Thursday, October 8, 2015

La versión divina de mi misma

Introduccion
Muchas personas están activas buscando quienes quieren ser, mientras que otras llegan a los 40, 50 años y es cuando comienzan a deprimirse porque sienten que no han aprovechado su vida a como les hubiera gustado vivirla, otros las malgastan con placeres de la vida, solo para encontrar que todo que aquello es vanidad. Vanidades que las llenan solo momentáneamente, para después dejarnos vacíos nuevamente. 
El propósito de Dios para ti, puede ser reactivado y vivido en cualquier momento de tu vida. Nunca es tarde para vivir la versión divina de tu vida.
Pero como saber cual es el propósito de Dios para ti?
Comenzaremos entendiendo donde tu crees que estás en esta época de tu vida, y lo que tu crees que debería ser, hasta llegar a lo que verdaderamente Dios quiere que seas, lo cual con certeza te digo, es la mejor versión de ti misma.

1. Quién eres? (Cómo te ves a ti misma?) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Quién dicen otros seguidores de Jesus que eres tu?_________________________________________________________________________________

3. Quién quisieras ser? o Cómo te imaginaste que tu vida seria para esta época de tu vida?
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4. Quién dice Dios que eres? (por que crees que Dios te creo a ti?) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  

Esta ultima, es una pregunta difícil, pregunta que muy poca gente puede contestar a ciencia cierta. Muchos contestan la versión general de Dios para la Iglesia, lo que Dios espera de TODO Cristiano. Y aunque es un buen comienzo para conocer nuestro destino, el saber con exactitud porque estoy YO, aquí en la tierra, es un regalo divino que sólo podremos obtener en la presencia de Dios, con la voz clara del Espíritu Santo, buscándolo cada día, y siendo guiado por El y para El.

Hay mucha diferencia entre como te ves tu, como te ven otros cristianos y como te ve Dios?
   Si      No
Porque crees que es así?____________________________________________________

Mientras la respuesta a como te ves tu, como te ven los demás cristianos y como te ve Dios sea más y más parecido, estarás mas cerca de la mejor versión de ti misma…la versión divina de ti. y por lo mismo, serás también la versión mas feliz de ti misma. 
El propósito de este estudio es encontrar la razón clara y especifica de por que fuiste creado y como usar todo lo bueno y lo malo de tu pasado para darle la Gloria a Dios.

Lo primero que tenemos que determinar es si vemos alguna diferencia entre mi vida antes de Cristo y mi vida después de Cristo. Si no hay diferencia alguna es una luz roja muy grande, a la cual debes prestar atención. Dios viene a trasformar y mejorar cada área de nuestra vida. Y esto es un constante avance en su camino. Un avanzar diario.

Asi que una pregunta importante a hacernos es: Como estoy con YO respecto a mi misma hace uno o dos años?
No debemos estancarnos con respecto a nuestra propia vida, Dios nos lleva de Victoria en Victoria en Cristo Jesus, no nos lleva a una victoria y allí nos deja. La vida del cristiano es un constante crecer, dar, y mejorar, hasta llegar a la estatura del varón perfecto (Jesucristo), que aunque será un proceso de toda nuestra vida aquí en la Tierra, es un proceso de que cada día somos mas y mas parecidos a El.
Ahora, mucho cristianos no avanzan porque hay una gran comparación entre lo que yo tengo, o hago, o pienso, o como sirvo yo a Dios, y lo que los demás cristianos hacen. Unos se sienten muy buenos cristianos porque no son como el vecino, otros entran en depresión porque no alaban tan bien como el de la alabanza, o predican tan bien como la pastora de mujeres, cuando Dios NO nos creo para hacer las obras que le tocaban al vecino hacer, sino las obras predispuestas para mi. Por lo tanto, la medida de mi crecimiento no viene de una comparación contra otros cristianos, o contra los no cristianos o aun contra los personajes de la Biblia, sino una comparación de mi misma, es decir como estaba yo en mi caminar con Dios el año pasado,  y como estoy YO hoy? Solo así podremos medir una vida que avanza conforme al propósito de Dios. Cada persona tiene diferentes dones, talentos y propósito, por lo que si sueño con tener lo que Joice Mejer tiene, no seré la mejor versión de mi misma, sino la versión barata de Joice Mejer.

