MERRY CHRISTMAS 20015

I am so happy  the Lord is giving me this time to share once again with you.
 
This year has been good and we have received many blessings; but as everyone we had our difficult times and trials; however we keep praising the Lord and waiting on Him trusting He always has the perfect plan for all of us knows the when and where and why.

My brother Ruben left us to go with the Lord no too long ago. Although we miss him, we rest and trust we will see him again sometime soon.

Just before my brother passed away Scott and I decided to bring my mother to live with us, a month later my brother found he got cancer  and 6 months later he passed away.  It could have been very difficult for my mom  to be in Peru with my sick brother because he was the one that  care of her. As well difficult for my brother to deal with cancer and treatments while not being able to take care of mother as he used to.... In a way I think God send us to pick mother at the correct   time.  

Working on immigration paperwork for mama, was not easy,  it was very frustrating.  After a lot of work, money and trips to immigration with mother God finally open the doors and gave us 2 beautiful ladies that help us on the way until mama became a legal resident.

 

Bethany keeps growing, she will be 12 soon;  she is almost my height and my shoes are almost to small for her!  I love my baby and God blesses my with her company.

Scott is doing good, working hard  and volunteering his free time putting together solar panels for the Orphanage Emmanuel in Honduras (600 + kids, from 0 to 18).  

The orphanage is private and does not receive any help from the government, but the government do send  kids that  they have no other place to place them.

Can you imagine how much power they use for this orphanage that holds 600 + kids?).  
They are having a hard time paying the bills for power and they need help.  God has send people and donations to that place to help with their needs.  LED bulbs donated by friends, solar panels and solar heaters will make a big difference a blessing to this children.

God bless me with a husband that loves the Lord, loves me and  works hard helping others in the name of Jesus.

My mother is 81, she does not have the best health, but she has Jesus and for her God's grace is enough.

Thank you God for this year. Only  You see  tomorrow, we only see the present, you God have perfect plans for us, we trust you, we know all happens  for a reason, Thank you God for your great love, for keep forgiving, for all your blessings and provisions.

Next I will share some pics and 2 facebook post I worked on.

I am sure you already know if you have seen the news, but either way...

 

I WILL NOT EAT SHRIMP!

After reading this article about where shrimp we eat comes from, it broke my heart.

I will not eat shrimp from Thailand or if I do not know where the shrimp comes from; because if I do, I will be a partner with the criminals that are abusing and violating human rights. Having poor people as slaves to peel and cut shrimp, and even forcing children to work from 3am to 7 pm, and beating them if they refuse, some are brutally kill.

Hard to believe that many known stores and restaurants are buying from these people. I hope they were innocent and they did not know about this. If these big corporations and chain restaurants knew and bought it just because it is more profitable for their business, they are criminals as well.

I pray for these people that are living a nightmare. I pray that people will cease buying shrimp from Thailand. I pray that the authorities there repent and help these people to escape their slavery. I pray for the slave owners and their partners in crime (the big corporations and Restaurants) that our God will open their eyes and their hearts to repent and be forgiven. They do not realize that their money is blood money, and what they are gaining today will rot tomorrow; if they do not repent on time, I do not even want to think the horror they will face when God puts his hands on them.

Please share and do not buy shrimp from Thailand or unknown sources or restaurants that will not tell you where the shrimp comes from.

This other post after a lot of confusion and controversy.... The Lord always has the correct answers:

 

God commands us to love others... Because I love I have to share God's word even if by doing so means I will have some people calling me “names” or be mad at me or even hate me.

We all are sinners, we need Christ.

Mathew 5:17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. (Jesus speaking in the book of Matthew).

We all sin, but we are call to repent, and with God's strength, abandon and stop the sin.

His sacrifice on the cross was to forgive us, to save us. But, that is not a green light for us to continue in sin.

God's word about Sexual Immorality

Hosea: 4-6 ...my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.

“Because you have rejected knowledge,...

 Romans 1: 21-27 “For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.  Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools  and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles”.

“Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.  They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen”.

 “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.  In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error”.

Romans 1:32 “Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them”.

