
Author
Gregory Bishop
Summary: The message is about keeping our appointments with God and being in the right place at the right time. The story of Jacob's dream and the Apostles waiting in Jerusalem for the Holy Spirit show that God has specific appointments for us and it's up to us to be where we need to be. The verse in Ephesians 2:10 also emphasizes that God has prepared good works for us to walk in, but it's up to us to discover them. The story of Philip and the Ethiopian in Acts 8 shows that when we flow with what the Holy Spirit wants to do, we can be led to do great things for God.
The key to flowing with the Holy Spirit is to be where God wants us to be, doing what He wants us to do. We see this in the story of Philip and the Ethiopian, where Philip was prompted by the Spirit to approach the Ethiopian and share the Gospel with him. When we are in our position, we are in the flow of the Holy Spirit and the anointing awaits us. It's important to remember that we don't need to pray about certain things because we already know God's will, such as visiting those in need in hospitals and jails. We also need to be careful not to get ahead of God or be late to be in step with Him.
God wants us to be in the right place at the right time, following His plan for our lives. Sometimes, we may be tempted to go ahead of God or be late, but we need to keep pace with Him. It's also possible to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, which can lead to sin and negative consequences. We need to be present and attentive to God in all areas of our lives, including at home and at work. The sacrament is a sacred moment where we can confess our sins and have an encounter with God. We should strive to always be where God wants us to be.
Matthew 28, verse 10. And what I would like to share today, more than a sermon as a normal exposition, is more of a meditation based on something that I felt, that the Lord impressed me, based on this verse and that I felt I was sharing. with you and with myself, every time we preach here we preach to ourselves. I hope you know that. So Matthew 28 in verse 9 and 10, is after the resurrection, Jesus already in this text rose from the dead, and you know that the resurrection I hope we think more about it, that our God is alive, he lives, he does not is in the grave, the grave is empty.
Another story of my son since you want to hear all the stories of my son, right? Poor things. In a captive audience here, when I read to him about the resurrection in a children's Bible we always say, Jesus is alive, Jesus is alive, so we do like a cheer and he like he gets into that. One day my sister was talking on the phone, I used the word life I don't know why, I said, in all my life or something like that. And he said, life and he went to a Bible and a drawing of Jesus and he pointed. I thought, wow, thank God. I felt, and I thought thank God, I hope this reaches your heart. But knowing that our God is life and having this association well placed in the heart. And this is the basis of what we are going to talk about today.
Look what he says to the women who came to see him, verses 9 and 10. He says, “…behold, Jesus came out to meet him saying, Hail and they approached, embraced his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, do not be afraid, go tell my brothers the news so that they can go to Galilee and there they will see me…”
I felt the Lord highlight for me the words "there they will see me", that they go to a place in Galilee, and that they wait because they are going to see me there in this place. And we know that it was from that place that the Lord made the great commission. Why didn't you do it from another site? Why didn't he do it from China or from I don't know where or another place? He chose Galilee. Because? Well, maybe there is a theological reason that I don't know at the moment, but the important thing is that he wanted you to go there to wait for him and he says, if you are in the right place, at the right time that I am indicating, there I will be. they will see And I began to think that we believe in the omnipresence of God, that God is everywhere and that is why some say, well, I worship God from my house, I don't need to come to church. But how many of us know that one looks at Jesus differently in certain places and certain situations.
It is not that God is different but he reveals himself in different ways. So he says, where there are two or three gathered in my name, there I am among them. And he's not somewhere else? Of course he is everywhere but where there are two or three there he is in a special way and if we are in the places that God has indicated, at the indicated times, we will see him there.
And that is what I felt to share on this day. Because I ask myself, Lord, and really, day by day, in the moments of my life, am I keeping my appointments with you or am I leaving you standing up? What would have happened if some of them had not gone to Galilee? What would have happened? They would not have heard the great commission, they would not have been there in person, they would have missed the appointment. Has anyone ever left you? You are there waiting and where is it? I don't want to do this with the Lord. I want to keep the appointments that he has for me and I believe that God continues to make appointments.
What I want to talk about today is the geographic will of God for my life. That God has purposes for certain places, at certain times and he wants to have an encounter with us in these places. And it's up to us to be where we have to be.
A very wise non-Christian writer, but from the United States, Mark Twain, I think he was, who wrote 99% of success in life is simply getting to the place. He says, 99% of success in life is simply showing up. Just got to show up.
