Thursday, April 29, 2010

How the medicine can help you?


We should always take care of our health. Eat healthy meals and exercise so we don’t fall into an inactive lifestyle, thus avoiding future diseases and becoming slaves to medication. Particularly, I never wanted to use medications, and always noticed that medicine affected my body instead of helping it, until I was completely healed by the power of God. Typically, medications cure a problem but end up causing others.
When we see the side effects that come along with prescriptions, we notice many negative ones that can damage our health. Medicine becomes a necessary evil. Dr. Ghislaine lost her medical license because of her book “The Medical Mafia". She says that she began to notice that most people did not respond to medical treatment. She affirms there’s a manipulation by doctors, future doctors, students and says: "Medicine is essentially a business." As she said in an interview for a website: "The strategy is, in short, to have chronically ill people who have to take all kinds of medicines, i.e. to treat symptoms only, medication to relieve pain, lower fever, reduce inflammation.... but never medicine that may cure an illness. It is not profitable, so it’s of no interest. Modern medicine is designed for people to stay sick as long as possible and always buy prescriptions. The system is there to serve the patient but, in reality, it’s under the command of the industry. It is what pulls the strings and keeps the health system to its advantage. It is, in short, a real medical mafia, a system that creates disease and kills for money and power” says Dr. Ghislaine.
You are the real doctor to yourself, when you take care of your health from an early age. When we are aware of our control over our health and know the power of supernatural faith. When we look in the Bible: “He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows" (Isaiah 53:4). We see that He took away our diseases, so we must use supernatural faith, be dependent on God and independent from the system.
The system works for us to forget our status as supreme beings dependent on God. Also, for us to forget the promise of healing in the Bible and become submissive to the system that controls the world.
But in our hands is "the power to break that bondage." Doctors are also used by God, but we can not place all our trust in men. When we place our trust in God, we are no longer slaves to this world, and we become free from a controlled system.

Next time, we will talk about the testimony of a person who spent horrible times in regards to health, but through faith, she was free from medicine and dependent on God, obtaining a complete recovery.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Why give a second chance?


We make many mistakes with others, but expect others to understand when we are wrong. There are different reasons why we make mistakes: lack of wisdom, lack of discernment, lack of understanding, our age, education , etc... Well, there are many reasons, but we expect forgiveness and understanding from those who suffer the damage. Still, when someone does something wrong to us, we don’t see that the person also had many reasons for a poor behavior. We need to understand and forgive. Most of the time, when we see others make mistakes, we distance ourselves. We judge instead of helping that person whose conduct was wrong. I made many mistakes in this aspect. Too many times I had people by my side with a bad behavior and I judged them and walked away, instead of sitting with them and at least try to help. We end up not giving them a second chance.
And why should we give them a second chance? Why expect others to give us that second chance? Just imagine how many relationships are destroyed daily between husbands and wives, sons and daughters, friends, simply for not to trying to help and forgive, instead of walking away...
Surely there are people who really have a difficult temper, and many times we even want to help, but they don’t accept it and sometimes become our enemy. However, it's important that we try to help because the Bible teaches us "Let us not become weary in doing good..."
Sometimes we forgive, but we don’t give that person a second chance. In other words, we forgive, but not wholeheartedly. And without realizing it, we see them in a bad light and never truly believe they can change their character. I realized that I too made mistakes in the past for different reasons and there were few people and "friends" who gave me a second chance. This made me think: What if Jesus had given up on us because of our behavior? How many times did He use someone to open our eyes but we didn’t see? How many times did He show his power through a servant, but we didn’t value that anointment? How much patience He had with us in understanding our weaknesses, our sins? How many times He looked upon us and saw our qualities, not our failures? If he had looked at our flaws, he probably would have distanced himself from us, and we wouldn’t be his servants today.

How many second chances God gave us so that we could learn humility, servitude, good character, truth and sincerity? Can you imagine if Jesus had given up on us when he saw our cold hearts, our bad behavior, our lack of knowledge? We would have never met him. And this is how we really know a person, by looking at and helping with their mistakes, their flaws and also learning their qualities. Because if we turn our backs when we see their mistakes, how can we help or give them a second chance? Isn’t that how God calls us? "Come as you are..."

