Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Dunga Preaching
The beginning of a new life. You cannot return to your house the same way that you arrived here. You have one of two ways of returning to your house: better or worse. You cannot return to you house the same way.
Your past brought you here and your past does not interest me. I am only interested in you that today you will go to give testimony what God did in your life. That which God prepared for you is the best for your life. Prepare your heart to be happy. The most pessimistic are going to say that all will be equal, but if you do not see beyond the horizon you will to not be able to obtain perception. Faith is fundamental to hope. Beyond the horizon there is something prepared for us.
The more you pray the more perfected you grow to become.
Perhaps you do not agree with that which I speak, but be aware that you are beautiful. Realize in your life the will of God. Whoever wants to realize the will of God cannot be timid, he has to have courage, proceeding in the Holy Spirit of God, because God wants to do marvels in your life and through you.
God is inviting you to throw yourself to Him for the rest of your life. It does not matter how you arrived here at the New Song Community, that which is important now is to proceed decisively.
You who are father and dream of making better conditions for your children, dream of you son praying a little more, of being a good man; dream of giving your wife better days. You, that are mother who dreams of seeing a family together Sunday, dream of hearing in your house words gentle and docile, you that dream of having a better salary, I say to you: consider this as trash compared to what God is going to give you these days. You who have a problem that is stopping you due to embarassment. Stop only depending on yourself and on what you can do. Take advantage of leaving this problem here. This problem is not yours and don’t return to your house with it. Walk decisively.
The New Song Community wants to return you to your house. It wants that you consider all the things God has reserved for you today.
Say: “Make my life new, Lord . . . Fill me, Jesus with the newness, with all that the Lord reserved for me.”
It does not matter the condition in which we arrived, that which makes the difference in your life from here is to proceed decisively with that which the Lord has put in your hand.
Dunga
Transcription: Willieny Isaias
Translation Fr. Robert J. Carr