Living in God's blessing
Dr. Roberto Miranda
(Audio: Spanish)
SUMMARY: The psalmist expresses a sense of sufficiency in God and the blessings he has received in life. The challenge for believers is not to leave behind a current condition of failure, but to claim their true condition as blessed people, walking under the positive sign of divine approval and support. Believers live in a privileged land that has touched them through the sacrifice of Christ on the cross and their destiny is one of blessing and prosperity. Through the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, everyone who falls within the framework of the Kingdom of God is freed from the jurisdiction of the devil and comes under the administration of a new authority. Christ destroyed the inevitability of the diabolical power that delights in tormenting the children of God by pretending to erase the mark of divinity and greatness that every human being bears. By understanding that Christ has already transferred believers from darkness to light, they can claim their rights as children of God and walk with security. The world suffers because it is under the domination of evil, and man himself has given power to Satan. Taking refuge in God and the Gospel can make a difference in society.
The purpose of Satan is to prevent humans from becoming and fully reflecting the image of God in their lives. The forces of evil are determined to destroy the creative and benevolent potential in human beings. However, in the new economy that Christ has established, God ensures that every human being has the opportunity to achieve their potential. God levels the playing field and it is up to individuals to decide if they will take advantage of the resources made available through Jesus Christ. Success includes all dimensions of life, including personal formation, character, human relationships, and everyday habits. Christians have received special resources to fight their battles and must take captive every thought and attitude that opposes the values of the Kingdom of God.
We must take captive every negative and oppressive element in our lives that opposes the values of the Kingdom of God and replace them with excellence, truth, freedom, and harmony. We should not allow ourselves to be dominated or enslaved by anything that contradicts our holy nature in Christ. We must continuously examine ourselves, seek spiritual discernment, and reject anything that opposes the values of the Gospel. Our life program should be to reflect more and more the perfection and character of Christ over time. We should strive to live a life of moral, ethical, and spiritual excellence and contribute to the quality of this world. God has called us to walk free and aspire to great things, to live a hero's life each day conquering our land, each day paying the price, each day subjecting ourselves more to the excellence of God.
The purpose of Satan is to prevent humans from becoming and fully reflecting the image of God in their lives. The forces of evil are determined to destroy the creative and benevolent potential in human beings. However, in the new economy that Christ has established, God ensures that every human being has the opportunity to achieve their potential. God levels the playing field and it is up to individuals to decide if they will take advantage of the resources made available through Jesus Christ. Success includes all dimensions of life, including personal formation, character, human relationships, and everyday habits. Christians have received special resources to fight their battles and must take captive every thought and attitude that opposes the values of the Kingdom of God.
We must take captive every negative and oppressive element in our lives that opposes the values of the Kingdom of God and replace them with excellence, truth, freedom, and harmony. We should not allow ourselves to be dominated or enslaved by anything that contradicts our holy nature in Christ. We must continuously examine ourselves, seek spiritual discernment, and reject anything that opposes the values of the Gospel. Our life program should be to reflect more and more the perfection and character of Christ over time. We should strive to live a life of moral, ethical, and spiritual excellence and contribute to the quality of this world. God has called us to walk free and aspire to great things, to live a hero's life each day conquering our land, each day paying the price, each day subjecting ourselves more to the excellence of God.
Today I have decided to take a reading of that book that I am writing, which has a lot to do with that idea of our life, a life of improvement, growth, spiritual development, overcoming all the problems and struggles that concern us in our life and how to live lives like that of our brother Miguel Prieto, lives that influence, that impact society, that are a credit to the Kingdom of God and when we reach the end of a part of our career, we can do it with all satisfaction knowing that we have been used by God, that our life has marked the world.
And how do we get to that life of influence, that life of sufficiency in the Lord, of overcoming more and more things every day? Well, it is meditating as we say, on those principles of the word of God that help us to overcome. This morning a sister came, I am going to allow myself freedom, she has also gone through her testing time, we know her, we love her very much, many years in our church, many, many years and she went through a very difficult time I know in his life, a time of great crisis and of… he entered the storm like a plane entering a very large storm front and he has been battling and mourning and he came this morning and came up to us to tell us that he already feels that he passed to the other side and who has that victory, has prevailed. And I was delighted to see his person actually reflecting that freedom. It's good when we go through tribulations, isn't it? Sometimes it is difficult, they are valleys of the shadow of death. That is the life of the children of God and of every human being on this earth, but the good thing is when we can hold on to the Lord.
And how do we get to that life of influence, that life of sufficiency in the Lord, of overcoming more and more things every day? Well, it is meditating as we say, on those principles of the word of God that help us to overcome. This morning a sister came, I am going to allow myself freedom, she has also gone through her testing time, we know her, we love her very much, many years in our church, many, many years and she went through a very difficult time I know in his life, a time of great crisis and of… he entered the storm like a plane entering a very large storm front and he has been battling and mourning and he came this morning and came up to us to tell us that he already feels that he passed to the other side and who has that victory, has prevailed. And I was delighted to see his person actually reflecting that freedom. It's good when we go through tribulations, isn't it? Sometimes it is difficult, they are valleys of the shadow of death. That is the life of the children of God and of every human being on this earth, but the good thing is when we can hold on to the Lord.
