The Spirit of the Lord rests on me, because the Lord consecrates me through the . (cf Is 61:1)

I always ask myself: What do you want to say “The spirit of the Lord rests on me? He is resting? He is resting on me? I looked for the significance of this expression. Until I discovered that the word “to rest” is the same used in the first book of the bible, Genesis, (GN1:2) where it says. The breath of God hovered over the waters.

These words are similar. In Hebrew the word is utilized to express that which the hen does she rests over the eggs to prepare them. She knows that to how to place herself over them, without them breaking, until the chicks are born.

You know that the Holy Spirit is resting over your house, your family. Also over the confusions of your home. Whoever brings confusion to your house was not God, Neither was it only you or someone from your family. But the Holy Spirit is there to transform all. He is faithful and powerful in order to do this work. Enough to want and to ask. He rests over your house and your family to transform Chaos to order and beauty.

It is necessary to ask for the effusion of the Holy Spirit over our house! A constant effusion in order that continually, He rests over our house and our family. We need to be the first intercessors of our house. It is necessary to consecrate our how to those that our its owners. It is certain: You want that God may be the owner of the house. That Jesus govern and put in order your house.

After having received the grace of the effusion of the Holy Spirit it is that we begin to read, to understand the Word of God and to enjoy it. We begin to enjoy prayer to return to Church and to be effective in her. We assume a new form in our marriage, we have an engagement a commitment according to the heart of God…

We are in the time of Mercy, After this time,  after this time, God will have to use Justice! He needs to clean the face of the earth for already dirt has fallen on humanity has been dirtied. he will have to remove all the garbage, remove the weeds from this world in order that His house is clean and then He can take possession of that which his His. “He Himself comes to save us.”

Declare this before the Lord:

My House is of God! My family is of God!

It is necessary that to make a great mission in order that the power of the Lord the anointing of the Holy Spirit, retakes the holy place that is in my house. I want to reconquer and return to God my house and my family. I enter in this mission, Lord investing all. Investing my life, even my blood, to reconquer for You the holy place that is my house.

From the book: Me and my house; We will serve the Lord.

Our brother, Monsignor Jonas Abib

Translated from Spanish, where it appeared on the webpage of the New Song Community of Paraguay

In the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord says to us clearly: each day has enough of its own worries. 

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (Mt 6:34 NIV).

Jesus would be able to say as well: “You will always have problems.

Therefore, we do not need to remain worried with our future problems. Already we have, Our our problem for each day.” When tomorrow arrives, we will have to confront the problem then. Today we occupy ourselves with problems of today, without worrying ourselves with problems that already do not exist.

Your Brother,

Monsignor Jonas Abib

from the book “Combatentes na alegria

Translated from Portuguese

Trust in God in what He has for us. It is true that you do not understand why of your difficulties, through which you are passing. Accept them, for the Lord is with you in all these moments. 

“We accept good things from God; and should we not accept evil?” (Jó 2,10).

We need to be firm in God, being men and women of fiber, spiritual combatants that are confronted with the difficulties that may come up. Suffering gives us the temperment of spiritual warriors.

Your Brother,

Monsignor Jonas Abib

Monsignor Abib is the founder of the New Song Community of Brazil

Nevertheless, many forces of discipline in the spiritual life, the person does not feel a taste for prayer; on the contrary he experiences fatigue, discouragement, the absence of the presence of God, as if He has forgotten us, and the time appears to have no end.

We could say that faith and the hope are sleeping. The soul appears enwrapped in a species of torpor. It is a laborious time, and one does not experience joy. But, also in this time, God works in us. Jesus Himself says to us that “His Father continues working” God acts always in our favor and as St. Paul said: All things work for good of those that love God.” (Rom 8:28)

This time in the desert helps us to detach ourselves from all that which does not proclaim the lordship of Jesus in our lives. It teaches us and educates us to look for God as He is and not for that which He offers us.

Your Brother
Monsignor Jonas Abib
founder of the New Song Community

You will be perfect through the will of God, through the disposition of God, you will be perfect as my Heavenly Father is Perfect.

