Liar,Liar

Like I mention on my testimony I used to be a two-faced. My life was a complete lie, since I used lies as my base of living. Was I happy ? Well I tried to be but it never happen. I had this empty feeling that destroyed me little by little. No matter how hard I tried, I felt like I was slowly losing control of my life. I had no vision or reason to be happy.

As I think of my past I think about how many youths are losing themselves in this world. They use lies as a escape to the consequences of their actions. In the beginning lying is easy to lie but the more lies you use the hardest it becomes to keep up. You use lies to cover lies and you come to a point that you lose control. It's a mess. You start believing your own lies and nothing make sense anymore.. personal experience.

Dear reader, free yourself from this character.God can change you, if YOU want. The question is : Do You want it ??

Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD,
But those who deal truthfully are His delight. Psalms 12:22

In faith,

Bianca

It's All or Nothing

While talking to a good friend of mine, she told me she told that she was decided to give her life to God 100%. My heart was filled with joy because it's one more soul for Jesus. I had to make the same decision, either I converted or I didn't. I realized that this decision would change my life forever. I thank God for the many chances He gave to change and take this decision. With God it's all or nothing my friend. At some point in your life you'll have to decide if you want to start an amazing life with God by your side or stay in this filthy world. If you decide to start with God, take the first step and give to Him everything...100%. He wants your broken heart so He can heal it. He wants your dreams because He has a much better plan for you. He wants your faithfulness so He can use you. He wants to show what unconditional love really means. Dear reader, jump onto His Arms and experience a new life. What more can I say?

You decide

God Bless

Bianca

Be friends with the mirror..

"I'm so ugly!"...."I'm so fat!"... "Look at my hair"... "Gosh, I'm so disgusting"...."Nobody ever notice me"! It's the most common sentences I hear around girls. I actually used to say them myself.

The cold reality is that girls nowadays hate how they look. The mirror is their enemy and they can't stand themselves. Why does that happen?

Girls are influenced by what the media say its good to wear, perfect hair, ideal weight. So young ladies look at themselves and they think they are not enough.

Dear friend, God created you in perfection. Your skin, body, hair.. He did it with love :)

Beyond what the world says or what the media shows YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL! Next time you look in the mirror, notice what you DO like about yourself. You'll start to love yourself inside out.

Because you ARE God's beautiful creation, right?

God Bless

Bianca

Words words..

I couldn't help but notice while I was riding the bus today, how normal it became for young people to curse. To be honest it's really shocking to see and hear horrible words that come out so normal. The most terrifying is that most called themselves "Christians"

I'm not writing this to judge anybody but to state the truth. I don't think many youths realize how awful they sound when they curse. It's very unpleasant to be around someone like that... don't you think?

Dear reader, if you find yourself to be one of these people that curse every 5 seconds and proclaim to be of God, I'm sorry to say but you are very wrong. This is the complete opposite of what a youth of God does. Don't be a hypocrite and if you really want to be of God, leave this horrible habit and change.

Think about this:

"Is the mouth that worships God on Sunday, the same mouth that curses during the week?"

God Bless

Bianca

Youths...

¹⁸ “Therefore hear the parable of the sower: ¹⁹ When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside. ²⁰ But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; ²¹ yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. ²² Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. ²³ But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” ( Matthew 13:18-23)

There are 4 types of youths in church:

The Disinterested: He/she is the first example Jesus gave. He/she doesn't understand nothing that is said in the service. He/She doesn't get the message because he/she is in la la land... or distracted, this youth has no interest.

The Forgetful: This youth is the second example on the passage. He/She understands what is being said. They believe it can help them and they feel good, but they easily forget because they don't put it to practice.

The Worried: This youth is seed number 3. This youth also understands but he/she is too worried about their friends, family, career, boyfriend/girlfriend. They consider all those more important than God.

The Excellent: This youth is the last seed Jesus talks about. This youth is different than the others. He/She not only understand what is being preached but they immediately put it to practice. They place God as the most important of their life. He/She is active on their faith and they bear fruits.

Which one are you ?

God Bless

Bianca

P.S: This was preached at our youth meeting, and it was a really good subject to post here.. so enjoy.

Never Alone

“If you love Me, keep My commandments. ¹⁶ And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you." ( John 14:15-18)

This is a strong message. In this passage Jesus is promising that the Holy Spirit would come to be a Helper. He promise that we wouldn't be orphans spiritually.

In the service today, it was said that the need of God's Presence inside of a person is vital for their faith. Because when one does not have the Holy Spirit even though they try, something is missing. Eventually their faith will slowly fade away.

