The problem is it also keeps us in bondage to our current situation and we cannot become what Jesus died for us to be: victorious over every circumstance in life.

If you want to be victorious in life, I want you to know that you are already more than a conqueror, according to Romans 8:37.

You do not have to fight another war, Jesus did it for you!

You might say, “Then why don’t I feel victorious, Bettina?”

It doesn’t have anything to do with your feelings.

Let’s take the following example:

Have you ever been stopped by a policeman? I bet you stopped your car immediately the moment he ushered you to the roadside!

Could the policeman have stopped the car by his own strength? No.

What if he felt bad that day, could he still have stopped your car? Yes.

Why? Because he has been given authority–delegated power–over the traffic.

In the same way Jesus has given you authority over bad circumstances in your life. Just as the policeman does not go running to the president to ask him to stop the car, you should not go running to God with all your problems.

God has already done all He is going to do about the devil. He sent Jesus and Jesus triumphed over him.

You can walk in that victory today and never ever again be a victim in your life!

Oh and remember…

“Behold I give you the authority to trample on…all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you” (Luke 10:19)

G.F.I.

Go For It! Walk in your authority today!

Bettina

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And every time I make a decision when the pressure is on I miss it!

We are not supposed to make important decisions when we feel pressured (unless it’s a life or death situation).

For one thing, sometimes we will decide just anything to get rid of the pressure.

But, more important than that, we will not be able to listen from God.

You see, God does not use fear or anxiety to lead us. He will always lead us with peace, even under exasperating circumstances.

Jesus was pressured a lot by the religious people of His age. They always tried to trick Him into situations that would give them the right to accuse Him of blasphemy.

One day they took a woman to him who had committed adultery. Under their law she was doomed to be stoned and die for her sin. But they knew that Jesus was going to have trouble with this issue. After all, He preached about love and forgiveness, two concepts they were not very familiar with.

So they confronted Him with their two options:

A) Either she has to be stoned to make justice

B) Or you declare her free with your “love message” and you violate the law of Moses.

Pretty tricky situation, huh?

But Jesus did not hurry to answer them. He knelt down  and started drawing in the sand. Waiting, listening to God.

His adversaries were dumbfounded, they never expected that!

After a wile Jesus came up with His glorious option C): “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” (John 8:3)

His opponents had no other choice. One by one they disappeared and the woman’s life was saved.

Next  time you feel pressured with an option A) or B),  kneel down in the sand and listen to God!

He will always have an option C) for you!

Oh, and remember…
“Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart” (Psalms 27:14)

G.F.I.
Go For It!

Bettina

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My joy in the Lord, my joy in my Salvation. Yes, even my joy for living. Life had become a never ending drudge.

Thank God we have the Master living in us and faithfully guiding us at all times.

He led me to a verse I had read a thousand times, yet God’s Word never loses the power to surprise us as if it were the first time we read it.

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Mattew 11:28-30)

Maybe after reading this verse you had the same reaction I had:  sometimes in life it is almost impossible to picture an easy yoke on your shoulders.

It was then when enlightement came. From my daughter, bless her precious heart.

She shared with me from a sermon she had heard:

“Mother, we are to be human beings not human doings!”

That struck a chord in my heart.  So often we forget that we are not alone, abandonded to live our life by our own strength as fallen man.

There is a strength that is part of our life, so intricately woven into each instant of our day, that we cannot–and should not–try to live without it.

It is God’s grace, His empowerment, His supernatural blessing He bestows on each and every one of His children.

To live the abundant life Jesus died for us to have.

Are you tired today?

Stop trying to do, just be…

A joyful child of God marked with a blessing, a supernatural power to succeed.

Oh, and remember…
“The Lord is your shepherd, you shall not want. He makes you to lie down in green pastures; He leads you beside the still waters. He restores your soul.” (Psalms 23: 1, 2)

G.F.I.
Go For It! Don’t let anybody or any circumstance steal your God-given joy!

Bettina

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As you might know already, I live in Chile, a country who was assailed by the worst earthquake known in modern times.

