How to Cross the Valley of Tears!
Eternal Life! Abundant Life!
By Riqui RicónPaul, a servant of God and an
apostle of Jesus Christ to further the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge
of the truth that leads to godliness— in the hope of eternal life, which God,
who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, and which now at his appointed season
he has brought to light
through the preaching entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior. (Titus
1:1–3, NIV)
Today we will reflect on the wonderful plan of redemption and
salvation that God has carried out for humanity. First, it is a plan of
redemption, because a price was paid so that you could be bought with blood.
The way you once lived your life led you to sin, and sin
made you a slave to death and its chains: fear, anguish, pain, poverty,
sickness, resentment, bitterness, loneliness, and depression — just to name a
few.
The very life of Jesus Christ was the price God paid to set you free from such a
state of slavery.
For when you were slaves of sin,
you were free in regard to righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that
time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But
now that you have been set free from sin and
have become slaves
of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is
eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal
life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:20–23, NIV)
The gift of God for you is Life in Christ Jesus!
And not just any kind of life, but
Eternal Life—which means living forever, or in other words, not dying.
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared
in their humanity
so that by his death he might
break the power of him who holds the power of death— that is, the devil—and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their
fear of death. (Hebrews 2:14–15, NIV)
Do not live in slavery
any longer. You can stop being afraid.
Death has been defeated!
And because you belong
to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you
from the power of sin that leads to death. (Romans
8:2, NLT)
It is the law of the Spirit
of Life in Christ Jesus that has set you free from the
law of sin and death, giving you access to Eternal Life—the kind of Life that
only, and exclusively, the Children of God can enjoy.
Most believers think that they will receive
Eternal Life once they die (which is a
huge contradiction), but nothing could be further from the truth. The Bible,
which is the Word of God and cannot lie, teaches that right now you have
already been freed from sin and from the wages of sin, which is death.
For God so loved the world that he
gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish
but have eternal life. For God did not send his
Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. (John
3:16–17, KJV)
Always remember that God loves you so much
that He preferred to give up His own Son rather than lose you. You have
believed in Jesus as your Lord and Savior, and now—by the Word of Honor of your God and Father—you have the
right to Eternal Life.
When Jesus had received
the sour wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed
his head and gave up his spirit.
(John 19:30, KJV)
So now, you no longer have to get sick,
suffer, or die to pay the price and obtain something that has already
been paid for and rightfully belongs to you. The price that Jesus paid on that
cross is perfect, complete, and final. That’s why His last words were, “It is
finished,” meaning that there is nothing more for you to add.
The thief does not come except
to steal, and to kill,
and to destroy. I have come
that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. (John
10:10, KJV)
Now then, Eternal
Life is the lifestyle that God desires
for you—it should
be a full and abundant life.
Eternal Life! Full Life! Abundant
Life! This is the true meaning of the sacrifice
of Love that Jesus made for you. That’s what He paid for—so that, once
and for all, you would be free from sin and receive, through faith in Jesus
Christ, your salvation.
By that will we have been
sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And
every priest stands daily ministering and offering repeatedly the same
sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered
one sacrifice for sins forever,
sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His
enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has perfected forever
those who are being sanctified. (Hebrews 10:10–14, NKJV)
Remember that salvation does not mean simply
having a place to go to in heaven (although that is certainly included). Being
saved means, precisely, having the right to that Full and Abundant Life—a life
in which all sickness, sorrow, anxiety, resentment, poverty, and depression have already been paid
for by Christ Jesus. Therefore, they are defeated and have no legal right to
remain in your life.
You were not bought with the precious
Blood of the Son of God, Jesus Christ,
as if it were only a partial payment, leaving you to pay the rest through your
suffering as you walk through this “valley of tears,” as some people say.
No! Nothing like that! Beloved, according to
the Bible, you were bought through a plan of Love designed before
the beginning of time, to be adopted
as His son or daughter
through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will.
