January 26th

Pr. Silvana Neto

Cold Pineapple Delight

Ingredients:
Champagne biscuit
1 pineapple
1 Box of condensed milk
1 tablespoon of butter
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
1 egg yolk sifted
1 tablespoon of cornstarch (Maizena)
1 box of cream
2 tablespoons of sugar
1 pack of unsweetened shredded coconut

How to prepare

Prepare the sweet pineapple: Peel and chop the pineapple into small pieces. Heat it with 1 tablespoon of sugar and cook until it turns soft and golden.

First Layer: Line the bottom of a dish with champagne biscuits. Dip the biscuits with sweet pineapple syrup. Do not soak. Just moisten a bit.

Second Layer: On top of biscuits, pour the sweet pineapple without the syrup.

Third Layer: In a pan, heat the condensed milk, vanilla, egg yolk and cornstarch. Stir until boiling and begin to loosen the bottom of the pan, like a squashy "brigadeiro". Pour this porridge the pineapple sweet.

Fourth Layer: Beat in a mixer, slightly, the cream without serum with 1 tablespoon of sugar, just for the sugar to be mixed. Pour over the sweet. Add grated coconut and take for the fridge, preferably from one day to another.

Then just enjoy!

January 19th

Let the Light of the Glorious Gospel 

of Jesus shine!

Preach it!

Teach it!

Live it!

A  briefing  of Pr. Lobo's preaching

January 12

Pr. Silvana Neto

Praying together

"O Lord, I have heard Your speech and was afraid;
O Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years!
In the midst of the years make it known;
In wrath remember mercy." (Habakkuk 3:2  )

Revive me!

A challenge for the next 30 days!

• Someone else I will pray for
• My concrete gesture for others to see Jesus in me
• My commitment to God
• My personal request

Ask the Holy Spirit to direct you to pray according to His will, and not yours.

Join us! 

January 5th

 Pr. Silvana Neto

December 29th

Learning with Elijah

Pr. Silvana

• "Elijah" means "My God is the Lord".
• Elijah was a great prophet, a man of God. He was powerfully used by God. He performed many miracles. He walked in close friendship with God. (I Kings 17-19 - II Kings 1-2).
• By his word, there was no rain for 3 years and 6 months and he prayed again and it rained. (I Kings 17.1, 18.41-45)
• Elijah was fed by ravens during the drought (famine).

• By Elijah´s word, the flour and the oil of the widow at Zarephath were multiplied and her only son came back to life.(I Kings 17.14-22)

•  Elijah was very couragerous. He challenged the 450 prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel and, after praying, fire came down from heaven and burned up the sacrifice. (I Kings 16-40)

• Elijah was taken up to heaven in a whirlwing by a chariot of fires and horses of fire. (II Kings 2.11)

•  James 5:17-18: "Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain ont the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops." 
• Elijah was very courageous; anointed; a great, respected and famous prophet; wonderfully used by God. But, he was “a man just like us”.
• I Kings 19.1-18 
• Elijah was afraid of Jezebel and ran for his life. He felt too tired, exhausted, fed up will all situation and his own life. He suffered a "temporary attack" of unbelief and doubt. He thought he was alone. He wanted to die. He expected that God would answer his prayer as He always did. So, he waited for death.

•  But this time, God had other plans for him. God made him go bak to the place he had departed from. 
• God had other things to do through Elijah´s life. He was supposed to anoint two other kings and Elisha to take his place.
• After accomplishing God´s plans for his life, he was taken up to heaven, at the right time, at God´s time.
• Like Elijah, sometimes we feel like giving up. We feel tired of life and of some situations and we think we "have had enough".
• But God has more for us. He has greater things to do in our life and through us.
• Take heart! Be renewed and receive strength from the Lord to go on and to do what He has called you to do.

 

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Giovani´s Text

Christmas celebration usually is just like a day for giving and receiving gifts. We celebrate the feast and forget Jesus. Being a Christian feast, Christmas´ meaning is grounded in a very simple idea: God created us. As children we are images and likeness of Him, and We will be happy only if we relate as a family, loving each other and always releasing forgiveness. Releasing forgiveness is very important because if we believe that we are a family, we  will always have to relate as brothers and children of the same father.

Despite the great majority of  Christians agree with this in theory, in practice it is not what we observe.

The Bible teaches us that the gift that  pleases a father or a mother most is to see their children happy and united. And Christ warns us if we go to the altar of God to offer Him our best but if we're annoyed with our brother, our offering will be empty and meaningless. Christ tells us to go first seek reconciliation with our brother and then take the offer.

Of course, we have our reasons, and we are always covered with reason to give back to someone, or because we were offended, because somehow the other one did something to us. And then we put ourselves in a comfortable altar of victims.

But if we desire peace in our hearts, it is very important to seek reconciliation with our neighbors.

And the longer we delay it, the more we will bring to ourselves consequences such as diseases, etc..

Then I wonder... Why must I forgive? To be generous and nice?

 I say no. We must forgive ourselves more than others. Forgiveness cleanses us from negativity, hatred, rancor that poison us and blur our spirit. When we do not forgive, we have the illusion that if we attack and blame someone we will feel free and comfortable.

But in fact, according to the scientists that study human behavior, we are the biggest losers when we keep hurt feelings. If we knew the evil we do to ourselves, we would "gather our stones" more quickly (John 8.7). And instead of throwing them , we would use them to to rebuild, for example, a house (GENESIS 28:22), a church ( Matthew 16:18). 

 In the field of actions we could say that people are quite correct and reasonable to apply the rules and respect the laws of society. But in the emotional field when it comes to relationships it is another reality. Everything is permitted: envy, anger, jealousy, curses, judgment, desire for revenge and destruction.

 And then when people feel tired, depressed, sick and reality seems to be trampling all, people think it's because of bad luck, and that God forgot them.

This is wrong: everything is connected (we are the children of a living God).

Everything we do has consequences. Good thoughts and well spoken words illuminate and warm life. While hardly spoken words bring everything that is negative, so that they can destroy.

So, it is what Christ taught us, and Christmas reminds us: if we forgive, we are forgiven; if we love, we spread the seed of the fruit that surely we´ll reap.

The spirit of Christmas (the birth of Christ) opens us a door to liberate forgiveness: to our wife/husband, to our neighbors, our friends. In this way, holy as we are, we will be able to bring our tithes and offerings to God with love.