ENGLISH Dante Gebel #868 | Upstream

For years the church has dealt with the waste that appears downstream, removing a little of that garbage with a few doses of “sound doctrine,” one Sunday at a time. However, the problem always lies in the center of our hearts. We must remove all earthly attachments from the center and place Jesus in His rightful place. We must go upstream, to the heart of the problem, to clean up the huge landfill that prevents us from living to the fullest. When Jesus is truly our Lord, we are in the best position to be spouses, parents and children.

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full house once again here at

River now you’re putting the names of

the

flags El Salvador Puerto Rico Colombia

Honduras Mexico Dominican

Republic all the flags that are raised

from all the countries transmitting live

as they used to say via satellite but

now we do it via live stream to the

whole planet to the whole globe don’t

stop that Applause because we’re

receiving people from all the world Asia

Africa America

Australia

Europe we’re going to receive them and

say thank you for belonging to this

river that does not

stop how beautiful all the flogs they

actually let you in with these flags

there we have the US flag we had we

hadn’t seen one up until today

representing the country that allows us

those that were born here and those that

immigrated here this is our home for now

thank you for connecting good morning

good afternoon good evening good night

May the

Lord fulfill the purpose of each person

that’s watching us on the other side of

the screen in just a bit we’ll be ready

for God to speak to us are we ready yes

or no so that God can speak speak to

us so that God can excavate in insights

or intervene in our hearts the way we

let him do every Sunday and thanks to

those that are on the other side of the

screen waiting to receive this

blessing and we’re sure that we’re all

going to leave here more full more

filled than when we came here what I’m

about to show you just a few minutes

it’s the last episode of our most recent

trip to Uganda Africa

it has to do with the goodbye the moment

we left the moment our mission team was

saying goodbye it has to do with the

inauguration of a new building which is

the kindergarten

room on top of our elementary school we

also inaugurated a kindergarten and

before the year ends we’re going to

inaugurate a high school there as well

so that all these kids can be under our

care until they’re almost adults but

this is the inauguration of our

kindergarten the moment in which we

blessed the people this is a summary of

everything that they were saying and of

course it’ll appear there or she’ll

appear here on this video our beloved

sister in Christ that was a nurse and

take took care of the children and just

a few weeks ago we found out that she

passed away to Eternity she’ll speak on

camera of course we had recorded this

long ago

she wanted us to get to know her but now

I’m convinced that she’s in in an even

more beautiful celebration with the Lord

but we’re going to see her on the screen

ladies and gentlemen this is River in

Uganda the last episode

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upand

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one

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parents from AF far came around to see

their kids they picked some food relief

and everybody is going out with

something packed in the bugs everybody

is thankful a lot of smiles parents are

very happy nothing has happened like

this in mianga nobody has done that this

charities

the hungry those in

need

Africa the DNA of your

love this is my mom she has come to

visit me we thank scho so much because

for everything that have provided to

them may God really bless you

graci surprised us we never knew that

you can do it but we we never forget it

in our hearts we love you

rise and

shine oh oh oh oh oh oh rering

Africa Jesus bless

Uganda shall rise and

shine river river rivering

Africa river

river R and shine River CH River Church

River Church River Church in

Africa River Church River Church River

Church

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and these are our new toilets and Urus

we shall be using these ones are you

happy to see the new toilets oh

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yes we thank River CH for work done they

have done

here we have showers we have hot water

they build us a new

building today we appreciate you because

you have been there as our parents want

appreciate for the new kitchen want

appreciate for the kindergarten new

toilets what a wonderful blessing for

our kids we love our new toilet

how old

day which

class Haro River this is River clinic

first aid

department I’m called sister Jenny s

nurse the school

nurse I’m here I serve these kids I

serve the

faculty we are doing good

now we have enough space we have enough

privacy for for our

treatment everything that you have done

for us we do appreciate as River School

thank you so much may God bless you

richly thank you so we can go back to

that

treatment what happened to your arm what

were you doing writing

writing are you lying me where are you

playing

football

ah how about

here it’s not

painting okay can you fold like this

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fore

foreign

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for foree

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you I

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as a leader of the community river is

good and river is part of H we don’t

have any school in this town like this

this one is model when these parents

bring their children here we shall

develop and breed a very healthy

community and a developmental one for

the betterment of ug

the parents are happy even the children

are happy because a healthy

environment is everyone’s

dream I know people who are out there

have learned a lesson a lesson of giving

thank you River Church for coming over

and teaching us very good

lessons thank you for bringing the

things which can make us happy thank you

for chur we love you when you’re helping

the Young Generation you’re helping the

future future of River School you can

see that is growing and

growing this school is

amazing the future is very bright and

once the Young Generation is supported

positively then the sky is the limit

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one one

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that that is your seat and that Applause

