Category: Son &amp; Holy Spirit

October 25, 2018October 24, 2018

Steps to Peace with God

The Lonely Crimson Road |POEMS

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October 12, 2018October 12, 2018

God’s Pebbles on the Road |My Story

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A young man was so eager to leave his parents that he started on a journey with just the bare necessities on his backpack.

He had all the essentials to survive since his parents had taught him how to survive well enough for him to endure the long road ahead of him. This young man started his journey and soon found a partner along the path he was traveling in. Both travelers were going in the same direction and found that they enjoyed each other’s company, so they decided to hike together.

Along the way, they encountered rough patches, and in the dark hours of the night, they would unexpectedly stumble over small rocks and pebbles on the road. They would have to stop and check their shoes and feet often. Sometimes one would have to be helped out in carrying their loaded backpacks or with other nuisances along the way. Yet, this couple kept traveling.

They met a very loving and wise man along the way who was walking with his flock of sheep. The man seemed to know everything about life and the dangers of being out here without the proper equipment.

He told them that he was going their way and would light their steps at night with his lamp as long and as far as they allowed him to travel with them. The young travelers loved the stories the wise man told. He was a shepherd and would wander near and far with his flocks. He knew all the roads and also the ones less traveled.
The shepherd told them stories of his flock and of the many times he would fend off wild animals and thieves who came at night to hurt his sheep. His lamp and staff were always by his side. The more they traveled with the Shepherd, the more they stopped noticing the rough patches on the road. One night the young man felt a horrible pain in his foot. He had not been watching his steps and hurt his ankle so bad that he told his fellow travelers that he would have to stop. The young man was about to quit his journey and tell his partner and the wise man to continue without him.

As soon as he said this, he felt the strong arms of the shepherd carrying him. He also saw his partner as she picked up all the baggage he had been collecting along their journey. They carried him and his equipment a long distance until he was able to heal.

The young man was forever grateful to both his friends as he was able to continue his travels with them. When his partner needed help, the young man was there to help her.
The couple didn’t realize that the wise man was always there for them and never seemed too tired of helping them. Even with the sheep he had to take care of, he never complained. Instead, he patiently walked with them to their destination.
The wise shepherd promised they would like their new home and sure enough, the place was incredible. Enough pastures for their own little flock they had picked up along the way. The land had a running river with the best water the couple had ever tasted. Their little flock would finally be safe. They decided to stop walking and settle in this perfect piece of land. They were even more joyful to find out that the shepherd owned all of this and was giving it to the couple and their little sheep. The shepherd would always be nearby in case they needed him.

They told him that they would regularly place an extra setting on their table for him to come and dine with them. He smiled and said to them that he would always have time to eat and talk with them. The young couple was finally ready to live their life together.

This journey I am in, has been such a wonderful blessing to me. I was able to do what I have been called to do, and that is to tell stories about God’s love, grace, and mercy. I started with short skits at church and went on to write plays while serving full-time.

I am a storyteller in a world which needs the Greatest Story to be told in a way that opens people’s hearts to its saving grace.

I am reminiscing about the promise I made to God for His incredible and loving gesture of allowing me to live after being diagnosed with kidney cancer. I am living in extra innings so I can continue on life’s journey until I finish what I have to for Him.
The doctors told me I was one of those people lucky enough to have survived this type of cancer because there are no symptoms or signs of the sickness until it is too late.

I told them like I let everyone who is willing to lend an ear that I am not lucky. Luck had nothing to do with! It was the miracle of knowing Christ as my personal Lord and Savior. God tells us that Christ bore my sins, He took my sickness upon Himself and healed me.

After being diagnosed with the hated ‘C’ word, my journey took a different turn. My world was turned upside down, and everything I thought I needed to do was changed in an instant.

Yet, for those that have struggled with some type of illness or loss, I can tell you that God is faithful. He is a God of refreshing. God never promises us a safe and pain-free life but gives us enough pebbles on the road to step on, so that we develop into what He has called us to be on our personal journey.

May you be like that young man who started walking on his journey with only one thing on his mind. To touch as many lives as possible, pointing them to the Shepherd that always walks along with us with His lamp to light the way…

September 8, 2018

Serving the Lord Pt. II |Servant/ Serving/ Service to God

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Here is the first use of the phrase,”Serve Me,”or where we get the term “Serve the Lord.”
Modern-day Christians use this out of context for the most part. Yes, serving the Lord is also serving in the building where God’s church fellowships, but this is not the original way God meant the term to be used. His first mention is in Exodus chapter 4. He tells Moses to tell Pharaoh to let Israel go so that they could serve Him.