But God, who is rich in mercy, because
of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses,
made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved). (Ephesians
2:4–5, NKJV)
The most beautiful
and powerful truth is that God loves you so much that He
preferred to give up His own Son to pay for all your sins and guilt so that He
could make you His child in perfect justice,
giving you the gift of Eternal Life.
See how very much our Father loves
us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people
who belong to this world don’t recognize
that we are God’s children
because they don’t know him. (1 John 3:1, NLT)
Now you have all the rights of a Born-Again Child of God: Eternal Life and
Abundant Life!
How blessed is the one whose strength is in
You, whose heart is set on pilgrimage. When they pass through
the Valley of Tears, they make it a place of
springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools. (Psalm 84:5–6, PDT)
Now, because of the Eternal Life that is
within you, you transform your reality—and as you pass through
the valley of tears, you turn it into a fountain
of living water.
Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot
be shaken but endures forever. (Psalm
125:1, PDT)
No matter the adverse circumstances or the valley
of tears you may be walking
through today, you are that beloved son or daughter of God who will never
be shaken or fall. You will stand firm forever!
Let’s pray out loud:
Mighty God, how wonderful it is to be able
to call You, with full awareness, my Father. I thank You because, even when I
was the way I used to be, You have loved me since before the beginning of time.
Thank You because I am Your heir—an heir of God and a co-heir with Christ
Jesus. Thank You because through Your Word, the Bible, I am coming to know more
and more about my rights as Your Born-Again child. According to Your Word, I
have the right to live a full and abundant life; to prosper in all things; to
have health, as well as peace and joy
in my heart. I can stop worrying now—I have Eternal Life! Five thousand years
from now, I’ll still be here, Lord Jesus, with You—loving and worshiping You. So I resist and cast out of my life every spirit of fear and doubt.
I let go of all discouragement and
depression. I put off the old self, renew the spirit of my mind, and put on the
new self—created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. I am
healed! I am free! I am saved! I am prosperous! I am blessed!
I am a Born-Again Child of God! Because
of all this, I believe and
declare that out of every problem, distress, or illness, I will come out more than a conqueror through
Your Love, Christ
Jesus. I can do all things!
In the name of Jesus.
Amen.
Important Note:
How do I become a Child of God? How do I establish a relationship with the
Almighty?
Just say the following prayer
aloud, putting all your attention
and heart into what you are saying to God:
Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of
God. That You came into this world, born
of the virgin Mary, to pay for all my sins, and I have
been a sinner. Therefore, today I say that I accept. I accept Your
sacrifice on the cross! I accept Your precious
Blood shed to the last drop out of love for me! I open my
heart to You and invite You in
because I want, Lord Jesus, that from today and forever You be my only and sufficient Savior, my
God, my King, and my Lord.
Thank You, Almighty God, because with this
simple prayer and profession of faith I have passed from death to Life, I have been transferred from darkness
to Your marvelous Light. Today I have been Born Again! God, now I am Your
Child! Now You are my Father! I will never be alone again! I will never live
defeated again. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Three Recommendations:
What just happened by you recognizing Jesus Christ as the Lord and
Savior of your life, according
to God's Word, is that you have been Born Again. No longer
as an ordinary human being, subject to the law of sin and death, but now as a
legitimate and authentic Child of God, Born Again, exactly like Jesus Christ, who is now your Older Brother. Therefore,
I give you these three, very important, recommendations:
1.
Pray. Praying is talking with God. So, find a quiet
place where you can begin talking to Him about everything. Do it out loud, and you will notice
how God always responds to your heart.
2.
Read and meditate
on the Word of God. The Bible
is the Word of God, so
get a Bible and start reading and meditating on it. How do you begin? It’s very simple. Depending on the day,
look up the reading program “The
Bible in One Year” and do the corresponding readings. You can get this program at: Through The Bible In One Year (palabradehonor.org). You will notice
that the program is set up so you can print it as a booklet.
3.