If we are not there we lose what God wants to do there. I want us to go to Genesis 28 together and look at the text that the children are studying above in Sunday school. Jacob's story, we're not going to go into all the detail with the story, we're just going to look at one aspect of it. How many of us know about Jacob's dream. Jacob who got into trouble with his brother, Isau, and left, had to run. A crazy young man, a spoiled young man, God had to discipline him, teach him, but despite everything he was in the very center of God's will for his life, without knowing it. But God knew, thank God.
And he stands in a place on the road, puts down a stone and uses it as a pillow. I have heard it said that the stone was as hard as his head, stubbornness. And he was there sleeping and there in a dream God appears to him and we are going to see what happens in verse 12.
“…and he dreamed, and behold a ladder that was leaning on the ground and its end touched heaven and behold angels of God going up and down it. And behold, Jehovah was on top of it, and he said, I am Jehovah, and afterward he gives the promise to Jacob….”
Further on, verse 16, “…and Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, Surely the Lord is in this place and I did not know it. And he was afraid and said, how terrible is this place. It is nothing other than the house of God and the door to heaven. And he placed a stone there as a sign and the place to be called Bethel, which means, house of God..."
Is it that you believe that it was really the house of God? The portal to heaven as if we were in a science fiction movie, where there is a portal to the other dimension. For Jacob at this moment, yes, because he was where he had to be at this moment and he saw God is here, there are angels present, there are promises that God makes me. There in that place, but I think it was not the place, it was that he was on the road where he had to be.
I remember when I was a young man looking for a university and I had to leave the house, 18 years old, and I thought, oh, Lord, I am going to leave the house. Happy but also a little nervous. And then I went to the university, in Amherst, where I attended and I in the chapel said, Lord, can I be at home in you here in this place? And God told me, Gregory, wherever you go, I'm home. You just obey me and I'll be there at home, I'll be there. I meet you, if you go where you think you have to be in the Lord, you will see me there. Obey, be in the right place where you feel that God is directing you, and there you will see me.
They know that I believe, and I don't want to get into things like weird stockings, but you know how there are currents in the sea, there are certain currents that carry you. How many have seen, in the morning we talked about this. Let's try it again. How many have seen the movie Nemo? This lost little fish, the dad goes finding Nemo. No, ok, the Lord forgive you. So in this movie, they remember that they had to get to Australia but they couldn't swim on their own, so that's why they were led into a stream and after they jumped into the stream, wow…they're taken to Australia with all their turtles, very cool… and there they are, they get into the current and it takes them in the direction where they need to be. And then the appropriate output, puts them there near Australia.
In the spirit we believe that we do not do things in our own strength. There are currents in the spirit and it is up to us to remain connected to the vine that is Jesus Christ who guides us to connect with what he is doing and leads us in the direction we have to go. It is up to us to locate ourselves in the current of the spirit and he does the rest. So we are not totally passive but he is doing it.
And reading the book of Acts we see over and over again and just as it happened with Jacob, when we are in the flow there is a breeze that takes us, like the boat that he has, the sail boat, which has the breeze that takes him in the direction where you have to go.
I want you to go with me to the book of Acts and I want to study a little about this call to walk in the spirit, to be where, in the sense of being where we have to be when we have to be. Acts, Chapter 1. Looking at the book of Acts one looks again and again God makes appointments with his people, appointments with his people, indicates what he has to do.
Acts 1:4 “.. and being together he commanded them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the Father which he said to them, you have heard from me because John certainly baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit within not many days…”
They had to do what? They had to go somewhere and wait. How do you visualize this room where the Apostles were waiting? How do you visualize it? You know, I heard a sermon that really hit me once. Many times we spiritualize things in the Bible a lot. How do you visualize? These Apostles, after having denied the Lord, were in danger of death, waiting there for weeks. I visualize some children bothering, some discouraged Apostles, a room there, but they were praying as they had to. But there, on the day, at the right time, the spirit found them and baptized them with the Holy Spirit, with this wind and fire, and Peter began to preach and three thousand came to know Christ.
They were in the right place at the right time doing what they needed to be doing and God did the rest. 99% of success in life is simply showing up to the right place at the right time. And the Lord has the steps.
I know we're jumping around a bit, so forgive me for that. But let's go together to the book of Ephesians, another book, another verse that I really like in that. Ephesians 2:10, they say in verse 8 and 9 that we are saved by grace through faith, not by works so that no one can boast and in verse 10 it says ".. because we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared in advance for us to walk in them….”
