cover the lives of others

I have felt in my heart to speak to you about, about that call of the church, to be an intercessory church. I would like you to go with me to the book of Ephesians chapter 6, I am going to read a passage that for many of us is very, very, very, very familiar, a passage that many times we marry that passage and we say that our life is based on that passage all the time.

Ephesians chapter 6, talks about what that "Spiritual Warfare" is. That Spiritual war that every human being is exposed to this reality, the only thing is that not many live with that reality in mind, not many live day after day knowing that, when we launch ourselves into life, when we leave the door of our houses that, we get into the car and “We go about”, as who says us, we move in what we have to do in daily life.

There is a battle, there is a spiritual fight that is taking place and of course, I am not saying that one is going to "freekear" as they say, that one is not going to go crazy thinking that there is a little devil hiding behind there and that he's going to trip me all of a sudden, I'm not saying that one lives with a sense of fear, no, because God doesn't want his people to live in fear, no, not at all.

On the contrary, I believe that when the Bible talks about these things, it is doing so in the sense that we can be ready, that we can be prepared and know that there are situations in life that at times are going to do as who says, life taking its course, taking its course, but there are also moments where there is a bandit "Ujm", if you can interpret my, my, there is someone out there who likes to trip the children of God, not so only to the children of God, but to any person, because he is the enemy of God, and what he wants to do is cause harm to God and he knows that the best way to cause harm to God is to harm those whom He has created, it's interesting, the other days I was watching the movie Superman 2 with my son Lucas, he is fascinated by Superman, a fan of Superman.

I don't know how many of you watched the Superman 2 movie, which is when these 3 villains come like this, they invade the earth and when Superman confronts them, they quickly discovered their weak side. And what was Superman's weak side? No, no, that's not another weak side of Superman, but in this case Superman's weak side was the people, it was the people, these 3 villains realized that if they really wanted to hurt Superman they had to hurt people, and they began to attack people, they began to throw things at people, shoot rays like that from their eyes, in one they took a wawa full of people and threw it and what Superman was doing was looking for a way to protect all those people, until I got to the point obviously, well I'm not going to tell you about that part. See it yourselves, rent the movie later.

But you know that, for me, that is something so illustrative, because it speaks to me about God, God's heart is focused on his creation and we are God's creation, we are his people, we are his people, we are his sons, we are his daughters , we are the work of his hands, it is the best sculpture that any living being could have created, no one surpasses that creation of God, which is us.

And this villain who walks around, wagging his tail as we often like to say, what he wants is to harm God. And look, my brothers, there is, there is, there is one... recently I have been hearing so many news about such disastrous things that are happening around us. Things that many times are not even under our control, but they are things that happen, the crying that my sister Elida brings out for this Yan Lorenz family that was murdered, something as serious as that, and I dare to ask, what if I start to ask about things that you have heard in your countries of origin:

Colombia, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Guatemala, so many things that are happening, I was talking to our brother Enrique de la Torre who is still in Mexico, there in Monterrey and he, he sometimes even talks to me with tears in his eyes , saying John Omar, I can't believe how Monterrey has changed in a matter of three years, I don't know if you heard this news about a bargain that locked up a casino and locked a hundred people in there and the hundred people were completely burned , that's how bad things are.

If we bring him more to our neighborhood, my brothers think about this family here of ours, the Sierra Family, who have worked so hard for their son, that they gave him all the best, a good boy with good values and look " ", he was the round guy, the round play--- and the round time. And they shot the poor boy.

The other days, look, these are things that I start to think about and I say to myself, Wow Lord this is, in my own house, in my own house there was a television episode of "Cops", I don't know if there was already said this here, but in my own home. Thank God neither my wife nor I nor my children were in the house, but a robbery that started in Brokton, these guys in their car, I don't know how they ended up in Randolf, and the police caught them two streets up from where we live and these boys fled and two of them were jumping from patio to patio and the police came to catch them in the patio of my house.

