The Truthful Parable

14th APRIL 2013 - ASSISTANTS' GRADUATION DAY

14th APRIL 2013 - ASSISTANTS' GRADUATION DAY IN JAMAICA

Assistants of God,

On April 14th you will graduate and surely have great expectations for this day in your life as a servant of God.

"Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." (2 Timothy 2:15)

So please leave here your comments and what you expect on this day.
 

RECIPE TO OVERCOME EVIL

Finally, after so many years serving God, we discovered the surefire recipe to overcome the devil! Would you like to know what it is? If yes, then let’s think about this together, because we are sure this will help you.

How can you be immune to a cold or flu, if you do not get vaccinated or eat foods high in vitamin C, and are always exposing yourself to the cold weather? It’s impossible!

Likewise, how can you be immune to Satan or get rid of him if you are not delivered from him, or get rid of what attracts him to you or keeps him inside you? This is where the plague called "PRIDE" presents itself.

Unfortunately - or with great difficulty - an envious person does not admit their feelings, let alone a proud person. When have you seen someone admit that they are arrogant, boastful or that they think they are better than everyone else, even if their life is a complete failure and they are still on a downhill spiral? They are just completely blind!

For example:

"But Naaman became furious and went away and said, ‘Indeed, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God and wave his hand over the place and heal the leprosy.’ Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?’ So he turned and went away in a rage," 2 Kings 5.11 -12

Surely, Naaman was part of this group of people who do not understand that in order to overcome the problem, they must first overcome themselves (PRIDE).

Notice how he wanted the VIP treatment, but he only overcame the leprosy after disposing of his arrogance and accepting to enter the waters of the Jordan.

The only ingredient in this recipe: "Get down from your pedestal and overcome your pride!"

May God bless you,

BY BISHOP GUARACY SANTOS

Assistants in Focus Series 7 – Non-believing Spouse

Many assistants have struggled to maintain a balance between marriage and the work of God.
I know that the greatest pleasure of a person who serves God is to be at church, but if you do not act with wisdom you will never be able to gain your non-believing spouse for Jesus.

If you find yourself in this situation you cannot go to the church every day and leave your husband alone at home.
Many have done this and have caused many problems in their marriage, always claiming that the spouse is not of faith and therefore does not understand him/her, in fact wanting to disrupt the spiritual life.
That may happen, but don’t you think as a man/woman of God, you should give a good testimony and show that you also care about him/her?

Assistants in Focus Series 6 - Good Manners

"And Sunday they arrive with a ugly face, we've had instances of members come to complain about the attention that the assistants give to the people.
Furthermore, posting some things on Facebook, like admiring the amazing ability to endure people who deserve a punch in the face."

We know that there are things that are expected of every human being, and that for this it is not necessary to be converted, or being born of God, such as respect and good manners, for example.

Now imagine what is expected of a person who claims to be filled with the Holy Spirit, at the very least much more of what we expect from people that have nothing of God.

If the assistants, who are the image of the church, are there to help the people, and are with an "ugly" face or closed up, being rude in their way of speaking, do you think that the afflicted will want to get close to her and ask for guidance? I think not, people will flee in seven directions, because a frowned face is scary, it does not invite anyone to come close, it alienates people. It's like if you had a label on your forehead saying "Do not come near me, the mood here isn't good."

Assistants in Focus Series 5- Abuse of Authority

 

Today I want to talk about those people who like to extrapolate, or rather step out of line.

When I think I've heard everything in this lifetime, I get this email:

"And another situation is the issue of a leader of the EBI, the way she treats the teachers, at times shouting, or in any adverse situation by saying that the other assistant has the "devil"."

Unfortunately we have people who are not well situated, they have no idea what the work of God is, much less know words such as: converting, fear, respect, good testimony, being born again, because if they had notion of these words they would quickly realize that they are not prepared to serve God.

Don’t you think it's a lack of respect to treat people with screaming, it isn’t something that just happened in a day of PMS (which also does not justify), or in a moment of anger, it is something constant.
To show authority you do not need to shout, an assistant who has any responsibility must give her best, without mistreating other people.
If the pastor who is the highest authority in the church doesn’t this, at least in the 17 years that I have serving God, I've never seen my husband scream at any assistant, or pastor.

GOD FORGIVES, NOW PAY

God’s forgiveness is bigger than any sin, but sadly it doesn’t keep the sinner from suffering the consequence of what he did.

Understand this: To forgive is to eliminate the anger or hurt against the one who sinned. However, forgiveness does not deal with the consequences of the sin, just the sinner.

I have observed that those who live in sin for a while postpone repenting and changing because of the desire to “enjoy themselves a little bit longer.” Perhaps in their subconscious they tell themselves, “I know I have to change, I will change, but not now… Just a little bit longer… I’ll fix things with God and the world later.”