At the center of God's will

In the center of his will, Luke 1:45, "...And blessed is she who believed because what was said to her by the Lord will be fulfilled."

This is our key text and this text speaks to us, or the entire passage tells us about 2 women who were at the center of God's will. And this would have implications for the human race. In terms of responsibility before God, although we know that we have our responsibility and our first ministry is our home, but we do not exist just for this, we do not exist just to fulfill our roles as women, we exist to obey God and to try to be in the center of his will, regarding our role of service to God and in the divine plan, in our individual calling and in our calling each part of the Lord's church.

And what is it to be in the center of God's will? The Oxford dictionary defines center as a point or place that is in the middle, more or less equidistant from the limits or extremes, a point or place that is in the middle, more or less equidistant from the limits or extremes.

When there is a center, everything around is measured based on that central point. When there is a center, everything around you is measured based on that center point. When in our life we have a center, everything that surrounds our life and everything we do must be measured based on that central point.

God's will. Millard Erickson, in his book Systematic Theology, defines God's will in general as God's desire and it is God's general intention, what God desires. But the will of God is also defined as will-will, referring to the specific intention of God in a concrete situation, in a particular situation. In other words, what God decides has to happen in a particular situation.

So God's will is not determined by factors other than God himself, it is his desire, what comes out of God's heart. And if we then define what the will of God is, we can say that being in the center of God's will is living lives in mind, in heart and in action according to what God desires, according to God's desire and what he has determined for each of us. We have to point where? We have to aim towards the center.

God's will will never be frustrated. Inconveniences may occur, it may seem that things are not turning out as we hope or as we believe God wants them to turn out, but God's will is never frustrated. God has a plan, God has a purpose, God has a plan according to his will.

Now, this does not eliminate the fact that although God establishes his desire, his will, what he wants to do, this does not eliminate our responsibility to act. Because God's plan includes the means by which God is going to reach that end, it includes the means by which God is going to fulfill his purpose, his will.

Let us then observe important principles to be at the center of God's will. And the first thing that I am going to mention and I am not going to explain it much because it is understood, is the will of God, we find it in the first place in his word. People who seek and pray and revelation, I need a revelation of your will, seek first in his word. Obviously there are particular things that in the word it does not say if tomorrow I have to go to a certain place or I do not have to go to a certain place, but in the word it does speak of me walking in holiness so what I do tomorrow I have to do walking in holiness

And when there are things in our life and issues and situations that we have to make determinations, and we want to be in the will of God, and we can't find something, a biblical verse that says it specifically, what do we have to do? Seek to understand the biblical principles behind each passage. Take ownership of them and apply them to your particular situation. So the will of God we find it first of all in his word.

The second point, we must dispose our hearts to believe God. Faith is our action in the sense that it begins when we turn our hearts towards God. In that sense it is our faith, it is God's action, because God places that faith in us, but we have to turn our hearts towards God. What did Maria do? Mary turned her heart towards God all her life and when God speaks to her and reveals the purposes he has with her, what did she do? He kept turning his heart before God. It is important to have faith in response to divine promises.

God can tell you, I'm going to do this, or that with you, or I'm going to do this in your family, in your house, with your husband, but we have to have our response to what God is communicating, to what is God's desire we must respond in faith, we must respond believing to what God is saying. God reveals to you what he is going to do in the way he decides to do it and that is where our point of action begins in believing what God has told us. Have faith in response to divine promises.

Mary is told, blessed is she who believed. But let's see the context a little bit, first there is an announcement within the context of this biblical passage that is given to Mary, she is told, "Hail, highly favored, the Lord is with you, says the angel, blessed are you among women ,” in verse 28 of that chapter.

So the greeting itself already has a sense of joy, something nice of joy is going to be communicated to this woman. And it is interesting that the tense of the verb that is translated as “highly favoured” denotes that Mary was chosen long ago. The tense of the verb used there denotes that God had chosen her long ago. Many times, even if we don't know it, God has chosen us a long time ago for his purpose, for something in particular, for your family, for the church, for the lives that don't know the Lord, even though we don't already know God. has chosen.

