How God help us in financial crisis

In the world we live today, let be the rich or the poor, everyone of us face financial difficulties in some stage of life. We have heard in the news of people committing suicide due to financial debt. When a person is in a financial difficulties, their life tend to make them walk on a different path and that is when the devil comes in and persuade people to borrow money from all type of sources including loan sharks. In this way their burden will never end. At this moment the only person they will be cursing is GOD. Let us see this in a psychological manner. When a person is stressed with a heavy burden, let it be financial, marriage or any problems in life, the first thing they tend to do is panic. When you panic, you can't think right and  you tend to make wrong decisions. You will have sleepless nights, stress all day, and the food you eat you will find it hard to swallow and the final part will be breaking down.

We pray and ask God to bless us financially. God bless us and open the doors for us to choose. Remember that human is given free will from God. We are free to choose wisely but sadly many people chooses all the door that has been opened and that is decided by us but when we do the mistakes based on our own decision, why do we have to blame God? No matter what decision we make, God still hears our cry. I know many of you will try to scroll down to see if there is anything mentioned about God clearing the debts and so on. The answer is YES. Then how does this happen?

If we want God to help us, firstly we need to ask from God in a humble way. Why do we suffer. God does not make us suffer but he let us learn from our mistake so that in future we do not repeat our mistakes. If we do not make mistakes, we will never learn. During financial crisis, we hardly overspend. We value each and every cents we have. We know how important money is to live. Do we think like this when we are wealthy? This is when God enters. He tries to teach us to wake up and walk again. He gives us hope and light in the darkness. He teaches us how to be humble. Finally God lifts our burden from our shoulder through Jesus Christ his son. If you want God to work miracles on you, try to pray like this:

Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you for blessing my life with happiness, wealth and peace. Father, I know that you have given me all that I have asked for knowingly and unknowingly. Thank you for teaching me how to value my life and showing me the consequences of my free will. Father, you know that I am currently facing heavy debts and I have lost hope and peace O Lord. Help me to overcome my debts. Show me a way to pay my debtors. Father, I know that I have done a big mistake without seeking your guide before making a decision. I have learned my lesson. Send Jesus your son, to walk with me and carry the burden with me. Show me the way Lord because I know that everything comes from you. Show me Father how to settle my debt and I humbly ask you Father to be with me and guide me. Help me to always remember that nothing in this world is greater than you Father. Everything is possible with your light Father. Thank you Father for showing me the light when I am surrounded with darkness. In Jesus name I pray. Amen

How to remove paint odor

It's time of the year again. Christmas is just around the corner and many of us will start decorating our houses and surely some of us will paint our house and lawn. The beautiful paint, the new furniture is mesmerizing...but what about the odor. Oh my, that new paint odor will surely give me a migraine and nausea. Some of us have surely tried to use fan and open all the windows and doors to remove the odor but did that really help? or did it make the situation worst?

What I did to remove the odor in just 1 hour and the odor vanished. Here is a simple remedy. Take one lemon and slice it into 6 pieces. Take 2 bowls and fill it with water. Then add about 2 big spoon of salt and stir until the salt dilute. Then into each bowl, put in 3 slices of lemons and put the bowl at the corner of each painted section. After 30 minutes, the color of the water will change and reflect the color of the paint. That means it's absorbing the chemicals in the paint. This will not only remove odor but also the chemicals we inhale. Once the odor has vanished the water and lemon can be thrown away.

This method is not only for paint odor but can be used to eliminate cigarette odor. For smokers who smoke in the house, the odor and chemicals will linger around the house so with this method, it helps to remove dangerous chemicals brought by the cigarette smoke. I hope this method will work for you because it worked for me. Happy trying and good luck. Happy Holidays!

