God is great - 10

* Luís Alberto Alves

Jesus Christ is great in everything he does. He does not give his children something imperfect, but good. Excellent quality. He is not a miserable and executioner God, who takes pleasure in the suffering of his servants.

If in doubt, look at yourself. Your eyes work perfectly, as well as your ears, mouth, nose. Your mind is that of someone lucid, in no way reminding madmen.

Look at everything you've accomplished since accepting Jesus as your savior. Look at your family, wife, children; your home, your job, the health of everyone around you.

Never doubt the greatness of God. He can do anything. If it is to bless you and keep you in your ways and glorify your name, which is impossible in your eyes, for Jesus it is possible and it becomes reality.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

God is great - 9

* Luís Alberto Alves

The secret of everything is to stay connected to the vine, without looking sideways, fixing your attention on Jesus, not spending time with the effects of the struggle. The Christian's goal is to reach eternity.

After fighting the good fight, running the race stipulated by God and keeping the faith, aware that at the finish line the Lord is waiting for us to enter the golden streets together, where there is no night or day, because his light illuminates everything .

Of course, it is difficult, sometimes we feel like throwing everything away. We even think that God has forgotten us. Especially when we look at the wicked growing up, enjoying the good and the best.

Even so, we need to swallow the crying and continue to trust God. At the right time, He will bring about the blessing He promised us, even those considered impossible for us.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

God is great - 8

* Luís Alberto Alves

Each day, the Lord empowers me, I came to understand in depth the words of Jesus Christ. After 24 years of conversion to Christianity, I had more victories than defeats. I never doubted the Lord.

Even when my heart was broken when I lost my parents in 25 days and 1 year and six months later I was without a wife. Suddenly I was alone, without a family, in a space of less than 2 years.

When I read the beginning of Genesis and realize how powerful our God is. He created everything that exists in the visible and invisible world, by the power of his Word, revealing how perfect He is in his actions.

Therefore, the faithful Christian must never question the fulfillment of his promises. In His time, the Lord will keep his promises, even if that is forgotten in our eyes.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

God is great - 7

* Luís Alberto Alves

I did my best. I invested in reading good books, to increase my knowledge. He never ended his shift without talking to his boss first. I always tried to do my best.

The boss who humiliated me was used by Jesus to bless me with a promotion. I kept on fighting and in that company I reached the maximum position (editor-in-chief).

Under my command I had 30 reporters and editors. In my spiritual life, I left the bank to evangelize on the streets. I invested time at the intersection, then became a deacon. I delved deep into the Word of the Lord.

I never had any doubt that God was always by my side. I also faced a struggle in my sentimental life. Even though I was attacked by darkness, I stood by the Lord, who was comforting me all the time.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

God is great - 6

* Luís Alberto Alves

Just as a luxury car needs money for its expensive maintenance, God knows the human being in all its imperfections. Through struggles, it enables us, later on, not to throw away our blessing.

Everything in its time. Sometimes the Christian imagines that he is able to enter a certain situation. In the practical world, the real, without fantasy, the process is painful.

It took me 12 years to occupy a leadership position in my profession (I've been a journalist for 33 years). In this period of suffering and humiliation I learned a lot. Sometimes my lunch was a sandwich, which I ate in the news car.

On other occasions I have lost jobs because of my color (I am black). However, I never lost faith in God. On payday, I separated my tithing and thanked for the work.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

God is great - 5

* Luís Alberto Alves

It's like an eternal honeymoon wedding. Something impossible. It is with this conception of life, that they try to judge God. So that Jesus would just bless us, when He Himself said that we would have afflictions in this world.

Many Christians try to ignore this warning. They are nervous with God, do not admit that his power temporarily does not help them, for example, to afford to buy a house, a car, a good job.

People do not look inside to assess whether there are conditions to enjoy that blessing. Everything in life has a price. Nothing is easy. Even a job that pays high wages, requires sacrifice, achievement of goals, requalification.

Whoever marries a beautiful woman, usually vain, needs money, and a lot, to pay for her whims. Just as a mansion requires enough employees to keep it clean.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

God is great - 4

* Luís Alberto Alves

Even with these virtues, the Christian is still in doubt as to the fulfillment of Jesus' promises in our lives. The problem is that people, conscious or unconscious, try to manipulate the Lord's will.

Something impossible. God has complete control over time. Nothing is out of your control. He knows the right time to fulfill what he promised us in our past time in our lives.

When the Christian limits the power of God, he is making it very clear that perhaps the Lord is not so strong or able to change something serious in our lives. Most of the time, people just want to live on good times.

They run away from struggles, from problems. It is the world portrayed on social media, where everyone is good, lives in beautiful houses, eats in great restaurants, travels and dresses well.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

God is great - 3

* Luís Alberto Alves

God's power is in his Word that brings to reality what does not exist. It is not magic, it is something that escapes human thought. People have not yet understood that God can do anything.

It turns into reality what the smartest man in the world would ever achieve. God circulates in a dimension where no one will ever set foot.

At the same time, being this great God, he is not limited. There are not several gods. It's one! It has the ability to be at the same time everywhere in the same time interval.

Satan and his demons are limited. You can't stay everywhere this way. It also has no means of reading our thoughts, let alone knowing what we are going to think in a while.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

God is great - 2

* Luís Alberto Alves

Taking this detail as a basis, this greatness of the Lord, that we must trust God intensely, without any shadow of doubt as to the fulfillment of his promises.

However, human unbelief does not allow us to see God from this angle. People limit the power of the Lord, look at Him as if they are visualizing someone human.

They calculate that the Lord will act like a human being, full of limitations. In times of struggle they prefer to focus on afflictions, pains and uncertainties. They do not open their eyes to contemplate the greatness of our God.

He gained power in Heaven (which He created) and on Earth (the work of his hands as well). Power is different from strength, since it is limited. The divine power is intense, it goes to places impossible for the human being.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor.

God is great - 1

* Luís Alberto Alves

And the question remains: “if before the creation of Heaven and Earth, where would God be”? For there was not even the universe where the Earth, stars and other planets are inserted.

Note that the universe is infinite. Something so great that man will never be able to fully explore. Outside the heavens and the universe, where is God's house?

When Jesus came as a man to earth, He said that the Lord, through the Holy Spirit, would dwell within our hearts, of those who truly worship Him.

You don't have to be a doctor to know that the human heart is small. However, how can a God that the prophet Isaiah narrates as something that carries the seas and rivers of all the Earth, like drops of dew on his hands?

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

God is great

* Luís Alberto Alves

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth," Genesis, 1/1. How often do people look at this verse and forget something important: “God already existed before creating the Heavens and the Earth”!

Many do not understand how the Lord can exist, without Heaven, where today is his home. Something to leave the mind, of those who are not established in Rocha, disturbed.

People, whether Christian or not, are in the habit of analyzing God by human measures. They imagine that the Lord is like us in our attitudes. They try to limit their intelligence.

They do not realize that their voice emits words of great power, bringing into existence something that has never been with us. Out of nowhere something real will emerge, without a shadow of a doubt and perfect.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor