Write the vision and declare it in tables

Last Sunday I was talking about the importance of having a clear vision, of visualizing the things that we see on the screen of our mind, the images that we hold in our minds, and I encouraged them and invited them to make creative use of the ability to to visualize things, to see your future, to see yourself, how you see yourself, how you see God. Sometimes just looking at those things, what do you see in your mind, how do you see God, do you see him as a dark, accusing, legalistic being, ready to attack you at any moment if you step out of line? ? Or do you see him as a loving, tender, faithful, compassionate Father who walks with you each day? How do you see yourself? Do you see yourself as a person devoid of abilities, endowment, talents, value? Or do you see yourself as a person that God has created with a specific purpose in life?

And you can visualize in your mind the person you want to be, the person you want to become, and see it in 3 dimensions and in color. Can you do that? because it depends on how you see yourself, and perhaps the situation that you are experiencing at this moment, the person that you are at this moment is far from being that person that you believe that God has called you to be.

Stop looking at yourself so much at the moment how you are and see how God can one day lead you to see yourself. Do you have there the image of the lion and the kitten that I always use in the retreats of the conferences? This kitten that looks like he doesn't have a teeny tiny ego at all, he doesn't have a good self-esteem. He sees himself as a great lion, ready to roar. And I was telling the brothers last time that I could imagine that kitten jumping through the mirror and into it, and turning into that big lion and roaring. And that's how your life should be, where you have to ask yourself what you want to become.

And we can all benefit from a good image of ourselves and our future, visualize yourself, how you want to see yourself in the Kingdom of God, how you see yourself as a wife, as a mother, as a professional or as a housewife , as an individual, as a friend or friend, your body, your self-control, the values and virtues that you want to display in your life. It takes your time to visualize those things and to elicit the energies that you need to become that.

Many of us do not dream, I said last Sunday, with what we want to be, we do not fantasize. I am a big believer in purposeful fantasy. I really believe in thinking creatively, visualizing creatively, giving yourself time to cultivate what you want to become and see it clearly because whatever you see in your mind... you know that when you visualize something your brain literally begins to react, the neurons of your brain, many times the part of your brain that has to do with what you are visualizing is activated.

I recently read about an experiment that was done with basketball players from a university well known for its basketball team, and it was suggested to these basketball players that... the group of basketball players was divided into 3 groups and one group was going to do their exercises normally, practicing everything that has to do with basketball, as they always did well intensively. This was done over a number of days, 30 days I think it was. That first group simply had to physically practice the skills.

Another group was not going to physically practice, but their mind in a well concentrated and well organized way, they were going to simply visualize, in their mind they were going to see themselves executing different types of practices, movements, exercises that had to do with basketball. These people weren't going to physically practice at anything, just visualize themselves practicing, imagine shooting a ball or running, defending the ball, drilling or whatever, any type of exercise that had to do with that specifically, but they weren't going to to do any physical practice, that part is important.

And the third group was just not going to do anything, they weren't going to practice or anything, they were just going to do as a control, a point of comparison for the others. He says that at the end of those 30 days, or whatever number it was, those who had practiced in a very concentrated and well-disciplined way, had improved following the training, about 24% of their performance, their performance. Those who did not practice at all stayed the same, they did not have any progress and they did not have a decline either. But those who only visualized, who did not do any type of exercise but did execute the practice movements in their minds, said that they improved by 23%, almost the same as those who practiced. That indicates something and I've read several like this.

There was another neurologist who spoke about when one, for example, has done an experiment with people who in their mind visualize themselves playing a piano and executing the motions and movements of the piano on their fingers, that part of their brain, because the As you measure electronically with the methods and instruments that you have, that part of your brain that would react to or direct those movements is doing the equivalent as well. That part of the brain is firing, you see the activity, like people are actually practicing.

Now, don't think that, well, what I'm going to do is I'm going to visualize myself and I'm going to get there… No, that has its complexities, but the interesting thing is that there is a brain equivalence to what we visualize and imagine. And that is why it is so important that we understand that equivalence that exists between what you dedicate time to imagine, to create, to move.

That's why the power of symbols in the Gospel, so many different symbols. You raise your hands, and what are you doing? When you raise your hands I hope that you are visualizing that you are before an august, great presence and you are either worshiping or asking for something, or you are getting closer to heaven. There are a number of things that you are activating when you raise your hands.

When you kneel you are showing humility, but you are also concentrating and you are entering... when one is kneeling one is sort of collected looking inward. You close your eyes and it's like I'm going to dive inside myself.

