ENGLISH Dante Gebel #861 | Spoiler alert
The Bible assures us that because God has written our story, we can be confident that He has the final word. The ending will always be good, even when it is difficult to find grace in illness, unemployment or divorce. We must always remember that our difficult times will not be the end of our story, that we are in the middle of our journey. Whatever happens, we should not close the book of life, we should not give up. We must continue reading – sometimes until we reach eternity, because in the end all the pain and suffering will have purpose and meaning.
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the flags from all the countries present
all nations present guala El Salvador
Dominican Republic Guatemala Argentina
look how beautiful
Peru here we are living the Revival on
Broadway
Street how
beautiful this is going out live to the
rest of the world look at that at
Colgate smile let’s go with that Joy
we’re here at
River we’re at River this is what God
has done this river that does not stop
how beautiful look at those beautiful
Flags may God bless you thank you thank
you may God protect you thanks to those
that are watching us good morning good
afternoon good night according to
whatever time zone you’re in we’ve sing
we’ve worshiped and this is the moment
one of the most marvelous ones because
we’re preparing for what God is going to
speak to us and that’s why we connect
with our virtual church that’s on the
other side of the screen watching us
through live stream they watch us from
all the continents from all over it’s
not an
exaggeration it’s 800,000 views on
YouTube almost 300,000 on
Facebook when I think that it’s a
million devices with a family behind
each device I think it’s an insane
amount of people that the Lord has
allowed us to reach with this marvelous
message so God bless
everyone before I transmit what I
believe God told me to tell you I just
want to share that yesterday our
volunteers arrived back from India here
we have our three pastors that directed
the committee Rudy
Osorio
Mong and Fernando Perez we’re going to
receive our beloved Titans with a great
Applause well they left to India a week
ago they returned yesterday their times
are all screwed up what’s the time
difference 12-h hour difference while we
were asleep they were working while they
worked no opposite while we were asleep
they were working it was an insane time
change and here we have the first images
we won’t share everything that we did
well we we’ll share it we’ll say it but
we won’t show it on video just yet but
here we have images of what this trip
was R tell me how how it was when you
arrived what did you feel what what went
on well the truth
Pastor it went beyond the expectations
that we
had of getting to know a different type
of culture and the truth is that we were
very excited because the
children showed us a lot of love a lot
of
affection the truth is that it was very
exciting it’s it’s a home right it’s not
a school like the one we have in Uganda
no in this occasion it’s a home yes it’s
a simply a home these are children that
don’t have families they don’t have
parents parents some of them maybe have
only one parent but they’re they’re
taking Refuge there
right but it’s it’s basically an
orphanage and they were you were telling
me that the children are very educated
they’re very loving yes very well
educated they concentrate a lot on
education on manners the family that’s
in charge of them P the pastor
Kumar the truth is they they educate
them they teach them etiquette and
manners and Gedo tell me what did you
guys start doing because we’re seeing
images
of of of of you guys Painting and
Remodeling even though we won’t see it
yet but what what did you do well we
were
remodeling painting the rooms the
bedrooms inaugurating new bedrooms for
the children and we also made a whole
new kitchen it was amazing it was
great there was a lot of need
it the girls didn’t have bedrooms right
no no no correct correct yes they were
just sleeping on on the floor on
blankets
I was told that it was very very
exciting or emotional when they went
into their
bedrooms when the pastor Sati Kumar when
they
went this home has has existed for how
many years uh more than 35 years now
yeah 35 years ago they began this work
and they had never received help in this
way getting to know them is something
marvelous because you fall in love with
them just by looking at the pictures
what happened F at the beach
Fernando well the nice thing is that
these children many of them had never
experimented the
ocean even the pastor’s children many of
these children had never participated in
these games you can see the joy and the
happiness of playing in the water
jumping around with them and it was a
joy to be with them there well is the
ocean far from where they are ah must be
half an hour away and they had never
been to the ocean no why is that well
they’re concentrated on educating them
and it’s very few of them that can leave
the home almost all of them always
remain there one of the things they were
telling us as well is that the girls the
little girls for example tend to get
married at a very young age correct they
get married at the age of 12 12 because
they’re left pregnant or why no it’s
it’s just the culture
so at that age the
family it’s not that the little girl
falls in love no no no look at this look
how beautiful all these men
are that’s a before and after you don’t
go you don’t come back from
that the parents arrange the marriages
the girls leave the orphanages they
leave the care and some that are not
living there the parents at the age of
12 or 13 already arranged their
marriages and who’s the one that has to
pay well normally anywhere else it would
be the husband but in this case the
wife’s family
pays so in order to get married the
family has to pay the daughter the
girl’s family they were telling me that
sometimes there are offers where they
say all right give me your little girl
your 12-year-old girl so that I can
marry her for free and you don’t have to
pay me so in order to not pay it’s
usually a large sum they just get rid of
her right yeah that’s
right well we know the case of one girl
who wanted to continue studying she
wanted to continue with her education
but she couldn’t because she got married
and and now her husband doesn’t allow
her to
study so the offer is I want to get
married with your daughter the little
girl doesn’t even give her opinion at
the age of 12 she can’t speak her mind
and sometimes at the age of 14 they
become pregnant but men say give me your
daughter you don’t have to pay me
anything and that’s an offer that they
can’t reject because the girls be are
eventually become an economic burden
many of these children are there because
their parents couldn’t maintain them or
so they were taken to the
orphanage and maybe they don’t see their
parents for a year or two years now
these are images of when we said
goodbye this was the end of the week
what we’re sharing about the little
girls is sad of course and so that’s
what we’re trying to do we’re trying to
change that culture because if they had
the
money then they wouldn’t have to give
away their girls they wouldn’t have to
give them up to arranged marriages the
girls want to study they want to have
their own careers there are girls that
have so much talent but then they become
mothers at a very young age so we want
to be able to help this culture by
changing it a little bit the same way
we’re doing in Uganda and other places
so thank you pastors for all the work go
rest but don’t fall asleep just yet good
job good work that is your seat thank
you beloved
Church we’re going to show you more
videos more images soon we’ll have more
prepared for
you of what it is of what all this
marvelous work means when you go into to
these cultures we have three very strong
projects and in fact we haven’t
abandoned Cuba remember in Cuba it was
doubtful if we were going to continue or
not but we continued and we’re going to
inaugurate it in just a matter of weeks
this this Village this River
neighborhood in Havana we’ve continued
with that we’re going to continue with
chapas and all the help in Mexico and
Venezuela but there are three very big
projects one is this year River wants to
build a high school in Uganda
we only have an elementary school but
now we’re buying land so that we can
start a high school so that we don’t
lose them after they finish elementary
school so that we can continue it’s not
