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Laura was a woman well-determined and decided, however, was unhappy and empty
Laura woke up scared. He looked at the clock and realized that they were still 2:30 am.
Had a few days she did not sleep well. He went to bed and was turning from one side to the other in bed, and nothing. Until dozed, but woke up with a start, his heart pounding, as if something was about to happen.
So were his last nights. The day dawned and she kept her eyes as open as when out lie.
Although there was no apparent reason, there was an emptiness inside her, an anguish, the heart was tight, but she did not understand why.
The family was well. At work everything would wind into pulp - had finally conquered the position that both wanted. So what was the problem? Because that sense of emptiness, this dissatisfaction felt in the soul? He had no reason to be sad. But it was.
If someone asked if it was okay, certainly the answer would be: "Yes, everything is great!" But if, instead, asked if she was happy, she could not answer. In the background she even knew, but it frightened her, since not find reason for that node that insisted on graduating throat.
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She wanted to scream. Reach into his chest and rip that agony that had settled and seemed determined to stay.
Laura looks at his watch again. Six o'clock in the morning. Time to get up and face another day. His body is bruised, but the possibility of seeing the sunlight, and to talk with people makes her relieved. At least for a few hours would have that pleasant feeling of well-being which, unfortunately, would fade with the sunset.
The days of Laura were always busy, running from one side to another, always busy. And loved it. Only then could disguise the sadness that she alone knew existed.
Outgoing, smart, friendly and beautiful, so is Laura. Friends to admire. Everyone wants around. It is considered the advisor of the class, the more focused, more coherent, which always has a word and a shoulder to offer. It's the kind of person everyone looking to vent.
He could easily see the root of the problem of others, but unable to understand the root of all that sadness that consumed her and stole her sleep.
The way to work, Laura tries to distract humming a song. Observes people talking, children playing in the street, a man pushing a popcorn cart ... And, unintentionally, the tears begin to fall. People looked at her. Embarrassed she tries, futilely, to disguise the tears.
Not knowing what to do, Laura looks at the high and tearfully says, "God, what's happening to me? Please help me understand this sadness I feel. Shows me what's wrong."
Still babbled a few words when she felt someone touch her shoulder.
When he turned to see her friend Ruth, who observes with a look of compassion.
What happened? - Question Ruth. - You're crying. Come on, tell me what's happening.
Accustomed to seeing her friend always smiling, Ruth became worried. This was not Laura who knew - a strong woman, determined and happy, which always had to advise you in your difficult moments.
Laura then collapses. For the first time in his life proved vulnerable and fragile. Nor far was that strength that his friends thought it would be.
Ruth told how he felt, the emptiness in the chest, the lump in my throat, the dissatisfaction felt in the soul, how he felt helpless before this whirlwind of feelings that have settled inside it, for which I could not see a reason to be .
The friend smiled and said, "Laura, you know what this is? Lack of God's presence. You have almost everything: friends who admire you, stabilized financial life, a family structured, but lack the most important, God. Believes in you God, I know. But he wants more than that. He wants to be part of your life. Whether you rely on Him No one is self-sufficient. Though you look pass that image strong person who knows what he wants in his intimate, you are full of fear, insecurity, uncertainty. have you tried telling all this to him? "
- No. .. - Laura answered, shaking his head.
- Then try.
Ruth hugged her friend, and departed.
Laura stood there, thinking. He remembered that he had asked God moments before Ruth arrived.
He smiled, looked at the High, and said, "Thank you, God. Now I know what to do."
Fear of Jacob
He had the blessing to them, but it was the very blessing
"In Hebrew the name Jacob means that surpasses that wins. Carried Jacob mean that, in principle, the name of which was a winner. But with time became the winner fraudulently." It was explained that the Bishop Macedo at the beginning of the message transmitted on Tuesday (25) during programming Hallelujah Radio Network and also by UCKG TV.
The bishop explained to everyone what was the fear of Jacob and what was needed to do to beat him.
Follow some excerpts:
"There are many believers who fraudulently overlap in this world, and even become rich, because they act like Jacob, have the same character he had. He took advantage of the weakness, the weakness of his brother to buy the birthright soon after, the blindness of his father, to impersonate Esau, and also deceive their father. Jacob was very eager to win. He had the promise of God, but still lived and carried the stigma of his name, among other deceptive means.
Jacob left the house of his father fled from his brother, carrying only a stick and a little olive oil. Despite being a very blessed and prosperous man, he carried within him a terror, desperation, a fear. Jacob was terrified of having a day to meet his brother. In his despair he appealed to God, because he could not appeal to anyone else, had no one to turn to at that moment. That is the reality for many people living in a situation that they have nowhere to run, are cornered in a blind alley.
The Word of God says: 'He took them and sent them over the brook, we did spend all that belonged to him, leaving him alone and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. Seeing that he could not with him, touched his thigh joint; shifted the joint of Jacob's thigh in the fight with the man. ' Genesis 32:23-25
What a blessing that Jacob wanted?
He was already a man blessed, prosperous and rich. The blessing was persecuted for sure that God solve the problem between him and his brother, he had a life transformed, and that there were to be one that had been all those years. He had the blessings, but it was not his own blessing, for if it was not need to wrestle with God.
If you cheat, you will be deceived. What we sow we will also reap. The seed we sow today determine the fruits of tomorrow. Jacob was for all or nothing, for life or death, because he was tired of being tired, to deceive and be deceived, tired of deceiving and being deceived, to do what no good, but tired of suffering the consequences .
Israel's campaign is for all or nothing, is to be the blessing itself or disappear from the Earth. When a person is undefined, it goes nowhere, she has not won, either with God or with evil, however, she will suffer the consequences in being divided in itself. When do we leave for all or nothing, we define our faith, we take a decided position, and that is what pleases God. "