Walking By Faith

By Tonny Roberts

Walking By Faith is a compilation of my own ideas, of the way I live, of the testimony of my existence, of the things that I believe. I believe in a life full of possibilities, in a life full of infinite possibilities, because I believe that in this life with God hand in hand everything is possible.

Walking for Faith is about being happy,

• Language: English
• Publisher: LandMark Publishing
• Release date: Nov 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9781087931050

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Walking By Faith

Copyright @ 2020 By Tonny Roberts. All Rights Reserved

No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, photocopied and/or recorded without the prior consent of the author and/or LandMark Publishing, as expressed by US copyright laws.

Published By LandMark Publishing.

Miami Beach, Florida, US 33141

www.Landmarkpublish.com

Biblical references mentioned in this book were taken from

Bible King James 1960 version.

Walking by faith

tonny roberts

Contents

Introduction

Today

Second Opportunity:

My Story

What Is Faith?

Faith Acts over Matter

The Purpose of Growing My Faith

Growing in Faith

Communication with God

Examples of Jesus

God’s Desire

Beginning the Walk

Little Steps of Faith

Walking Uphill

How to Turn Dreams into Reality

Mental State of Victory and Success

Mental Order

Action Plan

Time to Pause Time to Reflect

Support

Walking Forward

Changes

New Strengths

Reaffirmation Time between God and Me

Gratitude: Word of Power

Strengthening Weak Areas

Time of Prayer – Examples of Prayers

Reaffirming the Course and Direction

Other Prayer Examples of Gratitude

Petitions before God or Prayer Time

Words of Blessing for My Life

Prayer Time

The Power of My Words

Balance

Walking Hand in Hand with Christ

Living and Understanding the Recovery Process

Necessary Environment to Regain Balance

Suitable Environment for Your Development

The Power of Forgiveness

Inner Health

Peace

Love

New Life and New Beginning

Spiritual Freedom

Turning the Page

Freedom from Worldly Rituals

Generational Blessings and Curses

Freedom of the Wounded Soul

Self-Acceptance

To Take Action

New Beginning

Visionary not Dreamer

Dreams and Longings

Vision

In the Lap of Christ

Economic Freedom

The god of money

Breaking Economic Chains

No Tithing

Living in Misery

Living in Debt

Bad Money

Dishonesty and Injustice

Addictions

Breaking Economic Ties

Tithe

Get Out of Debt

Say Goodbye to Illicit Things

Missing Blessings: Story of the Prodigal Son

Secrets to Achieve Economic Freedom

Integrity

Provision

Productivity

Sowing

Different Sowings

Planting

Tithe

Offerings

Offerings and Special Sowings with a Purpose and a Result Already Established by God

To Achieve Long Life on This Earth

For You to Do Well in Business

To Harvest Physical and Mental Health

Smart Planting

Childhood

Wealth with Purpose

My Proposal

Action to Take

Final Exhortation

Order

Savings

Savings and Investments in Yourself

Budget

Minutes of Change

Taking Control

Happiness Personal Decision

Is Heaven for Real

Where is Paradise Found?

Who Really Goes to Heaven?

What is Hell?

Lazarus Get Up

The Purpose of My Life

Purpose of Blessing Others

Development Purpose

Purpose of Procreating

Purpose of Giving Meaning to Life

Dreams

Dreams that Bring Promises and Messages from God

Dreams and Their Influences

Our Own Wishes

Our Own Past

Dreams and Messages from God

Warnings from God

Guide to Common Symbols in Dreams

The Rain

Water

Sea and Many Waters

Money

Children

Pregnancy

Dreams Influenced by the Enemy

Loss of Teeth

Robbery or Assaulted

Final Words Around Dreams

Final Words of the Book

Dedication

I dedicate this book and the achievement of all my goals to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who has been so patient with me, and is still willing to give me much more, as I know He has not yet finished His work in my life.

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To my beautiful wife, Yisel, my friend and my co-author. You are the best thing that has happened to me in my life. Without your love, encouragement, help and support, this project would not be possible. You inspire me every day to continue walking by faith. The best and most beautiful fruits of this harvest are for you.

