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We have to go back to Bethel

Gilberto Samano

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Gilberto Samano

Summary: The speaker begins by sharing a recent inspiration he received from God and asks for prayer. He expresses gratitude for the men and women of God being raised up, and also greets those listening online and asks them to open their hearts. The message is titled "We have to return to Bethel to see God's shikina" and the speaker reads from Genesis 28 and 35. He discusses how Jacob received a stolen blessing but God had a personal blessing for him. He encourages listeners to understand that the blessings we receive are undeserved and that God wants to bless us personally. Jacob had a dream where God promised to be with him and bless him, and the speaker reminds listeners that God speaks to us in our moments of despair. He emphasizes the importance of faith and belief in God's promises.

The sermon is about the importance of returning to Bethel, which is the place where a person had their first encounter with God. The speaker urges the audience to make an appointment with God and examine their lives, and to clean themselves up before returning to Bethel. The presence of God, known as shikina or shekina, is also discussed, and it is emphasized that if God is not present in our activities, it is just another activity. The sermon ends with the idea that the presence of God can transform and bless our lives.

The presence of God is crucial in our activities, as without it, it becomes just another activity. The Shekina or shikina means the presence of God, and it comes from a verb -shakan- which means the habitation of God. For the presence of God to be manifested, there must be faith and adoration and praise to God. God dwells in the midst of praise, and when we recognize that God is present, the Lord begins to manifest his glory. This glory makes miracles happen. It is time to return to our Bethel, to our roots, to the experience we had with God. God wants to bless our lives, and we need to make new vows with Him. Return to God and have an encounter with Him.

In these days, brothers, we have been asking the Lord for something special for our lives and for the life of the whole Church in general. And, brothers, a few weeks ago I was in a meeting with Pastor Roberto, there next to my work, talking about the things of God and the future of the Church and some things that the Lord gave me a thought, an inspiration to what that we are going to be talking this morning and I ask for your prayers, brothers, so that God is the one who directs us.

I also want to thank God very much for the growing cities of men of God, as Pastor Omar said, these men God is using and preparing, they are the warriors, they are the soldiers that God is raising up and, brothers, how many are going to pray for men of God? All. Amen. And also women and children, because we truly need God to raise up warriors ready to fight the good fight of faith and get closer to God.

Also, brothers, once again I am grateful that my sister and brother-in-law stayed here by the will of God. The plane that was going to San Diego did not leave on Thursday, and, brothers, well, they had to stay until tomorrow and I praise and bless God that my sister, Raquel, and my brother-in-law, Juan, are here. Pray for them. Also, brothers, I want to greet all those who are listening to us on the Internet and we want, brothers, to tell them to also open their hearts. Among them, I want to greet the brothers from Italy, Spain and others who are listening and also, brothers, a pastor friend who is sick in California, who asked for prayer, Pastor David Murillo.

How many knows that God still heals, brethren? I was inspired by hearing Pastor Omar say that in this last hour we want to see healing, we want to see miracles. And I know that next Sunday God is going to do something great and God is going to prepare our hearts. Brothers, without taking any more time, I am going to invite you to open your hearts and open your Bibles to the first book of the Bible, to the book of Genesis, chapter 28. And, brothers, this morning I want to read two scriptures and then we will be there. bringing the message that God has given us.

Genesis, chapter 28. And, quickly brothers I want to read verse 11 and 12. But I will be removing from here all this chapter. When you already have it, say amen, brothers. Genesis 28, verse 11. Genesis, chapter 28, verse 11.

And he got to a certain place, everyone say: and he got to a certain place like we all got. And he slept there because the sun had already set. And he took some of the stones from that place and put it at his head and lay down in that place and dreamed. And everyone say: and dreamed. Behold a ladder that was leaning on the ground, and he says, its end touched heaven, and behold angels of God going up and down it. And behold, Jehovah stood on top of it and to which he said, "I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac, the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your descendants." We skip to verse 19, where it says, and he called the name of that place, what? Say it louder. [Bethel], although Luz was the name of the city first. Jacob made a vow saying, if God were with me and He will keep me on this journey that I am going and give me bread to eat and clothes to wear, and if I return home in peace, whose house? Jehovah will be my God. And this stone that I have set as a sign will be the house of what "Everyone say: House of God. And of everything you give me the tithe I will set aside for Him.