So these symbols of the Gospel and of the Christian faith are tremendously powerful because they remind us and activate things. A flag of a nation, the logo of a company, activates energies that are needed to carry out a task.

So I have talked to you about the importance of visualizing, of activating things, energies in your life through active visualization. But a positive visualization, not negative, but optimistic in the Lord.

I also encourage you when you read the word to visualize what you are reading. See Jesus healing the paralytic, see him walking on the water, visualize these things, interact with the word of God because this will give you a deeper dimension and you will get more benefit from the things you read and meditate on. Don't just read them superficially, put your mind and spirit inside them.

So, when I talk about vision or visualizing, I am referring in part to that idea of using your imagination, using the screen of your mind to see in 3 dimensions what you want to be or become one day in your life. If you find… I encourage you to find an image, nowadays on the internet that is so rich, it is so easy nowadays to go to images and for example, think of something that you would like to use as a motto to your life, as an image towards which you will want to go in your life. It can be the figure of a wise woman and at peace with herself, reflecting joy or intelligence or wisdom, or perhaps a war attitude, or a healthy and strong person, whatever, look for something that you… art has so many wonderful things who can help us.

There are so many beautiful images that you can find and use as 'this is going to be my motto' for my life, and every time I look at it I'm going to think, that's going to be me, that's going to be me, that's what What am I going to achieve in my life? I encourage you to do that at some point as an exercise, and I think that's going to be hugely transformative.

Another of the ways in which we can see things is to have a very detailed vision about the values that we want to govern our life, the values and virtues that we want to govern our life. Our church has a vision and a mission that we have developed and stated, just in case some of you don't know it, because it's important that you visit the vision again and again.

Today I want to read something from the book that I have told you that I have been writing about life by design. Again, this thing about designing our life instead of letting circumstances define our life and I want to read something about that. but in fact I have referred to these things in the past, but I want to do so today with regard to this idea of visualizing and seeing the images that are to govern our life.

In the Book of Habakkuk in the Old Testament, there is a passage that many of us have read and I want to encourage you to look at in this regard. In chapter 2, verses 1 through 3, the writer says:

“…I will be on my guard – in other words, I will be alert, I will be vigilant – and on the fortress I will set foot and watch to see what will be said to me…”

In other words, brothers, how many times do you take time to listen from God and ask God, “Lord, what do you want from my life? What plans do you have? What calls do you have? What assignments do you have for my life? What do you want me to achieve? How do you want me to be? What kind of life do you want me to live? What kind of servant, man or woman, do you want me to be? Speak to me, instruct me, express me.”

I can tell you that my life has been changed on many occasions when I have taken the time to stop and say, “Lord, I am at a crossroads, I don't know which way to go. Tell me." And then you begin to wait and be alert and pray continuously and even take a time of fasting and seek, as it says, I will lift my eyes to the mountains, where will my help come from?

Can you imagine that person looking up, looking at the mountains, is in a bind, in a difficulty and I will lift my eyes to the mountains, where will my help come from? And sometimes we are like that in our life, at that point. Sir, I need… I already graduated from university and now I have to look for a job, I don't know if I am going to change cities, I will stay in the same city, I will look at such an agency, crossroads, and we have to look for direction.

So, the writer says, “…and I will watch to see what will be said to me and what I will answer regarding my complaint. And Jehovah answered me.”

When you ask the Lord, God answers you. David tells him, if anyone lacks wisdom, ask God who gives abundantly and without reproach, and it will be given to him. Do you have a problem, a difficulty, a dilemma, something that you have to solve, a fruitful moment in your life that you are as if stopped before the abyss or stopped before the sea on the beach and you need a boat to come and take you to the another shore? Ask the Lord for wisdom. Ask him for an answer and talk to him and fight for the answer.

“…and Jehovah answered me and said, write the vision – that is, the vision that God was going to give this man – and declare it on tablets – at that time it was written on tablets, today you can say, write it on your computer , it is easier today – so that the one who reads in it runs, although the vision will take a while longer, it hastens towards the end and it will not lie, although it will take time, wait for it because it will undoubtedly come. Will not take long."

One of the most instructive passages I know about the fundamentals of success and personal transformation and a fruitful life is precisely this passage. Now, in its original context, if you read the book of Habakkuk the words of the prophet in chapter 2 that I just read refer to a revelation that God had given to Habakkuk concerning specific historical events related to the people of Israel, but still the divine advice that Habakkuk receives about how he should handle that prophetic word that God would give him, is very applicable to the way in which each believer must relate to any powerful impression, or any vision that God puts in your heart, any creative image about the future, any suspicion you have of something God wants to do in their lives, any longing you have. It's the same way that I see here as a recipe for how to do this.

