A correct attitude

We can be grateful for the mercy that the Lord has for each one of us and he shows it in different ways. So, what do you think if we close our eyes for a moment and tell the Lord how our hearts are, we present ourselves before him, acknowledging that he is our sovereign Lord and that we recognize that our lives depend on him. Each of his responses, each of his signs and wonders are designed for a purpose for each of us and he delivers them so that his name may be glorified, so that his name may be exalted, so that the world may see and still be. God that some crazy people preach, is real and that there is nothing impossible for him. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank my Lord. Thank you. Amen. Amen.

I want to thank you once again for the opportunity to be here, I want to thank you because I believe that the Lord always has a fresh word for our lives. And today I have given a name to this little reflection that the Lord gave me, and it is called "A correct attitude".

And I want to invite you to open your Bible to the book of Second Chronicles, Chapter 7, verse 14, a very familiar passage. Second Book of Chronicles, Chapter 7, Verse 14. It says thus in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit:

“…If my people who are called by my name humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land…”

What would be our correct attitude before the Lord? That is a good question. And it is a passage that has many ways of being interpreted and of being presented to the church. But I only want to base myself on one of the main and strongest words that this passage has. Not only the benefits of what it means to obey the Lord, but the correct attitude for each of us to present ourselves before the Lord is to humble ourselves.

And I want us to see a little bit about what the Lord means by this. In a world where humiliation probably represents naked mockery for the human being, where humiliation represents an attitude of contempt, an attitude of contempt for the human being, God uses it as a resource to answer, to forgive, to save and to fill our lives with blessings.

When the world uses humiliation it uses it to denigrate you, to make you feel unworthy as a human being. Has anyone ever had a humiliating time in this world? We have ever been through some humiliation and they have laughed at us and they have wanted to trample on us and they have wanted to get us out of a place, and they have wanted to belittle us and they have made fun of each one of us and there is no way to get out of that with much dignity .

But when the Lord, Almighty God, is asking his people to humble themselves, it is because he wants to glorify himself in the midst of his children. And I believe that you and I today are in a propitious time, in a privileged time where God wants to manifest himself through each one of us.

If my people humble themselves... it is the correct attitude that the man and the woman of God, and the people of God must have so that their life is a prosperous life, so that their life is an abundant life, so that their life is full of blessings and is full of answers from the Lord that will promote that God continues to be the same.

In this case, the Lord is calling us to humble ourselves, to recognize our need for him, and for our human nature to bow before his power. Do you know what humiliation means in normal language? It is a necessity to break the will of the human being and make him unworthy. Humiliating oneself in the Spanish dictionary has to do with an action of belittling, of holding under power sometimes involuntarily, forcefully, rigorously. And it is not far from the reality of what God wants to do with us.

The difference between what the world understands by humiliation and what God asks of us as a humiliated people, is the final result, and God wants to bless us, the world does not want to see us blessed, God wants to bless a humiliated people. If my people, on whom my name is called, humble themselves.

How many call on the name of the Lord in this place? How many declare that the name of the Lord is a name above all names? How many declare, how many open their mouths to declare praise to the King of kings and Lord of lords? This is the people that needs to humble themselves every day before the Lord. Do you know what for? So that your prayers, so that your search for God bears fruit.

They taught us that we were probably independent. Some at 18, don't wait until they're 18 to get out because they're independent. They want to live alone even though their father has to pay the rent for the room. But they live alone, they are independent, but if the father doesn't pay for the cell phone, he won't have a way to communicate. I'm independent, but if dad doesn't buy her tennis shoes, she doesn't have anything to walk down the street with. I'm independent.

The world privileges independence. Society and the system privilege independence. The Lord's church privileges dependence on its God. We depend on him. We depend on his grace. We depend on your love. We depend on your provision. He is not only the provider, to give an example, all provision emanates from him, he is the one who makes it, he is the one who sends it, he is the one who produces it, he is not the intermediary, he is the provider. He is not just a God of love, he is love.

When the Lord's people begin to have this correct attitude of humiliation, we begin to see great victories in our lives. The Bible says that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must humble himself before him. There are some examples in the Bible where we can recognize, in Genesis, Chapter 18, verse 27, Abraham recognizes that he is dust and ashes, he says, "... I am dust and ashes, what am I going to do, Lord?" this has to do with the story of Sodom. God was calling him, the mighty God and Abraham recognized that he was nothing compared to this God who was sending him.

In Exodus Chapter 3, verse 11, Moses acknowledges his inability for him to be the intermediary between God and Pharaoh for his people. Moses also recognizes his inability, he recognizes that God is more powerful, he needed, he needed to humble himself before God because he could not do what God was asking him to do.

In Exodus, Chapter 4, verse 10, Moses also shows the inability and feels fearful to fulfill what God was asking. There is a sense of humiliating ourselves. Each one of us must exhaust every spirit of pride, every spirit of undeserved aggrandizement because everything is by God, for God and in God. There is nothing else.

If you have any ability, it is because God arranged it that way, for your life, to bless others. Not for you to boast, not for you to show that you are a superior being. God is superior and wants a church that learns to humble itself before him, a church that recognizes its weaknesses, a church that recognizes its difficulties, a church that recognizes that only he can sustain us.

The sister said, "I'm going to go to church, I'm going to hold the hand of Jesus", imagine, if it was with one hand, and they gave her a big contract, she holds onto both hands, who knows? what comes to him

In First Samuel, Chapter 9, verse 21, Saul also acknowledges that his insignificance before God… God was proposing that Saul be king, but he felt insignificant. He recognized in his heart that he was not capable if God was not with him.

