ENGLISH Dante Gebel #845 | The secret history of a simple cane

The Bible is filled with the story of men and women who were called for a purpose, but at some point in their lives, God sent them in an unexpected direction. God’s way is usually never the quickest; It is rarely the easiest… but it is always the best way. Whenever God allows us a time in darkness, it is a time of strengthening and rest; not of oblivion. Our dreams will always remain permanently fresh in the presence of God!

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let’s

go welcome look at all the flags there’s

Guatemala Dominican Republic

Colombia how

beautiful Mexico

Guatemala let’s go with all the

Argentinian Flags the world Champions we

connected live via

satellite with the rest of the world

Europe Asia Africa America

Australia how beautiful my people look

how they

smile look what joy we have here in the

house of the Lord there is bread in the

House of Bread yes or

no how

beautiful well this is what we’re

leaving here we sang We worshiped we

praised and now we’re connecting before

we connected with you guys I was telling

the local people here that they have to

give their best smile and they didn’t

have to put too much effort

because they all brought a great and

beautiful smile we’re happy good morning

good afternoon good night according to

whatever time zone you’re

in thank you for being there thank you

for being firm and we’re here happier

than ever are we happy yes or

no December is upon us those that are

here at home I want to tell you that

next Sunday we’re going to show

you we’re going to show you uh this

celebration of giving away a th000

turkeys to all the people that need that

symbol I don’t know if they need it but

they’re going to at least feel that the

Lord is spoiling them when they receive

their turkey to be able to celebrate

Thanksgiving the way it’s supposed to be

celebrated here in the US it should be a

tradition in the rest of Latin America

everyone else celebrates Halloween

everyone should celebrate Thanksgiving

one day to give thanks to the Lord

for the Harvest for their for for your

families for all the good

things these types of things don’t

become viral too easily everyone dresses

up as a witch for Halloween everyone

dresses up as a mother-in-law sorry a

witch but G days of gratitude should

also become

viral with that being said we’re going

into

December and this year River Toys this

celebration where we’re going to give

away

toys we’re going to make many children

happy

we’re going to up the ante and try to

gather a million toys not just here at

the door we wouldn’t be able to give

away a million toys on our own here at

River but a day

before Chris or Christmas Eve will be

here we’re going to open up the doors

half an hour early so that the lines

aren’t too

long during the 9:00 a.m. service

instead of opening up opening up at 8:30

we’ll open up at 8: and at 12:30 we’ll

open it up at

11: so that we can really organize

ourselves but that’ll be this Sunday the

24th and Sunday the

31st then you’ll all go home and

celebrate with your families by drinking

orange juice right what’s

true I’m not saying anything because

then what I say becomes viral but what’s

true is that one day before Christmas

Eve Saturday the 23rd we’re going to

have a river toys event here

we’ve already rented these things we’ve

already confirmed we’re going to have

two In-N-Out trucks giving away a

thousand burgers for free it’s going to

be here up

front for those that don’t know from

around the world in- and out is like a

drug for the people here in this

country even those that are on a diet

eat in and out it’s a it’s a burger it’s

a cheeseburger but without the

clown it’s a little more

fresh there are going to be two In-N-Out

trucks iconic vehicles from from

Hollywood the Batmobile for the for for

the kids the Delorean from Back to the

Future the truck from the Ninja Turtles

with the turtles and on top of that

princesses superheroes Inflatables toys

Raffles and we’re also going to give

away at least as we do every year at

least 10,000 new toys this is going to

be here December 23rd an enormous party

that we’re preparing with music with

DJ many things for the family to

participate so people can come from all

over but this is going to be reproduced

it started yesterday in Colombia in

Venezuela in Mexico in Panama in

Argentina in Cuba in Uganda in huras and

we’ll finish it off here in

USA so all these

countries are going to realize

this yesterday there were two events EV

from now until December there’s going to

be two events every

Sunday this is going to be happening in

distinct parts of the world obviously we

send the resources as River so that

these celebrations can be carried out in

different places of the world I know

there are people asking well why not in

my country well we can’t do it across

the whole planet

but at least some foundations that we’re

in contact with that we’ve been working

with we sent them the resources so that

we can give away a million toys

this is River toys all over the

world and like they say since one image

is worth more more than a thousand words

before I translit what I believe God

told me to tell you here it

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and next

Sunday were we’ve prepared an area in

the lobby where you can bring your toys

starting next

Sunday since Saturday is the day we’ll

give away the turkeys then that

following Sunday we’ll show you how the

celebration went but we’ll also begin to

bring the toys new toys

there are people that already lost the

ability or or the knoow of how to buy

toys but you must have a granddaughter a

grandson or a niece or nephew that can

show you those of us that can buy toys

and bring them starting next Sunday

we’ll start collecting

them so that in respects to us for the

23rd of December we’ll be able to live

that

celebration so don’t forget if you want

put a note down on your phone don’t tell

yourself me don’t forget to buy toys now

are we ready stay with me I’m ready very

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well from the first times that I came to

this country there is a

place that always called to my attention

powerfully it’s the wax museum Madam T’s

wax museum there’s one here in Los

Angeles there’s another Wax Museum in

Las Vegas one in New York one in

Washington in fact we’re going to

Washington this week I send an enormous

greeting for all those joining the tour

there’s another one in Orlando in Europe

you can find one in Berlin Istanbul and

London and Prague and Vienna and Asia

there’s one in piking Hong Kong Tokyo

Singapore there are wax museums all over

the

world and many many

cities a waxed figure an almost exact

wax figure of all the celebrities that

are still alive or that have passed

they’re all there in one place so there

we can find David Beckham or Barack

Obama we can find Nelson Mandela or

Elvis we can find Michael Jackson Brad

Pit Shakira Jennifer Aniston sopia

varara Abraham

Lincoln no wait maybe not that one but

but Abraham Lincoln I’m

sure and in some

cases in these wax figures they are

wearing their original clothing the wax

figures are wearing the original clothes

from a certain movie scene donated by

the Stars themselves and there are

people that if they’re a bit distracted

and they’re going in circles in the wax

museum they might pinch a real person

thinking that they’re looking at a wax

figure the times I’ve gone I was always

tempted to stand next to one of those

statues and be as still as

possible to see if someone confused me

with a wax figure

for them to say oh well so real and then

for them to pinch me in fact that idea

occurred to Arnold

Schwarzenegger who made himself look

like a wax museum a wax

figure in the style of Terminator and as

the tourist came along to look at him he

almost killed one of them by heart

attack what happens is when we go into

one of these

museums after a few minutes of seeing

people that aren’t real we lose sense of

what’s made of wax and who isn’t

especially when we see women that are

wearing a lot of makeup you

say are they made of wax and you say no

they’re just they did their makeup to go

out and I think something similar

happens to us in real life on certain

occasions where when you’re surrounded

by so

much faking it we can’t really Define

within exact science what’s real and so

that’s why experts reaffirm that in

order to detect false

bills you have to familiarize yourself a

lot with real

bills you can’t learn to distinguish all

the counterfeit

bills it’s impossible so you have

to understand what real bills feel like

how they look because different types of

bills exist different fakes but you have

to train yourself I insist you have to

understand and recognize the authentic

ones to automatically detect which ones

are a replica but even then

you can live surrounded by falsehoods by

Wax figures and this is due to the fact

that the majority of us prefer to fake

even our own

identities Faking It is a part of human

nature we never truly show who we are

social media is just the tip of the

iceberg of what I’m trying to say on

social media you always fake it remember

when you were 20 years old and you would

take a selfie like this and then you

would post it well once you turn

50 you take 50 60 70 pictures you use 32

filters until we finally post one

photo and on our profile picture

everyone looks 30 years younger oh you

look so young and then you see them in

real life and it’s the mother of the

girl in the profile

picture because we like to fake it it

doesn’t matter that we’re not that

person it doesn’t matter that we’re not

real as long as they believe that that’s

who we are and that’s how we look then

we love to fake it I remember that when

I was 17 years old I needed a job job

that required me to be 21 and obviously

I wasn’t willing to go home and wait

four years until I turned 21 to get that

job so I took my

documents and I

meticulously changed the last digit of

my birth with a pen don’t follow my

example from when I was an unbeliever

okay this was a moment in which I was

lost falsifying a public document is a

very serious crime but in an instant way

I was able to be four years older

immediately and I got the

job on top of

boasting with all the women that said

You Look So

Young they would say you’re you look so

young for 21 yeah I I got that for my

German

jeans I looked young obviously I was 17

but I wanted to be

21 and so I changed the document

obviously

that

nowadays if I I could change a digit to

my age on a document I would take

numbers off not add but there are still

people that erase parts of their lives

and pretend to be people that they’re

not and we all do

it we all more or less fake it to an

extent and I don’t necessarily believe

that it’s for malicious

reasons because we all

have an idea of who we want to

be and not until we get there until we

become the person we want to be

sometimes we pretend to be older we

pretend to be more intelligent in fact

even more spiritual than what we truly

are and the more time we spend faking it

it seems like we’re accomplishing it and

we all believe that everyone is buying

it but the sad part is that we can’t

trick God nor can we trick

ourselves and sometimes we’re so good at

tricking people that we end up believing

what we’re projecting but the problem of

simulating that you’re

21 when you’re just 17 is that we end up

believing that we’ve reached a place

that we haven’t gotten to yet

organically or in a natural way and

that’s why I insist sometimes we buy

homes we buy phones or expensive

clothing that we still can’t pay for we

can’t really afford but we convince

ourselves that yes we can do it and we

masch that with reverence and say I do

it by faith I trust in God and then we

are left in debt for years because as we

said last

Sunday we Mis understand the season

we’re in and for the same reason we take

leadership positions or we go up on a

stage or we start a business when we

still haven’t allowed God to work on our

character but God isn’t someone that

confuses wax with real life God doesn’t

confuse it God doesn’t pinch a real

person think that they’re made of wax

nor does he pinch a wax figure thinking

that they’re real no God is the only one

we can’t scam and in the Bible there’s a

story of a

couple made up of ananas and saf a very

well-known story they sold a few

properties a a couple that sold some

land we don’t have to demonize them

every time people speak about this

couple they demonize them but no they

weren’t

villains I don’t think that they were

cheaters from birth No in fact I think

that they loved God they loved the

church they sold their land they donated

all the money well almost all of

it I’m sure that on Monday ananas told

God and all the people that were

surrounding him that he would sell his

land with his wife and that they would

donate all the money maybe he repeated

the same thing on Tuesday he said the

same thing on Wednesday on Thursday

someone asked him and he said yeah yeah

I’m going to donate it all maybe on

Friday he told his friend friends the

same thing once again I’m going to give

all the

money from the sales of our properties

and I’m going to donate it all to the

church on Saturday he went to his

friend’s house and they asked him hey

they told us that you’re going to donate

everything and he said proudly yeah yeah

everything everything maybe he wasn’t

trying to lie or trick anyone most

likely it’s a very common

syndrome he said it so many times that

he would give it all up that he ended up

believing his own life

there are people that look at their

profile picture from Facebook or

Instagram and they think they look that

way they put so many filters on it so

many filters they believe that they

truly look that way I’m not going to say

who because we’re live on air right now

but there’s a very famous person very

very famous person I won’t say their

name even if you insist and you were

dying to

know they took out all the mirrors in

their home it’s a woman since she

doesn’t want to see herself grow old

almost like Dorian Gray she doesn’t want

to see her

reflection and so she has a

photographer living with her in her home

and when she wants to see how she looks

she asks him to take a picture of her to

put all the filters that he can and then

that’s when she looks at herself so when

she Combs her hair she asks how do I