I want to read brothers, and I'm going to be a disclaimer. I am going to make a clarification, I am not going to talk about the tithe. Nobody is going to run away. Genesis 35, verse 1 to 3 and then we go inside. I am also going to ask my brother-in-law, Pastor Juan Araujo, to come forward here. I want to ask you to guide the prayer and that God anoint me with a fresh anointing. Chapter 35, says, God said to Jacob. Who said? 'Get up...' and how did he say? [Get up.] And, go up where? And stand there, and what does it say? And… do what? What does he tell you... that he appeared to you when you were running away from your brother. And it says, then Jacob told his family and everyone who was with him. Put away the foreign gods that are among you, cleanse yourselves and look between your clothes. Let's get up and get on, where? And I will make an altar there to the God who answered me on the day of what? And he says, he has been with me in the way that I have walked.

For the honor and glory of the Lord, I want to preach a short message, well I say short because time limits us, but the message is entitled: We have to return to Bethel to see God's shikina. Haber, say it with me: We have to go back, where? [Bet-el] To see… the shikina of God.

Come Pastor Juan, and I ask you to pray so that it is the Lord who speaks to all of us. Let's go brothers to ask that the Lord anoint us with a fresh anointing. I want, brothers, that…

Let us pray: Father, this morning, Lord, we are in this place, Lord, to place your servant in Your hands, Lord, so that he may speak your word, Lord, and this word may reach a needy heart, Lord. To a heart that brings emptiness, Lord, of that hope that is Your word, Lord, of that word that is of salvation for souls, Lord. That you can reach that corner to occupy an empty place, Father, that you can fill with joy, joy, peace and hope, and above all with salvation, Lord. That this word can fill, my God, a needy heart this morning, bless your servants, Lord. Your word is already blessed and has always been blessed, Lord, but Your word, Lord, reaches our hearts through your servants. Bless my brother Gilberto, Lord, use him this morning, put that word, Lord, of life, which is Your word to the needy heart this morning, Lord. Bless this Congregation, Lord, bless our brother Roberto, Lord, because he is out of this place. Help him, Lord, where he is.

Oh Father, this morning, may all Your word reach an empty heart, Lord, a heart in need, even us who have believed in Your word, may You fill us, Lord, with that spirit of life that is upon us. each one of us, Father. Bless, Lord, Your people this morning and the name of God be glorified. Amen.

A round of applause to the King of Kings, brothers. We have to go back to Bethel. Brothers, I want to tell you that it is important to understand that the world lives in crisis. When do you say amen to this? There are crises in all parts of the world, we know the problem in Honduras, problems in Latin American countries, like in Mexico, like in Central America. There are many political problems and also brothers, economic crises and above all a spiritual crisis. And, I say it with all due respect that there is a spiritual crisis, it has come to be understood that, brothers, there are many people who have reached a moment of drought in their spiritual lives. A moment of no longer moving forward, neither backwards nor forwards. They are in a fixed place, they do not move, neither backwards nor forwards, they are there, but they have not, brothers, felt what they want to feel or what they felt...

They have not been able, brothers, to reach that dimension that they were longing for, that they wanted, that they prayed for, that they fasted, and a drought has come in their lives. The desire to do something enough has come. Because their life feels, let's say, with that desire to progress but like something doesn't let them progress. How many say amen to this? And we see here in this spiritual beginning of the great man, Jacob. Jacob was a man who, brothers, like all men, had feelings, had desires, had dreams and, brothers, among them he was brothers, led by his mother to steal the blessing from his brother.

And, brothers, we all know the story, what we have read, he deceived his father, he got in there and received the blessing that was not for him but for his brother, however, God blessed him in the same way because It was a blessing, a spiritual law, the Father blessed him, he was blessed, but then the brother began to chase him, he began to flee, he began to escape for his life, because the brother was very angry that he had stolen the blessing.

