The ability to perceive and even communicate with the invisible realm

Luke, chapter 2, beginning with verse 8: “….There were shepherds in the same country who kept watch and kept watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you tidings of great joy that will be for all the people, for today in the city of David a savior has been born for you, who is Christ the Lord. This will serve to teach you, you will find the child wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger.” And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” It happened that when the angels went from them to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, "Let us go to Bethlehem and see what has happened and what the Lord has revealed to us." So they came in haste and found Mary and Joseph and the babe lying in the manger..."

My brothers, an angel, what does the word declare? An angel appeared before them, a multitude of the heavenly host suddenly appeared. In other words, it was not that they descended from heaven, here the word that uses the word is as if it were a protagonist of a drama, who comes out from behind a curtain and appears on the scene.

These angels manifested. These angels became visible. They were always there, but not visible to our earthly eyes. And that's what I want us to focus on tonight.

My brothers, this is like so many details, still in the earthly world, hidden from our earthly eyes that only capture visible light. How many know this about human biology? Even a perfect eye is less efficient than the eye that many creatures still have, many animals, which manage to capture, see light in the ultraviolet band or the infrared band and can see much better and much more than us, more than visible light. what we can see.

If so, how much more the spiritual world? Just like our earthly eye does not capture most of what happens around us in the spiritual world. The word over and over again reminds us that we are surrounded by a heavenly company. We are surrounded by a population of heaven. Also, my brothers, not far from them are representatives of the world of hell, invisible to us but real and present. This is a biblical reality, this is spread throughout the word.

Jacob sees a ladder loaded with a constant traffic of angels, descending and ascending, unloading the business of heaven on earth, he ascends in a dream. He wakes up, says the word that he trembled with fear at dawn the idea that he certainly declared, Jehovah was certainly here and I did not know it.

My brothers, I would say what a truest, most universal and saddest phrase. This is how many of us live, that is why our year 2013 the pastor has declared it an evangelistic year, to bring revelation and the manifestation of the presence of the Lord to a world that sprinkles with the presence of the Lord day after day and does not know it . The Lord so close, at hand, and we didn't realize it.

Elisha's servant was about to faint with fear until Elisha prayed that the Lord would open his spiritual eyes. And at that moment he could see on the hills a previously invisible, but innumerable army of angels riding on fiery chariots at his command.

My brothers, no one comes to an ordinary service. There is a text in Hebrews, chapter 12, that I love. I have read it many times when opening the service, when the Lord gives me that privilege and it is not merely poetry, know that, when we are reading this verse, it is not mere poetry, in this church it is a statement of reality. We believe this is happening itself, invisible but real, declares Hebrews, chapter 12, beginning with verse 18 and I'll jump around a bit, but it says:

“…Because you have not approached the mountain that could be felt like Moses, the people of Israel who approached Sinai and upon approaching Sinai could palpably see the shakina glory of the Lord swallowing this mountain, setting it on fire, causing great terror… ”

We have approached a palpable Mount Sinai, that is, one that we can see and feel, but the same, says the word, “otherwise you have approached Mount Zion, − even more terrible – to the city of the living God, Jerusalem, the heavenly one, to the company of many thousands of angels that on that night in the fields around Bethlehem manifested themselves to these shepherds. Those angels described in the book of Hebrews, to the congregation of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God, the judge of all, to the spirits of the just made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better that speaks better than Abel's.”

If someone turned on the spiritual light like in one of those rides that you visit Disney many times and they stamp you, and they turn off the light but turn on an ultraviolet light and you see things that you didn't see before. If someone turned on a spiritual light, what would we see right now here? Angels that are not limited by walls or seats, walls, that go through this place. The glory of the Lord, an ordinary cult, that's very nice, pastor, but what do we get out of this?

So what? What does this matter? First of all, my brothers, you are never, but never alone, you are never, but never, never, my brother, you are alone. This is a very strange time, I love Christmas, but it is also a time when loneliness visits us many times and visits many of our homes in a fierce way. It is when loneliness often creates an echo in our feelings, whether we have people around us or not. because loneliness does not need, you can be at a party surrounded by people and be the loneliest person in the world at that moment.

Know that the Lord understands that. And I recommend you, my brothers, penetrate this veil, be aware of this. Marina, one of my wife's favorite stories about her mother, Toñita, and it's not a story, it's true, I heard her, many times they called Toñita and asked her, “Toñita, are you alone?” and she said, "No, I'm with the Lord."

My brother, you my sister, this is the scene around you. See it or not. why do we care If you are afraid of what the word promises, the angel of Jehovah encamps around those who fear him and defends them. In those moments of loneliness, know, the Lord has sent his angel.

Brothers, and if you have a challenge ahead of you, if you have a decision to make this year, that the Holy Spirit has called you to do and that is the decisive year to get out of that harmful relationship or stop that addiction once and for all. , perhaps, take the courage to connect with a program or to appear before the court and clear that record at once, fearful things or any situation in which you feel helpless, limited, alone, my brothers, if I told you the times in the week that I have felt like this. That is part of my job and that is part of everyone.

When the Lord is spreading your tent, you get used to feeling that way. Do you want to grow in the Lord? Do you want to explore new territories in the Lord? Do you want to conquer something new in 2013? Prepare to put your faith into action, and that means prepare for a moment or another when sooner or later you are going to feel totally inadequate, no matter how well you prepare.

You are going to feel, what is Carlos's son doing? Just imagine [inaudible] being alone. Samuel, the hand of mighty God is upon you my sister, the angels of the Lord are all around you. There is a whole heavenly congregation that says, "Amen, go, we are with you." There is a squad of angels stopping any demon that wants to bump into you. Who told you that you were alone?

God is with you. Sepal. And if so, my brothers, the other thing that I want you to register in your hearts is – and that is so beautifully represented in this story, is that God does not make exceptions for people. These sheep shepherds were not priests, they were not teachers of the word, they were not cultured people, I doubt that they still had the ability to read and write. That is why they were shepherds of sheep. And to these simple people, the Lord manifests himself to simple people, the Lord knows who he is going to manifest himself to.

Here is this little flock eating cold, but watching, watching, and at that moment that night is illuminated with the glory of the Lord. And what at one time was invisible became palpable, became manifest, appeared before them.

Well, my brothers, I leave you with this advice, do everything possible to develop your ability to perceive and even communicate with the invisible realm. You do have that ability. Do your best to be able to perceive and interact with this invisible world. Do everything, Pastor, as much as possible, so does that mean calling Walter Mercado to have your palm read, someone to smoke a cigarette for you and your great-grandmother to show up? Sir, rebuke. There is only one mediator, you hear? There is only one mediator between God and men. Before we went in there, my brother, the Lord provided us with a guide for this spiritual safari, which you don't want to go there without a good guide. You do not want to enter that spiritual jungle, and you are, by the way, my brothers, are there reasons why the Lord does not allow us to see that world? If it were so, I don't know who would go to church. They would be scared. That world is a jungle. And it is best to first develop this capacity through the Holy Spirit who dwells within you. In other words, even more than angels, even more than a host of celestial beings, you have access to the mere spirit of God, and that's enough.

The spirit of God that penetrates skin and bones and conscience and makes room within us making our lives his temple. Brethren, cultivate a relationship with the Holy Spirit of God. Seek the Holy Spirit of God. Seek the baptism of God's spirit. If you don't understand that, let's talk a little more about that. Make it your target in the year 2013, make it your target tonight.

Spirit of God fill me but from head to toe, from sod to sod, fill my cup, Spirit of God. And that leads us… he is going to answer you, also through a life of prayer. The word declares that our invisible Father awaits us in our room. He who honors in secret, says the Lord, he will honor in public.

If you don't believe in God, sitting down at dawn and having a conversation at a table would seem like the dumbest thing you can do. But if you imagine that at that moment you are appearing before the throne of God, that your heavenly Father is present, that the angels of the Lord are around you, that the blood of Christ covers you, that moment of prayer is sublime. And by the time you discover that this has less to do with your words and more to do with the language.

The word of the Lord says that the spirit of God intercedes with our spirit with unspeakable groans, from heart to heart. Do you know what it's like to start the day tuning our hearts with God's heartbeat? See that as the sentence. A moment to tune in, be that as it may, Lord, I want to tune in my mind, my attitudes, my goals, my perception of you, my perception of me, tune in well, Master, before my first conversation or my first decision.

And through adoration and praise, it is a mystery, that I would like to see. How invisible and how glorious a moment of prayer and adoration and praise is, and how the heavenly choir impacts around us, what the word tells me, this is incredible, that they sing with us, they the same... that Somehow, his praise empowers the army of God. Praise and worship advance kingdom interests. That did come to me... when you praise the Lord of your heart, when you go beyond mere words and you say, No, I am not merely singing to the air, around me is heaven alive, the Lord is sitting on his throne here reigning”, and with each praise that I raise to him, more exaltation… if it were possible, more exalted is Jesus, the thinner Satan's resistance becomes and the closer I feel him.

Above all, my brothers, through a life of dedication and holiness. And I add, even though no one sees you, and I add even though no one applauds you. This same chapter of Hebrews that tells us that no one comes to any cult, that there is an invisible mountain that could not even be compared to Mount Zion, that chapter opens by telling us that we are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses. And, my brothers, it is your daily prayer… and what would I call your daily prayer? The spiritual energy that you emit by a decision that you make invisibly... because you are a spiritual being. The most powerful areas of you are not visible. His decision to please God hidden in his heart and mind, which no one sees, emits a powerful spiritual energy that is translated into the spiritual world.

It's the best I can explain it to you. That decision... it must be said that no one sees, no one will understand, perhaps until eternity, why you decided what you decided, in the secrets of your heart to honor God. They wouldn't even understand, why bother explaining to them? But you know what? There is a choir of angels saying, "Goal, tremendous goal, he got his brothers in, glory to God." Applauding an invisible Father smiling at you the favor of God extending to you and the glory of the Lord making itself manifest to you.

Let's stand up, my brothers. You know, Pastor Omar led us at one point, he called us to a moment of prayer in chains and a sister recently, in that chain, began to intercede for me but I want you to hear this. She said something that many times we don't even realize the way we bless people, in her prayer directed by the spirit of God she said this, Lord, surround him with your angels, not knowing what he was going to preach today .

You know, my brothers, in the presence of the Lord I still ask each one of you that the Lord surround you with his angels, that the Lord minister to you and that heaven this Christmas becomes closer to you than ever. Father, let it be so, thank you because we are never alone and because you are faithful to your promise to never abandon us, even until the end of the world. Stay with us and tuck us in with your warmth. We make our hearts your throne in Jesus name.

Thank you Lord for these words.