God Papers for Encouragement..
- By Gabriel Rodriguez • May 17 2021
This is the first of many posts to encourage us all to seek God and not focus on us. Please feel encouraged about these blogs to lead us closer to Christ. I am calling this for all the Michael's because God led me to 3/4 Michaels in my life. I will share more later. Two were incarcerated after I met them and 2 of the 4 have passed. I am humbled to be able to share Christ to my Friends. I have seen and have caused pain; I know the Michaels also have seen and caused pain. I realize that God led me to see those in pain or those who cause pain to uplift and encourage us all to look at our Father who will hold us and say, "I still love you” He says, "When you were deep in sin, deep in sin, deep in sin. 'My Love for you is deeper, deeper and will move us to be lifted out of our misery".
1st Blog for all the (Michaels)
Today, I was faced with a dilemma. I was humbled to see pain and hurt. When I see or hear how people can hurt each other, I realize how we need Christ to center us. He has helped me so much in my own pain and the pain I have caused. I pray all that is shared in these blogs are to encourage us. I want to focus on God being first in my life. I am inviting you to join me. All who read the articles here, please look and read them with an open mind to follow God more closely.
FYI, What I mean above by all the (Michaels) is to encourage all those who want to follow God, not by saying but by doing. The media puts down all the (Karen’s). I want all my Michaels to be encouraged. God has in my life connected me with now 4 Michaels who had pain. Each one that He connected with me were mixed up in sin as I am and have been. I realize each one connected with me not because I seek them out to meet them, but God placed them in my life currently all 3 that I connected with have disappeared. Two of the Michaels ended up in prison/jail, I wrote to them encouraging them in Christ. Then l found out also later in life that 2 of them died. God led me to meet them before there passing. I praised God that He led me to minister to them as others in my past have ministered to me.
Michael....Anyone who wants to seek God...
Hello,
Michael, today I want to Thank God that He has led me to talk with you. As I was gathering the material to share with you. I was led to one of the papers I sent my bother and sister a year after our Mom died of cancer. I wanted to adjust it and put music and links that are more current, but that is not how it was written in the beginning. So, I will send it as it is. I am not sure why out of all the other papers I have written that I was led to share this one, it was the one I felt impressed to share.
I will also send you something I ran across today I was writing to you and came across. Below is the link.
This above is a preacher, who was homeless. God know brother you are skilled in running a business, but we have so much more to offer the Lord.
Please take all I send as an encouragement for you to be able to see how God wants to give us so much more than what we could ever ask for or want.
See also this video below:
Our profession/job or what we do is not what defines, it is how we change or how we allow God to use us that will define us.
See the other link below:
Brother it doesn’t matter your race or your past. You are defined by our Lord who says, you were/are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Please all those who want send us your email to receive encouraging words of encouragement. It is God who give us the will and desire to serve Him.
Below are papers that I was led to write. God Bless you and your family.
God Speaks
(Your Faith will not save you)
I know there are a lot of people who feel that the only way they could truly believe in a God is that He should speak to them and let them know He is alive. Speech is a word that we put a lot of weight on. Most of us like to hear the words (I love you). I have wondered in the past why God doesn’t just speak to us audibly? The obvious answer (to some), is that we would not have faith (blind faith?) if He spoke with us. Is that insinuating that we have a part in our salvation? See the equation. You and I plus faith and God’s Love equals Salvation. Like the bible says, “The just shall live by faith (alone?). And the other scripture that says, “That without faith no man could be saved”, (the scripture in previous phrase doesn’t exist). So, I thought Salvation was a gift? How can we say it is a gift if we have to do something?...Like (Have faith).
I know people will now argue that we must have faith in order to accept the free gift. We have to take it. God will not force it on us. Well, I disagree. God made salvation available to all of his Children. He did not ask us if we wanted to be saved, He knew our condition of being lost and cheated from our inheritance. He brought us back (reconciled us to His father). He did not ask to give us what is good for us just like our parents know to feed us at the appropriate time, without our acknowledgement of our need.
See, God speaks more in silence than He does in an audible voice. When He speaks, He acts. His words are life giving since the beginning. He spoke and it was done. He speaks today and it is finished. See His words are not sweet nothings they are bold in our face (literal). He took on our likeness. Interesting He made us in His image, yet He took on our image to share His image with us. More adequately to show us His true image of how much he really wants us to come home, to be in His presence. In being made flesh; He said, I want all of you, I want you to be a part of me. I want to be a part of you, in me. He mourns with us in the flesh not just in our spirit. It is interesting to note that He manifested Himself as an all-powerful omnipotent God, human being and a spirit to resonate with our flesh and spirit.
When we suffer pain, externally we know we have an advocate who knows what physical pain feels like, when we suffer internally we know we have a father and son who knows what is to feel abandoned, forsaken and forgotten.
God speaks loud and clear to our circumstances, by inserting himself in our lives not because we ask, but because he knows that if we were to be in a car accident, burning in a car…He won’t ask “may I help you?….(or do you have faith that I can help you?) He is saying I am coming, close your eyes, the windows of heaven are about to break to pull you out of your mess. He doesn’t care if you caused the accident or not, He just wants to save you from the hell fire you are in. He is all about action, which is more effective than for him speak. (And the Word became flesh----Action) In fact the less speech the better…you just want out, don’t tell me how you will do it, please just “save me”... More Below...
God Speaks
(Your Faith will not save you)
Continued...
Today, we are telling knew believers to focus on faith, and when they fall we say, you must have faith. It is true that faith will strengthen your walk with God. But true faith doesn’t come from us. We must realize that even if we do not know how God will save us, or pass out in the flames, we can rest assure that God wants to save us from our misery. God made salvation for all, those that wake up to his salvation are the ones that know there is nothing on heaven on earth they can do to be saved. You are saved, you have been saved. Salvation from sin is what Jesus paid, why do you still walk around carrying the guilt? We need to allow, Gods presence to move us.
We love Him because He loved us first. We respond in faith not from our duty to have faith, but we have faith because we know we can trust a loving father, who loves us more than life for Himself. Faith is the byproduct of a love response to His love for us.
Why do you think some will be lost since it is clear that he came that we might have life? He came to seek and save the lost, He came to pluck us from the fire. The ones who are lost are the ones who did not appreciate His salvation. The ones who have seen the light and chose darkness. We all have a choice to (accept, believe, have faith), in a God of love. But our acceptance, belief, faith does not save us…It is Christ who does. When we respond in acceptance is not because we solved or added to the equation, but because the equation works and makes sense. Our gratitude doesn’t add to the equation. For instance, 1+3=4. We agree because it make sense, not because we created it.
Like the formula below:
Brothers and Sisters when we look and wonder why Jesus doesn’t speak with us audibly, we must realize that He has spoken more loudly and boldly by speaking to our enemy, “that is it… no more”! It is Jesus who is always accused of not doing anything with the pain the world is in today, But Christ cried out in a loud voice, It is finished…You cannot add to it, your faith doesn’t save you. My Love saves you.
Jesus speaks at our creation and our recreation. “It is finished” by Him, not by our faith and Him.
Our Salvation should not be based by our faith, instead our Salvation should give us our faiith.
I would like to add on more comment my friend said, (Jean) Faith will not save you, but without faith no man could be saved…. (There now do you understand Faith?)
Faith is God’s fruit in us, the byproduct of being planted and rooted in his Love. The vine (Jesus) produces fruit through us (branches).