Mark Muldez

EDITORS NOTE: Majority of my followers here on tumblr are gals and I’ve received tons of questions from you all in regards to sex, love and relationships. Due to the fact that I don’t have time to answer, here’s a letter that I found from this website called (GoodWomenProject.com) I hope that this letter would bring an enormous encouragement to your heart and a hope for your future. I pray that you come to an understanding that in Christ there’s restoration, healing, redemption and freedom.

To My Future Wife,

You’re beautiful. You’re stunning. You’re absolutely perfect in more ways than you know.

I know you’re out there; I know you’re living life just as I am mine. If not now, then someday you will read this letter and gain some insight into who I was before we married. That being said, it might be the only aspect of my life before we met to make you proud.

I say you won’t be proud because frankly I’m not proud either. My heart breaks knowing how I betrayed you with those other women. I regret every touch, every kiss, and every fake “I love you.” I was so consumed with lust that I had mistaken it for love, when you are the only woman I want to ever truly love. For everything, I want to apologize.

Whether it was teenage drunkenness, images on a computer screen, or fantasies in my mind, I defiled the essence of who a woman was. I deliberately turned my back on my calling from God and chose immediate satisfaction. Satisfaction that withered as soon as my pants were back on; satisfaction that left a bowling ball-sized guilt in my chest. She was a physical means to a lustful end, and I had taken advantage of a sinful opportunity. I didn’t see her as a daughter of Christ, and I was becoming her future husband’s greatest enemy. I didn’t treat her body as a temple and took from her what only one man deserved. At the end of the day, my heart was broken for this woman and shattered for you.

If you were in the room, I can only imagine your reaction. You probably wouldn’t watch, you certainly would not want to. Youd probably feel betrayed, like I was cheating on you in front of your eyes. You’d probably be angry, ready to slap me and kick her out of the room for stealing my affection. You’d probably feel your heart being ripped from your body, dropped to the floor, and spat on. You’d probably cry out to God for mercy not to watch, forgiveness for me, and the strength to move on. You’d probably feel broken, expecting more than just an apology. It may never be enough, but it’s all I can say – I’m sorry.

I can see the tears knowing I took from you what only you deserve. You deserve a husband that honors you in his words, thoughts, and actions. I have not been that, and I have begged God for his forgiveness. As promised, he has forgiven me, and I hope you can forgive me, too.

This is a poem I wrote to you, titled What I Undeserve.

What I Undeserve

as i watch the sun rise and the weary sun set,
it reminds me of your eyes all dressed in regret.
not regretful of your past, but regretful of mine,
knowing that it’s been all but divine.

He has chosen to forgive me long long ago,
with a heart of compassion that i see you bestow.
its one of many reasons i get lost in your soul,
trying to save the heart you’ve inadvertently stole.

i can’t wait til the day i see your shining face
all dressed in white at a methodical pace.
walking toward me to begin our life as one,
blessed by the Father, Spirit, and Son.

You are what I don’t deserve. God’s grace will bring us together when I have done absolutely nothing to deserve it. Yet I suppose it wouldn’t be grace if I did.

My prayer, at this present time, is that each day God is preparing my heart for you. Marriage is for life, so may what we’ll have last forever. I pray that Christ is not only your Lord, but that He is also your Savior, blessing you with the fruits of His Spirit. My worry is that if you’re in love with Him, then I will be such a disappointment. So I pray that each and everyday I will become less like myself and more like Christ, and that the fruits of His Spirit will also grow in me to naturally honor both Him and you, his daughter.

I know you’re not perfect either. I know you’ve made your mistakes too, perhaps with sins very similar to mine. If your heart is broken, I pray God will repair it. If you’re burdened from sin, I pray He will take away the guilt. Someday I want to look you in the eyes, forgiven, forgiving, and sharing with you a love the past cannot hinder.

I can’t wait to know you inside and out. I want to hear all your favorite stories, music, and movies. I can’t wait to meet your family and learn who you were before we met. I praise God for your beautiful soul and the blessings He will pour into my life through you. Someday we will share a life together. We’ll move on from the past, love every moment of the present, and gratefully await all the memories of the future.

