Will I be able? Will I be able to do this?

I ask you a question, my brothers, I don't know if at some point you have asked yourself, can I do this? I don't know if you have found yourself in a situation in your life where at some point you have said to yourself, can I do this? Will I be able to carry this out? Maybe at work or suddenly, you are faced with a new project and they are putting that project in your hands, and suddenly you say to the boss or your boss, yes, no problem, but inside you are like wow, and am I going to be able to do this?

Or maybe you are a student at a university or college, or however you want to say it, and suddenly, you come across a subject that you are totally blocked, blocked, with that subject, and day after day you arrive at the classroom class and you're wondering, wow, can I do this?

Maybe you're a parent, and either your kids are kids or you already have teens and who knows if your kids have hatched and are married and having kids of their own now, and you're wondering, wow, can i do this? Can I be the kind of father, the kind of mother that these children need? Or with your husband, with your wife, have you ever wondered? The different conflicts that may arise in a marriage relationship, at some point you find yourself alone, alone, in a corner of the house, in the living room, or in the dining room or in the basement and you sit and wonder, wow , can I be the kind of husband, wife that my spouse needs?

Or if you are single, single, not to leave you out as well, and you are there in your struggle of daily living and your hormones go up and down and you are trying to live in the light of the word, and you want to be faithful to what God demands of you at this time in your life, and there are times when things get so, so strong that you say to yourself, wow, can I do this?

Will I be able to carry out this life? Or when will my time come where this life of mine will change? Will I be able to do this? The point is that at different times, at different stages, wherever we are, you and I, we know that we have asked ourselves, can I do this? Will I be able to do it?

It occurs to me to say, there are times when we are tempted to do evil and even that question, in that context, arises in our heads. Wow, can I do this? You pass by the land liquor on the corner and something in your body asks for it, and you are saying to yourself, wow, will I be able to go back there again? Yes, in many ways, we always ask ourselves, will I be able to? Will I be able to do this?

And I tell you something, my brothers, we are not alone in this feeling. Different people in different places around the world at this very moment are wrestling with that very question. At this very moment that you and I are sharing this word, is there someone who is asking themselves, can I do this? Will I be able to carry this out? Will I be able to respond to this challenge that is being presented to me?

Even in the Bible there are countless cases of people and even entire nations that at some point wondered, can I live in light of this standard? Will I be able to face that other nation? And those nations tended to look at themselves with eyes that they couldn't. And I understand, my brothers, that it is all a matter of perspective. The important thing is how in our mind and in our emotions we see the situation.

If we see those challenges with our own human eyes, our ability to believe that we can do something will be less. Because in some way or another in our human nature we always tend to look at ourselves as if we are little. But when we look at those situations and face them in the eye, through God's eyes, from God's perspective, one's capacity rises, it is like an upgrade to another level.

And I understand, my brothers, that God longs and wants us to see ourselves through his eyes. You know, God is a God of peace. Why do I say this? Because when we face those challenges, we often get anxious. Anxiety tries to dominate us and neutralize us completely. And when I say that God is a God of peace, it is because God wants you to be at peace.

The text Hebrews, chapter 13, go with me, verse 20, says:

“…And the God of peace who raised from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, make you fit in every good work to do his will, doing in you what he it is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ to whom we give all the glory for ever and ever. Amen…"

Look at these words: the God of peace. As that text begins, the God of peace. Why this as I told you? If one lets oneself be carried away by those challenges that life brings, those challenges of the unknown, those challenges that make one wonder, can I do it or can I not do it? Our human tendency is to respond eagerly.

If you are one of those people who can stay cool when faced with any challenge, don't worry, this is bread with butter. I want to sit at your feet and learn a little from you.

But if you are sometimes like me, when I face a challenge maybe my face is calm, but inside I am in a boat in a storm. Lord, get up, I'm sinking. That is where I see this idea that God is a God of peace, he is a God of shalom, that even despite the circumstances he wants us to be able to be confident, calm in him, hoping in him, hoping in his promises.

Just as he is the only one who can bring peace to every corner of the world, he can also bring peace to every corner of your mind and heart. Every corner of your mind and your heart, in the most remote places that perhaps you don't even remember that you have that space in your being, even there God can bring peace.

Not only that, to him who rose from the dead, to our Lord and great shepherd Jesus Christ. I tell you this, my brothers, if in the most overwhelming moment of his life God had the power to resurrect his Son, how much more will he not be able to have the power to respond to the situation in which we may find ourselves.

Imagine for a minute what God suffered when he was watching his Son being tortured on the cross. Every punch, every slap she gave him, he felt it too, suffered it. Although he knew that it was a purpose, a design that had already been drawn up, but he suffered it and felt it, that pain of seeing his Son dying on the cross. Did God feel anxious? Did God feel desperate?

In some way or another he must have been hurt by that situation, but he executed a power that went beyond the power of death to raise his Son and to put him, sit next to him once more, sitting on glory, make him sit, reign forever by his side, giving him a name that is above all names.

If God could do that with his Son, how much more can he not do with us. Oh, the callus on my foot hurts... God can heal a callus and lower it to a level as simple as that, but it's not that I'm degrading God's capacity. No, God is capable of doing much more. God is capable of comforting a man or a woman who has lost their child and turning them into instruments of strength for others. That is something only God can do.

God can use a person who has been told, you have 6 months left to live because of the disease you have, and God can use that person to become an instrument of healing for others. That is something that only God can do. God can take a depressed person, sunk in his own circumstances and can turn him into an instrument of strength, support and encouragement to others, healing and restoring that person completely. God can do it.

God has the ability to do it. He is our good shepherd. A statement from Psalm 23, as Jehovah says, he is my shepherd and I will lack nothing, I will lack nothing. We are not just talking about things in the fridge, or things in the cupboard, we are talking about you and your life personally, in the most intimate, of all those things that you may need in your life, wisdom to make a decision Concerning your business, your marriage, your relationship with your children, or even your connection here in the church, how to serve. God can speak to you at those levels.

God can supply those needs in your life, in your heart. God can do it. Because he is your shepherd and he makes sure that you lack nothing. Why this, my brothers? Because there is a pact and we know very well that God does not break his pacts, God fulfills them. There is a blood pact.

Do you remember that message from Sunday? That pact that is made with blood is an incorruptible pact, it cannot be broken, it is an eternal pact. And that is the pact that he has made with you and that he has made with me. We can try to break and violate that pact or annul that pact, forget about that pact and live our lives as we want. But you know what? Even if we do that, the Lord will keep his side of the pact and will be there looking out for you, looking for you, helping you. He always meets his side. He knows that there is a pact that is binding him to your life and that binds you to him too.

Therefore, my brothers, God is the one who enables us. May that same God empower us with all those good things to be able to do his will. If I were to ask how many today feel capable. Don't raise your hand. If I were to ask you so that you reflect in your mind and in your heart, do you feel capable? Do you feel capable of doing the will of God in the way that it can be manifested in your life? If there is any drop of doubt in your mind or in your heart, as the book of James says, if some of you lack wisdom, ask God who gives to all abundantly and without reproach and it will be given to you.

God of the abundance of his riches in glory, he is willing to give you those things that you need. He is the one who gives his gifts so that his body, his church, can grow according to First Corinthians, chapter 12, which says it very well there, God is the one who gives gifts through his spirit, he equips some in one way, it equips others in another, so that the body can grow in a very complex way, but at the same time complete.

If you need your life to bear good fruit, God of his spirit, he is the one who allows those fruits to grow in you. According to Galatians chapter 5, verse 22, what is the fruit of the spirit? Love, peace, patience, joy, kindness, meekness, temperance, faith. Before all these things there is no law, there is no law that can be stopped against it.

If you do not feel capable in your character as a person of being able to carry out a healthy relationship with another person, look, ask God that the fruit of his spirit be manifested in you, that he train you with the fruit of his spirit, with that sense of love, of patience, of kindness towards others around you. It is more with yourself so that you can live in harmony with others around you. He makes you capable.

Never say, no, my relationship no longer has results, this is over. Do not bury yourself seven feet underground too quickly, ask God, God enable me to be able to live in the light of that fruit of your spirit, of the gifts of your spirit. Help me to be able to live, my God, as you ask and command of me.

Yes, but Pastor Omar, it's not easy, people continue with their tricks. Lord, even though people continue with their tricks, help me to live in the light of your word, Lord. You are the one who enables me so that I can live in light of this. You are the one who enables me not to break the other person's head, but to be able to heal their wounds. You are the one who helps me, the one who enables me to be able to do that.

He makes us competent, my brothers. Have no doubts about this. Why do I say this? He is the one who is operating in you, I love this part of the verse when it says, he doing this in us, what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ. You've heard that phrase right? which says, God working in us and through us. That is what this text is getting at.

When he enables you, he is working in you, it is how he gets inside you, through his spirit, he enters deep into your heart and begins to move you, begins to worry you, begins to show things there within those corners hidden areas that we were talking about, he starts showing those areas and starts directing you to deal with you.

The word says it, God whom he loves, he disciplines. And that discipline does not mean that he is going to be giving him a leather strap, that discipline means that he is going to show him the path that he wants that person to follow. It is a correction, it is a teaching that you are giving, that you are offering to that person. Because he wants his sons and daughters to live in the light of his principles, in the light of his mandates, in the light of statutes. That is what God longs for and desires from us.

And so that we can live in light of that, he is willing to come in, to get in and work with you, take a scalpel, open those most delicate places in your life, but treat them with the hand of the best surgeon and do those operations in you. Because by doing that in you, he knows that he will be able to reach others.

God in you and through you. God trains you and through you manages to achieve blessing for other people. My brothers, I close my thought like this, all of us in different ways have our challenges in life. Just today, before starting the service, I faced a challenge. And thank God that he puts other parts of the body to help when one is perhaps not fully prepared, equipped to deal with that situation. That is God sending his angels, God putting people around, and I thank God for that, because in that way I see how the body of Christ intervenes, one part helping the other, one part moving with the other. , and it does not mean that one part is wrong and the other is right. No, it is that the body in its functions is working with each other, and God through his spirit is looking for how to connect all those parts, one with the other, and work with each other to heal us, to restore us, so that we can all be part of a very strong body, well strengthened.

This situation that I experienced today teaches me to love people even more and not to react humanely, but to love people even more. Because that is what God commands, what God asks of us. Each one of us, in whatever way, whatever the situation, God is there willing to work, to transform our lives and become the type of man and woman that he wants us to be.

Certainly, my brothers, I am not wanting to single out anyone here, but I am sure that all of us identify ourselves in light of this word. God is the one who is there to train us, to teach us how to live, and not react according to the patterns of this world, but that we can react to the patterns, the standard of his word, this is how he longs and wants us to let's live.

My prayer and my wish is, my brothers, that moment by moment, minute by minute, because this is something that happens every second of life, we are dealing with each of these situations, when one least expects it, a situation arises that puts these principles to the test, puts them into question, puts them in doubt. When you least expect it, something happens that's like, wow, and where did this come from? I wasn't ready, I wasn't ready for this, can I do this? Look, in the name of Jesus you can.

Jesus is in you. He is working in you and if a challenge comes, if a new circumstance comes, he is there to equip you, to prepare you, to teach you the path to follow. Don't make the situation your enemy, but allow the situation to become your learning laboratory, so that you can see the hand of God at work in you and at work in others around you.

If we can say amen to this word, I invite you to stand up and let's pray. Dear God, we are before your presence, Lord, having received this word, Lord, such a profound word but we know, Lord, that it can reach our lives, our hearts, so is your word, Lord, that reaches the depths of our being, discerning the intentions of our hearts and revealing to us how we are, Lord, to align ourselves more and more with the desires of your heart and not ours, Lord.

Father, I beg you that in your sovereignty these words that have been shared, Lord, may reach each one of the hearts of my brothers and sisters, and that it be you, Lord, operating, continue this task, this work, Lord, in the midst of our lives, to teach us how to see our life through your eyes and not through ours, Jesus, to see ourselves as your sons and daughters, Lord, and to be able to receive from you, Lord, that training that only You give, what you can give to carry out life, Lord, in the different facets, in the different contexts, in which we can move, as men, women, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, fathers or mothers , employees or employers, be that as it may, Lord, that we can see ourselves through your eyes and let this word run and of life, Lord, in our midst.

Teach us to live, Lord. Teach us to live in the light of your word. And I beg you, Father, that this word bears its fruits, Lord, that this word does not return empty, but that it fulfills the purpose that has been sent today. I ask for your blessing on each one of my brothers and sisters, Lord, tonight, I ask for your coverage on each one of them, Lord, that when we leave here and go to our homes, Lord, that you take us with peace, we get along well, that you grant us a restful sleep, Jesus, and that if you allow it so tomorrow when we wake up we can get up with new strength and energy to face any challenge that tomorrow may bring, and that when we face them, Lord, we can say to ourselves, I can do it because the Lord is at work in me. The Lord is the one who enables me, the God of peace who raised the Lord from the dead can lift me from this situation and take me to the place he wants us to be.

We thank you, Jesus, and to you we give all the glory, all the honor and all the honor. Amen. Amen. Thank you Jesus. Thanks God. Brothers and sisters, may the Lord bless you, may the Lord keep you, may the Lord make his face shine upon you and grant you his peace. Greet each other, have a good night, my brothers, blessings.