1^st. Corinthians: 6:9-10 “Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men, nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God”.

Galatians 5:19 “The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery”;

When we fornicate (have sex activity outside of marriage), we are bowing before an idol, it is a self-idolatry sin. (loving more the desires of our flesh than God).

Jude 1:7 “In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire”.

Sexual Immorality: comes from the Greek word “porno or porcine” meaning any kind of sexual interaction outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman.

Genesis 19: 24-25 “The Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land”.

Sodom and Gomorrah, people were so lost indulging in sexual sin that the Lord destroyed the land (Genesis 19)

Leviticus 18:22 “‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable”.

Homosexuality is to refuse the most glorious purpose for which God created your body.

Sexual immorality goes against what God has designed for us.

Homosexuality is a sin as sexual immorality, fornication, adultery and the like.

1^st Corinthians 10:8 “We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died”.

Ref: Numbers 25:1-9

1^st Timothy 1:9-10 We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those ... for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine.

When God created Adam, he saw that Adam needed companionship, Thus God created a woman. God saw the need for completion by creating another (a woman), and not the same (another man).

Isaiah 3: 9-12 “The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom;
they do not hide it. Woe to them!
They have brought disaster upon themselves.

10 Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.
11 Woe to the wicked!
    Disaster is upon them!
They will be paid back
    for what their hands have done”.

Deuteronomy 22:5 A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.

Sexual immorality, Homosexuality, Adultery, fornication and the like is a sin, a rebellion against God perfect plan for humanity (for a man and a woman to became one and have children).

Rejection of God's design is self-idolatry (We love more our flesh desires more than God.). We become our own idol.

1^st Corinthians 6:19-20  “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own”;

“You were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies”.

1^st Corinthians 6:13 ...The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. …

1^st Corinthians: 6:18

Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.

Any kind of sexual immorality is a strong temptation, very difficult to stop. That is the reason God tells us to Flee.

1^st Thessalonians 4: 7-8 “For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.  Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit”.

Galatians 5: 21 “... and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God”.

1^st Thessalonians 4:3-5 

It is God’s will that you should be sanctified (clean, pure) : that you should avoid sexual immorality;  that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable,  not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God;

 Romans 12:2 “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will”.

Colossians 3:5 “Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry”.

Leviticus 18:30  “Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God.’

Ephesians 5:3 “But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.”

Psalm 139: 13-16

For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
 My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.

Job 33:4 The Spirit of God has made me;
    the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

We will never fulfill our hungry hearts by feeding our flesh desires. God, the one that created us, is the only one that will fulfill our hearts. No husband, nor wife, boyfriend or girlfriend, no parents, no children, no money, power or fame will give us a joyful heart. You may experience moments of happiness, but they will be just for a moment and then we will see ourselves hunting for more and more again, never satisfy always in need for more., but God will fill your heart with Joy every moment of your life, He will satisfy our needy heart no matter what will challenge our life.

1^st. Corinthians 6:11 “And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God”.

It is God's desire for homosexuals, adulterers, fornicators, the sexually immoral, drunkards, the disobedient and the like to repent of the sin behavior that dominates their lives, and receive God's free gift of salvation through Jesus Christ. Only He can save us from our present slavery to sin, and the eternal punishment for our sins, so that we can inherit His kingdom.

Proverbs 3:5 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart
    and lean not on your own understanding”;

Bible references from NIV

I know some did not like what I posted, but can not keep for myself the words of the Lord.

 

I love you all, I am not judging, I am only sharing what the Lord says in His book.  So I pray you will take this in a good way and share to others.

 

Marry Christmas 2015 and blessings for 2016 and years to come!!!! 