So if we read this correctly, God is saying to the dictator-want-to-be-god-leader of the known world that his unrighteousness reign over God’s people is over. That they have been slaves in Egypt for far too long and that it is time for the Israelites to worship and serve their True God. The Israelites had been slaves to the world for over 430 years, and they were crying out for a Deliverer to free them from their daily struggles of being in bondage.
Just like the Israelites, what are you in servitude in Egypt? What is making you a slave to Egypt’s dictator Ruler?
You see, Egypt in the Bible is symbolic of being out there in the world. What that means, is that you are alone without any help from anyone spiritually. You are then a slave to your own thoughts, actions, and spiritual wellness.

You are left alone to worship in the way you think worshipping is. This could get us in heaps of problems and troubles. And heaps of problems is where most of the world is.

This is also where the enemy dictator-want-to-be-lord of this world gets people. They are picked off by his slave masters. A lonely person will be an easy target for these masters to enslave you.
God, on the other hand, wants us to become volunteer-bond-servants for Him. He wants us being slaves to and serving Him.
“Well, what’s the difference, Oscar?
There is a huge difference, but it is only seen when someone makes a decision to follow and serve God.
Egypt will bring disaster, sadness, strife, loneliness, death. Satan weighs you down with unreal expectations and problems which are created when someone is enslaved by the lures of this world.
God brings peace and comfort through life’s storms. He brings unity and peace through His Son Jesus. God takes the problems weighing us down and carries them for us. Jesus tells us all to come to Him if we are exhausted and burdened with enormous difficulties. He tells us to take His yoke of service, and we will notice right away how super light it is. Because He is the one who will carry us through the problems we are facing. They will not disappear, but unlike the enemy, Jesus will give us His peace and comfort so we will be able to get through difficulties.
If you are tired or burdened with things that aren’t going away. If you are always telling yourself negative things or stressing out over your life’s situations, it’s time to ask God to help you. You will find that your burdens will somehow be lighter and your thoughts will not be as stressful. Go ahead, ask Jesus to take the load and help you through. I promise you will not be sorry. I don’t guarantee that He will make everything disappear, but I do know that He will make things better inside your heart and mind…

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August 30, 2018August 30, 2018

Your True Wealth Lies In… |Faith-Family-Others

There’s a story I have heard about a man who kept acquiring wealth…

He would stop at nothing to get more money into his bank and investment account. He was outstanding at buying something and selling it for three times it’s worth.

He came from a humble background growing up…

He married in his late thirties because he didn’t want his children going through tough times like he did. He worked hard during his twenties and very rarely socialized. Everyone knew him as the guy who would someday “make it” in life. But no one really knew him well enough to invite him anywhere.

He met a woman while doing business out-of-town. This woman quickly realized that she could live a life of luxury with this man. He was too busy to recognize that she was paying attention to him for his money. They married and had kids. He was too busy making money, and she was happy that he was not around since he always complained about her spending too much money on things she didn’t need. Years passed by, he would lavish her with expensive luxuries and vacations anywhere she wanted. As time went by, the more he was out, the more she would live her life on her own. His kids enjoyed the fine things that their father was providing.

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Yet, he was a stranger to them. Soon, the kids went on to college. The wife was left alone and realized that she could do whatever she wanted. She was lonely and soon found someone else. After the divorce, the man became angry and made a vow never to marry. He continued working ungodly hours and hoarding more of his wealth. Time passed, kids got married and had their own children. They would invite him to all the important life events, he always had an excuse why he couldn’t go.

While working late at night, he grabbed his heart, it was excruciatingly painful. He reached for the phone and all he could tell the emergency operator was that he was having a heart attack. After a week in the hospital, he woke up, with no none at his bedside. There were tons of flowers and notes all over his hospital room from all his business clients and customers, but not one form any of his family members. Dejected, the man’s heart was broken. He died with no one at his side…

It has been said that a person is defined by the possessions he or she attains in this life. That the material wealth or things that a person has at the end is what determines their whether they have made it in life or not.

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Are material things important? Only to sustain and protect a person. We all need housing, food, clothes and have necessities. We also need emergency funds just in case there is ever a life emergency like you lose your job or have a health issue that keeps you away from making money. But aside from this, the rest of what we call necessities are more of luxuries.

Make sure that the most valuable things in your life don’t grow up too soon and walk away from you. Make sure that the precious person whom you have promised to cherish in sickness and in health is still that, the beloved person who you said you wanted to spend the rest of your life with. Time comes and time goes…fast! Enjoy the journey.

Don’t get caught up in the stuff that doesn’t matter. Get caught up in the attention that you give to others. Especially your loved ones. They are the most cherished and valuable possessions a person has, Not the material stuff you can’t take with you. Leave your spouse and children a legacy of working hard, playing hard, enjoying hard, praying hard and worshipping God hard. All the rest is just added expenses… Expenses because at the end, what does it profit a man to have gained the whole world and lose his soul? Or his family?

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August 23, 2018August 23, 2018

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Just Preach Christ and Christ Crucified! |AB2943 who cares!

