Decorate the Names of the Bible

* Luís Alberto Alves

Once Upon a time....
Mr. GENESIS
and Mr. EXODUS walking.
On the way down
LEVITICUS counting the
NUMBERS of
DEUTERONOMY.
Meanwhile
JOSHUA was waiting for the
JUDGES to go and see
RUTE cried aloud:
SAMUEL, SAMUEL!
With the group came the
FIRST and SECOND
Kings of
CHRONICLES to visit
ESDRAS,
NEEMIAS and
ESTER,
in order to pity the suffering of
JÓ your brother.

On this visit they noticed that Mr.
SALMOS was teaching his son the
PROVERBS concerning
ECLESIASTES and
SONGS OF
SOLOMON.
Curiously, this coincided with the period in which
ISAÍAS and
JEREMIAS were immersed in
LITIGATIONS because of
EZEKIEL
DANIEL and his friends.
In that time
OSEIAS and
JOEL were not around.
Three days later,
AMOS
OBADIAS and
JONAS traveled in the same boat with
MIQUÉIAS and
NAUM to Jerusalem. Furthermore,
HABACUQUE visited
SOFONIAS who presented it to
AGEU a friend of
ZACARIAS whose cousin was
MALACHI.

Immediately after we know the old tradition,
MATEUS,
MARCOS,
Lucas and
JOHN practice
ACTS of kindness to the
ROMANS that have been for two
CORINTHIANS to see how the
GALATIANS who lived there.
During that same period,
EPHESIANS
PHILIPPIANS were close to the
COLOSSIANS, in this they sent two letters to the
THESSALONIANS to make them reach the
TIMOTHES who had gone to TITO's house to teach
FILÊMON his younger brother to read and teach
Hebrews
Upon hearing this,

Tiago asked twice for the
PEDRO to explain how the three letters of
JOHN.
Meanwhile,
JUDAS was impressed by the early vision of the end of the world revealed in
APOCALYPSE!!!

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Things do not come back

* Luís Alberto Alves


There are three things in life that do not come back when they do:
     ✔The weather
     ✔The words
     ✔The opportunities

     ❇ There are three things in life that can lead to destruction:
     ✔ Envy
     ✔ Pride
     ✔The hate

     There are three things we should never lose:
     Faith
     Love
     Hope

     ❇ There are three things of great value in life:
     Humility
     ✔The sincerity
     ✔The friendship

     ❇ There are three things that make up our character:
     I respect
     ✔The commitment
     ✔The family values

     ❇ There are three people who love you, even if you do not understand, and never
     will leave only:
     ✔ YOUR COUNTRY
     YOUR CHILDREN
     AND THE CREATOR

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Seed

* Luís Alberto Alves


"He that goeth out weeping, bearing seed to sow, shall return with songs of joy, bringing with him his sheaves." (Psalm 126: 6)

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Jesus, the God of the impossible / 9

* Luís Alberto Alves

In these experiences narrated in these texts, I saw my impossibility become possible through the hands of Jesus Christ. Situations that by the hands of man would end tragically. How many people were not hospitalized for less violent drama than mine?

Others gave themselves up to vices and never rose again. A few years ago I met a street dweller, an electronic engineer, who lost his mind when his three children and his wife died in a car accident. She became an alcoholic and then she was out of work.

But when we have Jesus Christ beside us, He strengthens us, holds us firmly in our hands and we find the courage to continue on the journey. Therefore, my brother in Christ, or even you who have not yet had an encounter with God, do not fear the test.

God is a general who does not abandon his soldiers. The wounded are healed by their wonderful hands and even resurrected. Your problem is not impossible to solve. Just trust, as I trusted in the hard battles I faced. Stay in the Peace of the Lord.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Jesus, the God of the impossible / 8

* Luís Alberto Alves

The same Formula One driver who is penalized goes to the last place in the race, I asked Jesus for help to start another walk. To the psychoanalysts, my case would be worthy of many years of therapy, because of the severe trauma I have experienced.

I preferred to leave everything to Christ. He was already taking care of me since June 10, 2004, when I drove my car five times on the road. The tire of the car broke out at 120 km / h and I only had time to speak the name of the Lord.

I did not lose my senses. Get out of the car without any injuries. In the hospital, an elderly doctor asked me when I was born. I questioned it. He told me that my birth had been that day. Because the violence of the accident was a case for death or crippled
.
The God of the impossible did not allow him to die or become quadriplegic. The crash on the asphalt warped the axes of the car and a scene of destruction inside. The CD player was plucked from the dashboard and the steering wheel warped equal to a number 8.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Jesus, the God of the impossible / 7

* Luís Alberto Alves

Time passed and Jesus healed my heart, healed everything. Today, 13 years later, I look at the house where my parents lived a long time and I do not miss it anymore. I even stopped going to the cemetery, as I did in the early years.