goes to all those that make this

possible may this continue

happening it’s also dedicated

to our Mao Jennifer our nurse who’s now

in heaven thank you for sewing thank you

for being a part of this this these are

our children our little ones as we say

each Sunday and I say say to the people

that are watching us through the screen

this isn’t a project where we went and

just painted two walls and then forgot

about it no we literally adopted them in

an official way in a legal way where

their parents were the ones that support

them were the ones that feed them three

times sometimes four times a day and we

support the teachers the staff this

school didn’t exist before River so this

is a model school for all of Africa it’s

the school that shows that you can

educate children with

Excellence which was a luxury to think

about in

Uganda but from the restrooms to the to

the nursing room to the kindergarten

every detail is important as if they

were children who were studying here in

the US obviously with the logistic uh

limitations of a third world country but

the Lord allows us to do this for these

little ones and when the blessings begin

to catch you when they begin to catch up

to you don’t ask why how lucky am I no

it’s the Lord who doesn’t owe anything

to anyone and he will bless you he will

multiply you this Applause goes to all

those that so and that are on this great

adventure that is Africa and we will

continue and very soon in a few in a few

days we’ll begin to tell you about our

orphanage in India there’s a new series

with what we’re doing in India without

of course forgetting about Africa very

well are we ready say with me I’m ready

yes or no very

well I want to begin this

message inviting you to take a stroll

with me let’s go walk through the

California mountains which of course let

me tell the people that are in different

parts of the world there are many

mountains around us we

live among the in the middle of the

mountains we’re going to walk on a path

until we reach a small Canal of the bed

of a river more precisely we come to the

edge of the river and we realize that

there there’s a lot of debris floating

and much more trash at the bottom of the

river and so we feel

shame that people are

so sloppy and so we begin to collect all

the trash all that we can after many

hours we make it look a little bit

different and finally we’re able to

removed the

residuals at the bottom of the river

those that were floating on the surface

we put them in trash bags and now

finally that

riverbed looks clear crystal

clear except when we go back the next

day there’s much more trash than there

was the last

day it’s as if the

trash reproduced itself overnight it’s

likely that in the 24 hours when we

after we left the river

somebody came out and threw more trash

at this riverbed so we

decided to follow the path of the river

but this time we go up River and as you

might expect when we got to the head of

the river we discover that there we find

an enormous

landfill an enormous dump trash dump

something like that

and when we realize

then we realize that we can always go

and clean out that River bed that we

like so much but there will always be

new trash that comes from the head of

the river if we want this stream to

truly be clean we have to go directly to

the source we have to go to the head of

the river I insist and clean out that

enormous landfill otherwise it’s a job

that we’ll do today and then tomorrow

it’ll be as if we didn’t do

anything with this same train of thought

I want us to think about this morning

afternoon night according to your time

zone I want us to think about our

heart as it was done in the old Hebrew

culture for them the heart was a

metaphor that pointed to the center or

the core of your personality they didn’t

speak about the organ that pumped blood

in Hebrew the word heart means the core

of a

walnut the core of life Proverbs 27:19

says as the face is reflected in water

so the heart reflects the real person so

our heart always defines and determines

who we are how we

think and everything we

do just as your heart is you will be

Proverbs 423 adds guard your heart above

all else for it determines the course of

your life

that is the Riverhead from which the

rest of the river flows with that being

said we should ask the question how much

time do we dedicate to dealing with the

visible trash that we see daily in our

lives instead of dealing with the

fountain the source which in reality is

what’s producing that trash because we

live our lives dealing with the trash

that appears every morning instead of

going once and for all to the head of

the river

where it all

generates and that’s what for many years

we have done in the church we’ve become

preoccupied with the residuals that

appear down river we remove a bit of

that trash one Sunday at a

time by the time it’s Monday we wake up

and realize that we’re dirty again on

Tuesday we realize that the

trash has accumulated on the surface of

our heart every is is manure it’s trash

it’s

filth we that we believed had

disappeared on Sunday because that’s the

easiest job but it’s not the most

effective I mean when we clean ourselves

out on Sunday what you can see whatever

we can see down river is what I call

trying to

modify our conduct with just a few pills

of healthy Doctrine don’t do this don’t

do that we remove the trash on Sunday

but Monday we’re we’re the same again

and one thing is to try and alleviate

the symptoms with an aspirin without

necessarily attacking the core of the

pathology in fact that’s how they’ve

indoctrinated us for years for example

try and remember if you have problems

with gambling then run from casinos

don’t even think about going to Las

Vegas if your problem is anger learn to

breathe deeply and count to 10 and then

we’re going went through life saying 1 2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 until one day