The Lord is with you. And this expression is an expression that in the Old Testament indicates that the indicated person has been chosen for a special office. The Lord is with you, believe it. God has chosen you, believe it. You are the right person, believe it. We are the Marys of God of these times. The Lord has chosen us. And why did the Lord choose Mary? In this biblical passage we are not given details, but when we see the life of Mary, one of the details that - I am only going to mention one - we see in the biblical narrative about Mary is that, for example, she was a woman who kept the things in your heart. And the Messiah was not going to be exposed publicly until a certain age. And that woman had to know how to keep in her heart that she was the mother of the Messiah and that her Son, the one she saw playing every day, the one she saw grow up, was the promised Messiah.

And the scriptures tell us that she kept in her heart. And that is one of the aspects that the scriptures make clear to us why God chose this woman. We have to learn to keep in our hearts the things that God shows us and in due time they will happen, but we have to be responsible before God.

Now, when the angel is speaking to Mary in the context, Mary thought, what salutation would this be from this greeting that the angel is giving me? And the Greek term for thought implies intense reflection. Maria was not thinking, what will it be? I don't understand. No, he was putting his thought with interest in what is happening when he has this encounter when the angel appears to him and begins to speak to him of God's will, and begins to speak to him of God's desire. And that reflection that Mary is having, a deep reflection, will continue until the moment that we are going to see later, when she says, "Your will be done, your purpose be done, Lord."

So what Mary is going to do will be of such importance, almost without parallel in the divine plans, apart from what is the coming of the Messiah himself. "Do not be afraid, because you have found grace before God, the angel tells him." That grace had to do with the purpose and will of God.

We do not fear when God shows his purpose, because we are blessed and his grace, his favor is with us to carry out what God wants. If God has spoken to you and told you something that sounds great to you, how will I be capable of this? Do not worry. If God has told you, he will do it. God's grace will be with you as it was with Mary. Do not fear because you have found grace before God.

"How will this be, since I don't know a man, said Maria." Maria is not asking for a sign to believe, she is asking for an explanation of how what is being announced to her would happen. He is not asking for a sign to believe because then when he is told, 'blessed is she who believed,' the scripture shows us that she believed. So she's just asking but how will this be? Sure, she was a virgin. How will her womb have a child if she was a virgin?

So that assumes that María, unlike in our very modern times where there is so much sexual freedom, María is very clear that José has nothing to do with this matter that is being revealed to her. José is not in the plan of this conception. What God is saying is something that comes from heaven. How will this be, if I don't know a man. What is being announced to you is contrary to nature itself.

But the angel answers him, 'the Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will cover you with his shadow, for which reason the holy being that will be born will be called the Son of God.' There is the answer, when you can't, God can. can. The power of the Most High is upon you. And God is the one who does in us according to his will. It is up to us to dispose our hearts to have faith.

But the angel continues to speak to her, and the angel gives her the example of Elizabeth who has already conceived, in verse 36. In other words, if God did it with Elizabeth, he can do it with you, Mary. If God did it with sister so-and-so, he can do it with you. If God did it with that person who told you the testimony, he can do it with you. God had purpose with Mary and was showing his will for her life.

Mary's response then, “Here is the servant of the Lord, let it be done with me according to your word.” He dared to believe. And I had to believe in something that wasn't easy. I had to believe in something difficult, but the difficult, the impossible, God makes it possible. Before the announcement, before the revelation, he was determined to believe. Here we see a great act of faith but we also see an act of humility. 'Behold the servant of the Lord.'

And after all this event and this revelation and her believing and accepting God's will for her life, she went to visit Elizabeth and traveled about 150 or 180 km which at that time took several days and she dared to take action before what that had been revealed to him. He was going to see that woman in whom God had done the impossible. We have to go and see and observe what God has done in other lives to sustain our faith and continue to believe what God has shown us.

Maria wanted to rejoice with Elizabeth for what was happening to both of them. In Elizabeth and Mary we see that both were women of promise. Elizabeth was also carrying in her womb by a miracle, by human conception but by a miracle because her husband, at the age she was, could not have children, she was a barren woman, but God intervened sovereignly because she would carry John the Baptist in her womb who would announce and would prepare the way for the Messiah.

So they were both women of promise. Both had the promises within them. God's promise to them and God's promise to the human race, to the world. Both were at the center of the divine plan to do God's will. One carried John who would prepare the way and the other carried the Messiah himself. And both believed God's announcement. They were both prepared for that pregnancy. Both were prepared to carry the will of God within them. One desired it for years and it had not been granted, but God ended up granting it. The other came as a surprise, but she was also prepared. One had life experience, a mature woman of advanced age; the other was a young woman inexperienced but obedient to God.

