IN HIS PRESENCE To teach believers the importance of intentionally entering into the presence of the Lord, not just during church gatherings but in personal, daily life. The teaching draws from Psalm 16 to show how God’s presence brings joy, protection, renewal, and healing, and emphasizes the power of speaking God’s Word in faith to invite His presence into every circumstance. IN HIS PRESENCE Minister Lisa Kane December 15, 2024 Objective: To teach believers the importance of intentionally entering into the presence of the Lord, not just during church gatherings but in personal, daily life. The teaching draws from Psalm 16 to show how God’s presence brings joy, protection, renewal, and healing, and emphasizes the power of speaking God’s Word in faith to invite His presence into every circumstance. Synopsis: In this teaching, Lisa Kane shares a heartfelt message on the power and necessity of dwelling in His presence. Beginning with Psalm 16:11, Lisa explains that life in God’s presence is fresh, alive, and filled with fullness of joy. The psalmist demonstrates how to speak to God, to one’s own soul, and to others, acknowledging that true strength comes not from our own goodness but from God’s mercy, grace, and redemption. Lisa emphasizes that entering God’s presence is an intentional act—one that requires stopping, speaking His Word, and putting Him first, regardless of circumstances. She teaches that God’s presence is not limited to church, but is available anywhere: at home, in the car, or in quiet moments of prayer and worship. Through verses in Psalm 16, she highlights how God provides protection, counsel, and stability, holding us together even in seasons of adversity. The message also warns against relying on “other gods”—whether people, doctors, or distractions—reminding believers that faith and trust must be placed solely in the Lord. Lisa explains that healing and renewal flow naturally from being in God’s presence, where sin and its consequences cannot stand. Drawing from both Old and New Testament scriptures, she shows that calling upon the name of the Lord brings salvation, deliverance, and preservation in every situation. Ultimately, In His Presence encourages believers to seek God first, to call on His name, and to delight in Him above all else. The result is joy, peace, strength, and renewal—benefits that far surpass anything the world can offer. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this teaching on Sunday, December 15, 2024. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we know that your word shall not return void. We pray that the hearers and the listeners to this teaching will have hearts prepared to receive you to be in your presence and to feel that anointing of who you are as you touch our hearts and our minds. Thank you, Father God. We love you and praise you and uh thank you that your word does not return void. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay. Okay. So, the anointing is pretty strong here. So, I'm a little on the emotional side, but we'll get this out. Amen. So, this teaching is called in his presence. So, let's go to our opening scripture here in Psalm 16:11. And we're going to be in Psalm 16 for most of the part of this teaching. Verse 11, thou wilt show me the path of life. The word life means a or another word that you can place in the word of life is alive or fresh. In thy presence or your face is fullness of joy, glee, pleasure, mirth. At thy right hand there are pleasures delightful, sweet for ever more. Well, I'm glad you can join us today here at House of Faith Ministries. Let me show you how I do my teachings. I'm going to present the scripture to you here through the King James version. The bolded words are the words that are in the King James version. But the the translators could have used other words to um express that word if they wanted to. In the case of like word life there is alive or fresh that also just elaborates a little further. So what I'm doing is taking those other words that it could have meant and adding it in because it kind of gives you a bigger picture. Amen. Amen. So, we're going to be talking about in his presence. And there's something about being in the presence of the Lord. And I'm not talking about church. Church is wonderful. I think we need to be at church. Uh we get to um socialize. You you get a second family there. And um you get to pray with one another and you get to um rejoice in praise reports and weep with one another when you're hurting or in pain. Well, here in this teaching in this what I'm talking about in this teaching is in his presence. I'm talking about entering into his presence on your own time. Yeah. Doing it on purpose. I have been teaching for years now about the secret place of the Lord. And in a way, I'm kind of leaning towards that. But as you can see, being in his presence takes purpose. So, we're going to look at what the psalmist says here in Psalm 16 about the purpose of being in his presence and what it does. Now, there are many, many scriptures I can teach on and have taught on about uh being in that secret place with the Lord, but there's something about being in that presence of him. Even when all everything else is going on, you stop and you purposely put him first. Makes a world of difference. Let's go to Psalm 16. We're going to read verses 1 through3. Let's start with verse one. Preserve me, oh God, for in thee do I put my trust. Preserve is hedge about or guard me. And then it says, for in thee do I put my trust. So first I want you to notice uh something. He's talking to God and he's speaking a word. The spoken word is the power that we have in the authority of Jesus Christ. So in the beginning was the word and then if you go down to verse 14 in John chapter 1, you will find out that the word became flesh. Well, in the beginning was the word. Genesis 1 1-4 says, "Let there be light." And there was light and God said saw that it was good. That spoken word is the authority that we have. So this psalmist speaks to his situation. He speaks to God first. Says, "You need to put your hedge around me. You need to guard me. And as I'm fleeing for protection, I'm going to confide in you because that's what that word trust there means." So this is what he's doing. He puts God first. So he's in a circumstance. Whatever it is, it he doesn't say what it is. He's simply saying, "Put your hedge of protection around me and I will trust in you." Okay. Now, verse two, he starts he changes. He He's not talking to God anymore. He's talking to himself. And he says, "Oh my soul, thou has said unto the Lord, thou art my Lord." Now, and thou art my Lord. Again, his soul speaks to God, but he's telling his soul, "I know that you've spoken to God because I know you said, "Thou art my Lord." And when you get to Romans 10:9, it says that if you confess with your mouth, you're speaking a word. says that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved, healed, delivered, preserved. We're going to see more of that here at the end of the teaching. So, here he's saying to his soul, "Thou art my Lord." And then he's acknowledging something here. He says, "My goodness extended not to thee." We can be as good as you think you can be. By the way, how you think and what you believe is what makes you strong. So if you think you're strong and you think you're that good and you got the goods, you know, you're the one who's been in the presence of the Lord, you've been doing all this. Uh-uh. Even though this psalmist has been in the presence of the Lord and he's acknowledged that he's spoken to the Lord, he's also acknowledging that his goodness is worthless. that hasn't he hasn't my goodness extended not to thee there's nothing I can do on this earth in the name of goodness that's going to get to God because God doesn't work that way. God works through redemption. God works through forgiveness and mercy and grace. That's how God works. And and he works by faith. He does not work by how hard or how strong you can handle the situation on your own. It doesn't work that way. Now, let's go to verse three. But to the saints that are on earth, now he has shifted. He's talked to God directly. Then he talked to a soul acknowledging that his soul has talked to God directly. Now he's saying, "But to the saints that are on that are in the earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight." In other words, into the powerful Savior we have, the powerful Lord we have in whom is all my delight, a valuable thing. Now he's saying, look it, look it. He's saying, I am talking to you saints and to God. I want you to see that I have a delight in my Lord. Even though all this is going on, I delight in him and I put him first by acknowledging and speaking that word. And it's so powerful because he's saying this is my this is what I value. This is what's valuable to me. That's where desire desire is. You value it. Do you desire a new car or do you desire God? God himself and his blessings or just God himself sometimes and that's what this teaching is all about is doesn't matter whether we get healed or not. Sometimes just coming into his presence is enough. It's just what I needed. Even uh people who are non-believers or have one foot in the world and one foot in uh the word even they will acknowledge going to a counselor speaking to someone because they get it off their chest. They go into the presence of this counselor. Well, you have the greatest counselor ever, our heavenly father. He is so valuable. We desire him and his presence. And when you do that, things happen. You get it off your chest. This is someone you can confide in. This is someone who you can trust that this is someone you can call and have him place his heads of protection around you. He's got you. And understand when I talk about being in his presence and and we're not talking about being in church. I've already addressed that. We're talking about stopping wherever you are. It can be in your car. So, we're not talking about a physical place. We're talking about a mental place, a place in the mind that we know we can