God's mysterious gifts

God wants us to live healthy, wholesome lives, and the Word of the Lord provides tools, instruments on how to live those abundant lives. But we have also said that together with God's good purpose, His desire for us to be happy, prosperous, healthy, we inhabit a reality in this world, and that many times God's desire has to meet with suffering, illness, with this fallen world in which we inhabit and we must also recognize that, that there is a struggle between darkness and light, and we are like hostages of that cosmic struggle. And for this reason there will also be suffering in life and all kinds of difficult situations, but as the apostle Paul says: "Before in all these things we are more than conquerors" amen?

And I've told you that my presentation on abundant life and healing, and emotional health, how to heal from our wounds, should acknowledge that dimension as well. I have presented to you what I have told you: a dynamic model, a model of struggle, because Pentecostals often love to talk about victory, victory, victory, and we forget that there are also difficulties, there are sufferings, there are sufferings. , and everything is prosperity then and good things but, when difficulties come then many times we do not know what to do because we have not been prepared to deal with them. I prefer to see that in everything we are more than winners and that everything sometimes includes difficulties and problems, and that we can even use them for great blessing.

And I want to focus on that. You know that we have talked about different topics such as the fact that God loves us and is with us, that our value does not reside in the world or in external things but in the inherent value we have as God's creatures, and many other topics. that we have spoken about, the armor of faith that helps us from the Spirit to battle when we have difficulties. And I want to isolate this morning the theme of pain and suffering to again strengthen this idea that in the midst of the struggles and tribulations of life we can find victory and power, even grow more and more.

And that's why in the next two or three weeks I'm going to be talking about that topic, about how to be victorious over the losses in life, the absences we experience, the unanswered prayers, the unrealized dreams, the diseases that we have to deal with throughout our lives, pains that we have seen our loved ones suffer as well and that we suffer with them, and afflictions that are normal in the fallen world in which we live.

I have said many times brothers that part of the healing of life, part of living healthy lives is assuming and knowing and expecting that suffering is going to come into our life in many different ways. I believe that recognizing that and adjusting to that fact, and accepting it as an inevitable part of the human condition while we are in this world is a source, or can be a source of great emotional strength, because I believe that many of the distortions of pain come from because we think: I don't deserve this, or: if God were with me, that would not happen to me, or: I must be in sin as many people sometimes say because I am sick and a Christian is not supposed to be sick, then I have done something me bad, or as we have sometimes accused people: oh you don't heal because you don't have faith, that's one of the most terrible things you can say to a person in crisis.

Don't tell them or suggest it because then what we do is add pain and guilt to the pain they already have. Sometimes, for example, when there is a loss, someone loses a loved one and they are crying, and they are sad, and we come there to tell them: no, Christians don't cry! get strong and move on or: it's time for you to get out of that pain and get on.

Brother: walk the path with the person rather, love them, affirm them, feel their pain with them, comfort them with affirmative words and pray that the Lord will help them where they need to go but don't add more burdens by filling their mind with guilt and making them feel worse.

Pain does not necessarily come to us because we have sinned or because we do not have enough faith, moreover: I have said many times that pain can come because God loves us in a special way and wants to use certain pains to form us and to help us reach at a higher level of life, pain is an incredible ally for personal greatness.

Therefore, I believe that the simple fact of knowing that while we are in this world we are going to have to deal with some level of negativity, loss, suffering, failure, emotional ties, difficulties, that helps us run with some patience the race of faith, because if I think no, that God is going to exempt me from pain because I am in faith, when pain comes it will inevitably take me by surprise and I will not be prepared .

It has helped me a lot to know that simply, while I am in this world, I am going to have situations that I am going to have to confront, and what I have to do is that when pain comes into my life, I have to gird up my loins, like He says, again, in Ephesians chapter 6: when the bad day comes I put on the whole armor of God and say: ok, now is the time to pray, fast, cry out, prepare well and counteract what has come into my life, and hope that God at some point will give me all the strength I need to get out of it, and I will come out shining like gold as the Word of the Lord says, I will get ahead.

Pain can be a tremendous resource if we know how to deal with it. And that is why I am going to be working a little on this in the next Sundays. But what I want to start this, I decided to do something that I don't usually do and I'm going to read a part of my sermon because there is one, I'm going to title this: God's mysterious gifts, God's mysterious gifts. Sometimes pain is a mysterious gift, it is a riddle that God provides us and in the process of solving and explaining it, and understanding it we discover very beautiful things about God's character and about ourselves as well.