So to be in the center of God's will we have no excuse, there is no age, there are no living conditions, it is to believe and obey. They both believed. You have to believe what comes out of the mouth of God. If we believe it is fulfilled.

And the angel's message is confirmed when these women meet and the child John, the child that is in Elizabeth's womb, jumped into the womb. And Elizabeth was already about 6 months pregnant at this time. The child jumps in the womb and this confirms everything that God has been showing. Maria was not looking for confirmation because she believed she went to Elizabeth, but God reconfirms what she has been talking about.

Sometimes, after God has spoken to us, we continue to ask for confirmation. Confirm me, sir. And I believe that there is time to ask for confirmation, I do not move lightly. We have to be responsible to be clear that we are understanding God's will and there is time to ask for confirmation. But there are times when we ask for confirmation and God already confirmed us 1, 2 times and 3 times, and we keep asking for confirmation. Confirm me, confirm me, Lord. And the Lord is already sitting with his arms crossed saying, but if I already confirmed why don't you just walk in what you already know you have to do.

When we already know what God wants with us, what remains is to do God's will aiming towards the center and believing. We then see in the biblical passage that Elizabeth prophesies to Mary and declares a blessing on her. He declares that she is the mother of his Lord. divine revelation.

Here everything is the work of the Holy Spirit, the conception of Mary, miraculous intervention so that Elizabeth could conceive with her husband, miraculous intervention in how Elizabeth's child moves in her womb to confirm the plans and purpose of God's will. God is moving here miraculously because God is a God of miracles, because God is a supernatural God. Likewise, God moves in our lives. No wonder God does supernatural things.

And Elizabeth declares, under the anointing of the Holy Spirit and by divine revelation, 'blessed is she who believed.'In the biblical narrative Mary had not said anything to Elizabeth, but when they meet the revelation of the Holy Spirit comes and Elizabeth declares that she she is the mother of her Lord and that she is blessed for having believed. God is moving in all aspects and in all details within the perfect plan of his will.

Mary believed and accepted to be part of God's plan and purpose. God calls us to believe and accept to be part of his plan, his purpose. And we also see in the context what has been called the magnificent song of Mary, and that song, although I am not going to go into detail, I just want to mention a few things.

Mary praises God and rejoices over what God has done with her and says, because the Almighty has done great things for me. She knows that she is in the center of God's will and that God is doing great things with her and in her. And she knows that God has looked at the lowliness of his servant, that she is a servant, she has a humble attitude, regardless of the revelations that God gives us, regardless of how big, medium, small of God's will and God's plan. for our lives, regardless of the exposure that God gives you, especially those that we preach, that we go to one place and another, and that God has given us certain tools or preparation, regardless of everything that God does, keep your heart in modesty. Let us keep our hearts in humility because we serve a great God who does great things, but everything depends on him and everything is for his glory. We are instruments of God.

Many years ago, when I was about 3 or 4 years old, I helped a lot in the church, in everything I could, I was part of the leaders, God used me in gifts of knowledge of prophecy, and it was as if God was developing me in that area a lot, a lot, a lot. But I didn't even teach a Bible school at that time, and I remember that in a prayer service a sister who was visiting came up to me and said, "You are a teacher of the Lord. " In other words, it's not that I wanted it. believe, is that God was declaring something that at that moment I was not. So, I simply knew that God used this woman, I know that God spoke to me because I identified that God was speaking but I did not understand... I began to do like Mary in the sense of analyzing this deeply because how will God do it? I do not know.

And they know that this was in the first years of conversion and look at all the things that God has done. Sometimes God calls us in a way... God calls what is not as if it were because he sees it according to the purpose of his will.

So faith is our action in the sense that it begins when we turn our hearts towards God but after doing our part we have to understand that we have to believe, do our part, but ultimately everything depends on God. He is the one who will make what I say come true.

María was human, with feelings, reasoning, uncertainty and everything that being on this earth and a woman implies, you know how emotional we are. Maria was a woman who had everything, and she went through all the internal emotions that we process, but she dared to believe. So if God did it with Mary, he can do it with you. Dare to believe.

The next point. I mentioned that we have to see the word of God where we find his will and that we have to dispose our hearts to believe. The next point is to listen to the voice of God and obey boldly, boldly. Maria listened and obeyed.

