What God says become what we see

Iconoclast in progress. Faith-Full living for the Kingdom & enjoying it as it's enjoyable. The best is yet to come in the meanwhile Lovewins. #HeWillBeBack

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“Here’s what I’ve learned through it all: Don’t give up; don’t be impatient; be entwined as one with the Lord. Be brave and courageous, and never lose hope. Yes, keep on waiting—for he will never disappoint you!” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭27:14‬ https://www.instagram.com/p/CK6Im9CMumG/?igshid=1icaudsh9dyca

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“When they reached the other side, Elijah said to Elisha, “What can I do for you before I’m taken from you? Ask anything.” Elisha said, “Your life repeated in my life. I want to be a holy man just like you.”” ‭‭2 Kings‬ ‭2:9‬ 💙🎁🔥🎈😍🏈⚾️🏀 https://www.instagram.com/p/CC2jzK0gA37/?igshid=18cwq1du85kcq

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Hace algunas semanas atrás hablamos con algunos amigos de divertirnos en el matrimonio y salió el Top Ten de SportsCenter. Con opiniones divididas a mi consideración si es divertido así que les dejo el Too Ten de Selah: 1. En las mañanas cuando se despierta empieza a decir papá hasta que la saco de su cuna. Pero intencionalmente le habla a la cámara y al monitor. 2. Cuando terminamos de cenar con @maffi_acevedo le cantamos una canción de Space Jam/Bring It On: “Are you ready?” para llevarla a bañar. 3. Disfruta el mango al igual que a mi y ahora tendremos que tener unos meses sin temporada de mango. 4. En las mañana las cuando la traigo a la cama de las primeras cosas que hace es darle un abrazo a su mamá. 5. Le encanta treparse pero sobre todo le encanta ir a cada liberar y empezar a sacar todos los libros. Con @maffi_acevedo decimos que los está ordenando. 6. Su serie favorita es “The Last Dance”. Sólo tuve que pasar un momento explicando cómo Rodman no es una buena influencia. 7. Su mamá le enseñó la siguiente canción: “Así chapotean los Grotewold Acevedo” en ese momento la diversión del baño toma un nuevo nivel. 8. El confinamiento (a.k.a. “cuarentena”) me ha dado la bendición de trabajar desde casa y muy dulcemente cuando dejo la puerta de la oficina llega gateando para buscarme y pedirme que juguemos y le ponga atención. 9. En los servicios en línea se disfruta el tiempo de alabanza y se para para aplaudir. Es sumamente musical y en todo lo que puede hacer percusión se pone a hacer sonidos. Ya quiero regalarle una batería. 10. Dentro de las cosas que más disfruta son los libros y las fotos. Le compramos un pequeño playground y yo le digo que se cree Shaq porque siempre estar arrancando el aro. 11. Es tan linda como su mamá y determinada cómo su papá. La amamos y estamos con gran gozo por el regalo que es a nuestra vida. Ya sabe decir que no, estamos en proceso que aprenda a decir que si. Se emociona con la aventura, se refugia en los abrazos de su mamá, le hace ojitos a su papá y todas las noches oramos porque sea llena del Espíritu Santo. Podría seguir compartiendo anécdotas e historias pero ente Maffi y Selah favorecido por Su gracia. https://www.instagram.com/p/CC2jgZqgRcz/?igshid=10vbxvxeb7uma

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“Don’t you see that children are GOD ’s best gift? the fruit of the womb his generous legacy? Like a warrior’s fistful of arrows are the children of a vigorous youth. Oh, how blessed are you parents, with your quivers full of children! Your enemies don’t stand a chance against you; you’ll sweep them right off your doorstep.” -Psalm‬ ‭127 Happy First Birthday Selah. I’m thankful to God for your kind smile, sweet spirit and brave heart. Take courage because Jesus is able to do abundantly and exceedingly more than we can imagine or ask. I bless you and my prayer is that we may have wisdom to point you in the right direction. #Birthday #GirlDad #Selah https://www.instagram.com/p/CC2dm6ngSnM/?igshid=12d2gn1kj7tl6

