Overcome obstacles in community

The mind is one thing, if you have a negative mind you do not expect anything from God, you are not convinced that God does not work in a certain way, that is what will happen in your life because your mind is powerful. What you think, according to what you think so you are. According to what you expect to see receive, this is how it will happen in your life. That is why we must ask the Lord for my faith, for my expectation of what you can do, for the parameters of what I believe that you are capable of doing. So that then you can do it because if your faith is tiny, that's how your reality will be. If your faith is great and powerful, so will your chances be too. Write that down there, I'll give it to you for free.

Chapter 5, Luke, verse 17.

The famous well-known passage of the healing received by a paralytic who was brought to Jesus. It says, "it happened one day that He was teaching and the Pharisees and doctors of the law were sitting, who had come from all the villages of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem..." and here is something very, very important: and the power of the Lord was with Him to heal. Hallelujah!

That was the difference between Jesus and the other teachers that were in Israel at that time. The power of the Lord was with Him to heal, “and it happened that some men who were carrying a man who was paralyzed on a bed, tried to take him inside and place him before Him, but not finding how to do it because of the crowd, they climbed on top of him. the house and through the roof they lowered him with the bed. Putting him in the middle, in front of Jesus. Seeing Him..." what did He see?

When He sees faith... say again, faith! Seeing their faith, “he said to the man,” -to the paralyzed man-, “man, your sins are forgiven. Then the scribes and the Pharisees began to ponder, saying, who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but only God? Jesus then knowing their thoughts, answering said to them, What do you ponder in your hearts? What is easier, to say your sins are forgiven or to say get up and walk? Well, so that you may know that the son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, he said to the paralytic: I tell you, get up, take up your bed and go home."

“Immediately getting up in their presence and taking up the bed on which he was sitting, he went home glorifying God. And everyone, overwhelmed with astonishment, glorified God. And full of fear they said, today we have seen wonders.” Bless the Lord his holy word. Amen, amen.

We go on, we go on talking about faith.

That is another sermon also about how God sometimes cleanses our sins and when he gets there our prayers are in stereo they are perfect because the grace of the Lord makes it possible.

We are talking about faith, brothers, we are talking in this time that we want... and I, and my goal is that this year 2009, we continually meditate on issues that build, strengthen, edify our faith and make us a congregation more and more powerful, more effective in the things of God so this sermon is also an illustration through this passage of principles of faith that we can use for our lives.

And this passage like the previous passage that we discussed about the woman with the issue of blood, do you remember that passage? The woman with the issue of blood who had a disease, twelve years old... No doctor could heal her, many obstacles were presented in front of her to reach Jesus, but she made an effort, she overcame the obstacles, she touched the edge of the cloak of Jesus, altered Jesus' agenda and was healed. And not only was she healed but she was comforted, also at the end, the Lord told her, "daughter, your faith has saved you, go in peace."

And it is interesting because this passage, despite the fact that it recounts an event very different from that of that woman; in this case there are four men, one of the parallel passages in Matthew, and in Mark it indicates that there are four men, here it only says that some men. In the case it was a lonely woman here is a community of people. How beautiful it is, brothers, when the Christian life is lived in community! Here comes a first teaching that occurs to me now, it did not occur to me when I was recounting, or meditating on this sermon.

The truth is that life's battles happen better when we do it as a family, when we do it with a family of other believers, when we share our burdens with others. It's nice to have a partner in the trenches, isn't it? When things get worse, you have someone there who, even out of shame, shoots so they don't think you're a coward, right? It's good to have people there behind you supporting you, praying for you, sharing the burdens, worshiping the Lord together; it is the principle behind the church. The Lord Jesus Christ says that where two or three are gathered in his name, what happens? There He is!

There is a very important principle of community, never try to carry your burdens alone, amen. Because you know what happens? The devil wants to isolate us many times... you know? The devil wants you when you're going through a problem you get into a corner there alone, woe is me! Nobody loves me, I am the only one who is suffering in the world and then I hit him with a good hit to bring him down completely. The devil likes people who isolate themselves, and it is important, brothers, when we are going through problems... let's find someone, let's find an extra shoulder. Let's look for someone who understands our problems with whom to pray, cry, cry out to the Lord and share the burdens of life.

Do not pretend to live life alone or alone, always seek the community of faith; That is why I love the cells in the church, those family groups that meet in homes. I love it when I hear that a group of brothers is getting together to share together and pray and seek God... and that they are making a community. I tell you brothers, I… I would love to see our church, as the years go by, form groups of people who have an affinity for one another and who meet even once a week or once a month to share a book, to pray together, to share your problems or whatever, that's nice.... You have to live life in community. Find someone, find a buddy, find a partner, people who will be with you to share the loads.

