Thursday, August 30, 2007 

Our Lunch on Tuesdays!!!

 
 
 
 

It has being a great time! Many students are coming and we are having a great time of friendship and this is creating many good opportunities! Keep praying that God will establish many key friendships for the growth of the Kingdom.
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Saturday, August 25, 2007 

Até o mais fortes duvidam - Even the strogest also have doubts




Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who has been put on the “fast track” to sainthood, was so tormented by doubts about her faith that she felt “a hypocrite,” it has emerged from a book of her letters to friends and confessors.

Shortly after beginning her work in the slums of Calcutta, she wrote: “Where is my faith? Even deep down there is nothing but emptiness and darkness. If there be a God — please forgive me.”

In letters eight years later she was still expressing “such deep longing for God,” adding that she felt “repulsed, empty, no faith, no love, no zeal.”

Her smile to the world from her familiar weather-beaten face was a “mask” or a “cloak,” she said. “What do I labor for? If there be no God, there can be no soul. If there be no soul then, Jesus, You also are not true.”

check for more http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1655415,00.html


Os textos tratam de vários assuntos, mas os que devem causar mais polêmica são os que constam do que a editora chamou de "cartas sombrias".

"Por favor reze especialmente por mim para que não estrague a obra d'Ele e que Nossa Senhor possa se mostrar - pois há uma escuridão tão terrível dentro de mim, como se tudo estivesse morto", escreveu ela em 1953. "Tem sido assim mais ou menos desde que dei início à ''obra''."

Em 1956: "Tão profunda ânsia por Deus - e ... repulsa - vazio - sem fé - sem amor - sem fervor. (Salvar) almas não atrai - O céu não significa nada - reze por mim para que eu continue sorrindo para Ele apesar de tudo."

E em 1959: "Se não houver Deus - não pode haver alma - se não houver alma então, Jesus - Você também não é real."

Às vezes ela tinha dificuldade em rezar. "Digo palavras de orações comunitárias - e faço de tudo para tirar de cada palavra a doçura que ela tem de transmitir - mas minha oração de união já não existe - não rezo mais."

Monday, August 20, 2007 

God is answering our prayers!


At church things were great! God really used my talk to touch so many hearts! I am really grateful that God really used this talk to change my heart and to challenge me to trust Him more!

Trust in the Lord, and receive His PEACE! (hebrews 4)
Be like this cat that don’t fear the dog but trust his owner!!!


The conversation with the student Girl was difficult but very good. God brought us all to brokenness in the end, almost 1 am and we all asked for help, help to help, help to believe, help to understand the reality. So please keep praying that we will walk in the trust!

Sunday, August 19, 2007 

Prayer request

Hello every body!



Please pray for us:



For tonight:

In a few hours I am preaching at my church and I would like for you all to be praying for me, that the Holy Spirit will guide me and speak through me. That the Church will hear and the Word of God will go deeper in the hearts and set them free from all bondage that they have that make them not to trust Jesus in a daily bases. The key texts are Jo14.27, Jo16.33, Hebrews 4, Ephesians 2.13-21



I and other 6 leaders of our community will have a important conversation with a girl from our community about her participation with our ministry. This will be a very key conversation for for her life and our community. Please pray for us to be sensitive to the Spirit and for her to be broken to God’s will.


For our first lunch of the semester – next Tuesday @11am

We as a community are starting to have our weekly lunch close to the campus. It was very good last semester when the Americans students did with us and we hope that God will keep using it that same way to build community, friendship, and raise many opportunity to share the Gospel. Please pray for that

We still need some financial support for that, as we want to offer a good food for a cheaper price. We need to pay also a rent for the place we are having the lunch. Please pray that God will provide everything necessary



For our first weekly meeting of the semester- next Wednesday @7pm

The Jesus you have never known before!!!

This will be our new series, and we will develop that through all the semester. WE think that many students that have being prepared last semester to hear the Gospel will have the opportunity to get deeper and deeper in the knowledge of Christ. Pray that Jesus will break all barriers to let the unbelievers to see Him as they never saw before.


Thank you so much for your partnership!

We are together a body!!!

Tuesday, August 14, 2007 

     

Lucas, Hugo, Gustavo Costa, Bruno and I went to my father's farm! It was a great time of rest and good preparation for our beginner of semester. All this guys are studying the Bible with me and we are growing a lot in fellowship. This fellowship in Christ is transforming our lives each day as God challenge each one of us daily. It is good not to be alone in our journey to know Christ better. And Christ is giving us grace to live our lives in real community.
Praise God for that!
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