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5️⃣ years ago I popped the question. #shesaidyes . Now I get to kiss you daily wherever we are. My love for you is stronger @maffi_acevedo. . I’m awful posting, but of the five 📸 what’s your favorite. We are engaging in a new project we will be launching soon. #staytuned . I met Maffi at church (youth group @cnxn_vr ). So I would highly recommend to connect with a local church in order to receive God’s favor. . “The man who finds a wife finds a treasure, and he receives favor from the Lord.” ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭18:22 . #maythe4thbewithyou #engagementanniversary #podcast #heladodecafe #sfo #napavalley #pier7 #stayhome #burneyfalls #bondibeach #marriage #youth (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_ywAQcA_ly/?igshid=n8kjry38bvw6

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Happy Birthday 🎈 to the most beautiful wife, mother, girlfriend, youth pastor, and ideal woman for my heart. 🤩💜😍🎀🤪 So many words so few lines. So many adventures not enough pictures to capture them all. Todavía recuerdo la celebración de cumpleaños del primer año donde te conocí. No es la segunda foto; esa primera vez estabas cenando con unos amigos en Cayalá y yo estaba predicando en unos 15 años en otro restaurante de Cayalá. Ahora cada año tengo el privilegio de celebrar tu vida, dar gracias a Dios porque me permite crecer junto con mi mejor amiga e ir a desayunar. En mi corazón el anhelo por encontrar el favor del Padre jamas pudo dimensionar la mujer de Dios que eres, en la madre espiritual que está formando en ti y el regalo que eres para mi. Este año es diferente porque me enamoré de ti en una campamento 💙😊 y hoy nos vamos de campa junto con Selah. 🚎🏝 Hemos disfrutado de una gran cantidad de aventuras juntos y cada viaje que hemos podido hacer. No puedo priorizar mis momentos favoritos contigo pero si puedo decir que tomarnos fotos juntos, ver fútbol americano, servir juntos, jugar juegos de mesa, sacar a pasear a Lollapalooza, platicar en el carro, abrazarte, ir a conciertos, quedarme dormido en el cine, ver epis, comprar libros, pasar horas en Barnes & Nobles, sacarte de onda para preguntarte si algo se ve bien, orar juntos, preparar mensajes y avanzar el Reino de Dios cómo Familia es algo que disfruto día a día. Gracias por tu paciencia y de verdad por hacerme ganas para las aventuras y para las batallas. Te amo y mi oración este año es que te pueda amar más y mejor a ti y a nuestra pequeña, bella y valiente Selah. Por cierto cada año estás más guapa, inmensamente mabella y yo más locamente enamorado ti. Este año estamos esperando tu regalo 🎁 de cumpleaños pero incluye ✈️🌏🇦🇺 en menos de un mes. Oro y bendigo tu vida L I N D A declarando fuerza, valentía, inteligencia, sagacidad, creatividad y amor sobrenatural. Te amo @maffi_acevedo y gracias por inspirarme a ser más cómo Jesús. Lets keep having fun face to face, side by side and belly to belly. #MarriagePrinciples #TakeTheWorldGA #SelahFirstYouthCamp #AmazingWife https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu_TXW-BZzv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qwfc6y7jgm3o

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C H A P T E R - XXX ( 2 x 3 x 5 ) My prayer as I embrace a new decade into parenthood is that my heart will continue to praise the Lord. May your grace abound in every aspect to live healthier, love stronger, and lead wisely. “David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in all.” 2 Samuel‬ ‭5:4‬ “Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult." - C. S. Lewis “List all the men between the ages of thirty and fifty who are eligible to serve in the Tabernacle.” Numbers‬ ‭4:30‬ #NewDecade #NewParent #30 #TakeTheWorldGA #BabyGA #FamilyFirst 📸 @ferlacayoph.gt https://www.instagram.com/p/BudrJZEB78i/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=eainc1whdtvi