look the photographer takes a picture

puts all the filters makes her look 30

years younger and she looks at herself

she says that it makes her self-esteem

up if there’s someone doing this at home

then go admit yourself into a

psychiatric ward for your own good or

I’ll call an ambulance now for you it’s

very serious very serious

issue the point is that some people end

up believing their own lives and in the

case of ananas and Safa they had stored

Away part of the money that they got

from selling their land it’s reasonable

it was their property it was their land

it was their money is it bad to keep

some of it and then and all the rest

what 80 90% donated to the church no

that’s fabulous who can who does that

the problem with ananas is that he was

trying to be someone he wasn’t him and

his

wife and so the word says that they fell

to their death before God I insist God

isn’t someone who can who confuses wax

with

reality God saw that they were trying to

falsify their image they were telling

everyone around them that they were in a

position

that they still hadn’t arrived to they

hadn’t gotten there yet in place of

being the

couple that was donating a great portion

of their properties no they coveted a

greater Applause they wanted to look

like the

couple that could take have the luxury

of donating everything no one was asking

them to donate everything they didn’t

have to say that they were donating

everything they could have said I’m

donating a part or not say anything at

all

it occurs to me that maybe they said so

many times they would donate it all that

even though a part was missing they

supposed that technically it’s as if

they did give everything are you

donating everything oh yeah and they

looked amongst themselves yeah we

donated a lot it’s almost as if we did

everything but it wasn’t everything but

Peter said there’s a small

problem guys you haven’t lied to men

you’ve lied to

God and we all lie

more than we would like to

admit every time we pretend in front of

others that we’re on a higher level of

spirituality different to what we’re

actually at we’re a part of that wax

museum attraction we’re

scammers and the sad story with ananas

and

saf the sad story reveals to us how

important it is to

God for us to be

realistic May no one have a higher

concept of themselves than they should

have but no just the reality this is who

I am

transparent that doesn’t mean a lack of

intimacy it doesn’t mean that you have

to be sharing if you have hemorrhoids or

not no transparency means what I show is

a part of the

truth because some show a part of a lie

I don’t have the obligation to show my

intimacy it’s one thing to be authentic

and it’s one thing to have

privacy but what I show has to be a part

of my authenticity and we have to be

honest of who we truly are honest let’s

not pretend to be someone that we’re not

maybe we will become that person I’m

sure that we’ll One Day become the

person we proposed to be because we’re

all

growing to the measure of the stature of

the fullness of Christ now I’m sure that

God enjoys seeing us in each of these

stages even when we’re still making

mistakes even when we still

stumble why do I know that God enjoys

seeing us in each one of these stages

well because a parent enjoys a baby when

they’re a baby a mother enjoys her baby

even though the baby depends even for

the most basic needs even just changing

the diaper but that’s a season that you

have to enjoy you enjoy that time and

then you enjoy their adolescence and

then that time of rebellion we enjoy it

until they become adults haven’t you

noticed that when you ask someone to

take a picture of you always a person

that’s taking the picture is always

smiling always there’s not someone that

says

okay it’s

always and they’re not even in the

picture but it’s a an act of reflection

no one takes a picture without

smiling God does the same thing when he

looks at us so every time he sees us I’m

convinced that he smiles because he

doesn’t have a

replica made of wax of me that looks

smarter that’s wiser than I am or that’s

more handsome than I I am no I am as I

am or like give an example of

myself fine let’s just say you a wax

figure of yourself that’s more handsome

than you

whatever there isn’t a wax figure that’s

better or

younger God doesn’t say no no no no this

woman is 50 years old too many hours of

flight let me turn her into a

30-year-old no God sees you the way you

are and he knows exactly how we are

now and who we are destined to become

and for that reason he allows that word

called

process the

processes a few years

ago I read a fascinating story of the

process of the life of a garden tree the

process from falsehoods to

authenticity this story wasn’t a great

great story but a part of the story that

that made me shudder and allow me to

share it with

you there was

once a small

almond or an almond

tree a tree that produces

almonds it began as a little

sapling The

Gardener worked on the land he he

watered the plants the garden and that

small almond

tree fought to grow to be as tall as

possible the progress continued each

week and the gardener continued to till

the land

around the garden and everything seemed

to be good the idea of failure never

crossed the tree’s mind all the tree

could think was I’m going to be the best

almond tree they’re taking care of me

I’m going to be

that obviously it still didn’t possess

the

sufficient structure in its roots

to be able to store nutrients in

underground and to give off fruits and

so by consequence it still couldn’t

transmit the right humidity or dampness

or water to its branches to give fruit

but even then the tree thought this

might be my season this could be my

spring maybe this year who knows maybe

I’ll give fruit the story says that one

day The Gardener went to the tree but he

didn’t repeat the same process

now in place of doing that the gardener

Took an Axe and cut the tree from its

roots and so in all the commotion the

tree thought what did I do wrong I was

giving the best of myself I didn’t do

anything wrong I don’t deserve this and

the small almond tree felt betrayed

because the same person that was

supposed to take care of the tree and be

interested in him now separated him from

his Fountain of nutrients

and so he couldn’t believe that that

same Gardener was cutting him from his

roots how would he survive

now what did he do wrong and if that

weren’t

enough the Almond Tree separated from

its nutrients that kept it alive now its

Gardener was cutting each one of its

branches it took the tree and it began

to cut each of its branches and the

process

continued until it was left with no

branch at

all and so then the gardener continued

and took off the BR the bark the bark is

the external structure that

protects the Sal that gives life to the

trunk and it also preserves the levels

of humidity inside the tree so the

tree’s bark was the final protection the

final barrier that it had because a tree

that is cut

down still with its bark has a chance to

survive as long as it’s

replanted but the gardener began to

remove the bark and that small tree now

feels naked

exposed and so on the ground naked with

no

roots the tree has endless questions

with no

answers all uniting in one thought why

is this happening to me why I don’t

understand

in Argentina we use a phrase something

like it’s raining already and now I’m

wet

too and so the the the tree was there

lying on the ground and the gardener

would come around each day and the tree

would think well maybe he’ll replant me

I don’t have any bark but maybe he’ll

replant me quickly he had hope but in

place of replanting the tree The

Gardener would

rotate the plant so that it would dry up

on on each side and each day that passed

the sun’s heat would dry the plant more

and more and so the drying process took

many

days and when

each drop of humidity of dampness

disappeared from the tree The Gardener

said okay son I think you’re ready

now and all of a sudden a revelation

came to the tree not to The Gardener but

to the tree to the plant the plant said

but of course

I’m no longer an almond tree I’m a cane

now he was transforming me into a rod

that’s what my Lord wanted for me he

wanted me to become a can a strong Rod

