God gave you space, now give God space

Building a temple has always been part of God's plans. In fact the first temple, the first dwelling place was the tabernacle of Moses in the Book of Exodus where God was very specific with the details. God gave instructions to His people in great detail on how to make the curtains, how to make the stakes, how to make everything that was the ark, mercy on top, the cherubs, the gold.

And in fact they took an offering that Moses had to come to the town and say: No more, we already have everything, how many would like that reality? amen. Every Pastor say: amen, hallelujah. That things are not only enough but far beyond what they expected.

In fact in one day they sacked Egypt when they went out into the desert. And if you look at the whole Book of Exodus, the whole story of how they go out and worship, and when God visits Moses and gives him the tablets, the tablets, Moses had his tablet and we have ours (laughter). When he starts and God by His Finger, not only gives him the tablets but with His finger writes God's commandment on it.

I want to see in Exodus 33 because this is already after, in the midst of them waiting, in the midst of this encounter that God is having with Moses, the people of Israel rebel. How many know the story, yes? I want to quickly read chapter 33 here, then the Lord said to Moses: "Go, go up from here you and the people, and that you have brought out of the land of Egypt to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob "And it is interesting because Moses had already returned, he had broken the tablets, our holy brother Moses became angry, and he seized the commandment of God that had not yet been announced to Israel, he breaks the tablets and God finds him again after there is a great repentance of Israel.

In fact they are in revival because God begins to dwell in the heart of Israel and in this encounter God tells them what will be the next step to take after the tables are broken. And He tells them: "I am going to send an angel before you, I am going to cast out all your enemies" and in verse 3: "Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, for I will not go up in the midst of you, and lest I destroy you in the middle of the road because you are a stiff-necked people."

That is to say, God, despite the fact that he had revived them, despite the fact that they had actually repented, Moses made them drink the waters with the gold of the calf. He says: I am not going to go with you but I am going to send My angel, and he said: "When the people heard this bad news" how many know that it is bad news, yes? if God does not come with us, "they mourned, none of them put on their adornments because God had told them: I will not go because of their stiff neck."

So in verse 7 as Moses used to take a tent, he would stand up outside the camp at a distance and call it a tent of meeting. It happened that everyone who sought the Lord came out of the tent of meeting that was outside the camp and when Moses went out to the tent all the people stood up and stood, each one at the entrance of his tent, and continued to look how Moses went and entered the tent of meeting.

Verse 9: "When Moses entered the pillar of cloud came down and remained at the entrance of the tent all the time that Moses was there. And when this happened all Israel stood at the entrance of their tents and worshiped God." As the cloud fell on the tent of meeting, and verse 11 says, "When Moses returned to the camp" the cloud would lift up as he left the tent, "his young helper Joshua son of Nun would not leave the tent." Imagine the glory had risen but the Presence of God was in store because God can't touch anything that doesn't stay there. And Joshua stayed and dwelt in this tent despite the fact that Moses had already withdrawn, Joshua remained prostrate there.

If you follow this chapter you see that Moses from 12 to 16 begins to intercede for Israel: Lord, if You do not go, do not move us from here, we do not want to go and simply have Your victories over our enemies with Your angel if Your Presence does not He comes with us, because what are the other towns going to say, that You could not with the town that You took from here?

And from 17 to 23 God promises Moses that he will be with him, and even more daring Moses asks him for the famous phrase in verse 18: "But Lord, I not only want Your angel of victory, I not only want Your Presence for friendship, Lord: I want Your holiness and Your Glory, I want to see it." I want to see Your Glory, I am not satisfied with the ministry, I am not satisfied with a place of Your Presence and Your blessing, I want more, Lord. I want to go to Your depths and know Your Glory, I want to see You.

The glory, the weight, the essence of God, and God tells him: You cannot see me because you will die, no man can see me; I will pass through your midst. Notice that God, the glory was the same as His literal Presence. Some say that that was Jesus because that was the only one who appeared because God is invisible, however it is true that God passes through him, and in chapter 34 he says to Moses: "Now I want you to take and make your table, and come with Me again that I am going to take My pact with you because I am a jealous God says the Lord."

And Moses going to that encounter with the Lord sees the glory of God, returns to the camp where this time the Israelites did not worship false gods, how many say that after the first time swallowing gold they do not want to do it anymore? "And Glory shone from his countenance."

I want to encourage you to read Exodus but from chapter 33 to 40 it is very interesting because God not only gives Moses the details of building the tabernacle but also gives them principles to seek His Face, because there was a tent of meeting before the tabernacle but there was a place, a mountain where there was an encounter with God. There was a tent, a mountain and a tabernacle, and each of them required a certain protocol if you can say that, a certain discipline to be able to go into the depths of God.

I tell you, the more I travel the more I realize that many people and many churches, they simply want to see the Hand of God upon them, the angel of God bringing victory and if God comes they can disguise His Presence in a tremendous media show without God necessarily be there. In fact, when the tabernacle functioned, that of David, when the ark of the Presence of God was not even in the tabernacle of Moses, it was in David's tent, however, the protocol of the law continued to operate without the ark there at that time. place. Many churches also prefer to continue walking in the religious things of Christianity without the Presence of God himself, because if God comes in our midst, that is, when we pray for revival, brother, do we know what we are asking for?