“Sixty queens there may be, and eighty concubines, and virgins beyond number; but my dove, my perfect one, is unique.” Song of Songs 6:8-9.

Your Future Husband,
JSP - (Good Women Project)

The Gospel > Any other religions

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Question is, where you at with Jesus?!

I don’t care about your denomination.
I don’t care about your theological concepts.
I don’t care if you have those spiritual gifts.
I don’t care if you can debate for hours and hours about your ideas of predestination, freewill, homosexuality, gay marriage, masturbation, tattoos, Calvinism, etc.

Because when you reach the END of your life. When you stand before God I don’t think any of these will ever matter. I don’t think God will ask you questions like,

“So you’re not allowed here because:

you’re not a baptist
you didn’t memorize the 5 points of Calvinism
you didn’t speak in tongues or whatever
you have tattoos
you’re gay ….. and the list goes on and on. (Not that I condone homosexuality, but when ‘CHRISTIANS’ specifically bash on homosexuals and saying that God hates them they are going to hell and there’s no chance for them, I think that’s wrong. )

Going back to my point, just pause for a second and think. None of those things are really going to matter when you stand before God. All that’s gonna matter is if you truly. TRULY believed and followed the Son of God. If you truly and genuinely surrendered your life to Christ so that He can live in your heart. Those things listed above, well eventually won’t matter. As you follow Christ and dive into His word you will know the TRUTH and your mind will be transformed into His and you will know His perfect WILL. When you allow His life to live in you, the very life you bleed out is His. And that’s powerful!

Brothers and Sisters, let’s stop bashing on other Christians for real. Apostle Paul says this:

Remind everyone about these things, and command them in God’s presence to stop fighting over words. Such arguments are useless, and they can ruin those who hear them.Avoid worthless, foolish talk that only leads to more godless behavior.^{2 Timothy 14-19}

The apostles were able to spread the gospel but they didn’t have anything besides the law and His Holy Spirit. What more now that we have everything in Christ.
(His Spirit, Word, and Church).

So let’s get back to basic here. Dive into His word because His word is the ONLY TRUTH! Fellowship with Him in prayer and worship and just seek His face and put your full faith in His word not in any concepts, pastor’s podcast/blog etc.

Break down those prides and humble yourself before God. We are called to stand against the enemy, not against our very own brothers and sisters or even our neighbors. We are called to love because God is love. I don’t care how smart you are and how much you know, God is above all things and He is greater than all of us. There is so much mystery about God that we will never know.

In Christ,
Mark Muldez

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This is my dog tag that has been dangling in my car for years now. I got this back in 2007 when I came to the Lord Jesus Christ. I was reminded again by the Holy Spirit the Simplicity of the Gospel and at the same time the Power to CHANGE LIVES. It really is simple and people complicate it way too much.

God’s message is LOVE and He showed that through His son Jesus Christ when He died on the cross for YOU and ME. And rose from the grave 3 days later to prove that He is victorious over SIN and death therefore who ever put their faith in Christ will not only be victorious over sin and death but will have Eternal Life. Life everlasting.

First step is BELIEVE and put your faith in Christ.

If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be SAVED. - Romans 10:9

Second step is FOLLOW His examples and abide in His word.

“If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross daily, and follow me. - Luke 9:23

And any form of works or serving are done in faith and compelled by love because He first loved us. And Seriously this is the basic principle of Christianity. It really is that simple.

So If you’re a Christian and you heard/saw something different than this, I really suggest that you get a bible, read His word and wrestle with your ‘faith’ or seek a pastor/mentor.

If you’re not a Christian and you’re reading this and saying, ‘wait a minute, that’s Christianity? I saw/heard something different compare to what this guy is saying’ — Well whatever that is that you heard/saw from other ‘Christians’ if there’s one thing that I want you to know it’s this:

There’s a God who created everything in this world and that includes YOU. The world that we are living now just didn’t POP out of nowhere. There’s a Creator. Just like your iPhone just didn’t POP randomly in your hand, APPLE created it. So if a phone has a creator, what more for the world? just think about that for a second.

