Within the Christmas story there are also moments of terror

How many have ever felt doubt in their life in their spiritual career? How many have experienced questioning and not knowing exactly what God is doing in your life at a given moment, when everything seems to go gray and God doesn't make sense, and you think they are getting on you? some charges that you did not originally agree to when you signed at the bottom of the page saying you were going to enter the Gospel. You did not agree to get involved in these things, but God is putting you in, for the moment you discover yourself in something that you do not know how it will end and you feel uncertain about whether you are capable of going through that moment that God has given you. is going through.

And you start to doubt and ask questions and question yourself and maybe even question God and you find yourself in a terrible bind and you say how is God going to get me out of this mess I've gotten myself into, where is God going to get me out of this mess? God the rabbit in the hat? and we ask questions of the Lord.

And I want to talk about that aspect of things in the Christmas story, because many times we remember Christmas and think about beautiful things, right? and the tender details, the manger, the Child and that night of peace and night of love, but we do not know that also within the Christmas story there are moments of terror and moments of great uncertainty, and people who were involved in the Christmas story were changing right before their very eyes, and God was throwing them challenges and getting them into some awfully scary areas too, they didn't know what God was doing at that moment.

And these three characters that I want to talk about exemplify this element of doubt, of fear, of questioning God, of uncertainty when God gets into our life and is changing it, and is changing the furniture in the house, and is pulling things out the window, and even setting fire to some things we love to replace it with other better things. And in those moments it is good to remember that these characters, like us, also felt afraid, they even felt terrified, they questioned, but God in each of these cases was faithful, and these people, when their experience ended, found themselves at a much higher level. higher than they were when they originally started.

This question of: how will God do what he says he is going to do in my life, how is it possible for this to happen and how is he doing it? That's why this sermon if I had a title I would put: "It's okay to doubt, it's okay to doubt once in a while." The thing is: how do we do it and what is the inner character of our being when we are doing, when we are going through this experience? we are perhaps doubting or questioning in agony or anguish.

After years of preaching Christmas sermons I am always challenged: ok, what new angle can I find in the story, what new lessons can I offer the Congregation? Instead of preaching the same sermon all the time I try to ask the Holy Spirit to give me a new way of interpreting, something new, a new element to extract from these Christmas stories, for example the time of the resurrection and other special moments like that. of the Christian calendar. And I like to focus on different aspects of the text and the story, in this case a Christmas story and that is why I want to dwell on that element that exists in Christmas, of doubt, questioning and uncertainty.

And why is it important in the Christmas story to focus on that element? Because when God moves in a powerful way in our lives or in the human sphere, strange and unexpected things often happen, God is an unpredictable God, the Bible says that His thoughts are not like our thoughts and His purposes are certainly not like ours. purposes.

Many times when God gets into the scenario of our life our world can be revolutionized and turned upside down, that's why I tell you: don't ask God to get in your life because you may have problems. I tell my brother Pastors, many times they say: I want a revival in my Church, I tell them: look, if you are willing to pay the price, because there is a price to pay. Many times when God interferes many times you have to knock down a number of things, dig holes and at first what you see is like a crater everywhere and a terrible explosion before God begins to order things.

We must prepare for anything, we have to format our mind. As children of God when we enter into the drama and spiritual journey of our lives, we have to fasten our seatbelts because God is not so much interested in us being comfortable as in reaching higher and higher heights and having Christ formed in us. , and that is why sometimes God puts us in these processes, and we better be prepared; our attitude, our expectation and our mentality are correct, let us be open to what God wants to do, let us be flexible, let us be full of faith, let God be God.

The announcement of the birth of Jesus is like that, it is something different. It is accompanied by wonderful and miraculous events, and we all know the terror, for example, of the shepherds when these angels appear to them and the night of Jesus' birth is invaded by an explosion of light and mysterious beings, and they are filled with terror, and the angels tell them: Don't worry, don't worry, God is doing something wonderful.

And several angels appeared to the people who were involved in the Christmas story. These three people experienced angelic visitations because God was organizing an event of incredible magnitude and wanted his messengers, and not just any angel, in two cases at least two archangels to appear, in one of the cases the archangel Michael. Again, when God begins like this in those spectacular moments we have to be prepared for Him to take us in unexpected directions.