When God visits in His glory and visits in His holiness everything changes when God enters the temple. Our lives, our pleasures, our preferences, our time, our ability, everything, everything, everything changes when God enters a place. That is why many times I pray a lot and I have pursued many times of refreshment, times of revival, I will be 30 years old this March that I am walking with the Lord, this is really a year for us in my family, it has many important dates. I am turning 30 years old, my wife is 35 years old in the Lord, my son is going to be 20 years old. He studies at the University of Connecticut and we are going to be married this year for 25 years. We have several anniversaries and this is like a half time thinking about the future. How am I going to invest my next 30, 40 years that God gives me? What am I going to pursue, what am I going to look for? the angel, the Presence or the Glory, or all three? hallelujah amen

God says: I want to make temples now, temples that are not made with hands but I want to dwell in, not only the ministry flow from you, not only the Presence and friendship of God be with you, but the fear of God and His holiness make the Glory of God descend upon you and as Paul says: "Shine with glory, greater than that of Moses."

When God comes in a city, I pray that way many times as we prayed this morning, it is a longing in my heart that despite my mistakes, despite Moses breaking the law, the first broken law of the commandments was Moses breaking the tablets of the commandments where God wrote them. Despite all this, how many know that God covers our weakness? He is so merciful, so good. You should confess the goodness of God every day of your life, the good, the merciful, the fact that nothing we have we deserve. That it is a privilege to be able to come before Him in His Presence and to pursue His Face, seek His Face, know Him as a person and invite His Glory, meaning that we can be changed into His image, take on His nature, in fact His essence flows through us so that we can be in a place aligned with Him and He can pour out His Glory on you as a person and on you as a Congregation.

It's interesting that before they finished the work on the tabernacle, because he broke the commandments before he even showed Israel what God said on those tablets, it's interesting that there was a tent and he had to go out to meet God outside the tabernacle. camp in the same way that Jesus died for us outside the camp. And he was going to meet Him there, and everyone knew that they had all, in an unfortunate way, given up the privilege of being able to each of them go before God out of fear and they sent Moses to go for them, and they looking how the man of God went to the store.

In fact, many of them suddenly had a melancholy, a heart that said: wow, it could have been us who had been there too. And they would go to anyone who inquired of the Lord, he would go before that tent and that was before the tabernacle, and the cloud would come, and everyone knew it was there. It is interesting that they were at the door of their stores there worshiping God in the place of authority over each family, the doors being a symbol of authority they were there at that door, worshiping God standing while He was there for who knows how long .

When there is friendship with God, an entire nation is moved. And they went, seeking God required going somewhere. How many love the New Testament, amen? where right now, right there from your chair, when you go out in your car, when you are shopping, you can simply say in your heart: Hello Lord, here I am and You are here with me. And you, like a holy temple, your perfect adoration, a life surrendered to the search for the dispensation, to the distribution of the glory of God wherever your foot treads, wherever you arrive, the Kingdom of God arrives. That the friendship of God, He is so close to you that you can hear His Voice in the mundane. It can tell you how you look when you shop for clothes, how you're going to eat when you shop for groceries, what you're going to invest in, what you're going to say, what you're going to think. Glorious God.

It is interesting when in chapter 40, when they finally finished the tabernacle with all its details, that is, they finished the pieces of God's entire design and then they had to assemble the tabernacle in the middle of the desert. And when it was already armed, Moses was no longer required to enter, the pillar of the cloud came and at night fire from God came. It was no longer a concentrated person, now it was a whole people that was the possession of the Most High.

And where the cloud moved then it began. Look, and this was before they sinned and entered the desert, they had not yet disobeyed. This was before and many say it was a trip that should take about 3 weeks, and it ended up being 38 years, 40 years. In fact they move, the cloud lifts and leaves forty-two times in 38 years. That is interesting.

Once they knew where each water well was, they already knew where the grass for their cattle was, when everything was there, suddenly the cloud rose and they continued on, and they were obliged to continue if they wanted to survive. But this was before all this. There was the offer: I send you My angel and you will do well.

Notice, without even the tablets the angel was going to be with them. Moses said: But if you don't come, they are a stubborn people, stiff-necked, and yet because you asked me to, Moses. Look, the history of the revival in New England is a glorious story and at the same time very sad because in this region they had a very stiff neck, despite the fact that it was the place of initial visitation to this nation, the revival wells in this place are tremendously longed for by many nations that never had a visit like this.

In fact where I live in Connecticut both revivals in the 18th and 19th century started in Connecticut, and in fact five minutes from my house there is a place called the Wellomantic Camp Meeting Association where there was a visit in the 1860s, which the glory of God fell on that site and thousands were converted. And know? They weren't famous preachers, they weren't fathered by anyone you knew, but there was a family that sang hymns and knew how to pray.

