Thursday, October 26, 2006 

Você busca alguma coisa? Do you search for something?

Falamos sobre nossa incessante busca em nossas carreiras profissionais, buscando mais poder, mais realização e mais satisfação. Estamos sempre buscando incessantemente por estas coisas. Estamos buscando mais, sempre mais.

A superação pessoal, a busca por sucesso, realização, o constante pensamento de que alguém vai nos completar perfeitamente através de um relacionamento amoroso perfeito (um namorado (a)) ou até mesmo o simples desejo de ter prazer eterno, sem fim, em coisas passageiras como ir em uma festa e degustar da alegria de reencontrar um amigo, desfrutar de amizades, gozar do êxtase do álcool, do sexo, das drogas ou a adrenalina de um pulo de band junp são evidências de que BUSCAMOS e que nossa busca é MAIOR, nossa busca é ESPIRITUAL. Uma busca espiritual é uma busca por algo extraordinário, sobrenatural, uma busca que vai além de nossas experiências. Vejo por exemplo o significado destas palavras: extraordinário, sobrenatural. Com certeza estas palavras já nos dizem a respeito do caráter dessa busca.

No intimo todos nós buscamos no palpável, no comum, no ordinário algo que só o não palpável, o sobrenatural, o extraordinário vivido com o palpável, o ordinário pode nos oferecer.

Queremos com certeza mais do que o natural pode nos oferecer. Nunca estamos satisfeitos com o que alcançamos, nunca dizemos: “posso parar de viver, tenho tudo o que busco, estou completamente satisfeito, posso morrer agora, não tenho mais nada a realizar, morrerei feliz”.

Bem, se existe busca em nossas vidas, podemos ver a necessidade de entrar em uma JORNADA ESPIRITUAL.

A Computer translation (I am so sorry that this translation is not the best one)
We speak on our incessant search in our professional careers, searching more power, more accomplishment and more satisfaction. We are always searching incessantly for these things. We are searching more, always more.
The personal overcoming, the search for success, accomplishment, the constant thought of that somebody goes in them to complete perfectly through a perfect loving relationship (a boyfriend (a)) or even though the simple desire to have perpetual pleasure, without end, in things passengers as to go in a party and to degustar of the joy of reencontrar a friend, enjoying of friendships, to enjoy of the ecstasy of the alcohol, the sex, the drugs or the adrenalin of a pull of band junp is evidences of that WE SEARCH and that ours it searchs is GREATER, ours searchs is SPIRITUAL. A search spiritual is extraordinary, supernatural a search for something, a search that goes beyond our experiences. I see for example the meaning of these words: extraordinary, supernatural. With certainty these words already in say them regarding the character of this search.
In it I summon all we we search in the concrete one, in the common one, the ordinary something that only the not concrete one, the supernatural one, the extraordinary one lived with the concrete one, the ordinary can in offering them.
We want more than with certainty what the natural one can in offering them. We are never satisfied with what we reach, we never say: “I can stop of living, I have everything what I search, I am completely satisfied, I can die now, I do not have more nothing to carry through, I will die happy”.
Well, if search in our lives exists, can see the necessity to enter in an SPIRITUAL JORNEY.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 

Turning the evil for the good? Could this be possible?

Today is Tuesday, October 24, 2006.

After a very tuff week I am back on thinking on the project and retreats I have to prepare for this weekend and for January. It was incredible what God did in me this last week.
I had a great challange but during the week, God worked in many hearts and the chalange was actually a perfect platform to work my character, my faith and He did the same in many other lives that were related to the issue.

What a great God we have and follow!!!
He works with the evil, for our good!
Praise Him! Praise our great God and Savior!!
He is good! All the time, He is good!!!

Monday, October 23, 2006 

Faça aos outros o que voce quer que eles te façam!

Como quereis que vos façam, assim fazei-o vós também a eles. Mt6.21


Realmente eu penso em me poupar, em me proteger, em mim primeiro. Quero mesmo ver Deus sendo minha vida, meu provedor, meu doador de vida para que eu posso me doar, amar meu próximo como a mim mesmo.

Ser generoso, justo, correr para a justiça de Deus e para o futuro que Ele quer me dar.
Isso eu quero fazer e para isso preciso da graça e misericórdia de Deus, Cristo Jesus em mim.

Deus faça de mim um servo que te serve sem medo, medo de me fazer bobo, idiota, pobre, ... quero ser o que o Senhor quiser que eu seja para sua honra e glória.

Sunday, October 22, 2006 

Building a movement! Are you part of this?


We are meeting so we can build a movement for the cause of Christ. We had a excelletn meeting with some students and we have studied the calling of the disciples in LC 5.

It was great to see God calling us to do much more than we can imagine!
By faith through grace!
This is the only way!

Tuesday, October 03, 2006 

Have you already felt incapable?

Have you already felt incapable?
Have you felt anxious about something?
Have you already felt that GOD was not present?

I was asking all this last questions.
And I was feeling incapable and anxious.
I can say that God is mysterious and I can not predict His actions and His way!

“Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and[a] knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! "Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"[b] "Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?"[c]

I can’t tell what God has in mind, but one thing I know; He is good, all the time.

I faced a big challenge to find a place for our beach project this year. We had a very small budget and we wanted a very good place. Find this place looked very, very hard. I needed a miracle; I needed a open door that could come only from God.
And in the end of the process I have learned that God is present all the time, even when I don’t feel Him. He worked through the process, He was doing the very best, but I couldn’t see. I was watching with my natural eyes. HE wants me to look with HIS eyes.
Please God, let me know You, let me know your ways and trust you and not my understanding. Let me see with Your eyes, let me preserver when suffering comes, when my circumstances are difficult. Let me remember You, Your love, Your grace!