Appreciation

When was the last time we took time to appreciate everything in our work place and in our spiritual life realm? Maybe we do sometimes, but not too often? In a Corporate America world sometimes seems to be the normal practice when it comes to appreciation. Corporate America focus 99% of their energy on ways to generate revenue and keeping cost down to produce higher profits.

Imagine reversing the scenario above instead of focusing 99% of their energy on ways to generate revenue, that the focus is appreciating everything to God first.

Taking the time to appreciate and thanking God for everything is so crucial in our walk with God. Being grateful and doing good deeds of appreciation to others brings forth true blessings to the recipient of your deeds. While Corporate America seek ways to generate revenue and keep operation cost down, we should seek ways to generate blessings and plan of salvation to others and keep sins cost down producing higher gratification to God.

One Wednesday night driving from work eager to get home, there was going to be a special night at home. Usually our Wednesday is bible study at the church; but tonight was going to be truly special. Some church members from another county selected our home to give thanks and appreciation to God. They stated that it was placed in their hearts to visit us on this specific night and house. Well, this unexpected invitation can't be turned down, because God works in ways that is not understood by mankind. I was very excited when my spouse informed me that they wanted to visit us. Well, they arrived a bit after 8:30 PM and we also had some friends that were invited as well so they can be part of what is to be a night of appreciation to God.

Everyone was present. we began opening up with a prayer to God in the name of our Lord and Savior. That was the beginning and the fuel that took everyone into a single thinking and praise to God giving Him the thanks and appreciation for everything including spiritual miracles and physical miracles. The leader of the church group hosted the activity and provided biblical wisdom and matched life experiences with biblical references.

As the night went by so rapidly like three hours into the night the Holy Spirit was truly in the house throughout this whole activity, praises, hymns and introducing prayer requests to God through our Lord and Savior Christ was no doubt in my heart was pleasing to God.

In the Holy scripture Philippians 4:6-7, states the following "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, , by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

Remember to always take the time to give thanks to God for everything; place God first in our life and God will guard your heart as well. My desire is that may one day you encounter similar situation where a church group selected by God bring home the Good News and let the Holy Spirit flourish throughout the home and hearts of friends and love ones.

May God Bless you Always

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Two Kinds of Wisdom

What is the problem with many Corporate America leaders where they claim to have wisdom? There are actually few leaders that has wisdom and it is shown through their good deeds to others. Yes, we must do our best at work and do better through our good deeds for others.

Many of today's Corporate America leaders only think and focus on their business or work; only leaving God, family and church on a "maybe things to do list".

In the Holy scripture in books James 3:13-18 talks about the two kinds of wisdom that man has. The scripture say "Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such "wisdom" does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, of the devil. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness."

How many of us are wise and understanding in our walk with God and walking the walk today in faith? The holy scriptures states that let it be shown by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.

Remember, for where we have envy and selfish ambition, there we will find disorder and every evil practice.

Let us take a few minutes to perform a self check evaluation of ourselves and take corrective actions if needed to align our deeds accordingly.

May God Bless You Always,

A Christian Concert

Many who have never experience a Christian concert are truly missing one of the most energetic Spiritual experience that is within our reach. If you are one that never been or experienced a Christian music concert, your Spirit is waiting for you to take the next giant step and attend one. You will never come out the same as you went in. The glow in your inner and outer self will be so bright that others will notice that you have just experience a Spiritual rejuvenation.

There are so many different types of Christian music that you would have never imagine. The Holy scripture tells us that all music praising God is welcome and encouraged. In the Holy Bible in Colossians 3:16 says "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God." and in Ephesians 5:19 also states "addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart," Truly investing your time and saving up to purchase a Christian concert ticket is an important element in our Spiritual walk. Seek and attend your closest Christian concert and there you will find a message that is waiting for you to receive.

May God Bless You Always,

Being Forsaken

Being forsaken; the definition of forsaken is being deserted or  abandoned.  Haven't we felt being forsaken in the past or maybe now at this present moment? People can view being forsaken as a negative experience, but there is a positive view of being forsaken.  In the Holy Bible mentions many great people anointed by God that had encountered being forsaken various times in their lives from Father Jehovah.  One may asked how can you find a positive side of being forsaken by God?  Well, this established that there is a communication or relationship with God.  If there was no such relationship or communication with God, then how can we be forsaken by God. Let's  take a quick look at three examples from the Holy Bible that at one time or another asked or told Jehovah God that "why have God  forsaken them?".  

King Saul of Israel, was one that who was a king selected by Jehovah God and anointed by the prophet Samuel who had a relationship with God and in return God favored Saul.  But it came to be that King Saul lost focus on God and did not keep the lord's command, and failed to execute orders from God through the prophet Samuel.  It is written that King Saul shouted out to Jehovah saying "My God My God why have you forsaken me?".

Second example is King David, who was also chosen by God and anointed by the prophet Samuel to be the next King of Israel since King Saul lost favor of God.  When King Saul died along with his sons, David was crowned King of Israel.  King David also had a relationship with God Jehovah and was favored by God.  However, King David started to lose focus on God and His favor.  King David had lustful eyes on a woman who was the wife of a captain in the army of Israel.  King David issued an order to have the captain sent into the battlefield where he sure to be killed, so that King David can take the woman as his bride.  This did not please Jehovah God and King David had to go through numerous trails and tribulations in his life time, where he lost his son prince Absalom and King David wept and lied on the ground and said "God has forsaken me".  Time went by where King David seek God and His favor.