In the course of our life, brothers, we receive challenges, specific calls from God. These calls will often register in us as impressions and desires, creative impulses that we will conceive in our spirit and from there, from those impulses, projects, initiatives, efforts, decisions will be born that will lead us to invest our energies in efforts and concrete directions.

Those visions that we will conceive will perhaps have to do with a profession, a marriage, our children, the ministry, finances or simply a specific mission that God wants to entrust to us. And as Habakkuk we will have to decide what we will do with that initial embryonic purpose that God has implanted in our spirit. We will have the option of rejecting it, ignoring it, or taking care of it as if it were a mere vain dream, something that occurred to us in our minds but that has no greater importance. We can consign it to the status of a passing occurrence or an unrealizable goal, or alternatively, we can receive it with reverence, with intentionality, sanctifying it in our spirit and proceeding to cultivate it throughout our lives until it becomes a beautiful reality.

Verse 2 of that chapter says, “Jehovah answered me and said, – the first thing he says to him is – write the vision.”

You know, when God speaks something to me many times when I have a dream, one of the things I try to do is write it down because after 3 days, 4 days details of it were lost and it is important if God speaks to you, if there is something that you feel that God told you, write it somewhere so you don't forget it, put it on your fridge door, put it in your bag, whatever, but put it in some permanent way so it doesn't slip away and run away with the other things that happen in life. Write the vision.

The prophet Habakkuk tells us here about the importance of taking seriously what we receive from God and consigning it to a permanent format. It points us to the importance of discerning God's call for our lives and of recording that call, that vision, that spiritual impression in a specific and deliberate way and then letting that vision guide our day-to-day career.

In life, every great achievement begins with a specific vision conceived in the mind and spirit. And that vision then has to be registered successfully, externally in some way. A successful and purposeful life must be founded on an ambitious and comprehensive vision.

God invites us to conceive big dreams and to aspire to great things for our life. This general vision will have to do with sometimes very encompassing issues, such as what kind of person I want to be, how I want to be remembered by others when I die. Stephen Covey, who has written one of the most transformative and most popular and most widely read books in the history of humanity, wrote the book "7 Habits of Highly Successful People," a very powerful book that I encourage you to read in Spanish. find on Amazon. And he talks about how we should live our lives and ask ourselves, if I were to die and I could attend my own funeral and I could hear what people are saying about me at that funeral, what would I want them to say about how I lived my life? life?

And then he says, this is how you should live your life, let them say, that woman was an exemplary mother, a woman who never settled for the mediocre. I always saw her looking for excellence and improving every day. She began humbly in life and came to do this, to do that and impacted many lives and left behind spiritual daughters and became like that exemplary woman in Proverbs 31.

How many sisters would like to be talked about in that way? Amen. Well, live your life like this. Sometimes they have an interesting vision, it's the Proverbs 31 vision of the ideal woman, the exemplary woman, an entrepreneurial woman, who takes initiative, who plans for the future, who provides for her family and goes to the point where people knows her husband as so-and-so's husband. Not her as the wife of so-and-so, but they say, he is the husband of that extraordinary lady who lives in such a place. So live your life, let that vision carry you forward.

How do I want to be remembered by others when I die? What kind of father, wife, Christian do I want to be? In what specific ways do I want to affect the world before I leave this earth? I think that all of us should say, I want the world to be left even a little better than what I found it on the day I die, that because I lived on this earth something good was deposited in it. There is at least one sister who feels touched by what I am saying. That's a beautiful dream, leaving the world a little better than I found it when I arrived.

One has to have a broad vision sometimes and that vision, in turn, must be made up of smaller and more specific components that correspond to the daily goals and concrete projects that we pursue throughout our lives.

For example, you say, I want to become an admirable woman and considered a spiritual mother to many women who have known me. Well, that's a vision, you want to be a spiritual mother, well, what does that mean? then you must detail, well, that means that I am going to have to read about spiritual things and I am going to dedicate myself to enriching my understanding, I am going to read the word, I am going to read good counseling books, I am going to control myself and I am going to overcome my shortcomings and my difficulties, I am going to look for young women specifically to whom I can be a Deborah, a Ruth or an Esther and that I can minister and disciple them.