The Holy Spirit is the one that gives us strength to resist temptations, overcome problems and keep our faith strong. That why is so important for a person who really wants to be of God, have their baptism with the Holy Spirit.

Like it was promised we will never be alone when we have God's Presence within us.

Its important for you to seek with all of your heart. Knowing God by what you hear is not enough, you need to have that special encounter with Him. Then you will know for yourself that with God you are never alone.

God Bless

Bianca

Not going down...

Last night I was reading Luke 4:1-13, and it talked about when the devil tried to tempt Jesus on the desert. That passage spoke clear to me. Just like Jesus did not give in, thats how we have to be everyday when we are tempted.

We have things wanting to distract us from our faith everyday but just like our Lord Jesus, we must stay strong. Is it easy ?? not always,... but we have to use our faith and keep on moving.

Dear readers, some of you might be going through hard times but I want you to remember that God is greater than any problem. Don't worry greater things are yet to come.

I have my mind set that I will not fall on my faith no matter how big is my problem... I am in Better Hands.

Now its up to you.. will you give in to your problem or stay strong??

God Bless

Bianca

Two Masters

“No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” ( Luke 16:13)

I like this verse a lot. We were actually talking about it in church this week. Let me give you an example. Have you ever had a mean, cruel boss ??? If you have, did you like working with him/her ?? probably not. That is how the bad master is, he has nothing to offer you but bad things. While you serve him, all he do is make you suffer. He brings you depression, sadness, anger, jealousy, etc...

Many people are serving this bad master thats why nothing in their life works. They don't understand that is the only thing the bad master can offer them; an unpleasant life.

Now in the other hand the Good Master can offer an amazing life, but not a lot of people serve Him. Many say they believe in Him, which is fine but their actions show that they serve the bad master. Our Lord Jesus is the Good Master, and He can offer you the life that you want. All you have to do is serve Him.

You have to decide if you want to keep serving the bad master and live a miserable life or serve the Good Master that can give you an joyful life. Remember you can't be in the middle, is all about decision.

Dear reader, Its your choice if you want to keep your normal life or follow the Only One that can make you happy. What is going to be ??

God Bless

Bianca

Holy Spirit

I indeed baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.

( Mark 1:8)

Now I choose this verse from the Bible, because its something i see alot in the church. There is alot of people that want to receive the Holy Spirit but they apparently think that the pastor or the assistant can baptized them. I mean assistants, pastors, wives can help you with prayer, with fasting but YOU are the only one that can reach that. It depends on YOU !!!! You have to show God how much you want Him to fill your life. Words are not enough my friend, you really have to SHOW Him. Please understand that pastors can baptized you in water but the Only One that can baptized you with The Holy Spirit is God. Don't depend on the pastor's prayer when you are seeking Him on Wednesdays or Sundays. Also don't just pray at church, pray everywhere you go. Your thirst for God's presence must be like you are drowning in a pool and you cant breathe so you need air. You depend on that air to save you, thats how you should be. You depend on God to live.

Dear reader, if you want to have a true encounter with God, it depends on you and no one else

In faith always

Bianca

Time to forgive

Have you ever been hurt by someone that you swore you would never forgive them?? I know I have before I got converted. I been hurt before in the past, I remember I held so much anger against the people who had hurt me. I didn't want to forgive them or trust them because in my head I had the idea that they would hurt me again and I didn't want that. I held everything in my heart... The only thing i couldn't see is that I was the one who was getting even more hurt.

It was painful because the person who had hurt me was one of my good "friends". Every time I looked at her... I wanted to just destroy her with words...I know it sounds bad.. but its the true.

After getting converted I finally realize that I had no right to not forgive her. Think about it this way: If God that is so perfect forgave her; How can I ( sinner) judge her and refuse to forgive her ??? Who am I to do that ??? NOBODY !! It was hard to forgive ? yes it was, because I had to swallow my pride, humble myself and forgive her. But also I had to ask for forgiveness from God and from that person. I was wrong just like she was. i thought it was right to just ignore her and give her the cold shoulder.... but it didn't solve anything because I knew what had happen.

So my friend, until when are you going to refuse to forgive ? Until when are you going to live with this heavy load on your shoulders ? Come on !! Forgive and Be Free !!

Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.

God Bless

Bianca

At the Cross

Since we are in a such special week.... Here is a song about Our Lord sacrifice for us. No one can do what He did for us, It was all for love. ( Read John 3:16 )

In faith always,

Bianca

God, With You

You want me to repent

Take away my flesh

So I can see your face.

You want me to forgive

And thank you for this day.

You want me to be holy.

I decided to leave my past

I am never turning back.

Chorus:

So Break my heart and show me your light

Let Your will be done and your Spirit my guide

I, sacrifice everything I have at your throne

God with You, I am never alone.