He began to walk, the Bible tells us in many places from chapter 28 onwards that he was on his way. And, one of the things that I want to establish in this morning is that this stolen blessing was something that did not belong to him, but God gave it to him in his great grace and mercy. And, I want to apply that to us a little bit. Many times we walk with stolen or borrowed blessings. We do not deserve them, we are saved by grace. An undeserved favor.

So Jacob also stole his brother's blessing, he walked with that blessing, but God had another more personal blessing that God wanted to give that man. Brother, sister, the blessing that God has given you must not be stolen, it must not be something that you have received because someone else prayed for you, interceded. Do you know that God wants to bless us personally, individually because God has more to give us than we could ask for? Sadly, many settle for stolen blessings. We don't deserve it, I am a blessing because my mother, my father sowed. How many are a blessing because someone sowed for them? Raise your hand. Some mother, some grandmother, someone prayed for us... a wife, someone prayed and the mercy of God heard that prayer. And, brothers, God has blessed us. How many say amen? Amen.

To everyone God has blessed, give a round of applause of thanks. To Him the glory, to Him the honor.

So… thank you, brothers. I want you to understand something, it is not that we are thieves, but it is that we have received the grace of God, an undeserved favor. Jacob's name in a nutshell means thief, or supplanter, one who takes from the ankle. In other words, in my Mexican Spanish he was one who compromised his brother, he stole his blessing, but thank God that in his great mercy, God's attributes, God blessed him in the same way. But, brothers, I want you to understand that he walked with a blessing that was not his own, it was not his.

And here is what I want us to understand, that he had to return to that Bethel and what is a Bethel? That word Bethel means House of God, it was a place that, where we read there in chapter 28, that Jacob when he was fleeing from his brother, got tired, the sun came to a certain place and tired he fell asleep and there God gave him He spoke through a dream, he showed him that ladder that descended from heaven to earth and that linked heaven to earth. And then he made her a promise. How many know that God makes promises to his children? And he keeps his promises. He made a promise to Jacob, 'I will be with you, you will not be alone, I will be your God, I will bless you, I will lift you up, I will heal you, I have something special for your life!' So, Jacob was running away he was tired, how many times do we get tired? And how many times are we running away? But there, in our despair, there in our anguish, at the moment when it already seems that there is no hope, there is no way out, suddenly God speaks to us.

Sometimes, then, because of a song, sometimes because of a situation, sometimes God has to speak to us in His Word, in a message, so that we can understand that He is with us, that we are not alone and that nothing and no one can help us. separate from the love of Christ. That He loves us, that He loves us and that He is going to help us in the midst of affliction! He had this great vision, this great dream, he dreamed this tremendous thing. He saw the ladder, he saw the angels, brothers, and then after this tremendous dream, he says that Jacob woke up from his dream and said, certainly, Jehovah is in this place and he did not know it.

Many times, God is in the situation we are going through and we don't know it. Because? Because human instinct, because our feelings, because I think so, or I believe so... But sometimes, brothers, we do not need to go to what I feel, to what I believe, but by faith we walk and believe that the promises of God are true and are faithful. God said it, I believe it, I receive it and God is going to lift me up! Jacob, he had to make a... God revealed to him and then he confessed, and 'I was afraid and said, how terrible is this place?'

Because when God appears in our lives, we realize that our God is tremendous, or as we say in English, awesome God, a terrible God, a God that cannot be measured. A God who cannot be measured in his great mercy and power. I want, let's say that you notice, Bethel and then the dream, and then he had something he did after the dream, he made a pact with God. God spoke to him, he made a pact, God appeared to him and then he also made a sign, a monument, he established it. So, we are going to talk about these three things, about Bethel, about the monument and also about the glory of God. Three things quickly, I understand that there is not much time, but I want to say something, brothers.

God has impressed me and I want to tell you, through the preaching as time wins us, I have felt from God that if you feel like returning to Bethel during the preaching, the altar will already be open. I said already. For God to start managing your life. And I have invited these men to help us pray for those people who want to return to their Bethel. We all have a Bethel. A Bethel is that place in your life where you had your first encounter with your God. How many remember that day? Do you remember that day, that place? Maybe it wasn't here, it was in another country, maybe it was in a car, maybe it was under a tree, it was in a revival, in a campaign at home. It doesn't matter where it was, it was your Bet-el, it was my Bet-el. And that Bethel was the encounter we had with God, God appeared. That's where the shikina or shekina comes in, there are many ways to pronounce it. But, brothers, we see there that it represents the glory of God. Everyone say, the glory of God.

