When God doesn't do what we want

Let's go to the book of John, Chapter 13 and I would like to start by asking a question, if at some point in your life you have experienced things in a way that you would not have expected or perhaps would not have wanted, that you would not have preferred and God had some surprises for you?

Today we are going to talk about that, because the Christian life is a life full of surprises and some are nice surprises, and some are surprises that we would not have asked for, but they are good surprises in the end. So we're going to read the book of John 13, but first I want to share a very brief testimony.

When I graduated from college many years ago, I was looking for a job. How many have had to look for a job? And I prayed and fasted and asked God to provide me with the job that he had chosen for me. And after all that, a door opened for me for a job teaching in a school, where I was going to live there, and I knew it was from God. I felt the confirmation of the Holy Spirit. So I took that job. Now guess how I did at that job. It was lousy, it was the worst job of my life, it was terrible, it was total torture. This morning I spoke that it was like going to the dentist without being given the medicine that relieves the pain, but every day for a year, because I was committed to being there.

And I asked the question, Lord, I don't understand I prayed, I asked for your advice, I asked for your wisdom, I fasted, for many days in a row. I felt that this was from you, what happens that it is such a difficult job? And I had questions for God and I did not understand what was happening, until one day I went to a Bible study and read this text from the book of John 13, when Jesus washes the feet of the disciples. And I had read this text many times before, but on that day the Lord spoke to me in a special way and I want to talk a little about it.

Let's start in verse 2: “....so when Jesus and his disciples were having supper, as the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Escariot, Simon's son, to betray him, knowing Jesus, who the Father had given all things into his hands and who had come from God and was going to God, got up from dinner and took off his cloak and, taking a towel, he wrapped it around him. Then he put water in a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.

So Jesus is already dressed as a slave, seeing person by person, washing their dirty feet, and comes to Peter and watches as Peter responds, verse 6:

“. .. Then he came to Simon Peter and Peter said to him, 'Lord, do you wash my feet? This can't, do you wash my feet? Jesus answered and said to him, "What I do, you do not understand now, but you will understand later."

When I read that text I felt the Lord speak to me directly, 'Gregory, you don't understand right now what I'm doing in your life, you don't understand why or how, or what my logic is in that, but later you will understand.' It took me 10 years, but later I came to understand all the purposes of God in that. I felt that the Lord wanted us to know that many times we are like Peter. Jesus comes to do something that is scandalous for us, something that is not done, something that we would not have expected, and we say, no, it can't be, and Jesus says, 'now you don't understand what I'm doing, but later you will understand, that I know what I'm doing and I have a purpose at this point in your life'.

And then Peter as we know says, "... no, and Jesus says, 'unless I wash you, you have no part with me.'

If you don't let me do this outrageous thing in your life, you can't have anything to do with me. I know it doesn't make sense, I know it's awkward for you to let me do it to you, but if you don't let me do it, you have nothing to do with me. And Pedro responds, as always, fiery, he has his ups and downs and he says:

“...Not only my feet, but also my hands and my head too...”

He really gets into it. So we're going to talk today about the moments in life when we don't understand what's going on, when it seems like God has gone crazy and is doing things backwards. And God has his plan with us.

Father, I ask you for a special anointing of your Holy Spirit, you know that life is not easy at all. Lord, everyone is going through a teaching in their life at this moment, I don't know, but you know, you know every detail, and I ask that it be your Holy Spirit speaking to us, Lord, that it be a rich bread, a healthy bread for your town. I ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

We are going to talk about a special case that I want to give as an example that is found in the book of Genesis, at the beginning of the Bible. Genesis 48. So we are going to talk about an experience in the life of a servant of God whose name was Joseph. Joseph was a character in the Old Testament. We are not talking about Joseph, the husband of Mary, that is another Joseph, from long before, that he was the son of Jacob, he was a man who had a dream for his life, visions of God for his future.

How many here have had dreams of what God wants for their lives? They have a vision of great things that God wants you to do. How many have had that? José had dreams of his own destiny to do great things, but he would never have imagined how he would reach his destiny, his success. He had to go through slavery, he had to go through a muddy pit and all that, he had to go through a prison in Egypt, he had to go through many things, but in the end God brought good out of all those things. And he became the main leader of Egypt, next to Pharaoh himself, and he was a man of God who had learned from the fire what it is to trust a mighty God. But he had one more dream for his life.