Look at that. They know that many times there is a debate between predestination and human freedom. The question is, do we have decisions to make or does God do everything? We, I believe, yes, God is in control of everything and yes, we make decisions. So that's why I didn't do very well in the seminar, because I combine the two things. But I believe that God prepared works for me to make a way but it is up to me to discover these works. It's up to me to be where I have to be when I have to be there and discover the work that God has prepared for me.
So every day is like a treasure hunt again. You ever heard, do the Easter egg hunt when you were a kid. You know that the little eggs are hidden but you have to find them. And so is life.
God has good works for me, and they await me every day but it's up to me what they are and to walk in them. And life, and the day does not have to be a burden of, oh, another day, the everyday. No, every day is an adventure. God you have something for me today. In every moment God I am looking for your purpose. And if I am where I have to be, when I have to be there, I will see Jesus there in something, in some way.
We are going to go back to the book of Acts and we are going to see this in action. Acts 8, many drop in the Bible, to see if they can find books, Acts is after John, Acts 8, there the story of Felipe, a deacon, Felipe, a deacon.
This man had learned the secret of how to flow with what the Holy Spirit wants to do in life. And we know, as we have said, that it is not for the passive. God is not going to force you to do what he has to do, you have to be on the move and he directs you. We are going to see Philip and the Ethiopian, verse 26, Acts 8:26.
It says that an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, get up and go south along the road that descends from Jerusalem to Gaza which is deserted. So God directs him to go a, a bridge to nowhere, a street to nowhere, a street in the desert. But Lord, why don't you send me to an important place, a specific address? No, go to that street, and you will see me there. There are good works waiting for you. Ok I go. How many of us know that we are not captains of our own lives? You do not have the right to decide where you are going to go and when you are going to go. If you are a Christian, Jesus is your captain and if he says, jump, you say, how high. If he says, go over there, you say, ok, let's go. It's not like we have options here, so Felipe was a man subject to the spirit and he went. And I also think that he liked adventure, because he had already tasted the power of God and he knew that good things happen when you are moving.
So verse 27, “…then he arose and went and it came to pass that an Ethiopian, a eunuch, an official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasures and had come to Jerusalem to worship, and was returning sitting on his car reading the prophet Isaiah and the spirit said to Philip, come closer and join that car….”
So Philip there wandering in the desert, in obedience, and he looks at the car there, and God says, look, go approach that car. Do you know what, how is it that the spirit spoke to him? I don't know, maybe it was a voice that he heard, but I think that God usually speaks to us in much more subtle ways, much more subtle. There is a concern, I don't know if you have experienced that. You feel worried about someone and you don't know why. Well, maybe it's that you worry a lot and there's no reason, but maybe there's something. So deal with that, the next time you run into a concern, well, call the person and how is he? All good? You don't tell him, look, the Lord has me worried about you, brother, in what sin are you walking. Do not do that. Just, very natural. Hey, look, how are you? I was sorry to call you, all right? Maybe he will tell you, all good. There is no problem, thank God. It was just a thought of mine, it was not necessarily from God. But maybe you are going to call the person and they are going to tell you, but how did you know to call me? With what I am living today, I asked the Lord for someone to call me, and look, here you are. And you, because you followed the impulse that the spirit gave you.
Or sometimes it's a joy. I have seen that. When people find their niche, when they're where they're supposed to be, doing what they're supposed to be doing, they usually go on their honeymoon with God. And I have seen that. A sister recently started working here in the church in a certain capacity, but walking on clouds, all happy and she says, what's wrong with me? Is this going to end soon? No, no, this does not have an expiration date. It is that you are in your niche, you are where you have to be, doing what you have to be. There is joy, because you are doing your ministry, you are where God wants you.
So sometimes it's where there's a supernatural joy and you can feel, oh, I'm where I need to be and there I see Jesus in a different way. This is to be following what God speaks to you.
And look what happens with Felipe in this case. He is near the chariot and coming to Philip, verse 30 “…. He heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and he said, but do you understand what you read? And he said, but how can I? If someone will not teach me. And he begged Philip to come up and sit down with him to explain the Gospel to him…”
This man from Africa met Christ, prayed to receive Christ, was baptized right there, found a little water, was baptized and returned to Africa, a man in the government. Now, you know what? In the early church there were three main churches, one in Antioch, Syria, the other church naturally in Jerusalem but there was a third in Africa, in Alexandria. Could it be that perhaps this man was part of the revival in Africa, who came to a main church to be born there? I don't know. There is no documentation but who knows.