Then, Jacob got tired, he had a dream, God appeared to him, he recognized that that place was terrible, it was tremendous, he made an altar, he took a stone, he says that he anointed it, he left it as a monument, as a sign and he said , here this place will be called Bet-el, House of God. Because God has spoken to me, I have listened and I have begun to walk with God's blessing! –even though it was stolen–. It was totally stolen, it did not belong to him, how many have the Lord saved by grace, brothers? How many of us don't deserve to be here, brothers? But God reached out to us with his great mercy, and now, by grace we are saved.

I said, by grace we are saved, Brethren. And we have something big in our lives. We don't deserve it, it's a stolen blessing but thank God that God wants to give us the genuine, personal blessing. Jacob walked and there came a time in his life, after having walked for approximately 20 years, and on that path of life Jacob had many problems. How many know the problems? Wave your hand if you know a little problem. Wave two hands if you know problems. That word, problem, for many of us is very big. Jacob also being human, note that he also had family problems. He had personal problems, he had problems with society and he also had problems with women. Blessed are the women. Don't laugh men, because later you're going to have to pay the bill. God bless women. You cannot live with them and without them. But, God bless women, may God also use and love them.

Jacob had a big little problem there that he had to work on and from there work again. And, brothers, he really struggled. And I believe that Jacob had a bit of Latino blood because he had the same problems that we have, in his walk, he had family problems, for land or property. Financial problems, and then over there with some women, and then also with the family. Your brother... how many know that sometimes there are problems with the closest family? Raise your hand those who know what I'm talking about. Sometimes those who are closest are the ones who understand us the least. You don't have to lift it very high, brother, God knows.

Jacob had problems with his own close brother. Esau was his brother, yet he wanted to kill him. Sometimes brothers, there are family problems so serious that even the threat arrives, 'I'm going to kill you'. I always tell my children, we must never forget that we bring the same blood and now we are saved by the same blood, the blood of Jesus Christ. I keep going. After walking for more than 20 years, Jacob, with economic, family, economic, material problems... there were problems there with his children, his cattle, his positions. There comes a time in his life that God speaks to Jacob again.

I hope, brother, that this morning God is speaking to you. And, as I said, the altar is already open. When you already feel the desire to come here and return to Bethel, because God told Jacob, get up, go up to Bethel and stay there and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother. As God says to Jacob, okay, I blessed you in Bethel first, there was a blessing in your life, you have walked. God did not leave him, he did not abandon him, but the moment in Jacob's life came when God told him, go back to Bethel and build an altar there. But there was already a stone, I had already made an altar, I had already experienced the presence of God. Why is it that God tells him to go back to Bethel and make another altar?! It is that in God's plan, God knew that through the 20 years, his life was no longer the same when he had the first encounter with God.

Like the fire had gone out a bit, like he had fallen asleep because of the problems, like God told him, “okay, Jacob, enough, you've already walked for 20 years, yes with a stolen blessing, but I I have a blessing for you bigger than the first, I have something special for your life, Jacob! I want to change your name, I want to do something great in your life! But, you have to go back to Bethel. You have to return to that place where you had an encounter with me,” the sky told him.

Brothers, many times we have forgotten... How many remember that day they accepted Christ? How many cried? Raise your hand those who cried. I cried and I'm not ashamed to say it. The Lord changed me, he transformed me, through the years, sometimes, brothers, we forget what God has done for us. Even if we say no, but we no longer prayed as we did, we no longer read the Bible, do you remember, brothers, how we prayed day and night? And they were, brothers, and the Bible... I have been a Pastor for several years, brothers, and I know the children in the... at 3 in the morning I am praying here, and he told me to call him. And what were you doing? Well, sleeping, brother, but get up brother, I have something to tell you. God has spoken to me, God has told me this, because there is an intimate communion with God, we are in first love, there is blessing in our lives! Jacob had had a Bethel as we all have a Bethel. But now, the Lord tells us, come back, come back to that meeting. Sometimes, brothers, we organize ourselves so much that we forget what we are organized for. Amen.