He sees that he had two boys, two sons, an older one, whose name was Manasseh, and a younger one, younger, who was called Ephraim. Now, at that time, they always wanted their children to have God's blessing in their lives and to receive it from their grandparents. How many Puerto Ricans do we have here at home? Some Puerto Ricans? No? Puerto Ricans are very well, thank God.

When I was in Puerto Rico visiting families, there at home, and maybe it occurs in other countries as well, I don't know, but young people would come in and say to their parents or grandparents, blessing or something like that. And what do parents or grandparents say? Amen. I said in the morning, I would like the gringos to do that, because it is a beautiful tradition. The Hebrews did something similar. They asked, they always asked the grandfather to lay hands on the children, on the young people to give a blessing and the main blessing always went to the eldest son, the firstborn. So they always put the youngest, the eldest son next to the hand, which do you think is the main blessing, which hand? The right, on the eldest son to be the main blessing. And the younger sons were placed next to the left hand to give his blessing as well, but not the same blessing that there is for the firstborn. So let's see that God had some surprises for Joseph because he dreamed of that blessing. So to illustrate that, I want to know if perhaps, by chance, the patriarch Jacob would be visiting today, which can help us teach what happened that day.

Ah, Jacob is here, thank God. Good, we have the patriarch in the house. He didn't go crazy, we talked about it before. So for that I'm going to need two volunteers to help me with that, so I don't know if it's found and now that wasn't planned, so I'm really looking for volunteers. Manasseis and Ephraim, so we have the son Manaseis, someone who wants to volunteer here, any... Manaseis. Amen, thank God. We need Efraín, oh I see Efraín, thank God. So let's imagine that I am Joseph and I want Ephraim and Manaseis to be blessed.

Now, Manasseh is the firstborn, he is the eldest, he is the little one, the little brother, Ephraim, so I also want him to be blessed, but I want Manaseis to receive the main blessing. So I want to carefully place Manaseis in front of what hand of my father, of grandfather? From the right hand, it would be on that side. Efraín, well come here, I'll place you here... Now stay there.

Now, we are going to read the text and they are going to teach us what happened, in Genesis 48, we look at what happens, verse 12, it says that:

“Joseph took him out from between his knees , - so I don't know if it hurt his knees to put them there, I think it was much smaller in this text, but he took it off his knees - .... and he bowed to the ground and Joseph took them both, Ephraim a his right, to the left of Israel which is also Jacob, and Manaseis on his left to the right of Israel, and brought them near him. Then Israel stretched out his right hand and placed it on the head of Ephraim, who was the youngest, and his left hand on the head of Manaseis, thus placing his hands on purpose... - which I imagine that means crossed, inverted - .. ....although Manaseis was the firstborn.”

Let's jump now, how is José going to respond to this, do you think, how is he going to respond when he looks at that? Verse 17

“... But when Joseph saw that his father placed his right hand on Ephraim's head, this disgusted him, and he seized his father's hand to change it from Ephraim's head to Ephraim's head. of Manaseis and Joseph said to his father, 'Not like this, my father, because that is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head' and his father did not want to and said, 'I know, my son, he also knows he will become a people, and he will also be great but his younger brother will be greater than he and his descendants will form a multitude of nations...”

So Joseph does this, he comes and says, 'Father , No. Remove your hand here, put it here. But he didn't stop. did not leave And he wanted to move them, because he wanted the main blessing to go to Manaseis, but despite José's protests his father continued like this, with his arms like this, inverted, to whatever he would have wanted.

I say this, and I put my brothers to suffer here, because I want to show them this image, for me it has been something very special in my life. The image of God with his hands inverted, changed from what I would have expected, because many times I want things to be one way and God says, no, I have another plan that you don't understand and he crosses his hands and I even though I believe in God and I want the best, it doesn't seem right, and I want to change what he is doing. And I say, no, no, no, let it be so, and he resists, and resists because he says, 'my son, I know, I understand your confusion but I have a plan that you don't understand, but later you will understand.' let's stay with this image and they can sit quietly. Thank you. Very good.

We know that our God is a mighty God. Many times we have the name Lion of Judah, Lion of Judah, our God is not a tamed kitten, he is a wild lion. How many have read that in the Chronicles of Narnia when, those are books and a movie about a lion representing Jesus, and the question is asked, and is that lion dangerous? And they say, 'yes, it's definitely dangerous. It is not a tamed lion, it is not a lion trained as a pet in the house.’ It is an animal that he does what he wants to do, because he is in control and not us.