 

 

 

 
 

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014

"... His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse". Romans 1:20 "...
Because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exist and that He rewards those who earnestly seek him"  Hebrews 11:6

Happy 2014!  Wow, what and adventure!
Shame on me, I have stop writing and updating with all of you my friends.  This is my 3rd year since everything with my health started to go wrong.
I am alive and well, it is a miracle that I am not even with any kind of paralysis and or because of the radiation, I have not developed any other kind of cancer (yes, radiation is known that kills the bad and good cells, and later on may produce cancer... you figure out (lol).
I am in good health, the Lord has provided all that I needed and more.  I love my husband, he is a blessing that God has granted me; I spent more time with my dear daughter Bethany. All that I lost, The Lord has given back to me, with addition and many more blessings.
When I look back, I say: "Thank you Lord for the time that I was sick, I was able to stay still and listened to you, my plans for my life were directing my path to destruction.  Thank you for loving me unconditionally and in your mercy, find me, and guide me on the right path again.  Thank you for the lives that were touch through my sickness and show your eternal power; Thank you for all the things you thought me while sick and turned me to be more humble, compassionate, to love others unconditionally as you love me. and most important, the moment I felt you presence... I will not change even a minute of all that I lived, and if I had to chose on walking the same experience again, I will.  
I thank you for all, what was bad, turned to be good, Thank you Jesus for your death in the cross, thank you for saving my life."
Here I am today, feeling good, and praising God every moment.
I will try to attach some pics we took recently of our family.  1st Scott, Bethany and Me.  2nd Dinner with Scott's parents during our Christmas trip to Iowa-Michingan 2013.  At the end my lovely Bethany and the new addition to our family "Coco".
During my trip up north, after we spent couple of days with Scott's parents, They were so nice, sweet and kind. We also visited my sister Maria Elena, we had a wonderful time. spending time with my sis like the old times. we enjoyed time with my brother in law Alejandro that took us on a Grand Rapids tour and cook a Peruvian dish for us (saltado) yummy!. Also happy to see my grown up nephew Ismael and so happy to know he is doing really good (in college (2 more semesters to go) and working part time). Thank you for all your blessings God!

LOVE YOU ALL!  HAVE A BLESS NEW YEAR 2014!!!!!!

  
 

AWESOME GOD

"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus." Romans 3:23

I will sing Glory, I will praise the Lord as long as I live.  
It is so difficult to understand his unconditional love.  Every Christmas the reminder of  the birth of Jesus, that came to this world in a humbled way to later on die for everyone that believe in Him and declare Him Lord of Lords and Savior.
Every time I look around,  I see His mercies and love Jesus shows to me.  I lost everything with my sickness, but the Lord returned little by little all I lost; He provides for every need, gives me more than I need at times, He is good and faithful and my heart sings with great joy to Him!
Lately I have experience the death of a loved one, life is so fragile, can't be taken for granted. We all will face death at some point in our life, that is inevitable; but the question is, once you are gone and you face God, What do you think He will say to you... "good servant, come into my kingdom" or "I never knew you, get out from my presence".  I know that I will be with Him, because he died for me and all my sins.
It is like the parable of the prodigal son: he left his father and ask him for the money he should receive when the father die (which was given to him).  Later on, he spent all he had by drinking and celebrating with friends (that were only around him for the money). He saw himself lost and lonely, no money, no friends, eating pigs food.  Finally he came back to the father ashamed and repented, expecting the father to maybe turn him away.  The father saw him from far, the father ask the servants to serve a feast because his son was coming back.  the father run with open arms to receive his son.  No matter how many times I fall face down in the mud, Jesus is there stretching his hands to help me get up, he does not care how dirty I am, he cleans me and keeps me walking. He does not care how dirty you may be, He only wants you to accept his open hand for you to get up and walk next to him, God loves you.
My life reminds me a Jesus parable "...do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear.  Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.  Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them.  And how much more valuable you are than birds!...Consider how the lilies grow.  They do not labor or spin.  Yet I tell you not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.  If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you..." Luke 12:22-28
 I have real friends (family in Christ I should say) that walk the way of life with me, and what a blessing they are.  I have a beautiful daughter that God has put in my care, I have a loving man in my life that very soon I will marry, I can say, I am rich!
May this New Year brings you joy and peace!   
PS I will be sending the wedding invitations soon!
Wedding date: Saturday, March 23, 2013

Love you all!