upon which he can support

himself and so he began to like the

change he said oh okay this is the

process I wanted to be an almond tree

but now I’m a cane and the small almond

tree

accepted accept that his dream had been

aborted he said fine I’ll never be an

almond tree but now I’m a cane it was

painful to experiment that they uprooted

him of course it was but then he

realized that he had now become a cane a

rod plan a for the Almond Tree never

included a possibility to One Day become

a cane or a rod a lifeless Rod

but that almond cane adapted to plan B

something that wasn’t in his plans when

he was born his father almond tree and

mother almond Tre never said one day

you’ll be a good k no it wasn’t in his

plans and this is something that tends

to happen to us during God’s

processes sometimes we believe that

we’re walking in One Direction but God

ends up sending us in a distinct

Direction and God’s plan B’s don’t end

up becoming our plan A’s but it’s not

God’s plan BS for us it was Plan B but

for God it was plan A

when you think about Jesus’s ministry

here on Earth you can see that of all

the things that happened they all

happened in route to for example Jesus

was on his way

to an official’s home to heal his

daughter and on the way there a woman

that was hemorrhaging touched his his

robe and was healed something miraculous

happened between point a and point B

apparently that wasn’t in the plans but

a woman was

healed as Jesus was on his way to do

something else 10 lepers needed to be

healed and all of a sudden when they

went on their

way when they were told to go and reveal

themselves to the priest something

happened between point a and point B

they were healed Jesus was traveling

from Galilee to

Jerusalem he stopped at a town named

sakar in the region of Samaria on the

way there he met a woman that was

resting by a well and something

marvelous happened between point a and

point B so some sometimes what we

believe is our

goal can be

completely opposite from what God’s goal

is something can happen on the way there

and that’s called process sometimes our

idea is to give almonds and say I’m an

almond tree I was born to be an almond

tree I look like an almond my son is an

almond my grandfather was an

almond my great-grandfather was an

almond tree and we’re all almond trees

but God has in mind to make you a cane

for someone else and we say but that

wasn’t in my plans yeah but that’s what

you were created for and that’s the pain

that we sometimes have when on route to

something something happens something

that we didn’t have planned

look many years

ago I had to preach at a certain country

and for some reason I didn’t feel like

traveling I finally

knew that just as I felt it just as I

expected I knew why I was resistant to

going because the sound was terrible the

logistics were terrible no organ

organization it was all terrifying there

weren’t any pastors behind the event it

was just a few young men that threw

something together and at that time I

was also young and so I went and I had a

terrible time not because I’m picky but

because the people weren’t

listening the event wasn’t well

organized and so in the same way I still

preached I was already

there and so I faced the music I put up

with it I came down from the stage upset

it wasn’t notable because I’m great at

pretending and I could work at the Wax

Museum if I wanted to I came down with

the smile but that smile that’s the type

of smile where it’s like I’m constipated

but I don’t want you to realize it right

like

that it wasn’t a smile where you smile

with your eyes it was a a scary smile

like Mona Lisa’s smile from here down

from here up I feel like killing someone

but from here I’m

smiling and so when I came down from the

stage a guy followed me to my car he was

going to drive me to the hotel but I

didn’t want to speak with anyone but he

said no no no I want to confess to you

you’re like my older

brother and I saw this guy in need he

told me that his dad had abandoned

him that my messages I’m sorry kept him

alive kept him going and so for some

reason I stayed with him for a few

minutes we spoke the chauffeur said come

on let’s go let’s go and I said no I’ll

stay for a few minutes for some reason I

felt like staying I prayed for him

quickly I’m also not going to say I

spent half an hour but no he hugged me

strongly before he gave me a drawing of

myself that I still keep today and he

said this was my dream I could die

tomorrow and before I got onto the plane

the following day they told me that that

same night that gentleman had a fatal

accident and had lost his

life and so I knew that that

trip wasn’t for the service that’s not

what the Lord had in mind it wasn’t the

reunion at night but the Lord

had set an appointment for me to speak

with that gentleman and the Bible’s

filled with stories like that of men and

women that were called for a purpose but

at one point in their lives and for a

certain season or because of a certain

process the Lord changed their Direction

in an unexpected way or he set an

appointment that wasn’t on the

agenda God’s path generally speaking is

not the fastest it’s fastest it’s not

the easiest but it’s it may be the best

even though it’s not our plan a even

though it’s not what we

planned the story of our almond tree

continues when its owner finally once

he’s now a cane once he’s a

rod the

owner gets a

blade and writes his name on the on the

cane numbers The Book of Numbers shares

with us

the Lord said to Moses speak to the

Israelites and get 12 staffs from them

one from the leader of each of their

ancestral tribes write the name of each

man on his

staff and you will write the name on the

staff of Levi write Aaron’s name for

there must be one staff for the head of

each ancestral Tribe Place them in the

tent of meeting in front of the Arc of

the Covenant law or I meet with

you and so Moses by an explicit order

from God takes the 12 staffs each one

has a name inscribed on it the name of

its

owner amongst them was the almond tree

and from my story and God by order

placed

them in front of the Ark of the Covenant

the holiest of holies the thick folds of

the curtains closed and left

all of the

staffs there in a in a disturbing

silence in absolute

darkness and now our alry was very

disheartened this seems like a a soap

opera right now things got

ugly because the guy said all right it’s

fine I wanted to be the best almond tree

ever I wanted my mother to be proud of

me I wanted my grandmother almond tree

to be even

more proud but it’s fine that’s not what

happened but now I at least wanted to be

the best cane of them all the best staff

but now I feel

abandoned and on certain occasions we

feel that God places us on

standby the strange

sensation that it’s as if God retired us

before our time it’s as if he called us

to retirement before we thought there

are

seasons where the Lord tells you part of

your OB part of your process is

obedience and your job now is to stay

here without doing

anything those of us that have ants in

our

heart it’s terribly

difficult everything that we thought we

were preparing ourselves for it at a

certain point it seems like it’s all

useless

now and we feel vulnerable we feel

naked powerless and

abandoned just like our staff feels in

the darkness of the

tent I’m talking about when we feel that

we were abruptly cut off from what we

believe to be our

purpose our

destiny there’s no reason there aren’t

any reasons it doesn’t require analys is

as to why we were cut because it’s one

thing to say all right I I sinned or

from what I can remember I made a

mistake but there are points where we’re

cut off abruptly with no apparent reason

there are seasons in our lives where we

say all I know is that I did what I knew

what to do or what I could do I did the

best I

could all right we couldn’t become the

best alry nor the best cane or

staff but we at least felt that we did

what we could when you say I already

prayed all that I had to I have no more

tears left to cry I have nothing left to

do I can’t be any more humble than I am

now I don’t know where to get it

from it wouldn’t be humility anymore it

would be humiliation there are moments

in life where you say I did

everything within my

reach and it hurts a lot to know that

