The Jesus factor – Richy Esparza

Posted: May 18, 2012 in Christian Reflections, Christian Youth, devotionals
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What happens when you start forgetting why do you do it? I mean, it used to be the greatest privilege and now it has become a burden. Living for God without Jesus is consuming. Family is still out there, ministry, work and the task list, though the joy is missing.

A Christian living without Jesus is simply a gun with no bullets, an eagle with wounded wings, a car with no engine, a singer that lost his voice. It’s a life with no meaning at all. Its leaving the Jesus factor out of our lives.

Jesus said it this way:

“Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.” Revelation 2:4  New International Version (NIV) Read the rest of this entry »

Abundant Grace – Arlene García Holguín

Posted: April 15, 2012 in devotionals
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Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, Romans: 5:20

How difficult is to face a situation when we know we have caused something that was wrong and brings a sense of guilt.

Each of us knows which areas of our lives are vulnerable and easy for us to fall.

How do you present yourself again before God to ask forgiveness for something you’ve tried to cast away? What can we say when we are in His presence and we fell into that sin again? Read the rest of this entry »

Jesus already did it – Richy Esparza

Posted: March 17, 2012 in Christian Reflections, devotionals, Devotionals to overcome Anxiety, Faith
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“Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.” Isaiah 53:4-5

The most common mistake of missing out God´s blessings is not to dimension accurately what Jesus did on the Cross. Jesus not only paid the price of salvation for all humanity, but for them to be whole, healed an at all times in peace. Nevertheless to receive it, we have to believe it. Read the rest of this entry »

Why do I believe? – Richy Esparza

Posted: February 17, 2012 in Christian Reflections, devotionals, Devotionals to overcome Anxiety, Faith
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Why do I believe? Sometimes , I just don’t know why; but I move forward because I’m used to it. I have clung to believe that He will renew my being, and that finally; I will do  the generational change.  It has not been easy for I have learned to let go people and habits that I loved. And every step that I go forward in Christianity, the more the things I have to let go.

With every step to the promise land, the entrance becomes narrower, my emotional avoidance would not fit there. Neither the scale that I used to weight my judgment on. Now that scale is just calibrated, and if I did not use it; my mind it would be still captive.       Read the rest of this entry »

It is not only about you – Estephany Cordova

Posted: February 4, 2012 in Christian Reflections, Christian Youth, devotionals
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Be happy, young man, while you are young, and let your heart gibe you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment. Ecclesiastes 11, 9

The decisions you take involve not only yourself but also everybody around you. Remember that all the things you are thinking to do, in a way, they are going to change the life of all the people you have met.

God has given us freedom to choose whatever we want, but not everything it is allowed, Read the rest of this entry »

So much God loved you – Richy Esparza

Posted: January 23, 2012 in Christian Reflections, Faith
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“For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life” John 3:16 (New Living Translation)

At 25 I met God´s grace and the power of Jesus. I had turned the life God gave me into a waste, backed up by a bottle of alcohol. My dreams lacked of transcendence, I just wanted to get by life. Alcohol got everything out of me, and when I was really lost, it happened. I heard that there was someone with enough power to set me free me and restore me; and his name was Jesus. I invited Him into my heart and He gave a new name, saved me and cleansed me. Being my surprise that He did not called me full of shame but loved one, not waste but masterpiece. Read the rest of this entry »

The Oval Office of God – Luis Caccia Guerra

Posted: January 15, 2012 in devotionals
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Only once I have been in my state Governor´s office. On that occasion I was received by the General Secretary of the Government, that is, not even by the Governor. And I remember another time later, I was received by the Governor of the Province (or State). I went to complete a procedure at the Government´s House and I crossed ways with the Governor, at the time he was going to perform his tasks. We had a brief talk..What a thrill!

Imagine being  with the president. That never happened. I could have requested a hearing, but not only would  take a long time, I then should justify that is a matter of  great importance or urgency , otherwise I will not be addressed by whoever is in running the   presidency office. Read the rest of this entry »

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