But for the test to get harder, after 1 year and six months, my then wife decided to ask for the divorce, putting an end to the marriage of 14 years. Since we did not have children, in this period I was without family, alone in a house of 12 rooms!

I asked Jesus for strength. Not easy to live without anyone. I had not yet digested the death of my parents, and I see my marriage gone, with no right to any reconciliation. I later realized that this process was irreversible.

Our house was empty. In the court settlement I agreed to take it all. I wanted to start over with nothing to remind me of that marriage. Everything was solved in a civilized way, without any change of accusation or violence. God was in charge.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Jesus, the God of the impossible / 6

* Luís Alberto Alves

For a few months I figured I could not get through this storm. I continued in the church. He participated in domestic services. I did not depart from the work of the Lord. Even if it is eroded by pain, it does not fall into the trap of taking a vacation from Jesus Christ.

Gradually I got rid of my parents' personal belongings. Their house was slowly emptying. It was a sign that they were no longer in this world. I obeyed my mother's requests and donated all her belongings.

It is not easy, because the heart refuses to respond to this request of the brain. Emotion does not understand reason. For me, in every object of my parents, there was a piece of them, and as I passed it, it was as if I were erasing their memories.

Only those who have passed through this sad experience understand what I am saying in this text. But God was gradually erasing it within me. It showed that it should only remind us of the happy moments we have lived together for 44 years.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Jesus, the God of the impossible / 5

* Luís Alberto Alves

But the second part of this hard test was that God did not allow madness to take care of me. I talked a lot to my parents. They always advised me and they were friends. There was no barrier between us to expose any problem.

Suddenly I was without this protection. In solitude he looked at the house where they had lived so many years, he saw the closed door and knew that they were not there anymore. He opened the windows and stared at the sun. That's when, in the early days of mourning, we try to stop time.

It is the childishness of hindering the speed of time so we do not lose the good moments of happiness that we spend alongside of whom we like so much. Pain corrodes our interior. Nothing takes away this bad feeling from within us.

In the prayers I asked Jesus not to leave me alone. Just as crazy he kept talking aloud through the house. She left the room and went to the living room, to the kitchen, to the laundry, to the yard. He turned on all the lights. I did not want to stay in dark places. I felt very sad.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Jesus, the God of the impossible / 4

* Luís Alberto Alves

It may seem easy what I am narrating in this text. Maybe from another part of the world where you read this article, your situation is similar to mine or even worse. But the God who rescued me 13 years ago will also help you find the long-awaited solution.

As I told you about the death of my parents in 25 days, early in September 2005, Jesus took my mother away. Another violent hit. I had not even recovered from my father's death, and I lost my mother.

This time I got the seven-day deadline to remove the burial. I went to several brethren in Christ and even ungodly. Everyone helped me. An entrepreneur was the one who lent me the largest amount and would not accept my return of the amount deposited in my checking account.

In time, the check had enough money in the account and my mother had a decent burial, as everyone needs at this painful time. It was the impossible becoming possible. Financially, Jesus showed how fast and perfect his action is.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Jesus, the God of the impossible / 3

* Luís Alberto Alves

It was up to me to just pray, crying out for the impossible. And at the beginning of the night of that fateful August 6, 2005, God came to my rescue. I telephoned the company where I worked and reported what had happened. Shortly afterwards came the president and the treasurer.

They asked about the death and went with me to resolve the matter. He said he was out of money. They paid for the funeral. When my salary was deposited, I realized that the amount spent on my father's burial was not recorded.

They said it had been a donation. I did not understand, because the treasurer was a very strict person in matters of finance. But God used that man, breaking his heart and showing how much he needed help at that moment.
We only understand the Lord's help when we do not see anything before our eyes. Our mind is confused and everything seems to have no end. It is the time when the rational takes over the body and we forget to look at God.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Jesus, the God of the impossible / 2

* Luís Alberto Alves

13 years ago I had a terrible test. Than to throw everything up and question deeply the action of God. In 25 days, that's right, in less than a month my parents died. What terrible pain, caused by the death of someone dearly loved.

I felt like the boxer struck violently and he feels the tremor take hold of the body and fall trying to lean against the ropes to relieve the violence of the blow. The first feeling is astonishment. The mind refuses to believe what is happening.

To make the test more spicy, I had no money in the bank to bury my father. The hospital, 8 hours after his death, clogged up my answering machine. He had to arrange the burial quickly.

Inexperienced, because few are prepared to administer this painful subject, he did not know the procedures of this process. I went to find out that the funeral service is expensive to bury someone, or as indigent, imposing humiliation on the family of the deceased.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Jesus, the God of the impossible / 1

* Luís Alberto Alves

Many lives devastated by darkness believe in this false thesis and plunge headlong into this fanciful Gospel. In the first months or even years, everything will be fine. But soon the bad days will come, that time of war, where we will only have, for our good, Jesus on the side.

