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The Bible

29 Friday Jan 2016

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Read the Bible Final
Today’s Reading: 2 Timothy 3:16-17
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Timothy+3%3A16-17

There is something that makes this message different from others. We’re not trying to sell you anything; we just want to open doors. Yes, doors of forgiveness, happiness, salvation, life and love. The problem is that we don’t have a lot of space or time to bring to you a complete message.

It would be nice to elaborate more about this subject. Life is precious when we live in harmony with the laws established by our Creator. We like to spend our time talking about the only way we have for happiness. This is the way; a personal relationship with the One who has given us life.

We do not have much space and time for this short message, but you can find in the Bible the answer to the most important issues of your life. The Bible opens the door to happiness, security, salvation, life and love.

Perhaps you have already been tempted to read the Bible and found it very complicated. Try again. However, before you read, pray to God. It is very simple. For example you can say something like, “Lord, open my heart to understand your Holy Word!” Do it! The relief, the peace, the joy, the forgiveness that you need is at your disposition now.

Read the Bible!

The Way

28 Thursday Jan 2016

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Jesus is the Way - Final
Today’s Reading: John 14:6 Version NIV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+14%3A6&version=NIV

Do you like to travel? To travel and see the beauties of other countries, traveling and visiting friends and relatives.

We travel to rest, to distract ourselves and enjoy life. The problem is that many believe that travels, or trips, should be done in an imaginary way through drugs, sex or booze. There are also trips of hatred, resentment and revenge. There are fantasy trips, trips that make us forget those around us, make us forget our responsibility as a father or a mother, as a brother, as a friend or as a citizen. These trips do not bring happiness or joy, only afflictions and pain. They cause people to be alone and lost at the crossroads of life. They only hear their own voice as an echo repeating the same questions: “Where am I going? How will I get there? What I am going to do?”

Jesus says: “I am the way, the truth and the life…” The way to where? The way to hope, to happiness and salvation.

With Jesus you can make the best trip of your life, filled of meaning, joy and peace. You know what? Jesus has promised not only to be with you all the trips of your life, comforting and encouraging you, but also to be with you forever, even after death.

Ildefonso Torres

Hope and Light

31 Thursday Dec 2015

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Happy New Year 2016-b
Today’s Reading: John 8:12 Version CEV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8%3A12&version=CEV

Happy New Year! All celebrate with joy, happiness and parties. Congratulations, congratulations! A year has passed full of experiences, activities of all kinds. Someone once said, past events bring light to our present for the hope of the future.

We all have hope, dreams and expectations, especially at the beginning of a New Year. We are credible actors in the theater of life. Players, spectators, undoubtedly with personal and communal experiences that in some cases will be remembered for a lifetime. Diseases, loss of loved ones, job changes, and marital status, birth of new members in the family, successes and failures.

For the wise, all these facts, which are already in the past, have extraordinary value. God has given us the blessing of memory and hope, but sometimes we do not care to remember the events that have been drastic and painful. But for the wise life is like a laboratory where he learned what works and what does not. And this brings hope and light for the New Year so that the future will be one filled with joy and gladness.

Jesus said, “I am the light for the world! Follow me, and you won’t be walking in the dark. You will have the light that gives life.”

Congratulations, congratulations. Happy New Year!

Ildefonso Torres

True Meaning of Life

29 Sunday Nov 2015

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Happiness Without Mask
Happiness Without a Mask
Today’s Reading: John 14:1-10, John 10:10, Jeremiah 29:11 Version CEV

It would be better if you had no need to pretend. It would be better if you had no need to hide your sadness and unhappiness through a forced smile or a sentence like this: “All is well!” said without much conviction.

The smile on your face should be a sign without pretense of a state of inner peace, confidence, contentment and true happiness.

In Jesus you find the key to joy, true happiness.

Why Jesus? Because He takes away the sin off our lives. He forgives us. Forgiveness restores our peace with God, our inner peace and our peace with others. Furthermore, Jesus teaches us the way forward in life. When we propose to follow Jesus, we will avoid much suffering and tears. With Jesus, we can endure sufferings and the adversities of life; for He gives us a new vision of life and eternity; in addition, of course, help and comfort.

In Jesus, you discover that the joy and happiness does not depend on the circumstances, be they good or bad, but of his personal communion with God.

Look Jesus, find Him, the true meaning of life. Then you have on your face a natural smile, the smile of one who is happy.

Ildefonso Torres

Son of God?

24 Tuesday Nov 2015

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I Am A Father
Today’s Reading: Malachi 1:6 Version ESV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Malachi+1%3A6&version=ESV

Many people tend to say: We are all children of God! However, this is somewhat comfortable, enjoyable or perhaps incorrect.

If God is a good Father, you can have protection, security, housing, food, and may even think of an inheritance. And, who knows, an eternal life full of happiness after death!

But it is not only the Father who has responsibilities to his children. The children also have obligations to the Father. In the relationship of father and son or daughter, in addition to the duties, privileges also exist. The problem is that we are always thinking about the privileges and do not like to think about duties.

If God is our Father, everything is fine. We give him all the benefits and all possible favors, but in our prayers, we are always asking, asking, asking. How about our duties and responsibilities?

In the Bible, God says: “A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear?

The child should reflect the character of the father. Think about this before you go out there, saying, “I am a son of God.” Really, are you sure?

Ildefonso Torres

Happiness

03 Tuesday Nov 2015

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Where is Mrs Happiness 1
Today’s Reading: Psalm 1:1-3 Version=ESV
By chance does Mrs. Happiness dwell here? Asked the stranger. Mrs. who? Mrs. Happiness, an old lady, an already retired teacher.

No sir, answers the tenant. I know no one here by that name. I have the impression that you have the wrong address.

That man was telling the truth. True, true happiness did not live there; it could not live there.

The neighborhood is residential, modern houses with gardens in front, and some with pools in the backyard. Someone might ask: Is it possible that happiness does not live in one of these houses, which seem to have everything, they lack nothing?

Who has the right address of happiness is the author of Psalm one. He knows that happiness does not live in luxurious houses but happy hearts.

The Bible says: “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.”

Ildefonso Torres

Divine Institution

24 Saturday Oct 2015

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The Marriage
Today’s Reading:Genesis 1:28-29
Could it be that marriage is out of fashion? Unfortunately, many think so. They reach the point of saying; marriage has lost its value as the basis of society.

For some, marriage is like a golden cage, a sweet prison. It looks at the wife as the “handbrake or the rein”, and the husband as a “corporal of the guard or a powerful male.” So, because of these conflicting positions, marriage has fallen into disrepute in a progressive society and intellectualized.

However, marriage is a divine institution. Human institutions are corrupt, fail and remain stagnant, but not so with God’s institutions. And if God instituted marriage, He provided the vital principles for proper operation. Happy are those who apply God’s principles in their family relationships! It may seem difficult at first, but following the directions of God is the only remedy for our conflicts and marital problems.

God’s principles are not only a remedy for the problems, but also the way forward to achieve happiness, personal satisfaction and true communion between man and woman.

Ildefonso Torres