Are you sure of what you are doing?

Being sure that you are where you should be is vitally important. When we talk about important decisions in life, if you are not sure that you are marrying the right person, that you are studying the right thing, that you are accepting the right job, that you are moving to the right place, etc., sooner or later that insecurity will bring you problems.

That insecurity will be transformed into indecisions, worries, stress, problems with people close to you, one bad decision after another; at best you'll live dissatisfied with your life, and at worst, it'll become a spiral of problems after problems that will lead you to an unsustainable life.

The Bible teaches us in Romans 14 that there are different matters in which some think one way and others another way, and it concludes by saying "blessed is the man that not condemns himself in what he approves" (Rom. 14:22) and "everything that does not come from faith is sin" (Rom. 14:23). What's the key? It's in verse 5, "you must be fully convinced in your own mind" (paraphrased).

In other words, for those matters that the Bible doesn't say what is right and what is wrong, YOU HAVE THE POWER TO DECIDE WHETHER IT IS RIGHT OR IT IS WRONG! You are the one who makes it succeed or fail! With the conviction within you that you are doing the right thing will come an inner tenacity that will make you not give up despite the obstacles. In the same way, the doubt and insecurity within you that you are not doing the right thing will make you unstable in all your ways and you will find reasons to quit all the time.

I year and a month ago, I migrated with my family here to the United Stated, with the firm conviction that it was our heavenly Father who called us, opened the doors for us, who goes before us to prepare our way and who has resolved to bless us to be a blessing to many. Not only my wife and I are convinced of this, but so are our sons, and we are grateful for the open doors that He has shown us so far and excited for what He has in store for us. We do not focus on the problems that come up, but we overcome them together. Those problems are not our focus. What He has done, is doing and will do is our focus! It is not difficult for us not to give up, that is not even an option. On the contrary, we are expecting for what is to come! That's how it is when you have an inner conviction that you are where you need to be!

Happy independence day to all my American friends, peruamerican friends and to all those who live this country!

Divine Healing V - If God wants to heal me, why then I'm not healed?

Many people believe that God wants to heal, but they stumble with the question: Why am I not healed if God wants to heal me? I think that the question gets difficult to them because of:
- Assuming that if God wants something, then it definitely has to happen.
- Assuming that if God wants something, then He has to do it.

If God wants something, is it going to happen in any case?
Unfortunately, the answer is No. How good it'd be that always the will of our Father be done!, but it's not so. I know that many times you heard things like: "Don't worry, stop fighting, because if God wants, it'll happen", but remember this always: Just because everybody say it, it doesn't mean that's true.

There are many things that happen even though our Father doesn't want them to happen.
- The Bible says that it's not the will of God that any should perish (2 Peter 3:9). Does that happen? No, it doesn't. Sadly, many people perish without knowing God.
- If the will of God always happen, why then Jesus taught us to ask our Father so that His will may be on earth? (Matthew 6:10) Is it not supposed that His will is already happening?
- ALL the bad things that happen in the world or that it happened to you didn't happen because our Father wanted (I'll be speaking about the reasons of why those bad things happened in other post 😀). I know that many times good things "came out" from bad things, but that is not a reason to conclude that God sent those bad things in order that those good things "came out" from them. Your Father doesn't send you something bad in order that something good may come out from it. That's not biblical. What we do find in the Bible is that you Heavenly Father can, if you allow Him, turn that bad thing into something good for you.

If God wants something, does He have to do it?
Regarding to the blessings we want to receive from Him, it's up to us to take them (read my post "Believe that you'll take it, and it'll come"). Our Heavenly Father has already done all that He had to do to bless us, now we have to take what He has already given us. Divine healing, as one of His blessings, it's not the exception.
- If we want salvation, we must believe and follow the steps that He may give us to take it (in this case is receiving Jesus).
- If we want prosperity, we must believe and follow the steps that He may give us to take it.
- If we want victory in some area, we must believe and follow the steps that He may give us to take it.
- If we want to be heal, we must believe and follow the steps that He may give us to take it.
Normally those steps are found in His Word as promises and principles, and also He speaks to us specific things for specific situations (for instance, God may speak to you to call to someone, to look for a second medical opinion, to keep on praying, etc.). But as much as His promises, principles as His guidance, it's up to us to put them in practice.

Your Heavenly Father wants to heal you! Don't doubt it! He has provided the way for you to get that healing, and that way isn't painful nor full of sacrifices, but we can get it by believing and using the tools that He has given us: prayer, the confession of His Word, keeping yourself in His Presence and obeying His guidance.