an idea it’s done we’re going to do it
the second thing in India we’re going to
continue going because we want them to
have the resources all these boys and
girls we want them to have the resources
to continue in school so that way if
they don’t want to get married they
don’t have to this is a project that we
proposed for this year and the third
thing before the year ends our mission
group is going to travel to
Egypt where we found a group of people
that live in inhumane conditions even if
you don’t believe it they live in
poverty they live in scarcity with a lot
of Orphans so we were told that we were
the barn houses of the world now more
than ever will look like Joseph by going
to Egypt to feed all those people that
need it we’ll do this before the end of
the year so thank you for your seat
thank you for what you’ve planted this
is River someone needs to celebrate more
than that yes or no we’re so
blessed are we ready stay with me I’m
ready very
well I want you to pay
attention because I know you do it and
that’s why we’re here as same goes for
those at home but this is one of those
messages that Comforts our soul that
heals us and fundamentally it sets us
free for many things in
1921 many many years
ago uh couple of
Swiss people traveled as missionaries to
the center of
Africa back then it was known as the
Belgian Congo they gathered with another
pair of missionaries the ericon and the
four the flood couple and the other
couple decided to take the gospel to a
set aart region where people had never
heard about
Jesus
once they arrived unfortunately the the
head of the tribe there in the Belgian
Congo did not allow them to live within
the village so they were obliged to live
almost 2 kilometers
away and the only contact that they had
with the village was one young
man that the head of the tribe allowed
to get close to them to sell them food
in an act of Grace or Mercy he allowed
one young man from the Village to have
contact with them but they were never
allowed to contact anyone else in the
village and so this young
man that would take food to the four
people eventually repented from his sins
and the young man gave his heart to
Jesus but he that was the only progress
that they were able to accomplish only
one convert four
missionaries with all the resources that
that means
only accomplished one convert one young
boy not even an
adolescent and they didn’t have contact
with anyone else in the village ever
finally the other couple the Ericson
they contracted malaria and they went
back to
Switzerland that’s where the four people
came from and the floods were left
alone the woman who eventually became
pregnant contracted malaria and she died
a few days after giving
birth the husband dug up a discret grave
and buried his 27-year-old wife vea
died just a few days after giving birth
and after creating this tomb and leaving
his woman
there David flood went back to his
mission reported himself back in
Switzerland gave his child to the head
of the of the mission group and he said
I’m going back to Africa to continue my
work but I can’t take care of this
little girl he said God ruined my life
he said none of none of this makes sense
anymore and the missionaries that
adopted the little girl were American
and they went back with the little girl
they went back to the US in other words
David went back to Switzerland and the
Americans went back to the US with the
little girl
when I think of this
story I can’t stop asking myself why a
missionary with a calling with a
purpose I believe he had it undoubtedly
he would say something like God ruined
my life he said none of this makes any
sense in fact I’ve never had to deal
with that type of disillusion or or
angst but it’s obvious that that pain
was so great and from his own
perspective that’s how the story of his
life life ended he wasn’t able to
control or
prevent that tragic finale and that’s
what he felt he felt that God had failed
him and I think that the majority of us
would prefer to
live a story that we can
control when something changes in our
script we’re filled with anxiety and
worry because I think the majority of us
like the idea of being able to control
or change our circumstances or or
decide decide our own
results it would be
great if we could all have a way in life
to avoid adversity or overcome
difficulties what wouldn’t we give for
God to give us a finished script and
hear from him this is what your life is
going to be and then you’ll see that you
know in this certain year or month
you’ll have a problem so you avoid
it or when you see that this
that driver going out to the streets
that day might end in an accident so you
avoid and you don’t go out it would be
marvelous if that were true but we all
get to that point where we don’t want to
continue reading the script of our life
and we abandon the book halfway through
we say no this this isn’t what I had
thought out for
myself the disease is either too
overwhelming or the relationship is far
too destroyed or the situation has
become impossible possible or the pain
is too strong too great I think David
flood had reached that breaking point he
had reached a crack where you break you
feel that your spirit is amputated and
you can’t continue but I also can stop
asking myself because of the story what
would
happen if what sometimes appears to be
the end of our story what if in reality
it was just the first half of the script
what would happen if David flood this
missionary had said well maybe this this
isn’t the end maybe I’m halfway through
the script this isn’t the finale maybe
God didn’t ruin my life the way I
thought and maybe what doesn’t make
sense today maybe it’ll make sense later
on the Bible assures us that when God
writes our story we’re trusting that he
has the final word isn’t that true so
God’s grace promised to redeem any
situation
one of the most magnificent verses one
of the most beautiful verses speaks
about the power of God’s grace we repeat
it over and over in Romans
8:28 and we know that God causes
everything to work together for the good
of those who love God and are called
according to his purpose for
them all things help for the greater
good are we in agreement yes or no but
Paul tells us that our great writer our
great script writer will always produce
a happy ending
always no matter how bad a certain
chapter looks maybe the chapter we’re
living through right now it’s like
Paul’s telling us continue reading don’t
close the book of your life continue
reading because the solution could be
right around the corner now let’s be
sincere brutally honest it’s not the
same thing as brute and honest no
brutally honest
when we are the ones that are
suffering when it’s our health that is
failing when it’s our
home that is withering away the idea
that God’s grace is going to use all
that for good not only does it seem
innocuous or ingenuine it almost seems
offensive I know
that sometimes people are offended when
we go to the hospital and a mother is
fighting to
survive the pain of having a child in
the ICU and somebody goes and says
leisurely oh well miss the Lord will use
this for a greater good it almost
offends it may be true but it hurts us
when it happens to us when the pain is
too
great this cliche phrase even if it’s
biblical and we know that God causes
everything to work together for the good
we know it by memory it still doesn’t
make us feel better when we’re in pain
but Paul never spoke about blind
optimism or cheap optimism or positivity
he didn’t say we think that God will
work for good he didn’t say or we assume
that God will work for he didn’t say we
hope nor did he say oh we’re sure no he
said we know and we know we have the
certainty that God causes everything to
work together for the good do we believe
it yes or no in any situation so
God gives us the anticipation that the
end of our story will be good and I know
that now you’re looking at me with an an
incredulous face you say I had here what
you just to what you just said because
my pain might be very intense right now
it doesn’t help
me that you tell me that God will
transform it into something good no
where is the good in what’s happening to
me right now and because of
this there’s an anglicanism that became
very popular a word that became very
popular in
English and it’s become a part of our
everyday vocabulary spoiler alert here
look I’m going to teach you some some
English learn from me because I uh speak
a British English not your broken
English