In prayer with God, your Father, look for and join a
Christian church or congregation where the Word of God is taught based
on the Good News, which are
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ricardo C. Peredo Jaime © 2020
Reading and Meditation on the Word of God
Do these daily readings, and by the end of one year you will have read the
entire Bible.
November
9 Titus 1 / Jeremiah
13-14 / Psalm 125
Titus
1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle
of Jesus Christ,
according to the faith
of God's
elect, and the acknowledging of the truth
which is after
godliness;
2 In hope of eternal
life, which God, that cannot lie, promised
before the world began;
3 But hath in due
times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
4 To Titus,
mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ our Saviour.
5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders
in every city, as I had appointed thee:
6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful
children not accused of riot
or unruly.
7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward
of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no
striker, not given to filthy lucre;
8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
9 Holding fast the faithful
word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by
sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers
and deceivers, specially they of the
circumcision:
11 Whose mouths
must be stopped, who subvert
whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for
filthy lucre's sake.
12 One of themselves, even a prophet
of their own, said, the Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow
bellies.
13 This witness
is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply,
that they may be
sound in the faith;
14 Not giving
heed to Jewish
fables, and commandments of men, that turn
from the truth.
15 Unto the pure all
things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure;
but even their
mind and conscience is defiled.
16 They profess
that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and
unto every good work reprobate.
Jeremiah
13 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in
water.
2 So I got a girdle according
to the word of the LORD, and put it on my
loins.
3 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise,
go to Euphrates, and hide it
there in a hole of the rock.
5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded
me.
6 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise,
go to Euphrates, and take the
girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.
7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
9 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the
great pride of Jerusalem.
10 This evil people,
which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this
girdle, which is good for nothing.
11 For as the girdle
cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused
to cleave unto me the whole
house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a
praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the
LORD God of
Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee,
Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the
LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the
kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
14 And I will dash
them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy,
but destroy them.
15
Hear ye, and give
ear; be not proud: for the
LORD hath spoken.
16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before
he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains,
and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it
gross darkness.
17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places
for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and
run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is
carried away captive.
18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your
principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
19 The cities
of the south shall be shut up, and
none shall open them: Judah
shall be carried away captive
all of it, it shall be wholly
carried away captive.
20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the
flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish
thee? for thou hast taught them to be
captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things
upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are
thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to
do evil.
24 Therefore will I scatter
them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind
of the wilderness.
25 This is thy lot, the portion
of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and
trusted in falsehood.
26 Therefore will I discover
thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
27 I have seen thine
adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee,
O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
14 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah
concerning the dearth.
2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish;
they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is
gone up.
3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the
pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were
ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen
were ashamed, they covered their heads.
5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook
it, because there was no grass.
6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places,
they snuffed up the wind like
dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are
many; we have sinned against thee.
8 O the hope of
Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth
aside to tarry for a night?
9 Why shouldest
thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have
they loved to wander, they have
not refrained their feet, therefore
the LORD
doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and
visit their sins.
11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people
for their good.
12 When they fast, I will not hear their
cry; and when they offer
burnt offering and an
oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by
the sword, and by the famine, and by
the pestilence.
13 Then said I, Ah,
Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not
see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace
in this place.
14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets
prophesy lies in my name:
I sent them not, neither have
I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they
prophesy unto you a false vision
and divination, and a thing of nought,
and the deceit of their heart.
15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets
that prophesy in my
name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall
those prophets be consumed.
16 And the people to
whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the
famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons,
nor their daughters: for I will pour
their wickedness upon them.
17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not
cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with
a very grievous blow.
18 If I go forth
into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine!
yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a
land that they know not.
19 Hast thou utterly
rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no
good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
21 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy
glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
22 Are there any among the vanities
of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not
thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will
wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
Psalm
125 They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which
cannot be removed, but abideth
for ever.
2 As the mountains
are round about Jerusalem, so the
LORD
is round about his
people from henceforth even for ever.
3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous
put forth their hands unto iniquity.
4 Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good,
and to them that are upright in their hearts.