So, you have to start, if there is a young woman that you see who needs guidance, look for her, invite her to meet you, have a coffee and ask her about her dreams, ask her about what she wants to do in her life. So many young people, right? That they would love to have a mentor in their life. Of course. There are so many young women today who need, want, if they could find a mature and experienced woman to disciple them, I think there are plenty, but you have to have eyes to see and you have to first see yourself as a woman who can do that and that you want to do it, and that you have a calling to do it, and then prepare yourself and live your life that way.

I mean, going from I want to be a spiritual mother and then you have to ask yourself, okay, what do I need to do to get there and what values should define my life in that way? So one has to take the big vision and break it into specific bits.

Brothers, we cannot live life at random. That's why I talk about life by design, because you must design your life. Never allow circumstances, your past, your hang-ups, your body, your wounds to define who you are or what you do. Look, if there is an opportunity for you to stand before a group and say something that God has put on your heart, even if your knees are shaking as you speak, go do it and you will have won a great moral victory and next time you will be a little easier to do. But if you allow yourself to be dominated by fear, you will never do anything, you have to impose yourself.

You can't live your life randomly. We cannot live our lives by merely existing, improvising from day to day, reacting to circumstances and living according to a routine that has been imposed on us from outside. We have to live according to specific purposes, cultivated through reflection and prayer, illuminated by the Holy Spirit. We have to set specific goals that guide our lives and determine our actions each day.

It is necessary to conceive the visions of God in our spirit and then launch ourselves into realizing them with faith and determination, one piece at a time. When a sculptor, for example, initially conceives a sculpture, the first phase of that artistic project will usually be a vague and indefinite image that breaks in and settles like a meteor over his mind.

For example, La Piedad, the great work of Michelangelo, the fact is that this image of that woman, that María with the body of her dead son in her legs, is not an image that actually occurred in history because María she never had the body like that, inert of Jesus in her arms, who knows? But the artist in his mind the first thing he conceived one day was that idea of this mother with the dead body of her son in her legs, La Piedad. I imagine that one day something just came to the sculptor's mind, a general image, of a woman holding the limp body of her son on her knees, and then he had, okay, what is the face of the woman going to be like? women? What will the canvas that covers part of the body of his inert son be like? Am I going to put him on his shoulders or am I going to put him on his knees? Am I going to put her sitting on a bench or on a chair? So many questions, the first thing was an impression and then he had to gradually take pieces of that image.

The first phase is that, a general and vague image. An embryonic idea emerges in the artist's mind, an initial impression that is not without a certain specificity but that is far from being the beautiful object with defined contours and distinctive qualities that will end up being the final work, and little by little through the continuous reflection, concentrated visualization, that initial image begins to take shape, to acquire three dimensions. Then the artist proceeds.

Look at the canvases, it's one of the most powerful things about that work, the canvases look as if you could touch them and they would react to your hand, they would move, even though they are made of marble. You can see…look at the Lord's neck thrown back, just limp, his languid arms dangling at his sides. All of that...everything, he had to conceive every piece of that...the left leg in its position, the muscles...great artists studied anatomy and if they put an arm like that, they had to know what muscles stood out with the arm in that position . All this is there, but there was a first image and he went ahead and made sketches. The sketches of this artist still exist and you can see the creative process, how it went from one thing to another, to another, until it became what he finally did.

So, he begins, the muscles are outlined, making sure they accurately reflect the rules of anatomy. The proportions of the various members of the body, the distinctive features of the face, are assigned, and you can see the mother's face, as you examine it, the inclination of the neck, her gaze fixed on her child, the expression almost as if astonished. , of sadness, the mystery that his son's body represents, so many things are expressed there. And he had to think of each of those things that he was going to execute on the marble. And then when one is imagining things, one is developing the vision, that vague territory from the beginning its parts are divided and things begin to take shape, to acquire names, to define their relationships with each other. And what at the beginning was a vague idea, begins to be defined.

And so it has happened in our life with things that you have achieved in your life. One day you had an impression of something and you wanted to achieve something; I want to study, I want to drive, I want to buy a house, I want even to get a job, and you jumped in, you put yourself in and you made it, but you had to start applying to a place, knocking on doors, reading, studying. The most difficult thing is to go from simply an imagination to concrete action, starting point by point, initiative by initiative until something becomes a reality.

And when you start the process, when you dare to take the first two or three steps, the process begins to pull you and things open up that you didn't imagine and then help comes to you. What you needed was to launch yourself, take the first step of faith, and then you unleash a series of elements that begin to speak to your life and pull you and help you and push you from behind so that you continue forward. That is wonderful. How beautiful that is when you dare, at the beginning then things begin to become easier. The most difficult thing is to break the inertia.

