Good evening, Family!🦉
This week, we praise God for:🥳
• The Suri Family and their good news! Baby Boy Suri is growing healthy and his parents are about to close on his first home! May God keep working in their lives! 🏡
• Armando's miraculous healing and for every day he is well and not in the hospital. Keep praying for a complete healing from his cancer. 🔬
• The many ways God has taken care of the Vega Family! John and Pat are so thankful for their daughter, Angelica, and how she is talking care of her parents during this difficult time. 💝
• Both Gladys and Darlene, whom Vasthi had requested prayer for, and are doing much better! ☝🏽
• The Romano Family's care. The grandma is very weak and recovering slowly, but praise God, everyone is negative! Also, maternal grandma, Robin, has seen a steady improvement in her platelet numbers! 🩸
• For the positive changes happening in Skylar. 🥰 There is still a need for prayer, but we acknowledge God for His goodness! ✝️
This week, we are praying for:🙏🏽
• Our brother, Vishal, as he is about to make some work decisions, and he is seeking God's guidance and direction throughout the process.☝🏽Let's keep Vishal and this process in prayer!
• Our Beloved Guzman Family, as they walk through the grieving process. May each of them see, hear, smell, feel and taste the presence of the Lord as He walks with them every minute, because we know He is close to the brokenhearted, and saves those whose Spirit is crushed.💔 Let's claim that promise on their behalf!
• Our little brother, Alex. May the Lord assign him a heavenly security detail on the road. 🚙 May He also help Alex to surrender every worry and anxiety to Him. 🧎🏽
• Charen's cousin, Elkie, who is battling cancer. May God infuse her body with His healing and surround her with His presence! 🕊
• Traveling mercies for our sister, Maria, while in Aruba and as she travels back. ✈️
• Virginia and Erick, their marriage, and their children. May the Lord help them to draw closer to Him and each other, and may they see real change in their family. to keep their family, including
• 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. Keep praying for his legs and for the braces he needs to wear; may the Lord work out this issue for him. 🦵
• Jordan Gonzalez while he's away from home pursuing his ⚾️ career.
• Michael, Angelica's boyfriend, that the Lord will help him to find a job.
• Connor's grandmother, who fell in her yard and is in the hospital. May everything continue to go well as far as her tests and may she fully recover from her injury. 🏥
• All of the families who are grieving, including: Wanda's family, Mr. Bouchard and his family, Timmy's family, John's family.😢
• Lynn, as she bravely battles stage 4 cancer. Cancer treatment #44 is underway! 🥺
• Antoinette, also diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. May the Lord intervene on her behalf and extend a miracle, if it is His will. 🧎🏻♀️
• Skylar. We continue to ask the Lord for a healing of heart and mind, that she may come to accept and believe in the love God has for her and offers her through family. In that vein, keep her family in your prayers: Doris, Jackie, Heaven Lee, Amanda, Dorian, Zaire and Amir.🧎🏻♀️
• Nelson's son, Santi, and his family as he seeks the Lord and His influence in their lives. 👨👩👦
• Carole. She's been fighting this custody battle the only way she can: on her knees. May God strengthen her as she continues to lead her family in prayer for her grandson, Elijah, and his custody battle. May He also bless Baby Brianna! 🎀
Today's Devotional is brought to you by my favorite pinch-hitter, Nelson Guerrero. ⚾️
Consider these Bible verses, sent to you and me from God!☝️
“So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female... God saw everything that He had made, and indeed, it was very good.”Genesis 1:27,31.
“Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations’.“ Jeremiah 1:4-5
“Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spiri ; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good... All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.” 1 Corinthians 12:14-20
You and I were created with some amazing unique talents that we only possess because that is how it pleased God to do it. When you and I deny our talents and instead focus on our weaknesses, somehow we are telling God that we know best and that God somehow made a mistake in gifting us with our unique mix of talents.
I want to remind all of you today that when we have to face God one day, He is not going to ask you: “Why were you not Peter? Or Paul? Or anybody else?”
He is going to ask you and me why were you not YOU? THAT'S GOING TO BE GOD'S QUESTION TO US. We are not expected to be who we are not. We are expected to be who we are. I want to encourage you today to be wonderful, talented YOU. You are unique. You’re a treasure that God created to be a blessing in this world and in this life. So take courage and ask God to help you be what He intended for you to be when He created you.
God bless you, my friends.