Confidence in God

"Do not be afraid of sudden terror, nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes. For the Lord will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being caught."(Proverbs 3:25-26)

Too often, we are busy concentrating on the circumstances around us, and not enough on the Word of God. We worry about almost everything in life and doubt arises from fear. We don't have to do anything, but believe that God will be our shield as He has promised. If a doubt arises, don't give up. That is what Satan wants you to do. Keep speaking God's Word and it will be done. There is ultimate POWER in the Word of God. God wants us to have confidence and trust in Him and not in ourselves. God allowed Paul and Timothy to experience great hardships in the Roman province of Asia to teach them: “that we should not trust in ourselves but in God” God’s grace has many marvelous results, but one is the God-given power to obey His will (see Titus 2:11-12). Proverbs 3:5 urges: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.” Whenever we as believers fall into the sin of being self-confident instead of having God as our confidence, we must confess and turn from this sin. With God as our confidence, there is nothing that can defeat whatever are His wonderful purposes for our lives. As Romans 8:31 stresses: “If God is for us, who can be against us?” God does not want us to live by fear, anxiety, depression, self-condemnation and self-hatred. If we start to hate ourselves, in a way we are condemning God’s creation. Instead He wants them to be the most confident people on Earth. The confidence that God wants us to have is the confidence in God. God does not want us to be self confidence and boast about ourselves in front of him.

Faith according to the bible

King David had a wonderful revelation of how people were saved by God from condemnation through a trusting faith in Him. In Psalm 34:22, David said: “The Lord redeems the soul of His servants, and none of those who trust in Him shall be condemned.”

The fall of Adam

Hebrews 11:4-28 reveals from the time after Adam’s fall to the time of the giving of the Mosaic Law, people were saved through faith which resulted in sincere continual though imperfect obedience to God’s revealed will.

Abel and Enoch

Abel was commended by God as righteous because of his faith which resulted in the fruit of godly action and Abel was accounted by God as a righteous man. Hebrews 11:5-6 speaks of Enoch having faith that pleased God and which involved earnestly seeking Him. Genesis 5:22 shows Enoch’s faith was not some mere abstract acceptance of truths about God. Instead Enoch’s faith resulted in an intimate walk with Him. 

Noah

Genesis 6:9 states: “…Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.” Noah had a living faith which resulted in him daily walking with God. Genesis 6:22 records how obedient he was in relation to what God had previously commanded him: “according to all that God commanded him, so he did.”

Abraham

Romans 4:1-4, 9-16 and 20-23 reveal Abraham’s faith and the righteousness God accounted to him. Romans 4:2-3 states: “For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something of which to boast, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

Moses

Moses was the person through whom God gave His written Law. But his own life is proof he was not saved through perfect obedience to the Law. Exodus 2:11-12 shows Moses committed murder. He broke the 6^th Commandment (see Exodus 20:13). Moses was saved from eternal punishment by God’s grace received by faith. Moses’ faith is spoken of in Hebrew 11:23-28.

The prostitute Rahab

Rahab not only had Adam’s sin and condemnation debited to her. Her acts of sexual immorality made her worthy of the death sentence according to Deuteronomy 22:21. So she could never have earned or merited being accounted by God as righteous. But note her new-found faith was not just in her intellect but affected her whole heart and actions also.

Faith and honor God

Live a life that honors God by applying the principles within (Matthew 6:9-13) “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name” which means living faithfully in obedience to God. When we honor God, in return God will honor us by his blessings and this will lead our life to the right direction. Therefore as God chosen people, holy and dearly loved, we must clothe our self with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Forgive each other no matter whatever grievances we may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave us and God will work within our relationship with them to open doors of opportunity in life. Make our relationship with God by placing it at the center of our life and the peace of God will rule in our hearts. Allow the word of God to dwell within us and whatever we do in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God the Father through him. "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no one comes to the Father except through me." There is no other way but the Christ. You cannot enter into life through any other door. You can try to carve your own door with religion and good deeds but you will ultimately fail. You absolutely need Jesus to save you from sin, death, and the hell that you and I both deserve. Believe in Jesus --trust in Jesus --call upon the name of Jesus --"Go with Jesus," and live.