How many of us know that our God is an expert in surprises, in changing things the way we would have thought? And sometimes we don't want this. The Apostle Paul himself suffered a thorn in the flesh, we don't know what it was, but it was something bad, a thorn in the flesh. And the Bible says that he even prayed to the Lord, 3 times, to remove the sting from his flesh, 3 times. How does God answer you? Does anyone remember? My grace is enough for you because my power is perfected in your weakness.

I think it was good that he asked me to change, but later one admits, God has a plan that I don't understand. Let's talk about it. God is a God of scandal, brothers, of scandal. Many times we have bad connotations with this word, we imagine bad things when we think of scandal. God doesn't do anything wrong, but he does do things the opposite of what we would have thought to be right, and it scandalizes us. And, brother, if you are a disciple of Jesus Christ you will be scandalized by the Lord at some point. It will surprise you. It will shock you, it will even annoy you from time to time, and how we respond will determine our spiritual future. Because this is the path of discipleship.

We're going to talk about the ways God scandalizes us. First, sometimes God asks you to do things that you would not have wanted to do. When I met Christ, I gave my heart, I was 16 years old, I was away from home for the summer, I returned home, and the friend who had evangelized me told me, 'Thank God, now you are a Christian' , and I said, 'yes, I'm a Christian but I don't know if I want to be as famous as you in high school as a Christian. So I'm a Christian if anyone asks me, I say yes, I know Jesus, but I'm not going to preach like you preach." Here I am 22 years later preaching, but he prayed, "Lord, don't let him hide , Do not let that happen'. And I said, 'I'll do anything but I don't preach. He prayed, 'Lord, do not allow.' First day of school they are asking me, 'And Gregory, what happened to you this summer? Since you are different, you speak differently, what happens? And I say, 'well, I don't know how I went to a church. And what happened in the church, what do you think now? Since they wouldn't let me hide, I had to preach. Everyone asking me. Although I had said, 'I will never do that', but God forces you, God puts you in situations, when you have to do even what you least want to do.

Some who come say 'I go to your church with all those crazy people, Hallelujah! I believe in the Lord, but I'm not going to raise my hand, because I think that's fanaticism and I'm not doing it.' 'Look'. There are different styles of worshiping the Lord, there is no problem with a more tranquil style, don't get me wrong.' But some say no, never, and it's more of a rebellion, saying, no, anything but I don't do that. How many here were like this at the beginning? And then that first moment you say, ok, I feel like crazy, I'm going to pick that up… and you do… oh, and wow, but what a blessing. There is a freedom, and it is not that one is doing something magical, it is not that one must do what others do, only that when we let ourselves go, when we submit to what God wants for us, there is joy, there is freedom when we do How many of us know the story of Naaman in the Bible? Naaman, some Bible experts here who know about Naaman. He was a general of his country, a proud, powerful man, but he had leprosy under his shirt, he had leprosy. And a servant that he had was a Hebrew saying, 'Look, why don't you go to Israel so they can pray for you so that maybe you'll be healed. So he went to Israel, he presented himself before the king and received him with much celebration and the king says, 'Look, I'm not God, I can't do it. Go with the prophet. He goes to the prophet, he waiting, the prophet to go out and do something religious for him. The prophet does not even leave his house. He sends his helper to talk to Naaman. How many of us know that sometimes the generals of countries have their pride perhaps? And he sends the helper to talk to him, and he says, 'look, that's what the prophet says. You have to get into the Jordan River and you will be healed.' He says, 'why in the Jordan River? I have better rivers in my country to get into.

This reminds me, I was talking in the morning about people who say, 'Look, why don't you go swim on the beaches of Cape Code? And they respond, they say 'well, the beaches in my country are much better than this, why bother with that?

Naaman he didn't want to, he refused to do it. And he tells him, 'look, if they had asked you to do something big you would have done it, why not do it. Finally, he said, ok, I submit, I'm going to do it. He gets into that dirty river and comes out of the water with his skin clean and everything healed. Look when we submit, when we say, 'Lord, even though I don't understand why I have to do this, I do it in your name anyway' we are blessed. And I say this, brothers, because God is going to call us to serve him and sometimes he is going to make you do things that you would not have expected or wanted to do. But if you obey there will be a great blessing in your life.