And this is part of that book that I have told you that I am writing that I have had to put it down for years, I have titled it: life by design, and there is a segment in there precisely on how to live a fruitful life including the pain that is an ally and is a gift from God, and how we can see in pain and suffering wonderful things about God's goodness and God's good purpose. We can use life's failures many times to grow and be more like Jesus Christ.

For the committed person, take advantage of all the circumstances of life: failures, losses, absences, for their personal growth there are no insurmountable barriers on the way to the top, to personal greatness. Even brother failures and adversity, even those obstacles that cannot be entirely overcome can constitute raw material for success and personal fulfillment, and I would add: happiness.

I recently read the extraordinary story of Steven Wilshere, an extraordinary person well known to the world who has developed a truly exceptional artistic ability. Here is his interesting story related in a London newspaper article I found in a newspaper a while ago.

This article says the following, it says: "For most people having a conversation comes very naturally, but where others use words Steven Wilshere uses pictures, paintings. 33-year-old Steven has autism, a brain defect that limits social and communication skills which left him mute as a child, but that hasn't stopped this man who has been called "the human camera" from becoming very successful in life.His incredible works of art which include landscapes Manhattan and London are all drawn to scale, including the precise number of floors and other structural aspects of those buildings that he paints with great mastery.

Steven has developed his talent to the point that after a 30 minute helicopter ride and a brief aerial tour of the city of Dubai, he now finds himself drawing the city's buildings from memory. The 4.5 meter wide drawing "we're talking fourteen feet wide," which will be completed by tomorrow will have taken just 4 days to complete and will be sold at auction to raise money for the Dubai Autism Center. You can actually look for his drawing, it's on the internet, Steven Wilshere is his name, famous and his paintings are very expensive, very expensive.

"When Steven couldn't speak he would throw big tantrums because he couldn't make himself understood, however his primary school teacher in a London neighborhood saw him cheer up when he was given a pen and paper, this encouraged him to try to express himself through art .

At the age of six he wowed a family friend by accurately drawing the front of Silfridges department store in a much more advanced style than would be expected of a boy his age.

Drawing provided Steven with the motivation to communicate with others and to live an independent life. In fact, it became such a powerful form of communication for him that it was what enabled him to learn to speak, according to his 35-year-old sister, Anette, who travels with him everywhere." And I quote, says his sister: "I we would take him to different distinctive buildings in the city of London and tell him: A is for the Albert Holme Building, B is for Buckingham Palace, to help him learn the language, she adds" there he is drawing the city of Dubai after traveling 30 minutes, painting the buildings of the city of Dubai, "in order to help him learn the language, she adds."

"Steven's language skills have developed tremendously since then, but when we ask him how he feels when he draws, he simply says: I'm happy.

Steven Wilshere is what is known as an autistic savant, a person imprisoned within his own inner world but with a truly extraordinary mysterious talent. Paradoxically, his quote-unquote "personal failure" has endowed him with an incredible artistic gift that delights humanity and has led him to travel all over the world and acquire international fame.

Steven was blessed to meet people along the way who helped him overcome his limitations and discover the path to personal greatness.

I wonder: how many people like him are there in the world imprisoned within an apparent limitation or failure ignoring the fact that their personal tragedy contains a mysterious coded gift from God?

Steven has not been healed but has turned his handicap into a wonderful tool for personal success."

That is why it is important, brothers, that when speaking of personal success and greatness, and of personal health and happiness, we do not undertake this exploration too quickly or too superficially without first looking from a suitable height at the varied territory that we have to cover. That vast space will include high mountains that will delight us with their panoramic vision when we have climbed them, but it will also include valleys of the shadow of death, as the psalmist says, areas of trial and disappointment where the path will be truly difficult and whose nights will be long and exhausting.

Paradoxically, many of us will not reach authentic success and authentic Bible-style happiness without first having experienced failure and pain. In many cases, personal greatness will not be achieved without first making big mistakes and failing spectacularly.

Wilston Churchill, one of the greatest statesmen in history experienced many failures throughout his long and ultimately successful career. He once declared: "Success consists in going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." Sometimes we see Wilston Churchill as the great hero of the Second World War who resisted Nazism and who led English society to one of its highest points in its history, the great English hero, but we do not remember all the serious failures that he had before that, terrible disasters in his career that make it amazing that he could reach that point in his life, and then also, in the end the English rejected him and chose someone else practically after having made the great feat he did to resist Nazism and inspire the whole world to take up the battle against Hitler.

