Are you feeling discouraged, fearful and doubtful?

In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Ephesians 6:16 NIV

Do you feel discouraged sometimes?  Perhaps you are a believer that always read your Bible and go to your church, but are there moments that you feel weak and unmotivated?

That is one of the oldest and very useful ways that the devil uses to attack us. Either if we are a believer or unbeliever, he likes to throw flaming arrows of doubts, fears, discouragement, anxiety, sadness, depression to name just a few.

Have you feel so sure about something and in the middle of the way you became fearful and feeling that the blessing will not going to come for you? That was a flaming arrow of doubt towards your heart.

Our struggles are not against flesh and blood but against the evil forces that try to rob our blessings. The devil knows that without faith is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6) and that everything is possible for him who believes (Mark 9:23).

We should not be surprised when these feelings of discouragement hits our minds, the devil doesn’t want you and I to be blessed, healed, prosperous and happy. Therefore we should constantly put on the full armor of God to fight the battle against the enemy of our lives which is devil.

Ephesians 6 10-20 says: ^"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. ¹¹ Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. ¹² For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. ¹³ Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.

¹⁴ Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, ¹⁵ and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. ¹⁶ In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. ¹⁷ Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 

¹⁸ And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. ¹⁹ Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should."

 

We should put on the full armor of God by constant prayers, attending Church services, by reading the Bible and by resisting the devil. If we resist the bad thoughts, temptations and words of doubts and fears, the devil will flee from us.

God bless you

It was the Hands of God who brought this man back to llife

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A man who was supposed to die, he couldn't see, speak and walk, he became like a vegetable and the doctors said that there no more hope only death. In despite of his situation, his mother didn't stopped praying for him everyday in the church. And now he is walking, talking and listening. To God be the Glory. The doctors said: "It was the hands of God, a miracle." This happened in one of our churches in Brazil. This miracle shocked the nation. There is hope for you, just believe..."Jesus said to him, “If you can believe,[a] all things are possible to him who believes.” Mark 9:23

                                                                                 

Is there any harm by watching TV or browsing internet?

Some people are asking and wondering if demons can posses a person through a TV program, internet, secular songs, magazines and books. The answer for that is, it indirectly posses and not directed.

Everything God created is good, God gave to the mankind wisdom and wisdom is good; the problem is that the devil is always jealousy of whatever God created and by that he always tries to distort Gods’ creation.

Through the TV, internet and other ways of broadcasting the word of God has being spread; similarly the work of the devil also has being widely and badly spread.

We have seen teenagers completely disturbed and addicted to pornography that they can easily see on their computers, without mentioning the children who lock themselves on the virtual world of video games and by that they become overweight and antisocial.

We know adults who simply destroy years of marriage due to “cyber affairs” or single people who just start dating a psychopath (without knowing in most of the cases) through chat rooms.

There is no big deal in watching TV, browsing the internet, listening to radio, reading a magazine or a book; the problem is what a person watch, browse or read. If a person browses into divination sites, she will end up bringing sorcery and witch craft for her life. And this will be a doorway for the evil in her life. Some people bring demons to their house/life by playing online Ouija boards and nevertheless they and their houses become haunted by evil spirits.

Some people exchange a good family time to lock themselves in their room up to late watching TV or browsing the internet, there is no dialogue or friendship, they make their computer their best friend. Some people even may lose their jobs because instead of working they are checking their personal emails or chatting with online friends.

Whatever is destructive for us does not come from God!  We are what we absorb; either through food or through things we read, watch and listen. And that is how the devil works. 

What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? 

For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and they will be my people.”
 Therefore, “Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.” 2 Corinthians 6:16-18 NIV

For our own sake we should not touch, read, watch and listen to unclean things, because once we absorb those things a demon can posses our lives and the consequences is well know: addiction to pornography , nightmares, emptiness, adultery and divorce to name a few.

Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God. 2Corinthians 7:1 NIV

Be Blessed

The Power of Thoughts

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7 NLV

How many times we are so focus thinking towards something that our minds thinks nothing but about that subject, we can end up getting the wrong bus or driving into a wrong turn or simply not paying attention to what our spouse or children are speaking to us.

I have seen cases that a person is so distracted in her thoughts that she even caused a car accident by not paying attention to the traffic light.

I have considered how our thoughts determine a lot about the direction of our lives, our thoughts will always take us somewhere, but it may not be somewhere we want to end up. The cycle of our sins begins in our thoughts, once we feed our bad thoughts, it will give birth to sin.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. Matthew 15:19 NIV

If we spend time thinking about how our boss does not appreciate us, our thoughts will take us straight to a bad attitude at work and possibly poor performance. Thoughts that we are being victims of injustice will steal our peace.

If we focus on how much we do for others and how little our efforts are appreciated or how little we receive in return, our bad thoughts will takes to a place of resentment and our hearts my get hardened and bitter.

If we spend hours nourishing thoughts of anger and even mentally practicing harsh words that we plan to say to our spouses or children, those thoughts will leads to a place of arguments, hurt feelings and deteriorated relationships.

If we feed thoughts of doubts, and questioning why God allowed certain bad situations in our lives, we will prevent God to bless us due to our lack of trust in Him.

If we focus our thoughts on money, success and pleasures we will find ourselves discontent, frustrated, depressed and anxious; without mentioning that some people go to the extreme of corruption, extortion or theft.

If a married person nourish thoughts of having just a "small affair" in order to give some "spice flavour" to his/her life, this person will end up commiting adultery and subsequently, will destroy his/her family.

Our thoughts are powerful and require great self control. If we allow them to run rampant, focusing on things that lead us away from God, then we will wind up at a destination we would never deliberately choose.

I like to say that our thoughts are like a TV program, if it’s not good or if it will bring harm to us or to others, we have to change it immediately because our thoughts determine who we are and how we live.

We then, shall always pray in order to receive strength to put away from us, thoughts that will make us captive and defeated.

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Philippians 4:8

God Bless you in Jesus Name!