You before Jesus Christ 1

* Luís Alberto Alves

Have you ever imagined yourself before Jesus Christ? He telling you that you can ask for anything you want. At this time, would you ask Jesus to do what in your life? What wish should you, in your opinion, be satisfied with?

A new car? A luxurious multi-room house in an elite neighborhood? Fine and expensive clothes? Designer bags, thousands of them in your hands? French perfumes of all kinds? Italian shoes? Invitation to work on the funky Hollywood-produced movies? Spend the day with the artist of your dreams, be it actor or singer, actress or singer or even rock band?

Or would you ask Jesus to release, convert and save all your family and friends? Or heal the sick that you know and know they need a miracle? Or ask for the job of dreams, the one with high salary and various perks in a top-of-the-line company? Or enter the best university in the world, where the percentage of geniuses is high?

In moments like this we think a lot. The mind travels. We are left without action. Truly, what would you ask of Jesus Christ if he had the opportunity to see you face to face as you were in front of Thomas. You would waste time with bullshit or take advantage of the rich opportunity to talk frankly with the Lord.

Every time we pray, whether in the church, in the car, walking in the street, sitting on the bench in the square or in the silence of our room, Jesus Christ is listening to us, paying attention to everything we present to Him in prayer. In the time of Heaven, which is eternity, the Lord will satisfy the desires of our heart.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Our great love will always be Jesus Christ 3

* Luís Alberto Alves

As much as we have a high degree of intelligence, it is very difficult to remain alone. Even money can not fill this void. At some point in our life we ​​will feel the desire to have someone on our side, to feel loved and to be sure that we are someone important in someone else's life.

When we accept Jesus Christ as Lord, we become precious stones in His hands. He loves us, and the one who loves will never wish evil on the other. On the contrary, he is happy to see good get in the way of that someone. It is with the strength of God's love that we need to love the person that the Lord has placed or will put in our path.

Always avoiding mistreating him, because no one attacks his own flesh. In this way we must act in relation to that someone so dear or dear. But taking care to avoid idolatry. Our great love will always be Jesus Christ, who gave his life to save us.

We must always be careful, because we sometimes let those we love take the place of Christ within our hearts. This happens in relation to husband, wife, father, mother and children. It may sound like bullshit, but it's something we should watch and avoid falling into this mistake.

The Lord's love for us has no way to measure. It's pure. It is not tainted with worldly pleasures, where money dictates the rules, confusing sex with love, when they are distinct, without any connection. Because it is possible to have sex without love.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

This is how Jesus Christ loves His church 2

* Luís Alberto Alves

Most of the time, the daughters will look like the father and the boys will "pull" the mother. These details will prove to the world where those people came from. However, everything passes through the care of the husband by the wife and vice versa.

But what in the spiritual world is loving? They deceive those who think that this love is based solely on sex. It is looking at the husband or wife and seeing in him or her the maximum expression of God. Masterpiece created by the Lord. The person who will stand by during the walk on this journey permitted by the Lord on this earth.

This is how Jesus Christ loves his church, the bride that one day He will come to seek and take away to Glory and live there forever. The Lord knows the imperfections of the Church. He uses the Holy Spirit, through people, to heal problems. It is not his wish to leave her behind.

In the same way, the husband acts when he comes across his beloved hostage of the disease. Worry. He does not want to see her in that situation. Regardless of the time or weather, go to the nearby hospital for a doctor to find out and cure the problem. The pain she feels also impacts her soul. After all, they are one flesh.

Jesus Christ when he sees us sick in the spirit will also act to withdraw from this affliction. In fact, the worst disease is the one that attacks the spirit, opening the door to depression, melancholy, discouragement, apathy and unwillingness to continue being part of God's projects.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

The husband should love his wife as he loves his own body 1

* Luís Alberto Alves

Today (8) is celebrated in several countries International Women's Day. But Jesus Christ, when he lived on this planet, already warned through the apostle Paul in the letter to Ephesians, chapter 5, verses 29-30: "Therefore a husband should love his wife as he loves his own body. Whoever loves his wife loves himself! For no one ever hated his body, but nourishes and cares for him, just as Christ watches over the Church, for we are members of his body ... "

Conviviality with two is an art. Anyone has their particularities, the DNA that makes them different, for God did not create someone who is a copy of another. Neither twin brothers are 100% similar. Everyone, men or women, will one day be a family.