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To my mother Maritza. Thank you mom for your unconditional support. You are the best missionary that this world could ask for and the best mother that any child could have.

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To my father Ramón. Thanks, dad, for all your support. To My Brother Ramón Pérez-Bernardo. Thank you for encouraging me to start this project and for all your good ideas.

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To the two most wonderful people in this world, my children Manny and Paola. And to the many more wonderful ones to come. Thank you, Dad loves you.

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To my good brother and friend of a lifetime, Rafael Gómez. I also want to dedicate this book to the most interesting man in the world, my great friend Mike Trevilcock. A special thanks to my Pastor Robert Fountain in Calvary Chapel Miami Beach Florida and my good friends, Nancy & Robert Gomez Pastors of Jesucristo Fuente De Amor in Puerto Rico.

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I also thank every wonderful person who, in one way or another, contributed to making this dream come true. I would like to make a special dedication for all those who will and has read this book. May it bring a faith, hope and encouragement into your life. Last but not least, I dedicate this book to all my friends and brothers of faith around the world. Stay encouraged. Thank you for your friendship, your prayers and your good wishes.

Introduction

Walking by Faith is a

compilation of my own ideas, of the way I live, of the testimony of my existence, of the things that I believe. I believe in a life full of possibilities, in a life full of infinite opportunities. I firmly believe this life with God by your side everything is possible.

Walking by Faith is about being happy, living in abundance, working hard and reaching your goals. It’s putting working clothes on your dreams and seeing them become a reality and becoming the person you dreamed of being.

I wrote this book by divine intervention; it was written by heavenly instructions. Through many years, God Himself prepared me, filled me with faith, allowed me to live in circumstances where the only thing that sustained me was to believe fervently in Christ, and where a divine miracle was essential, because reason no longer made sense. From there, I bring to you many of these experiences and truths as I share through this book. Normal words, spoken by an average man, but carrying a divine message.

Today

I want to start this

new teaching with words full of faith, words full of destiny, of purpose, of love and mercy. Above all, with great hope for the future, for a better life with new opportunities, new challenges and new celebrations waiting for you and for me.

The Future begins today. Without a present there is no future. Without a beginning there is no ending. And without a birth, there is no life. This teaches us that today is the day to be born again. Today is the day to start living the abundant life God, the Father, through His son Jesus Christ, has prepared for you. Today is the day to take control of your destiny and walk forward with your head held high knowing at all times that your Savior, the one who shed His blood for you, to give you freedom and who loves you deeply wants you to have great joy in your life.

This is the day to be happy, today is the day to start working on your happiness, to work towards making your dreams come true, to start doing what you want and long for. Today is the day to put in action those amazing ideas you have thought about for some time. Today is the day to start working towards those dream vacations you have always imagined. This is the day to decide to live better. A day to face the giant called Goliath who is been in front of and now you are ready to use that stone who’ve held in your hand. Today is the day to finish a chapter in your lives and start a new one, a brighter and better one.

Remember, strive and be very brave and He will be with you wherever you go. These are the words that God said to Joshua as he was entering a new season in his life. Today God Almighty is saying the same words to you. He gave those words to all of us, as a promise wrapped in an eternal gift. And you move forward, do not look at the future with fear or insecurity, look at the future with your open arms towards heaven, and with your mouth, your heart and mind, fill them with words as King David said, The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. Psalm 23.

I want my words to inspire you to live better, to bring you closer each day to your Savior and to that special purpose He has for you, which He has prepared before for you before you were even born. Remember He has set us apart to accomplish great things. Today is the day that the Almighty God has chosen to ignite the fire and happiness that will burn in your heart and will last forever until we go with Him or He comes for us.

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Second Opportunity:

My Story

I want to start by

talking about my childhood, where I came from and where I am going. I was born in the Dominican Republic, early 1970s, in the city of Santo Domingo. I come from a humble family, my father was a waiter, my mother a housewife. There were only two children, my brother Bernardo, who is two years older and then me.

We came to the ways of the Lord when I was only 11 years old. My brother Bernardo, 13, was the first to attend a small church called Jesus Christ Fountain of Love, a place that would later become a home for us for a few years. From a very young age, I was able to learn the basic principles of the gospel, to later become part of a Biblical Institute of the church where I had the good fortune to learn in depth the teachings of the Bible, which were planted like a small tree in my heart.

I remember it as if I was there today. One summer afternoon when I was only thirteen years old, sitting in front of a small store in my neighborhood, something suddenly wonderful happened. At that moment I realized that God had given me a very special gift. It was the most beautiful gift in my life. The ability to see things as God sees them. All this accompanied by a small but very strong faith. With my little eyes full of tears, I raised my hands to heaven, I thanked God and I said that someday I would write a book where I would tell people with God everything is possible and how they could by faith live a blessed life.

During the years following that event, a very contagious enthusiasm and happiness grew in me. Causing me to be involved with everything that has to do with motivation and abundant life even though I was only 16 years old. During that time, I started to collect ideas, to be able to express ideas and things as I could see them. My dream was to talk about faith, to be happy, to encourage others, to live in abundance, to never give up, to bring others to the feet of Christ and see everyone as brothers and sisters, of one race. It wasn’t until I was twenty that I started writing, but for some reason, I never wrote consistently.

By 1997, my family and I were now living in Puerto Rico. One morning of that year I got up and felt in my spirit that a difficult season for my life was coming. A season where my health would be greatly affected, and my faith would be challenged. However, I also knew that I shouldn’t worry because everything would be fine.

A week later, I woke up one morning to the symptoms of a small cold and treated it as such. The following week the symptoms got worse. I worried a little, so I paid a visit to our family doctor. And he too thought it was just a cold. By the third week, my concern increased as small lumps began to grow around my neck, under my arms and in the groin area. Similarly, the fever and pain in my entire body were permanent, causing me to lose my appetite and consequently losing weight. I began losing 5 to 8 pounds per week. This drastically alarmed my doctors, who endlessly searched through countless analyzes and tests for possible causes of my illness. By the fourth week, the lumps on my neck were noticeable to the naked eye and the weight loss was alarming.

A continuous pain paralyzed my legs completely and the only medicine that could relieve me was so strong that it did not allow me to do even my own work, to focus nor do average activities. By the fifth week, I had already lost about 40 pounds, and the results of an exam suggested the possibility of lymphoma (cancer). This was the first time in my life that I had heard the word lymphoma. I really didn’t know what it meant. So, I didn’t pay much attention to it until the next evening when I was able to speak to a church member who was a doctor. He read me the results and explained what it was about.

What I learned was not pleasant news. So, I decided to wait the next day to see my medical doctor and have him also read the results. Unfortunately for me, the information from my doctor was the same that was read to me at church–the possibility of cancer and a needle biopsy was recommended for my neck immediately. I made the appointment to be seen within the next couple of days.

I couldn’t believe what my ears were hearing. I was constantly saying to myself, It is impossible, there must be something wrong here, it’s a mistake, it must be a mistake. I’m only 23 years old, I have plans and dreams. I cannot have cancer. The doctor kept telling me repeatedly not to get ahead of myself, that in two days we would perform the biopsy, and only then, we would have the result. He also told me that in the worst case, I was young and strong, and I would have every chance to resist the treatment.

I remember when I left the doctor’s office, I went straight to my church where I was youth pastor, where I received unconditional support. All the way, I couldn’t utter a word, I was in complete shock. The only thing I could see was that I have cancer, I would probably die soon, and it will be a very painful and ugly ending of my shorted lived life.

When I arrive at the church’s parking lot, I couldn’t take it anymore and I burst into a bitter and deep cry. I felt as if my days were numbered and a horrible fear of pain, not death, was born in me, because it was very clear what my final destination would be. I firmly knew that heaven and salvation were for me, that paradise awaited me. All the dreams that would not come true rushed through my head. I could feel how my life was ending little by little and yet too young to go. The tense and painful visits to hospitals was tough and on top of that, the multitude of painful and uncomfortable tests; tests that had destroyed my nerves. It seemed as if my world that was once beautiful, full of peace and happiness, had changed to one of destruction and suffering. It all became a living dreadful nightmare.

Finally, the long-awaited appointment for the needle biopsy test arrived. The test was the most painful thing I have ever experienced in my life. Such extreme pain and to my luck, doctors were not able to get a full result because my neck was too sore. What a disappointment! This was a great waste of time I thought. The doctor received the news with equal bewilderment and the next step was to refer me to a surgeon for an open biopsy. In short, they would open my neck during surgery and remove a sample. The word surgery only brought me more anxiety, this is my neck that connects my head to my body, and my level of anxiety went to the roof.

As I waited for the my day of my surgery, I had to do several blood tests to prepare for surgery, and my nerves were so affected that I repeatedly woke up in the middle of the night, crying for no apparent reason. I was told this is part of the side effects. Surgery day arrived. I was in the hospital at 6:00 am and as part of the process I stood on a scale and my exact weight was 117 pounds. This new reality sent shockwave to the core of my bones. How could this be? I kept saying. When just two months ago I was 186 pounds. How is it possible that someone can lose 69 pounds in just two months? A healthy athlete, a cheerful giver, a humble servant, meant nothing to me and I was disappearing.

While people are enjoying their summer vacations, here I was in the midst of worries and suffering. Seconds felt like hours, hours felt like days, days felt like an eternity. Surgery day finally arrived. I was taken to the operating room, with feelings between fear and a sense of sur-realness, I had to surrender it all to God. I had to. The oxygen mask was placed, and I fell asleep. The next thing I knew, I woke up in pain and with a big bandage on my neck. While recovering from my surgery, the doctor told me the procedure went well, without complications. However, with his many years of experience, he confirmed, I was dealing with a cancerous tumor in the lymphatic system, which is what distributes white blood cells into the blood stream. He added I had less than a week, to make the necessary arrangements to begin possible chemotherapy treatment. Speechlessness and confusion sets in. With surgery completed and a diagnose given, by the end of the day came, and I was sent home. Home, I’m going home. I’m going home with the heaviest news I ever had to process in my life. I was preparing for the worst and I was ready to listen, so I thought. I knew given my condition and my diagnose; it was obvious something terrible was going to happen to me. The constant weight loss, the unstoppable and uncontrollable pains in my legs, and the continuous dizziness had already taken over my life. I have a week to decide, to arrangements for what? I thought. What 23 years old arranges for chemotherapy. Since my surgery was performed on a Friday morning, I had the whole weekend to reflect, think and arrange. As I gave more thought to my situation, I finally reached the sad conclusion, I am tired, I am done. I plunged into fatalistic thoughts, I would most likely not be alive nor be there for my family by Christmas, I sentenced myself and thought The end of my life is near. There were no motivation left in me.

As I could barely move, I began comparing my life to the life of a candle, which quickly burns out, where its light would eventually go out. I knew my light was fading. I thought the healthiest thing I can to for myself was to remove all my hopes, dreams and desires from my heart. I knew, they are no longer real nor will be fulfilled. My dreams of becoming a writer, of traveling to Israel, Europe and getting to know the world had faded. My desire to own my business and grow financially are no longer for me. And finally, my most cherished dream and desire to be a father and having a family are gone. Once again, I gave it all to the Lord. Now more than ever, I placed my life in His hands. As I’m releasing through tears and boast of anger my hopes and dreams, I began reflecting on where I came from, a small and very happy family, where I have a beautiful childhood. I remember with so much joy the days on the river with my family, birthdays, Christmas, the holidays at home. I especially remember when my father would cook for friends and family, and how I was his little helper. I had many plans for when God gave me children, I had already planned the days on the river and at the beach, the birthday parties with my family. Everything is over now and I gave the Lord all of my dearest dream, every dream He gave me, I gave it back to Him.

As I’m emotionally surrendered and was physically fighting for my life, I received so many calls and visits from my friends and brothers of faith. Their support gave