He knows everything about you. Your struggles and success. Your pain and problems. And He wants to change that. He wants to have a relationship with you, walk with you, cry with you, fight with/for you, love you, take care of you, guide/lead you, fill you with joy, love and purpose… by simply believing and putting your faith and trust in Jesus Christ.

Would you like to do that? Just say a simple genuine prayer asking Him to forgive you from all your sins and surrendering your life and allowing Christ to take over your life. And that from this point on you will follow Him all the days of your life. — or if that’s too hard and complicated but you really wanna know more about this guy Jesus, message me and I will pray for you.

In Christ,
Mark M.

P.S. - If you’re a Christian, re-blog and share the gospel.

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Few days ago I got an Anonymous question on the issue about couples praying together. I’m retyping/re-blogging this again and making it an actual post.

So praying together. Is it advisable? Doesn’t praying together promote inappropriate intimacy between a couple?

Men and women were created to be attracted to one another. We desire for relationships. We need community, connection, and companionship with the opposite sex. It is part of who we are as humans. If you go back to Genesis, God made Adam first and then made Eve to be his ‘HELPER’. We are not meant to be alone. We are meant to be in relationships.

We’ve been taught in the church that desire towards intimacy was anything but good — unless you’re married — and a couple should refrain from anything that might promote such intimacy (sex is obviously out of the picture if you’re not married to the person you’re dating), but things like holding hands, hug, kiss and prayer included. Let me say this, there is nothing wrong with being intimate with your partner.

Intimacy isn’t the problem, SIN is.

When a couple starved themselves from intimacy and function like robots during the process of their dating/engagement, guess what their honeymoon would look like? AWKWARD. You can’t just switch the ‘intimacy button’ and be intimate. it’s a process and it develops and grows but it needs to be guided by God along with His Scriptures.

Many Christians couples who desire to avoid the effects of sin and idolatry in their dating relationship, they set up all kinds of boundaries and when those rules and boundaries fails, they change it up over and over again while meeting a similar fate.

NEWSFLASH: man-made rules are not sufficient for our battle against sin.

Paul says in Colossians 2:23 not to put your trust in any man made rules because they may appear with such wisdom but they don’t really stop the indulgence of flesh.

External rules don’t kill the internal roots of our sins.

We convince ourselves that if we just do these rules and modify our behaviors, everything will fall into the right place. The real danger, the real battle isn’t from the outside, it’s from the inside.

Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life (Prov. 4:23)

We don’t need those ‘man-made legalistic’ rules. We need new hearts. We need the gospel of Jesus Christ to help us grow deeper in that.

So how exactly does a couple set themselves on a God-honoring trajectory with respect to intimacy in their dating relationship? Paul gives us a great example on that.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything, but only faith working through love (Gal. 5:6)

This verse means, ‘Faith working through Love.’

As we focus on the gospel of Jesus Christ, we center all our relationships on Christ and we follow His example of what real love looks like. That overflowing love filled with faith is meant to lead the other person to Christ, not to ourselves. So everything we do with our partners, we count the cost. We are mindful if what we’re doing brings that person more to God, or to ourselves.

So Fill in the blanks:

For in Christ Jesus neither [praying] or [not praying] is anything, but only faith working through love (Gal. 5:6)

According to Romans 14.23 ‘everything that does not come from faith is sin.’

So get this, sin isn’t only seen in the “bad” things we do, but all the “good” things we do with bad motives, bad hearts — including praying or not praying in a dating relationship.

I’m not against RULES or BOUNDARIES. Just not as ends-in-themselves. If they aren’t leading you to Jesus, then they are simply “self-made religion.” as what Apostle Paul would say.

In conclusion: how far is too far when it comes to kissing and hugging? When should they pull back? When a couple prays, when should they pray and where? there’s tons of questions that needs to be considered. But to make this simple, I believe that there’s always a right moment to KISS, HUG, PRAY and be intimate in a God-Honoring way. It doesn’t mean you’re a dating you own each other and you’re free to do wahtever you want. NO. Use wisdom and right discernment and always put God in the center of every decisions that’s being made.

Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other. -Romans 12:10

In Christ,
Mark Muldez

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