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Celebrando junto con @maffi_acevedo todos los jóvenes que están decidiendo dar generosamente para que otros jóvenes puedan participar del #YouthCamp #Elements @cnxn_vr @vidarealtv #Repercusión #ElValorDeDarEnElTiempo https://www.instagram.com/p/BuSnQelhDhC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4fxjsebg0kuv

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Happy Anniversary 3️⃣ 🎈 #Chapter3 #WeAre3 🍼 What a joy to celebrate the covenant we made before God with a life miracle from Him. Baby Grotewold Acevedo will be joining @cnxn_vr in #2035 🎉 “Our children and their children will get in on this As the word is passed along from parent to child. Babies not yet conceived will hear the good news— that God does what he says.” -Psalm‬ ‭22:30-31‬ @maffi_acevedo thanks for all of your kind, patient, supporting, and sweet love you show me everyday and that you are giving the baby. I admire every detail of you and look forward to keep fulfilling God promises. I love you LINDI. 💙 “Marriage, like long-term investments, requires the discipline to stick it out through the ups and downs of the market, trusting that eventually it will pay off. Don’t approach marriage as though you were a rookie stock-broker, tricked by every hiccup caused by fluctuating oil prices or orange juice shortages. Make a wise decision, and then stick with it for the long haul.” @levilusko #TakeTheWorldGA #BabyGA #Family #Marriage #Promises #Pregnancy #NewDadOnTheBlock #ItsNotSuperBowlBaby (at ETU PLAZA) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtQ0ThgB4Bz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12a3zwrb658m

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2019 es el año de “La Promesa”. “Pues cuando Dios hizo la promesa a Abraham, no pudiendo jurar por uno mayor, juró por El mismo, diciendo: "CIERTAMENTE TE BENDECIRE Y CIERTAMENTE TE MULTIPLICARE." Y así, habiendo esperado con paciencia, Abraham obtuvo la promesa.” ‭‭Hebreos‬ ‭6:13-15‬ Declaró que en el nombre de Jesús 2019 será un buen año y el año de la promesa para mi vida, familia y cada área de influencia. #Paciencia #RenuncioAlPerfeccionismo #300SalvajesDeCorazón #Legado #Kings #SwipeRight #TakeTheWorldGA (at 300 Salvajes de Corazón) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsHTJNTBkFJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1p8y2lt6wfpym

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Keep it concise. I’ll fail more often than I’d like. To finish something you need to give up achieving something else. I’m quitting to perfect. I don’t get everything done, but I have a clear set of priorities. Obviously social media is not one of them. In the past 11 months I posted 8 times, I’ll try to post continuously for 31 days to express my thankfulness for something from 2018, share a random fact and quote a bible verse. 🙌🏻 Thankful for @maffi_acevedo incredible support to take care of me, be patient, love at all times and have faith to follow God directions. 🌀 Her love language is quality time and physical touch although kissing may not qualify as physical touch. 😂😅 ⚡️ “Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ’s love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They’re really doing themselves a favor—since they’re already “one” in marriage.” -Ephesians‬ ‭5:25-28‬ ‭MSG‬‬ #SFO #TakeTheWorldGA #Pier7 #DiosLoHizo (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq3-hajhrTk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1j2ibbugqbuj9

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“Story is similar to music. A good story takes a series of random events and distills them into the essence of what really matters.” @donmilleris #TakeTheWorldGA #NewSeason (at CNXN 14:6) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpyRd7RhRLH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1cuhhtajfwn69

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After #FullyAlive at @catalystleader I definitely looking forward: 🔵 “Care about what the people you care about, care about." 🔵 “Empathy - understanding what someone needs and acting on it." 🔵 “If you're too busy for people, they won't need you eventually." -@JonAcuff #CatalystATL Jon say hi to your family from a couple from Guatemala. 📸 @maffi_acevedo #perhapsyouneedalittleguatemala #finish (at Infinite Energy Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/BokCGUegaYa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18kp4nhhi4jpp