5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked
ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity:
but peace shall be upon Israel.
Paul, a servant of God and an
apostle of Jesus Christ to further the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge
of the truth that leads to godliness— in the hope of eternal life, which God,
who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, and which now at his appointed season
he has brought to light
through the preaching entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior. (Titus
1:1–3, NIV)
Today we will reflect on the wonderful plan of redemption and
salvation that God has carried out for humanity. First, it is a plan of
redemption, because a price was paid so that you could be bought with blood.
The way you once lived your life led you to sin, and sin
made you a slave to death and its chains: fear, anguish, pain, poverty,
sickness, resentment, bitterness, loneliness, and depression — just to name a
few.
The very life of Jesus Christ was the price God paid to set you free from such a
state of slavery.
For when you were slaves of sin,
you were free in regard to righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that
time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But
now that you have been set free from sin and
have become slaves
of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is
eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal
life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:20–23, NIV)
The gift of God for you is Life in Christ Jesus!
And not just any kind of life, but
Eternal Life—which means living forever, or in other words, not dying.
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared
in their humanity
so that by his death he might
break the power of him who holds the power of death— that is, the devil—and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their
fear of death. (Hebrews 2:14–15, NIV)
Do not live in slavery
any longer. You can stop being afraid.
Death has been defeated!
And because you belong
to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you
from the power of sin that leads to death. (Romans
8:2, NLT)
It is the law of the Spirit
of Life in Christ Jesus that has set you free from the
law of sin and death, giving you access to Eternal Life—the kind of Life that
only, and exclusively, the Children of God can enjoy.
Most believers think that they will receive
Eternal Life once they die (which is a
huge contradiction), but nothing could be further from the truth. The Bible,
which is the Word of God and cannot lie, teaches that right now you have
already been freed from sin and from the wages of sin, which is death.
For God so loved the world that he
gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish
but have eternal life. For God did not send his
Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. (John
3:16–17, KJV)
Always remember that God loves you so much
that He preferred to give up His own Son rather than lose you. You have
believed in Jesus as your Lord and Savior, and now—by the Word of Honor of your God and Father—you have the
right to Eternal Life.
When Jesus had received
the sour wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed
his head and gave up his spirit.
(John 19:30, KJV)
So now, you no longer have to get sick,
suffer, or die to pay the price and obtain something that has already
been paid for and rightfully belongs to you. The price that Jesus paid on that
cross is perfect, complete, and final. That’s why His last words were, “It is
finished,” meaning that there is nothing more for you to add.
The thief does not come except
to steal, and to kill,
and to destroy. I have come
that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. (John
10:10, KJV)
Now then, Eternal
Life is the lifestyle that God desires
for you—it should
be a full and abundant life.
Eternal Life! Full Life! Abundant
Life! This is the true meaning of the sacrifice
of Love that Jesus made for you. That’s what He paid for—so that, once
and for all, you would be free from sin and receive, through faith in Jesus
Christ, your salvation.
By that will we have been
sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And
every priest stands daily ministering and offering repeatedly the same
sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered
one sacrifice for sins forever,
sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His
enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has perfected forever
those who are being sanctified. (Hebrews 10:10–14, NKJV)
Remember that salvation does not mean simply
having a place to go to in heaven (although that is certainly included). Being
saved means, precisely, having the right to that Full and Abundant Life—a life
in which all sickness, sorrow, anxiety, resentment, poverty, and depression have already been paid
for by Christ Jesus. Therefore, they are defeated and have no legal right to
remain in your life.
You were not bought with the precious
Blood of the Son of God, Jesus Christ,
as if it were only a partial payment, leaving you to pay the rest through your
suffering as you walk through this “valley of tears,” as some people say.
No! Nothing like that! Beloved, according to
the Bible, you were bought through a plan of Love designed before
the beginning of time, to be adopted
as His son or daughter
through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will.