United through love they will walk together until the day the Lord calls them to the eternal abode in Heaven. While this day is not enough, they will both share the same roof, projects and, in some cases, afflictions; When problems come, both Christian and wicked.

Anyone seeks to take good care of the body. Especially when you know Jesus Christ and are part of your army. It is this zeal that the Lord asks to be shared with the wife or husband. All in a climate of understanding and dialogue.

God in essence is family. That is why in the book of Genesis He prophesies that a man will leave his parents or kinsman in some translations, will join a woman and the two will be one flesh. Only through a married man and woman can a family be formed, which will be characteristic of both.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

We create difficult situations 4

* Luís Alberto Alves

When the gale comes, wanting to throw you on the ground, your mind will be safe. You will not open your mouth to prophesy any kind of defeat. You will continue to trust God, that He will do your best for your life. This is what your hands have created for us.

God does not change his plans for any of us. On the other hand, because of the lack of wisdom, we end up changing the projects of good that He has reserved for all of us. We opened and closed our mouths at the wrong time, we threw firewood into the fire of evil, when the right thing would be to throw a bucket of water.

The future of the human being is drawn in the spiritual world. Because that which exists on earth first appeared on that celestial sphere. Because we turn off on Earth and in Heaven, most of the time we create situations that make it harder to realize these blessings. It would be like a situation of someone holding a present in their hands waiting for us in a window.

Instead of stretching our arms to catch him, we threw burned oil on the sidewalk, making the place slippery, making it difficult to reach that window. The blessing is there, waiting for us, but depending on the amount of oil on that sidewalk, we risk falling as it approaches that place.

Everything in the spiritual world involves word. God, when He created the world, as narrated in chapter 1 of the book of Genesis, used His lips to make real what existed in the spiritual world. In defeating Satan, when he went into the wilderness, Jesus Christ used the word as a weapon of war.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Be careful what comes out of your mouth 3

* Luís Alberto Alves

Never say that you are incapable, are defeated, unlucky, unlucky in life. That your destination is to swim and always die on the beach. God has the best for us, but because of our lack of wisdom we throw it all out the window.

When you open your mouth revealing that pessimism dominates your life, the darkness will work to bring out what came out of your mouth. The word of God says that "out of our mouth come blessings or curses," as written in James, chapter 3, verse 10.

For every servant, God has a bright future, but the human being sometimes throws through the window, this blessing. In Matthew, chapter 18, verse 18, Jesus Christ states that "what we bind on earth will be bound in the heavens, and what we disconnect on earth will be loosed in heaven."

Because of free will, it is the man or woman who throws away the bright future of God. From so much cursing, it will take hold of soul and spirit. Unfortunately today, people prefer to fill the mind with poor content, than to leave thought filled with the Lord's anointing.

It is in this game of cat and mouse that man, from the creation of the world, tries to hide from God when he commits sin, as did Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. One powerful prayer is to ask the Lord to guard our thoughts from the influence of evil by keeping our minds captive to Jesus Christ.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

We tell Him that we love Him 2

* Luís Alberto Alves

Yet we live trying to deceive God. We pray to Him that we love Him, when in truth what draws us is His blessings. We talk about fidelity in the good times, but when the storm comes, soon we want to jump off the boat and return to the rotten world from where we were rescued.

As the above verse says, God knows the human being deeply. Your thoughts are never hidden before Him. Our mind is creative. Sometimes we try to deceive Jesus Christ by promising at the beginning of the year that we will plunge headlong into his work, assuming gigantic commitments.

You do not have to make it to the first quarter, 90 days after January 1st, and the plans change sharply. We found excuses for everything. We claim fatigue, lack of time and all kinds of history. But God knows our interior and exterior deeply.

On the other hand, this is God's great advantage over Satan. The Lord has access to our thoughts, but the Devil can not do that. It is impossible for the evil to enter into the mind of the human being.

This is where we need to be careful. Never open your mouth to prophesy a curse. Sometimes in a moment of anger, we speak words that serve as fuel to the demons commanded by Satan.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor