The Spirit's Choice

Have you ever stopped to think about how your soul mate is being prepared by the Spirit of God?

…or that He is trying to mold you for someone that’s already prepared?

You may even be delaying His Divine plan.

You may be refusing to allow yourself to be led and insisting on the wrong direction.

Pure stubbornness.

You want what you want because you want to impose your will.

Unless this behavior is changed, time will pass and loneliness will remain.

In a situation like this, only when you tire of suffering and finally surrender, will the Holy Spirit act.

God is never late.

The stubborn are always late.

They do not have 100% trust that God will do what He promised to do.

Faith is not restricted to financial sacrifices.

They are mere signs of total, unconditional surrender.

This kind of faith doesn’t waste time.

It destroys doubt, fear, worry and anxiety.

It tears down every barrier between people and God.

After this, God the Father and you have a perfect relationship…

through the Holy Spirit and in the Name of His Son.

Are you convicted of this?

If He is His Father, why not trust in His choice for you?

Why insist on the person you think is ideal?

You may still be crying because your corrupt heart insists on specifying a particular type of person.

Do you think your soul mate has to have the physical appearance that your heart is calling for?

It is fascinated with looks promoted by the deceitful minds behind fashion and beauty magazines.

You have put this in your head and insist in your stubbornness.

The soul mate that the Spirit chooses has a spiritual appearance.

Physical appearance wilts like a wildflower.

A person’s spiritual appearance improves and continues even after death separates us.

Do not be afraid.

God does not make bad choices.

The Criteria For God's Answer

What criteria does the Holy Spirit use to please those who are His?

He pleases those who please Him.

"Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart," Psalm 37.4

This is the criteria God uses.

It is a permanent law that rules over your relationship with Him.

Everyone’s life depends on who they choose as their lord.

It does not depend on God or anyone else.

It does not depend on luck.

It does not depend on the stars.

It does not depend on destiny.

What they say about destiny is a lie.

It does not depend on education, beauty, strength or money.

It depends on obedience.

When you are obedient to the Word of God, blessings are inevitable.

When you are disobedient, curses are inevitable, Deuteronomy 28.

Being obedient to God can be summed up to having a practicing faith in the Holy Bible.

Of course, the practice of faith requires sacrifice.

Otherwise, this world would be a wonderful place because everyone has faith.

Yet, only a few put it into practice.

Believers believe in the Word, but only a few obey It.

This is why so many believers have had so many failures in their lives.

Being obedient to God was Abraham’s secret.

He never did any miracles or wonders...

He traveled through many lands.

He was an authentic nomad.

And still, wherever the Lord told him to go, he obeyed.

His name should have been Obedient Abraham.

No wonder the Lord chose him.

The Lord does not choose people who are disobedient and rebellious.

"Now Abraham was old, well advanced in age, and the Lord had blessed Abraham in ALL THINGS," Genesis 24.1.

How Did Everything Begin?

Some people believe that the universe began as a cosmic explosion called the Big Bang; others believe that it was God who actually created everything through the power of His word.

I respect everyone’s opinion, but I think the Big Bang theory is illogical, as whatever exploded must have come from something else, right?

My faith tells me that it was indeed God who created everything there is. I did not witness the Creation myself (after all, I am not that old!), and I didn’t have to, for I’ve seen the power of this same God being manifested in my life — and this is enough evidence for me to believe in Him.

But I’d like to draw your attention (that is, if you believe that God created everything like I do) to the way it happened.

Note that God created all things through His word. He said, “Let there be light; and there was light.”

And God also created man through the power of His word. “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image…’”

After every creation — the earth, the oceans, the sun, the moon, the animals, the trees and man —, God would always say that it was good.

But after He created man, for the first time we see God saying that something was not good. What exactly was it? “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him” (Genesis 2:18).

But this time, we don’t see God creating the woman in the same way He created the other things (through His word) — absolutely not!

In order to create a helper for Adam, God needed Adam’s participation — his sacrifice. After all, it was Adam who needed a helper, not God. God was willing to help, as long as Adam also did his part.

And that’s the reason many people are living lonely lives. All of them want God’s help to find their perfect match, but not all of them are willing to sacrifice one of their ribs.

Obviously, there are those who have sacrificed even more than one rib trying to find happiness in love; the problem, however, is that they’re not sacrificing to God, but to the world. They spend a lot of money in order to look good or trying to buy the love of the person they love, but of course — it doesn’t work!

The only way for you to be happy in love is to fall into a deep sleep, which means to trust in God unconditionally (in the same way people trust their doctors to operate on them) and, of course, be ready to sacrifice one or more of your ribs.

And it’s precisely because of these people that we will be visiting Jacob’s Well, taking with us the sacrifices of those who have been suffering in their love lives yet believe that God will provide for them just as He provided for Adam, Isaac and Jacob.

This is my faith. What’s yours?

God bless.

Bp Celso Junior

Servant Of God

A servant is a person that serves others.

If he is of God, then he is a warrior…

in the war against Hell.

Brave, a fighter, a conqueror...

He is unwavering.

The way God thinks, he thinks.

He thinks about those who are lost.

His challenges are constant.

He is always willing to go to hell and rescue those who are being held captive.

Because he believes that he is an instrument of the Spirit of God.

A servant does not do the Work of God.

He is the Work of God, to destroy the work of the devil, I John 3.8.

He was saved in order to save others.

He lives to save.

He was called and chosen by the Almighty to serve Him.

His wife is not just his woman.

She is also a servant.

She helps the servant serve the Lord.

Together, they are one.

Their mission: to bless.

They received the authority to bless others.

"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to those who are bound, To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God. To comfort all who mourn... “ Isaiah 61.1-2.

He did not receive his talent to keep it to himself, like the wicked and lazy servant did, Matthew 25.26.

He makes others wealthy, but he remains poor...

"...poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing and yet possessing all things," 2 Corinthians 6.10.

His wealth is infinite and eternal.

He does not waste time with worldly possessions.

After all, coffins do not come equipped with safes.

This vision comes from the Spirit that lives in him.

Those who are not servants will not agree with this.

Instead, moved by the spirit of greed, they chase after the wind.

Running, while they are still alive...

The Holy Doubt Of God

There cannot be more than one person that fits another.

Eve was not just anyone.

She was made, only for Adam.

They got on well together.

One trusted the other…

so much so that he accepted her suggestion and rejected God’s.

His rebelliousness cost him his life.

But we cannot deny that his mistake was due to the bond between them.

What can we learn from this?

My faith tells me that there is only one woman for every man.

A man can marry any woman.

They can even put up with each other throughout their lives...

but they will not be happy if they were not made for each other.

Getting married is simple and quick.

The difficult part is finding the right person.

But...

"He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the LORD," Proverbs 18.22.

God created Eve as the perfect fit for Adam.

Before finding my Esther, I tried getting along with many others.

Not all of them had the looks I was looking for.

Some were very intriguing...

but they did not have the same faith I had.

It hurt to leave them...

But deep down inside there was a small warning sign…

a sign of doubt.

She is not the right person.

Meanwhile, Esther was searching for me but didn’t even know me.

I was searching for her but didn’t even know her.

How would we find each other?

Only One Person could help us find each other…

the Spirit of God.

When we met, it was as if we had been searching for each other our entire lives.

From that moment on, God’s doubt disappeared and I was free to go ahead.

That's right.

The holy doubt of God.

When it comes, it comes to warn us of imminent death.