But God, who is rich in mercy, because
of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses,
made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved). (Ephesians
2:4–5, NKJV)
The most beautiful
and powerful truth is that God loves you so much that He
preferred to give up His own Son to pay for all your sins and guilt so that He
could make you His child in perfect justice,
giving you the gift of Eternal Life.
See how very much our Father loves
us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people
who belong to this world don’t recognize
that we are God’s children
because they don’t know him. (1 John 3:1, NLT)
Now you have all the rights of a Born-Again Child of God: Eternal Life and
Abundant Life!
How blessed is the one whose strength is in
You, whose heart is set on pilgrimage. When they pass through
the Valley of Tears, they make it a place of
springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools. (Psalm 84:5–6, PDT)
Now, because of the Eternal Life that is
within you, you transform your reality—and as you pass through
the valley of tears, you turn it into a fountain
of living water.
Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot
be shaken but endures forever. (Psalm
125:1, PDT)
No matter the adverse circumstances or the valley
of tears you may be walking
through today, you are that beloved son or daughter of God who will never
be shaken or fall. You will stand firm forever!
Let’s pray out loud:
Mighty God, how wonderful it is to be able
to call You, with full awareness, my Father. I thank You because, even when I
was the way I used to be, You have loved me since before the beginning of time.
Thank You because I am Your heir—an heir of God and a co-heir with Christ
Jesus. Thank You because through Your Word, the Bible, I am coming to know more
and more about my rights as Your Born-Again child. According to Your Word, I
have the right to live a full and abundant life; to prosper in all things; to
have health, as well as peace and joy
in my heart. I can stop worrying now—I have Eternal Life! Five thousand years
from now, I’ll still be here, Lord Jesus, with You—loving and worshiping You. So I resist and cast out of my life every spirit of fear and doubt.
I let go of all discouragement and
depression. I put off the old self, renew the spirit of my mind, and put on the
new self—created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. I am
healed! I am free! I am saved! I am prosperous! I am blessed!
I am a Born-Again Child of God! Because
of all this, I believe and
declare that out of every problem, distress, or illness, I will come out more than a conqueror through
Your Love, Christ
Jesus. I can do all things!
In the name of Jesus.
Amen.
Important Note:
How do I become a Child of God? How do I establish a relationship with the
Almighty?
Just say the following prayer
aloud, putting all your attention
and heart into what you are saying to God:
Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of
God. That You came into this world, born
of the virgin Mary, to pay for all my sins, and I have
been a sinner. Therefore, today I say that I accept. I accept Your
sacrifice on the cross! I accept Your precious
Blood shed to the last drop out of love for me! I open my
heart to You and invite You in
because I want, Lord Jesus, that from today and forever You be my only and sufficient Savior, my
God, my King, and my Lord.
Thank You, Almighty God, because with this
simple prayer and profession of faith I have passed from death to Life, I have been transferred from darkness
to Your marvelous Light. Today I have been Born Again! God, now I am Your
Child! Now You are my Father! I will never be alone again! I will never live
defeated again. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Three Recommendations:
What just happened by you recognizing Jesus Christ as the Lord and
Savior of your life, according
to God's Word, is that you have been Born Again. No longer
as an ordinary human being, subject to the law of sin and death, but now as a
legitimate and authentic Child of God, Born Again, exactly like Jesus Christ, who is now your Older Brother. Therefore,
I give you these three, very important, recommendations:
1.
Pray. Praying is talking with God. So, find a quiet
place where you can begin talking to Him about everything. Do it out loud, and you will notice
how God always responds to your heart.
2.
Read and meditate
on the Word of God. The Bible
is the Word of God, so
get a Bible and start reading and meditating on it. How do you begin? It’s very simple. Depending on the day,
look up the reading program “The
Bible in One Year” and do the corresponding readings. You can get this program at: Through The Bible In One Year (palabradehonor.org). You will notice
that the program is set up so you can print it as a booklet.
3.
In prayer with God, your Father, look for and join a
Christian church or congregation where the Word of God is taught based
on the Good News, which are
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ricardo C. Peredo Jaime © 2020
Reading and Meditation on the Word of God
Do these daily readings, and by the end of one year you will have read the
entire Bible.
