Saturday, June 30, 2007

ITS ONLY THE LORD

It’s only the Lord whom I trust
It’s only Him who gives me everything
It’s only the Lord that truly understands
Me
It’s only Him that loves me everyday
It’s only Him that gives me peace
How good you are to love a sinner like me

How true are His promises
I praised Him day and night
Because even if I am a sinner
Even if I make mistakes
He is not here to condemned me
But to forgive me and to love me without any conditions

He gives me gladness in my heart
Because my heart is His
He gives blessings in my life I can never imagine
I will always trust Him in my life
Because he never and can never break His promises

The Lord is my only hope
In this sinful world I am in
It’s only Him who can tear down wickedness
Because He is so faithful to forgive me
There is no other salvation to find
But to trust in Him alone

I can never explained the love He showed everyday
I can never explain how He takes care of me
I can never explained why even I am not faithful
He is always ready to embraced me
My Lord how unworthy I am
And you deserve to be praised!

It’s only the Lord that teaches me the truth
It’s only the Lord that gives me life
It’s only Him that never fails to listen to my prayers
It’s only the Lord that is always ready to forgive my transgressions
You oh Lord will only be the one I should hope
Because it’s only You who can see my heart
Because it’s only You oh JESUS
That can make everything new again!


(Imparted by GOD in my heart on January 14,2006 at 6:30am)
MY LIFE TESTIMONY

I am Roger de Lazo, a businessman married and blessed with 3 children. Life I thought was living it to the fullest and you can do it by being religious, being good, raising a good family and doing good works. I am not a smoker, nor a drunkard, not a womanizer, and my happiness is to raise my family and send my kids to school. My wife was a housekeeper, a good wife, the one who takes care of our three wonderful kids. I live a simple life debt free and I could say I am living a life with peace in my mind never been involved to a fight. I loved my family so much that what I believed before is to love them more than myself. My family and I were a happy family. Though there were ups and downs in our life, but we were able to get in through it.

The world is so enticing and my wife and I started to think about our future. It came to a point where I felt life is really getting hard, my kids were growing and we were dreaming of things we needed for our future. I wanted to give my family the best like having our own dream house. I started to think differently and came up to a point where I thought that I was moving too slowly and the world seems to be getting fast on me. I was not getting any younger and I needed to fast track my career. There were times when my wife would discuss about our present situation because she would like to help me financially. Although we were not short financially we thought that we needed to do something. I also began to misinterpret my wife when she discussed these things to me. I started to asked myself was I a failure to my family? I cannot provide them what they deserved. Unknowingly, we were starting to create a problem on our own. I began to be depressed and felt lonely. I felt emptiness in my life. My life seems to be unfulfilling. I was looking on things that I needed but cannot attain. Because of this situation, we begun to quarrel a lot and blame each other.

I was then invited for a family reunion. I never expected that the reunion ended up with a bible study. A bible teacher was invited and conducted a bible study about salvation. I started to know more about the Lord every week as we kept attending the bible series. When I’m home, I reached out my bible, and open it. The bible that I never opened since it was given to me as a gift 5 years ago. I tried to read it and read again the verses I took note from what the bible teacher taught us. I started to share what I read in the bible to my wife. Knowing Jesus is the best thing that happened into my life. On February of 2003, I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior.

As I walked with the Lord, I experienced the excitement and joyfulness of Christ living in me. God enabled me to share the gospel of salvation to my relatives and friends. I started to learn how to pray from my heart and read the bible. I prayed for my relatives’ salvation. I wanted them to experience the goodness and greatness of God. I wanted them to bring to Christ who is our only hope for salvation. I felt that that this is the most important thing I needed to do in my life because I learned that no one can see the kingdom of God unless you are born again in spirit. Unknowingly, I started to hunger on God’s word. My office mates noticed my changes. I gathered them thinking that it was a regular business meeting, and they were amazed when I shared them the gospel. I will never forget the joyfulness I felt in sharing the gospel to my office mates. Our next meeting became more fruitful because I bought them bibles and started a bible study. At night, I prayed for their salvation and our bible study in the office became regular. I went to my hometown to visit my father and my sister. I met them and started sharing the gospel. I prepared materials for them to learn and they were amazed how I talked about the goodness of God. My father was in the late years of his life and I prayed for him. I expressed about my desire of being with them in heaven in the future.