The first character we see here is the priest Zacarías who would ultimately turn out to be the father, the father of John the Baptist. And Zacharias we see that he is visited by an angel while carrying out his priestly work, in Luke chapter 1:17 the angel announces that he and his wife Elizabeth are going to be the parents of a very mysterious, very powerful man who will be "possessed". so to speak by the spirit of Elijah, the great prophet Elijah, fulfilling a prophecy that is given in the Old Testament that Elijah would come at the time of the appearance of the Messiah and would do a work of reconciliation between God and the people.

In verse 17 the angel tells Zacharias that this being, John, who is to be born, will go before the Messiah with the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and of the rebellious to the prudence of the just, and prepare for the Lord a well-disposed people. And Zacarías, who is a priest with experience in the things of the faith and the things of the Lord, when he hears this announcement, what is interesting is that instead of feeling overwhelmed by his great blessing of finally having a son, a man who had already abandoned all idea of having offspring and God tells him that he is going to have a son, and yet what Zacharias does is that he reacts with a question that we are going to see, reveals disbelief and questions God's purpose.

Because Zacharias in verse 18 says to the angel: Well how will I know this? because I am old and my wife is old. Now this might seem like a very reasonable question, but the difference from another question that we are going to see later is that the angel discerns that Zacharias is questioning God, Zacharias is saying: but this is not possible. It is impossible for us to have a child because my wife is barren and we are both old enough, we cannot conceive.

I was saying this morning that if one were like a cinematographer and one was making the score (the music for this film) when the angel Gabriel is announcing the birth of John to Zacharias, the background music is music full of promise, full of spirit, very beautiful, very welcoming in a sense, but at the moment Zacarías's question kills the atmosphere and is a discordant note, have you seen those changes of notes like this in music and at the moment there is a note how jarring? like the violin goes out of key and everything changes, and the air is rather filled with doubt.

And then this angel who up to that moment is telling this great promise to this man also becomes stern, and if we could see it on film his face would change, it would become like a metallic shine, like burnished bronze, and his eyes they would become very severe, and I think their size would grow, and those great wings that the archangels supposedly have would open wide, and they would pounce on Zacharias, and we would hear this voice of thunder that says: "I am Gabriel who is here." before God and I have been sent to speak to you and send you this good news, and now you will be dumb, and you will not be able to speak until the day this is done, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in due time." Be careful how you react to that blessing if it doesn't appear as you want it to appear.

Zacharias questioned the Will of God, his question was a question of questioning integrity. That is why he tells him: "Because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in due time" in other words, God has every intention that this is fulfilled and has sent me, I am Gabriel who stands before God It was not just any angel that God sent to make this announcement to this man.

I think one of the reasons why the angel's reaction was a bit harsh is also that Zacharias would expect more of him. Zacarías is a priest, he is a man of the Word, he has been educated in the Word of the Lord and Zacarías should have read the Scriptures. First he would have to know that God is a God of portents: opening the Red Sea and making fire fall from heaven, and destroying an army of thousands with a few men, and not only that, but Zacharias had read the stories where God had done that barren women and elderly people have children.

There we have the story of Abraham and Sarah at almost a hundred years of age who have Isaac. The story of Ana who was barren for a long time and came to the Throne of God in the temple, wept and God gave her not only a great prophet, the prophet Samuel, but he gave her other children after that, he opened her womb. Samson's mother, Emanoa's wife also had a son. Like, many times when God wanted to raise up powerful men, He chose the impossible to show His glory and show His Power, and Zacharias had to understand these stories.

Listen to me, what an interesting thing that when we are often experiencing the miracles of God, we Christians kind of think that these accounts of Scripture are for those times and sometimes the great moves of God are for other people, like the God's interventions are for specialists in religion. And many times God wants to work in your life and in my life, and when God gets into our life as if we are not prepared, we do not believe that God can do the same things that he did in other times and with other people for ourselves. .

I believe that one of the problems sometimes with Christians is that we do not discern the God who wants to discern the same dramas of Scripture in our own lives, and that many times there are things that happen, and we have to have the eyes to see our life in the light of divine schemes and stories to understand that what is here is simply a model, that is all, so that we can understand the ways in which He is moving in us, that we have a spiritual discernment.

My eyes are always alert for any movement in my life to try to discern. Listen to me, what can God be doing right now? because I see myself as the protagonist of a biblical-style spiritual drama. And therefore if my eyes are not attentive to what God can be in my life I can miss out on God's visitation. I believe that many times the problem with many of us is that God wants to make us pregnant, God wants to fertilize us, God wants us to give birth to children and when God appears to us and he does it in an unexpected or humble or daily way, we reject him and we close the womb, and we do not allow ourselves to be impregnated, to use a graphic word, by the Power of the Holy Spirit.