we

explode if you’re if your marriage is in

crisis then then schedule a romantic

dinner if you have problems with your

mother-in-law marry an orphan now few

people ask themselves well why would

somebody be addicted to gambling or why

would somebody explode with anger or why

is that person’s marriage crisis or why

do people have problems with their

mother-in-laws even though that’s

obvious you you should ask what’s the

problem what’s what’s the source of that

problem otherwise we’re just dealing

with the

symptoms one day I read something from a

pastor I’m not trying to judge his

persona but he said something that I

don’t agree with he said that he tended

to travel often due to all the

invitations that he received from around

the world and he recommended to other

Travelers like himself that when they

get to their

hotel they place an Open Bible on the

television to not be tempted by

pornography there are hotels where with

the remote control you can access adult

films and he said when I felt tempted I

would just open up the Bible leave it on

the TV and that would impede from me

thinking of things that I

shouldn’t I’m not saying that that’s

wrong in and of itself I don’t I’m not

saying that that I get intrinsically

wrong but it’s like just cleaning out

the trash on the surface of of the river

of the river bed without going to the

head or the the source of the river what

if that man forgets his Bible one

day what if he consumes pornography not

on not on the TV but maybe on on his

phone that he can’t put a Bible on top

of what if he decides to consume

pornography on his cell phone for

example he’s watching news or he’s

answering a text and he says well let me

watch some pornography and he doesn’t

have his Bible but it’s always much more

simple to deal with the symptom instead

of diagnosing the actual pathology I

would

say if he stays alone in a in a hotel

room why does he feel propense or

addicted to watching pornography that’s

what you should deal with that’s what

you should treat where does that filth

come from that infects his daily River

because if the solution were placing a

Bible on everything that tempts us then

we should put Bibles on TVs Bible on

money we should put Bibles on women we

should put Bibles on men according to

the to your sex we should put Bibles

everywhere in that

case so what’s happening at the head of

his

River in this author’s

case what’s

happening if he needs just momentary

pleasure hedonistic pleasure the problem

always lies in the center of his heart

if you don’t go to the Head then you’re

just going to clean out the Trasher

today you’ll be Victorious on this

journey but then you’ll

fall this Sunday will be victorious but

then on Wednesday we’ll fall because

we’re not going to the head of the river

where the trash comes from if a

cardiologist needs to diagnose the level

of Health in a

heart then they tend to submit their to

an arteriogram an arteriogram in simple

terms is

injecting a dye in in the blood vessels

and then carrying out an x-ray to see

where the artery blocks are they’re very

popular arteriograms now the most

important thing or the most surprising

thing is that few of us submit to this

exam in a preventative way because we

don’t take the symptoms seriously it’s

very strange that someone says I went to

go take an arteriogram to prevent so

there are people that suffer insomnia

it’s tough for them to fall asleep they

experience a lot of back pain a lot of

anxiety and so what do they look for

they go to their closest pharmacy to

find medicine to be able to sleep to

deal with their back pain and something

for their anxiety but they don’t know

that it has to do with the

cardiovascular condition and for that

same reason I want all of us to on this

intentional walk up

River until we run into those hidden

secrets that we don’t want to see

because if not it’s just a placebo

effect I give you an aspirin you leave

here happy and next Sunday we’re in the

same position and I want us together to

discover whatever it is we’re going to

discover and deal with it we’re not

going to like what we’re going to

discover

maybe it’s such a deathly silence here

but no matter what we discover if you go

to the doctor it’s for them to diagnose

you it’s not for them to make you happy

necessarily speaking right right if only

we didn’t find anything but whatever we

find we’re going to try and find a

diagnosis and a and a therapy and

treatment so I invite you

today that together we

walk to the heart of our problem let’s

allow the Lord to look at us to listen

to us with this stethoscope and if

necessary let him put us through a

spiritual arteriogram so that he can

find or we can find what is blocking

God’s

blessings God’s rewards there are things

that at this point of the year is

blocking out what he has prepared for us

so me as a communicator as a pastor I

have two options I can either give you

an aspirin and send you home happy so

that later you can realize that the

trash has returned or we’ll go to the

heart of the problem we go to the head

that’s why Jesus never stopped to

comment on external Behavior or people’s

what they were what they were wearing he

focused on their heart in Matthew 15:17

Jesus tells the religious

leaders don’t you realize you that

you’re always arguing what you can do

what you can’t eat anything you eat

passes through the stomach and then goes

into the sewer in other words you’re

you’re arguing over what you can do what

you can’t do but all that goes to the

toilet but the words you speak from the

heart that’s what defiles

you what comes from the head for from

the heart come evil thoughts murder

adultery see evil thoughts are on the

same list as murderers gossiping is the

same as as killing for the

Lord an assassin just

laugh

adultery all sex ual

immorality

theft lying and

slander all the haters everyone that’s

hating on social media should read this

they think that sin is what you do and

not what you

write but slander and

lying all that comes out from a putrid

heart with filth and it stinks the Lord

said it

and what he’s referring to is what comes

from the heart there’s a pathology that

if you go all the way to the head of the

river and if we go together because

we’re on this journey

together there’s something hidden up

River if we don’t go up River we’re not

going to discover this so easily and

it’s known as narcotic love in

Psychology they collo collo colloquially

call it narcotic love and it’s a love

that believes that sentimental feelings

family love romantic

love we believe that these things will

give meaning to our life and this belief

is more common than what we think

thinking well I’d be different if I had

the love from that one girl that

rejected me if I had married this other

person instead of this guy that’s

drinking beer and and scratching his

belly if my children were more grateful

then I would be a different type of

mom if my pastor had supported me with

my vision my story would be

different if my parents had given me

more affection and more validation huh I

would have gone so

far and I know that there’s an an

uncomfortable moment that occurs in our

being when I say these things that’s why

the introduction was necessary when I

said we have to go up River and discover

all that is hidden that doesn’t appear

by just prescribing an aspirin now is

there something wrong within this phrase

no

this this this phrase shows that we were

designed to Long physical and emotional

affection who doesn’t want to be

validated by their parents who doesn’t

want to do well with their partner or

that their children remember them the

problem

Lies when we want a certain person to

complete us or to always understand us

or to heal us or to make us happy that

person has to make me

happy because if we have that type of

expectation we’re waiting for something

that no other human being can give

us an addict needs a dose of cocaine of

methamphetamine whatever it is whatever

drug that they consume an alcoholic

needs another glass another

cup and those that are addicted to

approval depend on others to be loved to

be reaffirmed to be validated so that

they can find meaning in this life and

so it’s known as codependence addiction

to love that’s why I said that in a more

colloquial term it’s narcotic love and

it has to do with being drugged by the

need or being addicted to the need of of

being

loved it’s when our emotions remain

trapped on a roller coaster and we’re

always depending on someone else whether

it be to feel happy joyful or to dive

into a deep depression and our

self-esteem sometimes becomes so fragile

that even the smallest criticism

destroys us emotionally and ruins our

day and this comes about because of

social media our children are

adolescents which are the most

vulnerable in this case sometimes dress

or look or speak a certain way they

listen to certain music according to the

snobism of what other people say should

be

done and they

they move by the means of peer pressure

they say I can’t cut my hair this way

because no one else does it I can’t

speak the way I want but I have to speak

the way other people speak and that’s

that desire to please we get to our

adult life and that doesn’t change and

what’s

worse sometimes we’re do so desperate to

be loved to be

validated that we don’t even have the

capacity to love anyone

else someone that always needs

validation can’t love someone

else that selfish behavior of always

needing someone else’s affirmation

doesn’t allow that same person to love

anyone else freely or

openly I was recently reading phrases

that people tend to use when they want

to cut off a relationship or a marriage

and then what they actually want to say

with the phrase because one thing is

what they want to say another thing is

what they actually say this sounds

comical but it’s true and I think that

if we all look back and remember the

most proud won’t recognize this but I

think all of us at one point or another

received one of these phrases at one

point in life somebody said one of these

phrases to us for

example it’s not that we’re not working

out but I just have to find a bit of

space for

myself what they really want to say

is I want to see if I can find somebody

better by creating some space between us

when somebody says oh you deserve

someone better than

me what they’re really saying is I