The third example which is the greatest man that walked on the earth and his name was Jesus.  It was God only begotten son who He was so pleased.  Let me refer to the Holy Bible scripture Matthew 27:46 and it says "About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?".

So if we have a relationship with God, there can be a time that we question God and shout "My God my God, why have you forsaken me?"  In return God Jehovah can and will answer.  As long as we have a personal relationship with God, it is alright to ask God why He forsaken you in times that you find yourself lonely or departed.

The positive side is that if His only begotten son Jesus shouted out to the Father Jehovah why he was forsake, we too can feel at ease with father God to ask Him too.  God wants you to have a one on one relationship and at times relationship can be difficult, this tell us that there is a relationship established with God and He will guide us through difficult times even if we do not understand His ways.

May God Keep You Safe Aways, God Bless

End of Month Reports

It's that time again to prepare our end of month reports.  In the Corporate America world reports are valuable analytical tools providing a snapshot of the present state, previous state and forecast state.  A report can dictate what course of actions are needed to re-aligned back towards the objective.  A report can also influence drastic business decisions that can affect directly and indirectly a person or employee behavior.  Imagine Corporate America without reports, is like the blind leading the blind.

So how does a Christian render his or her report during their Christian walk we may ask?   What does reports has to do with being a Christian some may ask?  There are so many questions we may ask, but the true answers a few; because it all comes down to being accountable as a Christian in all our actions.  Christians also have to generate spiritual reports to analyze their present state, versus previous state and analyze are they in line with their spiritual objectives.  Christians as Corporate America must analyze their reports to dictate what decisions must be made in order to re-align their strategies to reach or exceed the established objectives.  Reading the Holy scriptures in Acts 6:3 it says "Brothers choose seven men from among  you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom." and Acts 6:7 states that "so the word of God spread.  The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith".  The scriptures mentioned  provides examples of decisions that were taken based on previous reports.  Are we aligned with our spiritual goals?  Is there a need to re-align our Christian walk?  Christians too needs to produce daily, weekly, monthly and year end reports on their self, validating if their course of actions are in line with the Word of God. Remember, we are not perfect and we must always re-calibrate our spiritual compass to point us back to our Father God and His kingdom.

May God Keep You Safe Always, God Bless. 

Corporate Bailout versus Christian Bailout

Is it ironic how big Corporate America companies bailouts are taking advantage and abusing the system to obtain tax payers money to satisfy their personal greed or personal finance agenda to receive their so call bonuses. While their are so many production and blue collar workers trying to make ends meet, seeing no merit increases and no bonuses to the like of a corporate bonus. Why are there so many Corporate America CEO's and high level executives trying to project a compassion image while on the side most are obtaining stocks worth millions of dollars? Well, is this the true definition of capitalism at it's best? With all the scandals in Corporate America at an all time high and one of the biggest economic challenges that United States is facing, no doubt that the battle will be hard but we will overcome these difficult economic times.

You know, many Christian are also battling with their spiritual bailouts. Being a Christian does not exempt us from spiritual battles including economic challenges. We Christian can not and should not depend on government or tax payers money to provide us a social bailout; instead we need to focus on the true bail out God. We need to render our challenges to our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. We are told not to carry the yoke, but to hand off our yoke to Him to ease our pain and load. Reading my Bible in the scripture 2 King 12: 9-16 says the following:

"Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid. He placed it beside the altar, on the right side as one enters the temple of the LORD. The priests who guarded the entrance put into the chest all the money that was brought to the temple of the LORD. Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal secretary and the high priest came, counted the money that had been brought into the temple of the LORD and put it into bags. When the amount had been determined, they gave the money to the men appointed to supervise the work on the temple. With it they paid those who worked on the temple of the LORD -the carpenters and builders, the masons and stone-cutters. They purchased timber and dressed stone for the repair of the temple of the LORD, and met all the other expenses of restoring the temple.

The money brought into the temple was not spent for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets or any other articles of gold or silver for the temple of the LORD; it was paid to the workmen, who used it to repair the temple. They did not require an accounting from those to whom they gave the money to pay the workers, because they acted with complete honesty. The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the temple of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.".

Imagine couple of thousand of years ago, they managed their finances with honesty and trustworthy ensuing that they spend only what they managed to collect or obtained. This example shows how we should be good stewards managing our finances and not spending more then what we have. The biggest example we have is what is happening now. I know the battles and stress must be terrible, but we must now put aside our man solutions and seek Gods bailout guidance and His will. Don't give up, you are a child of the most high God and you are a warrior of Christ. While Corporate America focus on man solutions, we should not be deceived by man solution as Gods solution. Father God loves us so much; look at the birds who don't know how to sow a seed and reap their harvest, and yet Father God provides them with their survival needs. If God provides for the birds, imagine our provisions from our Father. He love us more than the birds and He will provide us with all of our needs with His blessing.

If you have not yet accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, I encourage you to accept His plan of Salvation. I invite you to pray this prayer right now, and Christ will come into your life, as He promised.

Plan of Salvation:

“Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be.”

May God Keep You Safe Always,

Johnny Rodriguez, Rio Grande PR