As the Pastor said this morning: if you do the little things well, God likes to be with you. And it is not very difficult brother, humility is required, obedience is required and a desire and a hunger are required, a hunger to go beyond the blessing, of what you can receive as a benefit of Christianity. As the Pastor said this morning, that you are not only a consumer, the angel comes to feed you, to give you a blessing, to break the things that bind you, but His Presence comes to satisfy the depths of your being, the Presence , the face, the Face of God and His holiness. Brother, do you really want to see His Glory? really?

Because a different depth is required, something far beyond what human beings even want to go, because it will cost you everything but you will gain everything. But it's going to cost you, I'm not talking about money, how many know that I'm not talking about money? You give money or you don't give it, that's up to you before God, but your life and how you invest your time, your comfort, in fact, the most valuable thing you have in your hands is your time, not your money, because when a day goes by never ever comes back. If you waste time that you could be with God, you can never get it back, but you can sow for tomorrow, okay?

I have a prophetic Word for you, ready? God gave you space, now give God space. God opened the doors to this place. They had a glorious week of intercession. I do not want to tell you as a strategy what you should do, I do not have that permission but let me tell you brothers: that this is more and more common, because if preaching had only changed a nation we would already have changed the nation. But it is His Presence, His Glory that touches each family in their tent and encourages and inspires them, and causes something in them that makes them adore the Most High.

It's someone, someone has to be in this tent of meeting. Somebody's got to build that house of prayer for the nations. Someone has to receive joy in that place where you do not simply pray for God to meet your need but you dwell to know Him alone.

That before you ask him for anything, first say: "Hello" for a long time and thank him, that no complaints come from your lips. "It was thus that Israel entered the desert, with revival in their hearts." Do you know what God tells them? Finally, when he gives them the covenant and the ten commandments again in these new tables, God tells them: I am jealous.

I see you and God says: You belong to Me, you belong to Me. You do not belong to yourself, you belong to Me, you are Mine and I yearn jealously, says Santiago, for what I have placed in you. An attribute that one thinks a holy God should not have.

Brother: I have no word, imagine when I come here to preach in front of Don Roberto, I always tell him that it is difficult, that I admire his teaching very much and I have been greatly blessed to receive from him just like you sure do, I have no words like those but I have a hunger to see something in my generation. I don't want a normal life in Christianity, I don't know what a normal life is. My poor wife is coming with me with everyone, we are about to break ground on different things and I am not sure what I should do. I have all kinds of people who give me their opinion, they tell me what they think, and the only thing that I can understand, the only thing that vibrates inside of me is: I want to see Your Glory, I want to see Your Face no matter where I am. command, but I want to be with you, I want to be with you Lord.

I know that if you touch me I can touch others, I know that if you are with me I can release what you fill for others, that is the only thing I want, it is what I long for Lord, it is what I long for. How long will it take? that I have to do? I'm not sure. There are books, and books, and books, two thousand years of Christian history, but a people who know their God is what has changed every nation on this Earth.

As Latinos, God brought you here, it was not simply to give you a better life in the good ol' USA. No brothers, you are in downtown Boston. You are in a totally strategic place, a place where there are springs and wells of living water, that if you heard the sound of the waters, they would prophetically declare: Here I am, who is looking for me?

Stand up for a minute, okay? Put your hand on your inner being. Jesus said, John 7, I know you have prayed. We are just starting, they are warming up their engines in this new place. Place your hand here from where rivers of living water will flow from your inner being. Commit to remove any stone that is blocking the flow of your heart.

Moses had to forge new tables for himself, he had to see beyond his mistakes, beyond his ailments, beyond his weaknesses and sins. God says: I will forgive your iniquity, I will be in their midst, I am a holy God, I am a consuming fire, I am a God of glory, I am the first and the last, I am the great exalted, I am the Creator of the universe, I created from My Words what is seen from what is not seen, I am. Repent and come into alignment with My Purposes for your generation.

The Spirit of God will rise up in this city, the Spirit of God will destroy the things that hinder His move in Him, "For I visit the humble and I come to him who has a heart after Me."

God is good. God has a plan for us but most of all, God glorifies Himself. Raise your Voice to Him, raise your heart and commit yourself to holiness and the search for His Glory not by works of the flesh, but by the grace He gives, by the friendship you have with Him; that the biggest investment you make is time, time, time with the beautiful Father.

I want to see Your Glory Lord over Boston. I want to see it over New England, I want to see it in the Hispanic countries that represent God. We want to see Your Glory Father, we want to see You, we want to see Your move, we want to see Your face Lord illuminating us, that we be the reflection of who You are for our generation. Break every obstacle, we repent Lord. Free us from all ties, from wasting our time, investing it in things we don't owe God.

We sanctify our eyes, our ears, our minds, our emotions, we sanctify our bodies, go on, pray, brother. I wish to give you pleasure, Lord, may Your Name be famous God, may Your Name be famous God. Father: in the Name of Jesus over this Congregation, enlighten Lord, Your light penetrates all darkness Father. I seek you Lord, give him a statement, a statement of faith and prophetic.