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What do you want me to pray for?

 Prayer is one of those things that each one of us approach in many different ways. Some of us have a very specific time and place in which we pour our hearts to the Lord. Some of us, pray as we go. Some of us take to heart the instruction of the apostle Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:18: " Pray without ceasing". We pray in our cars on our way to work, at the gym while we're exercising, at the grocery store, in the kitchen when we're cooking, at the park when we're running and the list goes on. Prayer must be an essential part of our lives if we want to keep our line of communication with God wide open. That's our personal prayers to God. What about those people who are constantly asking other people what they can pray for them? Those people are a great gift to us all! Those are the people that are concerned about you, your family, your well-being, your relationship with the Lord and many more things. Those are the sweet prayers of a prayer warrior! The other day a...

Living perfectly?

 Trying to be emotionally perfect only leads to living a life of dissatisfaction and discontent. We were meant to live a perfect life in a world without sin. Once sin entered the world, all desires of living a perfect life went out the window. I don't know about you but I would love to live free of troubles, anxieties, diseases, discouragements or anything that can cause my spirit to faint or despair. Adam’s fall caused all of this in the world, a world that, by God's design, was supposed to be perfect, free of anything evil. However, God, in His unmeasurable mercy, sent us a second Adam: “Our Lord Jesus Christ”. Through Him, we can have peace. That peace that you can only have when you come to Him in Faith. “‭Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ”. (Romans 5:1). We can go on in this world complaining about the way we feel and how unfair our life is. We can even go as far as blaming God for all our perils claiming that H...

God, get me to Sunday!

 It is amazing to see how the Lord works through you to accomplish His plans. I have Parkinson's disease and sometimes is very hard to do the things I need to do: taking care of my family, working my part time job and preaching on Sundays to my awesome Spanish congregation which I Iove very much! I could have never imagined being called by God to preach and then years later, getting a diagnosis of a neurodegenerative disease. I've been preaching for many years in the absence of my pastors but now, I'm preaching consistently every Sunday. Due to the nature of my disease, every day is an up and down that gives my day such an emotional inconsistency, that some days it's hard to bear. That's why I've coined the phrase: ‘Lord, get me to Sunday. That's my prayer everyday because in the very bottom of my heart, that's my desired to do until he calls me home or to do something else. He gives me grace every day and specially Sunday when he gives me a special gra...