For example, I can tell you, with this matter of our granddaughter, excuse me for coming back to the same topic, I know that there is something prophetic in that, and that God is speaking to our lives, because God works through His children. and of his prophets, and that births, deaths, illnesses, life events, God is speaking through everything, the world is full of language, And for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear God He is going to tell you something, he is going to speak to you in some way.

We have to be attentive with our eyes, brothers, because these dramas may be taking place in us too, and God may be doing unexpected things, and we cannot doubt, we cannot think: well, that was for those times, but right now, that is not for me. I think that was what motivated the somewhat severe reaction of the angel who got up and said: look, I'm not just any messenger from the United States mail, no, I'm Gabriel who stands before God and God It has a purpose for your life, immense, and that is why now you are going to be silent for a while so that you can learn.

I believe that God discerned that in the heart of Zacarías there was a great one, God was visiting him and Zacarías was not up to it. And as he questioned God, God told him: I am going to impose a discipline on you and therefore you are going to remain mute for a while.

I think that Zacarías' muteness was like a time of reconsideration. And again it was like God was reviving the themes of that Scripture, because let's remember another case, when God reacts in a very severe way with respect to the barren fig tree, when the Bible says that He put His Hand into the fig tree, because It was very leafy, it had a number of leaves, a beautiful bush, and when the Lord was walking He put His Hand in to pick a fig and found that it was barren, many branches but few fruit, and the Scripture says that the Lord cursed the fig tree, He said to him: Never again will fruit be born of you.

And one wonders why the Lord reacted so severely with that fig tree: was it because he hadn't had breakfast and was in a bad mood? No, I think the Lord sensed something. The Lord realized that that fig tree represented another fig tree that was barren that we saw and said: Israel is like a fig tree that does not bear fruit, in another case like a vineyard that does not bear grapes, which had received so many gifts, had received so much God's revelation, he had so much, and yet he had done nothing with what God had given him and all the messages of the Lord had fallen on deaf ears, and there was no prophetic Word in Israel at that time. Religion was completely dead, there was no Voice of God.

And I believe that all this was playing in the mind and in the subconscious of God when God reacts to this priest who is the very essence of the Hebrew people who shows himself as a rough, clumsy man, without hearing the miraculous tones that God wanted touch, and then he says: Well I'm going to discipline you for a while. And I believe that the time that Zacarías spent mute was a time of reflection, of God working in his soul and digging deep so that in another moment he could be what God wanted him to be.

And we see that at the end of the story when John is finally born God opens Zacharias' mouth again, and he then announces the will that his son's name be John, and God was prepared for that moment because then, the whole village breaks out in a sense of: wow, this is amazing, who is this wonderful being? God set the whole stage for His glory to be manifested.

So in a sense, yes, God disciplined him but he also blessed him and fulfilled His Will, because even when we fail God many times in the things that He wants to do in our lives, you know? God is the God of second chances, God is merciful and God deals with us and takes advantage of our failures to take us to another level of blessing.

And Zacarias fulfilled his purpose. I think all this history tells us: look, sometimes we can fail God, sometimes it's okay, even when we question it and even when sometimes God tightens our belt a little but He has His purposes and He is going to do something wonderful in our life.

Let's not be like Zacharias brothers, one of the things that we must learn from this story is that look: we come to Church Sunday after Sunday, we go to a discipleship course, there are so many ways in which the Word of God is proclaimed over our lives, and many of us unfortunately can be like broken sacks who do not take God's supernatural patterns seriously, and God tells us: Take me seriously because I am doing a great work and I can work in your life in the same way in that I worked on the pages of Scripture. Stay prepared, stay alert, stay curious, stay keen for My Word, live the Christian life on the living fire, don't be like those indolent priests so rude. Sometimes we who know the accounts of the Word can be the least sensitive people to the Word of the Lord and God wants us to be serious about this.

The last thing I see about the story with Zacarías is that wow, in this Christmas story where there are so many elements of grace, of mercy, of God's love, the God who seeks reconciliation, the God who is sending His Son as a humble baby to speak to us and reconcile with us, there is also an element of judgment and discipline for which we have to take God very seriously, we cannot play with God.

Today I see so many people who summarize the Christmas story as: Everything is God loves us, Jesus came to accept everyone, to receive everyone, to forgive us everything, etc. and that is true up to a certain point, but the Bible also says that God is love but he is also a consuming fire, and we have to take seriously the works of God in our life. I believe that Zacarías learned a great lesson through his failure and his questioning.