deserve someone better than you that’s

what they’re

saying if someone says hey why don’t we

take a break in reality they’re saying I

just need 24 hours to completely

disappear if someone says it’s not you

it’s

me no no no it’s it’s not you it’s me I

don’t know what’s going on with me in

reality they’re saying don’t you even

doubt that I know what’s going on with

me the only one fault here is you and

there is no other elegant way for me to

get you out of my life it’s not you it’s

me if somebody says I I just want to be

friends for

now you know what that means don’t call

me don’t Rite to me don’t try to contact

me ever again in your damn life that’s

what that

means that’s what that

means in case someone ever said that to

you

well that addiction to being

loved in essence it’s an act of

self-abandonment I’ll say it again that

in essence that need of being loved

having to be loved it’s it’s an act of

self-abandonment because instead of fi

finding our value in

God we decide to give up our heart to

adoption to another human

being and we make that person that we

give our heart up to an adoption we make

them responsible for our

happiness for our emotional

state and the great problem is that no

human being on Earth is capable of

carrying out that

responsibility with all the weight of

having to make us happy our our partner

our children our our boyfriend no one no

mortal can fulfill that need so people

that have

suffered people that have wounds they’re

always looking for

someone that they

can put their weight of of pain on and

no human being deserves to be submitted

beneath that pressure because the only

person that I know that can carry our

pain is Jesus Christ he’s the only one

he’s the only one capable of carrying

our pain human beings

cannot all human beings get tired they

surrender they give up and

leave and if we put too much weight on

human shoulders then those shoulders are

destined to

fail so many assume that their partner

is their Fountain of stability

especially

Hispanics we assume that our partners

always are Fountain of stability but

then both end up disappointed because

all human beings have the potential to

disappoint ourselves and betray

ourselves we all have that potential in

fact even the person that loves you

profoundly those that say no no no no I

have this person that loves me

profoundly well one day they’ll die and

they’re going to leave

you maybe you die first but if they die

they’re going to leave you

alone and you’ll say oh well they

disappointed me no they left so

depending on someone that’s not

God as far as our validation goes you’re

just exposing yourself to disappointment

we know we’re going to be disappointed

now the problem isn’t the lack of love

but the high

expectations when we believe that

someone or something is going to save

our life or that it’ll make us super

happy but every time a heart I’ve said

this before every time a human heart

seeks to Anchor itself to another human

heart both end up drowning

always it’s not that there are

exceptions of the role there aren’t if a

child anchors himself to a father or a

father to a a mother or a wife to a

husband they’re both going to sink

they’re both going to drown and this is

very common in our Western culture

little girls watch a Disney movie and

the implicit messages if I can’t find a

prince that’s going to rescue me then

I’ll never be able to be a

princess so it’s saying little girl

you’re never going to be a complete

person

until you’re involved in a

relationship when our daughter asks us

when can I have a boyfriend as parents

we should say ah when you’re 40 I’ll be

able to decide who you can have a

relationship with daddy will tell you

who but as a little girl they’re

teaching her you need a prince to be a

princess and within our Evangelical

ghetto the pressure is even worse

because single people are told that if

they don’t get married it’s because

there’s something wrong with them it’s

the implicit message if you’re single if

you’re a single man or woman then

there’s something

wrong even when Paul says Ah it’s better

for me to be

single than to be

married and and and spending less time

on the Lord as a single man he could

dedicate himself more to the Lord It’s

just advice it’s not Doctrine but we

ignore that and we say no if somebody

doesn’t get married immediately after a

certain age then there’s a problem this

happens within our church or our

churches and for many years with the

best intentions we’ve said this phrase

to the

Lord don’t ask for the right person for

you you be the right person for someone

it sounds beautiful it can be a

tweet but if we go into that message it

implies that if you haven’t found the

right partner it’s because you you’re

still not the perfect person for someone

that’s why you don’t find anyone because

you’re not perfect nobody wants to pick

you and that’s because all the culture

that surrounds

us threatens

against those that want to be alone

those that are alone our friends music

movies tell us that the only Fountain of

happiness is falling in love I’m not

saying it’s wrong I’m just saying that’s

not the Fountain of happiness in fact

when we fall in love I was reading that

our

body when fall in love your body

secretes a great amount of dopamine it’s

the chemical of pleasure but it also

produces a decrease in

serotonin which is the chemical that

helps us make wise

decisions that explains why so many

people are blindly in love and they tend

to do such stupid things

right because

serotonin

decreases so as children

we dreamt of finding that soulmate that

could rescue us from our paternal home

nobody understands me in this home and

I’m going to go out and find somebody

that I can travel the world with

somebody to rescue us from our

loneliness from our singleness somebody

that can complete our phrases huh that

can look Us in the eyes and melt our

heart they laugh at our dumb

jokes let’s agree that God created

romantic

love if we doubt it all we have to do is

read Song of

Songs but to believe or pretend that

love for someone whether it be a

partner our parents or even a

child if we think that that’ll give a

significance that’s a completely madeup

idea it’s not

Divine in reality you end up in love

with love there are many people that are

in love with

love I’ve gotten to know dozens of women

I told you last Sunday that I would pick

on you today and don’t say oh why well

because last Sunday it was the man’s

turn but now it’s your turn I’ve gotten

to know dozens of women who joined their

lives to someone else but in reality

they were in love with the wedding

gown with the guest list with the with

the

cake with the honeymoon the

trip and you might say well didn’t they

think of anything else well the

serotonin disappeared

and the guest list and I want to invite

my cousins and my relatives and I want

people to come from my country and a big

cake and seven seven

layers then soon they realized that life

was much more than that one day of

Happiness the wedding celebration ends

the Walts ends the honeymoon ends and

then you have to spend your life the

rest of your life with someone that

doesn’t just happen with couples I’ve

I’ve seen this with many

mothers who Express their hunger

for a relationship of love and they

write to their adult children many times

a day and you say that’s normal I’m a

mother no that’s not normal if your son

if your son who of course has already

gotten married has his own family if he

doesn’t answer you immediately you feel

like your life has no meaning why should

I keep living why did I raise

him I know mothers that have no

children they have partners

they

have they’re terrorists they say you

never remember your mother don’t give me

your absence it’s all I asked you for my

children are all that I

have one day you’re going to find me

dead and you’re going to regret not

having sent me an emoji that

day beloved

Son never stop loving and honoring her

mother but remember that old military

axum we don’t negotiate with

terrorists well put up with it you

ladies left that Usman a lot last

week in

Genesis we find an old love that is that

inspired one of my messages dancing with

the ug uger one Jacob Abraham’s grandson

falls in love with Rachel daughter of

Lebon and Genesis 29:16 tells us now

Lebon had two daughters the older

daughter was named Leah and the younger

one was

Rachel then he describes each or Genesis

describes each

one there was no

Sparkle in Leah’s

eyes but Rachel had a beautiful figure

and a lovely face

since Jacob was in love with

Rachel the dopamine his dopamine went in

went through the clouds his his

serotonin fell to the floor and as you

might expect in these cases he does

something

stupid he proposes a deal an unusual

deal with his

father-in-law he promises him that he’ll

work for him free for seven years if in

exchange he can marry Rachel of course

he’s not the one that initially proposed

is this he says I want to marry Rachel

and then his father-in-law says all

right you’ll work for seven years if you

want her and he says fine fine I’ll do

it obviously Jacob has no interest in

his sister-in-law Leah there are

versions in the Bible that describe that

she had tender eyes she had nice eyes

let’s say that’s the only description of

the sister of beautiful Rachel Leah had

delicate eyes so that we can so that we

can understand what we’re talking about

if a friend sets up a blind date with a

girl that you don’t know and then you

ask him well is she pretty he says well

what do I know she has nice eyes well

then you’re in problems you understand

right it’s like somebody wanting to sell

you a home that you haven’t seen yet and

you asked the the real estate agent well

what conditions is the house in and they

say well to be sincere the bathroom is

pretty nice you know that the rest of it

is going to be Nagasaki and Hiroshima

it’s going to be detonated

but listen to this verse maybe even the

most romantic one that appears in

scripture it’s in Genesis 29:20 more

romantic than anything in Song of Songs

because it hides something that far from

being just sweet and romantic says so

Jacob worked seven years to pay for

Rachel but his love for her was so

strong that it seemed to him but a few

days oh how sweet it’s cute how cute

very sweet very

sweet cute how

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cute if it it seems like just a few days