Realmente, Qué crees que pensaba Dios cuando te estaba creando a Ti?___________________________________________________________________________

Génesis 1:26-28 “Entonces dijo Dios HAGAMOS al hombre a NUESTRA imagen y semejanza; y señoree…Y creó Dios al Hombre a SU IMAGEN, a IMAGEN de Dios lo creó; varón y hembra los creó. Y los bendijo…”
Génesis 2:7 “Entonces Jehová Dios formó al hombre del polvo de la Tierra, y sopló en su nariz aliento de vida, y fue el hombre un ser viviente”

No somos una creación mas de Dios, somos su máxima creación, con parecido a El. 
Tu y yo no somos una decisión de nuestros padres, porque sea que ellos planearon o no tenerte, quien decide si hay aliento de vida o no en el vientre de la mujer es Dios.
Tu y yo no somos un error entre dos jóvenes que no se supieron proteger contra un embarazo, no somos una casualidad. Somos una creación pensada y creada por Dios mismo. Una decisión divina. Dios también escogió si y debías ser mujer u hombre, por lo que ni tu ni yo estamos equivocadamente en un cuerpo diferente a mi mente o corazón. Fui creada perfecta ante Dios trino, quien con amor me diseño en perfección de acuerdo a el propósito que tengo para vivir en esta época, en este país, en esta ciudad.
Tenemos que verdaderamente creer que “Dios sopló su aliento de vida para que yo pudiera existir”. Debemos comenzar sabiendo que yo existo porque Dios quiere que así sea. Mis papas pudieron estar tratando o no de concebir un hijo, pero solo Dios puede dar el aliento de vida para mi existencia, la tuya y la de tus hijos.

Hay algo que cambie en tu punto de vista de ti misma o de los demás al pensar así?
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Ya determinando que no somos un error o una casualidad, podemos continuar nuestra búsqueda del propósito de Dios para cada mi vida.

Muchas veces cuando no estamos seguros quienes somos podemos comenzar con quienes no somos, o quienes no queremos ser. Por ejemplo yo, no quiero dejar pasar mi vida y desperdiciarla, no quiero dejar de predicar, no quiero ser una esposa que no apoye a su marido o una mama enojona, no quiero ser una mama que sea luz a los de afuera y no predique con amor y ejemplo adentro de la casa. No quiero dar mal testimonio, no quiero dejar de ser luz o dejar de ser sal en la tierra, etc. Y tu? quien no quieres ser?
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Otra buena pregunta es, en general que quiere Dios de la Iglesia (Qué espera de TODO creyente?) 
Efesios 2:10 “Porque somos hechura de Dios, creados en Cristo Jesus para buenas obras, las cuales Dios dispuso de antemano a fin de que las pongamos en práctica” 

Escudriñemos este pasaje, que te dice cada frase de este versículo?
Hechura de Dios _____________________________________________________________
Creados EN Cristo Jesus_______________________________________________________
Para buenas obras____________________________________________________________
Dispuestas de antemano_______________________________________________________
Para que?__________________________________________________________________

Cual es la diferencia entre hacer buenas obras por creer que eso nos gana el Cielo? y hacer buenas obras por que así quiere Dios que hagamos los cristianos (Cristiano- ya pertenece a Dios, no se lo gana por esas obras que hará a futuro) ___________________________________________________________________________

Como están tus buenas obras como cristiana hacia el mundo a tu alrededor? ___________________________________________________________________________
Como están la obras en tu propio hogar?
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Porque las obras son tan importantes, a pesar de que la salvación no es por obras? ___________________________________________________________________________

Santiago 2: 14- 26  habla de mostrar la fe con la obras. Explica este pasaje con tus propias palabras.
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Lucas 18:8 nos habla de algo especifico que buscara Jesus a su regreso a la Tierra, que es?
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La palabra en Hebreos 11:6  nos dice que  sin fe es imposible agradar a Dios.
Que es pues la fe? (Hebreos11:1) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Porque pues sin Fe es imposible agradar a Dios? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Como esta tu fe en El en estos momentos? _________________________________________

Que te esta separando o acercando de creerle a El, de creer que los planes de tu vida están mejor en sus manos? ____________________________________________________________________________


Porque crees que necesitamos hablar de fe para poder conocer el proposito de Dios en nuestras vidas? ______________________________________________________________

El diablo ha tratado en toda la existencia de la humanidad de confundir a los hombres y mujeres de su identidad a imagen y semejanza de Dios. Lo logro con Eva y Adan, con el Rey Saul, con Judas, y con muchos mas, Mas cuando vino el diablo a tentar a Jesus, también para ponerle duda de su identidad con respecto al Padre, Jesus lo puso en su lugar, dándonos a ti y a mi el ejemplo perfecto para resistir al diablo y que nos deje en paz,.Y es mi oración, que este estudio te lleve a la presencia de Dios para que El mismo te susurre al oído tu verdadera identidad en El. Jesus en la tierra fue creado con un propósito fijo y lo logro, en El, tu y yo, para que no solo encontremos ese propósito para nuestras vidas individuales, sino lograr ser y hacer ese propósito con diseño divino y perfecto para mi.