Sometimes God scandalizes us because his judgments sometimes seem very strong, his rules, his holiness sometimes scandalizes us because it seems that it is very strong to say that certain things are sin and other things are not. For some of us and especially in our day and age, when there is a lot of relativism, when people think that everything is fine, it depends on what works for you. Being in a church that says no to certain things are sins and other things are not, seems to be something bad, something offensive to be like that.

Many times the holiness of God scandalizes us a little. In the Old Testament David brought the ark to Jerusalem one day, the ark of Jehovah and he put it on a cart with oxen and they were there entering Jerusalem with celebration and with joy, and then the cart hit a hole in the street , there is a problem and the ark is wobbling, and a man who is there taking care of the ark, whose name was Husa, extends his hand to support the ark, what happens? He dies on the spot, for touching the ark of Jehovah. The Bible says that David was angry that night, he was angry and frustrated against whom? Against God, God had scandalized him, but God wanted to teach him, 'David, although you are the king of Israel, I am the king of kings and the king of the universe and things are done my way.' Difficult moment.

Sometimes there are punishments that seem extreme to us, things that say, 'God, how can you be so strong and tough? But God says, 'Look, you have to trust in my holiness, in my wisdom that I know what is best for you.'

David was scandalized, he proved himself to be the God of the universe and not a tamed pet. God is in control of things, but sometimes, and I would say most of the time, God scandalizes us, not by being too harsh but by being too merciful to people.

How many of us have had the experience of meeting someone, maybe still in church, a person serving in the church, and you wonder, but this one, this one here serving as my cell leader , as my hujier, my what do I know? And we think not, how can it be, maybe someone because of his past, or his way of being, or whatever, we judge him.

I like the parable of the prodigal son. The son who leaves his father's house and lives a disordered life and he, after returning home, after living a terrible, sinful life, how does the father receive the prodigal son when he returns home, what does he do? the father? What does the father do for him, punish him? does he yell it? He hugs him, he receives him with a big party, but you know what? in the story there is another son. There is an older son, a son who never left home, a good and well-behaved son and he, when his little brother comes and receives a big party, how does that son respond? Does anyone remember how he responds when he watches the party? I was jealous, angry. 'But here, working like a slave all these years, I have always kept your word and this one comes and you give him a big party.' And he gets angry with the father, because how can the father be so generous, so forgiving, so merciful? He should be tougher and punish that young man, the eldest son thought.

Many times we are like that in church too. You know that I have seen many times with new people in the church, the decisive point for them, if they are going to continue in the church or if they are going to separate from the church and perhaps from the Lord is the first time they have an encounter with a brother who is perhaps not fully sanctified. Someone who doesn't like him, someone who annoys him, someone I don't know, who doesn't meet one's expectations. That's a moment..... well, that's never happened, has it? This has happened to everyone.

If you haven't had to forgive anyone in church, you're not in church. Really. The church is a family and in families we get upset, we pull our bows a little. This is normal for families, so if someone is in the church there will be moments that we will have to forgive a little, and not just a little, but forgive a lot, but it is a decisive moment, if we are going to let ourselves be scandalized or if we are going to say, ' Lord, even if it bothers me, even if I don't like them, here I am, I am your servant and how can I leave the church? This is the house of God, it is my family. You can choose friends, but you cannot choose your spiritual family, here they touch you, you are with them.

I remember once a conversation between two Christians and someone was talking about another brother and said to him, 'look, that brother is a Christian, but he's kind of stubborn, like a... in English he was 'he was a little bit of a jerk', I don't know how that translates. I don't know'. The other Christian said, 'Well, too bad you're going to have to spend eternity with that jerk, right? What a pity'.

It shocks us, doesn't it? So God sometimes scandalizes us too, just for doing weird things. To do things in an unexpected way. This morning we were talking about a miracle that Jesus performed to heal a blind man. A person came to Jesus and was blind. Now I would expect that Jesus would touch this person's eyes and say, 'My child, open these eyes because you will see the light of day.' No? This is what I would like him to do, and he did it a few times, but one time Jesus decided to do things differently. He looks at the blind man and what did he do, does anyone remember? He spat, he spat on the ground like a baseball player, he makes mud and takes the mud and puts it in the blind man's eyes and tells him to go bathe. But why did he do this?