very cute very

cute the thing is that after seven years

they have a great celebration for the

wedding and the celebration begins early

and Jacob is so happy that he has a

toast with each table with each guest

then the first dance comes along and he

he dances a few slow songs with his the

woman of his dreams that wears a veil as

as was tradition and so they danced

dancing from afar isn’t

dancing it’s like being dancing alone

you dancing on your

volcano and me two MERS away I’m dancing

in the North Pole and then we see Jacob

dancing with this princess

dancing together is

dancing it’s like the sea dancing with

the dolphins and everyone watches and

finally when Night

Comes his flaming wife enters his tent

and they consummate the

marriage don’t ask me for details

because the Bible doesn’t specify

them and when he wakes up in the

morning in the middle of his hangover

because he had had a lot to drink Jacob

opens his eyes and he realizes that

instead of Rachel he married Leah he had

danced he had made love with the uglier

one and so Jacob recovers his sobriety

immediately he puts on his pants and he

rushes to confront his father-in-law he

was scammed and his father-in-law says

what did you expect with just seven

years of

work I gave you what was available what

was on discount

you still want Rachel yes I want her I

love her well you’re going to have to

work another seven

years now Jacob has two wives and a

great

problem but this story makes me feel not

shame or embarrassment for Jacob but

shame for the one that is mentioned very

little and seems like a secondary

character in this story Leah she truly

loves her husband and she would do

anything to have him love her as well

she’s married yet she feels like an

incomplete woman and she wants him

complete her I once got to know a single

man in

Argentina that when he turned 30 years

old he bought himself an

apartment and for many many months he

didn’t buy furniture he could but he

didn’t want to all he had was a mattress

on the floor and a small folding table

in the kitchen and he said he didn’t

want Furniture because he wanted his

wife to pick them the way she wanted

he said I want her to decorate however

she wants and so I’ll wait for her but

he wasn’t even going out with anyone at

that

point he had an imaginary

wife that picked out his imaginary

furniture and he placed his life and his

happiness on hold until he found that

special person that would give meaning

and purpose to his life I don’t know

what went on with his life later I hope

that he found a a a woman married her or

at least I hope he bought Furniture when

we look for someone outside of God to

complete us and Define our lives that is

idolatry there is no other way to call

it it’s

idolatry now as we’ve all said we were

all created to worship God to depend on

him and when we unconsciously seek

someone to give meaning to our lives

that person I insist will disappoint us

because asking a person to be our

Fountain of happiness and validation is

asking far too much from anyone we have

all been created for a more profound

love than what a human relationship can

give

us but going back to our story the

person that gives Jacob children is not

the attractive Rachel but Leah and if we

carefully read the names of of their of

his children we realize the enormous

disappointment in the desert that Leah

was going through the girl with the

delicate eyes that we unfortunately

assume wasn’t as attractive right Leah

names her first son Ruben which means

the Lord has seen my Affliction now my

husband will love

me now he’ll love

me that’s what Reuben means every time

she called him she said the Lord has

seen my Affliction and now my husband

will love me then she has a second

son it reached the Lord’s ears that I am

not loved she said and that’s why he

gave me this

son it reached my Lord’s ears that I am

not loved and that’s why he gave me this

son with the arrival of the third son

she declared now my husband will love me

because I’ve given him three

sons and so each child that Leah has she

thinks now I’ll be loved

and after the birth of each son she

feels more and more

disappointed after many many years a

very interesting turn is generated that

escapes the majority of of Scholars it

says Leah was left pregnant again fourth

son and she gave birth to the fourth

which she named Judah because she said

this time I will praise the Lord and

from then on

out she stopped giving birth she said

this time I

will praise God she didn’t ask when will

this guy love me she said no this time I

will praise the

Lord she

took the throne away from her husband’s

heart and she gave it to the Lord she

said this belongs to the to my God and

everything changed and that fourth

son that she didn’t want to earn her

husband’s love

with she dedicated him to the Lord

and Judah means praise when you go to

the New

Testament many years pass and we find

Jesus’s family

tree and what we read says that Jacob

was the father of

Judah it’s not Jacob’s favorite

children Reuben or Benjamin that the New

Testament make makes reference to no the

only one named is

Judah in Jesus’s lineage the one that is

named is Judah the four son of a wife

that he inherited without seeking out so

what does Judah mean it’s the

commemoration of the moment in which

that woman turned her eyes back to

God on this occasion Leah just needed

the rejection of a man to realize the

acceptance and love that God had for

her so sometimes when we

suffer a profound moment of loneliness

on many occasions it’s God that shouting

that’s shouting from within saying I’m

looking to love you and feel that void

that’s what he said to the Samaritan

woman the woman that was next to the

well he said you’ve had five husbands

and the one you’re with right now is not

your husband he wasn’t judging her he

wasn’t judging her values he was just

saying stop jumping from relationship to

relationship from bed to bed I’m going

to give you a water that will make you

thirst no more

a thirst that no man can quench this

will quench The Thirst of your soul now

don’t misinterpret falling in love is

very very good but that love can never

substitute God’s love because the void

in the human heart has the shape of God

not the shape of a relationship not the

shape of a mother the void you have

within isn’t shaped like a child no

child will fill that

void let’s put it this way let’s think

of our lives like a bicycle wheel try to

remember when you used to ride bikes or

if anybody has a bike

today each bar on the

wheel represents a significant

relationship in our lives one bar

represents mom one Dad one Grandma one

your

child that’s how life is and our

tendency is to make God another bar in

that

in that wheel a Spoke another

spoke Monday I have to I have to take

care of my family Tuesday Wednesday

Thursday Friday and then Sunday I’ll

give to God but God doesn’t want to just

be another spoke on the wheel God has to

be the central

nucleus where the spokes connect to and

where they come

from God is a fixed point in a world

that spins round and round we were made

to love our children we were made to

love our parents our

partners but worship only belongs to God

that is clear yet sometimes we become

confused about

this he is the Fountain by which all of

our love depends on because only when we

love God can we love others in the same

way if not you can’t love if you don’t

love God you can’t love it’s like when

we see an abuser

and then they lift up their hands and

worship if you can’t love the person you

see how can you convince us that you can

love a God that you don’t see if you

mistreat someone in the line or at the

cafe or waiting to come into the church

or you abuse the the Usher you’re you’re

petulant how can you make me believe

that you love him and you can’t see him

yet you mistreat and abuse his creation

which was made in His image don’t tell

me you love me if you mistreat my

children if you want to see me upset

mistreat my children even if they’ve

made mistakes and I think this

represents what any parent

feels if somebody wants to earn your

heart then they should treat your

children well sometimes we give our

opinions online false prophet heresy we

don’t know how many children of God

we’re touching and we think that God is

going to be happy with our worship after

all that if we don’t love God we can’t

love anyone according to the Ten

Commandments it says that we should

honor honor our parents and I defend

that we should honor them but worship no

only God that’s what we call the first