go before our God, that we can trust in him, that we can know that he's got his hedge of protection around us, and that we take our mouth and acknowledge it. Hallelujah. Verse four, their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another God. Remember he's talking to the saints of the earth and he's saying their sorrows which is idols pain wound shall be multiplied that hast another god their drink offerings of blood will I not offer nor take up their names into my lips. Now I want to pause here and I want to address something because this is going to bring to light hopefully the understanding of this entire teaching. Who do you believe? And I've taught on this before. Do you believe the doctor or do you believe God? And he's clearly mentioning this here. I want you to see that anybody who goes after another god is your doctor your god is your music your god is running away your god. Oh, see the moment you don't put God first, you're doing the opposite. You're going after another God. And whatever sorrow, whatever pain, whatever wound, whatever idol you're looking at is going to multiply and it's not going to help you. So if you've been asking God to heal you, do this, do that, but you do it on Sunday service and the rest of the week you you're just a healing that nobody in your world knows that you even believe in a God. Well, then you're sending mixed messages to God. You know, why should he heal you? I just asked that question. Now, keep in mind, he's going to heal whomever he wants and he has healed unbelievers. So, you know, God can do whatever he wants to do. I'm just trying to get you to understand that when Jesus says your faith has made you whole, your your faith made you healed, you can be healed through your faith. It's up to you if you want to stop and spend some time with the Lord. Now, here's the thing is that it doesn't matter if you get healed or not because just being in his presence is the healing that heals your soul. heals your spirit, heals everything inside, helps you change things and turn things around. It gives you the confidence. It re uh reinvigorates you, gives you energy, strength because that's who God is. He's life. So you become alive, fresh in his presence. Verse five, the Lord is a portion of mine inheritance and of my cup. Which that word cup represents the words to hold together. Let me let me see if I can address this in a way there. Sometimes you get to a line and you are barely holding it together and you know that if that line got crossed, you're going to lose everything in your mind. you're going to lose everything that you you you think it's going to just be all lost at this point because you reach that point, that point where your cup breaks because it's no longer being held together. So it says, "The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup that hold he's the one that holds it together. Thou maintainest my lot." You see, still the psalmist is saying, "You're holding me together." That's because he's entering into his presence. The psalmist is talking about being in the presence because he spoke into the Lord. He invoked the Lord's by calling on his name, which we're going to see scripture here in just a moment about that. So, he's saying, "The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup that holds it together." See, God is the one who's going to hold you together. He's the one who's going to keep you from crossing the line. He's the one who's going to show you that that mountain is a molehill, that it's not as big as you think it is, that it is simpler, that life is a joy. Let's continue to see what the psalmist says. Verse six, the lines or your district or the inheritance that that God draws out, that's what this is referring to, are fallen unto me in pleasant places. Yeah, I have a goodly heritage. He's acknowledging life's good for him. So there is now no problem that he was started talking about in verse one. All of a sudden he says, "The Lord has given me my lines, my portions, and they're good." Why? Because he called on the Lord. He's in the presence of the Lord. Have you ever gone into the presence of the Lord and just cried? Man, that's a refreshing thing. I'll tell you what, I I cry a lot. I'm sure you guys are aware of that. And as a result it I mean it just takes it gets comes out of you and you feel really good. You feel very healthy. You feel very strong and you know that God has it. He's taking care of it. So you have a trust that you can rely upon because you went to him and cried it out or you went to him and talked to him about it even just before teaching this. You know, I I'm dealing with a little scheduling issue here with with getting these teachings out and the desire of how much I want to teach you and how much I want to delve into the word of God. And so there I was just crying it out to the Lord, making the inside of me feel vulnerable and having to, you know, address that to the Lord. Yeah, I'm not strong and everything and I'm not holier than that. I make mistakes all the time, but I know who my God is and I choose to be in his presence. It's a choice. It's an action. You have to speak the word and you get into that presence with him. And let me just simply say that there are no describable words for it. But more happens in that moment than any good or a thousand good preachers can preach. You know, don't even, you know, I I know you're you're hearing this message. You're listening, but don't take my word for it. Go try it. Get into the presence of the Lord. Let his Holy Spirit manifest in you and change the way you are on the inside because that's what this is all about. Spending time in his presence. I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel. And that's another thing is that the Lord will give you counsel. Just even reading the word of God here, we're given counsel to come into his presence because we know we're going to get more out of that than we going and seeing a pastor or going and seeing a counselor or going and seeing someone. If you need to be prayed with with someone, go up and be prayed with them. But remember to come into his presence and say, "Lord, I need you. Lord, I I need you." whatever it may be. This is where now you get to come before him. And I love how a lot of the psalmists and David was saying, "Give ear to my word." Call, they're actually tugging on the Lord's ear. Come here. I need you to hear what I'm saying. That's being in the presence of the Lord. Some people think, "No, no, no. That's too holy. I I I'm not worthy to do that. Hey, let me let you in on a little secret." Jesus has redeemed you. And because you're redeemed, God calls you righteous. And he will let you tug on his ear. Hallelujah. You have his attention. Every time you come into his presence, Lord, doesn't matter what. In this case, the psalmist says, "Place your head to protect me, headed your hedge around me to protect me, and then I will trust in you." that's what his need is here in this circumstance. But imagine, Lord, look at my finances. I've got a problem. Or Lord, hey, this doctor is saying something that I disagree with. What can we do to get out of this because I don't want to follow that path. I choose you. And the moment you press in, the moment you're into his presence, the moment you speak your word, things change because that's who God is. He transforms the circumstance and the situation which is what we need. And look at this. So I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel. Talking about what the Lord is doing to him. So he's going to bless him. He says, "But my reigns," by the way that's kidneys or figuratively the mind. It's from the inside. My reigns also instruct me in the adversity seasons or the night seasons. My reigns, we want to do things our way. And when we're in that night season, that dark time, that pain wounded moment when we are in that situation, he is telling us he's going to bless the Lord no matter what. See, he can't sleep at night. Whatever the circumstances, it is bothering him. It is hurting him. And he's saying, "I'm going to bless the Lord. Even with my mind, which is telling me to worry about it, never mind. I'm going to choose to bless the Lord. I'm going to choose to enter his presence. I'm going to choose to call upon the name of the Lord Jesus and be saved, healed, delivered, preserved." We're going to see that here shortly. And notice he's making um active decisions in this. He's deciding to do this. Verse eight, I have set the Lord always before me. Always before me. There's moments where we're in full joy, but he's saying, "I love you, Lord. I bless you, Lord. I thank you, Lord." There's moments though that he's he's in a circumstance. Well, Lord, I'm going to call on you anyways because you're my inheritance and I bless your name and I call on your name and I know you are there and I will trust and confide in you. So, he says, "Always before me, because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved or wavered." Meaning, he's going to continue to do that. The devil can't touch him. If you're in a situation where you're dealing with circumstances, a lot of it might be because you're not spending time in the presence of the Lord. But when you get there, he can't even touch you because you're so busy saying, "Lord, I bless you. Lord, I love you. Lord, I give you glory. Lord, I know you got this situation taken care of." That is what we're talking about. This is the type of moment we should be in at all times. Ready for it because life will throw us curve balls. Curveballs. We know that. We've all experienced those things. But God, he intervenes because where is he? I have said the Lord always. He is at my right hand. He's right here holding on to my hand. Amen. I shall not be moved, wavered. And then verse nine, therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoice rejoicth. My flesh also shall rest in hope, a place of refuge because he knows. Give it a little bit more time and the circumstance is going to turn around. You see, prayer works. And when you pray, you speak the spoken word and