We are, and I am going to do this and I am going to do that and we do a lot. I have always said brothers, sometimes you have to take time to be with dad and say, dad... make an appointment with God and say, Lord, I need you to examine me dad, a little bit, tell me what is wrong, tell me what what I need. I need a physical, I need a meeting with you, I need to return to Bethel! And it says that Jacob tells his family, get up, we're going to Bethel. But, before going to Bethel, he tells her, we have to clean ourselves up a bit, because sometimes as we walk we get dirty, the dust sticks to us, the dust sticks to us, the cobwebs. If it says cobwebs around here, I don't know. When you clean up a bit, what do you put in the houses, brothers, in the corners... sometimes, you don't see much but if you turn on the light, there, "look, I thought I had cleaned up." This is how it happens to us in our lives, we think that everything is going well, but, over there in a corner there is something that we need to clean up to return to Bethel, so that God blesses us and changes our name.

Prior to this experience, Jacob wrestled with the angel for a blessing. But it was not the blessing that God had for him. God wanted to bless him more. How many know that God wants to bless us more this morning? Brother, sister, I know that you are going through many things, but God tells you this morning, go back to Bethel because I have something special for your life. Jacob, go back, get up, go back to Bethel. Jacob's obedience produces a great blessing in his life, so great that when he tells his family to get clean, change your clothes, because we are going to Bethel, we are going to return to Bethel, there where God told me! spoke for the first time! I want to have, once again, an encounter with that wonderful God, I want to feel his presence, I want to feel his love, I want to feel his power, I want to feel his Holy Spirit! Tell your brother, are you ready to return to Bethel? Tell your brother, go back to Bethel.

The altar is already open, brother, if you need to go back, go back. Do not be afraid, come to Bet-el to that encounter with God. Jacob says that he returned and when he returned, the Lord spoke to him once more. And it says that Jacob came to light, or Bethel, which is said to be in the land of Canaan. This is Bethel, and he and all the people were with him, and he built an altar and called that place, "Bethel." 35, verse 7. Not only Bethel, not only House of God, but now he recognized that it was God who had given him another opportunity to be with his presence. Brother, sister, God is a God of opportunities, friend who listens to me, God is a God of opportunities.

Unfortunately, brothers, many do not obey God's call and suffer the consequences, the consequences of sin. This morning, the Spirit of God teaches me that he is managing someone who left his Bethel for a long time, but today the Lord tells you, go back, go back to Bethel, I have something I want to tell you. Many times we do not hear the voice of God because we are so busy in God's work and we do not give God time to speak to us. How many want to hear the voice of God this morning? How many have really come and want to be changed? So, Jacob made this altar, obeyed, returned with his family, to that place where he had his first encounter with God. He built an altar, he blessed it, again, we see that monument, that sign and then again God appears to Jacob. And he appeared again, verse 9 says, 'God appeared again to Jacob, when he had returned from Param to Canaan, and blessed him.'

How many want the blessing this morning? How many need a blessing for their family? Raise your hand if you really need a blessing. How many really need a blessing? There are some, brethren, who don't think they need a blessing. Everything is going well, it seems that everything is going well, your life seems that everything is well arranged, you are getting married, you have a family, you are already planning the wedding, everything is ready, you have a good job, you have money in the bank, we are going to go on vacation… everything is planned! But remember that in a second God can change plans.

How many say glory to God?

We are going there, but God tells us to come here. We want to do this, but God tells us, it is not the time yet. And tremendous is when God stops our plans. Jacob, go back to Bethel, because I want to talk to you one more time. Will there be someone who already wants to go to Bethel? Here is the presence of God, you do not see it, but you feel his Holy Spirit. And already to manage someone. Now I want to finish, we talked a little bit about returning to Bethel. I want to end by talking about this shekina or shikina, glory of God. The presence of God.

