Our mission is to uplift the character of love of our Father
Our mission is to uplift the character of love of our Father
Hi, my name is Catalina Siri, I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. I came to the United States when I was nineteen years old in April of 1985. I was kind of shy, I did not know who I was or what I was doing on this earth. I did not have confidence in myself, never dreamed or had any aspiration for my life, I did not have an identity! My family never joined any religion, never read the Bible. I never heard the word 'sin' before. Hispanic people by culture always talk with the name of God in their mouth, "Si Dios quiere" Con Dios delante", etc. My mother of course was no exception, she always placed the name of God in every endeavor of her day. That always stay in my heart, so I was not opposed to the name of God or the things of God. When I came to USA, I went to New York where most Dominican go when they emigrate to this country. While I was there, I attended school, I wanted to learn English and assimilate the culture. I didn't understand the perversity of the culture and since I was as lost as they were and are today, I too fit right in into the permeating sin of the time of sexual immorality. I met my husband in New York through a friend of a friend and I moved out to California in 1992 to the beautiful town of Sonoma, the wine country. I leave the life of the wine country, drinking and eating selfishly. I was not married to my husband, we were just living together, not a great way to start a relationship. But that is what sinners do, the relationship was not good at all, but I just kept going ignoring the signs. I started to feel very empty and having no direction. I didn't know what to do with my life, one day I thought it would be good to have a child, maybe that would make me feel better. My son was not a mistake but to have him in the circumstances was. I did not know then, but God turns every mistake we make, he turns them around for good.
Going forward, I just have acquired a school that I always wanted to have, I thought I was going to be happy, and it was going to be fulfilling for me. But instead, I started to have a void in my soul, it was very strange because I was somewhat contented and had a sense of freedom. Mind you during that time I was practicing the New Age Culture, meditation, yoga, self-exaltation, etc., I called it that. But if we are Jesus's sheep no one can take us away from him. Anyways, I found a little book that gave ten different ways on how to be more spiritual. I started to put in practice one the subjected forms, this one consisted in waking up early in the morning around 4 or 4:30 a.m. and sit in meditation position, close eyes and breath in, as breeding out one says the name of God. And in the afternoon, sit in meditation again, close eyes and repeat Om, to give thanks. I thought there is nothing wrong with these, why not give it a try?
I started to do the practice, one morning after three months, I came to do my practice, and to my surprise when I closed my eyes, I saw a right arm with a white robe and a right foot with a sandal. I just knew in my heart, that the vision was Jesus, it was not an intellectual knowledge because I didn't know who Jesus was. It was an experiential knowledge. Like Jesus was always there in me, God just revealed him to me, the spirit of Jesus is my inheritance, it is the life of God that came to me through Jesus. I was so hungry and thirsty for God, while all these spiritual transformations were surfacing in my life, my mother and my earthly father passed away. I thank God that by then I had Jesus in my life because I don’t know what I would have done then. Then I endeavor to learn about my savior, intellectually, I didn't know anything about the Bible and that the Bible will confirm the things Jesus have been showing me. In 2011, I was baptized with the spirit of CHRIST, I experienced what the Samaritan woman in the story of John 4:5-24 experienced, and the experience of Paul as he was on the way to Damascus, Acts 9:3-6 I was given sight to see my sinful condition and mercy to give me a renewed mind and a transformed life, I went from caring about myself first to caring about others first. Everything that was essential for me to understand at the stage of my walk with Jesus, he made sure it was given to me, to understand about my new life in Christ, the Lord is teaching me every day, he sends messages through man who are committed to follow him no matter the cost. Thanks, God, for that. The first thing he taught me was the personality of my Father, his personality, and the relationship between the two of them. This is life given. As John 17:3 states it eloquently, that eternal life consists in knowing God and His Son. Their character of pure love. To me it is amazing that as I was doing all these things that were causing them pain, they had the mercy to save me. This is the reason since the day I got saved, I go out knocking doors talking about the sacrifice of God by given His only begotten Son for a world that doesn't want or love him. I have also brought every earthly possession at the feet of Jesus just as the disciples did in their time. I tasted what is on the other side of walking with Jesus and let me testify that it is not fun as some are trying to portrait it.
The essence of the everlasting gospel is the restoration of God's character of love, since sin appeared in heaven till today, the character of our Father had been on trial and this trial is culminating as we speak, I am humbled to see how our heavenly Father have given me my identity in Jesus and chose me to be part of His Son's bride, I am not worthy, but I choose to receive the gift, it is a gift and a privilege. Walking with Christ is not easy because it is a battle every day, the battle is between self and Christ, unfortunately for Jesus. Our natural carnal mind does not want to summit to Jesus. Someone said that the greater battle man has ever fought is the battle of self, it is so very true. Thank you Father for saving me from myself, I love you Abba querido!
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