But we also have another character, very interestingly, who asks the Lord a very similar question, and it is Mary. It says in the story right there in Luke chapter 1 beginning with the verse, yes but let's go later, verse 34 and I'm going to tell a little before that, right? The angel Gabriel appears again to this humble maiden and tells her: You are going to have a son who will be the Son of the Most High God, and by the way Mary is also troubled, he says in verse 29, she was troubled by the angel's words who comes to bring her a blessing and says: Mary, you've won the lottery, God is happy with you and you're going to be the mother of the Messiah, right?

But Mary is disturbed by his words and says: what a greeting, what do you eat that with, what will this angel have with me here? and is filled with fear too. Many times when God enters our life to bless us it can seem like it is something negative and it can bring doubt to our hearts.

And then the angel tells her as he told Zacharias, look: "This being that is going to be born from your womb is a very powerful being and from now on they are going to call you blessed among all women, you will give birth to a son and you will call his name Jesus, he will be great, he will be called Son of the Most High and the Lord your God will give him the Throne of David, his father, he will reign over the house of Jacob, His Kingdom will have no end." Wow, how many promises.

And then Mary asks herself a question in verse 34 and says to the angel: how will this be? Well, I don't know a man, another question as Zacarías asked him. But notice that Maria's question is qualitatively different. The heart of Maria and the mind of Maria are different. Sometimes the words are very similar but the spirit is different and thank God that God discerns the thoughts and intentions of the heart, God does not only take from physical appearance or our physical words. Sometimes the heart is saying something else and it seems the same.

In Mary's heart there was no questioning of whether or not God could do that, but rather Mary's question was like a practical question: wow but I am a maiden, I am a virgin, Lord, how is it that You are going to do this?

And if you think, I tried to put myself in the mind and in the attitude of a woman, it was difficult for me but I did it. You think that they say to a young woman: you are going to have a son and you are going to take him nine months, and he is going to be the Son of the Most High God, he is going to be great. I think women are going to ask themselves: ok Lord, let's see, how are you going to do this? I am going to carry that creature for nine months in my womb. What are you going to do, how do I have to prepare myself? Women always think about that.

I told the brothers this morning: many times I get excited about an activity and I tell Meche: Meche, we are going to invite a group of brothers to the house, or we are going to have a dinner for Pastors or whatever, and I mess with the idea or with the project but Meche always tells me: well, okay, how are we going to do it, how many people are you going to invite and what day is it going to be, and how are we going to prepare the table, and how are we going to reconcile working hours. Women are always thinking about the how of things, right? and they are thinking about the system itself, and asking very practical questions.

I think that Maria's question was rather: Ok Lord, what are you going to do in me, how is my biology going to change, how can I prepare myself for that moment that you are going to bring into my life? I believe that we sometimes have the right to speak to the Lord and ask Him about the things He is doing in us.

I believe that we have a very communicative God and that if we ask him, he is willing to answer. If we give him time and go in with an attitude of humility and meekness, he respects our questions.

And the angel Gabriel, in this case, answers Mary very gently because Mary's question is a very legitimate question, and describes her: Look, what is going to happen is that the Holy Spirit will come upon you like a cloud of life, it will settle upon you and the Holy Spirit will be like rain, a cloud full of moisture, of life that will impregnate you. And the same thing that happens with a woman when she is impregnated with the seed of a man, so you are going to be impregnated with the very life of God that is going to perch on you, and your biology is going to undergo a change, and thus you are going to to be fecundated, and then the being that will be born from you will be a holy being, and it will have a divine dimension because it is the nature of God that will be imparted to your body, and a mysterious chemistry will be given. He didn't take as long to say it as I'm saying, but you get the idea, right?

A mysterious chemistry is going to take place and the divine is going to unite with the human, and that being that is going to be born from your womb is going to be a product of two dimensions and two natures, so don't be afraid, don't worry, God has already that biology set up and He's an expert in chemistry and biology and all the other things, and He knows exactly how it's going to be done.

And do you know what Mary says when the angel tells her what is going to happen? She says: "Here is the servant of the Lord, be done with me as the Lord wants, according to Your Word." Mary gives evidence of a heart subject to the Lord, a humble heart and truly reveals what the question was, the origin of what the question was, what was behind her question.