This is a great action of the Holy Spirit. The Father trusts to the Holy Spirit this great work, thus, as the beginning of the Bible says. God took mud and clay, he molded and modeled the man, the creature from the mud of the Earth. We are a work of art equally that is the work of the Holy Spirit, to shape us, mold us, to make us perfect as the Heavenly Father is perfect, this is to make us in the image and likeness of the Father.

This is not that notion of perfection that we have from time to time mathematically. An irreproachable person, No!. It is as you and many of us that already know who have worked with modeling clay. Modeling clay is an art, because also when you shape it, you perceive all the perfections in the process. The model is going to become perfect quickly, No! It is for this reason that the piece of art needs to keep being modeled and modeled. You are being modeled. This is a true creation that is made by hands.

But in the end this that which you wanted, that which you asked for is created and it is perfect and of the skill that you wanted. See the perfection made of imperfections. The notion of ours is to the contrary that perfection has to be perfect from the beginning, No! God is capable of and our own experience shows us that it is possible to be made of imperfection, the perfect, comes from of imperfection.

The Holy Spirit takes our imperfections, but still the modeling shows many imperfections, but He is not give up and you too don’t give up. He does not stop working on you, he gives you time. if you give Him a chance. He is making you until what is said is: “This is the image and likeness of the Father, this is perfect as the Father is perfect”. Of course it is in your reality as a human creature, the Divine Holy Spirit makes from you the image of the Father.

God bless you,
Your Brother,
Monsignor Jonas Abib

Those that receive the Holy Spirit take seriously this grace. God want to renew this nation, he wants to bring forth healing, miracles and marvels, he wants His word preached. He wants to transform people. 

It is urgent because the Lord is near.

Let us strengthen ourselves to know the Lord, His arrival is as certain as the dawn. His coming is certain as the morning sun, therefore, let us strengthen ourselves to know the Lord. (cf. Hos 6:3)

There is no other way to bring Jesus to our brothers. Bring him to conversion, a new life saved through the Holy Spirit. There is no other way to change our families, therefore, in order that they really Christian families it is only through the power of the Holy Spirit it is the secret.

Your Brother
Fr. Jonas Abib
Founder of the New Song Community.

All and whatever situation that appears to be impossible of resolving itself, humanly speaking, has a solution when we believe in Jesus our one Lord and we take possession of this truth.

What anguish do you have in your heart? What weighs upon your soul? What worry affects those who you are with? Is it something with your staff? It is your marriage, your fiancé? Or your work? It is a person loved by you? Your son, your daughter? Your husband, your wife? Your parents? What is their problem. Is it a vice? You are in a situation of conflict? Remember all of this has a solution in Jesus.

As we have to blow on hot coals to revive them, – The Lord with the wind of His Holy Spirit- revives our faith. Believe in this.

Perhaps your problem waits to be solved in a way that has you discouraged. Perhaps you think, “This has no solution.” I just asked, I prayed to the Lord, already they are praying for mim and the solution does not come. Perhaps you throw up your hands in desperation. Better still: When you draw near to the Lord, when you go to the one whom you need, the healing power of Jesus, the power of pardon and of reconciliation of Jesus reaches and casts out this sensation of unworthiness. When we turn our eyes to the Lord, He brings us to peace.

Allow the life that comes from the Lord to invade you.

Your Brother
Monsignor Jonas Abib

To believe in the truths that the Church teaches is a consequence of faith. 

We conquer the demon by resisting firmly in faith. And firmly in the faith means to believe in the victory of the Lord in us. Perhaps we may believe that our position is a defensive one, but the Lord teaches us the opposite. Our attitude is of reaction. To repond in faith.

Responding strongly in faith That is the Victory of God in our house in our family. 

What is your obstacle: an illness? a physical deficiency? some alcoholism in your family? Unemployment. Whatever it may be Jesus is sharing it with you. He is the first to be with you to shower blessings on your life. Draw close to the Lord and through faith, present your obstacle and believe in Him and believe that he will bring to you his assistance. Believe that he will make the best happen. Have Faith.

