When the dew falls, the manna falls with it

Allow me this morning to do in a very general way and very roughly a little bit of the history of the book of Hosea. We are going to focus on the situation about 200 years from the moment Hosea prophesied. Before Hosea, 10 of the 12 tribes of Israel had broken away from the Davidic kingdom. And these 10 tribes that had separated had made their own kingdom and the god they had was a golden calf. God sends Elijah, sends Elisha, sends Amos so that the people return to the ways of God.

But they instead increasingly entered idolatry. When God sends Hosea, Hosea has to live in the time of King Jerobeam II and he has to live in a time in Israel where sin was above. The people of Israel had a total decadence in all areas, and in all spheres of their lives. It had political decadence, it had religious decadence and it had social decadence.

Hosea means salvation. And by God's direction Hosea marries a woman named Gomer and it doesn't go very well with her. He has to live through a series of infidelities on her part. And then Hosea sees in his own life what infidelity is as God was seeing it in the people of Israel. But Hosea also experiences what is the judgment of God, the mercy of God and the forgiving love of God.

The book of Hosea is divided into four parts. The first part that goes from Chapter 1 to 3 talks about all the infidelity of Israel. From 4 to 7 he tells us about the sins of Israel. And from 7 to 10 he tells us about the trials. But from 11 onwards in this book he tells us about God's love, mercy and how God is telling them that he is the only thing they need and about the promises he is making to them. Throughout the book of Hosea we are going to see a lot of judgment but we are also going to see the forgiving love of God.

Hosea continually insists throughout the book on God's forgiving love. that is why he was called the Old Testament prophet of love. Hosea besides being a prophet was a teacher. And so he uses a lot of symbols to be able to give examples of things. And in Chapter 4 we see how he uses great symbology to show what the situation of the people of Israel was.

And then he tells us about the morning cloud. And when he tells us about the morning cloud, what he is telling us is that we are here today and gone tomorrow. That's what he wanted, he said to the people of Israel, that life was a little moment. And in the New Testament we see in the book of Santiago that tells us the same thing, that we are like herbs in the field, that we are here today and gone tomorrow. and that is why we have to tell the Lord when we make plans, if you want I will go to that place.

And also Hosea uses a half-baked pie as a symbol. Because he is trying to tell the people of Israel that they are like they do not delve into what their religion is, they do not delve into anything, they are superfluous and also to us in the New Testament what does the Lord say to us? He tells us not to be lukewarm, whether we are hot or cold, but if we are lukewarm, he will vomit us out of his mouth.

What he is telling us is that he does not want Christians on a Sunday. He wants real Christians. and the book of Hosea also uses the dove as a symbol, because with this he was explaining that the people of Israel were fickle. It was not stable, they made political alliances as it suited them. God is also telling us that we are in the world but we are not of the world. And that we have to be light so that they convert to us and not us to them. And that we have to be very careful with the alliances we make, marriage alliances, work alliances.

And Hosea also uses a tree as a symbol. And with that he is symbolizing that any dependency that there is that is not God's is unstable. God wants you and I to depend solely and exclusively on the true God. And he is going to lead us to situations in our lives in which we are not going to have to depend totally on him.

Absolute dependence on God is recognized by depending absolutely on him. And for that many times you have to remove other dependencies, other things that we are not grabbing. All the books of the minor prophets have three types of teachings, they have a historical teaching because what the book is endorsing was a teaching that covered an immediate need, a need of the people at that time. Another teaching is a prophetic teaching. These books always prophesy what is going to happen in the future, be it judgment or mercy of God. and they also have a practical teaching, a practical teaching for them but also practical for us today.

I would like the following slide, please. I want you to go with me to the book of Hosea, in Chapter 14 and look for me, please, in verse 5. It says like this:

“…I will be to Israel like dew, he will blossom like a lily and spread his roots like Lebanon. Its branches will extend and its glory will be like that of the olive tree and it will perfume like Lebanon. They will return and sit under its shade, they will be quickened like wheat and they will flourish like the vine. Its smell will be like lebanon wine..."

These are the promises that God makes to Israel telling them that all they need is him. And this is for us today too. Because you and I, the only thing we really and exclusively need is our God. And just as we have just seen the story of Israel, you and I have a story and some stories are more beautiful than others, others are longer, others are shorter, and each woman always believes that our story is the best. History is the most beautiful and if it is tragic, the most tragic.

But when we hear others we realize that it is not so. In Chapter 4 of Hosea you will find that he tells us that he wanted to bring the people of Israel with cords of love, with bonds of love. And you and I were drawn to him with love ropes. Some of us had to pull the rope a lot of times, and each time the rope was thrown at us, the rope had to be thicker, it already seemed like Achaeans. And some of us had to tighten the rope of love so much, so much, so much that the rope hurt, but in the end he won and that's why we're here. But since we are brought here by ropes of love, because no matter how thick the rope may have been, no matter how painful the rope through which we came to the Lord may have been, it was a rope of love.

And now what we have to be careful about is not to get loose from that love rope. The people of Israel got away from the rope and grabbed their way. And he knows that slipping off God's rope is very easy. Getting loose with a jerk may be difficult, but the easiest way to get out of the ropes in which God has us tied is little by little. When you're tied up, I don't know if you've ever been tied up playing or something, you've noticed that you start to move like that and the rope starts to come loose. And when one day we do not seek God, and another day either because we are very tired, there is a lot of work, there are many things to do, today we do not read his word because... tomorrow, today my head does not give me enough for that. And tomorrow we won't read the word either, tomorrow the head won't bother us because I tell you that if we don't use it, the brain goes numb. It's not the years that age the brain, it's when we don't use it, when it gets old.

And today we have a little sin, but… a little lie and a little gossip, but since it is so small, I do not confess it to the Lord, yes, totally… and tomorrow another, and the day after another, and when we come to feel we are freed from the ropes of the Lord. When we come to feel we start to go our own way, we are no longer tied to it.

