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Persevere Faithfully in God

Fight for your projects

09/01/2018

By: Bishop Amaury de Farias

For us to be saved we have to get upset. The price of salvation is unbearable to us. We have to pay for the price for everything in life. The price of the Kingdom of Heaven is expensive. That`s why we are told to persevere in faith; to resist while we pay for the price. Happiness demands us to pay for the price. Upset people at us represent one among a few factors. In a marriage, for instance, you become happy if you fulfill your responsibilities; if you look after and please your spouse; if you play your role. For those who fight for their health know that to be fit it`s necessary to do exercises and to control food. In order to conquer anything it`s necessary to invest, to apply your willpower, your faith, and persevere. That`s the reason why you have to be convinced of your projects, to have something defined, not to be an adventure. God works on our faith as well as on our wish from the heart. So it`s necessary to have projects for God to work on them. Faith and determination support us. When the Samaritan woman asked for Jesus’ help and was denied, she knew God was bigger than anything else and He was able to hear her faith. The Lord Jesus told her she couldn`t give dogs what was for her children. He meant the children of the promise who were Abraham`s direct blood heirs before rejection. After Christ`s sacrifice, those who believed in Him became His children like you and I as well. We are the children Jesus wants to hear today. God wants to bless our lives above all else and it doesn`t matter any adversity. That woman expressed her faith and fidelity to her purpose answering those dogs ate crumbs that fell from their master`s table. How big that woman`s faith was, the one who raised Christ as Lord humbly before God`s presence.

She insisted on a project determined by the faith. She paid the price of humbleness when she put a little animal at the feet of the great God in a direct answer with love from God, she got what her faith conceived.

That`s the way it must be with us. Even if it seems that the situation is contrary, we must grab to our faith and recognize God as the Almighty, persevere in our desires, in our project, so, God will answer. If crumbs solves our conditions, figure out the bread that comes from Heaven. And Jesus Himself said no parent denies his or her children bread. God is our Father, church, put your project in the hands of the Lord, persevere, hang on to your faith and pay the price, even if it requires your momentary trouble, because God is the One Who gives us solution and helps us overcome any difficulty.