This man, this paralytic, had a community; I don't know if they were related to him, probably they were his friends, perhaps they were neighbors, generous people, with a generous heart, who saw the opportunity here to help this man; and bring him before that powerful man, they didn't know exactly who he was but he had power and they brought him, they bothered to help this man and bring him.

Another lesson, how important it is, brothers, that we be generous with others. Sometimes we see people suffering, eating a cable, as we say out there. We say: oh I'm too busy, I have my own problems, I can't find time to help this person, or call… I know that so-and-so is depressed or sick and we haven't seen him around church for a long time, but I have too much work, too many things to do. Brothers, sisters, share your resources with others. I believe that this is a time in the life of humanity and society in which generous people who share with others are needed. I hope that in these trying times, of financial difficulties, it is important that if you know that someone needs help, look... share your resources.

If you can extend your hand to someone with a couple of pesos or invite someone to a meal at your house, do it in the name of the Lord. If things continue to get more difficult, we are going to need to help others reach out to others, we are going to need more and more to live life in community. You know, and that's very good, in a sense you would even have to thank God for the trials and difficulties. In our countries people are sometimes poor but they are happier than us who have a lot here. Is it so or not?

I see that everywhere, brothers, when you visit other countries... you see that people are happy, they love friendship, they come home and for a moment they are cooking or as we say there, with a little bit of rice, two little pieces of salchichón and they throw it there with a little piece of chili that they have left somewhere; when they go to see they are sharing a meal and enjoying everything. We here with so much food and so many things live depressed, anxious, sad, we don't sleep, we take pills wherever we want and we are too busy to entertain people at home, to receive people. Listen to me, we have to break that, if poverty leads us to that kind of life glory to God, you know? Because sometimes it is good to cultivate the beautiful values of life and there is nothing like generosity, there is nothing like camaraderie, there is nothing like friendship.

Brothers, the church of Jesus Christ is created so that there may be friendship, so that there may be fellowship. I ask the Lord, Lord, make our church, each day more and more, a community of people who love one another. Amen. People who look for each other, who visit each other, who invite each other, who help each other, who pray together, who like to be together. I don't want a church where people come here, each one crosses himself on his own and then they all go home like scattered people. The Lord wants us to go, more and more, each day, becoming a community closely united with one another and that we cultivate that. That requires effort, the truth is that many times we will not want to do it, but we have to do it on principle. There are many people who say, well I am not given to looking for others. Sometimes it's pride, sometimes it's fear of being rejected, sometimes it's just that we didn't grow up that way.

You have to make an effort, you have to make an effort, you have to make yourself fragile. The worst that can happen is that if you invite them they say no that they are not coming. Well men, they lose it you eat the food and thank God you have more for tomorrow. You have to make yourself fragile, so that there is friendship, so that there is camaraderie, one has to take risks sometimes, yes, expose oneself. Sometimes it fails but sometimes it hits once in a while and you gain a great friend for life, a great friend for life. You have to make yourself fragile so that there is a community, so that there is camaraderie, so we are going to make an effort.

These four men with their paralyzed friend, who could not give them anything except trouble, are an example of that life lived in community. The principle of fellowship, which is the essential principle of the church. There are no lone rangers in the God Realm. The Christian life has to be lived in community. And it's true, some of those people in the community, they're not the most sometimes nicest people, they're going to let you down, they're going to hurt you. Brothers, in the Kingdom of God there is everything, you know? But it is what we have and God has made his church and we have to live with it, we have to love it, we have to love that family of faith; It's a neurotic and dysfunctional family at times, it's true, but it's what we have. Look, sometimes because your brother or sister is problematic you say, well, I don't want to see you, you're not my brother anymore... The blood is in there, the blood of Christ is inside you and it's in yours, you Whether we like it or not, we share the same blood and that is why we are obliged here to smoke that community of faith called the church until Christ comes. And then something better comes along, we are all already sanctified, we have no problems, we have no defects... but meanwhile we have to live here together. Amen. Praise the Lord, that's free.