In the patio of my house Ladies and Gentlemen, when my wife arrives home, around three thirty, four in the afternoon, she calls me and says: "Hey, Omar, you had left the door of the Shell where you we put away the lawn mower, did you leave it open?” And I, "Noo", I know that the day, the day before I cut the grass, but I put it away I closed everything, strange, the door is open and I, well, I got Alzheimer's then, I forgot and leave it open. And half an hour later she calls me saying: "Omar, you won't know what happened here." The neighbor behind me told my wife the whole Cops episode that had happened, she tells me: “Look right there where you are standing, the policemen caught the boy.

It's like, Pastor Greg has a theory that in the summer the boys leave, a wave of violence enters and they go crazy, they shine by doing any stupid thing, any stupidity, pardon the expression but it's the truth. But you know, my brothers, all these things are only representations for me, of the reality of evil in our midst and it is not that I want to glorify evil, that is not what I am doing, only my brothers are bringing awareness of that we have a responsibility before which we cannot lower our guard.

Not only for our lives but also for the lives of others, what does Ephesians 6 chapter 10 say? It says: "For the rest, my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might." Eh, this to me is like an emphasis what you are saying, there is a force that has power, strengthen yourselves in the power of its force and put on the full armor of God. For what? So that they can stand firm against the devil's wiles. The tricks of the Devil my brothers can come in many forms and in many colors, at any time, thank you.

They do not necessarily come in such graphic forms as the ones I have described, but they come, they come into our lives, because we do not have a fight against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this century, against spiritual hosts of evil. In the celestial regions, in the air, my brothers, one day we can look into the air and what you see is a very beautiful, very precious blue sky, but if you put on some X-ray glasses, there are things, birds that you You will see flying around that they don't look very pretty.

There is a reality behind that reality, which is what it says, “Therefore, take up the armor of God, so that we can resist in the bad day and having finished everything, whatever situation we may be in, what? Firm”. We can be firm, so be girded your loins, with what? With the truth, come on eh, no, I'm not going to explain all these parts, but you can imagine it, having your loins tight means that you have a good belt, where you can adjust your pants or skirt, “Gird up with the truth”, I like that because the Loin means your point of balance, your axis point where your whole body is held. And for you to be able to hold on well, well balanced, that nothing can shake you, it has to be something true, it has to be something real.

Gird your loins with the truth, you see a Karate or Taekwondo fighter, which is the first thing they teach a Tara- “hoop”, Tarate!, Karate or Taekwondo fighter. What is the first thing they teach you? Position, that's the first thing they teach you, position yourself this way, if you stand like that, you're all going to lose it, which is what they're going to tell you, pangana! You go to the floor, to a Boxer, which is what they tell him, the same thing, what is the position of a Boxer? Here, pending, cover yourself, cover your face, your side, that's all position. That position of every fighter is based on everything, there, in the axis point of his body, stick to the truth, affirm yourself in the truth.

After that, what does he tell you? Put on the armor of? Of justice, cover your chest. What is the largest organ in the chest? The heart.

You have to take care of your heart, the things that can attack that, that center where your emotions come from, where your life comes from, you have to cover it not with anything, with justice and not with the justice of this world, but with the justice of God, you want to know what the justice of God is, that is another preaching, but if you read the Bible you will know what God calls justice. Cover your heart, cover your soul, cover your being.

What does he say next? Put on good shoes, don't come here with shoes like that, “guachupita lambetoile”, no, no, no. That is an expression that I used to say in Puerto Rico just in case.

Put on good shoes, I am not saying that you spend 100 dollars on shoes, but I am saying the shoes, from the preparation of the gospel of La Paz, that instead of going somewhere to tell a gossip, that I can go somewhere to to transmit the Peace of God, to communicate the Peace of God, that I can get into Villa Victoria and that if I find boys who are playing their Pinas with Liquor, smoking, wearing, all those things that I can there, I won't just tell them like, "Oh, why are you doing that", but rather that I can go and in the middle of that thing that I can say: "Lord, may Your Peace be in the midst of the hearts of these boys."