sometimes

God separates us from what we believed

or we knew how to do or we were were

prepared to do and we say we’ve even

gotten to the point where we say Lord

why don’t you take advantage of me as if

the Lord needed us right I don’t

understand Lord isn’t it to your benefit

to take advantage of everything that I

have everything that I prepared myself

with and the Lord

say and it even hurts us to believe that

God placed Us in that place of Silence

there’s a moment that is called process

a place where the Lord calls us to

silence and he doesn’t give us any more

information the map ends

like when you lose signal on your cell

phone you try and put the GPS but all of

a sudden you lose signal and you have no

idea where the heck you’re going if

you’re going to Vegas or Tijuana you

have no

clue and so

that all staff felt completely abandoned

in absolute Darkness behind the thick

folds of the curtains of the tent but I

always say when you’re behind the thick

curtains it doesn’t mean that we’ve been

discarded what’s more more in each

theater that I’ve been and this tour

that I’ve been a part of every time I

stand behind the

curtain they’re probably preparing my

microphone they’re giving me an earpiece

they’re preparing me every time I’m

behind the curtain it’s because I’m

minutes away from going on stage and

every time God places you behind the

curtain it’s because God’s true plan is

about to begin do you believe it I

believe

it and I want you to remember this I

want us to remember this I’m a little

more foolish when trying to remember

these things because of my hyperactivity

because I’m always trying to do things

anytime God allows us a time of darkness

when I talk about Darkness I’m not

talking about demonic Darkness I’m

talking about silence

disconnection every time the Lord sends

us to a moment or a season of

loneliness that appears to have

forgotten us it’s always out of love

never punish M please never forget this

he’s not punishing you God is Not

punishing you he’s not disciplining

you when God sends you to obey in

silence and not do anything we

immediately take it as a as a as a

punishment we bring that from school and

from the times where they would say gav

go to the corner gav go to your

corner oh you think you’re funny okay

why don’t you tell the the joke out loud

so we can all laugh that’s how teachers

were back then they were allergic to

happiness and since I would tell jokes

they would say oh the gentleman is funny

now isn’t he you want to say it out loud

and I had no problem I would stand up

and say it but she would say no no no

that’s not what I mean go to your corner

go to the

corner and so you think I’m in the

corner doing nothing or they would put

you out in the hallway to do nothing and

that was the

punishment you take that to your

relationship with God when God asks me

to not do anything it’s a punishment I

will sent to the

corner but you understand or believe

that that’s discipline or punishment

it’s going to be very tough for us to

understand that the process is out of

love due to love in any concentration

camp I always say the guards have an

almost unlimited amount of

power because due to their strength they

can make the people denounce their God

or curse their families or kill their

loved ones or even eat manure the guards

can make them lose their dignity

completely there’s just one thing that

they can’t

accomplish they can’t oblige anyone to

love

them because love never operates under

the laws of power never you’re going to

love me because if not I’m going to

punish you no love doesn’t work that

way so the greatest miracles from God

his great spectacles of pyrotechnics

never made Israel love him more and so

that’s why we conclude or from there we

conclude that when God calls us to a

time or a process of Silence it’s always

always always because he loves us so

much and because he’s preparing us for

another assignment that demands that

silence it demands shutting down those

voices in any other way he can’t send

you to another assignment by listening

to your mother-in-law by your listening

to your your friend your pastor no no

one

Psalms 1214

says indeed He Who Watches Over Israel

will never slumber nor sleep maybe your

husband might fall asleep but he will

not he will neither slumber nor sleep

are we in agreement yes or

no and in Psalm 35 he adds I lie down

and sleep I wake again because the Lord

sustains

me it seems like something childish I

went to bed I fell asleep and I woke up

three luxuries that not

everyone can afford going to bed in

peace and waking up in peace knowing

that the Lord is holding you up

sustaining you even when you don’t sleep

or rest the Lord is sustaining you and

so what does his word say it indicates

that even though we are

resting God’s plan for our purpose

continues advancing while we

sleep God doesn’t need us to be awake

all day you think that if you’re so

worried and you don’t sleep then you’re

helping God no God says I don’t need

your help go sleep he told Elijah in his

moment go sleep go eat go rest because

you have a long road ahead of you the

depression you have now is just the lack

of

sleep saying oh I want to die I’m no

better than my parents take my life give

me Youth and Asia that all comes out of

depression and depression comes from a

lack of

rest when your mind doesn’t rest even if

your body rests for six or eight hours

if your mind doesn’t stop then that

produces demands that are too high and

that pressure builds up when you don’t

rest it’s because you believe that you

can resolve everything you feel like

you’re God but there are things that you

can’t

resolve worry never resolved the problem

who said oh I owe a bunch of money but

tonight I won’t sleep I’ll worry all

night and the next morning I’ll write

the check when did worry ever write a

check for

you when did worry ever heal

someone have you ever accomplished

anything by staying up all night on this

side of the ICU while your loved was

being treated well I tried it once with

my mother I stayed with my brother

outside and the doctor said go rest

because there’s nothing’s going to

happen overnight we said yeah but can we

stay out here and he said well why do

you want to stay here you can’t see your

mother anyway you can’t go through the

door well in case something happens well

if something happens gentlemen you’ll

find out at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow and my

brother said well what if she dies at

3:00 a.m. well then you’ll find out

tomorrow at 7: a.m. that she died at

3: and my brother who’s another almond

tree just like myself or he was at least

he said all right we’re going to stay

because

I it’s

unsettling and what made it worse is

that we heard people on the other side

of the wall coughing maybe they had

asthma there were a bunch of sick people

on the other side we would say do you

think it’s Mom yeah that’s how we

were the medical team rotated but

nothing changed but there we were two

fools was thinking that our worry was

going to help

something and so when the writer of the

Psalms says I went to bed and went to

sleep and then woke up and I saw that

the Lord sustained me just like when I

went to sleep it speaks to the fact that

the Lord does not rest and he will

accomplish the purpose that he has set

for your life do you believe it yes or

no one of

the pieces of music that has been

interpreted around the world the most is

you know what it is right it’s not

despasito it’s not Taylor Swift it’s a

classical

piece it’s the Fifth

Symphony in D Minor by Beethoven we

recognize it immediately by its

emblematic opening it’s even appeared in

cartoons like Tom and

Jerry you don’t know anything about

classical music but you know that one

right there are the four most famous

notes in western

music now did you know that in reality

that sheet music begins with something

known in music as a rest note just

before the first note there’s a a rest

note a note of Silence a moment of

silence and you say well isn’t it just a

zero can’t you just start with a note no

no no in music you have to respect a

rest note it’s difficult to understand

the original intention that Beethoven

had

when he placed that rest note at the

beginning almost like a sound absorber

before the work of art