If you were one who gave advice to Jesus, as the disciples always tried to do, you would say, 'Lord, but can't you find a more elegant way to heal a blind man than this? This has to be with spit and mud and... but I don't understand. But Jesus, he doesn't consult us, he doesn't ask my advice on how I think he should do things. He just does it and then it's up to me to decide if I'm going to submit or if I'm going to be scandalized by what he does.

How many of us know that many times the biggest scandal that we have in life are the tests that come to us, tests that we sometimes do not explain, that seem to make no sense? And don't get me wrong, there is an enemy in this world, we are in a spiritual war against Satan, not everything that happens is God's will, don't get me wrong. But sometimes we have evidence that we do not understand and we pray, the thorn in the flesh, and we ask that it be removed, and God says 'my grace is sufficient for you because my power is made perfect in your weakness'.

The story of our friend who has a whole book of suffering in the Bible, what's that guy's name? Our friend Job. How many identify with Job? There are some that I think could write another book of Job again and add a few Chapters. Job suffered, how many of us know what happened? He lost his family, he lost his children, his house, his everything, his health, everything was going wrong. What did his friends tell Job? Does anyone remember? It has to be that you are in sin, you are in sin. Imagine, you have already suffered and someone comes and says, 'ah, well, because God is punishing you because you are in sin'. What a friend, right? We know from the word of God that it was not so. He was not in sin, he was a normal human being, but he loved God, it was okay, it was not a punishment. And Job says, but Job who defends himself says, 'No, I am not in sin', but Job is also wrong in his way of interpreting the thing. He says 'God, you are not fair for what you are letting me suffer'. He accused God, he didn't curse him, but he did accuse him a little, he accused him a little. He would go by complaining and saying, 'Lord, you are not fair. At the end of the book, I would like God to pull back the curtain and say 'oh, well Job, I'm going to explain all the reasons for what you have suffered'. I would like answers.

Guess what? the Bible does not give all the answers to the suffering he suffered. What God does say is, 'Job, who made all these stars, who made the sea that you see, who made all these trees, who made everything you can imagine in this universe? You have to trust that I know what I'm doing, that I'm in control of your life, and even if it's hard, I promise I'm with you in the thing. And so Job, in the end, says, 'I spoke things that I did not understand, before hearing I had heard you, but now my eyes see you'.

That is a scandal for many, the struggles we have. Struggles that we don't explain, struggles that have no reason, but in the end we have to say, 'God, I know that you are with me. I know that you can do everything and that no one can resist your will, and I know that I am your son, I am your daughter, and that you know what you are doing with me, even if it doesn't make sense now, I know that later I will understand. Maybe not later in this life, but later, someday I will see your glory in everything I am living because I know who I have believed in, and I know that my redeemer lives, and that I will see the glory of Jehovah at the end of this life. the thing'.

God commands us to be willing, when we see things crossed, things reversed, to let God change our way of thinking. And how are you with that? When we don't have what we want, when we want it, in the way we want it, how do we respond?

There is a man from the Bible who responded very well, when he had to change, his name was Nathaniel. That man came to Nathaniel, at the time of Jesus, and told him, we have found the Messiah and he comes from Nazareth and Nathaniel answers and says, but can something good come out of Nazareth? There is nothing good there, it cannot be like that. They told him, 'come and see'. So he came to Jesus, Jesus tells him, here is an Israelite in whose spirit there is no deceit, and Nathaniel says, 'Are you really the Messiah, the King of Israel? And Jesus says, 'Do you believe that's why? That was easy, that was easy, you changed. You're going to see better things than that.

But how many of us know that not all of them are so easy? Some of us take longer to convince ourselves that God is in control. How many here know that the child who resists discipline, what happens to him? What do you have to do if you are a mother and have a child and after a good treatment you are still in it? He has to give more treatment, always with love, affection, never abuse, never violence. Amen. Thank God. But, the child who continues on his way is looking for trouble, right? We are like that with God.

If we let ourselves be taught, if we let ourselves be molded, if we stop fighting against inverted arms, there is a blessing for us. You know what? The most successful Christians in this world are the Christians who have gone through the discipline of the Lord and who have been softened, humbled, changed by it. Those with their pride intact don't get anywhere.