Here Hosea speaks to us symbolically of the dew. And what is the dew? The dew is the drops of the sea that have remained impregnated like drops of water on the leaves after a cool night. And it calls my attention a lot, look at the figure how the drops remain impregnated there. And they are transparent droplets and God was telling Israel through the dew that God would be like dew for them, that the grace of God would be like dew for them, that it was going to refresh them, that it was going to enliven them.

And God is also telling us today that he is for us like dew that refreshes, like dew that gives life when you and I are thirsty, when you and I are in the desert, when you and I no longer believe in nothing and we can do nothing, then the dew of God comes, permeates us and gives us that freshness.

The dew of God is here symbolizing the mighty love of God. and if you have your Bible, please look for Deuteronomy Chapter 32 verse 2. It is the song of Moses that goes like this:

"... My teaching will drip like rain, it will distil like dew, like the grass and like the drops on the grass..."

And go also to Psalm 72:6, it says like this:

“…It will descend like the cut grass, like the dew that drops on the ground…”

He is telling us about his powerful love. But the dew from God also symbolizes the manna that you and I need. Please turn to Numbers 11:9, it goes like this:

“…And when the dew fell on the camp, the manna fell with it…”

The manna was what fed the people and the dew came with it. The dew here is signifying the food that God gives us. And he knows that the word of God is the food that he gives us. And we are the ones who must eat that manna, eat that food that comes along with the dew that God gives us, along with the refreshment that God gives us, there is the word that means food.

And dew also means God's blessing. If you please go to Genesis, Chapter 27, verse 28, you will find that when Jacob blesses Isaac, look at what Jacob says blessing Isaac:

“…God will give you the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth, and the abundance of wheat and new wine…”

He is blessing you with all kinds of abundance. And he knows that God blesses us with all kinds of abundance. And look, if you also please go here, it says like this, when Moses is going to die he gives a blessing to the 12 tribes, and look at the blessing that Moses gives to the 12 tribes before he dies:

“…They will be a land of grain and wine and their skies will also drop dew…”

If you realize, every time God talks to us about abundance, every time God talks to us about giving us something, he's talking about giving us the dew. And if you go to Numbers 11:9 you will see here also what it says:

“…And when the dew fell on the camp, the manna fell with it…”

And look at how the dew also symbolizes God's provision. Go to Exodus Chapter 16, verse 13, look I know I'm going too fast with… maybe I think I have to stop more. Do you want me to repeat all the scriptures for you? I'm going to finish this part and I'm going to repeat all the Scriptures to you, not for you to look them up but to take them home and you look them up at home, okay? If I stop and let him look for them, he will not look for them in his house, Exodus, Chapter 16, verse 13:

“…And when evening came they received quails that covered the camp and in the morning the dew fell around the camp…”

Again we have the dew related to abundance and God's provision. The dew of God also means the revelation of God. In the book of Judges, in Chapter 6, in verse 36, Gideon asks God as a sign that he wants to be sure if the town is going to be destroyed by his hands, to give him as a sign that the dew falls on the fleece. God comes and gives it to him. Here the dew is revealing the will of God. You will find that in Judges, Chapter 6, verse 36, which says:

“…Ask God that if the dew is on the fleece he will know that he will understand that I will save Israel by his hand as he has said…”

And the dew also means the power of God. When God gives King David dominion among all the words he says to him, he says these:

“…You have the dew of your youth…”

So my sister, the dew also makes us young. I believe that this is enough for us to ask God for quantities on a daily basis. If you forget everything else that the dew gives us, remember that and that it helps us to ask for it daily, when we put on the little cream that the dew that rejuvenates gives us.

I'm going to read you the Scriptures so that you can take them if you want, okay? Deuteronomy 32:2, Psalm 72:6; Genesis Chapter 27, verse 28; Genesis Chapter 33, verse 28; Judges Chapter 6, verse 36; Numbers Chapter 11, verse 9; Exodus Chapter 16, verse 13.

And to summarize for you, the dew refreshes us with the powerful love of God. the dew gives us abundance. The dew gives us provision. The dew also symbolizes the blessing of God, the dew symbolizes the power of God.

If you look there, there is a lily. It is that the dew beautifies us. I took this photo the day before I came and I took it at a friend's house. The lilies are some flowers that are white and there are red and the lilies open like bells because they have 6 petals. And the word of God uses lilies a lot, it tells us about the lilies of the field, which are white lilies, but there are also red lilies. And when God tells Israel that they are going to grow like lilies, he is speaking of growth outwards, he is speaking of growth that can be seen, he is speaking of growth that beautifies.

And my beloved sister, you and I have to be like those lilies that grow and like those lilies that become more beautiful every day. The word of God commands us that we must grow every day to reach the stature of the perfect man, and to have the fullness of him. And when you and I are truly growing in the hands of the Lord, growth has to be seen.

And you know what it has to look like? With our attitudes, it has to do with what we speak, it has to do with what we do, it has to do not only with what we say but the attitudes and the behavior that goes with it.

And in this growth of lilies something very special happens. They are very, very long wands and each lily bulb can give up to 55 more bulbs. They reproduce in a tremendous way. They have tremendous multiplication. And do you know what is the multiplication that God wants you and me to have? The multiplication that God wants you and me to have is multiplication through example.

And multiplication through example has to come first in our house. And that reproduction for us to have the beauty of the lily has to come when we begin to break the relational patterns that we have. Everyone in our house has relational patterns. What do I want to tell you with this? Ways of relating to each other. And since they are already so continuous, we bring them from so long, we don't even realize if they are becoming dysfunctional relational patterns.

Suddenly an observer comes, in my country two weeks ago we had elections. Observers from all over the world arrived, what did these observers arrive at? Because they saw small details and you know that you and I have an observer who is always seeing even the smallest details. And that observer wants you and I to break those relational patterns, ways of talking to each other, ways of answering each other, because if we don't realize it, they can become dysfunctional and reproduce.