I thank God for accepting me as I was: full of sins, mistakes, flaws, weaknesses, and for giving me a second chance. Through his mercy and love, our sins are erased, giving us daily the opportunity that man doesn’t.

Like David, who had a great sin, and suffered the consequences, but also achieved the mercy and forgiveness of God. He is the only man in the Bible described as having a heart according to God’s own heart.

"Man looks at the outward appearance, the Lord looks at the heart" 1 Samuel 16:7

Thursday, April 8, 2010

What's the fragrance in your home?




Normally, we concern ourselves with taking care of our home. Keeping it clean, organized, comfortable for guests, and always well kept, so it doesn't deteriorate with time. This requires great effort every day. Sometimes hours and hours are spent cleaning dirt, grease impregnated in the oven and stains on the carpet. The more we clean, the more things we find to clean. We want the floors to be impeccable and the closets well organized. We change the broken glass in the window, the loose door in the closet and sometimes we are tired, but are not pleased until everything looks clean and organized around the house. We want that clean scent to exude, to smell the good fragrance to feel satisfied.
This is for the physical house we live in. We are concerned with having it in the best condition possible for us to live happily with our family. Now, what about the house where the Holy Spirit lives? Our heart represents our spiritual home. Our whole body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and we must take care of it because our heart is the spring of life. We must keep our spiritual house clean so that our body is ready for Jesus to live in it. How can the Spirit of God, that is so holy, live in a dirty place? You need take out the trash: such as sin, pride, wounds of the past, that "grease" that has accumulated slowly over time, the disappointments. We need to remove the stones that make our heart so hard and proud. All the effort spent on our physical house has to be greater for our spiritual home. Since Jesus resides in our heart, it must be firm as a rock, always pure, clean, with the scent of humility and always smelling the fragrance of Jesus. Everything that tries to come in, that the “resident” doesn’t like, must be removed immediately. It must be cleansed and purified so Jesus can live forever and we can always exude the good fragrance of our Lord. If your heart still has a lot of dirt, but you truly want Jesus to live in it, then you must have faith and invite him, ask him to live inside of you. Once you have a relationship with God, little by little the dirt will be cleaned. You will be transformed into another person and you will never weaken in your faith.
The secret is to be fully dependent on God. To have all your expectations on Him, not men, because men are made of flesh, full of mistakes and always disappoint us. But our God never fails. When we live fully dependent on him, we can exude his good scent to those who don’t know him.

"Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” Proverbs 4:23
“For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life” 2 Corinthians 2:15-16

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Everything depends on our vision


We made a lot of mistakes, because we neglected to see many things.
We worshiped many gods because we didn't know the one true God.
We lost a lot of money because we didn't know who the real devourer is.
We didn't love those by our side because we didn't know the One who died for us giving us true love.
We always lived a lie because we didn't know the truth.

We spent too much time in the dark because, we didn't see the light.
We were in many dark places, because our feet didn't know how to walk in the right direction.
We judged many people, because we didn’t know that we weren't here to judge others.
We had so many impure thoughts, because we didn't know that our thoughts must be pure.

We said so many bad things because we didn't know that from our tongue comes blessings and curses.
We made a lot of mistakes because we didn't know that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
We betrayed because we didn't know that we must be faithful till our death.
We didn't forgive because we didn't know that we had to forgive 70 times 7, if necessary.
We didn't help our neighbor because we didn't know that we were supposed to love our neighbor as we love ourselves.
We didn't lift up anyone who was down, because we didn't know the One who rose us.
We didn't bring light to anyone, because we were also in the dark.
We didn’t sacrifice, because we didn't know the true sacrifice of Jesus.
We were not saints because we didn't know that we were supposed to live with Him who is sacred.
We were not servants, because we didn’t know our true Lord.
We had diseases, because we didn't know the One who carried away our diseases.

Our vision comes from God. When we know Him , the long roads become short and the darkness turns to light. We can clearly see things that we didn't see before. We turn away from sin, changing our character and behavior. We make a true change when we have an encounter with He who sacrificed on the cross...

"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (John 8:32)