I believe that God would not have allowed this here, unless it was something important, that this man was going to come back and evangelize in a special way. But what we know is that Felipe was where he had to do, doing what he had to do. And look ahead. I love this one. He after preaching he baptizes him and when they came up out of the water, verse 39:
"... the spirit of the Lord took Philip away and the eunuch saw him no more and went on his way joyfully but Philip found himself in Azotus and passing through he preached the Gospel in all the cities until he reached Caesarea..."
But this man did live the crazy life, right? For the Sir. Then he baptizes him, and flaccc carries him away, carries him away, snatched him up like Moses, like Moses, like Elijah, was snatched away in the chariot of fire. This would be interesting, how nice to see this before the Lord comes, raptures and the Lord moving people.
But whatever it was, this man was cool. Now, I don't want to get too weird, but he was looking for what God has for me, where do I have to be, what do I have to do. And when he plugs in, it's like electricity. If one is under a storm with a metallic thing this invites lightning. Now, of course we don't want to be burned by lightning, thank God, but I'm just saying that if we position ourselves, if we position ourselves where we need to be, all the power of the Lord is ready to be poured out on us.
A good example is Gideon. We know the story of Gideon, remember? He with his little group of men who drink water in a strange way, who had to come against a large, large army, and God says, once again Gideon was in the flow of the Holy Spirit, Gideon was very afraid, oh, but What is going to happen. We are all going to die tomorrow. And God says the night before the battle, I want you to go down to the camp and spend a little time there. OK fine. He goes down to the camp and he, as a disguised guy, listens to two men talking and one says, look, but I had the strangest dream, I had a dream that there was bread from heaven, a gigantic bread, like a big giant piece of bread, you know, circling that knocked down the entire camp of enemies. It has to be Gideon conquering. Through this nonsense of a dream Gideon began to worship God because he knew that God was encouraging him.
When you are where you have to be, when you have to be, you will hear things that God wants you to hear. Me, look, tomorrow, I was in the Lazarus group, I was not going to give the study but well, the leader was sick... I gave the study and I knew, God has something to tell me, and I was not only there to give the study but I was listening to the brothers. There is something for me today, I know. This is not coincidence. God is going to teach me. And you know what? Taught me. He spoke to me through these men in various ways, but I always feel when I am in a situation that it is not by chance, it is that God is directing me and if I continue in the ways that I feel that God has, then I will see Jesus in a special way.
There are examples throughout the Bible of that, many examples. Elijah, during the drought, what does God say to him? I want you to go down to such a place, near a stream, go down to have a little water. There are crows that will give you food and then the water runs out. Ok, well, go to such a place, you will find a lady, she will give you food. He as guided by what God told him.
But you know what? It's easy when I talk about it, to get very mystical and always be there, and God, what should I do after church, at 3 in the afternoon, because I don't want to lose what you have for me. Look, this is not for us to get neurotic. Amen. God is bigger than that. And there are many things that you do not have to pray, we are talking about in the morning, if you have a normal job, with office hours you do not have to be praying, God, where do you want me to be on Monday at 9 in the morning. I only go if you tell me to be there. Being in your position, being where you have to be.
But you know what? It's important to talk about it. The anointing awaits us in the position that God has appointed us. The anointing on Peter, when he went up to preach, the anointing flowed because he was where he needed to be doing what he needed to do. After Jesus had told all the disciples, they know that they are going to punish you for being Christians and they are going to take you to jail but don't worry, if you are where you have to be, I am going to give you the right words at that moment. , I will not leave you alone, if you are where you have to be, in your position, fulfilling what God has given you.
I love it, Isaiah 43, what it says, "... when you pass through the waters I will be with you, I think it is, I will be there..."
Daniel, Daniel's little friends, in the oven, do the three of you remember the story? And then they look and there are not three, there are four. Jesus went into the fire with them. If you are where you have to be, we know that we are not alone, we know that there is someone who supports us if I am in my position, and I will not always want to be in my position, I believe that these men would not have chosen to spend a day in a fire oven. But they had to do it to fulfill what God wanted for them.
I think about this a lot in the ministry. I hope that you have joy in the ministry that you do, that you do it from the heart, but how many of us know that there are days when you don't feel like going to your class of children that you teach every three months. How many know that there are days for musicians when they are not going to feel the anointing when they wake up in the morning. There are days when you are not going to feel like doing your ministry or maybe an usher who maybe comes dragging, but says, I will be at my post because God has called me. Even if it is out of obligation from time to time, it is not that we serve out of obligation, but we fulfill by fulfilling the duty that God has given us.