Y durante los siguientes capítulos llegaremos a la pregunta que todos nos llegamos a hacer algún dia: Porque fui Yo, _(tu nombre)______ creada?
Aunque quizá no podamos resolver esta pregunta el día de Hoy, estamos mas cerca que antes de poder comprender el corazón de Dios en el momento que pensó en crear a cada una de nosotras. 





Friday, December 14, 2012

love is the greatest quality

"and Now these three: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." ! corinthians 13:13

 We can have all the hope we want for our kids to be the best professional baseball player, or the Honor student, and how she will graduate from Harvard. We can plan their lives, hope always for the best, even better lives than what we had, and still, our love for them is better!

We can have faith that they will conquer their areas of opportunities, that will stop disobeying, and that they will become who we dream of them becoming...and although all of these is good, there is something greater...your unconditional love for them.
Love covers multitude of sins. Love can change areas that we didn't know could be reached.
Love is perfect only because God is Love. When we love, God is acting through us. When we love, we are in our purest stage, and acting because the other needs us, not because we will gain something.

Love, love, love! This Christmas think of giving love before giving things. This Christmas remind them of the greatest love ever given: Jesus.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

contagious tolerance

We live in a world where every one thinks to be different, independent and self-directed, when the truth is we are not. We are always guided by the culture, the movies, the atmosphere we live in or, in a minority number, guided by God.

We all want to think that we choose our future, that we plan who we will become, but the truth is that our plans are submerged in the culture we are surrounded by, and very few go "unmoving" towards the goal.
We can have a very strong Christian faith, but if we don't guard our beliefs we may end up in "tolerance".

I have had the opportunity to live in different places, different countries and different cities in the same country, and each place we had been part of a Christian community, and I have learned a lot.
Some people, without realizing compromised their beliefs because of the culture they live in, and that is what I call "contagious tolerance"...the more we are immersed in a culture, the more we will embraced it as ours, unless we are more immersed in the truth of The Word.

When I lived in Mexico, must Christians will not even consider to celebrate Halloween, because of its roots, and even now days it is impossible to say it is a "innocent" day when the world celebrates death, witches, devils and demons. And even though we may want to cover it with a "Noah costume" it is still the day of the death. For me that is what it is and I am part of the light not the darkness, I am part of the Life not the death, so as for me and my house we will be part of God's team 365 days, I will not pick and choose according to my culture or my entreatment, but according to what God loves, and leave behind what He hates.

But then I realized that the more I was with Christians that celebrate Halloween the more I questioned if I was been so religious, then I would back to the Bible and realized what it says about it.
But then again, more and more Chirstians seam to embrace things I was not, like Wizzard of Oz, etc...was I wrong? Was I been mislead in my Christian walk while in different country?
Well...the Bible is the same every where, and the Bible is clear that he does not like wizards, magic, witches, and everyone that enjoys with them (even if they are not that).
So here was my answer, the Bible does not change by culture, does not change by ages, we do change if we let the world dictates who they want us to be. We change if we let culture and tolerance to take away our beliefs.
We change drastically when we let culture and tolerance to modify small things in our beliefs.
Jesus clearly said he is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. So NOTHING he likes or dislikes changes according to culture, age, race, or religion.
Matthew 7:15-23 talks abut the importance of obeying His whole Word, not only what the culture accepts, and that our life is a proof of our faith when walking by it, faith is not proved by words (calling Him Lord) but by making Him our Lord in all, even when we don't like it.

Tolerance, as I know it, it is lack of beliefs, because anyone who really believe something would not be ok with any other thing, if one has the truth, then, that one person knows that the contrary is a lie, so if we have the pure Truth of the Gospel, why to dilute it with the culture?
If we have the truth in the Bible, why not living by it? instead of picking and choosing according to what our times accept as good enough.
There is no "good witches" according to the Bible, so why chirstians accept wizard of oz? why is Harry Potter any good for our kids to read?, why do we tolerate some clear teachings on movies when it is opposite to what we believe?

We need to be picky if we want to pass the baton in good shape!

you can be the one contagious and pass on what you have, or you will be "contaged" by the world. In every culture, group, and relationship, there is always one giving and one receiving...who are you? what beliefs are you passing on to the next generation? and what are you receiving as your truth?