That day was almost 1.000 km away from my home town to assist a Christian conference. I was sleeping in one room with two of my children in the tenth floor of my sister’s department. At 3:30 AM everything started shaking around us. Things came crashing down beside me and my children were terrified. They had never been in an earthquake before.

I want to share with you from my personal experience what I felt and did during the whole endless 90 seconds of trembling.

I had peace, and lots of it. Although I knew this supernatural peace was from God, it surprised me. My automatic reaction was that I talked to the earthquake just as Jesus talked to the storms on the seas of Galilea. No fear.

I did not experience any fear because I had the absolute certainty that I was in the middle of God’s will for my life, the safest place any human can ever live in. God had told me to attend this conference 6 months ago. I knew that His protection was all over me and my children.

My boldness affected my children and soon they were not afraid anymore. All the lights had gone out, so I told them to sleep quietly and that we’d clean up the mess next morning. And all three of us slept peacefully until daylight came.

Another minister who had gone to the same conference was awakened by the Holy Spirit and was told to leave the house with all his family. Minutes later a whole wall crashed right on their bed and would have crushed them had they been there.

Why am I telling you this? Because I want you to realize how important it is to live in God’s plan for our lives and to have a heart to hear from Him all day, every day. As you see, it can even save your life.

It breaks my heart to see Christians who don’t know God, they only know abut Him. So today I want to encourage you and exhort you:

If you have given your life to Jesus, He lives in you. He yearns to talk to you and to help you live according to His exceeding and abundant plans for your life! Don’t let another day pass without searching for Him with all your heart!

Oh, and remember…

“A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you.” (Psalm 91:7)

This verse came true for me on the 27th of February 2010. God is so good! It is true for everybody who knows Him too!

G.F.I.

Go For It! Be diligent today to discover and walk in God’s plan!

Bettina

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Usually people have trouble when they try to figure out God’s plan,  because they get too complicated about it. It’s really very simple. God is not going to design a perfect plan for your life and then abandon you to figure it out by yourself.

No, He wants you to find out what it’s all about and passionately yearns to be part of it, because His plan is so huge you would never be able to walk it out on your own. It is exceedingly and abundantly above anything you could think of!

Nevertheless there are 3 issues that will keep you in darkness about His plan. If you don’t deal with them, you won’t have the clarity you need to walk out the awesome blueprint He has already designed for your life.

Condemnation:

If you are focusing on all the bad stuff in your life you will not be able to hear from God, because of your conscience. Even though it is very hard for human nature to understand, we have to come to the point of realizing what Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross really did for us.

The book of Hebrews says He dealt with the bad stuff in our life once and for all. If you commit a mistake, don’t cry over it for three years. Go to the throne of mercy, repent and get on with your life. There is not enough time to ponder on all our mistakes!

Cowardice:

Do you have trouble confessing your faith or stepping out for God? Then you are probably dealing with cowardice.

The good news is that we don’t have to be bold by our own strength, He is the one who makes us bold by His Spirit.

Peter was a coward who denied Jesus three times, but when the Spirit of God came upon Him in Pentecost (Acts, Chapter 2), he boldly preached a sermon and 3,000 people were converted.

You are not walking alone in His plan for you. God is with you, loving you, caring for you and giving you the wisdom to proceed.

Contrariness:

If there is something in you that is not totally submitted to God, but is pulling you in another direction, it will be an obstacle for you. God will not make you walk in His plan. He is a gentleman.

That is why the Bible says: “Many are called but few are chosen.” Whether you are chosen or not only depends on you, not God. It requires total submission to God to walk in His plan.

Once you realize that your petty plans for your life are not nearly as exciting and wonderful as His, you will not rebel against His plan.

Oh, and remember…
“And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings.” (Acts 17:26)

G.F.I.
Go For It!

Get rid of the 3 C’s in your life today!

Bettina

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Change #1: I decided to spend quality time with God every day. If it meant sleeping less and getting up earlier, I was willing to do that sacrifice. I knew that having fellowship with the kindest Being in the Universe would affect my life powerfully.

Change #2: I studied His Word and took advantage of every opportunity I had to listen to anointed teachings from Him. I’d download free Bible teachings and listen to them while I cooked, drove in my car, exercised, worked in the garden, etc.

Change #3: I took the quality decision that these new learned truths would govern my life from now on. As I listened to God’s Word, my way of thinking started to change. I started to view myself the way God sees me, as a precious creation of His that had the God given ability to succeed in life. I discovered that He had an exciting, glorious and good plan for my life.

Change #4: I learned the language of silence. Even though my mind was being renewed by receiving high quality spiritual food, my mouth often still spoke things that were contrary to God’s Word. The Bible says that life and death lie in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21). I determined to only speak God’s Word over my life and my circumstances, no matter what they looked like or how I felt.

Change #5: I chose to walk in love. Coming from a dysfunctional family, I had serious wounds of my past and harbored resentment against the people who had hurt me. I decided to forgive and not to take any more offenses, because I knew they would shut me off from God and His blessings. Besides, after spending so much time with Him, He taught me to love the way He loves: unconditionally.

Please note that these changes did not occur overnight. It was only through the grace,–the supernatural empowerment of God–that I could stick through this process without giving up. He was always there, patient and merciful.

He restored my life to a place where people are impressed by my boldness and confidence. What a miracle!

If He did it for me, He can do it for you too!

But most of us hesitate when it comes to picking up the paintbrush and boldly filling it with color. We’d love

somebody else to at least give us an outline about what “should” be drawn.

We want somebody else to tell us who to be.

It frees us from responsibility and especially from risk.

Oh, that risk!

Most of us spend our life’s energy on eliminating risks or at least trying to control it as much as possible. We

reject anything that cannot be controlled.

The problem is you lose your soul and your dreams when you insist on controlling things. Too many people forsake their dream because they are not willing to take a risk.

Many don’t take risks because they fear they aren’t up to the challenge. These people have never learned to take the desire in their hearts seriously.

But deep down inside we know that we were not created to live our life controlling things. We were created by Almighty God to live an adventure.

Adventures are exciting…and risky.

Today you can recover the dreams of your heart by releasing control!

Because God does not operate according to formulas. He is a person with a limitless creativity. He is a truly free and alive personality.

Whoever chooses to walk with Him must prepare for adventure. He cannot be put into a religious, doctrinal or theological box.

He has already designed you for a specific task to accomplish in this world. But don’t go looking for it there,

search inside. That is where you will find your calling.

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what

the world needs is people who have come alive.” Gil Bailie

What makes you come alive? What is written in your heart? Don’t ask yourself how to achieve it. That is God’s problem.

You will walk it out with Him, one day at a time, together with Him. It will be full of amazing surprises and unexpected challenges, but when all has been said and done, it will always be good.

Oh, and remember…

“Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you

go” (Joshua 1:9)

G.F.I (Go For It) and lose it today!

Bettina

who’s lost it and doesn’t want it back!

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The place where God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meets. Frederick Buechner

That means your life should be increasing constantly from one day to the next.

If you are struggling in this area, you are probably facing fears you’ll have to deal with.

In every change we want to make in our lives or every new step we want to take, we’ll encounter man’s greatest enemy: fear. Fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable.

Fear has a way of paralyzing our actions. It has us cowering in a corner and forces us to settle for a level of life that is way below what God has intended for us.

If fear is the greatest obstacle to our growth, then why do we fear so much? Why can’t we just ignore the message of fear and focus on what God has put in our heart?

You can. But it will require some action.

Fear operates just as faith does. As a matter of fact, fear is a twisted kind of faith. It is also a form of belief. It believes more in the devil’s ability to harm us than in God’s ability to help us overcome the odds.

And just as faith is made strong by reading and hearing the Word of God, fear develops by allowing negative messages to access our minds.

We are bombarded with bad news daily. If it’s not the media it will be the colleague at work or our next door neighbor.

If we are not careful, we will very soon accumulate enough information that will justify all our fears.                

This does not mean we should ignore bad circumstances, but we should never allow them to determine our outlook on life. There is a higher Truth.

While the whole world is going havoc, there is still an Absolute that stands as a huge rock in the middle of a raging sea: God’s Word and His promise of having empowered the human race to become more than conquerors through Jesus Christ.

Anyone who chooses to build his or her life on this rock will overcome insurmountable obstacles. He will be able to boldly confront life’s challenges and walk out in faith to achieve the seemingly impossible.

Oh, and remember…

“Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” (Luke 12:32)

G.F.I.

Go For It!

Bettina

who wants to inspire you to step out of that secure boat so you can walk on water!

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I want to remind you that none of us was furtively planted here on earth.  The Bible clearly states that we are a masterpiece of God that is to walk in a plan that He has designed beforehand. 

“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10)

You know, we will be accountable before God for everything we have done in our lives.

But who wants to miss out on God’s plan anyway? If we don’t hook up to God and search for His plan for our lives, we will miss out on the most exciting and glorious destiny He has planned for us. God is no small thinker! (Isaiah 55:8)

His plans are way beyond anything we can imagine. God’s calling is by far the best option we could experience during your brief stay on planet Earth.

So, how can we know we are on the right track? It is really not that difficult. All you have to do is decide to flow with His program and He will do the rest.

First of all, you have to be sure about these 3 things:

1.- Have you accepted Jesus as Lord of your life? This is the first step you will have to take. Once you have accepted the huge gift He made for you by giving His life so yours could be saved, you become part of God’s family and you can start communicating with your Father.

2.- Are you getting informed about His known will? Before you can walk in God’s specific will, it is vital that you getacquainted with His known will, the Bible. Whatever your calling may be, it will always have to be aligned to theWord of the living God.

3.- Are you taking time to fellowship with God? Just as an earthly son can live a distant life from his father and still be his son, many believers live a distant life from God. Communicating with God is not difficult. He yearns to become part of our life.

Now you can start hearing from God! Once you decide to invest time in your relationship with God, He will draw nearer to you and you will start hearing from Him, not audibly but from within, because that is where He lives when you are a child of God.

He will start directing your life with peace. Whatever is in your heart to do that is aligned with the Word of God, will seem good to you. You will have peace about it. As you begin walking in this, the peace will become stronger and stronger, even if it might seem crazy to others.

Oh, and remember…

“For you shall go out with joy, and be led with peace…” (Isaiah 55:12)

G.F.I.

Go For It!

Bettina

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God has distinctively designed every one of us for a life that He has already planned beforehand.

If we learn to listen to His voice we can make important life decisions according to His wise guidance, –and not according to our limited human ability to discern what is best for us.

A wrong decision in life will have consequences in the future. Somewhere along the way God’s plan will start tugging in our heart.

Most mid-life crisis happen because a person started climbing up the wrong ladder. Lack of fulfillment and the awareness of “there is more to life” are the result of not seeking God’s will when we make our choices.

And God’s plan for our life is always perfect and glorious! It is much more than we can even imagine. Only He knows exactly who we are, and only He desires for us to live a fulfilled and meaningful life more than we ourselves do.

Then why do so many believers fail to hear from God when they make their life choices?

It is always because of one of three reasons.

Reason #1: They are Not Submitted to God. If we want to walk according to God’s plan for our life, we have to submit to His program instead of insisting on our own agenda. The most important step is giving our life to Him by accepting Jesus as the Savior of our souls.

Reason #2: They Fail to Listen to God. In our busy world most people don’t find the time to tune into God’s voice. He is always talking to us, but we have to learn to slow down and listen to Him. That is why it is important to dedicate a certain time of the day to just fellowshipping with God and reading His Word, the Bible.

Reason #3: Disobedience. Many people know exactly what they should do, but choose not to listen. Sometimes it is true rebellion, but many times it is because we are expecting something more spectacular from God. He often nudges us into directions that don’t make sense to us at all, so we choose to listen to our human reasoning instead of His guidance.

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