They know that when we are like this, like the man who said, I am a useless servant, I have only done my duty. Do you know what the parable says? Jesus says, so servant, the owner of the house comes and serves him. When you do it, when you arrive at your class or your position, or perhaps even more, visiting people in need in the hospital or in jail, if you are where you have to be, there you will see Jesus. You will see Jesus. There is an anointing waiting for you there.
How many have had this experience? Once you are with these children, you remember, or now I remember, I love these children. I love being in the presence of God, and the anointing begins and joy comes. But it comes or it doesn't, you're going to be where you have to be when you have to be there.
But I want to talk a little bit about that because, so we know that certain things we have to follow the spirit. But in other things we already know God's will, we don't have to pray. For example, Jesus said, and I started to think about it, when he talks about the goats and the sheep, the people who visited people in need in jail or in the hospital, people kind of going through suffering, Jesus says, when you did it to the smallest of these, you did it for me. You didn't even know it, but you were in my presence and you gave me and that's how it is. When we play, when we get to these places…
You know that when I started my ministry here it was very difficult sometimes to enter situations with a lot of pain because one feels that, the pain of the families, perhaps in a hospital, or a funeral and I felt the Lord tell me, don't worry, I I wait for you there next to this grave. How odd. But for me it helped a lot to know that. He said, I am there crying with them and when you enter, there is an anointing that awaits you.
When we visit hospitals, take a moment in the chapel before going up, and remember, God, you are already working in this situation, I am going there to meet what you are doing, with you, I will see you there. I do not want to go in my own strength, I want to go with you, Lord, and I know that you will support me even if it is in the fire.
If one is where one has to be, there you will see me, says the Lord. But how many of us know that sometimes we are tempted to go or to either be behind what God wants to do, and be late to be in step with God, or I'll say this in English and then I'll try to say it in Spanish . Sometimes we get ahead of God. Sometimes we get ahead of the timing, the moment of God.
A good example of that, the Israelites, do you remember the story? They had left Egypt and the spies come back from spying out the land and Jacob and Joshua say, come on, God is going to give us the land, and the other spies, what do they say? Does anyone remember? They say, no, they are big, they are gigantic, we are like little lobsters. They are going to eat us alive. We're not going, Moses wants to kill us. And everyone decides, we are not going to attack. Instead we are going to think about how to get back to Egypt. And God later punishes the spies strongly and pronounces the punishment against the people of Israel. And then they say, ok, now we know that we have sinned. Now we're going to attack them, so come on, now come on. And Moisés says, no, no, no, it's too late, it's better that you submit to the punishment and don't go. They say, no, no, no, come on, come on, come on. And they went, what happened to them? They were knocked down and Moses, he said, I told you so, I think that's in the Bible. I think he said, didn't I tell you? I think he said, I told you so. It's like, first you were behind and then you're ahead of God.
We are like that sometimes. We do things our way. Sometimes in the ministry especially we have restlessness, perhaps God has given you a call, perhaps to sing, perhaps to preach, and you want to take hold of this ministry now and the Lord says, this is not the time. Right now I want you working as an usher, or working in the new building, or doing something. And then it will be time for that. And we have to keep pace with what God has for us.
Sometimes, sometimes, we are slow, God tells you, look, for years now I have been talking to you about toddlers and what do you do. I am waiting for you there, if you do it you will see me, there will be a blessing. But we are late with things. God asks us to keep pace with him and when we do, we see him in different ways.
You know it's also possible and I don't want to dwell on it too long, but just as it's possible to be in the right place at the right time, how many of us know it's possible to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? How many people have lived it? Sometimes it's possible to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. You don't want to be there.
They know that I was, I was definitely in the wrong place at the wrong time. Two weeks ago driving my car, that was, I was coming out of a left turn, and looking I didn't see any car, so I started to get out, and then I saw that there was a small dip in the street and I hadn't seen a car that was going up fast and I had to stop, so where is my car at that moment? Where I didn't have to be. It was in the middle of the road, I had nosed out… I wasn't there, I don't know if I'm explaining it. Can you visualize? I had nosed out and I was where I didn't have to be. The car was there, but what could I do like that… I was about to go back up but there was someone behind me, and do you know what happened to me? Bang. He gave me, thank God I was alone, I felt myself rearranged. Drive more carefully, but I was alone, no damage, the guy seems like he didn't want any trouble with me. He said look let's forget this ever happened and a good friend from church fixed it for me. And everything went well. Thank God, but I learned something.