Friday, February 10, 2012

Mercy triumphs over judgment

I wish to say I came up with that great title, but no...it came from the Word of God.

in James chapter 2 tells us about that when people are under the law, if they break one commandment, they break the whole law. In other words, I don't need to be a murderer to be a sinful person, I just need to lie or covet what my neighbor has.
Breaking one command (one of the ten) makes me a sinner over all.

Sounds terrible, and it is terrible!, but the good news, as we all know is that Jesus came to break our bondage over sin, to set us free, and make us new in Him.
Does that mean I can freely sin since I am under the Grace and not under the Law?
well then we need to keep reading the same chapter, where God through James tell us that faith is shown on our own works. We are not saved by works, but works shows if we believed or not.

God is clear that our ticket to Heaven is Jesus, and Jesus only. And the sad part is, must people think that because they believe in Jesus means they are in.

"Not every one who says to me, Lord Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my father" Mat 7.21

The Bible says that if you CONFESS with your MOUTH that Jesus is Lord and believed in your heart (that He was who He said he was) that He died and rose again to cleanse you from your sins you will be save. It is necessary to confess verbally and believe in your heart.
Is that it? then can I move on with my life?
Many would say yes to this, but it is not biblically correct…
"you believe that God is one, you do well; the demons also believe, and shudder, but are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?" James 2:20

Ok, so Faith should be follow by good works, but works it self does not save us. The best works of good people will not take them to heaven if they do not acknowledge Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
And God is the one that puts in our heart to do good deeds. So Although works will never save us, it shows where our heart really is and if we really meant our confession of faith.
For example, I can say I truly love pandas, and that I am a pro active person to save this endanger creature. I can speak in conferences about it, I can have my t-shirts, my books, my walls filled with posters, but If I go and hunter pandas, My profession means nothing!

It is the same with God. Works do not save me, but they do show where my heart is. If I believe Jesus did die for my sins, and that his death was as horrible as I do know (Hit, mocked, wiped, humiliated and killed on the cross) and that all of that was because of my sins, and that I am thankful for what he did, then It does not make any sense that I will go back to sin deliverely and have peace with that.
How can I say and believe that I love Jesus as my number one, and ignore Him during my day, my week, my life.
How can I say that I care for his guidance as my Lord, and ignore when He speaks (reading His Word- The Bible).

How can I say He is my Lord, believing the Bible when it says that Jesus is the only intercessor and the only way to The Father, and then go to Church and pray to some one else, or saying that He is my only God but kneeling down to a statue or, "emotionally kneeling down" to money, fame or our own family.
(notice that in all of this I say "I")

Now, once I know that Jesus is my Lord, and through love I am trying my best to do everything in a way that it honors Him, whom Saved us even when we where still sinners, then, it is very important to take Grace and Mercy in a new level.
First towards God with gratitude, and the best way of showing gratitude to Him is with our actions, we worship Him not only when we sing at Church, but with our daily lives.
Then the second key to Grace and Mercy is to others, as we receive grace (unmerited favor from God), and Mercy (unmerited forgiveness) we are to be graceful and merciful to others.
Unfortunately, must Christians, including me, seam to pass through a period of "I am good, I am saved...you are not acting as a good Christian", which in short is "being judges". And James is clear that judging is without mercy. And that Mercy triumphs over judgement. So it is important for us to seek to do good deeds as our testimony of the faith we have in Jesus, but it is also important to know that we are not the judges of other people, we are not the regenerators of their actions, that is the Holy Spirit job, and in the past, I have try to take His job, and it is wrong and it never works.
SO let God be God, and you do what you are suppose to do in your life.
And in everything you do, since you have receive grace, Glorify God, Honor Him, and respect His name which you have now, pray for others instead of judging their actions.
May our love for God and others be shown today.

Monday, January 30, 2012

If God says you can, the YOU CAN!

A Man's given dream is anything anyone can accomplish, in the contrary, a God's given dream is a dream that looks impossible to accomplish unless who'd is on your side.

Ephesians 3:20 "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,"

I love this verse, specially to read that what God has for me, is better that ALL I ask together.
At the same time, I need to know that although His plans are perfect, I may not walk through them. I can not trust Him, and go in the opposite direction, or I may believe someone else's view more than God's. Every single dreamer has to be careful of dream assassins.
Those assassins could be sel-doubt, friends, family memeber's view, etc...
Protect your promises!!! How?...Spend time with God, he can unlock faith, and the best strategies that will bring forth the dream.

A promise from God is a given! He always comes true!!!!