spoil could be translated as
ruined to be
lost to ruin something to tarnish
something that’s where the word comes
from that’s what someone does to us when
they tell us the end of a movie or the
end of a soap opera that’s a
spoiler when they ruin what you haven’t
seen yet so when they give us
information that we still don’t want to
know we’re not willing to know yet why
do I want to watch the six sense if I
know that Bruce Willis is dead the whole
time that’s a spoiler but it’s been so
long so why do I want to watch Titanic
if I already know that Rose will save
herself because the crazy woman can’t
scoot over on that on that wooden
pallet my mother suffered with that
movie she would say what a fool and I
would say mom they both didn’t fit and
she would say well a mother figures it
out either way why would I watch The
Last Avengers movie if we know that
Thanos is going to kill Tony
Stark so
however an experiment was conducted at
the University of San
Diego where the participants were put up
to a test they were presented with
suspense Soap opers by Agatha Christie
she writes Thrillers and suspense books
novels one group was told what happened
at the end of the story but the other
group wasn’t told anything and the
conclusion was was that those that knew
details about the end enjoyed the story
much more than those that didn’t know
how the story would end so they arrived
at the theory that when we know the end
beforehand it’s much easier cognitively
speaking to process the information in
the story and that allows us to focus
more on the details in the
script the anxiety of not knowing how
it’ll end we miss certain details in the
script once we know the end it’s much
easier to follow everything to digest
everything to understand everything to
assimilate it all because we no longer
have the anxiety of is the hero going to
die we no longer have the anxiety of
what’s going to happen I mentioned the
the film The Six tense where the main
character at the end reveals that he was
always dead and when you realize that
you feel like watching the movie all
over again to then focus on the details
that you missed out because you didn’t
know the ending
of course we miss out on some of the
suspense but to know how the story ends
allows us to not only put up with the
journey but also enjoy it so it’s like
watching a soccer final once again this
time not live but knowing that you’re
going to win after all when it’s live
it’s agonizing we watch the minutes we
want the referee to blow the whistle
that we should win already but once we
know what’s happened we sit down and we
enjoy it in a different way so the
Apostle Paul gives us a spoiler alert
and he tells us how our story ends he
says that due to Grace we know that all
not some things but all things
everything that happens to
us is for the greater good of those who
love God and those that are called that
in all things the story ends
well and
so among other things what does it mean
it means that our pain even if it’s not
understood now it has a purpose and
there’s an enormous difference between a
pain with purpose and pain that’s just
useless for example women
know or they’re
convinced that if us men had to put up
with the pain of giving
birth then the Earth never would have
been
populated we would have been extinct by
now we would say not even crazy when I
get pregnant
however I’ve discovered by my own
experience
unfortunately that the closest pain to
this and many many doctors reaffirm this
the closest pain that us men put up with
that’s closest to birth is either kidney
stones or stones in your
gallbladder and more so when we have to
expel those stones through the through
the rra don’t ask me for more details
but it’s
frightening on the spectrum of pain
birth and passing stones are very
similar very very
similar but in favor of women there’s a
great difference between choosing the
pain and not having an alternative
having to just put up with it choosing
the pain isn’t the same as not having
having an alternative in other words
women are stronger because they choose
to put a with that
pain while no man chooses to have stones
in his kidneys so choosing a pain with a
purpose is different from being
obligated to go through a pain that
apparently doesn’t take us anywhere the
woman knows that that pain that burden
that bother let’s not just talk about
the pain of the birth but let’s talk
about the burden of the whole
pregnancy when a pregnancy is normal
even those last months all that has a
purpose so she’s willing to put up with
that pain because she’s focused on what
that pain will
produce on what that pain will mean
after all and after going through that
unbearable
pain she’s even willing to say oh I hope
God blesses me with another
pregnancy when us men expel that last
Stone we never say oh may the Lord bless
me with more Stones no never
never we say no I’ll never go through
this ever again in my
life and so while we trust that the pain
has a purpose or has meaning we find the
strength to be able to put up with it
there are people to submit to operations
or surgical
interventions with a lot of pain but
it’s all for Aesthetics they heard a lot
a whole lot they say a nose job or
correction or removing wrinkles
stretching yourself out a tummy tuck or
Botox or breast augmentation or H knows
where
else they’re very very
painful more painful than when you have
to inevitably operate on a tumor but
people go on purpose and they get these
operations because they say I’ll go
through the pain I’ll go through the
postop my face will be swollen filled
with hematomas and bruises because I
think I know going to happen with the
final result and so they go through the
pain because there’s a
purpose someone
said
s so God’s
promise is that he doesn’t waste any
pain anything that happens to us in life
God will bring something good to life
always so that changes our way of living
because when we go through something
difficult you want want to know the
motive
right why am I going through
this but you have to ask yourself what
is the reason what’s the purpose what
does God want to teach me what’s the
difference between motive and purpose
well the motive seeks why why is it
happening to me and why me I’m faithful
with my tithes I’ve never stopped
congregating I’m a good person why the
why always leaves our head and our heart
filled with questions
but the purpose focuses on for what why
am I living through this during this
season for
what the motive always cries out for
rationality or a logical explanation
something that makes sense to us but the
purpose tells us that God will make sure
that everything that happens now even if
we don’t understand it it’ll all be for
the greater
good that this pain of the pregnancy of
having to sleep uncomfortably
having to see how your feet swell and
retaining liquids Etc this all means
that it’ll result in good a baby
sometimes grace even hurts us to be able
to help
us I’m not a fool and I know that it’s
difficult to find Grace in cancer you
say well what am I going to learn
through this it’s difficult to find
Grace in unemployment or
divorce but you have to
remember that it won’t necessarily be
the end your life doesn’t end with a
death of a loved
one or with a marriage or that ends or
children that leave the home or moving
countries always generally speaking
we’re halfway through the book and
sometimes we close it and we say my life
is over but no life is not over you
shouldn’t close the book you have to
continue reading are you following me
yes or no I was reading
about Michael Fox’s battle against
Parkinson and he said Parkinson’s itself
isn’t what kills
you the problem is all the times you
fall the lack of balance the
Tremors the
pneumonia having to mix your food all
those subtle ways in which the illness
traps you and he said you don’t
die because of Parkinson’s no you die
with Parkinson’s you don’t die because
of the disease you die with the
disease currently Michael Fox is 7 3
years old he was diagnosed at the age of
29 at the at the summit of his career he
tried hiding it for seven years because
he wanted to continue shooting films but
he couldn’t anymore but a neurologist
told him something that changed his
perspective he said why don’t you simply
accept the Tremors and it’s not easy to
accept the Tremors because we’ve
grown learning that we should always
highlight our strengths we should hide
our weakness wees don’t let anyone see
them in fact we don’t accept our own
weaknesses we’re ashamed of sharing them