begins but at a concert when they’re

about to play this this piece as they’re

about to start there’s always sound and

noise people looking for their seats

people moving people fiddling with the

with paper in their hands but just a bit

of Silence before the symphony serves as

a

cleanser and all that’s needed is a rest

note and so before

the there’s a rest

note that is deathly silent because the

silence is what prepares us for the

symphony and the same thing goes for our

lives sometimes we need a rest note we

don’t understand why it’s there on the

sheet

music but if you want to make Symphonies

out of God’s grace then before anything

the Lord will place a rest note and

you’ll always remember it that way

the Lord that God called you

to the time that the Lord has called you

to right now is to shut your mouth

silence

shh and so for the almond tree that

became a staff his life started to turn

up

again now he’s amongst other staffs in

the middle of the

darkness or in the middle of a rest note

and we say well why why is it there well

God isn’t someone that can confuse wax

with

reality and God knew that that almond

Street

purpose would never be just being a

simple

staff even if he just looked like a

staff now I don’t know if you knew this

but in grammar when two words are

opposites you combine them in one into

one

phrase

we call that an oxymoron you remember

oxymorons like for

example Little

Giant you could say well if they’re

small they’re not giant yeah but you say

my son is a tiny giant it’s an

oxymoron this is an eternal instant if

it’s an instant it’s not Eternal right

or a cold heat or punctual Hispanics

right it’s an oxymoron

humble argentinians

oxymoron good mother-in-laws

oxymoron and if there’s an oxymoron that

beats them all in my opinion it’s the

incredulous Christian because what’s an

incredulous Christian you could say that

it’s a

Christian who believes in Christ but

doesn’t believe

Christ that’s an oxymoron that’s an

incredulous Christian he believes in God

but he doesn’t believe

God and God’s processes are summarized

with this a season in which God needs to

give us give us a rest

note to take away our

disbelief and the fakeness of our heart

take away all the waxs let’s agree that

I’ve seen just as you have we’ve all

seen God answer prayers

I’ve seen people be healed and leave

doctors mute I’ve seen couples that were

infertile have babies I’ve seen people

lose their jobs pray and then quickly

find jobs that pay double to what they

were earning before sometimes it happens

this way because Faith gives results and

prayer has power but to be sincere

sometimes a rest note appears right

before the answer to our our request

it’s like in certain

occasions we say the best prayer like

the almond tree we do everything that we

know how to

do as honest as we can be with all of

our heart and there’s no

answer the moment of change doesn’t

come the cancer spreads the metastasis

advances your

finances shrink your marriage feels more

and more lonely and so Faith doesn’t

guarantee us a life free from

Darkness but it does prepare us to

discover the opportunity of seeing God’s

glory in the midst of that Darkness are

you following me yes or

no so what is what am I going to

discover that’s the process

so every great Story begins with the

rest note of of adversity of course if

you could write your own story then you

wouldn’t choose adversity or a rest note

at the beginning because we want our

stories jump out of the page from a

promise of Liberation to the Celebration

at the promised land and avoid all the

battles the whole desert you say God why

don’t you build me a bridge across the

Red

Sea above those turbulent Waters and

don’t let my enemies get too close to me

but it doesn’t work this

way life can’t work this way we can’t

raise a child this

way as a parent we want our children to

not suffer who wants our children to

suffer but we can’t avoid them from

avoid their

suffering we can be we can be more a 10

to make sure no one bullies them but at

a at a certain point we have to let them

fly and they’re going to have to they’re

going to have their own crashes their

own accidents they going

to create their own

experiences you can’t prescribe your

experience to others if only were that

easy no they’re going to have to stumble

on the same stones that their parents

fell over you try to make sure that they

don’t but we’re all foolish we’re all

stubborn didn’t we stumble upon the same

stones that our parents did well sorry

actually all the sanctified people from

the universal go Church of God came

today we didn’t we we wouldn’t know how

powerful God is if our life didn’t have

trials and tribulations that required

that sort of strength and you might ask

well why aren’t all prayers answered in

the moment we make them because we would

begin to place our faith into the power

of prayer instead of putting our faith

in the power of Jesus that’s how we

are as soon as the prayer is is answered

we don’t need communion with Jesus

anymore we keep the prayer and we send

Jesus

out and we don’t like the process why

because the process is always the story

behind the glory

between the promise and the pay there’s

always a

process and if we don’t know how to

process the

process then it’s

probable that our arrival at the

promised land will be delayed or maybe

you’ll never arrive in the worst of

cases so many of us lose our reward

because we miss we we mess up in the

process and it’s part of our human

nature to skip over the promise to the

pay and say the Lord promised me I claim

it well if only life were that easy but

the process is the time that strengthens

our

character the silence is the time where

we learn to depend completely absolutely

and only on God we don’t depend on

anyone else that’s what makes us strong

we get rid of the what will they say

well people will say good or bad we

don’t care

all we care about is what God thinks of

us and where do you learn that in the

silence and more important than that the

process is the

way in which we’ll grow and know more of

God and here’s the point the

process is The Melting Pot of faith when

you’re in the process all you have left

is faith faith that you’ll get out of it

what else do you

have come because at 7:00 a.m. the

medical team will will update you you we

can either wait or do the stupid thing

that my brother and I

did or just go home rest and have faith

use Faith your child goes out on a trip

and they say I’m going out late tonight

they’re old enough to go out but they

still live in your home you know they’re

41 so they leave and the mother says I

can’t sleep not until they come back

what can you

do put a a Tracker put a chip without

them

realizing make them believe that it’s a

suppository

and see where they’re going they’re

taking too

long or

rest and use your faith and go to bed I

will go to bed in peace and the same way

I’ll

rest the Lord sustains

me that’s part of the process that you

learn you learn to trust and have faith

that’s where you

learn you learn in the darkness how to

walk by by faith and not by sight and

you can’t learn that unless we walk in

darkness for some time there are a lot

of important events in the Bible where

the victory was accomplished during the

night in the darkness Jacob fought all

night Israel’s Liberation during

Passover happened during the night

Gideon’s battle began in the middle of

the night on more than one occasion the

word say says that the angel of the Lord

went and defeated all the enemies so

just like we tell our children Darkness

isn’t for you to be scared darkness is

for you to rest Darkness isn’t for you

to be afraid God sends you there to

sleep there are

moments where God doesn’t just not need

you don’t take this the wrong way but

you’re a

burden oh it’s cuz God doesn’t need me

no no no on top of it all you’re a

burden you become a burden and so God

says Shh go to sleep go to

sleep

the other day I heard something very

powerful I don’t know if I should say it

these are all always the things that get

me into problems but this is part of my

authenticity a friend of mine said hey

you know I was thinking

seriously that sometimes

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God on certain occasions allows you know

