Jesús es la Resurrección

25/01/2024

Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You. --Jeremiah 32:17

When Tennyson wrote "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of," he probably uttered a truth of vaster significance than even he understood. While it is not always possible to trace an act of God to its prayer-cause, it is yet safe to say that prayer is back of everything that God does for the sons of men here upon earth. One would gather as much from a simple reading of the Scriptures.

What profit is there in prayer? "Much every way." Whatever God can do faith can do, and whatever faith can do prayer can do when it is offered in faith. An invitation to prayer is, therefore, an invitation to omnipotence, for prayer engages the Omnipotent God and brings Him into our human affairs. Nothing is impossible to the man who prays in faith, just as nothing is impossible with God. This generation has yet to prove all that prayer can do for believing men and women.
— A.W. Tozer
The Set of the Sail, p. 33

12/01/2024

Men of Prayer
Prayer is not a work that can be allocated to one or another group in the church. it is everybody's responsibility; it is everybody's privilege.
Prayer is the respiratory function of the church; without it we suffocate and die at last, like a living body deprived of the breath of life. Prayer knows no s*x, for the soul has no s*x, and it is the soul that must pray. Women can pray, and their prayers will be answered; but so can man, and so should men if they are to fill the place God has given them in the church.
Let us watch that we do not slide imperceptibly to a state where the women do the praying and the men run the churches. Men who do not pray have no right to direct church affairs. We believe in the leadership of men within the spiritual community of the saints, but that leadership should be won by spiritual worth.
— A. W. Tozer

10/01/2024

Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
— Proverbs 22.6
John Wesley (28 June 1703 – 2 March 1791) was an Anglican priest, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became, after his and his brother Charles’ death, the dominant form of the Methodist movement that continues to this day.

Educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford, Wesley was elected a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1726 and ordained as an Anglican priest two years later. At Oxford, he led the “Holy Club”, a society formed for the purpose of the study and the pursuit of a devout Christian life. After an unsuccessful two year ministry in Savannah, Georgia, he returned to London and joined a religious society led by Moravian Christians. On 24 May 1738, he experienced what has come to be called his evangelical conversion. He subsequently left the Moravians and began his own ministry.

A key step in the development of Wesley’s ministry was to travel widely and preach outdoors, embracing Arminian doctrines. Moving across Great Britain and Ireland, he helped form and organise small Christian groups (societies and classes) that developed intensive and personal accountability, discipleship, and religious instruction. He appointed itinerant, unordained evangelists—both women and men—to care for these groups of people. Under Wesley’s direction, Methodists became leaders in many social issues of the day, including the abolition of slavery and other social reforms.

05/01/2024

“You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy.” - Seraphim of Sarov (1754-1833), Priest & Mystic

Seraphim of Sarov was a hermit who lived in a log cabin in a Russian forest and devoted himself to ascetic disciplines. He ate only vegetables from his garden and sought the Holy Spirit. At one point, he spent 1,000 nights on a rock, with arms outstretched to God. “The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God.” He taught. “As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.” Pilgrims visited Seraphim’s cabin, seeking healing and answers. Seraphim tenderly greeted each with “Christ is risen!” and addressed each visitor as “my joy.” He often and knew the answers to their questions before they were asked. Many sick were healed through Seraphim’s prayers. Robbers wounded Seraphim in his home, leaving him a hunchback for life. Seraphim pled for mercy for his captured assailants. One day, a visitor spotted the old man peacefully sharing the company of a wild bear. Terrified, the visitor drew back, but noted that Seraphim’s face was “full of light and like an angel’s.” The visitor said that she would tell everyone about this. “No, my joy,” Seraphim said, instructing her to wait until after his death. God used Seraphim's life to transform countless visitors. “Acquire a peaceful spirit,” Seraphim said, “and thousands around you will be saved.”