Mary's response was one of complete submission to God's will. She had to have tremendous daring and tremendous courage because what was announced to her was going to have social consequences. In Jewish customs she was betrothed, and being betrothed implied the same kind of commitment as marriage did, but there was no sexual intimacy. So the betrothal was a legal act and it lasted a year and could only be dissolved through divorce, but there was no sexual intimacy.

But this woman who was at the time of betrothal, not at the time of courtship as in our times, but according to Jewish customs, believed God that she would conceive but from whom? Holy Spirit. But at the same time he had to be daring and daring because doing the will of God was exposing himself to Joseph's misunderstanding, which certainly was. The biblical reason and we use it a lot at Christmas, it's very nice how God revealed himself to Joseph, but there was a misunderstanding. He thought of leaving her secretly but God worked according to his will and did what he had to do.

So she was exposing herself to José's misunderstanding that when he found out she was pregnant he wanted to secretly leave her so as not to defame her. At least he had a good heart. She was exposing herself to the loss of her reputation, she was exposing herself to the curse of being considered a sinful woman and therefore to the great possibility of being stoned to death according to the established law.

So, Mary believed, but Mary, when she believed, was daring and bold. We are called to believe, but not only to believe, but to listen to the voice of God and obey boldly, boldly. She risked everything she had in obedience. He dared to risk it.

And we, do we risk it? Do I accept only what is easy and without risk or do I accept what is God's will regardless of the consequences or risks we have to take? What are we risking, sisters? What am I risking now? What are we risking? Let's ask ourselves, are we having the courage to move towards God's will or are we living lives that are a little comfortable, leaning back and trying to obey but like yes and no, and like we don't start.

We need the boldness of the Holy Spirit, we need determination, we need to believe but we need to obey and take action. Having God's favor as Mary did does not imply that things are easy and pleasant. Walking towards God's will, which sounds like, oh, yes Lord, I'm going to do your will, how beautiful, how beautiful, how poetic! That does not imply that things are easy, that everything will turn out rosy. God's will is not only to enjoy God's blessings and God's favor, it is to obey Him and be determined. It is a radical obedience even if there are risks.

I told the leaders last Thursday that although there are times when we feel afraid to do something and now applying it to seeking God's will, we must do what Joyce Mayer mentions, when fear of failing or that things will not work out comes. , do it with fear but do it. dare. Your legs are shaking, Lord, I'm going to walk, I'm shaking, I'm afraid but do it. Walk and move toward God's purpose. You have to be sheep and listen to the voice of God. Because? Because God also listens to those who obey him.

If someone is God-fearing and does his will, says John 9:31, God hears him. Dare to do God's will and you will see how God listens to you and continues to guide you according to his purpose.

Now, we know that when doing God's will to procure God's will, we have to not be light but neither stay reclining waiting for things to come. You have to work, you have to obey, you have to dare. But there are times when we are waiting – I will deal with that a little later – but in that waiting time there is also a time of preparation because sometimes we think that God reveals to us today and tomorrow what God told us has to happen.

Sometimes there are times of waiting, there are times of preparation, but there are times when we enter into an eternal preparation and we do not quite obey. And we are preparing for what God has and the Lord arrives and we are still preparing. We must do the will of God today, for what God has for us today.

We also have to understand when talking about God's will that sometimes God shows his will or purpose conditional on our obedience. And sometimes some things we see that are not being fulfilled, not because God has failed but because God said, I am going to do A and B with you but remember that this is conditional on you doing C and D. You have to do this and I I'm going to do this. And there are times when God shows his will in this way, with certain conditions and when we do not fulfill our part and we see that time passes and what God said is not fulfilled, then frustration sets in because we do not understand. But let's analyze, have we done what God has told us we had to do to fulfill his purpose?

I tell you an experience of a pastor who mentioned how God moved him from one place to another because he was going to extend his ministry. And after he got to that place, like nothing happened, but look, he wasn't doing God's will. The word of God was not fulfilled. Well, it was not fulfilled because you did not do your part. It was conditioned. Well, then God is not going to do his part.

And there are times when God shows his will in this way, conditioned on certain things that we have to do. So therefore, we are called to listen to God's voice and we are called to boldly obey.

Before moving on to the next principle I want to mention something. A very important point, the main factor that holds us back or stops us from being in the center of God's will, I think it's ourselves with our emotions, how we feel, ourselves also with our willpower.