not always but sometimes he allows the

Alzheimer’s disease because he God

disconnects someone’s

brain to deal with their Spirit directly

without

interruptions he gave me an example of

his own

father his father’s mind never allowed

him to get close to God because he

rationalized everything he could never

accept anything in faith not even his

own salvation even though he spent years

in the church but then one day a cable

was

disconnected and he would cry in the

presence of the Lord and cry and cry and

he had Great Encounters with the Lord

and his son would say if my dad wasn’t

disconnected from part of his

rationalism then he would have never

never had that encounter with God this

is an extreme case of what I believe I

don’t have any evidence to back this but

I am in agreement

that that many

times we are

burdens for one of God’s process and we

say Lord I want to be an almond tree I

want to be an almond tree I want to be

an almond tree and the Lord says you

stubborn staff you stubborn can and when

we finally accept that we’re a can or a

staff we go to the

Darkness Psalms 46:10 says be still and

know that I am God he wants us to go to

silence so that we recognize that you’re

not God I’m not God Only He Is

God God says you think we’re working

together you think I need you no be

still and know that I am God Be Still

worship me because I fight your battles

are we in agreement yes or no be

still the thing

is during the night during the longest

and loneliest

nights that almond tree begins to feel

something familiar something flowing

through it cells it had been very long

since he had felt that sensation and so

he didn’t know what it

was dampness began to filter through

that bar that was once an almond tree

and in the middle of the darkness he

felt a strange sensation that his his

bark was

expanding and he literally sees a branch

burst from his side and then another

Branch burst on the other side that’s

this was all happening in the darkness

and while the third branch

appeared the first Branch began to

flourish even in the absence of solar

light there were no roots

planted it should have been planted in

into the ground

and then the

second Branch sprouted fruits and then

the third and fourth and each staff went

through this during the

night and to the astonishment of the

stupified

Cain one of the branches begins to give

off almonds he had never given off

almonds remember he was cut off before

his

time he had lost the capacity not just

the capacity but hope to One Day become

an almond tree I always say that you

always have hope for

everything even we even when we believe

that it can no longer be for example the

majority of women must store away that

pair of jeans of Hope right in your

closet because one day you fit into

those

jeans now not even one of your arms fits

in there your arm doesn’t fit into one

of the

legs you threw everything out except for

that Gene of

Hope and someone says to you you’re not

going to throw it out no because one day

I’m going to put it on

again I’m going to get

thin I’m sorry that I’m saying this to

you but never in your life will you fit

into that

again nature is yelling out free Willie

it won’t

happen but we all have that I also have

my own pair of pants of

Hope the Almond

Tree had an almond of

hope that wasn’t going to happen again

he was cut off he was

dry but these branches began to

burst in the exact place where the where

the staff felt most abandoned and the

word say says that Moses the next day

Moses entered the tent and saw that

Aaron

staff which represented the tribe of

Levi had not only sprouted but had bued

blossomed and produced

almonds this is where along with the

almond tree we begin to understand oh

okay it just so happens that when God is

in the

equation

when our dreams die that’s when his

plans are just getting started he’s just

getting started yes or

no in

reality that alond staff without life

was about to discover the secret of what

it means to be in the presence of the

Lord that’s where in the presence of the

Lord you become the person that you

never even dreamed of being that’s where

it happens where God his best work is

always in

secret and that almond staff didn’t

understand that he was still an alment

tree you forget what you were life makes

you forget the child that you once were

the dreams you once

had in service to God you forget why we

wanted to serve in the first place we

wanted to serve to be close to the

people and there’s a moment in life

where the people begin begin to spread a

thin and we say I can’t put up with

their character and each time worse

people come to the church and yeah

didn’t we want to serve to be close to

those people I know a bunch of doctors

that wanted to be doctors to serve

people they took the hypocritic

oath you’ve known doctors that mistreat

people treat people with contempt what

happened in the process how did they

forget that they were an almond

tree you had all the dreams you had the

biological

composition and that comes back to life

when you’re in the Lord’s presence

there’s a composition there are genes

that come back to life even if the staff

is completely disconnected from the

ground from the

sun when you’re in the presence of the

Lord life flows through those dry cells

that always

happens you believe it yes or

no

and something greater something more

profound began to

happen the normal function of

chlorophyll according to all the laws of

nature nothing could make that almond

tree

grow they were all cast the side when

the Lord did it himself and in one

single night just one single night it

gave

fruit that little staff became

everything he wanted to be in what just

eight hours 12

maybe the phrase in one single night

touches me very profoundly because back

in the year 1981 a group of women said

past they’ll call you the pastor of

Youth sorry

1991 don’t worry in one night I’ll do it

in one night I’ll do

it everything will happen while you

sleep go to bed as a

boy as one man and you’ll wake up as

another but I was unknown I was

completely unknown and then one day in

1996 in the Val stadium in Argentina the

stadium was filled with 50,000 young

people they had no clue who was going to

preach no publicity no resources no

social media no contacts there was no

internet back then those that are from

Taylor Swift to now believe that never

happened but there was a time in the

world where there was no

internet

and then on that night all of a sudden

someone that I had never met came a

famous singer named palito Ramon Orga or

Ramon palito Orga 50,000 young people

came who knows why we have a witness

here gastone and he

directs the praise and the worship he

went there when he was 15 or 16 with

this brother they said let’s go to vas

because a preacher is coming around I

don’t know where he’s from that’s where

we met or he saw me from far away but I

had no idea what it was

about and this Ramon Orga stands by my

side he greets the people he sings even

today I don’t know who invited him why

he went how he got there but with him

came an entire team of of media TV news

they were taking pictures and pictures

and pictures and that night I went to

bed and the next morning my face was on

every single newspaper every magazine

across the country I was all over the

news on TV as

well and even though the famous guy was

palito the famous guy was him but I was

right next to

him that’s when I dressed in all white

to look heavier now it’s the complete

opposite and the people began to ask we

want to interview the pastor of the

youth I went to bed a dry naked staff

and the next morning I was an almond

tree giving off fruit everything

happened in one night and sometimes God

disconnects us from what matters to us

most but in one single night he

accelerates our

destiny if for God one day is like a

thousand years and a thousand years is

like one day then God could take

thousands of years of blessings and

infus it into one single night do you

believe

it his presence reconnects what’s

disconnected and then the people ask us

well how did you obtain that fruit up

until yesterday I had no idea you even

existed your business doesn’t have the

capital you don’t have the experience

needed how did you get that

contract the rain didn’t even come down

and and you’re giving off fruit and for

all those

questions from the famous oxymorons of

of incredulous Christians there’s one

single answer one night in the presence

of the Lord makes our greatest dreams

come to life he can do it all in one

night do you believe it

never underestimate the potential of an

encounter with God

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hallelujah but there’s one last secret