You want me to repent

Take away my flesh

So I can see your glory

You want me to forgive

And thank you for this day.

You want me to be holy.

I decided to leave my past

I am never turning back.

Break my heart and show me your light

Let I, sacrifice everything I have at your throne

God with You, I am never alone.

Father reach my heart

Father reach my soul

Father changed everything I have inside

chorus

So Break my heart and show me your light

Let Your will be done and your Spirit my guide

I, sacrifice everything I have at your throne

God with You, I am never alone.

Hope yall like this song. written by my brother and I.

God Bless You

Bianca

Forever I am Yours.

FOREVER I AM YOURS

Savior hear the crying

Coming from my soul

Fears and thoughts

That make me feel alone.

My heart wants to control

Everywhere I go

Take my hand and lift me up

My Lord.

I can’t go on

Without Your presence

Watching over me

You give me hope

To believe

Chorus:

When I’m walking through the valley of death,

You’re by my side

And trouble times won’t bring me down because

I am in your hands.

You took up all my sins upon yourself on the cross

A sacrifice that no one could ever make

Now I can proclaim

Forever I am yours.

Verse 2:

Savior hear the crying

Coming from my soul

All my mistakes

Make me feel alone.

My heart wants to control

Everything I do

Take my hand

And guide me all the way through

I can’t go on

Without Your presence

Watching over me

You give me hope

To believe

Chorus

Bridge:

On the middle of the night

On my knees to pray

Tears of Joy are streaming down my face

Your everlasting love

I never felt like this

With your presence filling all within

I know, you’re there

In the worst of time

When no one else will care

My soul

Is Yours

I wrote this song.. hope yall like it.

God Bless You

Bianca

My Story ( Final Part)

In a beautiful October morning…October 31,2009 to be exactly. I had my encounter with God. An indescribable experience…I found true love ( if you want to know more about this day read October 31). From that day on I had the strength inside of me to go anywhere. I wasn’t shy to speak of Jesus anymore because now I really knew Him. Inside of me there is a love for souls that I never knew I could have. I don’t see people as people anymore but as souls that I have to save. I grew stronger. I had a purpose…save souls anywhere I go. So I started to give my all in The YPG as a leader, The Kids Zone as a teacher and desire of serving God was burning even more. I wanted to be a assistant. But I didn’t want a title..no I just wanted to Serve God to the extreme. I knew I could do more and that’s what I wanted. The campaign of Israel came and I really wanted to be an assistant. I have my heart set on that. That’s was my Isaac…instead of sacrificing for my own life, I made my sacrifice for the ypg to grow even more. It was hard because I wanted so bad but I told God: “ My Lord may it be Your Will and not mine”. I sacrificed and I see results already. I knew God wouldn’t fail. I asked for the YPG and He gave me that and even more. On January 9, 2010 I get raise as an assistant. Now I can serve Him to the extreme. No matter when or where I be here serving Him with all my life. Who I am now ??? Well I am a happy person that loves God more than anything. He saved me from a world of lies and illusion. Along the way I learned something important “ Emotions take you nowhere but Faith takes you anywhere”. As soon I stopped living by what I felt and I started to use my faith; everything changed. Just like God changed my life, He can change yours. My friend is up to you to take a decision and use your faith. I hope you enjoy reading my story. May God Bless You.

In Faith,

Bianca Ferreira De Lima

My Story (part 3)

Like I said since my baptism in waters many battles came up. Those friends were still persevering. They wouldn’t leave me alone. I grew so tired of it. I made a mistake there… I tried to solve the problem by myself. I was frustrated because I wanted to be faithful to God. I had a fear of messing with God. Then one day I pray to God. I said I couldn’t do it…I asked Him to guide me and give me strength. I knew that alone it would be impossible but with God by my side... I would be able to do it. From that on I stopped using my emotions and I used my special weapon. My faith. Those so called friends stopped bothering me one by one. In church I gave my all… but now I did it because I wanted to not because I had to keep my “saint” image. Let’s fast forward to summer 2009. With no school and nothing to do, I was expecting my summer to be boring. But boy was I wrong…my summer was amazing. To start with I started to go to church every day and stay there helping. I had my sisters in faith with me, and nothing was more joyful than be at church. My spiritual life grew tremendously… I became interested in serving God. Even though I was a teacher in the Kids Zone. I wanted to do something more. So my whole summer was being in church.=) A big opportunity to get even closer to God came on August. The YPG Summer Camp- John 3:16 Camp made a difference in my life. 3 days where the main goal was to be closer to God. Great experience. 2 weeks after the camp; school came back and my biggest battle came. I knew that new people would come to my life, and the devil would try to throw me off my faith. My spiritual life was a good stage but I was still missing something. I wasn’t satisfied… I was missing God’s presence inside of me. That was my main goal…receive the Holy Spirit. It was a long journey…seeking Him with all my heart and soul. Praying like there was no tomorrow. Making sacrifices… sacrificing my will. In one beautiful October morning….