HONDURAS

"... Then those who believe in God will be careful to use their lives for doing good". (Titus 3:8)

I forgot to give you an update from last time I wrote, so here it is:

Honduras trip (July 27 - August 10) went wonderful, God protected all of us in our team and the team that came a day after us.

I had the chance to share with the older girls the "Good News" and reassure them how much God loves them, that He will never forget or forsake them, that we are, they are the princesses of Him, we are His baby girls and that He only wants us to accept His open arms and walk with Him.  
These girls were amazing, even life and the world sin have damaged their lives (the reason for them to be in the orphanage) they welcome the good news and the word of our Savior (the Bible).  I read to them passages, talk to them and I just saw this thirst, these hearts open, wanting to learn more and more about God (what a blessing to me to experience this) I had the time to share and hear some of their awful, sad, sad stories, pray for them and hope I was a good witness to them.  I had the privilege to share Christ with them and pray for them.
God was all around, this place belongs to him, you can feel His presence all around.  A place with more than 600 children in it (almost like a small city on its own) this place has grown and it has grown beautiful by the grace of God that has supplied everything to keep this kids and maybe more to come.
Honduras is a very, very poor country, we took a bus from Tegucigalpa (the city where the airport is) to Guaimaca (where the orphanage is) about 1 and half hour by bus, it is a huge difference once you get to Emmanuel, it is a blessing for the kids that can find refuge in Emmanuel, God bless the people that work in there and volunteer to keep the place up.

Bethany made good friends with handicap toddlers, I was very proud to see my kid being so king and good to those kids (most people don't wanna deal with them, but they need more love than the other kids).  She made friends everywhere and with everyone, kids use to call her "stephanie" at times, but she did not mind.  She helped taking care of the toddlers in many instances, she love and play with them.  When we came back she asked me "mom, can we go back to the orphanage in Honduras some time?... that spoke tons to me.  The Lord blessed me with this mission trip, it is good to be back, but I miss the kids in Emmanuel orphanage, I will keep them in my heart and prayer.

Doctors, ok, I had my MRI and blood work, saw my Oncology Doctor on Thursday on the 19th of this month and he said there are no changes on that growth on the left hemisphere, has not grow or change, still a 3mm growth, but nothing to worry about unless it changes.  On the right hemisphere there is no changes either, so everything is good.  We will follow other issues like nausea, and vision, but seems these tumors are dormant and nothing to worry unless they show activity.  I will have my next MRI in 3 months, we will keep following to make sure no changes happen.  My blood is good, my weight is good, I am fine and I boast that my Lord is the one that is next to me giving me health and life to keep going, kicking, and singing aloud to Him praises.

I moved, my new address is close to Bethany's school and stores, I am close to everything!
I have almost finished opening boxes and putting the place together (I still have not found some cooking pans (lol)) I say thanks to God that open this door for me.

Bethany is back to school, she is on 3rd grade now and today was her 1st day of class, she is growing super fast!

Love you all,
Sofia

ps: a pic of Bethany and a friend she made from the orphanage "Genesis" is her name"

GOOD NEWS!!!

"I have swept away your sins like a big cloud. I have removed your sins like a cloud that disappears into the air. Come back to me because I saved you." Isaiah 44:22

I, go on with salvation messages, I never get tired of them, and I will not get tired of writing about them again and again. To me, salvation has been amazing news, and it is the reason I don't stop talking about it...it is like someone buying a new car and been so happy about it and tells and shows this new car to everyone she/he knows and even people he/she does not know. When something special happens in our lives, we want to share it with others and even more if you know that others can get the same thing you did, that they will enjoy and be happy, specially when it comes for free.

Tomorrow may be too late, today is the day.  It is wise to take a decision today, not later, not tomorrow, because we do not know what is gonna happen in the next 5 seconds to follow, our lives are fragile, very fragile; you are here now, today, but you may be gone tomorrow.  How many times we have heard about a friend, young and healthy die without any obvious reason? maybe an accident or a heart attack, killed, etc.  our lives are fragile, very fragile. 