A railway planted there, how difficult is the first movement, the first pull, then it starts little by little and it gains energy and momentum until it runs with irresistible speed.

So wise is that creator, that person who is not satisfied with proceeding from a half-formed vision, held only in the mind, but rather defines it and puts it on paper, even if he allows himself to review it multiple times along the way. Because many times you start with something and end up in another direction but that's okay, because that's the creative process. You discover things as you go along the way and you adjust your vision.

The Bible tells us that we have to write the vision. Write the vision. We have to register it, write it down, mark it, establish it firmly in our mind. And Habakkuk, again, adds:

“…write the vision and declare it on tables…”

We have to declare our visions. Many times we will have to declare them with our mouth. You have to declare them before an audience, before a wife or our relatives, you have to pronounce with your mouth the things that God has placed in your heart, the goals and projects that you have committed to achieve.

By declaring our visions we bind ourselves to them. We take them out of the field of the merely subjective, conceptual and we commit ourselves, we acquire commitment. We give our dreams more seriousness when we put them out on public ground, when we announce them to the surrounding community. And I tell you, if you do that, do it in front of people who are not going to kill your dream, because there are people who do not know how to dream, they cannot dream, they are pessimists, they are defeatists and when you tell them that you have a vision they will to say, “No, girl, that's impossible, how can you come up with that? those are vain dreams. No one in your family has done that, in our community no one has dared. No, look for something smaller.”

If it's a vision from God and it's within your frame of reference, announce it to people who dream too, people who encourage it, people who can say, "Yes, you can do it." Never throw your pearls to pigs because they will kill your vision and that is not good. But you have to announce it, you have to declare it in some way, you have to choose moments because we take our dreams more seriously and this daring act propels us towards action and adds a sense of urgency and seriousness to our company.

Habakkuk says, "...declare it on tables so that he who reads in it may run..."

In other words, so that the person who reads the vision is guided, which is going to be you primarily, so that those people know what you believe or so that you know what you believe and then guide your vision. Because there comes a time that once you wrote your vision, declared it, concretely conceived it in your spirit, then you have to walk in it, run in other words in that vision. You have to jump into it piece by piece, you have to live within that vision and bring it to fruition piece by piece over time. You need to let it take on a life of its own, take your vision by the hand and give direction and coherence to your actions in life.

You have a career ahead of you, and you have begun to draw up a blueprint, a blueprint that will guide you step by step until the vision fully blossoms and reaches its full consummation. In the business world, we talk about alignment and it refers to when a company orders all its operations and investments in light of its general vision and mission, and everything that is done in that company on a day-to-day basis, in the operations should reflect the broader purposes of that company.

What does not advance and complete that fundamental vision should be discarded and replaced with initiatives consistent with the governing vision. For example, how many have heard of Pizza Hut? How many have eaten Pizza Hut? Admit it, I know many of you have eaten pizza from Pizza Hut. It is one of the largest companies in the United States. They have a mission that says, their vision is to take pride in making the perfect pizza. Many of us would say, “Well, I think…” but they seek to make the perfect pizza and provide courteous and helpful service every time and strive to make every customer say they are coming back. That's the goal and that's the vision and that animates, so all they do is direct you, within the constraints of mass production, to that vision.

You know, our church has a vision and a mission and it also has values that govern our lives. When you enter the original sanctuary, one day we are going to have to write it here, you will see that we also have a vision and a mission, and that is why I want to take a moment so that if you do not know it...

What I did was years ago and I spoke with the deacons and with different people and every time the leaders meet many times, we read the vision to remember it and I always have to remember that vision and that mission and those values. Everything is involved in this because they are different aspects of the same thing.

Mission, promote the formation of disciples. Each word has a lot of meaning for me and for us it must have here. Formation of disciples, because we are not simply religious visitors to the church. No, disciples. What is a disciple? Lots of cloth to cut.

Promote the formation of disciples radically committed to the Kingdom of God and filled with the Holy Spirit. Why do you think that I take the time from conferences and all this type of thing and encourage you to seek the Holy Spirit? Because that's one of the pieces.

And our vision, the other part, says, these disciples must be trained to evangelize, disciple and serve others through a church of excellence, based on the principles of the word of God.

Again, you have to take every expression of what I just read and we try as much as possible... If you wonder why the Lion of Judah is doing this, why are you trying. That is the vision and what we do we try to align with that.