you're in his presence because you blessing him. you're calling on him, everything turns around for the better. Look at verse 10. For thou will not leave my soul in hell. Hallelujah. Cuz see, the spirit that I just taught on this last week, the spirit that is in me is the same spirit that's in Christ. And that spirit rose Christ from the dead is going to raise me up from the dead as well. And the psalmist knew this. And he hadn't even met Jesus, but he knew who God is, the father. and who that's who he's acknowledging in his presence. He's coming into his presence. For thou wil not leave my soul in hell, neither wil thou suffer appoint thine holy one to see corruption or destruction. You see, God doesn't want to see us destroyed. He doesn't want to see us lose, but he's trying to teach us how to come to him first and how to be in his presence, how to call on his name, how to put him into the circumstance because unbelievers and believers alike all face the same circumstances. How do you face yours? Are you calling on the name of the Lord? Are you spending time in his presence so that you know to call on the name of the Lord? be encouraged as you spend more time in the presence of the Lord, the more you're going to be calling on him. And that's the way it ought to be. Amen. And then coming back to our opening scripture here, thou wil show me the path of life. Oh, see these are the results of pushing in, talking to him, acknowledging to your soul and acknowledging to the Lord that you will bless him and that I'm not going to move because you're at my right hand. Here he's saying, you're going to show me the path of life and in your presence is the fullness of joy. At thy right hand there are pleasures for e forever more. This is what we have gi been given and we ought to call him on it. And by the way, all of us should do that because we all have that right to it. Romans 10:13, for whosoever shall call. See, the psalmist spoke. Jesus spoke. And here Romans is telling us, call, speak, invoke, worship, decide, appeal upon the name of the Lord, and you'll be saved, delivered, protected, healed, preserved. Not just from eternal death and hell, but for eternal life and every situation you face. It's almost like being at a bank and and bank robbers rob uh walking in. Call upon the name of the Lord. He will save you out of that situation immediately. Immediately. Please understand this. This is He's there. He, you know, when Peter saw Jesus walking on the water, I talked about this last week. Peter, you know, said, "If you are the Lord, call me out to you." And and the Lord said, "Come out here." And he did until the moment he realized he he perceived all of a sudden, "I'm doing something I'm not supposed to be doing. I'm walking on water." And he starts to sink. And he says, "Jesus, save me." Call and puts his arm out. And Jesus immediately was right there and saved him. Jesus will save us immediately. You need to invoke him. Worship. Even before I talked to him about this, I was worshiping the Lord. As I was preparing for this, folding my laundry, putting away just worshiping the Lord and just telling him how holy he is because I didn't know what to teach on today. and and I just have to trust in the Lord of what he's going to do. And it is so wonderful because he's showing me and as I was standing there being in his presence, how wonderful. I mean, it it does so much to what's going on on the inside. And he's saving me, delivering me, healing me, preserving me. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I didn't go to the next scripture. Let's go to Psalm 103 and look at the blessings we have here. These are uh the blessings that this psalmist wrote. And he says in verse 10, "He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities." Very important to understand here. You're saved. Don't let the devil tell you otherwise. God doesn't deal with you based on your sin. And that's exactly what he's saying here. He's not rewarding us for that either. He says, "For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him." That is so very important that we understand his mercy. We can come into his presence every single time and be saved every single time. come out of our circumstance and situation every time we can call on his name, invoke his name, declare his name. That's the right we've been given. Go back. Let's go further back into Psalm 103. Let's read verses 2 through5. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forgot forget not all his benefits. You see, you've been redeemed and you ought to be walking in it, which means being in his presence, which is better than going to a movie, better than going out with friends. Better than this or that. You can go out with friends. There's nothing wrong with that. But make sure that you also put your time in into his presence. Amen. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities. He pardoned us. Who healed health men, all thy diseases. He's healed us. He's healed us from our sicknesses and diseases. Every time you spend time in the Lord, I've been teaching on this for years as well. You sin and the consequence of sin cannot stand in the presence of the Lord. So when you press into his presence, sin has to flee. Which means the consequence of sin has to flee. cancer, sickness, diseases, they're gone. They're healed because he pardoned our iniquities and he healed all of our diseases. Who redeemed us. He bought us back. He bought us life from destruction. He crowns us with loving kindness and tender mercies. And he satisfies our mouth with good things so that our youth is renewed like the eagles. I'm 55 years old now. I could use some renewing of the youth like the eagles. I'm going to tell you this is what we ought to do as believers in Christ. Come into his presence. Get these benefits. And if you have to remind yourself, print, type up these scriptures, print them out, put them up on your wall. Every time you see them, you declare it. You speak it because you invoke the name of Jesus. You're reminding your soul. You're reminding your body. You're reminding your flesh. You're reminding your life that he comes first. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. We pray that we apply your word and that it does not leave our minds and our hearts that we live it and give you the glory, the honor, the praise, and the strength. Thank you, Father God, for be our being our savior, our redeemer, and our healer. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless. Have a great week. I'll see you in the next video. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

WHEN JESUS SPEAKS The objective of this message is to reveal the authority, power, and self-control of Jesus Christ as demonstrated through His words, particularly during the events in the Garden of Gethsemane and leading up to His crucifixion. The teaching aims to deepen believers’ understanding of who Jesus is—eternal Creator, Redeemer, King, and Priest—and to show how His spoken word carries divine authority that can transform lives. Listeners are encouraged to not only recognize His majesty but also to apply the principles of confession, faith, and the power of the spoken word in their own walk with Christ. < Back WHEN JESUS SPEAKS Minister Lisa Kane January 21, 2023 Objective: The objective of this message is to reveal the authority, power, and self-control of Jesus Christ as demonstrated through His words, particularly during the events in the Garden of Gethsemane and leading up to His crucifixion. The teaching aims to deepen believers’ understanding of who Jesus is—eternal Creator, Redeemer, King, and Priest—and to show how His spoken word carries divine authority that can transform lives. Listeners are encouraged to not only recognize His majesty but also to apply the principles of confession, faith, and the power of the spoken word in their own walk with Christ. Synopsis: This message explores the profound significance of Jesus’ words, beginning with His prayer of surrender in the Garden of Gethsemane (Luke 22:41–44), where He accepted the will of the Father despite unimaginable agony. The teaching highlights Jesus’ humanity and divinity—His stress so intense that He sweat blood, yet His determination to carry out redemption for all who would believe. The sermon then examines His declaration “I am he” (John 18), spoken when Judas and the authorities came to arrest Him. This statement, rooted in the divine name revealed in Exodus 3:14, demonstrates His eternal identity and raw authority—so powerful that those who came to seize Him fell to the ground. Despite possessing the power to summon legions of angels (Matthew 26:52–54), Jesus willingly restrained Himself, laying down His kingship to fulfill His role as High Priest and sacrifice for humanity’s salvation. The message traces Jesus’ identity back to creation itself (Genesis 1, John 1), showing that He is the Word by whom all things were made, the One who spoke light into existence without the sun. Scriptures in Isaiah 45 and Revelation are woven in to emphasize His sovereignty over both creation and history, from stretching out the heavens to bringing about the final day of the Lord. The teaching stresses the importance of respecting and responding to the authority of Christ’s words, contrasting the unbelief of those who rejected Him with the salvation offered to all who confess Him as Lord (Romans 10:9–10). Believers are called to recognize the same power of confession in their lives, using their words to bless, to stand in righteousness, and to live out their salvation. The message closes with an urgent call to repentance and personal confession of Jesus as Lord and Savior, reminding listeners that now is the time to respond to His voice, for His word sustains creation itself and holds the key to eternal life. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane. I'm recording this on January 21st, 2023. Welcome. This message is called When Jesus Speaks. Amen. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this message and we thank you for your blessing upon it. We pray that we have ears to hear, a heart, an understanding to discern and to receive, and that we believe and get a better picture of who you are and the authority and the power that you have when you speak, Father God. And we pray that we apply it to our lives and live it in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Father God. Amen. Amen. All right, let's go to our opening scripture here. We are going to be looking at the Garden of Gethsemane. So we're going to start here at Luke 22 41-44. And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw. And he knelt down and prayed, saying, "Father, if it is your will, take this cup away from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done." Then an angel appeared to him from heaven, strengthening him, and being in agony, he prayed more earnestly. Then his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground. I think this is gonna be one of the more emotional messages that I teach on. Uh this has been one of the ones that I kind of struggled with, but I'm very excited about it and excited to share the word. I'm hoping with this message that you have another viewpoint of who Jesus is to you because once you see the power and the authority of who he is and where he's been all this time and what he's doing, you're going to see a persona here that is just absolutely amazing. It should make you drop to the floor in all reality. So now notice, let's go back here. Let's take a look real quick. And he was withdrawn from them. them is the disciples. The garden of Gethsemane was one of Jesus' favorite places and here it is the middle of the night and he's prayed I think about 3 hours and he has asked his friends to be there and his disciples are his friends. You you have to understand Jesus has been there from the beginning and I'm going to show you scripture of this in just a moment but he's been here. So when he went to go get his disciples he was probably a little anxious because he knew them already. You have to, you see, you got to see the difference of who Jesus is here. And he's excited. So when he says, "Follow me." They followed him. These are the ones that Jesus picked to be beside him during this time. And this is going to be a rough time because here he is in the garden of Gethsemane. And he is under so much stress and pressure. So he's hoping to get a little bit out of his friends, his disciples who became apostles. These are men that followed him, knew him personally. and ended up starting the church and Christianity. So here, you know, Jesus has his buddies there, but they kept falling asleep on him. They they fell asleep. It was the middle of night. They were tired. Could be a spiritual thing, too, you know, but Jesus, he he's, you know, and one of the things I look at in this moment here in the Garden of Gethsemane is um it's kind of like a a go no type of meeting, if you will. If you ever watched a a space launch or any of the movies related to that, they have a meeting that they decide, is this the date we want to do this? Are we ready for this date? Is go or no go? They make that decision based on every division, everything there, how's everything ready? Is it all ready? And they get the headcount of everything and and they decide whether they're going to go with it. So here Jesus is in the garden of Gethsemane and he's I think coming to the realization that you know what I'm about to do something that's absolutely remarkable and the pain and the suffering that he's associated with it which he knew because he talked about in Psalms already. So this was something he was fully aware of and knew exactly what he was going to do and yet he's still sweaty blood. He's still under the pressure. So let's back up a little bit here. Let's take a look before time, before mankind even existed, before this earth existed, before the universe existed. There's God the Father, God the Son, Jesus, and God the Holy Spirit. And God the Father, you know, kind of just speaking his mind says, you know, I think I'm going to make a mankind, and I'm going to make them in my image. And the Holy Spirit says, well, I caution you because they're going to fall and rebel against you. And Jesus says, "No, I got this. I'm gonna redeem them." So here he decides, "I'm gonna do this." And he goes for it. And here we are at the moment where he now has to go through it. And I mean, look at this. He needed an angel to appear from him, from heaven, and strengthen him because he was in so much agony that he sweated great drops of blood. Do you know that in that very moment of time there's a couple things going on besides what I just spoke of? And I'm sure there's a whole lot more in the spirit that we don't even know. I I just the restraint and the self-control here is absolutely incredible. But in his mind, and I've talked about this in relation to the flood, because he got down to eight men, any eight people on the planet uh in the time of the flood that survived the flood. He could have destroyed the earth then. He could have not done this at this point. He could have not gone to the cross to shed his blood to redeem us. He could have not. And I'll show you scriptures of what he talks about there in just a moment. But at the moment that he decides he's going to do this, he's thinking of every person that chooses him, that includes me, that includes you. He's in that moment. He says, "There's Lisa. I'm going to do this for her. You got to grasp this." And look at the pain and the agony he went through. This is the moment of the garden of Gethsemane. Now, there's more to this. I want you to see the self-control he has here. But watch this. Let's go to John. Now, we're now all three gospels talk about this. And I just did Luke. Now, we're going to look at John and look at another part of what's happening here in the Garden of Gethsemane. So, now the crowd shows up. This is where Judas the Scariot brings uh the Pharisees, Sadducees, chiefs, priests and and the, you know, whomever he can gather, police, whatever they have, whatever they call it. But they come to arrest him and he makes a plan. He tells them, "I'm going to kiss the man and he's going to be the one I identify. You need to arrest him." And and by the way, the fact that they didn't know him when he had been in the synagogues teaching on the hills teaching where there were thousands of people listening to him and following him at a time tells you that when people are not spending time with Jesus, they're conniving against him. They're doing everything they can to prevent him from his movement. And the same principle that happened then is happening today. The moment you get close to Jesus, the moment that you choose to be with him and have more of him, you've got people who don't know him, don't want to know him, do not want to seek him out, conniving to keep you from getting close to him. And why? It's the enemy. But anyways, let's look at this moment here. They answered him. He asked him, "Who are you seeking?" They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." And Jesus said to them, "I am he." and Judas who betrayed him also stood with him. Now when he said to them, "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground. Then he asked him again, "Whom are you seeking?" Now you got to look at this. Now remember this, this message is about when Jesus speaks, and I'm hoping that you can see the authority here. He spoke I am he for the first time in the Gospels. At least I believe that uh you can do your homework and check it out yourself. I was trying to search it and I couldn't see any place that he said that. But again, I I could be wrong. But here he is. He finally says it, you know, because they've been asking, "Who are you? Where did you come from?" And he always says, "It is as you say." I'm going to show you scriptures on that what I was able to find. But here, he he says, "I am he." and they fall down. Now, I was in a car accident over 25 years ago, nearly 30 years ago now is if I'm correct, but anyways, back then. And um I remember the stunned moment and I wasn't there. I remember coming out of it. There was an ambulance already with his lights on going to another location and he saw the accident. and he was an eyewitness to it. So, he turned around, came over, and he actually was right in front of me. And I'm sitting there, my hands on the steering wheel, and I'm not there. Physically, I am. Mentally, I'm not. And he's trying to get my attention. And this is where I'm coming out of it cuz I'm in stunned, shocked moment that I was just in an accident. And he's waving to me, trying to get my attention. And it dawns on me. Oh, he he's waving at me. and he's about to get out because he sees I'm not responding and that's when it dawns on me. Ah, he's looking for an answer for and I snap out of it and I'm like, I'm okay. I'm okay. In fact, later on the car was still drivable but the battery had broke, cracked. The acid had hit the windshield. At that moment, I didn't realize that. I had seen it and later on when I was driving and I see the stain marks around the window, the windshield, I remembered it. So there there's this moment of stunned shock that goes into you. And this is what happened with all of the people when he said, "I am he." But look what Jesus did. Soon as they fell down to the ground, he asked him again. This reminds me of the ambulance driver trying to get my attention. He says, "Whom are you seeking?" In other words, come on out of the stunness. I I didn't mean to knock you down with my words. But we need to continue on because you see he's made his decision. He's going to get arrested. He knows this. So now he's ready to move on and go to the cross and do what he needs to do. So now at this moment, now remember I told you I wanted to show you the scriptures of when he said he could call the angel. So after all of this, Peter tries to draw his sword and he actually cuts the ear off one of the men there. And Jesus puts the ear back on and heals him. Look at though here. Now we're going to Matthew. Look at this moment. Matthew 26:52-54. Because Jesus is explaining