Great is my Papa. Your love is greater than my life, almost every second I feel your spirit inviting me to taste and see how good your truly are, not just to think of it but to taste your presence, to taste your love. All I know, all I am is only revealed by your majesty and intimate love for me and that takes all the yoke off of my shoulders and makes me lay down in your chest and wait for Your voice to tell me who I am.

I feel your love like rolling waters that come down a river and hit in the rocks of my heart and through time these rocks start becoming smooth. Your love shapes my heart with your rolling waters. It turns my heart and my soul into a smooth surface. You give me hope, you can make me love again, you can make me fly above the clouds of my own humanity and see from your perspective how good you've made life, taste your presence and your spirit in me.

I wanna be like a child. Go back to my inocence. But so many times I'm taken away by my desire to grow up and to become independent; then I realize that I stop trusting and believing. I can't live without your love. I can't live without your embrace papa. Come and let me be the reason of Your smile.

[...] let us press on to know Him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth." [...]

He will come! =)

Love to the end

I just came back from a 3 day trip to a small village called Minhuene in the district of Ankuabe. What God did to me no words could fully express, I have tried to find them but there is nothing that compares to the acting and dynamic power of God's TRUE LOVE moving. I feel like the old Paulo is not there anymore and at every second that goes by something new dies in me and a new reality comes forth; everything has been a reason for me to burst into tears because I'm overwhelmed with the intensity of God's LOVE for me. He loves me so much and yet I am so ungrateful; he has given me so much and still I raise my hands and complain that I don't have enough; He has given us more than enough, more than sufficient, abundantly, plentifully but it's so much easier to be oblivious but once you're faced with a Holy spirit mirror in front of you everything changes. I have much that I could write but I challenge you today to take a bold step and dare to LOVE. I dare you to love someone, beyond the differences, beyond your walls and barriers. I once heard:" Love until it hurts, then there will be no more hurt simply love" . For the past days I've been confronted by God with His LOVE and how mighty, powerful and yet gentle and sweet is his love and it frightens me to know that He is capable of Loving me despite of all the times I've neglected him but it also motivates me to LOVE, it compels me to LOVE others. If Jesus gave his life for me why can't I give mine to others, if Jesus gave me his heart why can't I surrender mine to others? We can change the world through God's grace and love, join hearts with me, lets dare to Love where no one wants to take steps...

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Imagine yourself in a small boat in the middle of the ocean; You have been sailing following the directions you had but suddenly you find yourself lost and there's nothing around you but water. You stand up, look up to the sky and think:" what now?" What is there to do besides diving into the water and waiting? A lot of times in life we'll face situations when there seems to be no way out; You look around and you think:" God! What's gonna happen now? " and lately I've been feeling God's voice just whisper in my heart: " just dive! dive into my Arms" . The best places in life to be found in are when the only option we have is God or God.

The Bible says in Hebrews 4:11 that even for us to rest and wait in God it takes effort because it requires us giving up our options, following directions that we don't always know where its leading us and when we think we're lost we have no other option but to dive. Dive and wait for God's waves to bring you to shore, bring you to where He wants you to be. I invite you today to dive deeper and to rest in Him despite of all the work that might be!

How many times do I forget the day when Love itself walked on Earth; then I feel as if You loved me more than your own son because He was given so that I may live. Thank you for loving me, a sinner, a beggar, but completely fallen in passion for You.