that’s why there’s so little confession
of sin of weakness because we say no if
I share what I’m fighting against I’m
going to lose respect from my friends or
from
whoever in
fact I found out about an invention well
it’s existed for a long time but it’s
called a skinny mirror it’s a curved
mirror but the curvature isn’t the way
it used to be at theme parks that would
deform my figures no the curvature is
subtle and the mirror produces an
optical illusion so when you look in the
mirror you look 11 lbs lighter 5
kilograms
lighter and I’m going to tell you
something that’s going to make your cold
your blood
cold in the US it’s used in most stores
that’s why that pair of jeans looks so
good at the store
and when you get home it looks like it
got smaller on the drive
home and I say how interesting what an
interesting way to to to match that
termer that weakness because there’s
going to be someone that invents a whole
line of
products with the idea of not admitting
our weaknesses a skinny balance a skinny
a a skinny scale when you weigh yourself
it tells you that you’re 20 lbs lighter
than what you’re actually
weighing
people will say oh you have no idea how
how how much weight I’ve lost no no it’s
just the scale that’s wrong so denying a
weakness can be a very lucrative
business us people we love hiding and
denying our weaknesses because in our
world what’s valued strength power
success
right and that’s how the world was in
the first century when Paul writes to
the Church of
Corinth he knew that the idea of
celebrating weakness was something
difficult to swallow people didn’t want
to celebrate weakness remember that in
Greece they had the Olympus Gods
Hercules the little mermaid’s father
right those gods of the ocean of the
fire of the air they were all powerful
and gigantic and and Corinth was a a
well-known Place known for its luxury
and and Majestic Construction it’s
people that enjoyed a night life it was
a place of achievement and success it
might have been the Manhattan or the Las
Vegas of those times Paul knows that the
power is in weakness and in recognizing
it so he wants to communicate this to
the to to the Corinthians but he knows
that they won’t pay attention to him as
soon as he starts talking about weakness
they won’t read another letter so he has
to come from a p a position of strength
Paul was bilingual he was able to speak
the language that people outside the
church understood when we lose that
capacity then unbelievers stop listening
to us because say oh your pastor is
great but I didn’t understand a single
thing that he said he spoke about the
throne and the holiest of holies and The
Trinity and this and that and the people
are happy but but the unbelievers didn’t
understand anything so Paul had that
ease he spoke to the
Athenians since they were used to
listening he would speak to the church
in a way that they were used to without
committing or compromising the message
but he knew how to change his his
language so he went when he went to
speak to the Corinthians and those guys
let me remind you they love success they
were almost argentinians according to a
theologian around here he knows that if
he starts speaking to them about
weakness they won’t listen to him that’s
why Paul dusts off his curriculum his
resume the one that he used to show in
the past with a lot of Pride now he
hides it but now he’s using it to get to
the height of the jetset of Corinth so
that these guys can respect him if not
they won’t pay any
attention he knows that they won’t
listen to him if he doesn’t speak to
them in their own language their own
dialect and he speaks what I’m about to
share with
you and from time to time he speaks like
a fool for speaking in this way and he
clarifies
it he says I’m talking like a fool again
I dare to boast about it too because he
and he says this because he knows that
they won’t listen to him in any other
way so he writes the fascinating letter
in second Corinthians
11:21 he
says but whatever they dare to boast
about I dare to boast about it too and
I’m talking like a fool I know it sounds
frightening I’m going to speak as if I
were crazy but everything I’m going to
say is true are they Hebrews so am
I oh they’re Israelites oh well I am too
oh we’re defendant your descendants of
Abraham well so am
I oh they’re Servants of Christ oh I
know I sound like a mad man but I have
served him far more I have worked
harder harder than all of you I’ve been
put in prison more often I’ve been
whipped times without number and I’ve
faced death again and again and again
all because of
Christ so the guy shows his credentials
so that they can see and so that it can
be clear that they’re not being spoken
to by a nefy or a timid man no he’s a
prepared man and Paul continues with his
spiritual accomplishments it doesn’t
please him he’s only done it once and he
lets the the bomb explode in 2
Corinthians 121 he says this is this
boasting will do no good but I must go
on even if I gain
nothing and now I will reluctantly tell
about visions and Revelations from the
Lord
Lord and here he speaks in third person
the way Maradona used to
do Maradona Maradona when they used to
ask him how are you doing he would say
oh well Diego Maradona is doing just
fine he would speak in third
person if he was doing well he would say
oh wello Maradona is doing well he’s a
world champion and here Paul says I know
a follower of Christ and he’s speaking
about
himself I was caught up to the third
heaven 14 years
ago whether I was in my body or out of
my body I don’t know only God knows yes
only God knows whether I was in my body
but I do know that I was caught up to
paradise and heard things so astounding
that they cannot be expressed in words
things no human is allowed to
tell that experience is worth boasting
about but I’m not going to do it I will
only boast about my w weaknesses now
imagine the people that received the
letter and they’re reading it out loud
in the church and that’s what was done
before so when they get to that part
wait wait wait they say wait wait wait
wait wait what is he
saying an old man fixes his hearing a
and says wait wait what he just said
that he was taken up into the third
heaven and that this happened 14 years
ago and he’s just telling us
now don’t you think you should have
mentioned it before and he’s barely
telling us now and on top of it all
shares it 14 years
later and as he says that he’s asking
for forgiveness asking for forgiveness
because he went to heaven okay so Paul
visited the third level of heaven and he
never told
anyone imagine an apostle from today if
they visited
heaven I’m not going to talk about
anyone let’s just say an
Argentinian let’s say an Argentinian a
an Argentinian Pastor visited
heaven I wouldn’t wait 14 years to share
it in 14 seconds I’ll post it on
Instagram a selfie next to an
archangel here from up top so that they
don’t see my double
chin I would include it in all my
sermons I would find a way to say this
is what I believe God told me to tell
you when I was all by myself in the
third
heaven I would write a book
why God chose me and not
you I would make a movie the third
heaven is real but I never shared until
today about my Celestial experience and
Tom Cruz would play my
character I’m not going to say Elton
John who else can I pick come
on on my social media I would put D and
then down below when I’m not being taken
up into the third heaven I like to go on
tour Paul didn’t mention it for a decade
and a
half he was obligated to say
it you know what his biography said on
social media he he had under his name a
slave to Christ slavery wasn’t something
that would impress anyone that was the
the lowest rung on the ladder in the
social hierarchy but for Paul all that
mattered was the identity of the person
that he served Paul is saying of course
I have the legacy of a Hebrew and man
have I earned it I was Shipwrecked I was
whipped I was
stoned I was in prison I was hungry I
was cold almost a
marter ah but you’re the ones that are
impressed by the Pentecostal spectacle
you want those credentials too because I
have those as well oh you’re the ones
that say oh if there’s no shouting or
people on the ground people trembling
and speaking in tongues and there’s no
anointing oh I don’t go to River because
there’s no anointing the people don’t
cry oh you’re the
guys that don’t move a finger for your
neighbor but you demand the church to
walk to make two paralytics walk per
service Paul says well yeah I have that
too it’s not that I once had a service