Copyright © 2014 PAMELA SANTIAGO. All Rights Reserved.

Adapted from the book Journey of A Thousand Miles. To purchase the book, clickhere.

christian way of life

Christians today gives less attention to the Ten Commandments, the major expression of God’s moral law. Churches, ministries, community around the world celebrate, Year of The Family, Year of Jubilee, Year of Evangelization, Year of Service and Year of Faith but why is there no Year of the Ten Commandments? The importance of Ten Commandments is less taught to the generations today. The main law of God that we were continually told to keep is not being practice among Christians today. Research has shown that 60% of Christians today can’t name even five of the Ten Commandments. No wonder people break the Ten Commandments all the time. Youth ministries are asked to fix problems, provide entertainment and keep kids busy. How many local-church youth programs actually produce substantial Bible knowledge in young people? The centrality of biblical preaching to the formation of disciples is lost, and Christian ignorance leads to Christian indolence and worse. This really is our problem, and it is up to this generation of Christians to reverse course. Recovery starts at home. Parents are to be the first and most important educators of their own children, diligently teaching them the Word of God. [See Deuteronomy 6:4-9.] Parents cannot franchise their responsibility to the congregation, no matter how faithful and biblical its may be. God assigned parents this non-negotiable responsibility, and children must see their Christian parents as teachers and fellow students of God's Word. “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your might. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Recite them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door frames of your house and on your gates.” (Deuteronomy 6:4-9)

Copyright © 2014 PAMELA SANTIAGO. All Rights Reserved.

Adapted from the book Journey of A Thousand Miles. To purchase the book, clickhere.

Power of faith

A little girl stood near a small church from which she had been turned away because it was "too crowded." "I can't go to Sunday School," she sobbed to the pastor as he walked by. Seeing her shabby, unkempt appearance, the pastor guessed the reason and, taking her by the hand, took her inside and found a place for her in the Sunday school class. The child was so happy that they found room for her, and she went to bed that night thinking of the children who have no place to worship Jesus. Some two years later, this child lay dead in one of the poor tenement buildings. Her parents called for the kind-hearted pastor who had befriended their daughter to handle the final arrangements. As her poor little body was being moved, a crumpled red purse was found which seemed to have been rummaged from some trash dump. Inside was found 57 cents and a note, scribbled in childish handwriting, which read: "This is to help build the little church bigger so more children can go to Sunday school." For two years she had saved for this offering of love. When the pastor tearfully read that note, he knew instantly what he would do. Carrying this note and the cracked, red pocketbook to the pulpit, he told the story of her unselfish love and devotion. He challenged his deacons to get busy and raise enough money for the larger building. But the story does not end there.... A newspaper learned of the story and published it. It was read by a wealthy Realtor who offered them a parcel of land worth many thousands. When told that the church could not pay so much, he offered to sell it to the little church for 57 cents. Church members made large donations. Checks came from far and wide. Within five years the little girl's gift had increased to $250,000.00- -a huge sum for that time (near the turn of the century). Her unselfish love had paid large dividends. The church was built in the city of Philadelphia, called Baptist Church, with a seating capacity of 3,300. The church also builds a University, where thousands of students are educated. Have a look, too, at the Good Samaritan Hospital and at a Sunday school building which houses hundreds of beautiful children, built so that no child in the area will ever need to be left outside during Sunday school time. In one of the rooms of this building may be seen the picture of the sweet face of the little girl whose 57 cents, so sacrificially saved, made such remarkable history. Alongside of it is a portrait of her kind pastor, Dr Russell H. Conwell. This is a true story, which goes to show WHAT GOD CAN DO WITH 57 CENTS.

Copyright © 2014 PAMELA SANTIAGO. All Rights Reserved.

Adapted from the book Journey of A Thousand Miles. To purchase the book, clickhere.