Habbakkuk 2:2-4 
"2 Then the LORD replied:
   “Write down the revelation 
   and make it plain on tablets 
   so that a herald may run with it. 
3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time; 
   it speaks of the end 
   and will not prove false. 
Though it linger, wait for it; 
   it will certainly come 
   and will not delay.
 4 “See, the enemy is puffed up; 
   his desires are not upright— 
   but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness

Keep your focus in Jesus, the only one that can bring forth the promise. When the Israelites lost focus they started complaining and losing their track, some of them even started to worship idols. But only those that kept their eyes on God and the promise He had given them, were the ones that enjoy the huge grapes and the honey in the Promise land…so again!, spent time with God!

A God given vision- need supernatural power...bigger than you, and that it a blessing, because our dependence will be on Him and not on our own abilities.

Sometimes, we loose hope, we think God is in silence, while in truth, God is orchestrating things behind the escenes, while we are learning to trust Him, Believe Him, and to depend on Him.

If the Israelites didn't have to go through the desert, if Joseph didn't have to be a slave before being a master, if Jesus didn't walk as a human for 30-33 years before his purpose was fulfilled, then we wound be were we are now, they wouldn't be where they were, nobody appreciates high as much as someone that has low before.

If God took away our "desert times" we will never grow in Him, to be more like Him, he would be our Santa Claus, and we would be brats.

Jesus did not step in this world as a powerful master, as our Savior, he lived as a normal toddler, normal teen, and knowing it all, He had to submit to his not-know it all parents. Talk about hard times!
He could perform miracles, but His father said it is not time. He could do anything, and yet he was patiently waiting for his propose to be set by The Father.

Every promise of God has a birth.
But then it seams like every promise has a dismay/death time, 

And it is then when we have a wonderful situation ready to happen…
1. our faith can Grow, and decide to stay in his promises
2. God resurrects the dream and sanctify it
3. We praise God for what he did!

When you are in the death time…DONT GIVE UP!!!! the resurrection is just around the corner.

Joseph is a wonderful example, he kept his dream alive, although all the surroundings shouted he had failed, he was worth nothing, and the dream was a lie. But He kept the dream, he believed God, but he was bullied for his beliefs, but God was there all the way, and thanks to his desert times, he became the one able to save his family, and forgiven gentleman the we admire thousands of years latter.
Josheph was favored so we can start asking God to help us find favor with in all people that has anything to do with our promise.

"You have not because you ask not" james 4:2

When the dream/vision is real, the enemy knows the result of that blessing, so he will do anything to make you give up.
If he is not against you, then you are walking in the same direction than the enemy. No one bumps into people that go towards the same direction. 

When you are in God's presence? what is he saying?...hold on to what He says in the secret place.
What are you feeling? where is your faith supporting?
The presence of the Lord don't lie, because God doesn't lie. in the mist of worshiping God, the enemy has no words.

Be surrounded by other dreamers, people that will understand God's vision for your life and help you pray with you and for you.

As we learn in school: first come the teacher's lesson, then the test.
Well with God, we had our lesson, our dream, now is time for the test, so we can move to the next level.

Test: God does it so we can have more faith, more dependance on Him, grow and past to next level.
Temptation: Devil does it so we can give up our faith, our dependance on God, our dreams, and stay in same level or lose level(s).

Are you in the desert?
Praise God! Your blessing will be more tasty after you come out

What's your plan?

God has a plan For your life, and everyone around you, BUT, the devil also has a plan for you and for the world.
We all fit one plan or the other into our lives, unfortunately the absence of a plan or ignoring our call fits onto the Devil's plan.
We need to take very seriously our call, our time on Earth.
The devil is not against morality or doing good deeds, but against Jesus. In fact the less gap there is between "godless good people" and Christians, the better His plan works.
We are here to use good works, not only to bless others, but to magnify His name. We are here to love others, and by doing so to show the way to Who Love is. In all we do, his signature must be in.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Love your husband and kids today!

What a month this has been, it has only been few days into 2012, and I feel my heart has gone through so many different emotions. I have lost two friends, one dear friend from Church, and one that I went school with, both mothers, both young full of life. I have also seen two marriages been distroyed, one to infidelity, and the other one, hard to know the truth. But in all cases, it has made me realized that I need to love my kids and husband, to value their life, and our time together, a clean house is not as important as a full happy heart of a child. I am here, and I will love my family and make the best of each day. At the end, i hope no one will talk or think about my cleaning skills, but what I meant to them.

I do not know how much I have in this world, but I do know that TODAY I will enjoy life to the fullest, that TODAY, I will make sure that my family knows how much I love them, and how much they mean to me. That TODAY, I will make sure my kids, my husband and everyone around me, will see Christ in me.