That they call you and, - look, I'm fighting with my husband and we're going to get divorced, this is not working and that you can get to that house with the shoes of La Paz and that you can come and say as Jesus says anywhere Wherever you enter, you can say: "The Peace of God be, in this place, in this home", go with the preparation of the Peace of God, the Gospel of Peace and above all, take what?, look, look How interesting, being mature has parts that are, as I would say eh, of defense as if to protect yourself and has parts that are offensive.

Only when we are talking about a shield, it continues to be a tool for, well, the shield is both for defense and offense as well, because at the same time that you cover yourself up you can also hit someone with the shield, today, today I am violent I don't know, it's that, please take the microphone away from me, Fany, come on. You finish preaching. That's how it is, thank you, Angela. The Kingdom of Heaven grows strong and only the brave can take it away, so here I am, I'm going to be violent today, come on. But violent for the Lord.

You have to take that shield my brothers and it is not the shield of Einstein's Philosophy, or anything like that, it is the shield of Faith, with which we can extinguish the darts, the arrows of the enemy. Put on the helmet of what? Of Salvation, the Wilderness, says the Wilderness, is the Helmet, the Helmet the Wilderness of Salvation, cover your head too, cover your thoughts, Uju, Ay! A little bit of emphasis on what I said last Wednesday, which is one of the things that one has to take care of, his mind, from those thoughts of the past that many times drag us down, and hold us up, and want to pull us in the direction that God does not want us to go.

We have to take care of our minds about that, for something says Salvation because Salvation started something new in the midst of our lives, that encounter with Jesus started something new, what Salvation means is that he who is in Christ is a new creature , all the old things have passed away, all things are made new and I live now with a new mind, with a new reality and I focus on that and I continue to the target for what God, what God has called me to through his son Jesus and of course, with what I defend myself then, with what I go on the offensive, with the sword of the Spirit, what is what? The word of God.

There are tools that God has given us my brothers, there are tools that God has given us and above all things look, when the time is right there are words that God gives us to know how to inspire the heart of the one who is fallen, of the one who is grieved , of the one who is upset, of the one who is excited about something, God always gives us a word to know how to direct someone, each time closer and closer to God.

But you have to know the right moment, you have to know the right moment, not me if you have seen war movies from medieval times, but those warriors who walked with their shield and sword depending on the type of circumstance in which they found themselves You didn't see them, they went in one line fighting with the other, they went into a hole, with swords and everything, and they threw each other there.

But if it was a one-on-one fight, that sword wouldn't come out until the right moment, they danced with the shields, they took cover, they threw stones, they threw spears, but when it was time to use the sword, Fu! And now we are going on the attack, this is over, we have to learn how to use our tools, we have to be careful my brothers that we are not overloading people with too much religious vocabulary, like every time we want to talk to someone, "look, convert , accept Christ, repent your sins”, and, and we have the son, and the daughter, and the grandson, and the granddaughter we have already dizzy up to here and the next time someone comes to tell them something about God, and the boy It's like, don't tell me anything else, I don't want to hear anything else, we have to know how to speak those words of Peace, those words of good at the right time, at the right time, so that when the heart is "Ready", see that that word makes "shiuaj", reaches the depths of the heart.

Perhaps your word has to reach a certain level and you get there, up to there, up to there and someone after you is going to come and go, they are going to take that little seed with their finger and they are going to do it, now if you go there and do what you have to do, we have to believe that God in his economy does it like this, that God in his system, in his sovereignty does it like this, we have to believe my brothers, look when the word of God, when Joshua says: "I in my house will follow the Lord."

I believe that Joshua's statement declared God's coverage over his entire family, even though his children were rebels who did not want to listen to him, but I believe that Joshua's statement declared his coverage, God's coverage over his family and that God at the time was going to do the work in the entire family, that jailer who told him, who did he go to? To Pedro? To Pablo? Who said to him: What must I to be saved? And He tells him: "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you and your family will be saved", his family was not there, but nevertheless Salvation came to that family as well.