 Ask yourself, Where will I go if I have an accident on my way home and die today? (oh Sofia, you are being so dramatic and creepy...no I am not, I am very serious, dead can happen to anyone, at any time, at any age, sick or no sick, anyone. we all face death at some point).  Dead is something we will all have to face and you are not an exception, you are a human as anyone else, so ask yourself, What will happen after I die? Where will I go after dying? What if I have to stand before God today? What will I say to Him, What will He say to me?
Even if you don't believe in God, ask yourself, What if He exist? What if all that I heard was true and I ignored it?
Today is the day, not tomorrow, not later on, don't let the "issues" of life make you wait until you are ready, finish, complete, done... "issues in life" could be a sin that you think you don't wanna give up today or can't give up (you are not strong enough), or could be something you want and you are after it and you want to have it and you can't come to Christ because He may not allow you to or may have different plans for you, so... you wanna wait until you reach that "thing" "goal" to think about giving your life to Christ, You fear God will interfere in your plans... the Bible says very clear that God has perfect plans for the ones who love Him. He also says that He loves us so much that gave His only son to die for our sins that whoever believes in Him may not be lost and have eternal life. (John 3:16, ) But demons believe that too and shake with fear (James 2:19), but, if you profess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord , and if you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from death, then you will be saved(Romans 10:9).  There is a difference in just believing and having a personal relationship with our sovereign God. For example I believe tables exist, but, do I have a personal relationship w a table? we can believe, but something different is to accept and to give our lives to a sovereign power for our salvation.
I am a sinner, and I need Christ at all moments in my life to keep forgiving me and guiding me. His word tells me He has perfect plans for the ones that love Him, and the one that loves Him obey His commandments and if we sin, He is merciful and kind to forgive us and say I forgive you, I love you.

No matter what you do, He is there to forgive and help.  
If you have a "pending issue" that does not allow you to give your life to Christ, then give that issue to Him, He is all powerful and Almighty that He will resolve the "issue" for you, Whatever it is He will give you His strength to overcome it.  Don't wait no more, make a decision today, now, He is giving you a chance that is worth more than all the treasure here on earth, tomorrow or later may be too late. we will all get a chance and we will all die and we all will face God one day... what is gonna be your answer when He ask "What have you done with the free gift of eternal life "Jesus" I gave to you? Did you accepted Him in your heart and allowed Him to guide your life or did you choose to go your own way after gods (riches, fame, power, sexual satisfaction) that never satisfied you?

He may say to you "Well done my child, please enter into my kingdom" 
Or 
"get out of my sight I never knew you".

What would you like Him to say to you? What do you think He will say to you? 

It is a choice, it is presented to you today, now, tomorrow may be too late.  If you are fill with doubts, pray, talk to Him, challenge Him to show you He exist and that He loves you.

For my brothers and sisters in Christ that are believers this is just a reminder that we are forgiven and that is never a bad idea to rededicate our lives to Jesus (that I do it often). And for my brothers and sisters in Christ that have not dedicated their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ before, ...what are you waiting for? Don't let evil have you hooked by a ring nose and taking you wherever he wants, choose today.

You can say anything you want to Him, this is just an example of what I pray: 

Dear Father, I ask you to please forgive me of my sins, wash me clean, come into my life, I want you to be my God, my Savior, my Friend, guide my life from now on, help me with......(whatever you are dealing with)... I do not have the strength to change or fight myself, but you do. your word says that I can do everything with Jesus that gives me strength.  I want to be yours now and forever, amen.

Just keep in mind that we have been saved by grace and not deeds so no one could boast (Ephesians 2:8)

We are new creatures in Christ, the old has past. Christ has die once for our past, present and future sins, we will fall many times (He knows) but what makes a difference is that we will repent ask God for forgiveness and we will allow Him to pick us up and hold His hand to keep walking in His path. Let's not stay in the ground crying or fussing, let's repent and hold the hand that is extended to us (Jesus Hand) ready to help us get up and walk with Him.

I hope that you have prayed along with me, whenever we go to heaven I will see you there again.

