Devotional for November 15, 2020

Happy Week, Family!🔦

This week, we praise God for:☝🏽

• Answered prayers and breakthroughs for Skylar and her family. May God keep working in all of their lives.

• María, and her continued healing after knee surgery. May the same powerful God who knit her together mend whatever needs mending.

This week, we are praying for:🙏🏽

• Sori Cardona, widow of Pastor. She is a very dear person to so many of us who came from the Spanish church. She fell at home last week and needed emergency surgery and is also experiencing kidney failure. She can use our most fervent prayers! Sori Cardona, widow of Pastor. She is a very dear person to so many of us who came from the Spanish church. She fell at home last week and needed emergency surgery and is also experiencing kidney failure. She can use our most fervent prayers!

• Virginia and her family as they move through the grief process for her mother, Soledad Rodriguez. Also keep Virginia's marriage and family in your prayers. Still asking for a miracle.

• Rose, who needs a miracle!

• Norma’s friend, Tracy, as she moves through her cancer treatment.

• Evelyn's cousin, Maribel. Her family is searching for an institution that can care for her needs. May God guide their search.

• Charen's aunt and uncle, still battling cancer. May every step in this journey bring them closer to Jesus.

• Our little brother, Alex, as he becomes a licensed driver.

• Charen's cousin, Elkie, who is battling cancer and needs healing.

• Awilda, Peter's mom, throughout her recovery. Please keep her in prayer.

• Our beloved SETH, that God would continue to shield and protect him while at school. Also for the Lord to touch Seth's legs with His healing touch.🦵

• Jordan Gonzalez and his puppy, Zeus; while he's away from home pursuing his ⚾️ career.

• Michael, Angelica's boyfriend, that the Lord will help him to find a job.

• All of the families who are grieving, including: The Guzman Family, the Bosques Family, Wanda's family, Mr. Bouchard and his family, Timmy's family, John's family.😢

• Lynn, as she continues to battle cancer while holding on to Jesus!

• Antoinette, also diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and is in need of a miracle.

• Skylar, and SUPERNATURAL healing of heart and mind for her and her family: Jackie, Heaven Lee, and Doris.

• Nelson's son, Santi, and his family as he seeks the Lord and His influence in their lives.

• Carole and her family as they wait upon the Lord for Elijah's custody resolution.

Today's light-bearing Devotional, submitted by Damaris Sierra, will help to light up whatever looks dark in your life with God's promises and faithfulness!💡Thank you, Damaris, for sharing your LIGHT with all of us! 🕯️💛

"You o Lord, keep my lamp burning, my God turns my darkness into light." Psalms 18:28

During this pandemic, we have all faced some kind of difficulty or struggle, whether it was losing a loved one, sickness, financial, losing a job, or not being able to spend special occasions with family and friends.

Brothers and sisters, these things don’t happen by mistake, most things happen for a reason. When we trust in the Lord faithfully we get to understand those struggles a little lighter. Everyday we need to give all of our worries and anxieties to the Lord. Let him be the one to guide us each day we wake up, knowing it is a new day, a new beginning to give it all to him and say "Lord, let it be all your will, not mine."

I look back to a year ago when I had no job and it gives me chills to see how awesome He has been to me and my family. I won’t lie to you and say it was easy or perfect. But when we trust in a mighty God and know He will never leave us or forsake us, and how faithful he is in His timing, not ours.

Believe me, I have so much to be thankful and praise him each day through the good and even the not so good. He has taught me so many lessons and each day I ask him to be my light in my life because without him I am nothing!!

The apostle Paul showed Christians to be joyful always and to pray continually. There is always joy to be found in Gods presence, and He promised us He will never leave us or forsake us. That’s such a beautiful promise I honor, because He has never left me or forsaken me.

So I encourage you today to try leaving all your worries and anxieties and everything you are facing and trust in Him with all your heart. So whenever you face a difficulty you won’t see it the same as before, you will say, "Lord I trust in you and I know your plans are greater than mine."

May God bless you! Love you all!