Only we have to believe my brothers that these tools that the Lord gives us bring that coverage, over our families, over ours, the ones we love, the ones we love, in our eyes it may seem that the boy is on his way to a steel wall and it will burst, but in the eyes of God we have to believe that God is doing something, that after that steel wall there is a new nature, there is a new reality for that person. And I know that many times it may sound easier to say it than to believe it and live it. Because obviously many times those realities are harsh and you don't want to let those guys go for fear that something is going to happen to them.

How many of us didn't learn from the “Hard Way”, so to speak? How many of us did not have to learn the law of Cantazos and Hits? But in the midst of all that, my brothers, I have to believe that there is a Sovereign, that there is a God, my brothers, who makes use of all things so that his purposes are fulfilled, there is a God who is mysterious, who will often allow things to happen that we will never understand, but even if we do not understand our Faith, if we decide to believe in Him, we have to believe then that, Despite those pains that we experience in life, God is going to take care of making things much better later on.

In preparation for tomorrow's Funeral I came across Psalm 91, how many know Psalm 91? Some of you can say it from memory, right? Says:

He who dwells in the shelter of the most high, will dwell under the shadow of the omnipotent, I will say to Jehovah: "My hope and my castle my God in whom I will trust."

He will free you from the hunting bond, from the destructive plague, with his feathers he will cover you and under his wings you will be safe, shield and lengthen his truth. You will not fear the night terror, nor the arrow that flies by day.

When I read that verse I started to stop, I started to stop and I started to say, Omar you really believe what you are saying.

"Neither pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor mortality that destroys at noonday, a thousand and ten thousand will fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you."

When I read that part I stopped even more.

"Harm will not come upon you, nor will plague touch your home, for his Angels will command near you, to guard you in all your ways, in their hands they will carry you so that your feet do not stumble on a stone."

When I finished reading that, I was reminded of the faces of these parents and how they lost their son in such a drastic way. I told myself, honestly, I said in my heart: Lord, what happened, what happened with this formula, perhaps you don't say, “nor an arrow that flies by day”, that pestilence will not come, you will send Angels to cover them, that, that, "What happen here" perhaps it will be that, when David was writing this he drank a little more wine than he had to drink and it kind of clouded his mind and he wrote something that perhaps he was promising something more than he You.

But if that passage is there, it is for a reason. I was talking with the Apostle Meche and she told me about this woman. Corine, Corine Tenbum I think her name is. She survived the concentration camps of the Nazis, she being Jewish and she talks about her testimony of how she saw, that they killed her Dad, her Mom, her brothers and they abused them, and they abused her, but nevertheless she was the one who survived.

And she was able to tell how she recognized that God was in the midst of all those things despite the pain she experienced, about me being able to hear a story like that, well not to hear it, reading a story like that and seeing that that woman dare to say, I have seen the protection of the Most High. I say to myself Wow, wow, all of us at some point have the option of deciding to embrace these promises of God, or not.

What does Abaquc say? Even if the fig tree does not bear its fruits, even if there is no milk in the fridge, even if I don't have a chop in the freezer, even if I don't have cereal in it, in the pantry, yet I will rejoice in Jehovah and rejoice in him. God of my Salvation. Jehovah The Lord is my strength, who makes my feet like servants and makes me walk on my heights. What did Sadráh, Mezaquias Bernego, say? When they were about to be thrown into the oven, they dared to say: King, we will never bend our knees on that idol that you have made, because our God can save us and even if He did not save us with everything, our hearts know in whom have you trusted

Listen, my brothers, the Bible from cover to cover has stories of pain, the Bible from cover to cover has stories of loss, of suffering, but in between each of those stories you can see the work of a sovereign God, who is above all everything.

I have to believe, I have to decide to believe that God sees beyond what I see and perhaps at the moment I do not understand the why of things, but God in his sovereignty knows why, He knows why he allows certain things happen, He knows why many times our enemy has been given permission to influence and it is for the mere fact that even though the enemy tries to do that, God can use those things and turn him around. for good.

