I’d like to clarify that the profiles under my name on Orkut (over 1,000) are false. None of the information provided about me on this social network is true, and so it should not be taken into consideration.

God bless you!

For the sake of friends and, especially, the members of the UCKG, I’d like to make some interesting comments…

Is it the case that people who accuse me of taking advantage of others, saying that I am a crook or thief, would love to have the life that I have?

Or do they accuse me because they are honest, righteous, true, and holy? And if so, then why aren’t they as blessed as they wish they were? Why is God so unfair to them?

What kind of God is that who blesses a crook and curses the righteous one? Or is it that, despite being so honest, they can’t succeed because they are incompetent?

Would their incompetence be the reason behind their failure?

As Theodore Roosevelt once said, “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

Gideon’s strength was in his revolt. But his revolt was not in his heart, but in his mind.

In his mind, he was conscious of the God of his forefathers and of His wonders. The Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent God—that is, the God that worked indeed!

Through His faithful and devoted servants, He delivered three million slaves from Egypt, and turned His children into a nation: Israel. This caused them to be envied and, consequently, hated by the people of the East.

How could a bunch of slaves become a nation?

Everyone turned against them; no one wanted Israel to become a nation. And the same thing happens to the UCKG in relation to other churches and religions around the world!

Because of his intelligent faith, Gideon was revolted against the situation of his country. He refused to believe in a God so great and yet submit to the slavery imposed by the enemies.

His revolt was not a mere feeling of the heart; it originated in his mind. Why accept slavery if God had set them free from it? This is intelligent faith.

Emotional faith does not have the courage to take attitudes. It doesn’t have the courage to sacrifice in exchange for salvation, much less to conquer blessings. Emotional faith is cowardly and subject to adverse circumstances.

But when faith is separated from emotions, the opposite happens! Intelligent faith refuses to live a miserable, shameful, and humiliating life…

If God is the Father and the Owner of the whole universe, how can His children have a bad quality of life?

Do you think rational, supernatural, intelligent faith accepts that???

Only the children of darkness do!!!

On April 22, I held a meeting in Costa Rica, Central America. See the pictures below.

God bless you!

It’s revolting to see emotional faith in action! Just the other day I was caught by surprise by a member from another church who wanted to take pictures with me and her family. I hate that! But, because I didn’t want to be rude to her, I accepted it.

After taking the pictures, she insisted on praying for me. I was a bit suspicious about her attitude but, again, I didn’t want to be impolite and so I let her pray for me. After all, I thought, I need prayers.

My suspicions were confirmed. Her prayer was but mere empty words. She asked God to bless my meal, among other foolish things… Absolute nonsense!

It didn’t help me in any way! On the contrary, it made me upset for having wasted my time…

The truth is that she didn’t learn anything I had taught minutes before. Her random “hallelujahs” only disturbed the service.

I have noticed one thing throughout the years: every time I saw people trying to show off their “spirituality”, I ended up faced with a mixture of flesh + demons.

The devil knows how to deceive emotional people very well. The worst of all is that those who are deceived manage to deceive other believers through their alleged “super holiness”.

Every believer who considers everything a sin ends up manifesting demons…

Those who are born of God, on the other hand, are balanced; they have common sense and know whom they believe!

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.” (Matthew 23.14)

I remember a young woman from South Africa who, after being delivered, became an assistant and, as a servant of God, rejected her ex-husband, who was a womaniser and bad character.

However, after being advised by many other assistants, she forgave her husband and accepted him back. Shortly after, she found out that she had been infected with HIV. Three months later, she died. Her husband did not convert and is still spreading the deadly virus.

Who killed her? Was it HIV, the husband, or the other assistants’ emotional faith?

The Holy Spirit warns us, saying:

“For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded life and peace.” (Romans 8.6)

The Word of God is glorious. The practical information it gives not only leads to eternal life, but it also gives hints of this world’s subliminal evil.

It’s the case of the feelings of the soul. How many people live a hellish life because of a bad marriage? But what’s the reason behind the bad choice?

A deceitful heart!

And it’s not only concerning one’s love life. As a matter of fact, it has to do with all the areas of our life—arts, sports, business partnerships, friendships… Any relationship based on the passions of the heart will always end up in destruction and, many times, in death.

Whilst the flesh, biblically speaking, minds the feelings, passions and emotions of the heart, the spirit minds the wisdom of God.

Question:

I have a problem. I have been married now for 4 years. I dated my husband very little time and I got pregnant. I love my husband very much, but there’s a problem: he has little education. He is lazy, has no sence of style, has no comprehention of anything. I have to be “his legs” in other words. It’s like I have another child. He’s 4 years younger than me and I try to talk to him but he just doesn’t care about anything. He has no desire to interact with his kid and that drives me crazy! I have to do all the bill paying, I work all day, I go to church (which is the only sanity that I maintain), I have to make all doctor appoints for him, I have to explain everything to him in baby words so that he can understand, I carry all the responsibilities plus cooking, cleaning, laundry, even fixing things around the house! Now I’m ready to move on to opening a store but I don’t want to do this all by myself. I don’t want him to enjoy the luxuries and not work for anyting. He does go to church with me but he doesn’t pray like he should. I asked if he wanted to fast together and he looked at me like I had three heads. He wants to enjoy a good life, but he doesn’t want to work. I feel like the reason why he goes to church is because he gets to go out somewhere.

My problem is that I fear that if this continues I’ll have to file for a divorce. He gets a day off a week and he can’t bring himself to pick things up off the floor. I am physically exhausted and I am very stressed out. I am with the kids 7 days a week and I work 5 days a week. What should I do?

- Anonymous

Answer:

You married a man whom you feel is not compatible to you, now you need to make yourself compatible to him. It’s no use for you to look down on him now. Be a wife and help him as the Lord instructed you to do… be a suitable helper. It’s not your husband’s fault that you’re both so different - stop blaming him or making him feel small, but instead, help him be the husband you wish him to be.

Only the new birth gives us the right to a new heart (Ezekiel 11.9 and 36.26).

Spiritual failure is related to the practice of emotional faith.

Do you know what? Emotional faith stimulates cowardice and shyness, impeding us to practise the Word of God. Rational or intelligent faith, on the other hand, encourages us to sacrifice in order to do the will of God.

The inability to distinguish between what is emotional and what is spiritual has disastrous effects on Christian life. And, because God is spirit, we cannot mix emotional worship with spiritual worship.

Emotional worship is based on emotions, nothing else. People cry, make promises of love and give in to emotional faith moved by appealing songs. It’s so strong that people have created what they call “ministry of praise”. The name itself is already an aberration.

In the adoration in spirit, our intellect works in accordance with the Word of God. See the book of Psalms, for example.

Paul didn’t say, “I feel whom I have believed.” But he said, “I know whom I have believed” (2 Timothy 1.12). Two small words that make a clear difference between emotional worship and spiritual or intelligent worship.

The use of rational faith involves two things: sincere recognition of God’s greatness and the demand of His promises. This is to worship in spirit and in truth.

Those who are born of the flesh do not have this discernment because they allow themselves to be led by emotions.

“For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” (Hebrew 4.12)