In Mark, Chapter 1, verse 7, about John the Baptist, John acknowledges that the one who comes after is not even worthy to untie the shoes of his feet. An attitude of humiliation before God is the correct attitude that God's people must have in order to enjoy God's blessings, in order to enjoy God's forgiveness, in order to enjoy the Lord's miracles. There is no other way, it is not because of merit, it is not because I always come to church, it is not because of the amount of tithe that I give, it is not because of the amount of help that I do, it is because my heart is prostrated every day before the Lord and every morning I get up and I recognize that this day it is God who has to be glorified in my life, it is God who has to be praised in my life, it is God who has to be honored with my actions, with my word and there the Lord is perfecting his work in our midst.

You know what? In James, Chapter 4, verse 6 it says that God gives grace to the humble. In Second Corinthians, Chapter 7, verse 6 says that God gives comfort to the humble. In Romans, Chapter 12, verse 16, he urges us, he knows that it is a very interesting text, he urges us to form a society, to associate with the humble.

Do not look for those who like to talk about more. Don't look for those you like, no, if I'm not gossiping, I'm just giving my opinion. Don't look for those who find all things negative. Do not look for those who seek the convenience of the biblical text to do what they are doing, which is not pleasing in the eyes of the Lord, seek to associate with people you recognize, who depend on God, because we are weak, because we fluctuate, because we need of the Lord's loving correction each day.

A church like this is a church that is advancing in healing, that is advancing in restoration, a church that associates with the humble is a church that develops a mentality of an almighty God, of a God who can do everything, of a God who there is nothing impossible for him.

Is there someone who has a need that is impossible for man? We all probably have some need that is impossible for man, but for God everything is possible. So let's humble ourselves before the Lord. And it does not necessarily have to be something for our interests, it should also be due to our way of living.

In Matthew, Chapter 11, verse 29, Jesus is our best example of humility. If you want to be humble like someone, don't look at the person next to you, go to the Bible and see the example of Jesus. "See that I am meek and humble of heart..." That is Jesus, the best example.

In Zephaniah, Chapter 3, verse 12, he is willing to take away our rebellion and arrogance and transform us into a humble people that recognizes him.

If there is something in us that is still unpleasant in the eyes of the Lord, God wants to change it for humility, God wants to change it for a contrite and humiliated heart.

In Isaiah 57:15 “…he dwells with the humble and with the broken…” In Isaiah 29:19 “…the humble grow in joy…”

This is the difference between being humiliated before God and being humiliated before the world, that wherever you look at it, humiliating ourselves, having a humble attitude before the Lord brings benefits, brings joy, brings growth.

The church often forgets this attitude of humbling itself before the Lord. We often forget that God resists the proud. That is where the Lord's answer is.

"If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their evil friends, then I will hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land..."

And this 'healing the earth' means restoring your life, no matter what you have been, the Lord has the power to make it green, as Isaiah 42 to 44 says, to make it green, to make it flourish again.

You know, the land that the Lord rejects, the one that is in Galatians, Chapter 5, verse 19, where the works of the flesh are manifest, and there is a list of many things. Those are soil that is being poisoned by sin. The Lord wants to heal this land, put worthy fruit, plus the fruit of the spirit, Galatians 5:22, is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. That is the land that the Lord wants to give us.

He knows that behind each characteristic of these fruits there is a tremendous blessing for those around us and for us, for our family, for the church, for the community. A church that humbles itself before the Lord is a church that moves by leaps and bounds, it is a church where there are not only winners, but more than winners.

It is a church that is not only satisfied with having good results, but is going to conquer what the devil has taken from it, to take possession of what God has promised. That is the church that is humbled before the Lord, it is a church that recognizes its dominance, it is a church that recognizes its dependence.

Let us humble ourselves, then, under the mighty hand of God so that he may exalt us in his time, so that his response begins to flow through us, so that others may come to know the Lord.

You know, the great challenge for the church today is to present itself as a unique alternative in a world where there are hundreds and thousands of alternatives. The great challenge of the church today is to show the world that by acknowledging Almighty God there is hope, there is change, there is transformation, there is virtue that comes from the Lord to flow through his church.

Are we a people that humiliates itself every day? Are we a people that recognizes the Lord above all our interests? Are we a people that is necessarily looking for God's confirmation every day for our lives? I want to invite you to close your eyes for a moment and reflect on what our life needs to develop before the throne of the Lord.

The Bible says, throw your load on me and I will carry it, throw your load on me. You know, the most beautiful thing about this biblical print is that the Lord says, my yoke is easy and my burden is light. He is telling her, you can still carry me, you can carry my faith, you can carry me and I will not be a hindrance to you, I will not cause you depression, I will not cause you illness, I will not cause you financial problems , For my yoke it is easy, and my burden light. But your burdens, but your problems, but your difficulties are taking you down a path that gets heavier every day, why don't you surrender and bend your heart before the Lord and let him begin to heal your land? Why don't you let him start making paths where there are no paths?

Close your eyes, let's pray. Thank you Lord Jesus, thank you Lord, because this is the attitude that each one of us must face every day and must decide. Lord, humble ourselves before you, present ourselves before you with a contrite and humiliated heart, Lord, says the psalmist that you will not reject him. Lord, teach us to be a church that is a church that humbles itself and recognizes, and that does not wait to experience bad times, and that does not wait to experience bad times to recognize that you are the Lord.

Lord, that this people that calls on your name, that this people that prays, that this people that seeks you, that this people, Lord, truly convert to you and that their hearts, Lord, and that their way of living, and that his way of speaking, and that what we can think and feel, is always under your humiliation, Lord.

Teach us, God, that humbling ourselves before you brings blessing, brings well-being, brings healing, brings peace of mind to our lives. Thank you Jesus. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you because you are good. Amen. Amen. May the Lord bless you.