August 25th

Celebrating the Get English Worship Service 5th Anniversary

August 18th

PSALM 139

Pr. Silvana

This psalm is one of the most beautiful psalms written by David. It expresses the power, wisdom, knowledge and sovereignity of God. How marvelous are His works!

I want you to know that God created you in an amazing way and He knows all about you. He loves you with an unfailing love.

Take your time to read parts of this psalm and to read the "Father's love letter", which tells about His love for you.

May the Holy Spirit bring peace and joy into your heart!

Enjoy the reading and be blessed!

August 11th

Becoming  a Real Friend of God

A briefing of the message brought by brother Flávio

John 15:12-17

¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit —fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. ¹⁷ This is my command: Love each other.

When we confess Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we are declaring our belief, 

our admiration, our love, and our friendship for Him.

• Remember:  obeying God’s word is the # 1 way to prove our  friendship for Him.
• We will come into situations in which God will test or prove our friendship like he did to Abraham.

Obey = to follow a commandment

A real friend of God DOES NOT just:

• Go to church every Sunday;
• Follow the doctrines of a church;
• Act as a good person;

A real friend of God:

• Acts with faith;
• Asks for guidance;
• Obeys His word (Bible).

Matthew 22:37-39

³⁷ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ ³⁸ This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Loving God and loving my neighbor as myself means: PRODUCING FRUITS.

Galatians  5:22-23

 ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

    The word of God in Colossians 3:12 further instructs us to act with:

•       Compassion;

•       Kindness;

•       Humility;

•       Gentleness;

•       Patience.

    All of those five qualities can also establish great relationships and demonstrate the love of God towards other people.

Conclusion:

•       God has called us to be His friends;

•       A friendship with God requires obedience;

•       A true Christian demonstrates God’s love towards others.

 

August 4th

“The Favor of The Lord”

 Pr. Silvana

God is the same “yesterday, today and tomorrow”. What He did for His people Israel in the past, He still does for us…

}  Exodus 3.21-22 - “And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed. Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.”

}  Exodus 11.2-3 – “Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.” (The Lord made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and by the people.)

Exodus 12.35-36 – “The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. The Lord had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.”

Read below some promises from the Word of God and take possession of them. Believe!!! It’s for you…

}  Job 27.16-17 – “Though he (the wicked) heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay, what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.”

}  Proverbs 13.22 – “A good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.”

}  Ecclesiastes 2.26a – “To the man who pleases Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God.”

                                                 

God is sovereign! He is always in control. People’s hearts are in His hands. He can cause people to be favorable to you.

}  Daniel 1.9 – “Now God had caused the official to show favor and sympathy to Daniel.”

}  Proverbs 3.4 – “Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.”

}  Acts 2.46-47 – “Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.”

}  Psalm 90.17 – “May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us — yes, establish the work of our hands.”

}  God, according to His perfect and good will, can make people around us (boss, neighbor, family member, leader, etc.)  favorably disposed  toward us, if we please Him. May the favor of the Lord be on you!!!