where we felt God’s presence no I went
to heaven to to live
it you want
more that’s a solomonic
phrase and then what happened is that
Paul drops another bomb even more
intriguing because he awakens curiosity
but he doesn’t go into details and all
the nosy people have a heart attack in
the same letter he
says if I wanted to boast I would be no
fool in doing
so so to keep me from becoming proud I
was given a thorn in my flesh a
messenger from Satan to torment me and
keep me from becoming proud three
different times I beg the Lord to take
it from
me imagine people these days have
indigestion and have a vision and they
go on to her sharing the
vision it was just they had too many
tacos it wasn’t a
vision you might ask you was Paul really
taken into the third heaven he needed
some sort of sting or an Achilles heal
there was always a great debate over
what the sting in his flesh was that’s
not today’s topic but that’s between him
and God it might have been a weakness
maybe a physical ailment we don’t know
but the suffering offering
was such that he begged God he didn’t
ask God he said I begged God to take it
away so surely he must have prayed what
we pray very often Lord think about how
much more I would do for you if you
would take away this pain I’ve prayed
that way many many times Lord I would
serve you much better
if if this were taken away if this were
added if you Chang this I would serve
you better as if to say Lord It’s to
your advantage to take this away from me
and then the Lord answered Paul by
saying my grace is all you need my power
works best in
weakness so Paul explains exactly what
God told him he said he told me that my
grace is all you
need my salvation is sufficient my grace
is sufficient because my power works
best in your
weakness and so Paul ends up saying so
now I am glad to boast about my
weakness that’s why I take pleasure in
my
weakness so that the power of Christ can
work through me that’s why I take
pleasure in my weaknesses and in insults
hardships persecution and troubles that
I suffer for Christ for when I am weak
then I am
strong at one point I
believed that God works despite our
difficulties oh well this guy has a bad
temperament a bad character this person
has a disability this person has this
ailment but despite that I’ll use them
but no this isn’t the
Declaration that brings us to the truth
God doesn’t show his power even though
we’re weak no no no he shows his power
through our weakness he needs it we need
to have that
weakness because through it God uses us
and it’s not oh well I’m going to to
ignore that you have a putrid character
no God uses it I put character as an
example let’s observe the squad of
disciples that the Lord chose that
ramshackled group you know when you
watch a film like Mission
Impossible my religious friends are
going to kill me but when you watch
mission impossible for example
or a movie that
presents a sophisticated Heist they
always show the team and what each
person is good at
the professor the architect Tokyo the
master of weapons Denver system hacker
Moscow expert in demolition Nairobi the
lead of the
matriarchy you say huh with that team
they can steal anything but no Jesus
didn’t have any castings or auditions he
didn’t look for the most eloquent he
didn’t say Peter the most talented Judas
the betrayer
no he didn’t look for the the most
persuasive he just saw some fishermen
and said follow me in
fact there weakness which was so
evident is what made their testimony so
powerful 4:13 says that the members of
the council were
amazed when they saw the boldness of
Peter and John for they could see that
they were ordinary men with no special
training in the scriptures
they also recognized them as men who had
been with
Jesus that is the
secret your
weakness ensures that God will take the
glory somebody needs to say
Amen so let me give a foolish
example I never had a teacher or a
professor in high school that wrote to
me or said to me
Dante
I’m so proud that you speak to so many
people because we saw it coming back in
high
school you were truly a nerd you were
above and beyond it was Steve Jobs and
then Dante G right below so it was
logical that you ended up doing this no
no one no
one first of all because my elementary
school teachers all
died and second because all my high
school teachers would say that gble he’s
he’s useless he’s a fool this can’t be
the same guy that’s speaks to thousands
now so there’s no way that I myself can
assign any of the credit to
myself Cory ten Boom is famous for being
the author of the bestseller my secret
Refuge that I recommend
profoundly she tells the story of how
she’s a prisoner in a concentration C
Camp in Germany but she also wrote
another book that’s less
welln and it’s called tra for the
Lord I couldn’t find the title in
Spanish but I know it’s in
Spanish but she tells the story of a
woman that she met in Russia during the
Cold
War when Christians were persecuted with
the death penalty and she tells the
story that the old woman not Cory tbom
but the older woman that she met was
lying on a sofa she
had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
so the woman had to lie down so she
wouldn’t
fall she couldn’t move and her husband
took care of her at all times the only
thing that this old woman could control
was her index finger on her right hand
that was it and with that index
finger she would type on a typewriter
all day with one
finger she would form words deep into
the night she would form sentences
paragraphs what she was doing is she was
translating the Bible into the the
Russian language and many times it would
take her a long long long time because
her old wrinkly
finger would get confused with the keys
she had a lot of Tremors but she would
Advance slowly letter after Letter book
after book in the bible translated into
the Russian language so Cory tenom
arrives as a
visitor she looks at the woman’s Twisted
skeletal body on the couch and
overwhelmed by compassion she says look
Lord why don’t you heal this woman poor
woman and the husband says no no no God
has a purpose for with this disease the
secret police observes all the other
Christians in the city very carefully
but since they know she’s so sick and
Ill nobody pays attention to her they
leave her alone and she’s the only
person in this moment that can translate
the Bible without the police detecting
it that’s why it’s important to say or
to realize
that God doesn’t work despite This
Woman’s illness no God works Through
This Woman’s illness this illness that
any average human being would ask God to
heal this illness that was apparently
destroying her life that sting that
thorn in her flesh that causes so much
pain is that Holy place that allows a
woman a very weak woman to become a
Pillar of Strength In God’s kingdom if
God heals her then she would stop
translating the Bible or they would
discover so today’s question is what is
your
sting your mother-in-law doesn’t count
no I’m talking I’m asking about
yours what is your
sting but not one they have to think
about H let me think no the first one
that comes to mind because if you have
to think about it because there are
other sub stings or stub Thorns but
there’s
one maximum two that we live
with it’s not someone
else’s it’s not that this thing is oh my
my partner or my in-law or my cousin no
what’s our Thorn without blaming anyone
else what have you begged the Lord to
change heal or take
away what in your life obligates you to
recognize weakness you say I have no
excuse for that if people knew this
I would even die of shame because I have
no excuse for that that’s a
weakness I recognize many of those in
myself one that stands out maybe because
of my aspers but for example I have many
and I’m not going to share the worst
ones because you don’t care it’s not a
part of the part of the
message but for example when I answer
something
online those that don’t know my
heart they tend to think that I’m rude
when I’m just very pragmatic very direct
I respond to information so my way of
processing is that a direct answer
Demands a or a direct question Demands a
direct question or a direct question
Demands a direct
answer and when people ask well why do
you charge for for the tickets for your
tour and I say well because it’s not
free oh well why do we have to pay Jesus
never charged I say well I’m Not Jesus
so they think that I’m being rude or
that I’m being sarcastic or
ironic the other
day someone
asked Dante will you take me to the US