one last jam on the crown the word says

that

Moses brought out all the staffs from

the Lord’s presence to all the

Israelites the Lord said to Moses put

back Aaron’s staff in front of the Ark

of the Covenant to be kept as a sign to

the

rebellious God asked Moses to place our

almond tree that now flourished keep it

in the Arc of the Covenant a plan C for

the Almond Tree because the Almond Tree

said wow now I’m going to show off my

flowers to the rest of the world but God

said no you’re going to stay in my

presence and what he thought was another

punishment was just another process the

writer of the Hebrew says that in the

ark there is a box of gold that

contained the Mana Aaron’s staff that

ref flourished and and the tablets of

the pack

the Mana couldn’t be stored from one day

to the next because it would become

putrid it would

spoil however the Mana in the Ark of the

Covenant was always kept fresh in a good

State a visible witness of God’s

provision to the next

Generations because because God made

sure of its

preservation and he was interested that

the next Generations would open up the

ark and see a freshman and not a putur

one imagine imagine a putrid stinky

smell coming from the ark he ordered

Moses and Aaron to place the Mana and

the Ark and the staff in the Ark of the

Covenant because life would continue

there

supernaturally remember this

axium nothing stinks nothing dies in his

presence Ministries don’t die callings

don’t die gifts don’t

die God’s promises don’t die in his

presence nothing has a bad smell

our dreams are kept fresh in God’s

presence and that freshness is a

derivative of intimacy in any

relationship freshness is a derivative

from

intimacy and while the staff is there it

flourishes while the Mana is there it’s

fresh it’s

edible because God’s presence preserves

and gives life and so maybe this morning

we’re going through a

season where God allowed all the bark to

be taken from you all your Provisions

all the resources that held up your life

or maybe the people that you were

Clinging On

to and you felt that each drop of of

humidity was absorbed from your being

and you got disconnected from anything

that was giving you oxygen or energy to

let you continue on all of a sudden your

oxygen was cut off all human dependency

and you were abruptly cut off from what

you once believed was your purpose what

you once believed to be your destiny

remember when you used to say if I don’t

serve God I

die if I don’t become a mother then I

don’t know why I get out of bed every

morning and one day your children

leave and your purpose as a mother even

though you’re still a mother technically

practically speaking you’re a mother

twice a year if that when they visit

you remember when you would say no no no

if I don’t have this I’ll die and the

Lord said wait wait wait what he said if

you don’t have this you’ll die and and

he cuts it

off that thing or that person that you

were depending

on and so we’re left in the middle of a

rest note and that’s where you stop

pretending you

stop pretending to be just another

attraction at a wax museum that’s where

we realize that our plan a didn’t turn

out of being an almond tree nor our plan

B of being a

staff and that’s where we let out in the

presence of the Lord without knowing how

to pray without

breath I’m talking about those Seasons

where you have no oxygen even to worship

all you can say between your teeth or

between tears is I feel naked

disconnected useless

alone with no protection

vulnerable and that ends up being the

most sincere and honest prayer in our

entire lives because there we realize

that we’re behind the curtain and in the

middle of a process and we tell God lord

here I am for the first time we don’t

say Lord I come here to claim my

blessings or I’m here to serve you use

me because I went through the Seminary

seminar that’s where we say no Lord I’m

a dry staff I don’t even know what my

purpose is anymore or what my destiny is

and so God who never confuses wax with

real

life fills us with his presence and in

one night in just a few hours in his

presence he accelerates our destiny he

shows us the

purpose and he allows us to produce the

fruits that not even the sun nor the nor

the ground could produce all that in one

night and when everything happens in one

night that shouts out loud an

acceleration in the times of God when

God calls Jeremiah on a different

occasion he gives him a vision and he

asks him Jeremiah what do you see and he

says I see a branch of an almond tree

and the Lord said you have seen

correctly for I am watching to see that

my word is

fulfilled Jeremiah 11:1 the branch of an

almond tree

means after that branch of our alond

tree it means that the Lord is

accelerating he’s urging the times how

did Jeremiah know that it was an almond

tree or a branch of an almond tree they

all look the same

the only way he knew is because it had

flourished and given off fruit and so

God is telling us what do you see when

you look in the mirror just as he asked

Jeremiah what do you see because I’m

going to tell you what I see in you I

see an almond staff that although it’s

peeled and dry in one night I can make

sure that it comes back to life and

gives off fruit and before this year

ends in one night

and only in just a few hours the Lord is

going to accelerate our destiny and he’s

going to fulfill his eternal purpose in

us so my beloved Church we’re going to

go back to being almond trees but with

fruits that were cultivated in the

presence of the

Lord we’re going to praise the Lord if

you believe that he has spoken to you

once you’re on your feet celebrate and

give an Applause to the Lord to close

out and seal this word say Lord you have

spoken this

morning whoa come on come on come on

celebrate the Lord of lords the King of

Kings we exalt you

King we exalt you

King

what if we take a

moment to say that prayer of the Almond

Tree don’t say anything any other type

of prayer don’t ask for your ministry

don’t ask why just say

Lord I’m a dry Branch that’s how I feel

he’s not going to judge you for how you

feel say I feel naked without protection

I feel

alone I don’t feel anything around me

there aren’t any

voices and there in the presence of the

Lord that begins

now tell him that that’s all you

are a prayer that Katherine Coleman once

said she said Lord I’m just

a a woman from

Missouri divorced alone with a Southern

accent

amongst

men I definitely don’t have anything to

offer you Lord the question is can you

do something with this

nothing because I assure you that if you

could do something with this nothing

then you would take the glory they would

never say that the fruits are due to the

Sun or the nutrients or the the Garden

or the soil all they could say is this

has to be

God that’s good business this for

God that when he ref flourishes your

branches no

one can even debate or think that you

had anything to do with it because you

were cut off

uprooted and in a world where everyone

values those that have status or a

certain

posture to see a fruit that grew

overnight

just makes knees bow down before a God

the god that gave those fruits tell the

Lord if you want to use me use me and if

my

assignment is to be in your presence in

silence until you take me with you with

me that’s fine by me that’s fine that

works for

me in the end you want to be with me

more than what you can use

me in reality I would love to do things

for you but I prefer one day in your

presence one

day with you than a thousand

away instead of doing things for you

without your presence say the prayer of

Moses say don’t take me anywhere if your

presence doesn’t go with me because I’ve

realized that without your presence I’m

a person with no job no career I have

nothing that has been my prayer all

these years

I’ve never considered myself a great man

a good guy I’ve said it many times in an

attempt to be a wax figure but deep

inside me I never thought I was a great

man but I cling on to one thing and

that’s God’s presence never allow me to

stand before a crowd if your presence

isn’t with

me because if they’re going to see the

strings

then they’ll realize that I have nothing

to

offer don’t let me

alone not on any

stage not for a single moment don’t let

me go anywhere if you’re not going to be

there with me and the Lord has been

faithful the fruits have been there but

not due to the soil nor the nutrients

but because he

he in loneliness makes your branches ref

flourish lift up your hands and drink

drink and say Lord I receive your word

this

morning

more

more more more more more a filling of

the Spirit come

now look look how the Holy Spirit

touches the lives that are

broken a filling of the spirit now now

impressive more more more

more father children youth elderly

adults touch

them fill them with life

now fill them with the life of the

spirit I’m praying not just so that you

can go through the process but I go

beyond that give thanks for that time in

the darkness say Lord this is my best

time I believe

it I had I hadn’t prayed enough I hadn’t

prayed as much as I have in these

days I

hadn’t sought you out with this humble

heart like in this last season father

you know how to do

things more everyone everyone everyone

it’s impressive what God is doing

today presence of the spirit more more

more more more more more more

the process of the spirit is

here making you flourish once

again what seemed to be dead is

flourishing more at

home I can feel many people moved crying

in the

spirit it’s the Lord doing his

work changing Hearts Transforming lives

impressive

more more more more more sweet spirit of

God sweet Spirit

more fill us this morning more more more

come on those that have the baptism of

the spirit speak in tongues cry

out open your mouth the holy spirit is

feeling fing it

now

whoa more more

more

and I feel that something has been let

out in the

air something has been set free this

morning it’s something stronger it’s not

the sun it’s not nutrients it’s the fire

it’s the

life it’s the life of the

spirit H whoa there it

goes more more more of your glory and

your spirit more of your glory and your

anointing sweet spirit of

God

more now take some time to say Lord I

want to bless my

process it seems foolish but many people

don’t bless their

process I don’t know how many of you

have the

Courage the courage this morning or this

afternoon I know there are people

watching us from different time zones

but say

Lord today I’m going to stop praying so

that you remove me from this process

they say it’s a prayer that

many many Koreans say the Korean Church

uses it every time that they’re in a

crisis they don’t pray so that God can

remove them from it because they say if

they do that then the crisis returns

like a test that you never take graduate

ation will never come unless you take

that test so they’ve learned to say Lord

let it take the time that you want it to

take just help me to go through this

process for whatever time you want it to

last I don’t know how many of you will

have the courage to say Lord I’m not

asking you anymore for it to end because

many people say Lord I want this illness

to go away I want to get out of this

problem I want this crisis to end no

don’t pray for it to end anymore say

Lord if it doesn’t end it’s because

there’s still a process there are more

almonds there still more fruit there’s

still more life within me there’s more

humidity more dampness that needs to run

through through me that’s why I say I

don’t know how many I’m not going to ask

you to say it but those that have the

courage say I’m not going to pray for

the process stand I’m going to pray for

the process to end when you decide it

needs to end I’m going to accept it I’m

going to understand that I’m going to

get out from this better that after this

training I’m going to be a better person

a better husband a better wife a better

son daughter better

mother-in-law I don’t know that from

this process you’re going to get the

best out of me and I don’t want to

accelerate a training because I don’t

want to live it

again when this silent no when this rest

note ends I want the Symphony of my life

to begin until I have to go down to the

Grave or if you come look for us we’re

going to take a moment for that

Lord those that now have the courage to

give thanks for the process and say Lord

even though it hurts

even though the pruning hurts even if

you’re cutting my branches even if there

are there still bark to be

removed you’re preparing me to be

something more than just a staff not

only am I going to be something to

sustain others but I’m going to

flourish and you’ve brought me to the

darkness because you don’t want anyone

to take credit for these flowers or this

fruit

and it won’t be because a man

commissioned you nor because someone

prophesied over you but it’ll be because

the

Lord made it so in the darkness and in

one night he decided to visit your life

and bring life bring you life in

abundance now all you have to do is

rest before you go home I want to

prescribe this on behalf of the Lord

you’re not going to leave without a

prescription

I want you to go and

rest let your mind rest tonight do all

that you have to do for the rest of the

day and at night rest your mind say Lord

as you’ve spoken to me this morning I’m

going to rest I will go to bed in

peace and in the same way I will sleep

because you sustain me and the purpose

of the fruit will happen while you sleep

Lord I’m going to rest I won’t even be

able to pray but I calibrate my spirit

with your spirit so that while my body

and my flesh rests your work will

continue moving within me and in the

morning you’re going to be surprised

this Monday morning you’re going to be

surprised the Lord tells me don’t be

surprised if you see something burst

don’t move from the darkness stay there

until something else bursts and then

wait for the fruit because God has

processed you because he has a purpose

for you and he doesn’t let go of you

until you become an almond tree again

may God bless you may he protect you and

may he make his face shine upon you to

the people all over the world bye have a

great Sunday go rest go eat and then

sleep bye

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