everything now. But Jesus said to him, "Put your sword in his place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword." Or do you think that I cannot now pray to my father and he will provide me with more than 12 legions of angels? How then could the scriptures be fulfilled that it must happen thus? You see, Jesus could still be alive today. Didn't have to go through the death process. All he had to do was call on dad and say, "Hey, Dad, give me 12 legions of l uh give me a whole bunch of legions of angels." But no, he decided to go through with it. And you know, and he's showing the authority when he says, "I am he," and everybody falls down. Showing the authority. But when he picks him up and he gets everything back under control, gets control of Peter, heals the ears, in that moment, he's also taking off his cloak of authority in relation to his kingship. You see, he's not being a king right now. And in fact, this is why the Israelites um rejected him. They're looking for a king. They're looking for a man. They weren't looking for the son of God. They They called him a messiah, but they were looking for a man. A man who can be a king. And they didn't. Jesus didn't fit that profile. In his first coming, he did not. He will fit that profile at the second coming. And they're going to be in for a big surprise cuz anyways, they'll find out in the second half of the seven-year tribulation. But here Jesus takes off his kingship, puts it down, and he says, "I need to go sacrifice myself as priest." And he takes this moment to do that. And he goes on. Now look at this. He and remember this is where I wanted to talk to you about it is as you say in Mark 15 2 and Luke 23:3. So now he's he's with Pilate and he's about to be crucified. Pilot's questioning him. So again, this is like that go no-go kind of thing. Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" And he answered and says, "It is as you say." And here you see it in exact duplicate in Luke 23:3. Then Pilot asked him saying, "Are you the king of the Jews?" He answered says, "It is as you say." Notice he didn't say, "I am he." Because he would have knocked Pilate down to the ground. Do you see his spoken word of authority here? You see why I'm calling this message when Jesus speaks, he can speak. So he had not said, "I am he" the entire time until the garden of Gethsemane. And when he said it, he spoke with such authority it made mankind fall down to its knees. Bottom actually, if you want to get technical, they fell. That was it. So who is Jesus? Especially since he just acknowledged he's now king. He's telling Pilot, "I'm the king." It is as you say. But see what Pilate didn't understand and what the Israelites didn't understand. He says, "I'm putting down my kingship so I can be the priest because the world needs me right now. The nation of Israel needs to wait." Oh, and thank God for that because, you know, I'm not an Israelite. I'm considered a Gentile. But because I asked Jesus to be my Lord and Savior, I'm now a believer in Christ, I am now part of the kingdom of God. Technically, I'm not a Gentile anymore. I'm part of the Jewish kingdom. The Israelites will get there, but for now, Jesus established and there is his body of Christ, his bride. That's who we are. So, notice he says, "I am." And in he. Now, vocabulary is very, very interesting. Let's go look at when that word I am was used to the Israelites because again, this is another sign. Remember, you know, in all the teaching I've been teaching, I I taught that Daniel knew when Messiah would be cut off. The wise men found the Messiah and acknowledge him. John the Baptist told him. And here in the Garden of Gethsemane, he told him, "I am." This is the me that was spoken to Moses. Go back. Exodus 3:14. And God said to Moses, "I am who I am." That is Jesus talking, by the way. Jesus is God. We're going to get to that in just a moment. I am who I am. And he said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, I am has sent me to you." Now, they should have known again here in the Garden of Gethsemane that this was the Messiah that they should have been looking for, but they rejected him. Oh, and he needed to be crucified. So, who is this guy that's been there? Look at what John says. John 1 verse 1-3. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. So you saw here in Exodus you saw he's with God. This is Jesus talking. So now John is describing him. Says he was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him and without him nothing was made that was made. All right let's follow the breadcrumbs breadcrumbs. And let's go to Genesis. Look at what Genesis says. Then God said let there be light. And there was light. Jesus said, "I am he." Jesus said, "Let there be light." And let me tell you the power and the authority here. He said, "I am." He said, "Let there be light." Did you know that sun wasn't created yet? Meaning he created light out of nothing. Oh. Oh. You got to grasp this. Understand when he says, "I am, he." He's the creator of everything, the entire universe. And he made it without the elements that we see and we take the laws of physics into existence here today that we follow that we believe in. But he says no no let there be light. The I am said let there be light. And there was light and it wasn't from the sun. It's just this light that came in. And here we are made in his image. I used this analogy before. I'm going to say it again here. How many people did it take to make a flashlight? We made light, too. But we did it with our limitations. This is See, we're in the image of God. We're a type. We're in his shadow. So, that means his spoken words of authority, but he had self-control and self-esteem. Only those people fell. Can you imagine if he just blurted out something accidentally and said, "Be gone with you, Earth." I mean, really, think about that. The the power and the authority that he has. He you got to grasp that because I am telling you, he says it. And I'm going to take you to Isaiah right now because he's also re um reinforcing this. I want you to see this. Now, this chapter is Isaiah 45. He is talking to King Cyrus through Isaiah the prophet. Now, King Cyrus didn't come into existence for like 400 years. So, Isaiah wrote this 400 years in advance. See, Jesus knew everything that was going on. This is why he in the Garden of Gethsemane could say, "But I know Lisa." You see how this all connects? This is why he said, "Let there be light. I know Lisa. I know John. I know Peter. I know Paul. You see how he set this all up? But anyways, he's talking to King Cyrus. I'm going to show you the scriptures here. When King Cyrus came to invade Jerusalem, the priest came out and uh opened up Isaiah 45, scrolled open the scroll, and he read it to King Cyrus. Josephus recorded this as a matter of fact and uh I recorded King Cyrus's response and he says something like like but the priest just let him in. In other words, there was no bloodshed. Priest said, "Come on in. You're welcome here. There was no war. No, we didn't, you know, the Israelites did not stop King Cyrus from invading, if you will." And so let's go look because God Jesus is talking and he's describing this. Watch this. So we're going to be looking at Isaiah 45 where we're looking at verse 7 and verse 12. Verse 7. I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I the Lord do all these things. I have made the earth and is verse 12. I have made the earth and created man on it. I my hands stretched out the heavens and all their hosts I have commanded. Now notice here he says I am I the Lord do all these things. He didn't say I am but it was a softened spoken word through Isaiah. it refrain self-control but the I am with his authority is saying and and you know did you see this I form the light and create darkness look at this I make peace and create calamity God does it all Jesus does all you know when someone asks why do bad things happen well Jesus says well I created that I cause all calamities remedies. But why? Cuz now you got to get down to the root cause. You know, here you and I, we're a type of him. We're in his image. But what is the thing that we deal with the most? Sin. What is sin? Sin is rejecting Jesus. And the more time you spend away from Jesus, the more calamities that come toward you because Jesus is trying to chastise you. He's trying to get you back into his presence. Come on in, my little child. Come in, my brother and sister in Christ. Come in. Come back to me. Don't just go to church. Spend time with me. And let's do it in in secret. Psalm 91. dwell in the secret place with the Lord and you will have all these benefits because what happens when you're dwelling in the secret place with the Lord, sin cannot join you. Sin flees. And what happens is now you've got your peace in your life. And it's because you now are having a spoken relationship with one another, which is part of dwelling in the secret place. You read his word, you read it out loud. You pray to him. You speak out loud. You confess. You speak out loud. Now, I want to also take you to another level to show you how much Jesus is because I want you to see remember I told you he says, "Let there be light." And there was light. And it wasn't because of the sun. It wasn't because of the universe. This is and notice here he says, "I my hand stretched out the heavens." He's talking about the heavens. You know, prior to the flood, the earth was different. It watered itself. There was no rain. There had never been any rain. So, it was kind of a bubble. And the people on the earth at that time could see all the stars and could see all the shapes that were out there and they can see the message of Messiah in the stars. So they had the message the entire time. But Jesus after that flood, he had to stretch the heavens. He had to change it and pull them back because now again we're where sin sin is getting more and more on this earth. He has to pull himself back to keep himself protected. So I want you to see now why this is important. Again, I'm trying to show you Jesus in a different light. Trying