Suddenly we see the children treating the brother in a way, why do you treat him like this? And if we see ourselves in a mirror, we will realize that we are treating ourselves like this. Many times, if we want to know who we are, let's see how our children are behaving. After all, who they have learned the most from is us.

And in them it is very easy to see those dysfunctional patterns but not in us. but when you and I want to grow like the lily to reproduce we are going to start breaking those patterns. And the way that we are going to break those patterns is by first realizing that we have them.

And when we break that pattern, I start to break my channel, I start to break my stimuli or my responses. I start behaving differently. I start to answer in another way. And so the pattern begins to break, but the other person is going to want that pattern to continue, continue, but we have already lived like this for so long. So are we, we say. This is how we treat each other. And one says, but really? Yes, yes, we are used to it. God does not want customs. God wants growth. Old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.

When I was a child I acted like a child, now that I am an adult I act differently. And when I decide to start having a different stimulus, to start having a different response, even though the other initially forces us to stay the same, if I stay the same, the other will come to a moment, or the others will come to a moment when what is going to happen? They will also begin to answer in a different way, to give encouragement in a different way.

The pattern has been broken. I grew as a person and I reproduced because I am helping their growth. My beloved brothers, our growth is very important, but there must also be growth in our family. When I took this photo of this lily, the lilies were attached to each other in such a way, because they reproduce so much that it is like a precious cluster and when we took the photo, God spoke to my heart and told me that the perfume of the lily is something we must exhale. But that we must exhale the lily perfume not only us, that the lily perfume must be exhaled by the whole family.

Know what? Each person has a different mood physically speaking. But when we have the scent of Christ, when we smell of the Lord, and we enter a room, that smell has to be reflected. The aroma of Christ has to fill the room when you enter. When you go to work, maybe there is tension and that tension that the knife cuts, but when the aroma of Christ enters, because you reflect the living God, that tension has to be removed because the aroma of Christ has to fill the whole room. .

And when someone very perfumed leaves, he leaves and leaves a trail. And when we leave the places, not only us, but also as a family, that trail of aroma of Christ has to be registered. Oh, it's good that he's gone, he's coming again. If there are those expressions when we arrive at a place, it is because we are not reflecting the aroma of the Lord. But when we leave a place, even from the church, that we leave, what has to be reflected is the perfume of Christ, the aroma of Christ that we reflect.

And when we remember a person we almost smell it. Oh, when we talk about someone like that even the smell comes to us. And that is the aroma that our memories must leave in people, the aroma of Christ. The beauty of the lily is found in Matthew, in Chapter 6, verses 28 and 29. There we are told that the lily grows among thorns and we are told that not even the beauty of Solomon is as beautiful and is as great as beauty. of the lily And it is very striking to me that the lily grows among thorns. And it strikes me more that he doesn't speak than that these thorns break the lily. And many times we, instead of being that lily that grows among thorns, because if something is difficult, it is sometimes living among thorns. Oh sister, if you knew the family I have, you wouldn't talk about the aroma of Christ, but here it says that the lily grows among thorns.

And many times the thorns are not from others, the thorns are from us. Sometimes we look like the porcupine. Do you know what a porcupine is? Full of thorns. Thorns when we speak, thorns when we approach, thorns when we touch, but God wants you and me to reflect the beauty of the lily and the scent of the lily.

The lily is mentioned in the book of Songs, in Chapter 5, in verse 13 it says:

“…Her lips like myrrh that exude fragrant myrrh…”

My beloved sister, when you and I speak the words you have to carry the scent of fragrant myrrh. And Song of Songs, in Chapter 2, verse 2 clearly says_

“…Like a lily among thorns, so is my friend between the two of them…”

God wants you and me to be a lily among thorns. And look now comes the part that I like. There's a spider web down there. The dew has the ability to reveal cobwebs. It is so pretty that it sits on top of the cobwebs, look there on top of the cobweb drops it sits.

And when we see him in the morning we see all the cobwebs he wove at night, in the dark, and it's good that God's dew reflects his cobwebs and reflects mine, because I tell you that you and I have a lot of cobwebs .

And the beautiful thing is that the webs that we weave God knows them perfectly. It says in Job, in Chapter 34, in verse 21:

“…Because their eyes are on the ways of man and they see all his steps…”

I want to talk about three types of cobwebs. I know there are more, but I am going to talk about three types of cobwebs because they are the best known. A spider web begins to weave a little, right? and when we come to feel, it is a great spider web that we do not know where it started.

And there is the web of hidden things, hidden thoughts. Have you had hidden thoughts? All the time. Have you had ulterior motives? Hidden intentions? hidden desires? And you know what? Hidden motives lead us to hidden thoughts, hidden desires, hidden intentions, and ultimately hidden actions before others and before God.

And always hidden things, thoughts, desires, intentions, are always intertwined like a spider web with lies, because since they are hidden, they are lies. Were you thinking such a thing? No. Do you feel like such a thing? No. The lie comes and starts a whole web.

You know that when we lock ourselves in the web of the occult we begin to have two or more personalities. And suddenly the little sister in the church is beautiful and if someone describes our profile, oh how beautiful we are. But let's go to the household to ask him what our profile is, and it seems that they are talking about two different people with the same name. Because? Because we haven't noticed how hidden things can make us with two or more personalities.

Very easily we become like that little animal that changes colors, depending on the occasion, the chameleon. God wants to break the hidden cobwebs. God wants us to behave the same down here as up there, the same in church as at home, that we dress down here the same as we dress up there, that we dress for church as we also dress when we go to work with certain decorum.