He knew what he was saying when he said that success lies in going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. One of Wilston Churchill's best-known phrases is: "Never, never, never give up" that phrase that came from him is well known because he knew what he was talking about.

No one comes to success, sisters and brothers, or to full happiness, without first experiencing some kind of crucifixion. No hero can hold and enjoy conquered territory without first bearing the marks of sinister wound or shameful defeat. What's more, for some God's resounding no will be all they know about this side of existence with respect to some longed-for dream. Many people will die without realizing the vision that they cherished throughout their existence and only in their eternity will they know why they did not receive what they spent their entire lives longing for and pursuing, and yet it is possible that these are the most fortunate and approved by God.

In Hebrews 11 we are told about the great heroes of faith in the Bible, the famous chapter on faith. Many of these spiritual giants did great feats and accomplished great things during their careers on Earth. The writer of Hebrews speaks of what he says: "By faith they conquered kingdoms, they did justice, they reached promises, they stopped the mouths of lions, they quenched impetuous fires, they avoided the edges of the sword, they drew strength from weakness, they became strong in battles, they put in foreign armies flee" and there the Pentecostals say: glory to God, amen, hallelujah! and we enter into a blessing, right?

But he says: "Others of those same extraordinary heroes, however, were not so lucky." We remember that the result of the efforts of other heroes of the faith that is to teach the Word, their great faith was far from producing what they expected. The apostle says that they were tormented, not accepting the ransom in order to obtain a better resurrection. He says that other of those heroes of the faith experienced taunts and whippings, and in addition to this, prisons and jails. It says that they were stoned, sawed, put to the test, killed by the sword, walked from here to there covered in sheep and goat skins, poor, distressed and mistreated.

I wonder if that image agrees with this idea of easy prosperity that is preached in the Church today, right? If you have God's blessing, you're going to have two Audis in the marquee, three perfectly dressed children and a first-class dog in the house, and a tremendous house, right? These are the people of the faith, these are the heroes of the faith of this superficial time in which we live, and to me it seems like a demonic lie and very destructive for the equal health of the people of God.

So many of these men lived stoned, sawn, put to the test, walking from there to here covered in sheep and goat skins, poor, anguished, mistreated, he says: "Of whom the world was not worthy, wandering through the mountains , through the deserts, through the caves and through the caverns of the earth" great men of faith.

The writer of this epistle seems to suggest that of all those titans of Scripture, the most accomplished and worthy of admiration are not necessarily those who got away with it, those who achieved what they wanted, but paradoxically those who failed in the enterprise, the martyrs, those who experienced a permanent crucifixion. These, the writer suggests, would receive a more excellent reward on the day of the resurrection. They may have inadvertently exchanged the temporary and imperfect achievement for a permanent and eternal triumph. God used your drama, your apparent failure here on Earth to accomplish a much higher end than mere temporary and personal triumph.

These tragic heroes would have mysteriously linked their final destiny at that time in history in which they suffered, to that of countless generations of believers who would come after them and who would suffer similarly. They had to postpone the pleasure of their coronation until a later time, the writer of Hebrews suggests, but they would receive their reward with interest at the end of time.

That is why perhaps the writer adds: "And all these, although they obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive what was promised." Look: they had all the faith in the world but precisely because they had that faith they did not receive what was promised. "God providing something better for us so that they would not be perfected apart from us" is like God said: Guess what? I am going to reserve their coronation for them until other pilgrims in history go through their process and in the end I am going to unite them all, and put them to rest there for a while, and then in the future we will all receive that coronation.

God is very orderly in the things that proceed. We want you to do it now, for me, today, now! but God is a God of order and he says: No, I am going to wait, when we are there we are going to distribute the crowns and the medals, and the recognitions.

So this can happen with many of us. We may undertake some vision or undertaking with great faith and enthusiasm, and we may legitimately fight using the authentic weapons and methodologies of the Kingdom of Light. It is possible that we chase some dream for long years and at the end of the day, day after day, we fall short and do not see it come true. Perhaps we will never be able to achieve here on Earth what we long for and pursue with such excellence, and only in eternity will we know why we were not allowed the privilege of seeing the realization of what we long for so much.

Yet it is possible that in some mysterious and unknown way our life has fulfilled its true purpose and reached its consummation despite apparent failure. Perhaps without realizing it, during our brief pilgrimage on Earth we powerfully blessed others or created the necessary conditions for the world to be impacted or blessed in subtle ways that only God can one day reveal to us.