So I encourage you my brothers tonight, don't let your guard down, don't let your guard down, don't hook your shield, don't hook your Wilderness, don't hook your breastplate, don't hook your belt, don't hook your sword, no matter how comfortable it is you think you should be there, because you deserve it, because you have worked, because you have sweated for it, never let your guard down, pray for yours, cover yours, but do not forget your role as a son, as a daughter of God , to cover the lives of others around you. Leave here tonight with this burden on your heart, you are responsible for covering your brothers, your sisters here in the church, for keeping them in prayer, even if it is a five minute prayer where you say:

Lord, I present to you all my brothers and sisters in the León de Judá congregation, with their families, with their sons, with their daughters, grandfathers, grandmothers, uncles, aunts, men and women, single, single who are not They have family here, all of them, I ask for your coverage, wherever they live, whether they live in Villa Victoria, whether they live in Newton Center, wherever they live, ask for God's coverage over them.

My brothers we are in rampant moments, evil is as they say, winding up, winding up, winding up, getting away with it in many ways, but you know that, believe this, I have said many times when the river sounds it is because of water bring, right? If the enemy is showing off, it is because God is going to show off even more after all those things.

If it has been declared here that God's revival is coming, look, there is no revival that doesn't come without a time of trial first, without a time of tribulation first, and if God's people have to go through all these things, we go through it, but We are not going to spend it sitting like this breathing air, we are going to spend it there stuck in the trenches, fighting, fighting, being brave, because for the Kingdom of God you have to be brave, look, you know what I learned from what happened in me home. There was a night when I was praying in the patio and suddenly I said to myself, Lord so be it, it ends here, with your children it ends here, evil here meets a wall because you are in our midst.

For me that was such a tangible illustration, the Lord was telling me you are a warrior, you as a family are sons, daughters of a King and God can use you so that, in between you, all the influence of the enemy ends there, Here in this church, in this place, in the congregation of God's people, look, my brothers, we all say together. Look Diablo, it ends here, it ends here, now, here you are going to find yourself with a wall that you will not be able to break down. Let's stand up my brothers and let's pray.

Lord Jesus, thank you for tonight, thank you for the privilege that you have given us to be able to intercede Lord, we know that these prayers have come before your presence, that you are preparing the air Lord, there are things that you are doing Lord, there are things that you are unleashing Lord, there are Angels that are already fighting right now, they are fighting for each one of us Lord, for those people who do not know you yet and Jesus if we here, we say once again Lord that, that You help us and Give us the strength to continue wearing our Spiritual armor Jesus and know how to fight, know how to defend ourselves, know how to go on the offensive Lord, against the wiles of the enemy Jesus.

Father right now I declare over each one of your sons and daughters here tonight, I declare over each one of their lives, one, a renewed mentality Lord, a renewed vision in you Jesus that each one of us, we are warriors, we are your warriors, Lord, that if we have to continue living daily life, moment by moment, minute by minute, step by step, Lord, but we know that there is a reality beyond, of which we are alert, Lord, and to which we have We have to fight in your name Jesus, so Father we believe that everywhere we go Lord, your Angels are with us, we believe that your protection is with us, we believe that if we dwell under the shadow of the most high Lord, you will be in the midst of our Jesus , You, like the omnipotent He, will notice your coverage and your protection, and that even despite the difficult situations of life, Lord, if those moments come, that You will give us the strength to trust You and continue saying that You are the Lord for on top of you All things, that we can embrace that Faith, Lord, that we can embrace that certainty in you and let your plans come true, that your will be fulfilled and not ours, Lord.

You are a Sovereign God, You are a God who is Love, You are a good God and we believe so Lord, but in the face of life's adversities we also believe that You are going to give us strength, Wisdom, the way out of each one of them Lord Jesus.

So Father bless your sons and daughters, as we leave here today Lord, I ask for Your coverage, Your protection over each one of us and that this word on which we have meditated Lord may continue to echo in the midst of our hearts Jesus.

Bless us all Lord, we ask it so in the name of your son Jesus.