God does not want us to have multiple personalities. God does not want hidden cobwebs. And an example of hidden cobwebs, how far they can take us, you see with David and Bathsheba. If there she wove a whole web and where the web began, a hidden desire, a hidden intention sent her to be brought and after she was sent to be brought, do you know the rest of the story? He has relations with her, she becomes pregnant, he wants to pack the son for Bathsheba's husband. He starts plotting something else, it doesn't work, he doesn't make it and since he doesn't get all his web, what does he get to? To send him to kill.

And where did it start? It started with a hidden desire. Look, hidden desires, hidden motives, hidden thoughts, my beloved sisters, are delicate, they have to be delivered to God from the beginning. They cannot be cherished, they cannot be developed, because otherwise we may end up like David. David was a man of God and yet he allowed the web of hidden things to unfold.

And another of the cobwebs that women also have is the web of emotions. That one is interwoven and more than interwoven. The first emotion of the day, my beloved sister, you have to be very careful because when you recognize the first emotion of the day, and if you surrender it to God, you start to walk well, but when the first emotion of the day you don't we manage well, emotions like it or not are in a chain, and one will lead to another, another will lead to another, sometimes even without realizing it. And when the night ends we are made of a web of emotions. We finish as they say in my country, finishing off with those who live with us. And generally it is the children, because they are the ones who put up with us, they have no other choice.

And what has been? It has been the web of emotions. And when we don't handle emotions correctly because we don't identify them one by one, we hand them over to God and hand them over to God, two things are going to happen to us, either we live a full life, full of emotions that seem like a volcano, or we live a life where emotions are stored, and where emotions are blocked. Both are problematic.

Blocked emotions, stored emotions are going to lead us to have a life, I would say, emotionally mediocre. We are going to become those people who keep everything, retain everything and no longer want to express anything. For what reason? Because the moment those emotions are going to be expressed as they have been stored for so long, they are going to come out. But repressing emotions, not surrendering them to God is going to have problems in our personal interrelationships and problems in our relationship with God.

In the Chapter of Neemías it speaks that the people when Neemías and Esdras stopped in front to read the Scriptures, do you know what happened? The people rejoiced, the people were content, the people had joy when they could understand a Scripture and the people had an emotional response, but sometimes my beloved sisters, the joy of reading the word of God has gone.

And that joy from reading the word of God sometimes begins to go away because of all the things we have stored. My beloved sisters, opening the word of God and reading it must be a joy. There is the sweetness of all the promises of God, my beloved sister, if it is God speaking to me how can it not produce joy, how can it not produce an emotion in my heart, a joy in my heart when I understand a Scripture that I did not understand , when there is a revelation of God for my life through that Scripture, how can there not be an emotional response.

In Guatemala, I clarify, sometimes people do not have joy with the word of God. Brother, amen, hear you over there, an amen over there. And one maybe when he read the Scripture, amen. Let's check, let's check if we really have joy from reading the word of God, if it really awakens something to me or if I read it and I already read it, well, okay, that's it. No. It says that every time the people Neemiah and Ezra opened the book of the law, the people's sadness left them, every time they read a Scripture.

In the book of Ezra he talks about when they were building the temple and says that when they saw that they were laying the foundations in the temple, when they saw that they were laying the bricks, the people rejoiced and said, how good God is. and he knows that we have to rejoice over the things that are being done for God. But sometimes we see the great things that God is doing, we see the great things that are being done for God and oh, I hope they finish it later.

Look, so many things that we say and do, when what should give us is joy, joy for the growth of God's work, joy for the things that are being done for God, even if it is not my group, even if it is not my Church, although it is not my cell, is for my God and your God and my God is the same, my beloved sister, and we have to have that joy and that rejoicing for things and for God's growth.

If there is not that joy and that rejoicing is a good time, I have had to do it in my life because there are stages like this, there are stages like this that we go through that I have had to get on my knees and I have had to say, give me back the joy of your salvation, because we lose the joy of salvation because of all the things that happen to us, or the things that we get into.

But when you and I get on our knees and say, give me back the joy of your salvation, we once again understand what salvation in Christ means, we again understand the sacrifice of the cross, that sacrifice that we forget, that it is for us. and that it is also for others. God wants to give us back the joy of salvation so that what we all do in Christ is joy no matter if I do it or someone else.

Do you know what other joy we have lost? The joy of seeing people receive the Lord Jesus Christ. He says that there is a party in heaven, that the angels rejoice and what do we do? Oh, it's been four. Right now I am going to brag to him. In my church we have something called the Via Dolorosa and they present it three times a year, and in each event about 180 are converted, but I think we still need the joy of seeing those 180 converts so that next year there will be 300 per function .

But, my beloved sister, for that we need to once again recover the joy of salvation, that there is truly rejoicing in your soul when you see someone pass by here to rejoice with Christ. Sometimes we even turn to talk to the neighbor while he is making the confession of faith. It has nothing to do with me, I already have Christ. There he who just now found it. me a while ago

Beloved sister, the joy of God, don't you believe that God has joy? When someone is reconciled and that joy is for me and for you if we want to be like Christ.

There are many cobwebs, but I am going to focus only on three, don't worry. Look, the web of imagination. He knows that no one pays attention to the imagination, but the imagination works and what if it doesn't. I already imagined! I didn't even imagine! Works. And the imagination becomes a cobweb.

What is imagination? Imagination is the ability that you and I have to achieve something. Concretize the thoughts, reduce them in such a way that we are going to give them the form of an image. So when those thoughts come together, we have an image. That image is usually associated with past experiences that I have incorporated into my life. But also the imagination based on past experiences, which I have incorporated into my life, will also have future projections.

Imagination works quickly and works based on the past with future projections. Have you imagined things? Imagination was left to us by God. And why did God leave us that capacity? He left it to us so that the images we have are his images, the images of the true God, the characteristics of God are what should be in our images.

