This post is directed to children of all ages…

Jesus said something like this: how many of you have parents that give you pretty much everything you need? If you ask for food, they give you food, and not a rock, or dirt. If you need clothes, they buy you clothes; they don’t want you to be cold or to wear clothes that don’t look good. If you want to have some fun on a sunny Sunday, they might take you to a park or something like that. If you like football, perhaps your dad can take you to a nice football game.

I can think of examples from my parents, and I’m sure you can think of examples from yours, and the list will go on and on. Now, if our parents, that are not perfect AT ALL, do these nice stuff to us, and usually give us what we need when we ask, how much more will God give us all his good gifts and everything we need?

Maybe what you want is something big like a new house… or maybe it’s only a new game that you want to have. Maybe things are not working very well at school, your friends are not being nice and picking on you because you are a Christian and love Jesus. Perhaps you are sick and need some healing, or you need help with your homework or exam that is too hard. Maybe the things at home are not going very well, mum and dad are fighting and you are sad because you are not sure about what is going on. Maybe you don’t even have a mum or dad, or maybe they don’t live together anymore. Perhaps you couldn’t sleep last night because you were scared that a big snake would attack you and kill you during the night (and I felt many times like that when I was 10 y.o.).

I doesn’t matter what exactly you need or what kind of stuff you want God to give to you. It can be big or small, easy or very hard; as Jesus said, if your parents know how to give you good things, how much more will our Daddy give us good gifts, if we ASK Him.

Even though God knows everything, the key here is to ASK! Have you asked Daddy today for what you need? Have you told Him about your day and your difficuties? Don’t miss the opportunity… Ask Daddy…

This is only to say that I just upgraded my Wordpress to a new version, and also to say that about a month ago this blog moved from a shared server on Dreamhost (they are good) to a dedicated virtualized server on Linode (they are better).
That’s all about servers for now!

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I just read this on Dave’s blog, and I had to post it here… it is a great idea, and I will be a part of it, for sure!

I can’t wait to see this new generation free from the crappy things of the world…

I’m sorry, this embedded video didn’t include the subtitles. PLEASE, watch here with subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M2czuswxHo

As my leader, Dave, said… what do I have in my hands? Am I using what I have in my hands?

What a responsibility is to have children in my hands……

(as you can see… I have no comments, no words…)

Everyone probably heard the word homophobia, but I’m writing to talk about the other side: the heterophobia.

Today I was reading the very-bad quality free newspaper called “South Sydney Herald”, that I receive as SPAM every month (I guess). I always have a quick look just to see what else they are saying about christians. They hate christians, specially the ones that go to Hillsong Church, like me.

Well, the first page was talking about some gay and lesbian people that went to the front of a Gloria Jean’s cafe to complain about their support to the Mercy Ministries. What were they complaining about? Well, they said that the Mercy Ministries separate woman’s couples.

I’m not writing here to defend the Mercy Ministries (even though I would gladly do it), but I’m writing to tell you how impressed I am with the heterophobia of these gay movements.

Look, if you are homossexual, please know that I LOVE you, as Jesus does. I hate the homossexual lifestyle, but I DO love homossexuals. And if I had a software company, I would hire you if you were good enough, independently if you are gay or not. I really don’t care if you want to have sex with another person of the same sex as you, it doesn’t bother me at all. I don’t mind if you want to get married with someone of the same sex. I don’t even care if you want to get married with 10 different people! It is your life, your decisions, your consequences, not mine.

Now, I DO care if you start to act as a heterophobic, complaining about people that decided to not be homossexual anymore. It’s the same situation: it’s their life, their problem, not yours.

And I also DO care very much if you send to my address free SPAM gay newspapers (as I received once), with not only text, but very offensive pictures. The editors of that newspaper are lucky that I don’t have children, otherwise I would sue them for sending to my house such material as that.

Really! You can live your life as you want, I don’t mind and I promess that I will not disrespect the right of decision that God gave you. But please, don’t think that being heterophobic will help, because it won’t.

Update:
If you don’t like Mercy ministries, ok, forget what I said about gladly defending them, because I don’t closely know what they do. But I also don’t believe in anything the Australian media says. They are much worse than the Brazilian media when it comes to making up stories (and the Brazilian media is REALLY bad).

“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.”

“When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”

“Já o relacionamento entre Anna e Isabella era ótimo, segundo a reportagem. ‘Eram apaixonadas’, diz um trecho do depoimento. A madrasta nunca precisou repreendê-la, de acordo com o depoimento revelado pelo jornal.”
Fonte: http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/cotidiano/ult95u392116.shtml

Me desculpa, mas isso é uma piada. Qualquer pessoa com cérebro sabe que não existe uma criança na face da terra que não precisa ser repreendida por um pai ou mãe. A não ser que as duas nunca tiveram um relacionamento e ligação emocional muito profundos, o que nesse caso pode resultar num relacionamento aparentemente “felizinho” mas sem nenhuma intimidade. Ou seja, em nenhum dos dois casos a afirmação da reportagem seria verdade.

Tu és soberano
Asaph Borba

Tu és soberano
Sobre a terra, sobre os Céus
Tu és SENHOR, absoluto

Tudo o que existe e acontece
Tu sabes muito bem
Tu és tremendo

E apesar desta glória que tens
Tu te importas comigo também
E esse amor tão grande, eleva-me, amarra-me a Ti
Tu és tremendo

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You are sovereign
by Asaph Borba

You are sovereign
Over the earth and over the skies
You are the absolute LORD

Everything that exists and happens
You know very well
You are awesome

And besides all the glory You have
You also care for me
And this great love rises me up, and ties me in You
You are awesome

We live in such a way that no one will stumble because of us, and no one will find fault with our ministry.

In everything we do, we show that we are true ministers of God.

We patiently endure troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind.

We have been beaten, been put in prison, faced angry mobs, worked to exhaustion, endured sleepless nights, and gone without food.

We prove ourselves by our purity, our understanding, our patience, our kindness, by the Holy Spirit within us, and by our sincere love.

We faithfully preach the Truth. God’s power is working in us.

We use the weapons of righteousness in the right hand for attack and the left hand for defense.

We serve God whether people honor us or despise us, whether they slander us or praise us.

We are honest and truthful, but they call us impostors.

We are ignored, even though we are well known.

We live close to death, but we are still alive.

We have been beaten, but we have not been killed.

Our hearts ache, but we always have joy.

We are poor, but we give spiritual riches to others.

We own nothing, and yet we have everything.

“A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove… but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.” - Forest E. Witcraft

And less than 5 minutes after I found this, it was on my wall at home…
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Minha tradução livre:
“Daqui cem anos não vai importar quanto eu tinha na minha conta do banco, o tipo de casa em que morei, ou o estilo de carro eu dirigi… mas o mundo poderá ser diferente porque eu fui importante na vida de uma criança.” - Forest E. Witcraft

E, crédito pro Jojo (Canto do Jojo) por essa!