button of the truth that we’re

discovering today as we go up Upstream

up River has it ever happened to you

especially Us Men We tend to do that we

button our shirts the wrong way you

start from the top but if you choose the

wrong button up top if you choose the

wrong button hole we realize the mistake

or when we’re on the last button on the

bottom and the shirt is all lopsided

but if we button the first button

correctly all the other buttons will

fall into place there is no science

behind it so God ordered our ways in

such a way our lives in such a way where

we should know that his love is the

first button that should be clear if

that first button is placeable all the

other butons order their SS

neatly if not we’re going to go through

life with a lopsided chur I come here to

worship

God and you might be thinking well I’m a

mother I can’t love my children any less

no you can’t but that’s also not today’s

message that’s not what I’m

saying what I’m saying is that your love

for them can’t be on the first button

hole because that button hole be belongs

to the

Creator each child is a special child

each child is a marvelous

gift those crazy little

ones are the gifts that God gives to us

all of us that can be parents now we

would give anything we would give our

lives for our children without even

thinking about it but we have to realize

that the more valuable and valuable and

beautiful something

is the like the more likely it is that

that thing can take the first button the

hole and you might say no no no it’s not

my case it’s not my case

yes because if we don’t clean it out

we’re going to find Trash In this River

again tomorrow the more you like

somebody the more likely you are to

worship that person so when God gives us

a child he’s lending us a

gift and he says I made this this boy

this girl for you can you love them

without worshiping them can you love the

gift so that way you can love The Giver

of the

gift because if you love The Gift more

than the giver then you’re committing

idolatry many times we give power to a

person close to

us so that they can determine our mood

if we’re going to have a good day or a

bad

day there are mothers I’ve

seen whose emotional state depends on

how their children their children treat

them if they write to them if they text

them if they call

them if the children are happy then

everyone’s happy but if the children are

bored and if they’re in a bad mood then

the whole home is is altered boring I

rate I’ve gotten to know entire families

that orbit around a little 10-year-old

kid Sebastian

Nathaniel and they do whatever they want

in the home they eat what they want they

eat at the time they want they go to bed

at whatever time they want they watch

whatever they want on TV they even

congregate If the child wants

to and they do everything because they

say we’re loving him and little boy

little

kid man manages the whole environment

the whole home

that’s what creates a false god it

recreates us to its own

image in second Peter 2:19 it

says but they themselves are slaves of

sin and

Corruption it’s not always alcohol or

drugs it can be a child that dominates

us that somebody grow up in a

home where everything’s revolved around

your mother’s mood or her hor hormon

changes her mood swings when Mom’s not

happy nobody’s happy in this home mom

would say I’m not happy and she was na

on national TV that’s

it she would line us up like tattooed

gang members going to our bedrooms

right oh no no no no no no mom’s having

a bad day and we were all

tiptoeing so when some someone has

control over our way of thinking or how

we feel that indicates that God is being

replaced idolatry isn’t just about

having a statue on your

fireplace at church there are also many

people that depend on the mood of their

Pastor their Apostle if the guy is in a

bad mood everyone has a terrible week if

the guy is empowered everyone goes out

saying well conquer the world

pinky in Luke

1426 in The New International Version it

says if anyone comes to me this is the

version that I like best because the

word hate is is not really understood

well he says if anyone comes to me and

does not sacrifice their love for their

father and mother wife and children

brothers and sisters

yes if they don’t sacrifice their own

life then such person cannot be my

disciple

this is the most debated verse by all

theologians because we know that we

should love our family of

course a good person that’s the first

thing that they do but God will not

share his throne in our hearts with our

partners with our parents with our

children and everyone has that tendency

of placing someone on a pedestal and

that person wasn’t created to be there

we’re going to break them there are

husbands that do that with their

partners she’s the boss she’s she’s in

charge she’s the son that everything

revolves around or him he’s the son she

does everything so that he’s not

offended and if he or she’s in a good

mood everyone is and this situation puts

the couple in terrible stress because if

she’s the center of the home then he has

to be aware of all the slightest needs

that she has and when he doesn’t do it

she thinks that he doesn’t love her

anymore until she realizes that she has

such weight because she’s the anchor in

the relationship and then they both end

up

sinking we’re telling someone I’m

placing all my happiness and well-being

in your hands and no one in their right

mind would

accept such a a deal because nobody

could carry it out I always say I can’t

make anyone happy the Lord lends me the

ears of the people but if someone thinks

that I’m going to make the people happy

with the message no that’s that’s that’s

a Utopia

in reality no human being can make

anyone else happy only God and sometimes

there are parents that do that with

their

children if if you play

soccer we we want you to fill the home

with trophies and medals we won’t

tolerate you not being the best on the

team we have to feel that we’re raising

Messi or Ronaldo at least or

mbappe mbappe second

and indirectly we begin to live through

the accomplishments of our children and

our children can sense

this they can’t just bring home good

grades they have to bring home the best

in the country what do I mean the best

grades on this Solar Planet or sorry the

on on this in this solar system not just

this planet on the Milky Way and

Andromeda as well so there are parents

that assigned their

identity in their children’s report

cards or through their careers or

through their grandchildren I hope that

you give me many grandchildren well they

didn’t get married to give you

grandchildren but I’ve been waiting for

a grandchild for 3 years well go to

Uganda and bring back four

five stop pressuring that poor

guy I can

imagine your son taking off his towel in

front of his wife saying hey Mom’s

waiting for a

grandchild and we live in a generation

with helicopter parents that are overfly

always flying over their children ready

to rescue them if life gets too

complicated in fact I’ve seen parents

whose Pride says for me the most

important thing in life is my family it

sounds Noble no no no for me family

there are mothers that say no no no my

life is my children is I am I wrong I’m

sorry for loving so

much and it also sounds selfless and

self-sacrificing but what happens is

Hollywood has sold us a frame of a

family sitting around a freshly roasted

turkey or a whole family waking up with

red pajamas open up gifts around a

Christmas

tree and the

frame is wrapped up

with hot chocolate and grandchildren in

in the

garden that’s what we’ve all desired at

one point if we say if I can if I can

create a home that’s all I ask of the

Lord a home just a home but I’m here

alone with my cat and we we need a

home but when

that idilic

happiness is what we believe will make

us happy and complete that’s where we

become disappointed because our reality

is very distant from once we from what

we once saw in movies it just so happens

that we were dealt a manipulative mother

or a father that never asks for respect

or we have a sibling that we haven’t

talked to in years in-laws that we can’t

put up with children that always bring

up the

past children that don’t clean up their

dirty plates after dinner and you say

why didn’t they talk about this in

Hollywood and when we see that we’re not

accomplishing what we dreamt of we

strangle we strangle our children and we

demand that they become what we never

could be and that’s also very cultural

in our in our Hispanic people my son

will do what I never could that’s fine a

