19

Imediatamente estendeu Jesus a mão, segurou-o, e disse-lhe: Homem de pouca fé, por que duvidaste? Matthew 14:31

Disse-lhe Jesus: Vai, a tua fé te salvou. E imediatamente recuperou a vista, e foi seguindo pelo caminho. Mark 10:52

Day 341 - Our Glorious God

2012-01-17T21:57:00.000-08:00

Today I want to emphasize how much God is Glorious, to put aside all the great things He does for us, but to praise Him by who He is, as Creator of the Universe, as King of Kings, as owner of all wisdom and strength, as omniscient, and as omnipresent.

1st - God created the universe, and Earth just by saying it out loud: (Genesis)
Who can do that? Who has that much authority that only with a couple of words, no signatures and approvals and proposals, can get so much done? Only God has that much power.

2nd - God is the King of Kings:
Which king ever in History had as much power, courage, wisdom, fairness, grace, mercy, strength, and all of the best characteristics that could be possible. All the other kings lack in something, but not God, He is perfect.

3rd - God is wisdom Himself, and He is strong as only Him could be:
I often say "God has an interesting sense of humour" or "God does it His own way". If we put together all the 6 billion human beings alive on this planet right now, and try to make up a plan or set up a solution for something, it wouldn't be nor even near as wise as God's plan, we would either lack something, or do it the worst way possible, or we would take too long, spend too many resources.
And who can defeat God? If even seeing His own son die on a cross being tortured didn't take Him from His centre, than nothing else can. He is not emotional, fluctuate and vulnerable like us, He is strength.

4th - God is everywhere, at all times:
Just by that sentence, no one can be comparable to Him. Even all the high intelligent Physicists and all Scientists say "no matter can be at different places simultaneously"
God created all there is at the same time that He made up plans for all of us, and at the same time that He forgives us and deals with our problems. Who can multitask that much? I know I can't.

In summary, God is God, and there is no one like Him. He is the Almighty God. And if one day I come to doubt or fear, it's because I have forgotten who God is. He is wonderful, marvelous, graceful, adorable, loving, respectable, honest, pure, holy, wise, strong, and so many other things that my small mind can't even think about.