and give me a job and give me a home and
I said no I’m not a
Smuggler and
some I
realize because of my disability I’m not
being ironic I realize that some don’t
want an answer they want a Biblical
study with with verses supporting the
the topic they want something like no I
can’t bring you over personally but I’m
going to pray that God transports you
not to the third heaven but here to
California so let’s pray but my mind
isn’t trained to do that I’d like to
communicate but it’s tough for me to not
be
direct I could never dominate the the
Christian esque language and how many
pastors that are fabulous in answering
and interacting they synergize with that
type of
people they’re fascinated
at the end of the service they they put
a long table and they answer all the
questions and I say Lord give me some of
that I need some of that because in that
case I have a short fuse when I see that
somebody comes with a trick question I
answer quickly and I try to neutralize
it I know that I’m limited in many areas
but I understood little by little that
God doesn’t use me despite that no in
this case he uses me through
that so I understood that’s one of the
things that I can share that doesn’t
bring me too much shame
but amongst my stings I recognize 1 2 3
4 whoa I’m a
cactus but I
understand that those Thorns didn’t
escape the
Lord the Lord didn’t say oh no I didn’t
realize instead of picking a perfect guy
I picked this prickly
guy
Johnny Joie
exent is that girl who became
quadriplegic she tried diving and she
had an
accident but now she’s a popular
Christian writer and in an article she
shares this story of all the marvelous
things she
tells she can’t move anything just her
lips and her neck I got to know her once
when she came to preach at the Crystal
Cathedral she was in a bathroom during a
recess at a conference for Christian
women and a
woman while she was putting lipstick on
in the restroom she said oh Joanie you
always look so good and so happy in your
wheelchair I would love to have your joy
how do you do
it and Joanie said I took a deep
breath and and said can I sincerely tell
you how I woke up this morning yeah of
course all right well after my husband
Ken
went out to work at 6:00 in the morning
I stay alone each and every
day until I hear the door open at 7:00
a.m. when a friend comes in to wake me
up and while I hear her making coffee I
pray and I say Lord my friend is going
to bathe me once again she’s going to
dress me again she’s going to sit me
down on my chair she’s going to brush my
hair brush my teeth she’ll dry
me and I don’t have the strength to face
this routine anymore
I don’t have any more
resources I don’t have a
smile to use for this day to show my
friend that is doing this incredible
task I don’t know if I would do it for
anyone else but you do have Smiles Lord
can you lend me one of yours because I
need you desperately I have no
strength so when my friend finally comes
into the bedroom I offer her a smile
sent directly from Heaven it’s not mine
it’s not
God it’s not from me it didn’t it didn’t
come in magically it’s it’s from God I
don’t feel like smiling and so she told
the woman in the bathroom any joy that
you see in me I haven’t earned it God
let me borrow it this morning and he
lets me borrow his joy every morning and
that’s why I said I ask myself if what
you’ve begged God to take
away maybe that’s what obligates you to
pray each and every morning ask God for
a
smile that’s what obligates us to say
Lord I don’t feel like continuing with
this routine help me and that’s where
the supernatural strength comes and
people say I don’t understand how you
can go through what you’re going through
but you always are joyous because it’s
not the joy that’s regulated by money in
the bank or by how your family is doing
or the car that you just bought or
because you don’t owe a mortgage no it’s
the supernatural joy that flow from the
Holy Spirit despite the circumstances
that we’re living through it’s
marvelous so I insist with an idea that
I mentioned last Sunday sometimes I feel
shame a whole lot of
Shame about the things that we complain
about
sometimes in a family you just need one
complainer and then that’ll begin to
extend like a strain of a virus if
somebody starts complaining that it’s
contagious in the church we need one
leader one person that complains and
that’ll contaminate the whole church one
leader that complains disseminates it to
the rest of the church and this happens
all over if you go into a room and you
say oh it’s pretty cold in here you’ll
realize that it
is very soon people will start saying
yeah yeah it’s very cold if you don’t
say it nobody’s going to say hey it’s
cold in
here nobody will notice that the meat is
dry
unless somebody mentions it then they’ll
say yeah it is dry yeah yeah it does
it’s not
good no one was
bothered by the football game being in
standard definition but as soon as we
see
HD it’s like oh wow now I can touch
Messi’s face oh no you can’t watch it on
standard definition anymore so many of
us suffer the great frustrations of the
first
world oh it it angers me that I have no
more space to put stuff in my fridge I
don’t know where to put so much food
I’ve been asking for a bigger fridge for
months oh this is the last time I come
to this restaurant why it’s not good no
but it has no
Wi-fi imagine an hour without a
phone or what I said last Sunday I’m
tired of going around and around in the
parking structure yeah but you have a
car it drives me crazy how long this
video takes to load really how long it
takes the video to load we have a
generation that is frustrated because
the video takes long to
load but we would wait three months for
the movie to be aired Friday night in
black and white and we would still have
to put up with the commercials
remember see there’s one woman here that
remembers those black and white days
see you’re at the age where you need a
colonoscopy oh I don’t like the quality
of the pictures this this phone takes I
once
heard I spent 30 minutes no not 30
minutes 45 minutes looking for a movie
on Netflix there’s nothing today’s just
going to be one of those
days and when you don’t when you don’t
see the kids in India or
Africa well let’s not even go to third
world old
countries let’s go to Mexico or all the
way down to Argentina let’s look at our
or hurt Latin
America at one point or another we all
play the victim and we feel that life is
unfair that we don’t deserve this Thorn
there are always people like in the case
of Joanie that every day they have to
ask for a smile because they don’t feel
like
smiling there’s a
story of a certain Ed Dobson he wrote a
marvelous
book that’s called how to see through
fog he was the pastor of a mega church a
very very big church with enormous
growth and 12 years ago
12 he he started Living with
Ela amyotrophic lateral sclerosis it’s a
disease with no C with no apparent cause
and
no no treatment
but this man fought a battle of being
grateful with God despite knowing that
he had an uncurable disease he said of
course there are many things that I am
not grateful for of
course I can no longer button the
buttons on my shirt by
myself I can no longer raise my right
hand I can’t write anymore I can’t eat
with my right hand anymore I have to do
it with my left hand and even that is
becoming a challenge it’s becoming more
and more difficult and he said Through
Time all my difficulties don’t get
better they get worse every time I have
a checkup they say you’re worse because
the illness is
degenerative why should I be grateful
and he says well there’s a lot to be
grateful for I give thanks for waking up
each and every morning that doesn’t have
to be the case I give thanks because I
can still rotate on my
bed I can still get up it’s difficult
but I can still get up and go to the
restroom on my own
I’m thankful because I can still brush
my teeth with my left hand it’s a little
tougher I have a harder time than the
rest but I can still brush my teeth I
can still have lunch I can dress myself
I can walk I can still speak and he says
in my journey with Ela I’ve focused on
what I can do and I focus Less on what I
can do if not I’ll become depressed and
I’ve learned to be grateful for the
little things in life and for all the
things that I can do with those little
things in
life and I’m talking about a man
different to
Joanie this
gentleman is literally in The Green Mile
he’s marching toward his death he’s
walking down the corridor of death
because this is an illness that leads