a Smuggler brought me over to this

country but

he he will be the Road Runner

and we demand our partner to be loving

affectionate service oriented to always

smell good until that pressure and real

life ends up breaking or shattering that

dream in 2007 there was a a famous

survey held by Barna that asked more

than a thousand people to

express what relationship they felt was

most important in in their lives and

seven out of 10 adults chose their

Earthly family on top of God one of

people said that their families were

more important than God 22% mentioned

their Partners as the most important

relationship in

life 177% placed their children on the

highest level 3% chose their parents

only 19% mentioned God as the principal

relationship in their

lives so no matter who we put on the

pedestal they’ll never fulfill us and

what’s worse we’re never going going to

be able to fulfill their happiness

either in fact there are many people

that were

raised yet they never felt that they

could completely satisfy their parents

no matter what they did it was never

enough I was one of

them and sometimes we’re adults and we

don’t

realize that we’re still trying to make

mom or dad even if they don’t live on

this Earth anymore we’re still trying to

make them feel proud of

us the pressure that we experiment on

behalf of our

parents sometimes it makes us feel

insecure we become adults we become old

people but deep down inside it seems

like we’re still trying to score that

goal in the game we’re still trying to

bring home that perfect Rapport card but

life has passed us by yet we still want

to try and please Mom and

Dad so wanting to find our value and

identity in a child

if you place that child in God’s place

we’ll become frustrated and that child

will become frustrated this is the the

raw truth you don’t have to say Amen but

I’ll say it all the same our children

are not

perfect nor are they the best children

in the world nor are they the most

intelligent children that the teacher

can’t believe it

no they’re not the most

spiritual nor are they the most handsome

it’s fine that you think he’s handsome

but he’s not the most handsome in the

world it’s not that they’re looking for

him from Hollywood so that he can put

his his his face on the newest

commercial no it’s not going to happen

they’re just our children our children

are children like anyone else’s children

our neighbors children the only thing we

can dream of is that they have integrity

and that they be good people that’s a

gift from God already but they weren’t

born to make us happy or to finish the

career that we could never finish

or that they continue with the legacy of

our ministry it worries me when a pastor

places a

child that’s fresh out of adolescence he

places them on stage to De to exhort and

preach to people no first you should go

out and earn a living and if God wants

then God will call that person to

Ministry because no lawyer would place

his son to defend their client just

because they’re his son if that son

didn’t go through Law School

no surgeon will tell the patient look

today my my boy is going to operate on

you he’s not a surgeon but he has my

last

name and he’s always watched me operate

so he has my anointing and you know what

I want him I want him to practice a

little

bit I want him to figure it

out on top of that being nepotism it’s

pretending to place a child in a place

that he hasn’t earned yet he hasn’t paid

any price to be there that’s why

congregations tend to reject them when

we say he’s going to inherit my

anointing no it’s not always like that

the same thing happens when it’s a

son-in-law or another another relative

that we place at the head of a business

or a Ministry they have the position but

we’re not even worried about whether or

not God called them or if they’re

capable of even managing this so when we

do this most likely we’re asking them to

do something that they weren’t called to

do and that’s called

perversion perverting a child is

the word perversion is deviating the

original use in perversion it’s not just

used in sexual terms but also in

Ministry in spiritual terms and when we

fix our heart on our family we’re all

making this mistake and finally we’ll

end up wounding the people that we love

because we’re elevating to the level of

God it’s a terrible mistake that creates

all sorts of negative feelings and

bitterness in a in a couple in a father

in a child I insist we can’t wait for

things or people to fill a void that has

the shape of

God that’s why we come to church not to

have more perfect

children but to button that first button

in its in its button hole that’s why we

come to church to confirm that he is the

center of all the spokes that rotate on

our wheel and so today how should we

consider our family

relationships someone that navigated

through the surface with me they asked

well what should we love less no no

robustly

no but we should love in a different

way and what can we do

well we should take away that

relationship from the center and place

Jesus in that spot and that will heal

all the other relationships you’ll be a

better mother a better father a better

husband wife child you could even say

look I love you so much I love you too

much

to make you the center of my life and

give you a weight and responsibility

that you don’t deserve I can’t blame you

whe if I do well or if I do do poorly I

can’t blame you if I have a good day or

a bad day and when Jesus is truly our

Lord we’re in better conditions we have

the best version of ourselves to be a

husband to be parents to be a husband

wife son-in-law daughter-in-law maybe

like Leah we’re so focused on being

loved that we forget about praising and

worshiping god let’s not wait for a

fourth child to to find

that let’s not wait to have a lot of

rejection so that our worship can be

directed to the middle and sometimes we

need to

Dethrone those Idols before we’re ready

to receive God’s blessings all that he

has prepared for

us and if we continually make them go

through difficult moments because we

demand that they don’t give us that they

don’t serve us that they don’t

correspond us

most likely we’re asking them to do

something and I’ll say it again we’re

asking them to do something that they

weren’t created to do nobody not even us

not me not you we can’t give joy and

love because there’s a profound

satisfaction that can only come from God

not from any

person if

not it would be like Disney fairy tales

they got married they lived happily ever

after and no more

complications if only

marriage was the summit of of love and

they had children and they were happy or

finally they stopped renting they bought

their own home and they were

happy

or they moved to a mountain in Tibet and

there in their profound meditation they

lived happily ever after no

problems happen here in Tibet in the

traffic jam and in the middle of

nowhere by saying that we should allow

the Lord to listen to us with the

stethoscope and to submit us to a

spiritual arteriogram and I also asked

you consciously to take an emotional

walk until we found those hidden

pathologies those hidden diseases that

we didn’t even suspect existed but

they’re the ones that fill us with trash

during the

week and we

promised that no matter what we found we

would allow God to treat with it to deal

with it are we in agreement yes or no

we’re going to allow God to operate a

doctor says hey there’s a tumor do we

say all right just leave it there for a

bit or hey can you give me two or 3

weeks or do we say if you have a if you

have a bed open now if there’s an

operating room take it out

now because the only way to find the

heart of the problem is by going to the

head or the fountain or the landfill

that doesn’t allow us to live in

fullness so let’s go where the torrent

begins welcome to

all the filth is born because today

we’re going to have to clean

deep let’s go up River thank you for

listening thank you for being patient

thank you for your

humility we’re going to give a grand

grand Applause to the Lord of lords the

King of

Kings how the lord loves

us how he loves us somebody has to

celebrate more than that someone has to

applaud more than that the lord loves us

so much that he speaks to us in this

way how beautiful when he operates on us

when he corrects us when he exhorts us

with

love God is speaking today God is

healing

today I know an author that says Western

idolatry modern and contemp

idolatry is the hardest one to find it’s

the hardest one to

recognize because when we speak about