November
9 Titus 1 / Jeremiah
13-14 / Psalm 125
Titus
1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle
of Jesus Christ,
according to the faith
of God's
elect, and the acknowledging of the truth
which is after
godliness;
2 In hope of eternal
life, which God, that cannot lie, promised
before the world began;
3 But hath in due
times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
4 To Titus,
mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ our Saviour.
5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders
in every city, as I had appointed thee:
6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful
children not accused of riot
or unruly.
7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward
of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no
striker, not given to filthy lucre;
8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
9 Holding fast the faithful
word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by
sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers
and deceivers, specially they of the
circumcision:
11 Whose mouths
must be stopped, who subvert
whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for
filthy lucre's sake.
12 One of themselves, even a prophet
of their own, said, the Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow
bellies.
13 This witness
is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply,
that they may be
sound in the faith;
14 Not giving
heed to Jewish
fables, and commandments of men, that turn
from the truth.
15 Unto the pure all
things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure;
but even their
mind and conscience is defiled.
16 They profess
that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and
unto every good work reprobate.
Jeremiah
13 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in
water.
2 So I got a girdle according
to the word of the LORD, and put it on my
loins.
3 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise,
go to Euphrates, and hide it
there in a hole of the rock.
5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded
me.
6 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise,
go to Euphrates, and take the
girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.
7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
9 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the
great pride of Jerusalem.
10 This evil people,
which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this
girdle, which is good for nothing.
11 For as the girdle
cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused
to cleave unto me the whole
house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a
praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the
LORD God of
Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee,
Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the
LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the
kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
14 And I will dash
them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy,
but destroy them.
15
Hear ye, and give
ear; be not proud: for the
LORD hath spoken.
16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before
he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains,
and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it
gross darkness.
17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places
for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and
run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is
carried away captive.
18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your
principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
19 The cities
of the south shall be shut up, and
none shall open them: Judah
shall be carried away captive
all of it, it shall be wholly
carried away captive.
20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the
flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish
thee? for thou hast taught them to be
captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things
upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are
thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to
do evil.
24 Therefore will I scatter
them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind
of the wilderness.
25 This is thy lot, the portion
of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and
trusted in falsehood.
26 Therefore will I discover
thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
27 I have seen thine
adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee,
O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
14 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah
concerning the dearth.
2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish;
they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is
gone up.
3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the
pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were
ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen
were ashamed, they covered their heads.
5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook
it, because there was no grass.
6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places,
they snuffed up the wind like
dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are
many; we have sinned against thee.
8 O the hope of
Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth
aside to tarry for a night?
9 Why shouldest
thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have
they loved to wander, they have
not refrained their feet, therefore
the LORD
doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and
visit their sins.
11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people
for their good.
12 When they fast, I will not hear their
cry; and when they offer
burnt offering and an
oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by
the sword, and by the famine, and by
the pestilence.
13 Then said I, Ah,
Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not
see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace
in this place.
14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets
prophesy lies in my name:
I sent them not, neither have
I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they
prophesy unto you a false vision
and divination, and a thing of nought,
and the deceit of their heart.
15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets
that prophesy in my
name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall
those prophets be consumed.
16 And the people to
whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the
famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons,
nor their daughters: for I will pour
their wickedness upon them.
17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not
cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with
a very grievous blow.
18 If I go forth
into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine!
yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a
land that they know not.
19 Hast thou utterly
rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no
good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
21 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy
glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
22 Are there any among the vanities
of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not
thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will
wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
Psalm
125 They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which
cannot be removed, but abideth
for ever.
2 As the mountains
are round about Jerusalem, so the
LORD
is round about his
people from henceforth even for ever.
3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous
put forth their hands unto iniquity.
4 Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good,
and to them that are upright in their hearts.
5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked
ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity:
but peace shall be upon Israel.