And the other part of our goal, our vision says, we want to be an exemplary church, for the glory of God, that is an example for others, that models the best values of the word of God and that is based on the gifts and the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

For me that balance, gifts and fruit is very important. Because many churches go to the side of gifts only and forget about the fruit, the character of Jesus, the values, the virtues of Christian character. The gifts and fruit of the Holy Spirit showing excellence in evangelism, community involvement, administration and training of its members to be effective servants of Jesus Christ.

I could give you ten sermons on those few words I just read and everything we do here in León de Judá must be or at its best is oriented towards those values. So we have fundamental values that must… being more specific, we must be concrete, passion for the Kingdom of God, evangelism, development of leaders, a supernatural mentality in the people, the primacy of the scriptures, passion for excellence, involvement community, the fruit of the Holy Spirit and have transforming ministries that change the environment, society, the culture in which we are.

Instead of us conforming to the world, let the world conform to our values of faith and spirit.

I think they should give the Lord a round of applause, even if it's for encouragement, because that's the vision, that's on our website, by the way. If you go to the website and look for what we believe or what we are, click on that part and you will enter many of the things that we believe and there are many statements of our life.

I'm going to leave it there. There is so much cloth to cut. This is long. Because he also talks about… “though the vision is delayed, even for a while, it hastens towards the end…”

I spoke a while ago about patience, I think I preached a sermon on patience and determination, that's on the page. And it was part of this process because when you want to change in your life, when you want to overcome attitudes, wounds, distortions, addictions, complexes, bad memories from your past, it will take time. Reprogramming the brain and reprogramming the spirit takes time and you have to keep the vision there, even if the vision takes time, even if it takes you to reach your goal, keep fighting for it. Do not give up, you had a setback, well nothing, wipe your knees, get on the horse again and keep going. Try 10, 15, 25, 30 times but don't give up, keep your dream alive, cherish it, if you got into a dead end, turn back and take another street until you reach your goal.

So, listen to the vision, ask God for wisdom, write down the vision, declare the vision, walk according to the vision all the days of your life and determine your decisions and your habits each day according to that vision and be patient until you come to realize it. fully.

These are some of the most important values of a successful life, a fruitful life. And I hope that this morning you ask him in your heart, Lord, what do you want me to do? Who do you want me to be? What transformations do you want to happen in my life? And then open your ears, open your eyes and wait for the answer, it won't take long, it will come, I assure you. The Lord gives to the one who asks, the one who asks receives. Amen.

Lower your head for a moment and enter the screen, turn on the interior television right now and ask the Lord to speak to you and to resurrect your dreams. If there is a dream that died on you, perhaps someone here had a dream die, they had a dream and since it failed and they hit themselves looking for it, they said, "No, I'm not going to continue with this dream." Resurrect him, give him back to the Lord. Dust it off, clean it and submit it to the Lord again and say, Lord, again I am going to… and don't let, my brother, anything in this world shout at you that you can't. Because the word says it well, I can do everything in Christ who strengthens me. But believe that, that is a good vision, I can do everything, but then now, what things can I? And name those things you think you can't. Give it a name and launch yourself with a firm step, it may be a snail's pace, but it doesn't matter. Remember the story of the turtle and the rabbit, the turtle went on and the rabbit flattened himself and the turtle arrived. Sometimes it takes time.

I tell you, look, it doesn't matter that it takes time, but keep going with a marathon pace, sure, until you reach the finish line. Father, I ask that my brothers and sisters be fertilized this morning, be impregnated by this word that is alive and effective, this word that comes from your bowels, from your truth.

If your word says that it is alive and effective and that it gets inside us and changes and breaks things and configures things according to their content. I ask, Father, right now that the life of the spirit be unleashed within my brothers and sisters, the ability to conceive, to dream big things, to undertake fruitful and productive lives, Father, that we do not stay in the quagmire because your do not create quagmires, Father, you break quagmires, you break go so that the river runs and finds its way to the sea. And we believe that you fertilize our life today, Father.

Oh, I ask for my young brothers, my sisters who have reached a certain age, marriages that need to be renewed, people who are now with a sea before them and who need to jump in and believe that their boat will not sink because you are in it. . That this morning, Father, you fill us with a very great urgency, a fire in our bowels to dream again and to undertake new visions, and that this church is characterized by hard-working and courageous people, people who know that you have delivered the earth that the soles of their feet tread on and that they can never be defeated. We thank you, Father, in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. God bless you my brothers.