to get you to a new level of respect for the man of God, for the son of God who became the man of God who died and redeemed us. Amen. You hear in Revelation 6:12-4, I looked when he opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth of air hair. And the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth as a fig tree drops its late fig when it is shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up and every mountain island was moved out of its place. And if you read the rest of the scriptures, you will know that mankind looked up and said, "Oh no, get me to the caves. caves fall on me and kill me. I do not want to face him. So they call it the day of the Lord, the day of wrath. That is the event. That is actually the same event that happens in Ezekiel 38 with Gog and Magog attempting to invade Israel. God kills them. Anyways, but I want you to see how he scrolls the sky up. He does not need the universe and he does not need the sky for us to live on this planet alive and well. Because I'm going to tell you right now, we didn't float off the planet. Because his spoken word is what holds us all together. And that's what science has been trying to find all these years. And they can't find it because they refuse to go see Jesus for who he is. And Jesus keeps it a mystery from them. So here I am showing you now how powerful the authority of his spoken word is over the entire universe over us. And I'm telling you right now this is all about us there. You know there are no aliens out there. And let me let me give you why Jesus loves us so much that he chose to die for us. He doesn't need any any aliens out there. And as you can see, he pulls all that away. Now, mankind will probably be deceived by this because the enemy, the devil, the demons have been impersonating grays and greens and what have you to try to fool the world that there are aliens. So, you wouldn't accept Jesus because Jesus is the creator of all this. I don't want you to believe that. But he is the creator of all this and he has got so much power that when he acknowledges that he is he I am he. It makes people fall to the ground. That is absolutely incredible. And here he can remove the sky and we don't float off because they tell you in science that we need gravity that we need the planet to be spinning so that we don't float off. I don't know how it works, how it is, but I know that the spoken word of Jesus is the one that makes it happen. Hallelujah. So here he removes the sky. So now that you know that you have a messiah that has this kind of authority where there is nothing else, you know, and if you really want to get technical about aliens, let me show you a little insightful kind of thing here. You know, in uh I believe it's Revelation 8, for the first five months of the 7-year tribulation, people cannot die. And Jesus releases a horselike scorpion thing with a scorpion tail that stings you. And these people will suffer. And these are people that do not have the mark on them to keep them safe. The 144,000 are the ones that are going to have their mark on them. And then the two witnesses have power and authority to they'll protect themselves for three and a half years. So that's what's going on. Horse like scorpion. Does that not like sound like um the aliens from the alien movie? Maybe uh who is it? Uh Steven Spielberg that did that. I don't remember who actually George Lucas. Either one of them. Whoever came up with that idea. Oh my goodness. I bet you they were reading that and thought of that. But I'm telling you, they're not coming from another planet. You you got to understand there's a heavenly realm here that we know nothing about. We're in the flesh. We've been in this atmosphere our whole lives. We have no idea what kind of creatures are out there. We know what they're watchers. We know that they're angels. We know that there are cherubim. We know that there are serap. We know about these horselike scorpion things. What else is there? You see, you don't know. But if you go to Jesus, he will show you and he will reveal it to you. And that is the power and the authority that he has. So when you get his word, his Bible, this is his spoken word. When he speaks, it it I read it a lot, so it's pretty beat up. But when he speaks, we need to show respect because I'm telling you, he could easily stop all this. But he chooses to honor his word, honor the prophecies, and that is awesome. You have got to it's time to repent now and get close to Jesus now. Don't wait till the seven-year tribulation. You don't want to wait for that time frame because the rules all change. Everything changes at that time. And you can go read all that scripture. I just did a little teaching on that last week about two weeks ago. So I am telling you now's the time to repent and look at what confession is. Look at Romans 10:9 and 10. That if you confess with your mouth, you see, you see this? When Jesus speaks, he spoke with his mouth. He said, "I am he." People fell. When you confess with your mouth, look at this. The Lord Jesus. Lord Jesus, I confess you over my life, over the sin in my life, over my salvation, over the sickness, over the disease, over the bitterness, the the emotions, the hate, the anger or the lack of love or the love. I speak Jesus, the Lord Jesus. When you speak, you confess and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead. Why do you have to believe that? Because he's alive. Cuz he went to the cross. He took that moment in Garden Gethsemane and said, "I'm doing it." And he got on that cross and he gave his blood and it went down to the mercy seat and it landed on there, shook the ground and he tore the temple in the temple veil in two. And the best part of it is is he said since there's no more veil, there's no more priest that needs to come on your behalf. He says you can come to me yourself. That is what you are in the image of Jesus because you confessed the Lord Jesus. That is the power of the word of God when Jesus speaks. For with the heart, he tells you what the consequences are. With the heart, one believes unto righteousness. And with the mouth, confession is made into salvation. The saving part takes place. When you speak it, when the heart believes, the righteousness goes forth. Oh, hallelujah. And you know what? We need to be in righteousness because that is those of us that get into that place are the ones that God takes with him. We don't have to go through that seven-year tribulation. In fact, we're rejecting the invitation to it. Cuz those that are alive on the day of the Lord, the day of wrath, they're the ones that if they never confess Jesus the Lord God, the son of God, they got to uh be here for the seven-year tribulation. And I'm going to tell you right now, most people will die during that time. What comes out of it is just a few people. Kind of like the flood. In fact, he says that man will be finer than of gold. I don't know what of gold is, but there'll be enough people to repopulate the earth and they'll have a thousand years to repopulate. And they will. You can go read that. That's all in Revelation. You can go read all that. But it is time to confess. It is time to speak because you have that same authority. Now, do you have to have that self restraint? Yeah. Because now you got to think that guy cuts you off on the freeway. Lord, I bless him. Lord, I bless him with better education in in driving. And you see how you can manipulate the situation. That is your confession of that moment. And it brings salvation. And you know what? It's going to save somebody from being killed later on when the guy doesn't learn from his same mistakes that he does. Guy, gal, whoever's driving. But you can see how that application applies there. How it works there. You guys, this is the time to confess. This is the time to understand the authority who Jesus is because I mean, he can remove the universe and we can still be here. That earns my respect and I hope it earns yours as well. Now is the time. Say it with me. Dear Jesus, I confess you as a son of God and I ask you to forgive me of my sins. Come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. Thank you, Father God. Thank you, Jesus, for teaching me how to get saved in Jesus' name. Amen. All right. Well, I love this message. I hope that you enjoy it as well. Let's close in a word of prayer now. And Father God, if there's anyone who did confess you here and now, Lord, I plant the seed in them. And I say, I bless that seed that it will mature and grow and be watered by your word and that individual will seek you and continue to seek you each and every day and live for you and believe in you. Thank you, Father God. And Lord, we bless the word again and we thank you for your word because you are powerful. Oh, and awesome in the name of Jesus. Amen. God bless you and I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Previous Next Home