God Bless You,

Your Brother, 
Monsignor Jonas Abib

Monsignor Abib is the Founder of the New Song Community. 
He writes from Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil
 Translated from Portuguese by Fr. Robert Carr

Not one who stifles God and is many times discouraged.

Have faith.

That which is of God is reached through faith, not through the senses or through intelligence.

That which is of matter one touches through the senses. One can touch, feel, see and hear, but that which is of God, one cannot.

Do not try to rationalize or intellectualize something so transcendent. All of that which is natural is searched for with intelligence. See, for example, how beautiful is touch. You can feel and, therefore, there are millions of nerves in your body. They bring all the sensations of your body to your brain. It is so fast that automatically a response comes from your brain.

For example if you cut yourself with a needle, immediately your brain will respond with a sensation of pain.

Much more can we account with your eyes. There are millions of points each one without a lens. There is not a single lens that is capable of seeing all that you can experience with your human vision.

Hearing is marvelous, there are hundreds of nerves that bring all the sounds to your brain.

The same occurs with your intelligence. That which is material you cannot grasp with intelligence what you can grasp with feeling. Through intelligence you reason and have ideas. Your intelligence is marvelous. It is that which differs us from the animals.

Beyond intelligence you have another grace that God gives you. more than the senses and your own intelligence: Faith.

If you don’t use your eyes, you will not see. If you don’t use your touch you will not feel, if you don’t use your tongue, you will not taste, close your ears and you will not hear.

So as you need to use your senses and your intelligence, you need to use your faith.

We have faith and we need to use it.

There are persons with mental laziness. They do not use their intelligence. It is true that a majority of persons do not use more than 10% of their intellectual capacity. The same accounts for their senses that lack full use. There are persons who are sensibly lazy. They don’t use 100% of their vision or their hearing because they don’t apply themselves.

These visually dificient have adequate touch and the hearing. Therefore, they are excellent musicians, cantors and they can hear that which most people cannot hear. And why, simply because they apply themselves.

I have the oppotunity to perceive this in my better musical recordings when I worked with the Titulares do Ritmo, a group of blind musicians. They impressed me with a sensitivity in the interpetation of every recorded rhythm.

You too have this capacity, One person upon losing his vision is practically able to hear better and to apply his hearing better. He is able to read through the medium of the marvels of braille a system of upraised dots.

You too have this touch and because you see and hear you don’t apply it. The same thing with your faith. Unfortunately you are lazy. You don’t apply even 10% of your intellectual capacity nor 1% of your faith. You would like to give one more percentage, but unfortunately you don’t apply not even 1% of your faith. I repeat, you unfortunately have not applied not even 1% of your faith.

” tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” (Matt 17:20 NIV)

Faith makes the impossible become possible, but you have to apply it.

If you do not apply your touch, your hearing they are not going to develop, but if you apply them you will arrive at 100%.

You need to grow in your faith, You need to apply yourself in faith.

If you do not develop your faith, you will not see that which only those whom a confident and living faith can live and experience. The victory will not happen.

I want to be a conqueror. I believe that faith is victory, that conquers the world and is capable of conquering all situations of the world.

Renew my faith, Lord. Awaken me, Lord, I want to believe with all my heart and I want to be truly happy. The power of God is greater that any kind of resistance, but he respects liberty and not violence. On the contrary He desires an encounter. Yes a personal and unique encounter with you and He, the Lord.

If you still have not had this encounter. You need to have it.

Monsignor Jonas Abib
Founder of the New Song Community.

God and men are separated. It was not God who separated himself. It was the man who left from his Lord. To Unite is the great work that is confided to us. God wants this. For such he sends His Son to unite that which was separated. We need God we are of God. We belong to God. Our realization and our happiness are in God only in God. Outside of him we are disoriented, off course, adrift. We lose the goal.

Whenever we are far, we will always be stranded, we will always be in the valley of tears. Our happiness, our peace and our joy are in returing to God. However much you draw closer to the Lord, the more joyful, happy and realized you will be.

Religion exists for this reason, to unite that which was separated.

God bless you!

Monsignor Jonas Abib
Founder of the New Song Community.