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Thrilled & blessed to celebrate 14 years of @vidarealtv youth ministry @cnxn_vr Please celebrate with us the impact of what it has meant for you @cnxn_vr It’s been an awesome journey getting to build the local church through a community of enthusiastic young people. When I arrived I was 17 and now I’m close to 30. My life has been transformed with the privilege to love, serve, and lead without deserving anything. His promises are Yes and Amen and I celebrate the fact that families are created in #CNXN Thanks @pastoronymadrid & @ninodemadrid for leading us to always follow Jesus our Shepard. Thanks @erziesse & @fcoyoy for stepping by our side every step of the journey. Thanks to my wife @maffi_acevedo for sharing your life too to raise a generation of new breed revivalists. Thanks to all of our past and current leadership. Many of you are now establishing Gods kingdom in different spheres of influence. I would definitely like to tag every single one of the friendships I’ve started and developed through #CNXN But I would definitely like to honor those who since last September assumed a new role of leadership and are thriving to lead us into a new era. Seriously I don’t have enough words to say how thankful we’re for your heart and passion, meeting on a weekly basis even if we finish our meeting past 10 PM or at 5AM. Thanks to our staff, volunteers, city group leaders. Seriously I have all of you in my heart and will continue to pray that your influence will be enlarged. Help me pray that the next 14 years @cnxn_vr will reach more young people to Christ that will have an encounter that will forever change their lives. Now there is @cnxn_vn @cnxnroosevelt @cnxnorte and there are more coming. 📸 @angello_beardless (at Vida Real.Tv) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoGNKraAo8m/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yo45xysg5ktb

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A G R A D E C I D O x #29 🎉 Cuando tenía 12/13 años no imaginaba el impacto de las decisiones que tomaba al dejar todo y seguir a Jesús. ¿Fanático? Tal vez de la #NFL pero sobre todo seguidor. Dios habló que este es el año de la #Revelación & #Recompensas y en 2 meses estoy más enamorado y asombrado del Padre. Gracias ha cada uno que con una llamada, mensaje o post bendicen mi vida y a continuar la expansión del Reino de los Cielos en cada área de influencia. Viviendo al máximo y aprovechando cada momento oportuno. Sólo puedo decir que tengo 29 años y reconozco que estoy loco. “Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart; Test me and know my anxious thoughts; And see if there is any wicked or hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.” ‭‭PSALM‬ ‭139:23-24‬ ‭AMP‬‬ #birthday #revival #mypeople #cnxn #SeMásComoJesús #ConstruyeTuCasaSobreLaRoca #EncuentraLaPuertaAngosta #VivePorElEspíritu (at Guatemala City, Guatemala)

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“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for the purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.” C.S. Lewis I’m beyond blessed to lead & love our family. At the moment we are 2 learning to become 1 with our God. Embracing with expectation the beginning of our third year of #Marriage. The first was a time to settle in, the second one was a time to work together and I’m believing this third is time for expansion to step into God’s calling as a family. The best thing is to fully commit yourself to make it work. There is no way around. We’ve learned so much from traveling together and I’m thankful for your life @maffi_acevedo . You are so brave to step into the unknown with me, but I’m certain we will have much more spirit-led adventures & advance kingdom with our role & opportunities in our spheres of influence. Happy Anniversary 🎉 #2 Sorry for the #lategram but we invested in so many memories. #napavalley #california #travel #photooftheday #bikelife #adventureculture (at Napa Valley Wine Train)

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"The grass is no greener 🏡 on the other side. The grass is greener where you water 💦 it. The grass is greener when you plant yourself. 🌴🌳🌲 @brendenbrown I'm watering my mind with God's word & I'll plant myself in God's house. #SFO #afterlight #viewpoint #rightbelieving #rightliving #taketheworldga #shotoniphone (at The Coit Tower)