idolatry like I said a few Sundays ago

we think about tribes tribal groups

where they worship a a statue or an

image we imagine that and we say no no

no we’re not idolators idolators are

living in India where they worship cows

or they’re in the processions

however man are we idolators and what

the Lord is saying is I’m I’m organizing

your life because you won’t have any

other God before me no one should occupy

that first place nobody wants to go

through the trials that Abraham did

nobody the trial of that child that you

love that son that you love give him to

me on this

Mount God never asked for a human

sacrifice like the Greek gods or the the

gods of Greek mythology that would

always ask for human sacrifice this was

the only time that God asked for a human

sacrifice those that know the story he

doesn’t allow it to be finished but God

didn’t want to share the heart of his

patriarch Abraham with his son he was

teaching him what he would do with his

own

son God so loved the world that he gave

his only begotten son so that anyone

that believes in

him might have eternal life and he

didn’t he didn’t stop the cross the way

he stopped Abraham’s knife

he wanted to know that his son his

Prophet was willing to put everything

before the God we don’t need to live

something like that if we are children

of

rigor we don’t want a child or a father

or a partner to be debating between life

and death so that our life is organized

right so that’s why God loves us and he

speaks to us in a good way he says Place

me in the center that’s all I’m saying

everything else will be added God will

not take away the love from your from

your family but he needs to be the

center and that our mood be regulated by

him not if they answer our phone calls

if they visit us if they bring our

grandchildren if they love us

if if they’re seductive if they’re

loving no our mood has to be set on him

we should say Lord my heart is placed in

you and all the other relationships all

the other

buttons will or be organized organically

children pray for that yes should we

clean out the trash yes let’s do a deep

clean people yes let’s

go lift up your hands heav and pray with

me father thank you I’ve transmitted

Lord what I believe you told me to tell

your people your

children thank you because they have

lent me their ears their respect their

silence thank you because at home as

well through their devices there are

hundreds of thousands listening to the

sermon saying Lord I want to place you

in the middle middle of my life those of

us that have sinned by placing a

partner a child an in-law a relative a

father on the seat on the throne that

belong to you forgive us Lord forgive

our

foolishness but we’ve gone up River

Upstream we’ve gone to the head of Our

Lives the heart where everything flows

from everything that contaminates man

we’ve gone into clean and this is a deep

clean this

is a deep clean that will allow us to

live in Liberty in

Victory there are mothers who the Lord

is saying to you in this moment let go

of your children give them to

me they are

mine I let you borrow

them I

allowed you to have that child I allowed

them to be born give them to me like

Samuel’s mother said Lord he’s yours

they’re just lent to us give me your

partner says the Lord say lord they’re

not mine they’re not

mine give me your parents give me your

children say Lord all

relationships are placed on your altar

and God who is a father and knows how to

give good

gifts in no way will he take away what

you love so much but he has to be sure

that your heart is centered and

calibrated with

him of course you love them of course

you love

her of course you love him but the Lord

tells me to tell you I want to

be the main part of your

life the last person you think about at

night I will go to bed in peace and in

that way I will sleep because only you

Lord make me feel safe and you wake up

in the morning and you say this is the

day the Lord has made we will rejoice

and be glad in

it and then you go and deal with life

but

knowing that our life has been

organized that the center of where our

relationships come from is Jesus Christ

and God

speaks like this the way he did today is

because he loves us not because he’s

upset or tired of us because any father

that loves his child disciplines him and

corrects him and God is correcting us

straighten out your path straighten out

your road says the

Lord don’t follow after yours let go of

that control Mom let go of control let

go of that control let go of it let them

go

there’s a moment where you can only

trust in God’s protection like the Lord

said last Sunday you’re like a Moses you

prepare your children for a land that

you may never see and you’ll have to

trust and that you educated them

properly that you taught them good

values at least as much as what you knew

what you thought was right now let them

go they’re under the Lord’s protection

your grandchildren aren’t yours your

children aren’t yours your parents

aren’t yours forever let them go love

them honor them and trust that God will

protect them your partner those that are

alone those that are

single I want to say a special prayer

before we go for those that are single

the widows those that are divorced those

that are

separated those that are

living and singlehood and those that had

felt the need of feeling complete and so

they would involve themselves in a

relationship the Lord is saying I

allowing this time to speak to you so

that you can seek me

more it’s a time that you have to have

to take advantage of and not

curse go down this road and enjoy your

singleness as long as the Lord allows

it and worship the way you want listen

to whatever listen to the music you want

dress how you want

enjoy time of being single because there

will come a time where you will have no

time and there will be a time where

you’ll have to dedicate all your time to

someone else but now you can dedicate

your time to the Lord I bless those that

are alone I don’t know what the church

told you but you have a great Advantage

if you’re alone because you can do so

much more than those that are married or

those that have commitments and I bless

that time whether you’re 40 50 60 there

is no

age when you should no longer be

single I bless those that are married

those that are parents those that are

not

parents I want to pray for the women

that are crying because they want to

give birth to a child and they feel they

feel in

incomplete because you think maybe your

fertile time is

gone you think that you missed the last

train and you say I’ll never be a mother

but Society tells us that that is the

frame of happiness but if God allowed

you to get to this age so that you can

give love in a different way Without

Limits so that you can love many many

children instead of just your

own what if God’s plan the plan that he

stipulated doesn’t look like any other

plan from before there are no precedents

in God’s

callings Noah doesn’t have someone to

ask if someone before him constructed an

arc Moses doesn’t know who to ask he

doesn’t have a mentor that he can ask

how do you free people from slavery

Jonah doesn’t know how to ask how to

preach in Nineveh or how to have a whale

spit you out so sometimes we won’t have

precedence or people to ask and careful

who you ask because they’re going to

want to mold you to their image you

should be married by now you should have

three kids by now it’s so strange you

have no grandchildren so weird you

didn’t marry marry that guy that seemed

like such a good guy don’t listen to

them

stand before the Lord and ask him what

plans do you have for me what do you

want me to do don’t listen to your

mother giving you advice on how you

should live you’re an adult say Lord

what do you want me to do what have you

prepared for me from my mother’s womb

like

Jeremiah and you’ll be surprised with

the answer thank you for coming Upstream

my people I bless your life I bless your

being I bless your mind your soul I

declare blessing for this week I declare

that you will receive prosperity and

everything that you touch everything

that you initiate may the Lord bless

your thoughts your deepest size your

entry your exit may the Lord bless your

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Friday Saturday and once again here next

Sunday May the Lord bless you in all

areas in your body in your soul and in

your spirit blessings

people let’s go out and live live in

fullness bye until next Sunday blessings

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