But it's true these people, these men were in community and that made a big difference. So the first lesson of this passage is that: let's live life in community both receiving and seeking love and also giving love, being generous in sharing our resources with others, bailing someone out of a bind at a given moment. So the second thing I see here is this about faith specifically, a lot of faith is about overcoming obstacles. One of the things that characterizes the person of faith is that he is a person, a man, a woman, who overcomes obstacles. When obstacles come, instead of throwing himself down and hanging up his gloves, they kind of grow up and he says, like David told Goliath, who is this...? How was it that he told him... this pagan is uncircumcised so that he would challenge and insult the army of the living God. When problems come into your life, look, grow up and become strong and that's when you have to take your faith more than ever, and say, I'm not moving from here. You have to go, but I stay where I am, because God gave this to us.

So, a lot of faith is about overcoming obstacles, as we saw with the woman with the issue of blood: she overcame obstacles, everything was between her and Jesus; but she said, no, I want my blessing, I want my miracle and she did what she had to do and seized power from Jesus because she overcame obstacles. Much of faith has to do with overcoming deficiencies, overcoming difficulties that come into your life, overcoming problems, inertia that stands between you and what God wants to give you.

It is like those enemy tribes that God told Israel this land is yours, Canaan is yours. But there were tribes there that owned that land and that God had already rejected them, had cursed them for their sin and their filth and their impurity; and that land did not belong to them. Those tribes were a symbol of those enemy forces that want to stand between you and the inheritance that God has given you. And you have to decide if you are going to let those enemy tribes, those enemy powers plant themselves in your land and take away what is yours or if you are going to grow up like Joshua and Caleb did and say in the name of the Lord we are going to take that land because it is ours God has given it to us. This is how it will happen, God wants a blessing for your family, God wants a blessing for your children, God wants a blessing for your finances, God wants a blessing for your health, God wants a blessing for your emotions; and you are… your faith will decide if you are going to let the devil and the flesh get in the way or you are going to win and you are going to get ahead and you are going to fight for your miracle, you are going to fight for your salvation, you are going to fight for your blessing, you will fight for that abundant life that Christ has promised you.

Overcoming obstacles, not letting what God has declared... God had healing for this man, but there were obstacles. Much of faith has to do with daring to undertake the improbable, which does not have much chance of history, but you have to dare. These men were confronting the improbability of what they wanted to do in many ways. Much of faith requires risking things. Think of Ester when she had to appear before King Azuero to intercede on behalf of her people who were going to exterminate him, and there was no possibility that she... because the king had not invited her and to go before the king, even though she she was the king's main concubine, the king's wife, the law prevented her from approaching the king unless she was by prior invitation from the king. But she had an urgent need and she understood that God had placed her so that she would be the one to do this and she dared and said look if they kill me let them kill me but I'm going to go in there. And he entered and the king granted his request and more.

The life of faith is that, you have to take risks; Sometimes you have to risk everything for everything, brothers, and put all the little things that you have, your little pile of things, put them all on the table and say, here it is, Lord, I am going to throw myself over there, and if I perish, I will perish. I don't advise them that every time, you know? But once in a while, brothers, sometimes in life there's a time or two when you have to go all in, you know? And you have to... there will come a day in your life, even once, perhaps, that you... that Egypt... Pharaoh is behind you, all the armies of hell are behind you and the Red Sea is before you and you simply have to take a step of faith and think that the sea is going to open up, because otherwise the Egyptians are going to eat you or something is going to happen.

You have to dare, you have to risk things. And there are other times in life when you have to risk minor things but faith always involves risk. How these men risked rejection of Jesus and even a lawsuit from the owners of the house because they broke the roof. It is so brothers, faith risks things, sometimes faith seems reckless. Many of the people who praise the Bible are reckless people, outraged people...

… statement says that I have to attend to the Jews first and you are a pagan. Yes, sir, but remember that even if it's a little crumb that falls from the table, that for pagans is also... to make your faith great, because of those words your daughter is already healed immediately, she left with her miracle immediately because she dared to be a little insistent, impolite. The friend at midnight remember the story, we are going to discuss all those stories, the friend at midnight that family comes, visitors come, there was no telephone at that time, there was no Internet to say, people arrived at such a time on such a day , No? They appear there, knocking on the door as sometimes in our countries, right? People arrive at the time they want and when you are ready to go to bed, three or four smiling friends arrive to talk to you and spend the night there and you are ready to sleep, right?