To be Continue…

God Bless You

Bianca

My Story (part 2)

Until one day… a Wednesday service to be exactly. The Pastor preached that when you don’t have a commitment with God; you feel empty. As he was describing how you feel when you don’t have God; I had to hold my tears. In my head I was like “ that’s me”. It was like he was describing me… I was speechless. Then he made a prayer…and when I opened my mouth to start my prayer..I just started to cry. But I cried like I never did before. Pastor told us to open our hearts and tell God what was wrong. I tried my best to say something… but only tears would come out. I let go of everything I had inside of my heart that day. Then pastor asked if you wanted to have a commitment with God and taking the first step: baptism in water to come forward. Now in my head the devil tried to put the doubt. I didn’t mention but I got baptizied when I was 12. It was just a shower. A dry sinner got in and a wet sinner came up. All based by emotions. Anyways… the devil almost made me give up. I was scare to even think about what other people might say or think of me. I had to be strong…so I went forward; I was on my knees and I asked God to forgive me for everything I was doing. Once the prayer was over; I looked around and I received a lot of surprise glances. It didn’t matter anymore because I had made my decision. I was getting baptizied; big decision. But the devil didn’t give up. He put more friends in my way. It was up to me to either go with my “friends” or be faithful to God. My decision was to let go of of this world and be serious with God for the first time in my life. My baptism day was finally here.. December 31,2008. I saw big changes from that day on.. also big battles…

To be continue….

God Bless You

Bianca

My Story (part 1)

I was practically born in church; now you might think” What kind of problems did she had”? Well I had many. To start with growing up in church doesn’t save anybody from problems; no it sure doesn’t. My problems started at the age of 11. I know I was young but it was that time where I didn’t know who I was anymore. I used to blame the fact that I just moved countries, I had to learn a new language and make new friends. Now I realize that the problem was within me. When I started middle school I felt obligated to be someone I wasn’t.. . maybe it doesn’t make sense but seeing all those girls at school made me want to be like them. They seemed to be so happy and free. They could do whatever they felt like. I just wanted to have that freedom. It wasn’t too long until I met some girls( 6^th grade). They were so nice to me and I was like wow !! They are really good friends…that’s what I thought. They turn up to be the opposite, they hurt me, they used me and I thought they were just being good friends. How naïve. Until 7^th grade… people change and that’s what happen.. They changed…I changed. In my head I had the thought that I had to fit in. In church I was the “saint”; the girl that never made mistakes. I was a youth of God through everybody’s eyes. But only God knew how lost I was. In some way I knew I was being a two-faced. That didn’t bother me until things started to go wrong at school. I started to talk, dress and act like them. Now that I look back.. how shameful. I didn’t know who the real Bianca was. At night I used to think what happen to the nice, sweet girl I used to be. I felt so empty and so sad. I had a smile on my face everyday… but not because I was happy but because I had hide my pain. I used a smile to hold my tears. I didn’t understand why was I feeling so empty. Until one day…

To be continue…

God Bless You

Bianca

A decision that changed my life..

Yesterday it complete one year since I took one of the biggest decisions in my life. I decide to give my life to the Lord Jesus. It was the New Year’s Vigil…I will never forget. The water was extremely cold...The pastor said is good because it really killed the old creature…rsrsrsr

From that day on, I can honestly say I saw changes in my life. I wasn’t perfect and I had my mistakes. I also learned from them and grew spiritually. All my battles made the girl I am today…strong and happy. The Lord Jesus accepted me the way I was. He didn’t want me to be perfect…No!! He just wanted me to give Him my life and I did. I still had mistakes, with time He was molding and perfecting me the way He wanted me to be.

Now that I think about it… my life compared to what He gave me is nothing. He gave me the truest of love. He gives the peace I have 24/7. He gave me my most precious treasure…My Salvation.

My friends, God is not asking you to be perfect. He just wants to save you. He wants to protect you from any harm that this world brings. He wants to take care of you. He wants to be your Best Friend. He wants you to feel complete…and the only way to feel that way is when you give your life to God. So take a decision…give yourself to God (100%) Let Him show you the life He wants to give it to you. I am sure you will never regret this decision. Take a step…go on. But until when are you going to make Him wait??

P.S: the picture above is from my baptism. One of the happiest days of my life. December 31,2008

God Bless You

BIANCA