Monday, June 21, 2010

Tuesday, June 15, 2010


15 June 2010

poison

Lin was a beautiful young Chinese woman who recently got married but, because neither she nor her husband had enough money to buy a house of their own, they had to live with her mother-in-law.

After some time, she began butting heads with her mother-in-law and had a difficult time adapting to her.

Their personalities were very different and Lin became increasingly irritated with her mother-in-law’s customs and habits, which she constantly criticised.

Over the months, things got so bad that life became unbearable.

However, according to Chinese ancient traditions, a daughter-in-law must always be at her mother-in-law’s service.

Lin, unable to bear the idea of living with her mother-in-law any longer, decided to go see a master, an old friend of her father.

After hearing the young woman, master Huang grabbed a bunch of herbs and said: “You shouldn’t use all of these herbs at once to get rid of your mother-in-law because it may raise suspicions. You should mix them in with her food, little by little, day by day, this way she’ll be slowly poisoned. To be sure that no one suspects anything when she dies, you should be very careful and always treat her with great kindness. Don’t argue with her and always lend a hand with whatever she needs.”

Lin replied, “Thank you, master Huang, I will do everything you’ve said.”

Lin was thrilled and returned home enthusiastic about the plan to kill her mother-in-law.

During several weeks, Lin served her mother-in-law a specially prepared meal every other day. She always kept in mind master Huang’s advice to avoid suspicion: she controlled her temper, obeyed her mother-in-law and treated her as if she were her own mother.

After six months, the whole family was transformed.

Lin kept her temper under control and almost never got upset.

Months passed, and she hadn’t argued at all with her mother-in-law, who also seemed much kinder and easier to get along with.

Her mother-in-law’s attitude changed and they began treating each other like mother and daughter.

One day, Lin went back to master Huang to ask him for help and said: “Master, please help save my mother-in-law from dying. She has become such a nice person and I love her as if she were my own mother. I don’t want her to die because of the poison I’ve been giving her.”

Master Huang smiled and nodded, “Lin, don’t worry. Your mother-in-law hasn’t changed. You were the one who changed. The herbs I gave you were actually vitamins to improve her health. The poison was in your attitude and was replaced by the love and affection you began dedicating to her.”

Now, dear friends, prepare the herbs and begin the treatment with your mothers-in-law

Bishop Macedo

Friday, June 4, 2010

Perfect Sacrifice

PERFECT SACRIFICE AND ITS POWER

God is perfect and He is above all things, He’s the creator of heaven and earth, there’s nothing and no one that can resist His power. Satan fears Him and runs away from His presence. Maybe you say, God is immutable, that’s very true! But there’s something that made Him change His decision. Perfect sacrifice.

“Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them,” Genesis 6. 5-7

After this declaration, who could make God change what He had strongly decided to do? No one, we can say!

The flood came on the earth for forty days and all flesh died that moved on the earth.

We see the Campaign of Israel as the best chance for those who really want to give a 360o turn around in their lives and make their dreams come true. And how can they do that? By sacrificing on the altar, there’s no other way because if you have already tried other ways and nothing happened. If you could make your dreams come true or solve your biggest problem without sacrificing, for sure you would have already done that long ago!

After Noah came out of the ark he built an altar to the Lord, Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offering on the altar. And the Lord smelled a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in his heart,I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done. Genesis 8.20-22

See that a perfect sacrifice has power even to change God’s purpose and decision, because if before He had promised to destroy every living creature on the earth and actually, He was sorry for making them, now because of the perfect sacrifice Noah presented on the altar God changed what He had already decided to do.

The perfect sacrifice has the power to touch God’s heart and intimacy to the point of making Him change what was unchangeable. There’s no doubt at all that a perfect sacrifice can change any type of problem or situation though it seems to be impossible to change, like for example to cross the Red Sea as on dry ground and many others unexplainable miracles in the bible. Therefore, don’t let this opportunity of changing your life pass you by because if a perfect sacrifice changed God’s decision. How about your problem?

Be blessed!

Bishop Carlos E Da Costa