And so it happens in that story of Jesus, a visitor comes to the house, the friend opens the door for people at midnight, he has no sugar, he lacks coffee and he has nothing to serve people; So, wait, my neighbor next door, I'm going to ask him for a little until tomorrow when I go to the store and return it to him there, right? And he knocks on the door and the other one is exhausted sleeping soundly and doesn't open it, and I touch it and touch it and touch it and it doesn't open it, until finally the neighbor says okay so you can leave me alone I'm going to open it the door and I'll give you what you need. And the Lord himself gave that story saying, sometimes brother when you have a need you have to touch heaven until it opens for you. And again, the Lord likes that, you know? The Lord likes people who believe in Him enough to bother Him, you know? God likes those affronted people who touch the Lord, make me my miracle, I need something from you.

I believe that there are more people who do not receive because they are timid than because they are rude to God. I prefer to risk being rude to God than to be more timid than necessary, because I know that God likes daring people. The people who believe in Him enough to say that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. So sometimes you have to be like these men, you have to be reckless, you have to be rude because there is a need. And that paralytic was more important than four tiles on the roof of those people. They dared and God honors that kind of people. Faith many times consists of desperate actions, actions of people who have nothing to lose because they have already lost everything anyway, if they cut off their head they already cut it off a thousand times before... and they no longer have anything to lose. They lost their house, they lost their wife, they lost their children, they lost their car, their clothes are going to be taken away at any moment and they have nothing to lose so they do desperate things.

They throw themselves at the mercy of God, Bartimaeus, the blind man had nothing to lose if he was a beggar and dared to shout to Jesus, Lord, son of David, have mercy on me... And everyone saying, shut up, sweet He He is a very important man, he doesn't have time... and he kept insisting until the Lord stood up and attended to him and gave him what he was asking for. He had nothing to lose, what could this man lose? His trade as a beggar, the only thing he had to lose.

And sometimes, brothers, we... God honors people who have nothing to lose. I believe that one of the problems that we have a lot to lose is why we do not dare to do things for God. We have a lot of clothes, a lot of houses, a lot of refrigerator with a lot of food, this and that, and we are… we are, how should I say? Spiritually, flabby, is a word with five holes, weak. But when you stand there in the fire, red hot in the Lord, that's where God blesses desperate people, these people were desperate because they needed a miracle and they knew Jesus was the only one who had it. I mean, yes, that's what faith is, it overcomes obstacles, it overcomes deficiencies, it dares the improbable, it risks things for God, sometimes it's reckless, sometimes it's desperate, faith has that intense quality… And it tastes something interesting too About that, do you know why God has a special affinity with people like that? Because the kingdom of heaven, listen to me, the kingdom of heaven is like this. The kingdom of heaven is daring, forced, violent, yes or no? Doesn't the Bible say that?

Look, look there at what it says in Matthew 11, 12. It says, "From the days of John the Baptist now, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and..." What? "...and the violent," -that's not Roberto Miranda says it to justify himself, no. He says, "and the violent take it away." Now look at something interesting, that is, in other words, let me, let me... The kingdom of heaven, that is, the system of God, the divine economy, the incarnation of God on earth, the relationship of the principles of the kingdom with the The world is based on opposition and force and conflict. The Bible says that in this world there is a prince illegally established here called Satan, who has taken control of this world illegally, because God gave his creature the world, but his creature has been deceived by the devil and the mortgage was stolen by the devil and now he has it, and it is an illegitimate kingdom. Then, the kingdom of God comes to snatch what belongs to the Son of God, to the devil. And That is why the kingdom of God is in violence, it is in conflict, the very nature of the kingdom of God is violence and conflict with a dark, destructive, malignant, deadly kingdom that is called the kingdom of darkness.

And when God lands in the world, he lands in power and in war, in opposition to the hosts of darkness. Now this is very interesting that, in the original Greek the translation says, "since the days of John the Baptist the kingdom of heaven suffers violence..." you see that there, it suffers violence. You know, in what language was the new testament written? Does anyone know huh? In Greek – in Greek… everyone say, Greek. It was written in Greek and how…why are we reading it now in Spanish? What happened? Someone translated it, right? Now, sometimes in the translations something is lost here and there, that is very long to explain; but it is in the original and that is why it is important sometimes to go to the original Greek to understand that word that is translated into Spanish, that expression: 'suffer violence'. In the original Greek it is “viasetae”, everyone say “viasetae”. Now all of you are experts in Greek here all of you. Go to the factory tomorrow and tell people "viasetae" and you will see how they immediately take you to a mental hospital... "Viasetae" that word that is translated here, "suffers violence", "viasetae", is a verb that can be translate both in an active and a passive form. Can that verb in Greek can say suffers violence or proceeds with violence, moves with violence.