You don't know who you have blessed. You do not know if it is your son or your brother, or that disciple you taught in a discipleship class, or that person to whom you gave an offering at a given moment in the street and through that gesture of kindness stopped him from committing suicide or whatever. Perhaps you spent your life not knowing that you made a contribution that changed the history of the world, and one day in heaven when you watch the video, you will realize that you did more than you thought you had. .

Edward Kimball's life illustrates this principle eloquently. "Edward Kimball" says, an account I translated, true to all of this, "Edward Kimball was concerned about one of his Sunday school students who worked in a shoe store in town.

One day Kimball visited him in the store, finding the young man working in the back section stocking the shelves, and led him to receive Christ right there. Dwight L. Moody how many have heard of the famous evangelist? Dwight Moody, one of the most powerful men in Evangelicalism in history.

Dwight L. Moody eventually quit his job at the store, that was that young man that Sunday school boy that this humble Sunday school teacher led to meet Jesus Christ, Dwight L. Moody, and that Dwight L. Moody eventually quit his job at the shoe store and became one of the greatest evangelists of all time.

Moody, whose international ministry took him to preach in the British Isles in the Caribbean, once preached in a small chapel pastored by a young man with the impressive name of Frederick Brothertone Meyer. In his sermon Moody recounted with evident emotion the story of his Sunday school teacher personally visiting each student in his class and leading them to Jesus Christ. This message transformed Pastor Meyer's ministry, inspiring him to be an evangelist like Moody.

And after many years Meyer came to North America. And while speaking at North Field," which is a little bit north of here in Boston, Massachusetts, "a young man overheard Meyer say, if you're not willing to sacrifice everything for Christ, are you at least willing to let God take you to be willing? And that comment inspired J. Wilbert Chapman to respond to God's call on his life.

Chapman became one of the most effective evangelists of his day. And a volunteer by the name of Billy Sunday" another great and well-known evangelist here in the United States, "he helped organize his crusades and he learned to preach by watching Chapman" who had been influenced by two or three that Kimball had started that chain of blessing .

"And Billy Sunday eventually took over Chapman's ministry becoming one of the most dynamic evangelists of this century" of the last century, the 20th century, "Billy Sunday's ministry brought thousands of people to the feet of Jesus Christ.

Inspired by a Billy Sunday crusade in Charlotte, North Carolina, a group of Christians vowed to reach their city for Christ. That group invited evangelist Mordecai Ham to come and hold a series of evangelistic meetings in the year 1932. A lanky 16-year-old boy sat in the large crowd one night, dazzled by the message delivered by the grizzled preacher. Every night the preacher seemed to be yelling and pointing the finger exclusively at this young man.

Night after night the young man came to the meetings and finally came forward to give his life to Christ. That teenager was Billy Graham. Billy Graham has shared the Gospel with more people than anyone else in history, and it all started with a Sunday school teacher named Kimball. Millions have been affected by your decision to go to a shoe store and share the Gospel with just one person. Millions will continue to feel its impact."

Life is a network of indecipherable relationships. Everything that exists affects everything else in unpredictable and unknown ways. That is why we will never be able to accurately determine the true scope or triumph of our life here on Earth. The only thing we can do is live faithfully to the principles of the Kingdom of God and leave the final result to the Lord.

There is a movie called It's a wonderful life, how beautiful it is to live, how many have seen it? if you don't run later and see it, and above all save it for Christmas, it's a very beautiful movie, here in the United States it's a tradition to see it for Christmas, it's a movie loved by this nation. It is one of the most beloved films in all of American cinema.

It tells the story of George Bailey, a generous small-town character in the 1940s who has longed all his life to achieve financial success and travel the world, what he doesn't know says, since childhood, his nobility of character. , of this George Bailey has blessed many lives and has prevented great tragedies, but that fact has gone unnoticed, he has never realized how he has blessed the lives of the people around him, although many of the people in his town love that noble, gentle and simple man.

George says the film marries his only girlfriend and has four children, and begins a totally ordinary, conventional and lackluster life, or at least it seems so. As a young man, George tries to enlist in the army but is rejected because of defective hearing, a condition he contracted as a child saving the life of his youngest brother who was about to drown. He is forced to stay in his hometown and assume, against his will, the management of a small loan company founded by his father.