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TO SUFFER FOR HIS SAKE The objective of this teaching is to help believers understand the divine purpose and privilege of suffering for Christ. Rather than viewing suffering merely as loss or hardship, the lesson aims to reveal how God uses it as a process of discipline, spiritual growth, and preparation for eternal life in His kingdom. By embracing suffering for righteousness’ sake, Christians can partake of the divine nature, bear spiritual fruit, and be equipped to reign with Christ in the age to come. < Back TO SUFFER FOR HIS SAKE Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this teaching is to help believers understand the divine purpose and privilege of suffering for Christ. Rather than viewing suffering merely as loss or hardship, the lesson aims to reveal how God uses it as a process of discipline, spiritual growth, and preparation for eternal life in His kingdom. By embracing suffering for righteousness’ sake, Christians can partake of the divine nature, bear spiritual fruit, and be equipped to reign with Christ in the age to come. Synopsis: In To Suffer for His Sake, Pastor Marcos Marrero explores Philippians 1:29, emphasizing that Christians are not only granted faith in Christ but also the privilege of suffering for Him. He distinguishes between general human suffering—often the result of poor choices or inherited conditions—and Christian suffering, which is uniquely tied to righteousness and divine purpose. The teaching highlights that suffering for Christ refines believers, enabling them to partake in God’s divine nature as described in 2 Peter 1. This process cultivates spiritual fruit such as faith, perseverance, self-control, brotherly kindness, and love. Marrero compares this to olives being crushed to release oil, showing that suffering produces anointing and fruitfulness. Furthermore, suffering has eternal implications. It prepares believers for their place in God’s kingdom, where positions and rewards are tied to the measure of faithfulness and endurance in trials. Drawing from passages like 2 Timothy 2:12 and Matthew 20:23, the lesson reveals that enduring suffering for Christ aligns believers with His example, who endured the cross for the joy set before Him (Hebrews 12:2). Ultimately, Pastor Marcos teaches that Christian suffering is not a curse but a divine training ground. It equips the believer to walk in godliness on earth, produce eternal fruit, and reign with Christ in the life to come, fulfilling God’s perfect will. Written teaching: Philippians 1:29 “For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake.” In today’s Christian environment it almost feels like heresy to say that it has been granted to us, not only to believe in Him, but also the privilege of suffering for Him. In this lesson we will deal with the reason why God considers it a privilege when the followers of Jesus are allowed to suffer for His sake. Let us start with the basics; what is suffering for His sake? 1 Peter 3:17 “For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.” To suffer for Jesus’ sake is to suffer for doing good. But let us not gloss over the importance of suffering itself, for all of us suffer one way or another. Suffering always has to do with discipline, for those who suffer are trained by their sufferings. And it is part of the natural process as well, as children we are deprived of many of the things that we want until we learn how to use them properly. Now in the world, suffering, though it may bring some kind of discipline to the sufferers, it is usually the result of bad personal behavior, or due to the failures of the progenitors of those who are suffering. We can see that throughout the many nations of the world today. Those who are fortunate enough to be born in nations where the early fathers made sure that future generations would have better living conditions, by setting the right political and educational systems that would allow their descendants to be raised with the proper discipline to make things better, definitely suffer a lot less than those who are less fortunate. Those who are born in nations whose early fathers fostered hatred, division, and intolerance, whose aim was to regenerate their own bigotries after they were gone, and not what would be best for their descendants, suffer more due to the prejudices that they have inherited that keeps them from making the right choices. But this is where I believe that many Christians miss the true purpose for Christian suffering, for their understanding of suffering is based partly in where they were born. Those born on the west see suffering from a different perspective that those born in the east do, globally speaking. Christian suffering overrides whether one suffers for the lack of our ancestors discipline or because of it, it does not matter. Christian suffering is a different matter altogether and we need to understand that. 1 Peter 3:14 “But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed…” The reason why Christians suffer is so that they can become partakers of the divine nature through their sufferings! That is the blessing. 2 Peter 1:3-4 “As (according to) His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” The divine nature is this: in Christ we are not of this world any longer! Let’s see if we can take a practical look at what Peter is trying to tell us. When Jesus was asked by Pilate if He was a king, Jesus answered that His kingdom was not of this world. Suffering for Christ’s sake prepares Christians for the kingdom that is to come, as it is written in the Lord’s prayer: Thy kingdom come Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 2 Timothy 2:12 “If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him…” KJV There is divine order in all of God’s creation, and that order is enforced by His divine power that governs everything in the creation in accordance with the laws of God. Suffering for Him and ruling with Him is one of those laws, if we suffer for Christ’s sake we do not suffer in vain! Being saved qualifies us to operate within the law of suffering for Him so that we can reign with Him, since in Him we have escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. Now here is the process of suffering for His sake and becoming partakers of the divine nature. 2 Peter 1:5-9 “But also for this very reason (becoming partakers of the divine nature), giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.” Diligence, faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, perseverance (patience), godliness, brotherly kindness, love. All these are spiritual fruit that emanate from the anointing of the Holy Spirit that covers us. And just like the olives must be separated from the tree and crushed to make the oil flow, we too have the need to be separated from the world and made to endure the sufferings that allow for the anointing that is in us through the born-again experience to come forth. Philippians 1:11 “Being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.” Now there is a higher and more futuristic agenda to suffering for Christ’s sake as well, and that has more to do with the kingdom that is to come. Matthew 20:23 “So He said to them, ‘You will indeed drink My cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on My right hand and on My left in not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it is prepared by My Father.’” Jesus gives us insight into the kingdom that is to come, He tells His disciples that they will indeed suffer a martyr’s death but that God Himself will decide what position each believer receives in accordance with how much they suffered for Christ’s sake. The reality is that most of us just want to make it to heaven and we don’t care where we sit, as long as we are in with Jesus and where Jesus is. But if we think in terms of excelling in our training that is preparing us for the future, they both accomplish the same thing; let me explain. The future kingdom of which all born again believers will be a part of, is an eternal kingdom. What does that mean? That means that in that eternal kingdom we cannot make any mistakes, for one mistake in eternity disqualified even the most anointed of the cherubs. When God made us, the human race, He made us a little lower than the angels, see Psalm 8: He did so for the purpose of working all the bugs out of us before we became eternal, therein comes the suffering part. You see when Lucifer and the angels that followed him sinned, their natures were abruptly changed, and since they dwelled in eternity, they became eternally dammed and unredeemable, for time is the fourth-dimension where past present and future are all the same, one eternity. God placed us humans in the third dimension which is lower than the dimension that the angels occupy, for those who live in the third dimension are stuck in the present, which is not a bad thing if you figure that as long as it is called today, the present, we still have a chance to repent and make whatever wrong we made, right again, before we die and enter into the fourth dimension of eternity. Hebrews 4:7 “Again He designates a certain day, saying in David, ‘Today,’ after such a long time, as it has been said: ‘Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts (and repent before you die so that you can enter into God’s rest).’” Hebrews 4:1 “Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.” What that means is that once we die, as believers, we go before the judgment seat of Christ where our abilities to sin are removed from us once and for all, and then we are rewarded with our eternal position which is based on the things that we did while here on earth in Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:10 “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” This is not a judgment of salvation, for if one is not saved he will not make it into the judgment seat of Christ. This is a judgment of rewards or the lack of them. What that means is that Jesus is trying to get us, while here on earth, to let go of the worldly things or what is called the works of the flesh, so that we can produce spiritually eternal fruit, like Peter listed, for the more spiritual fruit that we produce the greater our standing or the higher our heavenly position will be. But the flip side of that is that the more spiritual that we become while here on earth the more power that we have to impose the kingdom of God in our midst, but in order to become more spiritual the greater the suffering that we must endure by denying ourselves of the worldly pleasures that war against the kingdom of God. Now this is the kind of suffering that Paul is talking about: Philippians 2:3-4 “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.” So that it is only suffering if it seems to us that we are missing out instead of gaining eternal blessings. Philippians 2:5 “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” Hebrews 12:2 “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” His suffering earned Him the highest position, which is to sit at the right hand of God. Our suffering will get us to the highest position ordained by God for us, which is for His good and perfect will to be done in our lives. Previous Home Next