And today most of the scholars who already know much better, from many studies that have been done on the original language of Jesus and all that, understand that the correct way to translate that is 'does violence', 'proceeds with violence' . In fact, the New International Version, in English, says: proceeds with violence or proceeds forcefully, says, moves forcefully, moves forcefully. So it is much more appropriate to translate, "from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven moves violently and the violent take it by force." You understand? That is, the kingdom of God moves with violence, the kingdom is for strong people, the kingdom of God is not for cowards, brothers. Don't let anyone fool you into saying that evangelicals are people who are falling dead, that they are low-spirited people, no. The kingdom of heaven is for heroic, strong, daring people. Because the kingdom of heaven is like that.

So that's why God has a special affinity with daring people, with people who are strong, aggressive people, militant people, people who believe that God is more powerful than any situation and they go looking for their blessing. The people who don't receive no for an answer and are there knocking on the door until they do justice and open the door and give them what they need. God likes those kinds of people because his kingdom is like that. So that is why you are going to see through the Bible people like this, active, dynamic, enterprising, daring, aggressive, they are the people that God honors and blesses. Now not in the sense, let me clarify that a little bit, because when it comes to see some of you need to be less aggressive but with others. Aggressive in the right way, not aggressive with his wife, with his brother, with his co-worker, no; but aggressive in God, aggressive in things of the spirit, aggressive in what God has said and I cling to what God said and with that I go to the bank and they have to give me because I have the key to the word of God .

Those aggressive people receive from God and that is why these men, people like Raab, people like Jacob, people like Esther, people like Ruth and her mother-in-law Naomi, people like Peter, people like Paul, are people like that… daring people. Paul was stoned and left for dead and the next day he was preaching the gospel again. Listen to me, if they throw a single stone at me and hit me on the head, I'm already three days or a week in bed complaining, why did God allow that in my life? Paul was stoned, left for dead, and the next day he was preaching the gospel, and how many of us would do that?

Brethren, that's the people that... that's why God chose a man like Paul. Those are the people that God likes, who fall and come back and get up. Ah, they took my house away, so don't worry, now I'm going to hit the devil twice so he doesn't do it again. And they get up again and move on and serve the Lord and love God and pray more than ever and say the next one is going to be bigger than the next one. They dare. They lose their job and then, okay, they lose it - and they start looking for something better and they believe that God is going to open a door and they stay there until God gives the answer, gives the blessing.

The kingdom of heaven is violent and the violent take it away, brothers it is one of the things and many of us have to fill ourselves with that aggressive faith, we have to lose that baby fat that we have and become daring in the Lord, daring in prayer, daring in fasting, daring in service, daring in giving, daring in confessing, daring in praising and glorifying the Lord because the Lord likes those daring people, those aggressive people, who do not let themselves stay on the ground fallen but rise.

Says the word seven times the just man falls but he gets up out of all of them because his faith lifts him up. And that is very important, the kingdom of heaven proceeds with force and the hard-working people snatch it, take it, receive it, its essence, its nutrients. So, we see here that these men are an example of this. There we have the Lord teaching, the agenda of Jesus Christ was not to heal anyone that day, nor was his agenda to heal the woman with the issue of blood, but these men and their faith... prevailed in a sense over the agenda of Jesus . When they saw that the roof was an impediment and that there were too many people inside the house, they broke the roof and lowered the poor man down with a rope, who must have said, why did I get into this mess? Going down, but they took it down... Where did they put it? In front of Jesus. And it says that they put him in the middle, before Jesus; It's like that, brothers, they put it there as if to say, well, let's see what you're going to do now, you can't ignore it. Can you imagine, the roof opens, straw begins to fall everywhere, the Lord there speaking and they put it there... do you think that the Lord was going to be able to continue preaching with a dead man lying there in front of Him? I had to do something.

It is what I say, that the kingdom of heaven is like that, it is violent. And these people prevailed and the Lord says that, "seeing their faith..." Seeing their faith... When you have faith, brother, it is impossible, God cannot help you, God will not ignore you because He will not he wants to ignore it because his faith honors God and God responds to the bold person's faith. "...and then they received their miracle." Brother, this is a very rich passage, I'm not… I'm not going to explain it all because it has so many things, I'm just finishing… before my brother Samuel comes here, I'm sorry to take your precious baby out of your hands right there , she looks so cute and so comfortable with her daddy there…

But brothers, faith – it is important that we dare to believe the Lord. There are times when teaching is going to have to be put aside so that faith has its purpose and what has to be done is accomplished. There are very good times to learn and read the Bible and study the Bible and study theology, but there are times when God's action is needed, people to do something, to move, to make a decision, to dare in the name of the Mister. And, I don't know what your obstacle in life is, I don't know what your need in life is… There is a paralytic that you are carrying right now, I don't know what he is called financial problems, work problems, marital problems , an emotional struggle, an emotional charge that is in you; each of us has a paralytic riding on top and each of us has a crowd that stands between what we need and Jesus. And the decision we have to make is, am I going to let myself… am I going to lie down and die? Am I going to take my deceased and take him back to the house because there was an obstacle, a difficulty? Or I'm going to persist, I'm going to search, I'm going to touch, I'm going to investigate.