Sometimes we allow ourselves to be guided by emotions, let emotions direct our life and God is watching us, waiting for us to act according to his plan and we are wrapped in our emotions. And we ourselves impede or interfere in God's purpose with our lives. What we think of ourselves, the frustrations, not believing that we are capable of God using us in x or ye ministry or task or work. We do not believe it due to circumstances experienced in the past. It is time to leave the past behind and it is time to move forward. Value yourself as God values you. If God calls you, you are his Mary. We are the Marys of God for these times and we have to dare to put aside the past, negative experiences, emotional things that hold us back and move towards God's purpose.

And I also mentioned in relation to ourselves as the main factor that holds us back or stops us from being in the center of God's will, our willpower. Sometimes we have such strong willpower that we want to move forward as we please and as things seem to us to be. We have to have docile hearts but in our times and especially women – this is not like the last century or decades ago – women are involved in different positions in our society and in work positions and especially women who are in work positions are so effective in our careers in the company, also in home affairs we are so effective that we do things and our home is walking as it should walk.

We have authority in our work positions to make decisions and we unconsciously transfer all of that to our relationship with God. I know how to do it and I do it my way because I know, I am capable, I am qualified. Of course, all that grace that God has given us through what we have studied, through the work experience, through the experience of how to lead a home and take our family forward, how to manage the home, through all of that, all of that serves us but you know what? All this subject to the will of God, not to my willpower, but to the will of God in our lives.

We ourselves are sometimes the ones who hold on or stop God's perfect plan for us. Someone said that the Titanic didn't sink because of the water around it, but because of the water inside. What is inside of us that holds us back from being able to walk towards the will of God? What aspect of ourselves is holding up or has held us back and God wants us to throw that away, put it aside, and move toward His purpose by paying attention to the center, paying attention to what God wants to do.

The next point I want to mention, we have to continually renew our understanding. If we ourselves can be the impediment, we have to work internally and that is why this next point. We have to continually renew our understanding.

We are transformed and being transformed by renewing our understanding we can do the will of God. This is an ongoing process. Ephesians 4:22 to 24 says:

"And be renewed in the spirit of your mind," but in the context that renewal of your mind would have its fruit in moral conduct and in conduct with other people. In other words, in daily life.

Romans 12:1-2. I want to look briefly at those verses. The Apostle Paul says, "So, brothers, I beg you by the mercy of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your rational service."

When he says 'so' he implies to me that what he has said before, because of what he has said before we must do what he is saying now. And what has he said before, the Apostle Paul in Romans was speaking of the great mercies of God, of salvation by grace, of justification by grace, of the presence of the Holy Spirit in us, of the coming glory, of that we are sons/daughters of God, that we are joint heirs with Christ and in view of all these mercies, Paul prays and requests and exhorts that we make a continuous renewal and consecration before our God, that we present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God All of our being, because this is our rational cult.

And the word that is used there for cult means service, and in its origins it was not slavery but voluntary acceptance of work. This rational worship that we give to God has to be voluntary, it has to be from the heart, it has to be of genuine dedication and this type of worship that we have to give to God or service that we have to give to God is a logical service, of According to reason, it is a service that is genuine from the heart but with understanding. We don't do things like crazy, we don't do things... it comes out this way, well, however it comes out. No. It is a total surrender of our entire being, of our entire mind, of our heart, it is a logical adoration.

And logical worship implies service that is worthy and appropriate to a rational creature. It is a smart service. It is a service with awareness, it is a service with knowledge, so what Paul is saying is in recognition of what God has done for us. I urge you to make a complete consecration of your bodies, your entire being, as a living sacrifice to God. , holy and pleasant.

A consecration of mind, heart and understanding. In practical life we could say, take your whole life, at work, home, school, and everything you have to do every day and offer it as an act of worship.

"Do not be conformed to this century - verse 2 - but be transformed by the renewal of your understanding so that you may verify what is the good will of God, pleasing and perfect."

If we want to know what God's will is for our life, we have to transform ourselves, we have to renew ourselves and we cannot conform to this century. And the word conform means to give the same figure or appearance of, and it is in the passive voice and this means that we cannot conform ourselves.

You, myself, I cannot conform or accommodate myself to this century. And this century refers to the way of living in this world. We cannot take the form in mind and heart of this world. We cannot take a pattern other than the pattern we have in the kingdom of heaven, to what we are in God, daughters of God, daughters of Almighty God. We cannot assimilate the things of this world and take the form of this world like the chameleon.