Listen to me, brother, the presence of God is something so tremendous that we need to recognize that if God is not present in our activities, it is not an activity of God. Did you hear what I said, brothers? If God is not present in our activities, it becomes just another activity. Amen! But how many know when God shows up, wonderful things happen. How many know that when God is present, God speaks to us, God blesses us, lifts up the fallen, the sick, restores the one who is suffering? But you need that presence of God, that glory. Some writers have said that it is called, the glory of God. This word, shikina or shekina means the presence of God. And it comes from a verb -shakan- which means the habitation of God. Which comes from the word of the nests of birds. The place where he dwelt, where he dwells, or a place, means 'to take up residence' in Aramaic with Hebrew.

And we see that from the Old Testament, there in the tabernacle, in Exodus, chapter 24. Chapter 40 of Exodus, the presence of God was manifested in the form of a cloud... a cloud that filled the temple, that covered the temple or the tabernacle. Then came the temple, which we are going to talk about a little later. But, I want to emphasize something very important. When we can recognize that the presence of God is in our midst, it is something so tremendous that there is no sick person that God cannot heal. I said that there is no sick person that God cannot heal!

There is no sinner who does not repent when God is there to administer and to speak! But, for the presence of God to be manifested, there must be two very important things. Everyone say: faith. Say it louder: faith. And the other thing is, adoration and praise to God. Recognition of God. Many times God does not appear because we do not invite him. Amen, brothers! We talk about so many programs and so many things, but we don't invite God to worship. He is, he is not the…guest of honor. He is the King of Kings, He is God, He is the Wonderful, He is the Alpha, He is the Omega, He is the Almighty!

However, many times we invite God when we no longer have the door, we are slipping... and, brothers, we forgot, 'let's praise God'. How many know that God dwells in the praises of his people? How many have already praised God and felt his presence? So, if God is present, wonderful things will begin to happen. Faith, because you have to believe that God is here, but I don't see it, but how many feel it this morning? Everyone who's sorry, give Christ a round of applause.

So, the presence of God. Sometimes the cloud of God is here. But there are results when the presence of God is present. They are seen, they are palpable, they are visible. Many say, we had a tremendous cult, what happened? Nothing. Brethren, if God is here, something precious has to happen now. There are, brothers, how many already know that something precious has already happened and is going to happen, brothers? They are not convinced. How many really already know that God is here, brothers? How many feel his presence already in their hearts? They're not convinced, yet. But, it is that we are like Santo Tomás, we want to see to believe. We Hispanics have that blessing that we always have the 'but,' a tremendous 'but,' it would have been more tremendous. We Mexicans add a lot of cream to the tacos, and this would be better, but if you added this it would be much better.

But, I want to tell you something, who is in control? Who is the boss, who is the captain, who is here to bless you? It's not me, it's not anyone else but it's the Lord who is here to bless you, to lift you up, to heal you! That presence, that glory of God, other writers have said is the habitation of dual implantation God, the shekina glory of God that fills the cloud. Now that we were worshiping God, the cloud began to arrive. How many saw or felt it, brothers? Because God dwells in the midst of praise. When we recognize that God is present, the Lord begins to manifest his glory. That glory is what makes miracles.

Next Sunday we will pray for the sick. But, I want to tell you that we need the glory of God to be present. How many want the glory of God to be present? I already feel that God is dealing with someone, but we have to go back to Bethel, he wants to go back a little bit. Jacob had had a big problem with his brother, but when he stood up, he rested, God spoke to him, he believed and received God's promises and made a monument. He placed a stone, bathed it with oil and said, this place will be called Bethel, House of God. Many times the devil steals our blessings, instead of stealing our blessings, the devil steals our blessing. Because? Because we did not return to that meeting.

The brother, Pastor Omar, said, we have a lot to be thankful for, brothers. I said, we have a lot to be thankful for! How many has the Lord saved? How many has the Lord changed? How many has the Lord transformed? How many has the Lord forgiven? There is reason to have gratitude in our lives! Someone can say, glory to God over here. They didn't have breakfast, brothers. How many can say glory to God around here? How many can say hallelujah here? Hallelujah!

