{"id":17849,"date":"2016-07-21T01:01:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T06:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=17849"},"modified":"2016-07-17T06:08:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T11:08:50","slug":"reborn-through-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2016\/07\/21\/reborn-through-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"PHN 2016: Reborn Through Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Astromar Miranda. Photo: Yamin\/cancaonova.com<\/p><\/div>\n

We have to get to know God, so we can be reborn through\u00a0mercy<\/h2>\n

Miracle is that which is an impossibility; <\/span>and I want to start this preaching challenging you to deliver\u00a0your\u00a0impossibility in the hands of that one who can do all\u00a0so that what is impossible\u00a0becomes a miracle.<\/span>What is the miracle you need?<\/span><\/p>\n

We should not hold on to the past or to the problems<\/h3>\n

There are two things that we are not to be impassioned about: the past and the problems. <\/span>Have you ever heard that unhappy phrase: “I was happy and didn’t know it!”? <\/span>This is a big lie we tell, having been in the comfort of things that don’t come back. <\/span>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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

Phase of the meeting: the one where it all begins, at home, with neighbors, first loves, the first disappointments.<\/span>
\nThe phase Mismatch: We separate ourselves from\u00a0our values, our essence and God because He gave us things to use\u00a0and people to love, but we ended up doing the opposite, using people and loving things.<\/span>
\nThe 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

We need to know what God’s mercy<\/h3>\n

If we don’t\u00a0find out who God is, we will never know what he can do in our lives. <\/span>If we don’t know who Jesus is, we may never know all that He can do for us. <\/span>To know the mercy of God, we need to meet him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s see, in 1 Peter 1.3, he \u00a0writes someone who experienced the mercy of the Lord:<\/p>\n

Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! <\/span>In his great mercy he made us be reborn by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to a lively hope. “<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Hope is different from expectation, because it passes fast; <\/span>already the hope is reborn each day. Whoever lives \u00a0with expectation is frustrated, because it ends; H<\/span>ope comes from experience, knowledge and intimacy, a confidence that comes from knowledge. <\/span>So, know Jesus, so that we have a living hope in God that He can do everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“If we don’t find out who He is, we will never know what He can do.” <\/span>Photo: Yamin\/cancaonova.com<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

If we\u00a0do not know the Lord, we will have no hope in the mercy of God. <\/span>We need to know the principle of being a child of God, know that we are made sons and daughters of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

The suffering has to generate in us the confidence in God, in his mercy. <\/span>We need Him\u00a0in order to mould us in the midst of suffering, because there are no strong people with an easy past. <\/span>Difficulties strengthen our personality, our character and our faith. <\/span>Take possession of this hope be alive in God, so that we can be reborn in him.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

We are valuable to God, but we need to meet him to recognize his mercy.<\/p>\n

Original Portuguese Transcribed and adapted by Jonatas Steps<\/em><\/p>\n