I learned, first, to drive carefully, that's the first thing, but the second thing was to be where one has to be. No matter how good you are, if you put your car in the wrong place, it's going to stick. You can be the best person, but the thing is to be on track. I love Bible stories for how to pick ourselves up, of people who were in the wrong place.
How many of us know the story of David? What happened to David? King David, a successful man in the Lord, but then in the spring the time when kings go to make wars in other countries, that's supposed to be that time. The king is supposed to be where? In the war, with his men. But where was David? In the palace. And if you read the story, it's afternoon, it's 3, 4, 5 in the afternoon and it says that he's getting out of bed. It says that. He's just getting up. Now, or one of two things, or he slept until 3 in the afternoon because he had stayed up late or he took a very long nap and there… look at Bathsheba, as they say, the rest is history. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
In Proverbs 7 he talks about the foolish young man who was walking in the street where the immoral woman lived, the harlot. And he knows, she lives there, but I'm just going to walk around here, I'm not going to do anything, I'm just going to walk around here. What time? Sunset, where is the husband? Out. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Proverbs 7, look at it, it's there. I'm not making this stuff up. It's in the Bible. And she comes out and temptation and he falls, but the sin had already begun, because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The answer to that, instead of being paranoid, oh, Lord I want to…be in the good things, be where you have to be when you have to be there, doing what you have to do and know that I will see Jesus there. He will be with me.
When Jesus comes, they know that I want him to find you in your place, in your position, doing what you have to do. This may be here at church, but maybe it is at home. We don't want to be super spiritual here. A conversation that you had with a friend that I know you will never forget. Me preparing to be a father... She was pregnant and I was looking for books to learn how I'm going to do this. It looks really hard. How am I going to be a dad? So I look for books, I'm listening to programs, Dobson, this, that, but I only felt from the Lord reading a book, it's an excellent book, it's not Christian, but it's a good book called “First things first”, “First Things First”. things first”, is like organizing your time so that you can make time for the important things in your life. And I felt from the Lord, look, I just read that book and I was talking to my friend, who is another confused gringo from the church, Sonia's husband, he tells me, and I say, but why, and he says, oh Gregory It doesn't matter, you can read all the books in the world, but if you're not there, what do we win? If you're not there, it doesn't matter all your preparation, all your love, it's not there. You are far away, you are absent.
The first step is simply to be, to be there, in his life. And if you don't organize your time, according to God's will, it won't be there. So that's why God wanted me to read that book first and then the rest.
Now, don't get me wrong, once there, there are some of us who do more harm than good, so you better stay… so afterwards we have to think about how to really be present.
He knows that I heard something nice that when you get home, if the family is already at home, if it is a situation like this in your life, before going in, pray for a moment: Lord, help me to be present at home, help me to see you. to you, to what you are doing in the house, and then go inside. And already looking for what God has for us at night. Maybe when you get to work, before getting out of the car or entering the building, you take a moment, Lord, help me to be attentive to you in my work today. Give me grace with that boss, give me grace with that partner. Help me to be present in the wave of your Holy Spirit.
And Jesus says, there you will see me, you will see me. If we are walking in the spirit, God is by our side, brothers. And now we are about to enter a very sacred moment and I use this word on purpose, it is the sacrament. One can do things by routine, because it is done or one can remember, Jesus left these signs for him to have an encounter with us at this time. And I want to be here not only physically, but in spirit I want to be before God at this moment. I want to confess all the sins of the week, I am going to confess them, Lord, forgive me, I have put aside all the burdens, if one is not a Christian, one decides, I receive Christ today, I receive you as my Lord and savior and I receive this sacrament because I want to see Christ right now. It's a sacred moment but you know what? All moments in life are sacred, although there is something special in the signs that God left us. But we can be in every minute of life, in every activity knowing, God, I want to be at the very center of what you have for me, even if it is sad, even if it is a test, even if it is fire, you promise not to leave me only. Open my eyes so that I can see you.
This song, I just want to be where you are, to think about the joy of being with a person you love. If this person is there, everything is better. God wants us to live thinking, I want to be where you are, Lord, no matter where, no matter what, I will go where you send me because you are in charge and not me in my life and I want to be at the indicated appointment that you have set for me. Amen.
So the appointment that touches us all today is the sacrament, so I'm going to invite the musicians to do it, but first I also want to ask you the question, where are you? Where are you in your life? Are you where God wants you? Are you doing what God wants you to do? If you don't pray, search, and if you are sincerely searching, he will not leave you hanging, he will teach you and the key is to be where he is, not where you think is right, but what God teaches you is his will for his life. Amen.