In Christ's Love

Sofia

4th of July 2012

Thank you Lord for allowing me to enjoy the freedom, and the richness of this country.  Thank you that I have the freedom to worship your name without been punished for it, and for so many other things I take sometimes for granted. It is a privilege to live here United States of America.
Happy 4th of July everyone!

"He comfort us every time we have trouble, so that we can comfort others when they have trouble.  We can comfort them with the same comfort that God gives us." 2nd Cor 1:4

Yesterday we went to celebrate the 4th of July at Pier Park (a huge shopping area with all kind of stores everywhere, and blocks from the beautiful Panama City Beach) The Panama City Orchestra play along as the fire works took place. Beautiful event to experience and a beautiful moment to thanks our Lord we are still one nation under God and that we can still call this nation a Christian Nation.  So many blessings we received everyday that sometimes we take for granted.
Just few hours prior to the event we stop in a store to get few items, and I turned to see the newspaper displaying a picture of a man in Egypt sleeping on the top of a truck, all dirty and without shoes, and the paper said the bad political and economical situation Egypt is going through.  and there I was ready to buy things to eat and enjoy the music and fireworks while that man so far away from us maybe did not even had breakfast or dinner.  We may not be able to fix the problems and situations around the world, but we can pray for them and give thanks to our God for our every day living.

Last time I went to the Doctor, was a month ago, the MRI results were not good.  Seems like the tumor is growing back, and now there is an area on the left side that shows a (maybe) new growth (the tumor removed was on the right hemisphere of the cerebellum) this shadow is on the left hemisphere.
How am I dealing with this?
Not well when I removed my eyes from Jesus.  But when I look at His eyes, and my life, soul, heart, and thoughts are in Him, I am at so much peace and know that my Lord has plans for me,  not to harm me, but to prosper me. There is a purpose for all these happening, but I have assurance that my God is in control, that nothing happens in this world without His approval.  I don't know what is His plan for my life, but I know He wants me to trust Him and live a day at the time, enjoy each day, to be there for my Bethany and bring love to others.. If I am alive now after all that I have been trough (brain cancer, (2) brain surgeries, radiation and chemo, and against all odds and doctors predictions I am here, I am alive and not handicap.  How can I doubt that my Lord  will not take care of this situation?

I know I have been a stranger, have not write in a long time, but here I am with some news.

I moved from my sister Theresa (still moving) to an apartment in Lynn Haven, closer to Bethany school, grandma, and lots of stores, etc (that will save me a lot in gas).  I am living by faith, I made this move just because the Lord really open wide the doors for me to rent this place, and I am happy putting this together.
July 27 I am going with Bethany to a mission trip in Honduras (Guamaca) to an orphanage with 600 kids.  Can't wait to be there and be used by God touching the lives of those little ones that are in so much need of love and physical needs.  and Bethany, this trip will be an awesome experience for her, a time for her to learn how good it is to be servants of other people as Jesus was (He came to serve, not to be served), to share or work for God.  I know she will make friends and she will realize how many privileges she has here and how bless she is to have mommy and daddy and people that love her, and a God that will never leave her or forget her.

Once I am back from Honduras (August 10).  I will be getting a part time job and going to the doc again, more research and magnetic resonance to figure out how  are these things on my head behaving (growing or dormant).

This is it for now... more to come later  =)

God bless you!

EASTER - MORE NEWS

"... And we are healed because of His wounds" 1st Peter 2:24

I missed adding some to the blog I sent yesterday, so here I go:

The first MRI after chemotherapy showed a growth in the same spot where my brain tumor was located, I stopped chemo and basically the Dr. told me there were 2 options, having a new treatment (unknown results) or waiting ... remember? then I had another one MRI done and matched exactly as the one taken before that made my Dr. believe the growth in my brain was scar tissue from the surgery. we waited 3 more months and another MRI was taken, the Dr. told me it matched with the other 2 prior MRI, so he strongly believed he was right about the scar tissue. Now we will wait until June for another MRI, hoping and praying that will be the same, no changes.
Whatever it is I thank my Wonderful God for the healing. I am so much better, no more shaking hands and feet, no more vision problems, no more incredible painful headaches.
Thank you Jesus for your healing, Thanks for life.
My mom will be leaving soon, she had cataracts surgery in both eyes (by the grace of God) just happened that the eye Dr. I used to see when dealing with my vision problems cause the cancer; the same Dr. saw my mom for glasses and found the cataracts, and knowing my situation, placed my mom under the charity program they have at The Eye Center (isn't God so amazing).
Now my mom is recuperating from both eyes, but she is able to read again! so, she has been reading "the upper room" devotional. (Thank you Jesus!!)
I am so blessed and happy.