The chameleon mixes up its colors and you see a chameleon near a tree trunk and it gets confused, you don't know why it changes color according to what is near it. We cannot change color according to what surrounds us. Our color is the colors of the kingdom of heaven. We have to be transformed our mind and our heart every day to be able to verify what is the will of God, pleasant and perfect.

And it says 'transform' and the term transform is metamorphos, meta implies change and morphos implies form. And from the tense of the verb what it means, has the strength to continue being transformed. So let's not accommodate ourselves to this world around us. And then we are told, keep on being transformed. It is a continuous process, transforming our mind and our heart, not accommodating it to the patterns and principles of this world.

Our society in these times approves what was not approved before. And in the church – not in this one – but in the church the patterns of the world are creeping in. We cannot take the form of this world but we have to continue to be continually transformed. And it is our action, having our heart and our action.

And how does that transformation happen? Through the renewal of the understanding of the mind, through renewal and renewal implies doing something again for the first time. When you and I converted to the Lord we were born again. That same term is used here. Renew, every day renew ourselves in the Lord. Every day renew our mind anew. Every day trying to do the will of God.

And when we do that, when we continually renew ourselves, we can see that we are adjusting the moral and spiritual vision of our thinking to the mind of God. The moral and spiritual vision conforms to the kingdom of heaven and will have its purpose to carry out a transforming effect on us, adjusting our thinking, adjusting our vision, adjusting what we allow to enter our minds and our hearts and we are transformed. day by day to be able to understand what God's will is for us.

And if all these little Greek words sound a little difficult, I'm going to make them easier for you. Sometimes we get used to dressing a certain way, especially at certain ages – I'm in my 50s. Young girls may not like this very much. But we get used to dressing and combing our hair in a certain way and hair color in a certain way and the years go by and we continue with the same color and with the same style. Fashion changes – I try to keep up with fashion, but a bit conservative, but I like the fashion thing. But sometimes fashions change and one wears the same, with the same style, another color but the same style and tries to change and the daughter or the youngest friend suggests you, you continue with the same and the same.

There was the case of a woman who made the determination to make some changes and began to buy pieces for her outfit, important pieces. She made her big investment – I'm not going to do it – with a designer and first bought a particular piece that was essential and would have a lot of use for her outfit. You bought that piece and when it arrives because it was what the designer determined, imagine. He invests money, buys the part, the part arrives and when it arrives he doesn't like it. And she didn't have a lot of money, there are those who can, I can't, but there are those who can, but she made a tremendous effort and she didn't like it and she was disappointed, frustrated. After paying a designer – but do you know why she was frustrated? Because she didn't want to transform her way of thinking about how to dress. So no matter what piece the designer sent her, the same thing would have happened.

But there comes a time when you decide to put on the piece and do you know what you did? She made a statement with what she wore, she impressed when she arrived at work. And from then on he began to like it, he began to like the change because his mind began to be transformed. Sometimes we are very comfortable in this world and it is necessary to transform ourselves. Having to allow the designer par excellence to transform us day by day. We have to put ourselves in the hands of the designer. Only in this way are we going to verify what is the pleasing and perfect will of God.

The next point he wants to mention is that we have to stay focused and not be distracted by anything. Focused in the center, in the central point, not in the circumference. The circumference is related to the center but we are going to be focused on the central point, focused looking upwards, fixing our gaze, says the Apostle Paul, on things above.

And when the Apostle Paul in Colossians 3:1 mentions this, the term he uses implies setting the mind, thinking in a certain way about something. And this has to do again with understanding, we have the reasoning that God has given us and God wants us to put it into practice to be able to do his will. Focused and looking, our mind, our heart on the things above, looking at the big picture, looking at the circumference of what surrounds us but focused on the central point.

When you're driving and you have to stay focused or you won't make it to the place. But when you're driving you're looking straight ahead. If you look to the side you are going to crash and have an accident and even though you have rearview mirrors you have to be trying to have balance when looking back in the mirror. But if you look down you're going to crash. We have to be focused on the purpose of his will, focusing towards the central point.

Sometimes we are wanting to be focused and we are praying, yes, Lord, whatever you want for me and we are praying for the purpose of your will and for now, oh, the beans and rice! That the baby arrives at a certain time, yes, Lord, okay. And we divert our mind, our prayer to the other side. And our focus is gone and we have to subdue our mind and heart, looking up. Our focused spiritual antennas, alert to detect where God is going and where the enemy also wants to come to prevent and interrupt the passage of what God has for us.

Focused also not only looking up but also I like, looking from above, taking a position in the heights, looking as God sees, looking like eagles. From the heights things are appreciated better. When a situation comes in your life, instead of despairing, and what do I do, Lord, help me to see how you see it. Guide me, Lord, to understand your will in the midst of this that I do not understand. Eagles have sharp vision that allows them to visualize potential prey from a distance. In particular, the golden eagle has two focal points, one to look straight ahead and another to look to the sides while peering into the distance. We have to be like the eagles in the spiritual sense.

Spirit eyes, looking from above and looking into the distance. The golden eagle can see 8 times further than what humans see. For example, you can see a rabbit 2 miles away. When our mind is transformed, when we are constantly transformed, we see at a distance what we have to see because we are looking with spiritual eyes.

We can project ourselves into the future, we can plan the future, we visualize ourselves in the future and in the center of God's will, as far as your vision reaches, that's how far you will go. So, in order to have an extended, long vision, towards the will of God, let us constantly transform ourselves. Looking from the heights, under the anointing and grace of the Holy Spirit, the eagles take flight when the hot air comes, when the hot air of the Holy Spirit comes into your life, take flight so that you can look from the heights.

Focused even if obstacles come, not looking at the obstacles but what is going is beyond that obstacle. We all have obstacles in our lives, we all have situations that arise when one least expects it, but we have to look beyond the obstacle and if we have to give the obstacle a little kick, we give it to them, and if we have to jump, we jump, and if You have to take the side of the obstacle, if I can't jump because my leg is a little affected, okay, I'll go to the side, I pass and go around but I keep walking towards the will of God.

Remember that sometimes you can be your own obstacle. Focused and surrounding ourselves with focused people. Maria spent 4 months at Elizabeth's school. When God revealed God's will for her life, she did not go to rest, she did not go to consider things, she went where God's blessing was, she went where the impossible had happened because with her the impossible would also happen. And she stayed 4 months at Elizabeth's house, 4 months contemplating God's purpose, 4 months focused on God's purpose, she entered Elizabeth's school.

Stick with people who are focused, not people who take away your vision but people who are in the center of God's will and help you walk to be focused in the center of God's will.

We have to have focused vision each day and towards the future, because sometimes we think center, pointing and was talking about future things, God's future plan, but God has his will for each day of our lives. Let's try to do what is God's will for today. There are waiting times for other things but every day God has his will for us. There are times when we are doing God's will and we don't know it.

Things don't always come by revelation, God can reveal himself, have a supernatural revelation every day, but in our daily lives God is moving and we are doing his will and sometimes we don't realize it but we are doing it. Sometimes we are doing God's will and we don't know it.

We see a child playing in the circle. He's there playing well near the center but he doesn't know it. We must also live the Christian life every day, believing God every day, doing what we have to do every day in the center of his will.

The last point to mention. In waiting you have to maintain a sense of expectation and keep believing. We have to exercise our faith and submit to God but we also have to understand that God has a specific time for what he is going to do. In this process and in this waiting time, we must be expectant and continue to believe.

We are pregnant with the will of God. A pregnant woman is expecting the arrival of this baby. So single or not we are all pregnant today, single or married, we are pregnant with God's purpose and will for our life. And a pregnant woman enjoys and observes the changes that are taking place in her body. The pregnant woman has joy, joy for that boy, that girl, that creature that is to come and we spiritually speaking have to rejoice with what God has for us while we are waiting, while we are waiting.

We are going to experience changes that are not comfortable, because in a pregnancy there are changes that are not comfortable, but we rejoice for what is to come. We experience changes in our spiritual and ministerial trajectory, changes that are sometimes comfortable for doing God's will, but let's focus on God's will because in the end we are going to rejoice in achieving what God has for us. We have to adjust to the changes that lead us to God's will, make the necessary adjustments and keep walking.

Let us be careful, on the other hand, not to have an ectopic pregnancy or a utopian pregnancy. An ectopic or extra uterine pregnancy is when the egg is fertilized and implanted outside the uterus, almost always in the fallopian tubes, and what happens with that pregnancy? It is lost because it is not in the center, it is not in the womb where it has to be. Be careful that we do not have this type of pregnancy, that we are not in the center and everything we do is lost because we are not in the center of God's will.