you to death it’s not that it’s static
well Joanie is a quadriplegic and period
that’s it no this man each and every day
is one step closer to his death what if
that happened to
us it seems like a guy like this has a
lot to complain about and he’s a pastor
imagine us pastors have to be modern
healthy if God wants to use me then
he’ll give me Health that’s what we
foolishly think as if we had signed a
contract with God but this gentleman
Sees God through the lens of Grace and
he’s
grateful and I want to finish this
morning with the story that I began
with of course I didn’t finish it on
purpose David
flood this Swiss missionary that
moved his young family to the north of
Africa and he only saw one boy converted
he then lost his wife like I told you
she contracted a
malaria soon after this happened soon
after his wife gave birth to a little
girl and so this man became furious with
God and we understand it he buried his
wife gave up his daughter and went back
to Switzerland well that
daughter was named agie she was raised
in the
US with Christian
parents this little girl was raised by
these two
missionaries and one day as this girl
went to go look at the mailbox for some
unknown reason she found a Swiss
magazine she began to look through it
and a
photograph made her blood
cold it was was a picture of a white
cross a grave with a white cross and
then she saw the name via flood she knew
that it was her
mother she had someone translate the
text that accompanied the the photograph
and so she sat down and heard the story
of the work that her mother had done as
a
missionary sometime later this young
girl traveled to Switzerland this girl
grew up obviously aie she traveled to
Switzerland to look for her
father basically he had ruined his life
with alcohol he was very very sick this
man who was once a missionary now had
sclerosis and many things that come with
alcoholism and so the girl went into
this man’s small apartment she saw many
bottles of liquor on the floor she went
up to her father who was now 73 years
old that had abandoned her when she was
just a little girl an infant and she
said Dad
and he immediately began to
sob and she clarified she said Dad I’m
okay I’m okay God took care of
me God then and the man said to her God
forgot about all of us still with a lot
of resentment but agie replied dad I
have a story to tell
you this small
child that you brought to the Lord that
would bring you goods and food grew up
and he brought Faith to the whole
Village the only seed that you planted
continued growing and growing and
growing over the next 40 years now more
than 600 African people are serving the
lord in the village because you were
faithful to your calling so you didn’t
go to Africa in vain dad mom didn’t die
in
vain and David began to cry over the
next few
hours he reconciled with God and a few
weeks later he died in peace he went to
Eternity the years went by and agie her
husband and her little
girl were went to an an Evangelistic
conference in
London this little girl also grew up and
has her own family and there in London
there were many directors of the
churches in Africa that went to go give
their
reports some of them one some one of
them was from Zar he knew about all the
churches in that
country and he said on this stage we
have 32 Mission stations in Africa a
hospital with 120 beds many Christian
Schools our churches have a 100,000
members that have been
baptized and as soon as agie finished
she went up to the to the preacher and
said pastor Reverend did you ever get to
know a missionary girl or really a
couple named David and Via
flood all I can say is that they lived
on the peak of a mountain of a hill and
the preacher said yes Madam yes I was
the young boy that would sell chickens
and eggs to them and it was via flood
that guided me to Christ who are you and
she said I’m via’s daughter I was born
on that
mountain and so tears came down the
man’s cheeks and they embraced each
other and in African style they began to
dance and Sway and while he cried he
would say many many times I asked myself
what happened to that little girl whose
mother died for
us girl you have to go back even if
you’re not a girl anymore you have to go
back to your birthplace and realize that
your mother is the most famous person in
our
church so she agreed and after months of
planning Aggie and her husband took the
long trip to that very special place and
she shares that the the pastor of the
village guided her to the the summit of
the Hill everyone following them as if
they were celebrities and they in the
summit beneath a small Grove of trees
the pastor points with a finger and says
this is the
place where your
parents met you for the first time this
is where you were born and there was a
cement grave a tomb with a cross a white
cross that said via
flood borne on and died the pastor
opened up his Bible surrounded by
hundreds of Believers and he read a
Psalm Psalm
1265 those who plant in tears will
harvest with shouts of Joy will harvest
with shouts of
Joy will harvest with shouts of
Joy so God
knows what it means to suffer through
loss God more than anyone knows what it
means to plant a SE seed that seems like
today doesn’t give any
fruit I can’t stop thinking about what
would have happened if David
fled had believed that he was just
halfway through his story that that
wasn’t the end that God’s story it’s
told from the moment we’re born and it
includes eternity not just the 70 80 90
years that we’re
here and instead of closing the book
what if David had continued reading his
story
so maybe what’s happening to you right
now maybe it doesn’t make sense but God
tells me to tell you just continue
reading don’t give in don’t give
up in certain cases some of us will have
to continue reading until eternity
right because the chapters will close on
the other side of the sun Paul speaks
about this in 2 Corinthians
4:17 he says for our present troubles
are small and won’t last very long he’s
talking about
life yet they produce for us a glory
that vastly outweighs them and will last
forever so we don’t look at the troubles
we can see now rather we fix our Gaze on
things that we cannot that cannot be
seen for the things we see now will soon
be gone but the things we cannot see
will last forever and that’s what God
sees so the Bible assures us that when
God writes our
story we can be sure that he has the
final word God’s grace can redeem
anything any life any disaster that
we’ve created what we have to do is
accept the
Tremors say this is what I have to live
through right now accept it don’t
complain about it don’t be upset don’t
beg and beg and beg for God to take it
no except the
Tremor if your hand or your heart or
something else is trembling then God has
something in mind he’s going to do
something with that Tremor I’m speaking
metaphorically of course and as I said
when we accept the
weakness and on top of it all once we
get to know the end then everything is
much easier to follow to
digest everything is much easier to un
to
understand if somebody becomes
overwhelmed by a problem problem in life
then why don’t you go to a cemetery
that’s the best walk that you can
take it’ll put your ducks in a row in a
line when you see all those grav you see
rich people poor people famous people
and you see that life is just a script
between two dates you
say I’m really worrying over this
foolishness really my problem is that my
fridge is too small really my problem is
that I can’t I don’t have a parking
spot and I have to park on the street
and it started raining after I watched
my car so knowing how our story ends
allows us to not only just put up with
the journey but also enjoy it our pain
has a purpose it has
meaning after
all God gave us a spoiler alert in
Jeremiah
29:11 for I know the plans I have for
you there are plans for good and not for
disaster to give you a future and a
hope there’s a version that
says I have good plans to give you the
end that you were always waiting for so
do yourself a favor this morning
afternoon night wherever you’re watching
us from even if it hurts don’t close the
book continue reading you’ll see I
promise you that at the end of the story
all this pain will have a purpose and
fundamentally it will make a lot of
sense don’t close the book don’t close
the book hallelujah hallelujah
as we do each Sunday give a grand
Applause to the Lord if you believe he
has spoken today if you believe God has
spoken to you today say Lord thank you
how the lord loves me how the lord loves