Happy Resurrection Day!!!!!!!

EASTER NEWS!

"Accept God's salvation to be your helmet..." Ephesians 6:17

Many have asked (even my mom), How were you able to face with so much peace the Doctor's news about you having the cancer again and basically no treatment options, but just waiting for death? How were you able to put together your own funeral arrangements? where did you get the strength to do so without falling apart?
My mom even questioned my faith, she told me how little my faith was, that I was working my funeral arrangements, instead of believing in God's healing.
The answer to everyone is very simple: It is not that I have little faith about God's power to heal me, absolutely not! God is able to do anything, to make the impossible, possible, His power can not be doubt; the power of the God I praise and worship. The difference is that I surrendered to His will, either if He takes me home with Him or leaves me here in earth. As I mentioned before in one of my blogs, everyone that I may leave behind will be fine (even my daughter Bethany). Why? because they are children of God as well, and God will be there for them. He will never leave or forget them, He will take good care of my love ones.
What about me? easy: "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain" Philippians 1:21. God has filled my heart with so much peace and joy about it; and my peace comes because I know where I will be going when departing this life... I am going with Jesus!! How am I so sure? How can I boast I will have eternity? Do I think I am righteous and because of my "good deeds" I will go to heaven?
No, absolutely not, I am not righteous, I am a sinner. "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God". Romans 3:23 / "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us" 1st John 1:8
Because Christ did not die in vain, He suffered and die in the cross to save me, to save you, to save anyone that believes in Him. Remember the Bible verse on the top of my blog? John 3:16? yes, He came so that we do not perish, but have eternal life! and God is a truthful God, He does not lie. I am so glad that salvation (eternal life) cannot be win by deeds, otherwise I will be domed. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the Gift of God." Ephesians 2:8
His mercy and grace touches me. I've done so many wrong things in my life, I have hurt people, I have hurt myself, and I have paid the consequences of my own actions; But, how wonderful is to be white as snow (Just because of the blood of Jesus that cleanses me). Just by praying to my Lord, accepting Him as my God, my Savior, my friend, just by asking Him to wash me clean from my sins, and to take and enter my heart to guide me and protect me, telling Him that I wanted to be His then and forever. And "If you profess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord", and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9
Am I without sin now? I do not sin anymore? Of course not, God knows I sin every day and every 10 sec or less I have sinful thoughts, but God helps me see when I am acting wrong ; and I immediately ask for forgiveness and strength to stop sinning. God knew ,way ahead, I was going to fall and sin, but He also knew that I was going to repent from it. God has forgiven me from my past, present and future sins, He gave His life for me.
Am I suppose to keep sinning, because there is always forgiveness? of course not! because I love God I want to obey him and serve Him, and bring Glory to His name in all that I say and do.
"We know that we have come to know Him if we keep His commands. Whoever says, "I know Him", but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person." 1st Jonh 2:4
Keep His commands? What are His commands? Easy, the 10 commandments, all starts there, everything like lying, stealing, lusting, loving other gods before Him, etc. Breaking his commandments (could be as simple as lying) is the same as sinning. One thing is to sin and have remorse about it and repent, doing our best to not fall anymore; and something different is to sin with the knowledge we are breaking God's command (disobeying), maybe feeling remorse at first, but shutting that little voice in us that keeps saying what we are doing does not bring Glory to God, we are disobeying . keep living breaking His command and not repenting about it.
"We know that anyone who is God's child does not continue to sin..." 1st John 5:18

Hope you have enjoyed the reading, we have an awesome God that loves us, and is open to our petitions and questions, we just have to ask Him.