This apparently insignificant business does a lot of good in his small town, and above all it prevents Mr. Patter, a greedy and sinister businessman, from fulfilling his business of buying all the companies in the town and assuming complete control of it.

George is completely frustrated by the seeming insignificance of his life and after financial failure, he decides to commit suicide to pay off the resulting debt with his life insurance, and God sends an angel to Earth to prevent him from committing suicide. He makes him see how valuable his life has really been and how much it has had an impact on the town where he has lived all his life, and grants George a privilege. That part of the angel that appears to him is very humorous, very cute. He grants him a privilege that none of us unfortunately have and that is: to see what would have happened if he had not existed.

After this George, aware of the deep meaning of his life, finds the joy of living again" and the whole film is precisely the account of all the things that would have happened if George had not been alive and had not lived that humble life there. in that totally anonymous town.

"A film commentator has written the following about this beautiful film by Frank Capra, he says: as in many of his films, although in none of them with such brilliance, Capra teaches us about true human values, that far from money, prestige or power, the most important thing is to give yourself to others, to help, to understand, to forget yourself."

Interestingly, How beautiful it is to live, this film we are talking about was forgotten shortly after it was released to the public and it did not achieve commercial success, it was an apparent failure in fact, it lost $525,000 at the time, it did not earn anything but He lost over half a million dollars in the 40's, go figure, the first year.

"Only two decades later" twenty years after it was produced, "when its exclusivity was exhausted and it began to be broadcast on television" especially at Christmas time, "it managed to come out of oblivion and achieve the fame and popularity it so deserved." Interestingly, the same movie experienced that same type of situation, didn't it? apparent failure to later result in great, great success and blessing.

Brothers: this fact reminds us once again that we should not make hasty judgments about the value of anything in this world, because as the writer of Ecclesiastes says: "Time and occasion happen to everyone." Scientists point out that the almost imperceptible beating of a butterfly's wings can alter the ultimate configuration of the universe, this is known in the world of physics as the "butterfly effect". A stone thrown into a lake unleashes ripples in the atomic dimension that subtly affect the physical structure of the world.

Only God knows the true purpose for which we are brought into this world. None of us can say for sure if our life has been a failure or a smashing success, frankly. I am sure that when we get to heaven we will have big surprises. Some tycoons and movie stars will be left out or at the back of the queue while many beggars, like Lazarus, will receive a princely welcome.

That is why in my role as a spiritual adviser I never presume to be able to guarantee anyone that their requests will be answered in the affirmative. Brother, every day I find it more difficult: yes, no, don't worry, that job that you are looking for, in the Name of the Lord we declare it yours now and tomorrow when you go it is yours! or that disease that you have oh! don't worry, in the Name of God that is cancelled, go tomorrow and you; you don't know what the hell God has in mind with that person, honestly.

The more one knows the mysterious designs of God, the more humble one must become, and if he does not, it is because he is obstinate and insincere. Truly God is mysterious, God's gifts sometimes come in strange shapes and dark colored packages, God doesn't just wear little yellow and orange ribbons you know? sometimes there is a black velvet ribbon, but also beautiful and very, very beautiful, and of great value. Don't reject God's gifts because they come in sinister packages, heh, because God is very ironic sometimes in the way he blesses us. We have to be as deep or at least get a little bit closer to that inscrutable God that we serve.

I cannot guarantee anyone that their requests will be answered affirmatively, and I say affirmatively because God always answers our requests, only that many times He answers with a merciful and paternal "no", knowing full well that His refusal is the best answer for our desires. simplistic happiness and personal fulfillment. God is so complex and elusive, so unpredictable and mysterious in His marvelous interventions in our lives that the best posture before His Sovereignty is what I call a humble preventive submission, a meek and unconditional acceptance of His unfathomable and loving Will.

That preventive submission means that each of us must, after all. I say: when one enters the Gospel one must, or God expects you to sign a blank sheet and at the end you write your name approving whatever God wants to write on that sheet. And you have heard me speak many times about the God who blesses us, prospers us, heals us, opens doors for us, my life is a reflection of the Grace and mercy of God, the God who takes us out of poverty, the ghetto, the anonymity and puts us in the places of princes. But in the same way I can also tell you that I have on my body the marks of Christ in many places, the wounds, the failures, the defeats, the defects, and God has glorified himself in all of that.

And I believe that the pains and sufferings of life make us more humble, simpler, more loving, more patient, more dependent on God, less arrogant, more compassionate towards others, they make us more like Christ. I have told you many times that God's desire is not for us to be comfortable but for us to be great and powerful, and to reflect the Grace of Christ.