Brothers, how important it is that we, first. I say to the Lord: Lord, always help me, if you are doing something strange in my life, if you do something strange and different in my life, if you do something that I do not understand how it will end and why you are doing it , that in my heart there will always be, and in our hearts, there will always be that willingness to lower our heads and say: Lord, Your Will be fulfilled, be done as You want, even if I do not understand everything. But ultimately, although I cannot explain everything after having asked you, fulfill Your purpose because You know well what You are going to do.

How many times did María have to give up at that moment because she knew that this young woman, in a village who was pregnant at the moment, listen to me, who was going to believe her? oh Mary you are pregnant! oh that was the Holy Ghost. oh! yeah, sure. She knew that for the rest of her life she was going to be marked, people were not going to know what she was doing with her life and they were going to question her, however she lowered her head and said: Lord, here I am, I am your vessel, make me what you want. That is the attitude that we have to have before the Lord, to have an attitude of preventive acceptance.

Say to yourself right now in your heart: Lord, whatever You want to do with my life I am willing, let Your Will be fulfilled in my, I only ask You: give me faith, give me strength, give me obedience to abide by what You want in my life and always be a docile instrument in Your Hands.

In this year we do not know what God may have ahead for us but I know that God has a plan, he has a purpose, he has a story, he has a narrative and when we are going through a situation, let us go into the prayer room, Let's talk to God, let's submit our questions and then in the end let's lower our heads and say: Lord, let Your Will be done and not mine, and I assure you that your life will always be blessed and God will always give you His gifts and His consolation prizes.

The last character we have in the Christmas story is who dares to tell me who it would be? I don't think I've ever preached this sermon before but it looks like you guys are good Bible readers, let's wrap it up, Omar if you're around. I want to talk to you about this third character because José exemplified and exemplifies so many things.

When our world is falling apart, when it is falling apart, when our illusions are fading, we have to have the attitude of José. Because the story tells us, in fact in Matthew chapter 1, that Joseph discovered that his fiancée was pregnant, she was pregnant. He did not have the benefit of an angel that appeared to him before and told him: Joseph, your fiancée is going to be impregnated by the Holy Spirit and do not worry, everything is fine, the Lord is in control and He is doing it, not . José simply finds out how did he find out? We are not sure, perhaps it was that María told him or perhaps a little time had passed and María's tummy was beginning to show, or we do not know how but José discovers that his beloved fiancée, his girlfriend whom he is going to marry .

And I want you to understand the seriousness of a commitment in the Jewish world. It wasn't like commitment is simply something, optional, if it's good, if not, there's no problem, etc., no. In the Hebrew tradition an engagement was almost like a wedding and it was not a matter of: let's date and see what happens, it was a matter of: no, once a commitment was declared publicly, correct me if I'm wrong, Gregory He is the expert in Hebrew literature and all these things, no.

They were already practically married, although the formal wedding and the consummation of the marriage had not yet taken place. So at the moment this man discovers that his wife/fiancée has been unfaithful to him because it is the only explanation he has, his world is falling apart. But notice how wonderful this man is that I believe that is why he was chosen by God, in each of these characters there was a reason why God had chosen them, because God wanted to manifest through them for the benefit of us, that We were going to read and interpret the Christmas story, values, which we also have to extract from the Word and apply to our own lives.

And what does José teach us with his simple and noble character? Joseph says the Bible that when he found out that Mary was pregnant, he decided to leave her discreetly because he did not want to defame her, he did not want to hurt her. José did not do as some of us would do, that offended in our pride we would go around saying: look what this woman did. He says that what José did was: you know what? Well, I'm not going to marry her but I'm going to leave her secretly.

I have sometimes told people that they have had such difficult situations, I recently had a conversation with someone. This person did not want to separate in their marriage but he had no other choice, long story, and one of the things that I told him because there were other complexities in the situation, I told him: look, you don't give in to wanting to reveal these things to no one, keep all discretion, take the high ground and act here as a Christian: respect the honor of that person, do not take revenge, do not try to harm his reputation in any way, but leave things alone and you will see that God He's going to bless you and reward you for that, right?

How important, brothers and sisters, that we always exemplify in our lives the values of mercy, love, generosity, not seeking revenge, leaving judgment to the Lord because God is very faithful and our part, simply remitting all things to the Lord. Every day I am more and more convinced of the importance of generosity in the life of the believer. The apostle Paul says that: "Your kindness be known to all men."