As I walked with the Lord, I experienced that my life has been fulfilled with Jesus Christ living in me. Jesus, is more than enough for me! I thank and praise the Lord our God that He chose me and my family to serve Him and it is such a great privilege sharing His goodness to everyone. Truly, our Lord God is alive in our lives. All praises and thanks to Him. TO GOD BE ALL THE GLORY!!
DO YOU KNOW JESUS?

Hello my friend! Before I came to know Jesus, I thought that all the things that I did are acceptable to God as long I obeyed His commandments, prayed and go to church regularly, confess my sins even if I do not commit sins that were mortal in nature, then I was okay with God. But the bible tells us that not only by being a good person is the way to heaven. “For no one is put right in God’s sight by doing what the Law requires; what the Law does is to make us know that we have SINNED.” (Romans 3:20) I learned to realized that we are all sinners “everyone has sinned and is far away from God’s saving presence” (Romans 3:23) and the payment of sin is DEATH! It is a spiritual death that is eternal. In Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death..." Man has a big problem which is the problem of SIN. God is Holy and He cannot fellowship with somebody that has sinned. But God is so good. He Himself made a solution. He desires us all to be with Him again. He has a wonderful plan for all of us. In John 10:10, Jesus said… I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Because of His great love to us, God gave His only Son Jesus Christ. In John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life" Christ died on the cross to redeem you and me from ALL our sins and He rose on the third day. He went up to heaven to prepare a place for us! Isn't that wonderful? He saved us meaning He took our place? And those who believed in Him will have eternal life and will be with Him forever!

As I read the bible, I came to know more about Jesus. I learned what God commanded us to do and His wonderful promises for all of us. Our life on earth is not all about us but its all about God. I realized that the future is not on earth. Our life here is only temporal and we need to prepare for the real future, and that is our eternal destiny. All these things on earth would be meaningless in our next life! Our homeland is heaven where there will be no more tears; there will be no more pains. According to the bible, our citizenship is in heaven! What is important is our relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ. I also learned that we have to spend the rest of our life obeying and serving God because we were created to do so. Christ will return and each one of us would come face to face with Him. He will judge the living and the dead. For sure, we will ALL stand before God and will be accountable for ALL we have done!

What struck me is we cannot just served God without accepting Jesus His only son in our HEARTS. Each one of us should have a personal relationship with His Son. The bible tells us that “I am the way, the truth, and the life: No one comes to the Father except by me” (John 14:6). I realized that there is no other mediator here on earth except Jesus alone that has authority on heaven and earth. We cannot come to God unless we REPENT and come to Jesus. We have to trust and believe Him in everything we do. “For it is by God’s grace that you have been saved through faith. It is not the result of your own efforts, but God’s GIFT, so that no one can boast about it.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)

Do you want to be with Jesus eternally? Do you want to have a meaningful life? Do you want to accept the GIFT of eternal life? If you have made a decision to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, talk to Him right now by praying this prayer and please, pray it in your heart:

"LORD JESUS, I NEED YOU. I CONFESS THAT I AM A SINNER. I BELIEVE THAT YOU DIED ON THE CROSS TO PAY FOR ALL MY SINS. WITH YOUR HELP, I WILL TURN AWAY FROM SINS. PLEASE COME INTO MY LIFE AND BE MY SAVIOR AND MY MASTER. I ACCEPT YOUR GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE. MAKE ME THE KIND OF NEW PERSON YOU WANT ME TO BE. THANK YOU FOR COMING INTO MY LIFE AND GIVING ME ETERNAL LIFE. AMEN."

If you prayed this prayer from your heart, Jesus came into your life. In Rev. 3:20, Jesus said: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.” The door is the door of your heart. If you let Him in, you have begun a new life, a life that is eternal with Jesus. Praise Him and thank Him everyday, read the bible daily and meditate His words day and night and your life will never be the same! If you want to know more about Jesus please send me an email at rogerdelazo@yahoo.com. MAY GOD BLESS YOU!



For many are called," Jesus said, "but few are chosen." Many are invited, but only those who choose to accept the invitation (and all conditions attached to it) are chosen.