Or care of having a utopian or psychological pregnancy where the woman thinks she is pregnant but in reality she is not. But the body responds like it's pregnant and there are changes in the body like it's pregnant but it's not. And you know what? Today there are so many – and I mention this not to criticize but to help us open our eyes – motivational messages and I also have to preach a motivational message, right now I am doing it even though it has a solid biblical basis, but today there are so much motivational message that predominates so much, the motivational message dominates so much that today everyone has to have a big dream, today everyone has a call for a big ministry and everything is big.

And if God has told you that it is going to be something great, walk towards the great thing that God has with you, but God has different calls, different ministries, different gifts and what God has with you is with you and it is the way he determines to do it. so be careful that we do not have a utopian pregnancy and we are wishing God's will for something we hear and we try to appropriate it but that is not what God wants for us.

Mary did not have an ectopic pregnancy nor did she have a utopian pregnancy, Mary was at the center of God's will. So in the waiting time let's stay in the center of God's will, in the waiting time let's keep expectation and keep believing. We are always going to have to work with the element of not knowing when what God has told us is going to come true. That's something we're always going to have to work with, but as we work through the wait, let's keep our faith. Let's keep believing.

When doubt appears in the midst of waiting, do not be afraid, keep believing, Jairo was told. When doubt appears, they are thoughts that come, renew your mind. Someone said, if you are going to doubt something, doubt your doubts, do not doubt the word of God, do not doubt your faith, doubt your doubts and believe your beliefs.

And I'm almost done with telling you this, when I talk about the will of God I have to bring up the point that God's will is sometimes a mystery. Charles [Inaudible] said, his sovereignty though inscrutable has dominion over all impediments, all afflictions, all moments of powerlessness. His sovereignty is active through all the disappointments because we have disappointments, through all the broken dreams because there are broken dreams, and through all the difficulties that persist, and even if we can't fully understand why, God knows. .

Even when we can't explain the reasons, he understands and when we can't see the end, because sometimes we aim for the center but don't see the end, he is there giving us his approval: Yes, that's my plan. Your dream has not vanished in the hands of God. God is perfecting it, God is outlining it. Sometimes I do not see clearly where God is going, but I know that I am pointing towards the center of his will.

We have to believe God, we have to listen to his voice, we have to obey boldly, we have to continually renew our mind, we have to stay focused and expectant by keeping faith, then we are blessed and can say that we are at the center of his will. .

We must have a broad vision, not limited to our own point. Keep observing the panorama of the divine plan for your life and the church in the midst of a society that continually changes its social and moral parameters. Stay expectant and pay attention to where God is going with you and how in the puzzle of God's plan for his people, you are an important piece. And we have to locate ourselves and be in the precise place, in the center of his will.

Mary had divine revelation in her heart, in her womb she would carry the Messiah. What do you have in your heart? What do you have in your belly? Mary awaited the first coming of the Messiah. We await his second coming. There is a sense of urgency from God to his people, let us shake off lethargy and comfort. Christ is coming soon. Dare to live in the center of your will.

Stand up, please. We adore you, God. We adore you, Lord. I want to make an appeal so that if there is any person who does not know the Lord in his heart, who has not received the Lord in his heart, the first step to enter the center of God's will is to come to him. If what we have shared on this day has touched your heart, God is working with you, you need the Lord, raise your hand wherever you are. I want to pray for you. Does anyone want to receive the Lord? The other sisters, please lower your hands, I just want to see if there is a hand from a woman, someone who wants to receive the Lord today. We want to give you the opportunity to begin to step into the center of your will. Is there any hand raised? Otherwise let's pray.

Father, we thank you for your word, we thank you, Holy Spirit. Father, at this time, Lord, we set our hearts to tell you that we want to be transformed day by day in you, so that we can walk according to your purpose, so that we can understand what your will is for our lives. We tell you that we want to obey you, we want to submit our minds and our hearts to you, Lord, and we want to be like Mary, the Marys of this time, the Marys that you have, Lord, for these times, to proclaim your word, Lord, to to reach the one who has not known you, to bless the one who is in need, to carry out, Lord, your purpose on this earth and in this society.

Father, hold us, help us and here we are, Lord, hearts open to you for you to use us, Lord. Hearts open to you so that you use us and willing to listen to your voice and obey you boldly and boldly. Thank my Lord. Thank you, Lord, we give you in this hour. Amen.