“…29 But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men…””

The Book of Acts Chapter 5, verse 29

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AB 2943, as amended, Low. Unlawful business practices: sexual orientation change efforts.

Existing law, the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, makes unlawful certain unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by any person in a transaction intended to result, or which results, in the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer. Existing law authorizes any consumer who suffers damages as a result of these unlawful practices to bring an action against that person to recover damages, among other things.

Existing law prohibits mental health providers, as defined, from performing sexual orientation change efforts, as specified, with a patient under 18 years of age. Existing law requires a violation of this provision to be considered unprofessional conduct and subjects the provider to discipline by the provider’s licensing entity.

This bill would include, as an unlawful practice prohibited under the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, advertising, offering to engage in, or engaging in for sale, or selling services constituting sexual orientation change efforts with efforts, as defined, to an individual. The bill would also declare the intent of the Legislature in this regard.

The People of the State of California Do Enact As Follows:

Contemporary Science….is not a disease, disorder, or illness.

(b) The American Psychological Association convened the Task Force on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses…he task force concluded that sexual orientation change efforts can pose critical health risks to lesbian, gay, and bisexual people,

(c) The American Psychological Association issued a resolution on Appropriate Affirmative Responses to Sexual Orientation Distress and Change Efforts in 2009, stating:…advises parents, guardians, young people, and their families to avoid sexual orientation change efforts that portray homosexuality as a mental illness

(d) The American Psychiatric Association published a position statement in March of 2000, stating:…..“Psychotherapeutic modalities to convert or ‘repair’ homosexuality are based on developmental theories whose scientific validity is questionable…”…..”Therefore, the American Psychiatric Association opposes any psychiatric treatment such as reparative or conversion therapy which is based upon the assumption that homosexuality per se is a mental disorder….” Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah….

The bill goes on and on about Aversion Therapy, and it’s controversies. As a Christian, I have never once told anyone who is LBGT to convert or go to any type of therapy.

It seems that California leadership is more interested in banning anything they deem controversial than offering up any solutions that will make life better for people.

Sounds to me like the leadership in Israel when Jesus was here on earth.

From 10 Commandments coming from God, men started adding and adding little amendments until there were over 600 rules and regulations during the time Jesus was on earth.

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Love God with all your heart soul and mind. This is the First Command.

Love your neighbor as yourself. This is the Second Command.

When the so-called experts asked Jesus to pick the most important commandments, These were the only 2 Commands Jesus gave them. Why, because if you were able to follow these 2 all the rest would fall into place.

During the days of the early church, when the Holy Spirit was Mighty and filled all the new Believers, there were no expert panels of this and boards of self-filled, “important” people to dispute each other. All there was, were working class people and a small ruling elite. Does this sound familiar?

Yet these 12 “simpletons” filled with the power of God’s Spirit, turned the Roman Empire upside down (See Acts 17), to the point of death. Some would be stoned to death for their faith. Some would, later on, be dragged and beaten, some would die. Yet the true Christian Spirit-filled men and women would continue to preach the Gospel. It is and will always be the Good News of Jesus the Savior of the world.

We don’t have to preach hate or be anti this or that. Yes, we must draw a line in the sand on the side of God. Yes, if need be, we have to be willing to be civilly disobedient. Yes to the point of ridicule. But why go to that extreme?

Why not, stop preaching about just two things and start giving the whole counsel of God. The whole counsel of God is not only to the homosexuals or to the abortionists, but it is also to all mankind.

Let me repeat this, the entire counsel of God is to all of humanity. The wife abuser, the unfaithful wife, the alcoholic, the drug addict, the fornicator, which includes everyone who is not married and having sexual relations, those with anger issues, those with lustful thoughts, I can go on and on.

“But Oscar, if I don’t pick a sin to show the unsaved, how do I know what to talk to them about?”

We don’t need to know every person’s sin, nor do we have to be eloquent speakers or preachers, we just have to be like Paul and preach Christ, and Christ crucified (See 1 Corinthians 2)

So I encourage all my Christian brethren, don’t get hung up in the details of what the ever-searching-never-seeking-leaders in Sacramento are doing and will be doing. Just point all those you come in contact with the Way, the Truth and the Life. He will change people heart’s no matter what or who they were before meeting Him.

We don’t need anyone doing Aversion Therapy or any type of therapy when they grab hold of Jesus’ heart and nature. Then and only then can a person, I don’t care what persuasion they are coming from, will truly change their way of life. Because nothing can scrub off until the cleansing power of God’s Spirit comes in and deep cleans the person’s spirit, mind, and body.

It is time to preach & share the gospel. No time for debates. The time is over.If this bill passes fully, we will see the real Christians. Not those that just talk the right talk.

Are we willing to go to jail like Peter, Paul and the rest of the early Christian Church?

Are we ready to say, Lord, whatever your will is? Are we prepared to be chained up and we keep preaching about Jesus that the jailers convert?

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