When these men saw the people, the house full of people and they couldn't get in, I imagine they spent 10 or 15 minutes saying, well, how are we going to solve this problem? Because we are not going to go with this guy again because we are already tired of him, today we have to do something with this man. And they searched and explored until, ah, the ceiling, of course, the ceiling, that's it. We are going to climb this poor man, we are going to climb him through the roof.

There is always a solution brothers, you know, I always say... look, my motto in life is always there is a solution. I do not give up, brothers. If the doors are closed I look for a little hole over there that I leave a mouse to get in there, I say something… something to… You have to, there is always something, I believe that in Christ there is always hope, in Christ there is always a solution, in Christ there is always a way out, there is always a possibility. Glory to the Lord. And when the doors are closed it is because God has a bigger door that he wants to open in your life. Yes, sir, when God takes something away from you, it is because he has something better for you.

There is always a solution. There is always a door, there is always hope. There is always an answer, maybe it won't come before the night is over, maybe another day, another week, another month will have to pass, but your answer comes my brother, sister, your door is going to open. There is a roof that has to be opened for you to put your problem in front of Jesus. This is the last thing I tell you, put your problem before Jesus, you have to pray, you have to cry out to God. Many... if we spent more time praying to the Lord and complaining less, we would have more answers from God. The problem is that when we have problems, what do we do? So we stop praying, we stop crying, we stop fasting, we stop worshipping, we stop coming to church, we stop serving the Lord because we have a problem. And when the problem is solved, then after the holidays I go back to church.

Lord rebuke the devil, that is not from God. The more problems you have, the more you pray to the Lord, the more you cry out to the Lord, the more you fast, the more you raise your hands as we said in that choir, the more you remind the Lord of his promises. Oh, brother, sister, that's what God likes, those children of His who grow up when trouble comes and say I'm going to find the way out. Pray to the Lord, cry out to the Lord, present your need to the Lord. Says the word, for nothing be anxious but... say everyone: otherwise, let your requests be known before God. You have to put things before God, you have to put them before Jesus, you have to put them in the middle of the room and tell him, now, Lord, I'll leave it to you, what are you going to do with that? That is your problem, it is not mine, the problem is your problem Lord, there you have it, let's see what you are going to do with your problem, with your problem... now it is your problem. What are you going to do with your problem, Lord?

Brother, put your need before Jesus and the Lord... I never saw someone come before Jesus Christ and ask him for a healing, a provision, an answer and the Lord tell him go home because I don't have time for you. The Lord always attended to the needs that came before Him. He is merciful, what's more, how if he has done it for others as he will not do it for me that I am the apple of his eyes? Huh? The word says that he who spared not even his own son would not just give us all things with him. If God did not spare his only son, he will not spare you a job, a provision, an answer to your need, a healing, a… a way out… Oh, brother, sister, there are many subtleties to what I am saying but to In the long run, the important thing is that Christ says, bring me your problem, that is your responsibility to bring the problem to Jesus. His responsibility is to do something about that problem, and what He does is by definition good. believe.

We are going to stand up, we are going to do like those men who brought the paralytic; during the week take that passage, Luke 5, 17 and read it, meditate on it, let its teachings that we have not been able to extract all, let this passage speak to you this week, make this passage your meditation passage, chew it there, ruminate it, I don't know if it is said that way, like the cows that take the grass and chew it there, let this passage release all its teaching and promise. In your life this week make a goal, this week I am going to meditate on this passage and even though I think I have exhausted it, I am going to read it again so that its message gets into my heart, gets into my mind, becomes Enter my spirit and release everything you have for my life. Sometimes that's good, writing, brothers, you have to chew it there, until the day... until we get to the marrow. Sucking the marrow of the bones of scripture so that we receive all the nutrients that God has, so I encourage you in the name of Jesus, take that passage there and let it speak to you this week and get to where it is needed. So, let's sing that choir that's singing…