How many can say there is power in Jesus? How many can say there is power in Jesus? How many can say glory to Jesus? How many can say hallelujah? God is here! I said, that God is here to bless you, to lift you up, to give you new strength! Give him glory, give him glory, return to your Bethel! Return to your Bethel! For God to change your name. "Jacob, you are no longer going to call yourself a supplanter, thief... now you are going to call yourself Israel." That experience! He changed his name. Some of us need our name and personality changed too, because we are a bit rustic but when God comes and changes us, if anyone is in Christ... the old things... behold... How many want to be new this morning?

I'm going to invite the pianist to come in, because I'm going to finish… because if I don't I'm going to go on and on and brothers, I forget when to stop. Let the pianist pass while I prepare for the conclusion. This message is for the whole church in general, the church of God in all parts of the world: we have to return to our Bethel, to our roots, to that experience we had with God and many of us do not understand in this last hour. , God is allowing things to happen in our lives so that we return to Bethel. I'm going there, I'm going to move, I'm going to Mexico, I'm going to Texas, I'm going to Florida. And God says, no, no, no, come back. It's not over yet, you thought it was but I'm not done with you. I have something, I want to change your name. I want to give you more anointing, I want to deal with your life, I want to use you so that others know my love!

And sometimes we run but when we come back exhausted, “here I am dad. I wanted to do this but your will be done not mine, your will be done not mine. I want this, but I know that you have something better for me." As the brother starts to play something, I want you, brothers, to close your eyes.

When Pastor Roberto and I were talking there when we had this meeting a few weeks ago. The future of the León de Judá Congregation Church and the church in general, he confessed some things that he has placed in his heart, and among them he told me, 'Pastor Gilberto, I know that God is preparing the León de Judá Congregation Church for a stage new.' And he told me, I want God to prepare us and between them he said something that touched my heart. And he told me, 'Gilberto, you know that we are building a new temple for the glory of God, but he told me, Gilberto, me, that temple is not so important for me or for the church, because we can have other ways of having services. and have activities. But he told me, 'I want it to be a prophetic monument. A sign that in the midst of crises there is a place where the presence of God is. There is a place where God still heals, a place where God still saves, God still transforms lives, God is still real!'

Brother, sister, you who are feeling the... go to the altar, do not be afraid, come and kneel here, Lord, I am the first one who wants to return to Bet-el. I need You to deal with my life one more time, I served You better, but I have moved away, I have drifted away, I am not getting closer as You want. Come in, prostrate yourself in front of your Bet-el so that God can change your situation. This monument that is being prayed for, funds being raised, being built is a sign. God bless you, sister. Someone else who begins to feel the call of God. God bless you, sister.

This monument where we want souls to be saved, we want to see… God bless you, brothers, it is your Bethel. When you feel it. God is speaking, today your name is going to change, your life is going to change. Believe it, have faith, start talking to God. Something is happening right now in the spiritual world. Jacob returned to Bethel, it was no longer Bethel, it was "el Bethel." God was first in his life. Brother, sister, you who are here at the altar have returned to your Bethel. It's you and God. God knows all your life, God knows all your past, your present and your future. He knows everything you've been through, 'no, but if it happens, they're going to say something…' God already knows. You cannot hide from God, there is nothing hidden in the presence of God. Go back church, it's time to return to Bethel.

Oh, brothers, in a few lifetimes the devil has been coming to destroy, but today they go back to Bethel, and the shekinah glory of God is here. The cloud of God has already arrived to fill your life. As we begin to administer, brothers, something is going to happen in your life that you won't even realize. But you're going to have to make new vows with God. Where is that person who says, well I have not passed, but I know that I am that person. I'm scared, but I know that right now I'm fine. Jacob for 20 years thought he was fine, because he walked with a stolen blessing, but God has a personal blessing for you. God wants to hug you this morning and tell you, 'My daughter, even if everyone abandons you, I do not abandon you. 'My son, although you have been despised, I do not despise you, I love you. I want to bless you.' Brother, sister, God wants to bless you this morning. Return to Bethel. Have an encounter with God, let God bless your life, don't suffer anymore for walking the road with your own intelligence, with your own ideas, return to God. Return to God. God is here this morning trying.

Sermon by Gilberto Samano recorded on July 5, 2009 at León de Judá Congregation Listen | View (100K) | View (400K)

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