What a liar never sustains, because the lie is like smoke: it can make volume, but soon dissipates. Disappointment will appear. Whoever is not structured in faith, will abandon the ways of the Lord and return to the sewer from where he was rescued.

But what is the reason for God to allow us to go through fights? Would he be a masochist, pleased to see his children go through suffering? Many people even pray accusing God, because in their view, they would not deserve to go through such distress.

Imagine a world where there was no competition. You entered a company without going through any tests. Everything was facilitated. Even evidence in colleges did not exist. The student would be in that institution and after a few years would get the diploma.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Jesus, the God of the impossible

* Luís Alberto Alves

I've been on the walk with Christ for almost 22 years. In this period I have often seen the impossibility of man becoming possible through the action of God. We face struggles and many of them fierce, in a true challenge of faith.
When all is well it is not difficult to believe in Jesus. After all, with the wind helping the boat to sail, we will soon reach our destination. What if you face a storm? Very high waves throwing the boat to all sides and the death near your eyes?

In this picture everything changes. As much as we are Christians, unbelief will appear and try to take care of our soul. For some minutes we will even think that Jesus Christ has abandoned us to be devoured by the lions of difficulties. After all, we are human!

Today, unfortunately, in various parts of the world the gospel without the cross is preached. The convert is convinced that when entering the Army of Jesus Christ, everything will be a sea of ​​roses, we will never face difficulties and we will only have wonderful days ahead.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

The soldier and the storm

* Luís Alberto Alves

One day a soldier was driving the car and a sergeant along with him when they encountered a storm. The soldier asked the sergeant, "What should I do?" The sergeant told him, "Keep driving."
The cars began to stop and lean to the side and the storm was getting worse. He repeated, "What should I do?" "Keep driving," the sergeant replied!

Later, he noticed that a trailer was also stopping.
He insisted, "Sergeant, I stop, it's terrible, I can barely see it and everyone is stopping!" The sergeant said, "Do not give up, keep driving!"

A few more miles later the storm was much stronger, but he obeyed his commander and continued, despite the storm.

Soon afterwards he could see a little ahead and more clearly and continued driving. After a few miles, he was on dry land and a firm sun shone.
The sergeant told him, "Now you can stop and leave." He asked, "But why now?" The sergeant replied, "When you leave, look back and you will see that all the people who gave up and stopped, are still in the storm ...! For you, who did not stop, did not give up, the storm is over."

If you are going through difficult times remember that all others, even the strongest, have stopped, that is, they have given up. Do not stop! Do not give up! Otherwise the storm will never end !!! Continue, for soon your storm will pass and the sun will shine for you again .... !!

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Father of his father

* Luís Alberto Alves

Happy is the son, who acquires during his life, strength and maturity to become Father of his parents ..

"There is a break in family history where the ages accumulate and overlap and the natural order is meaningless: it is when the child becomes the father of his father.

It is when the father grows old and begins to trot as if in a fog. Slow, slow, inaccurate.

It is when that father who gripped our hand can no longer stand alone. It is when that father, once firm and insurmountable, weakens at once and takes twice as much breath to get out of his place.

That's when that father, who used to rule and order, today only sighs, only moans, only looks for where the door is and where the window is - everything is corridor, everything is far.

It is when that father, once willing and hardworking, fails to take off his own clothes and will not remember his remedies.

And we as children will do nothing but change roles and accept that we are responsible for that life. That life that has begotten us depends on our life to die in peace.

Every son is the father of his father's death.

Or, who knows, the old age of father and mother is curiously our last pregnancy. Our last teaching. Phase to return the care that has been entrusted to us for decades, to return the love with the friendship of the escort.

And just as we move the house to care for our babies, plugging out jackets and putting in playpens, we will change the routine of the furniture to create our parents.

One of the first transformations happens in the bathroom.

We will be parents of our parents when putting a bar in the shower stall.

The bar is emblematic. The bar is symbolic. The bar is inaugurating an elbow of the waters.

Because the shower, simple and refreshing, is now a thunderstorm for the elderly feet of our protectors. We can not abandon them in any moment, we will invent our arms on the walls.

The house of the one who takes care of the parents has children's arms on the walls. Our arms will be scattered in the form of banisters.

For to grow old is to walk hand in hand with the objects, to grow old is to climb ladders even without steps.

We will be strangers in our residence. We will observe every detail with dread and ignorance, with doubt and concern. We'll be architects, decorators, frustrated engineers. How could we not expect parents to get sick and need people?

We will repent of the sofas, the statues and the snail access, we will repent of every obstacle and carpet.

And happy of the son who is the father of his father before death, and sad of the son who appears only at the funeral and does not say goodbye a little per day.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor