Give up self-deception and walk in the process that leads to blessing

We must put hands and feet to the changes that we want to see in our lives with the anointing and power that we have received through that encounter with the Lord. So we have to put that gasoline, put it in our tank and transform it into concrete actions that lead us to those actions and those concrete transformations that we are believing that God is going to give us because God works through His Word in us and with us to take us to the goal, right?

God wants to break your ties, God wants to free you from the things that are tying you in your life: mental and emotional ties, wounds from the past, deformations of your character, but brother, you cannot just pray and fast and all that. No, at some point God tells you: you know what? Take concrete actions. You have to make specific efforts and then you have to submit to healthy and holy conversations, find someone who will talk to you about how to get there and then start one action at a time, small actions sometimes so that then it becomes a reality. in your life.

Prayer only gets you so far, prophetic utterances only so far. From then on you have to start at other levels. And then I said, you will remember that I said that in the Pentecostal world and in all Christian spheres there are some great declarations but the reality that we inhabit is very different because the mechanism that makes these transformations and these actions possible is lacking. And the purpose of these sermons is to alert us to what are some of these components of that success and that growth that we need, right? The vision ingredient has to be strengthened by the action ingredient.

We have said that successful people and powerful people in the world have an ability to execute and turn into action the great visions and projects they conceive in their minds. We have also said that it is sometimes intimidating. When one begins to put a vision into practice, a project or something that one wants to achieve in life, those beginnings are always a bit, they scare us because we don't know if we are going to reach the goal or actually the beginning teaches us since this It is more complex than I thought, more difficult and sometimes in our first efforts we falter and stumble and that process is always a bit imperfect and we cannot let that intimidate us.

We have to continue little by little, lowering the vision of the abstract to the realm of the real and the everyday, right? we have to take visions and turn them into actions. We must disciplinedly tie ourselves to the visions and dreams we have. And again when I talk about visions that word can sound very exalted, what I am saying is: any project that you want to achieve. From learning English, buying a house, going to college, like we said getting your GiD, losing 25 pounds of weight, improving your relationship with your wife, saving for a new car, whatever; stop yelling at kids, complete all four discipleship courses, become a man, woman of practical knowledge of God's Word.

They are small visions that have a larger framework of the great vision of being a man, a woman filled with the Spirit and powerful and in a continuous process of transformation and one has to disciplinedly tie oneself to what one conceives in the Lord to that process that is sometimes discouraging and discouraging. We have also said that if, despite fear, we remain tied to the project, to the vision, to what we yearn for, little by little, the vision will come to life and it will attract us towards it and commit us more and more to it because other allies who are in the same process too and they will commit to us and we to them and together we will move forward.

Why has God created His Church, the Church, this mystery that is to meet on a Sunday or Wednesday, the community of faith? why has Christ created this? Why did Christ declare the Church over the world, why did he not do something else, why did he not conceive something else? because there is something about united as a family of faith, the Body of Christ united complementing each other, encouraging each other, drawing momentum from each other and spurring each other on and honing each other in the brush of life as community and that encourages us to keep going.

If you do it alone you will never reach the big goals of your life. God doesn't like lone rangers, he always does things in community, what's more, he doesn't like to be alone, look at that, that's why he created us too and the angels. I believe that God was never alone and even when there were perhaps no angels there was the Trinity: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit because what a beautiful principle of unity. God is not such a unique monad thing, no; God likes to pour His divinity into concrete things and do things in community and we also learn from that.

You need partners in the walk of your life to help you. The Church is imperfect, I was saying this this week, the Church is imperfect and sometimes neurotic, I would say, you know? and sometimes we hurt but I told the person: but there is nothing else, where does one go if it is outside of the people of God? We say: Lord, where shall we go? the world is worse there. If you believe that the Church is bad, go to the world and stay there now for a few years so that you can see later that you know the Lord here. No, the Church God has devised it.

And we need people when we're fighting our own weaknesses and when we're out there fighting the devil hand to hand we need someone to pick us up and say keep going and we need to pray for each other and minister to each other and keep on going. of faith and then the visions help us and our brothers too and they commit us to continue and we cannot go back now because we have already started the race.

So we have to go from the abstract to the concrete, from conception to completion of our project, in our case, for example, a new temple, it is part of a vision. Never be intimidated by the greatness, by the difficulty or the complexity of a dream or a project when you contemplate it in its initial totality. Visions have to be undertaken one piece at a time and have to go from the most abstract stage to the most concrete project to already being a specific design with specific contours to then one attacking component by component until reaching full execution.

As we have seen in this new sanctuary. We started with an idea that God gave us, then we went to a more specific project, then we proceeded to make a literally architectural design and then we went part by part. This morning when I went through there towards the basement I looked at some photos that are there near the platform and wow I saw a couple of photos of the holes that we dug to put the foundations of the new sanctuary, it seemed to me that an eternity had passed since that day and I stopped for a second there to see the blue lines, you can see them, around where the edges were that we had to fill the concrete up to that point and I say: wow.

I remember that job, how dirty it was and how disheartening because there wasn't even the courage to see a structure, they were just ugly holes, dirty and full of mud and sometimes water that rose but we went from one thing to another, to the other, to the other, to the other until glory to the Lord, we are almost ready to celebrate the blessing there for many, many years.

Because you have to go step by step. Do you remember what I told you? how do you eat an elephant? You eat one bite at a time, okay? and you have to disassemble the visions into their constituent parts and tackle them one by one starting with the easiest and most accessible and moving on to the most fundamental. You have to tie yourself to the dream, you have to tie yourself to the project, persist in it and execute it a little bit, one bite at a time until you see it finished.

I think I read what it said to you, what happens is that since I have two services and sometimes God gives me, this morning for example God stopped me in a thought and I didn't even advance in the sermon because that happens then you don't remember what I talked to one, what I talked to others. Perhaps this is new for you, perhaps for others I have already said it, but in any case it is good to reinforce these things.

Do those who were at the 12 o'clock service remember what Saint Francis of Assisi said? maybe I read it at 9 but Saint Francis of Assisi said: "Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible and for now you will find yourself doing the impossible" right? Perhaps your spiritual strength right now gives you only for a tiny goal; Well, if that's what you can achieve, do that and then move on to the next thing.

There are young people, for example, who tell me: I want to study medicine but sometimes they haven't even completed their high school or they haven't even entered the university. I tell them: well, look, start by going to a Community College, if you've been out of high school for a long time, go to a Community College, take two years there; take biology, maybe the level of the courses is less demanding and then when you're done and have your certificate or have your associate's degree take those credits, find a four-year college, transfer the credits and then proceed to your bachelor's.

And who knows if in that process God tells you: well stay there and finish and graduate, for example, as a registered nurse or a registered nurse or a certificate in some area of medicine, medical technology or whatever. Now if God gives you the strength and encouragement then go ahead and get into medical school because by then you will know what you want to do and one day maybe you will be a great surgeon for the glory of God but you have to start where you are and then go little Little by little, you have to think in that way, you have to ask God for wisdom, alright?

Many people want to be great theological giants and preach all over the world and have not even gone to high school to take a Bible class yet. You have to proceed because God is an ordered God, right? So we have also said that there are also certain character qualities that are required that are like the platform to reach our goals. Required: determination, energy, persistence, the ability to think systemically, learn to find allies to help you and have analytical skills; each of those things is a long time and I don't want to dwell there too long.

But there are preliminary qualities that you need to cultivate in your life. It is not only the goal, to go blindly towards the goal, but to ask the Lord to put you through a process of personal formation that allows you every day to be more solid and stronger in life. your personal constitution to get where you want to go. Don't fall so in love with the ending that you forget that in the process there is a long way to go and a lot of work to do as well.

Many people do not possess these qualities because their childhood, family, cultural past did not allow them to acquire these qualities. Many times those of us who come from undeveloped societies in those cultures are often not taught that is why sometimes our cultures are dysfunctional at the level of government, at the level of the economy, at the level of infrastructures, there is rampant corruption in our societies.

You go to a government office and there is the secretary making out with her friend while there is a huge line waiting for her to answer and woe to anyone who tells you that: Miss, get to work, they will eat you alive, right? (laughs). And if the little friend who was from high school: ah so and so come here! and they put it in front of the entire line that was waiting. And then we bring those bad habits and we take them to the family, we take them to the Church. We transfer our culture to the Kingdom of God instead of the Kingdom of God transforming our culture.

Then we have to ask the Lord: Lord, form in me the character of a person of integrity, a serious person, a systematic person committed to the truth and who proceeds soberly in life and who does not deceive himself about anything but With the lucidity that the Holy Spirit provides, he honestly examines himself and asks himself: where am I truly in my growth? who I am?

When I'm naked there in the bathroom and I look in the mirror, who is that man, that woman that I'm looking at? She's not the well-dressed person with her little earrings and accessories on Sunday, no. That person who is there alone at night when I go to bed and when I get up. Tell him: Lord, take off all my clothes from this audience and let me see myself as You see me in the light of Your Holy Spirit because that is one of the most powerful qualities for personal growth: honesty and seeing ourselves exactly as we are and where we are.

Because if you don't know where you are, you won't get where you need to get, you know? And that is why the Psalmist always says that verse that for me is a motto: "Search me, O God, and know my heart, test me and know my thoughts, and see if I am in my way" of what? "of perversity." What is the path of perversity? it is everything that is not in alignment with the Kingdom of God.

Every lie, every distortion, every tendency to exploit others, every deceit, every weakness of character. Everything that prevents my progress towards the image of Christ Jesus: examine me, teach me and then guide me in the eternal way. Because you know what? neither you nor I can trust what we see about ourselves.

We are like anorexic people who are stick thin but when they look in the mirror they are fat, because the mind deceives you and many people believe that they are spiritual titans but they still need to go to kindergarten for training. There are people who want to be Pastors and do not realize that they first need to be discipled and learn to be a follower and keep quiet for a few years and then if the Lord wants to promote them He will do it at the right time.

Because they don't know each other, they don't know how much they still need to walk. That is why I think the Apostle James says: "Do not many of you become teachers knowing that you will receive greater condemnation." Today there is a proliferation of teachers and Pastors, everyone wants to be a Pastor, everyone opens a little place somewhere in the city to start a Church because nobody wants to be a follower; What's more, no one wants to be a Pastor today, everyone is an apostle today, we Pastors are almost conspicuous by our absence. It is more not even an apostle now there are Patriarchs.

The mojigangas that we evangelicals invented and there are people who are willing to be fooled by that nonsense and flock to these places because it is that where the Truth of God does not reign, brothers, manipulation, exploitation, abuse and infantile Congregations that do not grow because they are not eating the Truth, they are not allowing the Holy Spirit to treat them and so we have child leaders pastoring churches worse than them, God save us from that and help us maybe something is up to me from that I will also have to go home and ask myself: Lord, will I be the Father? one is going to deliver me, me?

You have to be honest. Sometimes I leave here to heal the wounds that I administered to myself in preaching. But always in the search for the truth we have to tie ourselves to the Word of the Lord and ask the Holy Spirit to help us. And you know what? That is why many times the Lord, before he gives us what we long for, before he takes us to those places of delicate pastures and the achievements of our dreams and our goals, tells us: well, I'm going to take you but possibly I won't You're going to like the path I'm going to take you down and you know what? It's going to take you longer than you think, too, because I'm not going to give you things just like that.

We say: Lord, give it to me and let's go home now and God says: no, no, it's not like that. I'm going to take you through a process. Do you know that God is the God of processes? because the processes that we live through the Holy Spirit create in us knowledge and discernment of what is truly in us. When God takes us through the desert of life and painful experiences, that then creates in us an understanding of who we truly are and the path we still have to walk.

And you know what? The best leaders, the best parents, the best Pastors, the best husbands, the best counselors are people who themselves have been passed through God's trapiche and who are still bleeding and who know that: look only for Your Grace and Your mercy I can do something good in this world because if you left me to myself I would do nothing.

If you see a leader, a counselor who is too sure of himself, run away on his own, yes sir and unfortunately that is what we look for the most, people who seem to be invulnerable, Iron Man 4, right? and that is what we are and that is why there is so little wisdom in the people of God at this time and there are nations as well.

I'm going to talk about us in a sense. Sometimes we are so poor, so backward, our societies don't work; There are beautiful things, but the truth is that there are countries that should be gardens of blessing and prosperity because they have all the natural resources, they have naturally intelligent and hard-working people, they have a long history and culture, but they don't work. They are broken like a car that doesn't run and it is because the leaders that we choose are generally chosen for their ability to talk tough and to impress and we want people to manipulate us, and so our countries are full of demagogues who rise to power with a single Their purpose is to squander money, steal everything and leave us like shorn sheep when their government ends.

And we put them there because we're always looking for people who talk tough, who speak loudly, who give good speeches, who seem invulnerable and sometimes you know what? The people who can transform our nations the most are people who, if you look at them, don't seem to kill a mime.

Do you know that the great leaders of the great corporations, studies have been done on that, are not normally very flashy people? There is a book "Good to great" that has been a sensation and another also called "Built to last" are two books that I recommend you read, they are about corporate life but they also have many applications and studies have been done where The great executives who have built these corporations that last for decades and decades and decades and are the best in their field are shown to be generally leaders who don't call attention to themselves.

They are even rude and clumsy leaders in their relationship with others and they are also leaders who always give credit to their team and they don't take it and when something goes well some say, when something goes well they give credit to their team and when something goes wrong they take responsibility while we often look for the person who wastes us, who steals our money, who dresses well and who talks about false prosperity and then we are not looking for integrity, solid word, wisdom, confrontation , the Word of God that enters and penetrates and digs you inside and leaves you bleeding a little but the oil and wine also comes and heals you and you leave blessed.

And we have to choose leaders like that in our churches, in our societies because those people with character can take us where we need to go. For example, in this country, unfortunately, I believe that the leaders who can lead this nation to the transformation that it requires in terms of spiritual values, those leaders are not in the Republican Party, for example right now, they are not in the right, the conservative world. And they're not in the Democratic Party either.

Unfortunately, these leaders are sober people who sometimes don't like the public plane because they don't want to get involved in that gladiator circus that is politics in the United States today, where they take all your clothes off and distort you and require ten-second answers from you. to glorify a television channel or sometimes they call you for an interview and what they want is to glorify you with some mistake you made.

And thinking and sober people do not want to get involved in those processes. So what we have are these gladiators who manipulate the public but who do not have the wisdom or the spiritual depth that this nation requires, the ethical values or the intelligence to make the transformations that this nation requires. Because we have a people that is childish, what they want is people who give them what they want to hear, just as there are people who want churches that tell them what they want to hear.

And the apostle Peter already said it, he says that in recent times people will have itching to hear and preachers will accumulate to tell them what they want to hear according to their own lusts, look it up there, I'm not saying it, the Bible says it. And what we need in our lives is people who tell us the truth, people who when you think you hit a home run tell you: no man, you just got to first base and that was dragging you and instead of being offended you take the bitter pill, taste it, meditate on it: ok that's fine and you submit to God's Truth. The Word says: "You will know the truth and the truth will set you free."

So God many times to bring out that truth that is within you and to give you introspection, self-knowledge, critical capacity to understand the truth of God, first has to weaken you and put you through the sugar mill, bleed you dry, show you that you are worthless, that you are nothing. without God and then when you're already lying there with the snot coming out of your nose he says: now let's go to work, come let's go now that I'm going to teach you, now we can work and you can do something great.

And that's why God puts us through these processes. Again: God is a God of processes, that is something that has always impacted me and God is a God of trips and what happens is that we want to jump from here to the end of the trip; we want like Star Trek right? we get into something a capsule and beam me up Skadio, we want to appear and uuhh in a little while we will arrive. You say no it's not like that, I didn't see Star Trek so I don't know what you're talking about you have to walk, you have to go the way.

He sends Abraham on a trip and tells him: leave your land and your relatives to a land that I will teach you and on that trip Abraham learns a number of things. He betrays his wife, for example: when the king falls in love with Sara and wants to marry her or have her as a concubine and Abraham is afraid and tells him that she is his sister and gets her into tremendous trouble, she almost creates a divorce there, and the king who did not know that she was the sister, Abraham's wife says: why didn't you tell me? your God almost killed me because you didn't warn me that I was your wife and Abraham learns about his cowardice there.

And when on the trip also with Isaac at the end, when he has his son who has mentally caressed him for decades and when he has him and he is a teenager, he tells him: now kill him and give him to me as a sacrifice and Abraham has to go through that process: Do I love God more than my son or my son more than God? and then he has to be confronted in that terrible desert three days walking with the wood under his arm and with his son in his hand to go to Mount Moriah to there kill his son and deliver him to his God who he thinks is a God dictatorial and immoral who asks him to hand over his son.

But there Abraham learns obedience, learns sacrifice. In those days of personal crucifixion he had to examine his entire career and determine where his loyalties lay. And when he is ready to put the knife into his son, God tells him: no, it's okay. I just wanted to see what you were going to do and now we're going to work. You and me. And then the real journey begins: God gives him a new identity, gives him a call, gives him a promise, changes his name and blesses him and knows that the place where Abraham was going to kill Isaac is the place where the sanctuary, the temple of Jerusalem because the places of our crucifixion are also our places of true worship to the Lord.

That is why Romans chapter 12 says: "I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your true worship." In order to truly adore the Lord, we must first be crucified and put in the trapiche. To achieve our goals we first have to die and go through the desert so that then God can do something with us.

Don't fall in love with the goal so much that you forget the process that leads you to the goal. There will be moments in the trajectory of the journey that God will say to you: ok now stop here for a while because I want to teach you something at this point in your journey and many times, you know what? that the intermediary moments of the trip we see as failures and as useless stops and obstacles rather but no, they are moments of formation. They are stepping stones that God is building so that you can go to the next stage of your life and that you can then retain the blessing when you get there so that no one can take it away from you.

And you have to drink the last drop of the cup of crucifixion and formation because if you don't drink it all you will damage the process and you will have to start many times from scratch. Do you know that life is full of people who when God tells them: ok, you want to achieve something, let's work together, and when God puts the cross on them and says: ok, this is the process you have to follow from the moment you take the first drop of the cup is bitter and they say: I don't want it? and then they proceed to fulfill their dreams in their own way using the technology of the devil and hell and they believe that with that they are going to deceive God or the devil and they do not deceive either of them; they reach their goal but they arrive in an illegitimate way and therefore they cannot keep what they earned because they did not go through the process that God wanted them to go through.

So we always have to ask ourselves: Lord, how are You building in my life and what is Your rhythm and how can I put myself next to You and walk at Your pace to get where you want to go? because God always takes time, we are the ones who are in a hurry. God is always calm up there on His Throne and we are thinking that we are going to sink. God says: don't worry, I take time. I am doing a work in your life. I am taking you through a journey, that journey includes things that are sometimes bitter and difficult: failures, struggles, abuse, disappointments, betrayals, and God is using all of this material for Him to carry out His purpose in your life.

God does not waste a single thing brother, He recycles everything and turns everything into gold so I also encourage you if there has been some kind of failure in your life, if you were sexually abused, if you had a divorce, if you failed God in some terrible way, if there is an aspect in your life that you know is painful and harmful for someone or for you, look and ask: Lord, how can I use this black and dark matter like the cross to turn it into life and blessing and growth? because God takes crucifixions and turns them into resurrections.

Many times before Easter Sunday we have to go through the Friday of the crucifixion and the Saturday of the grave where no one sees us and we are there dealing with God, God and we struggling there no one sees that but God is dealing with you too . And that is why I tell you, brothers, that when we reach our goals we must reach them according to God's methodology and according to God's process.

There are things that God, I believe, has told me and has promised me that I have been waiting for decades, as I have said before, and I still have not seen them. I'm already telling you: hey Father, look to see why the years are passing, I'm not getting any younger but God is a God of processes and He knows what He does and we have to be willing.

Speaking of legitimately running the race in pursuit of our dreams and our goals coming back to that point of drinking the full cup of crucifixion, look at God himself undergoing that process. For in His vision of an Earth transformed and humanity reconciled to Him and a history that reflects His purposes for His creation, God has not taken a magic wand and touched the world and changed it overnight. tomorrow in a garden of virtues. He has been struggling for thousands of years with this clumsy and disobedient and arrogant humanity and He has not yet gotten involved like this for the moment and He has changed everything and turned us into robots that do His Will.

He could do it if He wants but when He created us He gave us the freedom to choose and then He says: I have to stick to what I declared about that man and that woman and I am not going to violate their freedom even if I die and even if they they are suffering, not that I am dying but that I am dying of pain because God dies of pain when we go through tribulations and difficulties and we have to learn to respect those processes because God too, God works, how does he work? through His Holy Spirit the Paracletos, He works through men and women delivered to Him whom He uses as His spokespersons, He works in delicate ways in history, He puts humanity in different situations so that they learn and become aware and then they can change.

There will come a day when all the Scripture regarding humanity has been fulfilled then God sends His Son and ends all the madness of history, meanwhile He is little by little working. And when Christ comes to Earth, he had to go through the cross because there was something to fulfill on the cross, there was a debt to pay; God does not say: ah, don't forget about sin, it doesn't matter. I erase it from here and that's it, no. He had said: the soul that sins will die, there was justice that had to be fulfilled and God said: ok the only thing I can do is send My Son to die so that the purpose is fulfilled so that the law is fulfilled because God does not violates the law, God does not violate His Holiness or His purposes.

He sent His Son, He Himself paid the price and mounted the cross. That is why when the Lord tells the disciples: the Son of man has to die and be crucified and abandoned and betrayed, and Peter says to him: Lord, may such a thing never happen to you, the Lord says to him: get away from me, Satan, right? ? because Peter could not think that the Son of God had to submit. No, for him a sovereign simply takes possession of things and does not die on a cross but God is a God of processes and He respects Himself and He had to go through that process.

And when the Lord Jesus Christ washes the feet of His disciples also Peter, a carnal man who is in process himself and who needs to go through his own experience of pain to become a humble man, when Christ wants to wash his feet he says: Lord, I will never allow you and Jesus tells him: If I do not wash them for you, you have no part with Me. Because sometimes we are well-intentioned and want to be holier than the Pope; no, we have to let God work for us, we have to respect the laws of the Gospel, the principles of the Gospel, walk, understand and God will pass us by little by little.

And when you learn from that God who builds in that way, then you will see the processes in your life in a very different way and you will understand that everything that happens in your life is being used by God, everything, everything. That is why the Lord Jesus Christ always says: Whoever has eyes to see sees, whoever has ears to hear hears, because God is always speaking to us through the processes of life, always taking us where He wants to take us through. an intervention here, another there, another there and what we see is the devil working many times; no, it is God working to take you where He wants to take you.

He is the God of travel, he is the God of processes. He takes his time. Going back to Israel if you read Deuteronomy chapter 7 I think it is or 8 where the Lord tells the Jewish people: "When you enter the Promised Land which you are about to enter" says the Lord "remember where you went through" I think that we sing today that chorus "remember where God got you from" something like that we sing those things but we don't understand what we're saying, you know? we forget very easily.

But the Bible says: "When you are there in the Promised Land, that land flowing with milk and honey enjoying houses you did not build drinking water from wells you did not dig, remember the forty years you spent in the desert and how I put you through that suffering" I'm done with this but I think it's important because God has me there, from the processes.

Ok chapter 8, Deuteronomy 8:2 look at what it says: "And you will remember all the way" travels. Forty years walking through the desert. Sometimes we do not walk in a physical desert, sometimes the desert is within us and sometimes God leads us to walk through this infinite world that is our inner being, our psyche, our emotions, our spirit, it is a very big world, it is a cosmos the inner cosmos; God makes you travel within yourself through the experiences you go through.

It says: "And you will remember all the way the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the desert" look at what it says here "to afflict you, to test you." Do you believe that God does not afflict? there are people who want to fix God and say: no God never afflicts, God never. God afflicts many times, do not say no, God does what He perfectly wants in your life and sometimes God does put you in times of suffering in your life and allows it or He facilitates it or whatever because the medicines of God are sometimes hard and difficult but they are good and necessary.

Sometimes they are like the roll that Jeremiah ate, I think it was that it was bitter in the mouth but sweet in the bowels. Then he says: "You will remember the path that your God has brought you to test you, to afflict you to know what was in your heart." Now does God know what is in the heart of man? I think so. I believe that God does not need accessories to know what is in the heart.

I think it is so that many times we know what is in our own heart and that we confess it to the Lord and that it be obvious to God and to the world and to people and to ourselves. And that is why many times what God does by putting us in difficult situations in life in His desire to take us where He wants to take us will put us through difficult and deserted times. We are going to suffer, we are going to cry, we are going to cry.

I could be here all day talking to you about Moses, about Jacob, about Joseph, about Peter, about Paul, about Samson, about Jehoshaphat; Listen to me, it's a huge list. Everyone, before getting to where God wanted to take them, first tested them and they had difficult times in the desert, serious mistakes, dark nights, great tears because God wanted to form men and women who were capable of carrying out His work without loss in the end.

And one of the things that we need most is to know ourselves and to know what is truly in us and actually come to delight in knowing what are the areas in which we are limping not because we are masochists but because we know that in that recognition of my weakness and my need there is great power because there begins the true transformation of my life and success. And that until I recognize what I have and what I am, what I am not and what I do not have and what I cannot do, I cannot do great things for God nor can I be a blessing to anyone.

The happiest person is the person who was crucified first, you know? the lightest person is the person who has gone through tribulations and struggles, has interpreted them in the light of the Gospel and knows that God is working through those things and is leading him to be more and more glorious in the image of Jesus Christ . We have to imitate Christ in His crucifixion as well as in His victory as well.

Then the Lord says to them: "Israel I have brought you through that desert to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments. And he afflicted you, and made you hungry, and fed you with manna" simple food "That neither you nor your parents had known to let you know that man will not live by bread alone, but by everything that comes out of the mouth of Jehovah, man will live" right? amen.

Did you know? tells them: "Your dress has never grown old on you nor has your foot swollen in these forty years" do you know that while God puts you through the process that you need to go where He wants to take you or where you want to go many times He You are going to go through difficult times but you know what? that His mercy will never abandon you. Somehow you are going to look and when it seems that He is nowhere and you are going to see him winking at you from behind a wall or behind a column and he is going to tell you: no, I am here with you and he is going to give you Something to keep you going, it's never going to leave you completely.

The Lord has said: I will not leave you nor forsake you. You will go through shortcomings, you will go through tribulation and difficulties, but there will always be the sign of My Presence in your life, I will do something so that you will never fall to the bottom. Let me tell you: even if the water is reaching your neck, the water is not going to drown you, you are not going to drown. When it seems that it is already reaching the neck, tell him: thank you Lord because I know that not much more will happen from there.

And the Lord arrives at the right time, while He is working with you He covers you, hides you and tells you: while you are going through this process I am going to protect you and I am going to keep you and I am going to show you My mercy and My goodness. That's why He says here: "Your dress never grew old, your foot never swelled" and it was true. The Lord provided for them even in the desert.

There were no Marshalls there, there was no Target, there was nothing, the Lord says: "Your shoe is not going to get old, your foot is going to stay healthy, your dress miraculously; I am going to send you simple food but you are going to eat something even if it is and you're going to have all the nutrients." I have always said that manna must have been the most nutritious food ever eaten on Earth better than those fatty steaks we eat sometimes.

And finally he tells them: "Acknowledge to yourself in your heart that as a man punishes his son so Jehovah your God punishes you" always take care because you have a God who loves you too much to not punish you or correct you, right? Verse 7 says and with this I truly end: "Because Jehovah your God introduces you into the good land; land of streams, of waters, of fountains and springs that sprout in valleys and mountains, land of wheat and barley, of vines , fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees, oil and honey, a land in which you will not eat bread with scarcity nor will you lack for anything in it, a land whose stones are iron and from whose mountains you will extract copper and eat and be satisfied and blessed to Jehovah your God for the good land that he will have given you" glory to the Lord amen.

So remember: oh yes God wants to give you your dreams, God wants to give you your goals, God wants you to achieve things, God wants to give you that abundant life that Christ came for but you have to go through a process. Sometimes we preach to people the last two verses that I read and we are very selective in what we preach but there is a process to get there and you have to submit, you have to drink the crucifixion cup to the last drop like Jesus Christ did. .

He said: no, I'm going to drink that cup, I would like them to pass it by but if you want, Father, I'm going to drink it because I have to do this God's way. Always run your races, always live your processes in God's way, submitting yourself to God's truth, to God's treatment, and you will see that instead of dying you will live, instead of becoming weaker you will become stronger. Instead of being alone, you will be filled with spiritual children and with people who will want your company because you will be a super man, a super woman filled with the Holy Spirit capable of advising others, sharing their experiences, blessing others with great lessons. and teachings.

Where is your need, where are you now at this moment? ask the Holy Spirit right now: Father, reveal it to me. Let's lower our heads for a moment and I myself am going to pray for myself: Lord, where am I and where do you want to take me? What are the areas that I need You to work on in my life? What are the meticulous transformations that You want to operate in me? What are the cells of my brain that You have to change and the thoughts that You have to replace, what are the wounds, the memories, the methods that I have to change and replace them with resources from the Kingdom?

Teach me, let me interpret life in the light of Your Truth, my past in the light of Your Truth and the things that You have wanted to do in Me, of Your good purpose, of the desire that You have to turn me into a man, a woman crucified and transformed and formed by You. Teach me Your way Lord, deal with my life. Burn everything that is not of You and leave me in the form of Your Son. Crucify me so that I may then become a risen man, a risen woman in the image of Your Son.

Let me go through the night of the tomb and the night of the crucifixion so that I can enter the glorious Sunday of Your resurrection. I give you my life; do with me what you want, Lord, as you want to form me. I give you permission Lord I give you permission, I want to walk the race according to Your purpose.

That hymn from the beginning Vanessa that we sang, that "the day is" etc. that is very, very good choose it. Stay there brother, stay glued to God's process right now let God take you. Father, enlighten us, Your Word says: "Examine me, know my heart, test me, know my thoughts. If there is in me a path of perversity, guide me then by the eternal path, Lord." Take me through the process Father.

I renounce lying, I renounce self-deception, I renounce rushing and anxiety to obtain things and I better receive the process and the path that leads to the blessing. I give you my faults, I give you my wounds, I give you the abuses I have received, I give you the betrayals, I give you the disappointments that people have done to me over time and I see it now as part of your treatment of me and of Your process to form a man, a woman who reflects the glory of Your Son who was also crucified and who suffered abuse and suffered betrayal and suffered loneliness.

Thank you Lord, thank you Jesus. Form a Church, form a community that reflects the values of the Kingdom of God. We love Your Truth and we accept it Lord at this time. Thank you, thank you Lord in Jesus' Name, in Jesus' Name thank you Lord.