PHN 2016: Reborn Through Mercy

Astromar Miranda. Photo: Yamin/cancaonova.com

We have to get to know God, so we can be reborn through mercy

Miracle is that which is an impossibility; and I want to start this preaching challenging you to deliver your impossibility in the hands of that one who can do all so that what is impossible becomes a miracle.What is the miracle you need?

We should not hold on to the past or to the problems

There are two things that we are not to be impassioned about: the past and the problems. Have you ever heard that unhappy phrase: “I was happy and didn’t know it!”? This is a big lie we tell, having been in the comfort of things that don’t come back. As well as a few others cling to the problems and forget that they are like a bank line in which they leave one to go into another.

We should leave the time in which we live, because the life of the one who was reborn of mercy is divided into three phases:

Phase of the meeting: the one where it all begins, at home, with neighbors, first loves, the first disappointments.
The phase Mismatch: We separate ourselves from our values, our essence and God because He gave us things to use and people to love, but we ended up doing the opposite, using people and loving things.
The Reunion phase: in this phase, Salvation comes to us, and that’s where we realize the emptiness, and this can only be filled by God.

We need to know what God’s mercy

If we don’t find out who God is, we will never know what he can do in our lives. If we don’t know who Jesus is, we may never know all that He can do for us. To know the mercy of God, we need to meet him.

Let’s see, in 1 Peter 1.3, he  writes someone who experienced the mercy of the Lord:

Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he made us be reborn by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to a lively hope. “

Hope is different from expectation, because it passes fast; already the hope is reborn each day. Whoever lives  with expectation is frustrated, because it ends; Hope comes from experience, knowledge and intimacy, a confidence that comes from knowledge. So, know Jesus, so that we have a living hope in God that He can do everything.

"Se eu não descobrir quem Ele é eu nunca saberei o que Ele pode". Foto: Wesley Almeida/cancaonova.com

“If we don’t find out who He is, we will never know what He can do.” Photo: Yamin/cancaonova.com

If we do not know the Lord, we will have no hope in the mercy of God. We need to know the principle of being a child of God, know that we are made sons and daughters of God.

The suffering has to generate in us the confidence in God, in his mercy. We need Him in order to mould us in the midst of suffering, because there are no strong people with an easy past. Difficulties strengthen our personality, our character and our faith. Take possession of this hope be alive in God, so that we can be reborn in him.

When we ask how was the PHN, we can answer: “I experienced the mercy of a God who is Father!”.

We are valuable to God, but we need to meet him to recognize his mercy.

Original Portuguese Transcribed and adapted by Jonatas Steps

Astromar Miranda

A member of the Mariana Braga movement and preacher

Portuguese Version