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