October - Events & Encouragement from Pastor Luis
WOW! October! What a wonderful month! We are so grateful to have been able to host close to 150 people for our Pastors and Leaders Congress. We had such a blessed time.
Do you realize how fast time flies by, and in the blink of an eye, we are in November! It’s a month where we celebrate a very special and anticipated day for many families, Thanksgiving Day.
1 Thesalonians 5:18 says: “Give thanks in all circumstances.” The phrase “in all” means exactly that, in all circumstances. Give thanks in the good days, in the bad days, night and day we must do so, because this is the will of God for us in Christ Jesus. There is a Psalm that gives us a list of reason as to why we must be thankful. Possibly, a thanksgiving that goes beyond the salary that we earn, the house that we live in, or the car that we drive. This thanksgiving attitude is based on much bigger values that we find in Psalm 103 says: “Praise the Lord oh my soul”, meaning, “give thanks to the Lord oh my soul”… and forget not all his benefits.
Many greater benefits we receive from the Lord can be found in this Psalm: He is who forgives your sins and heals all your diseases, he is who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things, He who works righteousness and justice, and has made his ways known to us.
I challenge you to spend a few minutes of your day, every day, to give thanks to God; not only in November or just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. Let’s not take Him for granted, God is good.
Serving Christ together,
Pastor Luis