Almighty God, by your Holy Spirit you have made us one with your saints in heaven and on earth: Grant that in our earthly pilgrimage we may always be supported by this fellowship of love and prayer, and know ourselves to be surrounded by their witness to your power and mercy; for the sake of Jesus Christ, in whom all our intercessions are acceptable through the Spirit, and who lives and reigns with you and the same Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

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31/12/2023

Padre Celestial te alabamos y te agradecemos que nos creaste para estar en tu presencia por toda la eternidad contigo, concédenos sean iluminados nuestros ojos espirituales, para comprender el regalo de la salvación mediante a cruz de tu amado hijo Jesucristo, permite que nos volvamos a ti , entregándote nuestras vidas, pensamientos y decisiones. Queremos amarte más que nuestras vidas. Amén 🙏

29/12/2023

Padre Celestial, te damos infinitas gracias por haber decidido rescatarnos del anhelo por cosas finitas que satisfacían aparentemente nuestro vivir, teníamos los ojos puestos en disfrutar las vanalidades materiales y sensuales, pero si no hubiera llegado a este mundo perdido tu hijo amado, no habría llegado el lavamiento de la regeneración y la renovación del Espíritu Santo. Ayúdanos a entregar nuestras vidas a Jesús, para acceder con obediencia a tu nueva vida, restaurada por tu gracia y no por nuestros méritos insensatos. Esperamos tu ayuda por siempre. Amén.

28/12/2023

Today is a feast known as Childermas that commemorates the innocent children killed by King Herod the Builder. This massacre happened in Bethlehem and the region around it. Numbers about how many were killed vary, but traditional numbers tend to put the number in the tens of thousands or even more.

As Jeremiah prophesied, the Matriarch Rachel, wept and prayed for them. She was so distraught, that she refused to be comforted. The LORD comforted her by assuring her that even though they had been killed, they would live on that land once again some day. The Matriarch, having once wept now rejoiced. She was surrounded by her slain descendants who were now happy in their eternal home.

The thought that the Innocents are singing in Heaven and fill the celestial air, touched many Christians through the ages. This is why singing children with little wings appear in Christian art. While these are often called “cherubs”, they are actually meant to represent today’s saints.

ℭ𝔬𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔠𝔱
O Almighty God, who out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast ordained strength, and madest infants to glorify thee by their deaths; Mortify and kill all vices in us, and so strengthen us by thy grace, that by the innocency of our lives, and constancy of our faith even unto death, we may glorify thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. ᴀᴍᴇɴ.

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22/12/2023

Padre Celestial, te alabamos y bendecimos tus planes eternos de salvación, revelaste a Elías tu profeta fiel 740 años antes de que tu hijo amado se encarnara en un cuerpo humano como nosotros. Es asombrosa la veracidad de tu palabra. Gracias por siempre, mi Dios y mi todo. Concédenos un entendimiento abierto para comprender tu salvación en lo profundo de nuestro corazón. Amén 🙏

28/11/2023

Padre Celestial, te damos gracias por tu plan perfecto de salvación, mediante el único y suficiente sacrificio de tu amado hijo Jesucristo. Bendito seas por siempre. Amén.

02/11/2023

Padre Celestial, te agradecemos tu revelación especial, sólo porque tú has permitido que sepamos de tu inconmesurable amor y tu voluntad de que Jesús descendiera del cielo para ser uno como nosotros y nos viniera a salvar regalando vida eterna para estar contigo. Y por la fe que tú nos das podemos amarte a ti y a la Trinidad, aunque ahora no los vemos, llegará el día que te contemplaremos. Sólo la fe nos sostiene en una esperanza gozosa. Amén.

26/10/2023

Padre Celestial, te damos gracias por qué nos enviaste a tu amado hijo Jesucristo, para reconciliación de nuestras vidas y de todo el universo. El precio de la cruz lo pago con una entrega de amor infinito por nosotros, pecadores indiferentes. Sólo permítenos agradecer y abrir el corazón para que tú reines en todo nuestro ser. Concédenos entendimiento pleno de tu evangelio. Amén 🙏

25/10/2023