And I want to close with a story, I invite the musicians, but with the story of Abraham. We all know the story of Abraham, right? in the book of Genesis. God called him to be the father of a new nation, and Abraham was an old man, with an old wife, and she was also barren, she could not have children. And God tells Abraham 'you will have children and you will be the father of a great nation', and Abraham, what did Abraham do to fulfill this promise? What did he do, does anyone remember? He trusted God, yes, but he also put his faith into action in an inappropriate way, and he looked for the servant of the house, the same wife gave her to him and had a son with her.

Brothers, this is not the way to fulfill God's will in our lives. Amen. So he had a son, whose name was Ishmael, and then Ishmael grows up and God comes and says, 'Abraham, you'll have a blessed son,' and Abraham says, 'Yes, here's Ishmael, here he is for you.' Let's wait a moment. 'Here I have Ishmael, may he have your blessing', and God says, 'look, Ishmael is very cute and I am going to bless him and thank you for your help, but I have another plan Abraham, you will have a son'. And Abraham and his wife of 100 years almost miraculously had a son. That son was called Isaac, which means laughter, who would have thought. God does everything in a way that we would not have expected, but then God comes, when Isaac is grown up and says, 'Abraham, now I want you to give me that boy, I want you to sacrifice him to me. The son of promise, and now Abraham is at a turning point in his life.

How will you respond to God's call? God comes and says, 'Are you going to trust me, my folly or are you going to follow your own understanding again? We all know the story. Abraham had learned something, Abraham had learned that he serves a God who calls things that are not as if they were, a God who can raise the dead and give them life, a God who can cause a baby to be born to a hundred-year-old couple. And sterile too. Abraham believed and had already come to believe that God could raise the dead, and he said 'I am going to trust him, I am going to trust him even if it is madness, even though I do not understand, I am going to trust him.'

And Abraham went to sacrifice and we all know the story, he didn't have to, and God did the work in his life. And Abraham became the father of faith, our father, if we have Abraham's faith.

Brothers, those who believe that God does things his way are those who fly in the spirit, those who do not follow their own understanding. They know that I have come to respect ministers and one in particular that we all know, who even made a video propaganda here, who have gone through the treatment of the Lord, and who have come to know that God knows what he is doing, and if we obey him, he can help us, in my life and in my ministry.

Brothers, I don't know, what is the madness that you are going through in your life and now we can... I don't know how the arms of the Lord are crossed in your life, what is the situation that you have or have you had, but I do know that my God knows what he is doing and that it is up to us to respond like Peter, when all the other disciples were leaving Jesus because of his harsh word, and Jesus asks the disciples, ' And you are leaving too?' They said, to whom shall we go, only you have the words of eternal life.

I don't explain why these things are happening, it doesn't make sense to me, but who will I go to, you are my God and you have always known how to get good things out of suffering in my life, and in this I will also trust you. And I know that I will see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living. I know that you are the God who can do everything, that your understanding who can understand, because your ways are not my ways and your thoughts are not my thoughts.

Brothers, I invite you to stand up and we are going to end this time with a prayer, and we are going to stand before the Lord. I invite you to close your eyes and I thank you, God, because you really know what you are doing, Lord. Thank you that in my life, and in the lives of so many brothers that I know, even when it seems that you are doing things the other way around what we would have expected, upside down, you, Lord, had your purpose and you brought good out of evil, and this is your deal in our life. Lord, I ask you, Lord, in the name of Jesus that we may all, Lord, submit our hearts before you and say 'Lord, I know that you are in control.

I want you to think about the situation that you have before you and to know this, the Lord says, 'my thoughts, my son, my daughter, are not your thoughts, nor are your ways, my ways, said the Lord As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.'

Lord, I ask you, Lord, that joy be born in the hearts of your servants, a joy of knowing, Lord, that you have everything under control, that you know what you are doing, and if You send me out of the boat, I'm going to walk on the water, even if it doesn't make sense, Lord, I know that you rule my life. Thank you, Lord, I ask you, Lord, to unleash that peace that only you can give in the lives of those who have stopped fighting against you, of those who have stopped resisting that peace that says, Lord, thank you, Lord, that you rule in my life I submit to you, I ask you to unleash that peace, Lord. That joy of a son who trusts in a father who is in control of all things, Lord.

I ask you to unleash a new power in your people, Lord, the power of people who believe that the impossible is possible because you are a God of impossibilities. You are the God of the unexpected and we have come to believe it. Thank you Lord, that you are God and not us, because your Lord, you can do everything, in the name of Jesus. Amen.