May this Easter be good to remember the perfect sacrifice Jesus did for us, let's share the joy of the resurrection, God bless you all,

2012 / THE BUTTERFLY WITHIN...

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

Have you ever stop for a moment and look at a beautiful butterfly? Remember when you learned at school about them?
Every time I read this verse a butterfly comes to my mind. We, humans, are just like them, we are ugly worms, but God knows that we will turn into beautiful butterflies. The ugliest the worm, the more beautiful butterfly we get.
How many times have you felt worthless, a sinner, someone that does not deserve anything?
Don't let Satan lie to you, don't allow him to plant in your heart you are not good enough to approach God... Don't you know that God sees the worm, knows is a worm, but He also sees the beautiful butterfly it will turn into?
We will sin so many times in our lives, but God does not stop loving us because of it. He knows the beauty inside of us, and knows that at some point the butterfly inside of us will come out.
He send his son to die for us, so that anyone that believes in Him and professes Him God and Savior will be saved and have eternal life.
Because of Jesus we are worthy, we are beautiful, we are white as snow in the eyes of our God. We will fall in sin many times, but our Jesus died for our past, present and future sins. We just need to stretch our hands to Christ ask for forgiveness and take His loving hand and get up and keep walking. He knows who you are, He knows already all the times you are gonna fall, and knows all the times you will return to Him repented and stretching your hands up to Him to be lift up. He loves us no matter what, He loves us so much that He left his throne in heaven to come to this world, live a humbled life and die for us.
Thanks God for looking at the butterfly in me, thanks for your mercy and your love, I do not deserve your love, but you give it to me anyways because of your grace.
Let's this 2012 accept Jesus Christ gift of forgiveness, let's accept his grace. Let's look forward for the work He is to do in our lives, let's look forward to see what He sees on us...a beautiful butterfly.

Have a wonderful 2012!!!

Santa ???

"On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
One rocking horse...
On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
Two candles arrangements...
On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
Three Christmas plants, each one in their own tin base...
On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
Four bags of chocolates...
On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
Five chocolate cups on a tray, with many assorted bags (Land O' Lakes) of cocoa mix... plus a beautiful flower.
On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
A box of six blue stars for the Christmas tree ...
On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
A set of cookie cutters...
On the eight day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
A box with eight delicious red apples...
On the 9th day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
A bag with 9 bells for the tree...
On the 10th day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
Five pairs of gloves...
On the Eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
Eleven Candy Canes...
On the Twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
?????? Nothing!, Nada!, Zero!,
Who is my Secret Santa? .... Hones, I have no clue!

Christmas is here...

"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit" Titus: 3:5

I am so glad that salvation is not by works, but by faith. There is another Bible verse that says that salvation is by faith and not deeds so no one boast.
How many times I have done a good deed, felt good about it, but many times feeling like "the good one", and you know, it is really easy for me to boast on something good I do; however, the word makes me recognize that it is my flesh, pride growing in me, and although yes, is a blessing to feel good when we do good, but it is wrong to feel we are the owners of heaven because of it.
It amazes me when I think about my Jesus, leaving His kingdom, to come to earth to serve me, to die for me. Coming like a little baby, completely needy of care like any other human.
Christmas, a time to meditate about what an incredible gift we have received... our Jesus, our Savior was born long time ago, came as a babe, weak and in need of care; The King of Kings and Lord of Lords left everything for us and came to this world in the most humbled way so that you and me could be saved.
The Bible says that anyone that believes in Him, and confesses with his lips He is the Messiah, The Savior (our) will be saved. How wonderful this is, and what a relief for me that I am not saved by the good deeds I do ( I fall short) and that I am saved by His grace only, that He paid the price of my sins, giving me the ultimate gift of love, dying in the cross.
Let's rejoice this Christmas, let's forget if we do or we don't have enough money for gifts, let's be at peace with ourselves and relax that salvation, the best gift ever, has been granted to us through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Merry Christmas!!!!