But you know that with the sin of Adam and Eve the imagination, like many things, became corrupted. And today we have an imagination that has to be healed. If we have something bad in the imagination. It's just that I imagined it! You can see the mischievous face of what we imagine. And the imagination continues like a spider web. Look, ah, I don't know why I'm going to say it, but I'm going to say it, okay? If you look around at someone and you imagine and then you imagine more, and then you imagine more and the imagination grows, the imagination has to be healed, because we begin to assume things, it's that I assumed, that I imagined that you you wanted, that you did not want, that you did want, that you thought. And it's so vivid, because it's not just the thought anymore, it's the image that we believe and we function like that. We assume things, we make judgments, it is a selfish imagination that is always thinking bad things about others or bad things that are going to happen to us. It is the imagination that has not been healed by the word of God. what has to be in our mind are the images of the Lord Jesus Christ, the image of the word of God, but if we do not read the word of God, if we do not study the word of God, there can be no images of the word of God and of God in our mind.

And when we eat, I have nothing against television. I like it, there are programs that I like, but when the food is television, the internet and all these things, the images that are going to be produced are going to be… the imagination has to be healed of 12 evils. I will not go into them, but it has to be healed of 12 evils. And we have to ask God every day to heal our imagination so that cobwebs don't start during the day, because who knows how much cobweb we're going to sleep with, from imagination. And what happens at night? It's just that last night I dreamed I don't know what. The cobwebs of the day. At night you give it more life.

And we have to be careful, my beloved brothers, because look, there is a verse, I think it is this, it worries me, it is Hebrews Chapter 4 verse 13, it says like this.

"...And there is no created thing that is not manifest in his presence, rather all things are naked and open to the eyes of him to whom we have to give an account..."

You have to give God an account of your imagination. And in the Bible there are several cases of how imagination worked. You have the case of Mical. Mical when he sees David dance because he had carried the ark, he thinks badly of him, he imagines things that are not and despises him. David when he goes with Saul, they come from the war, and all the women start, only those did shout like that with their lungs, David, let's see, did David kill? Saul killed...? And David to…? David killed 10,000 and Saul 1,000. That's what the women said and then David comes and what happens? He says ah, 9000 difference, because that's the way the imagination is. 9000 difference, and on top of that he even wants to be king. The other had nothing to do with what the women were yelling at. He had already been appointed king, he wasn't thinking about that. But Saul comes, he imagines that the other one even wants to be king and since then, says the word of God, he never saw him well again. And who knows, my beloved sister, how many people have never seen good again because of the things we imagine. The imagination, my beloved sisters, is a cobweb that has to be healed every day.

The lilies, as we saw previously, grow upwards and it is a growth that has to be seen. We cannot say that we are grown in the Lord if that growth is not seen. It has to be seen. But just as the lilies are fragile, then God is speaking to Israel that he is also going to give them strength, that he is also going to give them power, and then he tells them that they are going to be like cedars of Lebanon.

The cedar of Lebanon are very large trees, but enormous, the largest is about 12 meters high and about 35 meters wide. The cedars of Lebanon are enormous and their wood is very strong, their wood is very fine and David's house was made with that wood and Solomon's temple too.

And the special feature of these Lebanon cedars is that they mean power, they mean stability, they mean that you cannot easily move from one place to another. And what makes the cedars of Lebanon not move from one place to another are their roots. Look how the roots of the cedars of Lebanon are.

The roots of the cedars of Lebanon are fully extended. And they are attached to the ground. And when the roots of a tree are truly rooted in the ground, the tree doesn't need external support, it doesn't need any pressure to be supported. Because? Because its roots have it affirmed.

And you and I have to have our roots in Christ, well rooted, well grounded, and we cannot root our roots if we are Sunday Christians. That does not root the roots. And for the roots to take root, our affections have to be in Christ. And they know how easily affections are no longer in Christ, they are in something else, money, work, children, people.

And when the affections begin to deviate from Christ, the roots begin to dry up. And when the roots of a tree dry up, the trunk is useless. And something very beautiful about these trees is that they are strong and vigorous. However, when the storm comes, when the rain comes, when the lightning comes, sometimes they are so strong that the tree even bends a little, it doesn't break, it just bends. And storms are going to come into our life sooner or later, they are part of life. And that it finds us with our roots placed in Christ so that we bend down, so that we do not break.

Two weeks ago, the son of a couple who was a friend of mine was killed. When I came, I think it was two years ago, I showed them the temple of the church, [inaudible], I mentioned that an architect friend of mine had built it, because they killed the son of this architect. He was shot twice in the head and found lying in the car. A boy who had been raised in the ways of the Lord. I could see the pain of that mother that there came a time when the only thing that came out of her mouth was a sound, because she could no longer cry.

However, when that woman at the time they took out the corpse of the beloved son, because he was a boy raised with a lot of love, the exemplary family, when they took him out this woman, who is very soft and very sweet, looked like an oak tree. She was standing in front of the coffin and I could almost see the roots that were holding her up. And when this woman stood up and spoke to all her son's friends, making them see that they were a family of promise, and that therefore her son was a seed that was being sown so that all the other young people would reach the paths of the Lord, and so that they would not get lost, and he spoke to the young people who were there, that many of them sons of shepherds had strayed, and he spoke to them with strength and integrity, being able to say that his son was a seed that was he was planting, which really was because his roots had grown like those of Lebanon.

They made the call to the Lord and 8 days later they held another meeting in which they invited many more young people, and they invited the parents of these young people, parents of young people who let them go here and there, here, there, to ask them see the need for parents, as a family, to return to God and teach their children the ways of God.

And they read a letter that the young man had left. Two days after his death, a friend arrived and gave them a letter that the young man had brought. And in that letter that was for his mother, father and sister, and he told his mother how he had been reconciled with God, how God had given him the opportunity, his mercy to reconcile with him, and those parents were sure that no matter what had happened, God's promise, you and your children had been a reality.

And she said, I had a promise that I was going to return to the Father's house, but it was not the house of her earthly father, it was the house of her heavenly Father. For that couple they were like standing oaks talking to everyone. Because? Because its roots had years of being well grounded in the word of God.

And the years of being a Christian have nothing to do with it, my beloved, I can have been a Christian for many years and not have strong roots. I can be a few years old and have stronger roots. The roots must be watered daily with my relationship with God, with the word of God, with my experiences with God, with my experiences with the people of God. That's what waters the roots, that's what makes firm roots because otherwise when the storm comes we break, we're going to bend.

Yes, that day there was shocking pain. They were bent but not broken. And when we don't break, we can continue to do God's work, no matter what. We have to have firm roots.

Look, Job, Chapter 18, verse 16, says:

“…Below its roots will wither and above its branches will be cut off…”

When the roots dry up, anything will cut the trunk, anything will cut the branches.

When God gives these promises to Israel they are very beautiful promises. Gives you the lily that is growing up, which is seen; he tells him that he is also going to give them root growth, the growth that keeps him strong. But he is also going to give them the fruit of the olive tree. The cedar of Lebanon, the one we have just seen, is strong, it is firm, it gives off a beautiful perfume, but it does not bear fruit.

But then that is why he also makes the comparison with the olive tree. The olive tree is a small plant, but always green. The olive tree is always green. Look at what it says, please, Psalm 52, verse 8.

“…But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God…”

Ah, he is not talking about just any little plant, he is talking about the plant that is the king of the trees, because in Judges it says that when the trees came together to look for a king, who did they choose? They chose the olive tree. The tiny olive tree but they chose him, because the olive tree is always green, it never dries up.

But the olive tree says that it is planted in the house of God. It is not a little plant that grew up on the roof because it rained a lot, nor did it grow outside the house of God. if we want to be planted, we have to be in the house of God.

Oh, no, sister, I'm not looking for a church, I'm looking for my relationship with God because you know the churches… What I know is what the word of God says, that I have to be planted in the house of God and this is where you have to stay My beloved sister, God planted you here, stay here. This is your place. You have to be planted in the house of God.

I have seen youngsters in Guatemala that their parents leave them at the door, they leave and they turn around too. We will never be green if we are not planted in the house of God.

Those are the branches of the olive tree and that is the fruit. And if you notice, the branches of the olive tree are thin, they are greenish gray, they are thin, they are long. But they spread out greatly and the olive tree is planted in the house of God but its branches are spread out.

My sister, you and I have to be planted in the house of God, but with the branches outstretched. Where are its branches spreading? Because the first part is to be planted in the house of God, the second is to spread the branches out. If you want to be a green olive tree, a fruitful olive tree, which is what the word of God commands us, it says that Joseph was a fruitful branch and Joseph means prosperity, it means abundance, it means love and if we want to be fruitful branches we have to be extended out. To whom are we reaching out?

There is so much, so much to reach out to so that we can be fruitful. The olive tree produces olives. We all know them. And when this is processed, an oil is extracted. And for so many things that oil is useful. If each one of us used the oil, we would not end up here. If I am fruitful like the olive tree, I am being useful in a lot of things.

It's just that the Lord only told me... We can be useful in so many things. I can be useful from taking care of a child, from getting him out of here so that he doesn't make noise to so many other things. To be fruitful like the olive tree, to be planted in the house of God with the branches outstretched.

But for the dew to fall there are conditions. For the dew of God to fall we have already seen everything that the dew of God does. For the dew of God to fall, we first need to desire it. We need to ask for it. In the examples we looked at, you saw that the dew was required. But the dew, apart from the fact that we ask for it, that we want it, God will send it when we need it. He sent the manna along with the dew when the people needed it. And he sent it in the amount he needed it, at lunchtime and the exact amount. But we want [inaudible]

God is going to send the dew in the quantity that we need. But there is one condition and that is that the dew does not fall where there are lawsuits. The dew does not fall where there are divisions. The dew does not fall where there is strife. The dew does not fall where there is gossip. The dew does not fall where we are not persevering in the ways of God. dew falls where there is peace. The dew falls where there is unity. The dew falls where there is love. The dew falls where it will be well received. The dew falls where it is expected.

I want to quote a Scripture if I can find it, and if not I'm just going to read it to you, it says that:

"... how good it is for brothers to live together in harmony because there God sends blessing and eternal life and it is like the dew that falls from Hermon..."

It is where there is unity, where there is love, where you are loving one another, that the dew of God is going to fall. Do you want the dew of God to fall on your church? Well, you know the conditions. Do you want it to fall into your family? You already know the conditions. This is how the dew of God will fall.

The word says that Elijah when he was in front of a cave because God tells him to get out of there, and he stands in front of Jehovah, Jehovah was not in the thunder, he was not in the earthquake, he was not in the air, he was not in the fire, where was it? I was in a peaceful heaven. The dew comes when we are at peace before God waiting for his revelation, waiting for his refreshing, waiting for his mighty love, waiting for his power over us, waiting for his provision.

It does not come agitated, it does not come running, it does not come folding its fingers, it does not come the provision of God. No. there does not come the dew. The dew comes when we expect it and when the dew comes because we are expecting it, you and I are going to be quickened, you and I are going to be families quickened, and you and I are going to be churches quickened by the dew of God.

Close your eyes and we are going to minister this morning what God has spoken to us. Father, we thank you this morning because you have spoken to us. Most of the women who are here need your dew. We need that dew that refreshes our lives, we need that dew that represents your powerful love.

I know that there are women here who this morning need the dew of God to refresh them. The dew of God with his powerful love, to you woman, says the Lord, who have been in that drought, in that drought of love because the people close to you have not surrounded you to give you what you need, that you have been begging a hug and a word that fills you with love, to you woman, I tell you that I brought you this morning because I want the fresh dew of my love to come over you today and flood you. Receive the fresh dew of God's love, receive the dew of God's love that floods you because I am the one who fills you, says the Lord, I am the one who extends my arms and I love you and I give you that love that you have needed since the belly, because I am the dew that you need.

Have you had pain for that person who has left? What have you felt, that you have been left with a part of you empty, what that person took in your life, was part of you and part of your love, but today I tell you that today I come and I fill that void because today the dew that refreshes with my powerful love comes on you. Receive, receive the mighty love of God. Receive the dew of God refreshing your soul.

Receive that dew from God that refreshes your soul today because today I take away your sadness, I take away your sadness today. I put my love, I give you today my dew, says the Lord, my dew that refreshes. Receive my powerful love because in my powerful love come the strength you need to move on.

Have you been tired, dejected? But today I give you the strength. Receive the dew of God that refreshes. May the drops of God's dew permeate your soul today, refreshing it, giving you the strength you need, giving you the vigor you need, giving you the love you need to keep going. Receive today the dew of God that today I deposit on you and on your life, on your heart, on your soul. Receives. Receive, receive the dew of God.

Receive, receive, receive, receive, receive the dew of God refreshing your soul. Receive it, receive it, receive the dew of God. Receive the dew of God you need because I am your everything, says the Lord. I am your everything. I am the one who accompanies you, says the Lord. I, I, I, I, says the Lord, to you I am like the dew that refreshes your dry and thirsty soul.

Receive the dew of God. Receive the dew of God. Receive, receive, receive the dew of God that refreshes you, that refreshes each one of the parts of your soul. Receive the dew of God because the love for you, says the Lord, is such a great love that I have, it is a love that substitutes for father and substitutes for mother because I am your God and because you are not alone, because you are not alone, because I am with you.

I am the one who accompanies you every day and accompanies you at night. I am the one who whispers in your ear the words of love that you need. Incline your ear to me to receive that whisper of love from my words that I have for you.

Oh receive the dew of God that refreshes your soul. Oh get that dew from God. Receive the dew of God. Receive, receive the dew of God. Receive the dew of God.

Oh, beloved Father, today we receive that dew that reveals, have a communion with God and ask him what God has to reveal to you from within. Maybe you have cobwebs inside that have to be healed. Start asking God that today the cobwebs inside you will be healed. Receive the dew of God that refreshes, receive it on your life in the name of Jesus. Receive it on your soul.

Let God reveal the cobwebs of the occult to you. Perhaps he has things kept and things hidden, thoughts, intentions, motives that today have to be placed before God, that today have to be placed before God so that they may be revealed to you.

Give him everything hidden that may be in your life. Thoughts, intentions, desires that even you do not know, so that the web of the occult does not continue. Ask God to break the web of the hidden that may be in your life. Don't just say, I don't have anything hidden. Let God reveal it to you. Let the dew of God flood your heart, your soul, your spirit today.

Let the dew of God reveal to you how your heart is. Oh, receive the dew of God that quickens you. Let the dew of God reveal how your emotions are. Ask God to break any web of emotions that have formed in your life today. Break that emotional web in your life, that you don't understand, but that you know is hurting you. Let the dew of God break that web.

Ask God to reveal to you how your joy is for the word of God, how your joy is for the things of God, how your joy is for what God does in the lives of other people, because when God breaks that web he is breaking cobwebs of selfishness so that we can love others.

Receive the dew of God on your life. Receive it to be healed of everything you need. Oh, the dew of God, the dew of God.

Let the dew of God today break the web of your imagination. Perhaps it is an area of your life that you had not paid attention to and you do not know where it can lead you. Let God enter the web of your imagination today. Break all those images that have arisen in your life that are not of God, images of anything.

You know that sometimes images of God's service can take the place of God. Let the dew of God cleanse you today. Receive the dew of God. Receive, receive the dew of God.

Let the dew of God take away everything that does not beautify you, let God take away everything that does not beautify you like the lily. You know what does not beautify it. I know what does not beautify me. Let God take everything that doesn't beautify you this morning.

Oh, dew of God, the dew of God on your life. The dew of God. You know that we all have areas that do not beautify us and if you want the multiplication in your house, the multiplication of the growth of the lily, the multiplication of the beauty and the perfume of the lily, start asking God and giving him everything that he has taken from you. perfume. Ask God to reveal to you if you truly have the aroma of Christ, if when you enter a house you really carry the aroma of Christ, and if not, ask Him to remove everything that makes it not carry the aroma of Christ. Christ.

Father, many of us have dysfunctional relational patterns. Close your eyes and let God reveal to you if you are walking in dysfunctional patterns in your home, patterns that you are used to. You tell me, I tell you, you answer me, I answer you, if you want to break those dysfunctional patterns, ask God that you can start growing upwards like the lily, with that growth that you see, to help you break those responses that you have been handling, that action that you have been handling that is rather a reaction. Those impulses of your words, those stimuli that you launch so that the other is hooked and responds, in the mighty name of Jesus, all the stimulus that we launch with our mouths, with our gestures so that the other is hooked and we enter into a relationship dysfunctional that we are used to, today it is broken, broken, broken, broken, broken, broken in the name of Jesus, broken, broken, broken, broken in the mighty name of Jesus. Broken, broken, broken, broken, broken, broken, in the name of Jesus. Broken, broken in the name of Jesus. Broken. Let the spirit of God break you. Let the spirit of God break you. Let the spirit of God break you that you begin to have different responses, different stimuli in Jesus name.

Broken, broken, broken, broken, so that there is growth that can be seen. So that the change in you reproduces the change in the family, so that you can be a bouquet of lilies that beautify any place, so that you can be a bouquet of lilies that perfume any place.

Close your eyes, my beloved, close your eyes so that you have a communion with God. As a family, you know what makes it so that the perfume of Christ is not present in your family. You know perfectly well what happens when your family cannot be that family that carries the scent of Christ wherever it goes.

Lay that at the feet of Christ today. Whatever the reason, don't censor it anymore, don't criticize it anymore, today put it at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ and let the dew of God come and heal it. Refresh family relationships. Let the dew of God come today to refresh your family relationships.

It costs, of course it costs. They are difficult. Of course they are, but when we let the dew of God begin to refresh us, there will be growth. Growth brings reproduction of those who are close. Pray to God for the dew in your family, for the dew that beautifies and makes us have the scent of lilies.

Beloved Father, we come before you, only you know how our roots are, only you, Father, we cannot deceive you, only you know where the roots of our affections are, but today we come before you asking if any affection is has gotten into some root and that's why the tree is drying up, you break that affection today. If you have affections that are drying up the roots of your tree, which must have all your affections placed on Christ, give them to God, give those affections that are drying up your whole tree, place them at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ and ask him to break them so that all your affections are in it, because you want all the roots in it, you want a tree with a strong trunk, with a firm trunk.

What is taking away your firmness in God? Are you seeing things you don't like? Give them to the Lord. It is not in man that we have to see to have firm roots, it is in the Lord Jesus Christ. If it is the attitudes of man that are drying up your roots, because perhaps you have been disillusioned and disappointed, give it to God so that you can only see him, that your roots are affirmed in him, and in nothing, in nothing, in nothing, nothing, nothing but him.

If you want to be like the olive tree, planted in the house of God, it is hard for you to be planted in the house of God, there are many distractions, but you want to be like the olive tree, planted in the house of God. You want to be like the olive tree, don't get distracted, they are already attending there.

If you want to be like the olive tree planted in the house of God but with its branches extended in the mighty name of Jesus, everything, everything, everything that is preventing you from being planted in the house of God is broken, broken in the name of Jesus. Broken everything that is preventing you from being planted in the house of God, broken in the name of Jesus.

Oh, everything that prevents you from being tied to Christ, everything that has caused the ropes, the bonds of love of Christ to loosen in your life, today they are broken in the name of Jesus, today they are broken because with ropes of love has brought her to him, with ropes of love he holds her fast.

Tie yourself to Christ this morning. Tie yourself to Christ this morning. Tie yourself to Christ. Tie yourself to Christ. Ask him to take away everything that loosens you, everything that has loosened the strings, tell him to take it away and that you be tied to him like never before. Tie yourself to Christ. Tie yourself to Christ.

Beloved Father, we want your dew to descend all the time in our lives. And for that we must cry out for that dew, tell you that we need that dew, stop all contention, stop all division, stop all relationship separation. Start putting before God everything that can prevent God's dew from spilling on your life.

Remember that the dew of God comes where there is peace, where there is unity, where there is harmony, where there is understanding, where it is waited in peace, where it is confidently expected that God will shed the dew. What takes away your peace? What dissension does he have that causes the dew not to fall? What is the lack of unity that does not let the dew fall?

Remember that the dew is provision. The dew is manna. The dew is God's revelation. How long has it been since you had the revelation of God with the dew of God? dew is God's power, it is God's blessing, it is God's abundance.

Oh, leave all contention, all division, forgive whom you have to forgive, get right with God but do not let any dissension, thoughts you have about something or someone, wounds you have, leave them today at the feet of the Lord for that the dew of God can descend so that you can in peace cry out to God so that the dew descends on your life. Dew that refreshes, dew that reveals, dew that blesses, dew that provides, dew that gives abundance, dew that empowers.

Stand up. Father, we thank you this morning. I ask you to continue what you started this morning because we are in need of your daily dew, we are in need of your daily dew, we ask you, Father, that the life-giving dew of your powerful love come into our lives every day.

Close your eyes. Father, this morning we ask you for a large portion of your dew, that just as you filled that place with fish, but you also filled it with your dew, we ask you to come and fill this place with your refreshing dew.

Oh, God covers our lives with your dew, with that dew that refreshes. Receive the freshness of God, the dew of God. Extend your hands and symbolically receive the abundance of God with the dew, receive the abundance of God with the dew, receive the blessing of God with the dew because God tells you that he is going to bless your entrance, your exit, he is going to bless your kneading trough, it will bless your family, start crying out that the dew of God comes on your family to have a blessed family. Receive the dew of God for your family. Receive it in the name of Jesus. Receive the dew of God for your family. Receive the dew of God for your family.

Receives. Receive the dew of God for your family. Receive it, receive it, receive it. Receive the dew of God for your family. Receive the dew of God. Receive it, receive it, receive it, receive the dew of God. Receive the dew of God for your family. Receive it in the name of Jesus. Receive the dew of God.

Receive, receive, receive the dew of God. Receive the dew of God. Receive the dew of God. Receive it. Receive the dew of God. Receive the dew of God. Receive the dew of God for your family. Receive it in the name of Jesus. Receive the dew of God for your family. Receive it for you have waited long for it, says the Lord, you have waited for it for years, but that dew is coming, says the Lord.

Oh, receive the dew of God for your family. Receive, receive, receive, receive the dew of God. Receive it. Receive it, receive it. Oh, receive the dew of God in abundance. Receive it, receive it. Receive the dew of God. Receive it. Receive it, receive it. Receive, receive the dew of God for your family. Thanks God.

Thanks God. Thanks God. Thanks God. Father, this morning we cry out, we wait and we receive the dew of God for each one of those women. We cry out, we wait and we receive the dew of God on our lives. God's dew on our families, God's dew on everything we touch. God's dew on our lives, God's dew on our families, Father.

I declare, God, that the dew of God will come upon this church bringing blessing, bringing abundance, and bringing revelation, revelation from you, Father, the revelation of God's dew for your life. We declare, Father, that the dew of God that gives life, that makes us grow like wheat, that when it dies gives a seed, and this reproduces, will be the reproduction that you will give us for this church and for our descendants.

I declare that the dew of God covers you and your family in the mighty name of Jesus. Thank you, Father, thank you, Son and thank you.