That character of kindness, of generosity is so important and it is what I think makes this world not the greater hell it could be. I'm thinking right now of that terrible murder of two police officers in Brooklyn, two men there trying to do their job. I know that there are terrible things that have happened in this nation that have caused the indignation of many people thirsty for justice, I understand that and many injustices are committed. But the murder of two officers who really had nothing to do with that situation and the suicide of this other person, and revenge, what it does is that it does terrible damage to such a noble cause, protesting the injustices of the authorities and takes away weight, takes away height, takes away legitimacy from the legitimate cry for justice.

What that does is it generates more hate, blood brings more blood. And so this morning I actually celebrated the spirit of Martin Luther King that in the midst of the most terrible oppression in this nation and the greatest injustice of our African American brothers in the '60s and '50s, he said: yes, We are going to seek justice, we are going to resist injustice, but he said we are going to do it peacefully, we are not going to be burning tires and destroying businesses, but we are going to let the justice of our cause make the difference.

Mahatma Ghandi in India equally brought the English empire to its knees with his peace protest and finally the English empire had to back down and give in to India's demands for independence, because love and peace do things that no other force can. do, mercy, kindness. I believe that we as Christians should always understand the importance of these attitudes of generosity, we cannot live in anger and resentment, and the. you made me and I am going to make you, you told me, I am going to tell you. In marriage, in friendship, at work, the difference is in those men and women of peace and good will, that is what makes the difference for a work environment to be blessed and we have to imitate that same thing. in our lives.

And Joseph, although it seemed that his world had been torn apart, although it seemed that God had abandoned him, although his dreams of married happiness seemed to have fallen to the ground, José decided to maintain the values of the Kingdom of God. And that's why God responded to his doubt, God responded to his agony and sent an angel to him too. This angel appeared to him in a dream and said: "Joseph, don't worry, it's not that your girlfriend, your fiancée, has been unfaithful to you, but that God has decided to visit her with His Power and you join her, and start this race that God It is destined for the two of you together, and don't worry, the Lord is blessing you, and He will take care of everything that lies ahead.

The Word says the same thing again, that Joseph lowered his head and joined his wife, and the story continues and Joseph will always be before us an example of the fruit of the Holy Spirit and of God that when things do not work out as we expected, when we lower our heads, we use values of faith and mercy, the Lord is always in charge of making everything work out well, amen?

So this afternoon, brother, I invite you to lower your head for a moment, amen, amen, glory to God for the values of the Kingdom of God, lower your head for a second. Think about what part, what elements of the life of Zacarías or María or José you need and I need to incorporate into our life. If you are going through a difficult time, if the year has been difficult for you, you have had some losses, God has spoken in ways that you did not expect, you have had some kind of struggle and difficulty, give the Lord time.

If you find yourself in a bind and you don't know how God is going to get you out of that place where you find yourself, remember the God who calls the barren to have a family, the God who already has a plan of how he is going to fertilize you, the God who knows exactly the timing and sequence of the miracle he is going to perform in your life, the God who is not going to let your life end in a dead end, even though right now it looks like the train is going to go and crash into a mountain, you are going to discover that at the very moment that this is going to happen, a hole is going to open and the train will pass through the tunnel and come out on the other side, because we have a merciful God, a God of love.

Expand your capacity to experience miracles in your life, get involved in being a protagonist of His drama here on Earth. Right now God wants you to be like Mary, to be like Joseph, He is creating His own Christmas drama in your life. And what drama are you creating through the León de Judá Congregation? in this multi-ethnic and multinational, and multicultural community, even though we don't know how our ministry is going to end Lord, even though we don't know exactly what You have on your hands with our marriage or with that rebellious son, or with this financial situation that we are in going.

Father, this afternoon in faith we declare that You are not asleep, that You are present, that You are working in our lives, that You are creating a precious drama, Lord, that you will fertilize and make the life of God shine in our lives and around us. of us. I bless this Father Congregation in all its drama, in all its pain, I know that You pity us and I think of all those who at this moment are suffering some struggle and are in doubt.

Father, may your hearts be affirmed, may your faith not fail as Christ prayed for His disciples when they were going to be tempted before the crucifixion, may this community be able not only to endure but even to prosper in the midst of its trials and its difficulties. Thank you for Christ Jesus, thank you because He defeated principalities and powers, and because He removed all accusation from us, and today we can freely come before the Throne of Grace and ask for help Lord on Your behalf for our needs, bless Your people Lord and may the peace of the Christmas story rest on our hearts, in the Name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen and amen, thank you Lord, thank you Father, we bless you Lord, thank you, amen, amen. God bless you brothers, the grace of the Lord be with all of you, amen.