you the lord loves us so much blessed
are you hallu
Hallelujah
and now if you can pray with
me I would love for you to lift Your
Hands to Heaven and pray to the Lord
with me say Lord because lifting your
hand to Heaven is a sign of surrender I
give in I don’t have anything to
hide we lift our hands and we’re going
to we’re going to give our pain to the
Lord I know that you’ve been at many
services maybe where they’ve asked you
to give your finances to the Lord to
give your children to the
Lord give your family to God give your
ministry to
God but I’m almost sure that few times
have you been invited to give your pain
to
God say
Lord I want you to anoint My Sting my
thorn whether it be a weakness or
something that you battle against uh
physical mental emotional problem there
are people here that fight against
changing
is in their
emotions I’m not saying they they’re
bipolar but from time to time they fall
into Wells of sadness there are others
that yeah maybe they do battle
against being
bipolar without diagnosing you maybe
there are some that in the morning say
Lord I I can’t smile for my children or
for my partner please let me borrow a
smile help me
Lord others like our beloved Ed Dobson
i’ have to say
Lord I have a list of things that I
can’t be grateful for but I do have
another list that I can be grateful
for And So today we’re going to focus on
what we do have and we’re going to give
up our pain to the Lord so everyone
everyone everyone the word says that if
we agree on anything here on Earth and
it’ll be heard in
heaven not only heard in heaven but
whatever we let set free here is set
free then whatever we bind here is bound
there so In This Moment all together
we’re going to
agree on giving our pain to the Lord we
give up our sting to the Lord we promise
to not continue praying anymore so that
it can change so that it can be removed
so that so that it can be taken away
no if it pleases you Lord then we will
live with it with this dysfunctional
partner this dysfunctional marriage
those rebellious children then will live
live even without
papers I’m not talking about resignation
I’m talking about acceptance stoic
audacious
acceptance of the perfect and Sovereign
will of God saying Lord I don’t
understand if you want to do the miracle
then that’s on you but I today I’m going
to stop asking and I’m going to say
thank you for what I do have and those
that today here were able to get on your
two feet I I assure you it’s not
everyone but the majority that isn’t
confined to a wheelchair if you can
stand on your two feet say thank you God
I’ve
complained about being on my feet for 45
minutes singing worshiping but what a
privilege it is to have feet to be able
to stand
on thank you Lord because I was able to
have breakfast this morning and if not
then I’ll have something later today
I’ll be able to take a warm
shower those doors of gratitude are what
bring bring anointing over your life
believe it it’s so
simple God is pleased by grateful Hearts
give thanks in everything and for
everything the Apostle said give thanks
for everything and in anything and that
means give gra give thanks for the
things because to many the Lord is
saying my grace is sufficient I’ve saved
you yes that’s all you
needed
when you die you’ll come and be with me
whatever happens on this side of the sun
is a gift it’s a bonus it’s a
tip I don’t love you less because you
still don’t have the
house I’m not upset with you because
things aren’t working at
home you don’t have a sick child because
you’re paying for someone else to sinner
because you made a mistake my grace my
grace says the Lord has to be
sufficient and when my salvation is
enough this light and momentary trouble
called life will
pass bless God if you’re not lying in a
hospital bed right now but if you’re
watching me from a hospital then bless
the Lord because even still your mind
can understand a sermon like this
one wherever it is you are if you’re
confined from Liberty if you’re here
give thanks for your Liberty for your
freedom say to think that I can go
wherever I want I’m free but those that
are behind bars say Lord to think that I
can be behind bars and I still have time
something I didn’t have before I have
time to seek you to find you and give
thanks like Paul for the whips for the
whiplashes for the prisons everything
you have to go through because there’s a
purpose come on lift up your hands give
thanks to God because this pain has
meaning I’m going to
pray so that God can give you a picture
of your future one
picture it’s something that I always
asked the Lord for there were such great
visions that I would say
Lord there’s no precedent for this I
don’t know who to ask can you give me a
picture and there one night suddenly I
saw a photograph it was as if the light
the the wall lit up and I saw a picture
of myself preaching I even saw the color
of the suit that I would be using in a
few years and the stadium was
filled and that was like a trip to the
Future it was like God said you see I’m
going to lend you the ears of the youth
and I I would cling onto that picture
there’s a picture that you need say God
I need a picture of my old age or a
picture of my my later years a picture a
photograph and I promise that you’re
going to see yourself either with white
hairs or hunched over
older if God allows you to reach those
years but you’re going to be happy
saying oh it all had a
purpose my beloved the Lord tells me to
tell you don’t close the book of your
life there are many like David flood
that have closed their books and have
said no more God has ruined my life
you’re saying God wasn’t there when he
could have intervened you’re saying God
didn’t come and help me when I was
asking for it God didn’t come for me
when I se him and you’ve closed your
heart you’ve closed the book and God
says no no no no no my son no my
daughter you’re halfway through your
story believe it believe that I have
thoughts of good and
favor I’m going to redeem everything
everything will be for the greater good
will help for his purpose for those that
are set out for his purpose come on
begin to cry out and
pray father thank you for for this
morning I’ve transmitted and I
believe I’ve said what you’ve told me to
say to your people having omitted or
added anything but I know that your
spirit has reached places that I cannot
the depths of their heart and these
tears are because they’re understanding
that there was a purpose that there was
a
light at the end of the tunnel those
that will see their purpose completed on
the other side of the sun please give us
the strength to be able to put up with
it to to endure even if you say the Lord
doesn’t answer all my prayers say I know
I know I know that he loves me those
that don’t have a smile ask the Lord say
Lord like Jonie said I know you have
many Smiles those that need Joy ask the
Lord for Joy say Lord give me joy from
heaven and speak in new tongues like
never
before those that need the filling of
the spirit say Lord fill me because I’m
empty and I’m desperate for
you thank you for this
morning thank you God for your
children how you love us you’ve spoken
to us this morning Lord I’ve transmitted
this message and I believe that You’
spoken to their hearts thank you thank
you thank you Father for this pain thank
you for these
Thorns bless us if you can lift your
hand then I bless your anry your exit my
beloved I bless you when you go to bed
and when you wake up I bless you here
those that are here and those that are
watching the live stream around the
world I bless the month of March for
your life I declare that what you don’t
understand now will make sense tomorrow
or whenever God decides I bless your
being your your physique your emotions
your soul your spirit may the Lord fill
you may he accompany you the Lord tells
me to tell you don’t give in don’t
surrender the ring the the Bell hasn’t
sounded yet don’t get out of the ring
yet continue fighting continue battling
don’t give in because God is not done
with you and he knows that you’re
fighting and he will not let you go God
tells me to tell you I’ve spoiled the
future I have thoughts of
good receive it in the body in the soul
and in the spirit amen and amen glory to
Jesus
are we going to leave lighter are we
leaving here more blessed we have to go
because we’re connected with the rest of
the world bye bye bye God bless you
until next Sunday firm like a bear claw
may God bless
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