I would say that the only purpose that God has in the world that we can depend on is that each day we become more and more like His Son Jesus Christ, of that you can be sure, you can go to the store with that, that God will to always do everything possible so that you come to reflect His beauty, His greatness, His power.

And therefore let us understand that everything we go through in life God is using it for wonderful purposes, we cannot. I told a sister recently, or a brother, I don't remember: look at what you are going through at this moment, if you photograph it right now and stop this, then you are going to get depressed because that photo is frozen in the now of this moment, this process, but you are living not a photograph but a movie, and we don't know the end of that movie.

Many times we freeze the processes we are experiencing and say: oh this is the moment, this is final, this is what. You do not know; tomorrow maybe the sun rises, the birds begin to sing, the birds begin to sing, the trees come alive again, spring comes again. Never declare defeat at this time because you still don't know if God is the end point of a process that will continue and end in something great and beautiful. I can tell you that God's end is always good, that I can assure you. The processes can be difficult but the end is glorious, hallelujah.

And certainly here on Earth we will never receive everything we want, everything we crave. This world, that is why I tell you, is a fallen world, I want to talk a little more about that. The apostle Paul says that creation groans waiting for the day of its release. The planets themselves, the galaxies, the fish in the sea, the trees moan in silent but powerful ways knowing that they are not all that they should be, they do not have all the colors that they should, they do not make all the glorious sounds that God gave them. destined for them to broadcast when he created them in Eden and eagerly await the arrival of the day of their release.

Meanwhile, winter comes, spring, autumn, the leaves fall, other leaves are put on again, the little birds migrate from the north to the south in winter and return in the spring waiting for the day of their release. We also have to do the same.

When things get cold let's get into the arms of the Lord until the cold passes. Let us take refuge in prayer, in praise, in the declaration of the good future that God has for us, and one day the devil gets tired and leaves, and then he has to give in for the blessing to come.

The Word says: "Having passed the bad day, stand firm" hallelujah. I tell you one thing: God will never allow us to be tested beyond what we can bear, but the Word says that along with the test comes the exit, the blessing. I know that the Lord will never allow me to be broken by the devil, he will always give me victory over and over again, and everything that happens in my life, says the Word, "to those who love God all things help good." Tell yourself that every day three times a day with each meal. If God loves you, something good will always come out of any situation you go through.

I want you to be encouraged on this day. Do you understand why I speak of pain? For me, pain is liberating, it is glorious, it is beautiful, it is sublime, I am not saying it to depress us, on the contrary, it is to strengthen us and to know that God has provided an antidote to all suffering through Christ Jesus and provided it to through the most sinister instrument of all, a cross, an electric chair from the first century, in this way God defeated the devil on the cross and annulled the act of decrees that was contrary to us says the apostle Paul.

God already nailed it all to the cross. Do not allow the devil to accuse you of guilt or fear, or a sense of abandonment, no, that is what he whispers in your ears, but you have to say: no, Christ is with me, Christ will take me out of all trials and all difficulty, and in the end I will shine like gold that, passed through the crucible, is purified and becomes much more valuable.

Bow your head with me right now and let's thank God. If you are going through a situation in your life, if you are going through a trial, if something has bitten you in your life or in these last few months, if you have tired of asking God for something you have longed for and desired, and not you have received it, this morning I beg you to embrace God's declaration that He has you carved in the palm of His hands and that no one will be able to separate you from Him, and that He will never forget you, and that His purposes for you they are good, "Because I know the purposes that I have about you, thoughts of good and not of evil to give you the end that you expect" says Jeremiah 29:11.

I declare over your life the goodness of God. If you are going through trials and difficulties, lacks and things not received that you wanted so much, embrace your destiny in Christ Jesus. And I declare upon you peace and joy, and hope, and blessing, and joy, and a song in the midst of the storm to the glory of the Name of Jesus. We thank you, thank you Father.

Help me to believe what I am saying. Help us to absorb Your Truth, that heaven and earth will pass but it will not, Your purposes will never change, Your character will never change. Thank you that you love us in inconceivable ways Lord and we are precious to you. May Your people leave here sure of Your eternal love and invincible Father, and how precious they are in Your eyes, thank you Lord in Jesus Name. And the people of God say: amen, God bless you my brothers, glory to the Lord, we are going to declare that grace of God this morning and leave here confident.