MY REDEEMER IS ALIVE Equip believers to anchor their hope in the living Redeemer, Jesus Christ—drawing from Job 19:25–27—to persevere through suffering, reject guilt/shame/condemnation, and embrace Christ’s kinsman-redeemer work that restores, protects, and reconnects us to God. < Back MY REDEEMER IS ALIVE Pastor Marcos Marrero October 21, 2001 Objective: Equip believers to anchor their hope in the living Redeemer, Jesus Christ—drawing from Job 19:25–27—to persevere through suffering, reject guilt/shame/condemnation, and embrace Christ’s kinsman-redeemer work that restores, protects, and reconnects us to God. Synopsis: Opening with Job 19:25–27, the message proclaims, “I know that my Redeemer lives,” highlighting Job’s startling, pre-Mosaic confession of a bodily Redeemer and a future bodily resurrection. Job’s losses, bodily affliction, and friends’ accusations become a backdrop for unshakable faith: hope endures because the Redeemer is alive. The sermon unfolds the biblical theme of the kinsman redeemer: the right to buy back what was lost, seen in Israel’s jubilee laws and embodied in Christ. Jesus, truly our kin through the Incarnation, pays the ransom with His blood (Rev 5:9), restores our inheritance, and connects heaven’s life to us. Like Abraham rescuing Lot (Gen 14), redeemed people become conduits through whom God seeks the rescue of their families. From Ruth and Boaz, the message models covenantal trust and covering. Ruth’s “Your God will be my God” demonstrates the severing of worldly dependencies to take refuge under God’s wings, where favor is found and protection assured. Practical application confronts the enemy’s trio—guilt, shame, condemnation—all borne by Christ at the cross. Believers are urged to keep a clear connection to the Redeemer, endure refining sufferings (Rom 8:16–17), and let God heal deep soul-wounds that hinder faith. Psalm 91 reassures that those who dwell in God’s shelter rest under His wings, even amid storms. The message closes with a call to repentance and a deliverance prayer, inviting hearers to lay down guilt, shame, bitterness, and unbelief, and to walk in the liberty and confidence of heirs whose Redeemer lives. Inspired Teaching: Redeemer is alive. Hallelujah. Praise God. If you want to turn to our opening scripture in the book of Job, chapter 19, verse 25 through 27. And um Job was a man who had it all. And then one day the bottom fell off. One day uh Satan went after him and everything that he possessed, his wife, his children, all of his uh wealth, he had tremendous amount of wealth and it was all gone in less than a day. Then uh Job resigned himself to the fact that he was now a man in great pain and great sorrow. He resigned himself to the fact that he had lost all 10 of his children that he had lost his house that he had lost everything that he possessed. And he says uh the Lord gave the Lord took away blessed be the Lord. And the Bible says that he did not sin even in the midst of his grief. So Satan went a second time and he said the human nature is selfish. Skin for skin. That's what he said. Satan touch his skin and you'll see him fall apart. And then all of a sudden, Job came down with a bunch of boils from the top of his head all the way down to the source of his feet. This infirmity came upon him and he was on torment and itching continuously. And still Job held to his integrity even after his wife said, "Why don't you just refuse God or renounce God and just drop dead? And he said to his wife, "Sh shall we accept only good from God and not bad?" And still he did not sin. Then on the third wave of testing, three of his best friends came to him and Satan began to use these friends to attack everything that Job stood for. And in the midst of that attack in Job 19 verse 25 through 27 Job makes this statement. He says I know that my redeemer lives. Hallelujah. And then he makes now you have to understand that the book of Job is the oldest book of the Bible. The book of Job was written before Moses wrote Genesis and because you know all of this information was passed down to Moses. But Job lived before Moses and probably before Abraham or around that time and and and this is an old book but I want you to see that Job who did not have one single shred of scripture to go by. You know, we have the Old Testament, we have the New Testament, we have computer, we have concordances. You know, whenever we face a little problem, just go search and see what the word of God says. You know, Job did not have none of that. And look at this statement that this man makes. He says, "I know that my redeemer is alive." That's that's what he's saying. And then he goes on to say about his redeemer. He says, "And at the end he will stand upon the earth." Now, the reason why this is so far out is because he's equating God to having a human body who's able to come and to stand upon the earth. This is before the promises about Jesus were written down. This man already had that hope in his heart. Amen. Which is so awesome. He says, "And after my skin has been destroyed," he knew he would have to die someday. He says, "Yet in my flesh, I will see God." See, this man didn't believe on a god of a lullabi on the the way way way then under some sweet by and by my spirit somehow is going to be a cloud that is going to float and it's going to go by this other big cloud where God is. No, this man had a firm reality as to who his redeemer was. He says he is going to stand on the earth and even after my skin has been destroyed yet in my flesh I will see God. Hallelujah. This man believe in the resurrection. Hallelujah. No wonder when all 10 of his kids were killed in an instant, he had no problem with it. I mean it hurt. It definitely hurt. But his faith could not be shaken due to the fact that he said my redeemer is alive. See, as long as our redeemer is alive, there is hope. Hallelujah. As long as our redeemer has a body like ours and he understand how is it feels to be hurting. He says, "I got hope." Hallelujah. And then he says, "After this body of mine will be destroyed, yet I'm going to have a new body that will be able to see God." And then he says, "This is not going to be some uh some uh what do what do they call it? Reincarnated body." You know, he says, "I myself will see him with my very own eyes." And then he said, "I am not another." Amen. You see, we have that hope if our redeemer is alive. We know that we are going to see God. You see, I have a hope in the promises of God that everything that is dear to me, I will one day, hallelujah, see it restored because of his promises. I just got my new plates in the card and I love them. It's my favorite scripture in the Bible. Hebrews 10:23. I write that on every check that I write for my tithe. And I told my wife many, many years ago when the Lord gave me that, I said, "That's what I want on my on my headstone if if I die before before the Lord comes." And that says at the end of Hebrews 10:23, he says, uh, he that promise is faithful. You see, if God tells me something that he's going to do for me, hallelujah, I can take that into my pocket. I can put it in the bank. is guaranteed. Amen. And this is the basics of the reality that Job lived with. He says, I know that my redeemer is alive. Hallelujah. And I know that I'm going to see him and not another. And then he ends in verse 27. He says, and how my heart yearns within me. He had a desire. Notice his heart wasn't yearning for that big ranch that he had. Oh man, you got to see this. His heart was not yearning for that big ranch that he had, for the thousand camels and for the 10,000 donkeys or all of these other things that he had. His heart wasn't yearning for the 10 children, the seven sons and the three daughters that were killed. This man had a yearning, hallelujah, for his redeemer. He says he's alive. He's going to come to the earth. I'm going to stand before him. I'm going to see him with my own body. Oh, and I can hardly wait. Hallelujah. That's what he was saying. I can hardly wait. Hurry up, Lord. This is a man in the very very first book that was written before anything else was written and he had that hope within him. You see, we need to have a redeemer that is alive. We need to have that hope deep within us because when our redeemer is alive, everything else does pales in comparison to him. Hallelujah. See, he's able to to to supply everything. And when you read at the end of the book, God does it. God doubles everything. If he had a thousand camel, then he went up with 2,000. If he had everything that he had, God double it. And his children given 10 more. He didn't double that because his first 10 children were never lost. Hallelujah. You see, death is something that affects us, but it doesn't affect God. God says to me, "All live." You can be on this side of the door or the other, on this side. God can see either side. Hallelujah. And when your redeemer is alive, it doesn't matter what side of the gate you are. Doesn't matter where you're below. Jonah was in the belly of the whale. But he had a redeemer that was alive. Hallelujah. And he prayed to him. And the whale wound up being a a shuttle bus that took him to his destination. Hallelujah. Uh talk about rapid transportation. That's neat, huh? God is awesome. I look up the word redeemer and it means next of kin and it's one who has the right to buy back that which has been lost or stolen. It means to purchase to pay the price or the ransom. It means to deliver which is to give back to the rightful owner. It also means avenger and it also means revenger. See what God did when he brought Israel into the promised land. He said that the land was an an inheritance for them forever. So if you were one of those Israelites that crossed the Jordan and went into the promised land when you were given this chunk of land that belonged to you and to your family forever. it could never ever ever be taken away from you. So God introduced what it was called the uh the kinsman redeemer law and he introduced what it was called the jubilee. In other words, if you lost your you know your farm or whatever it was every 50 years it had to be restored to you. Let's say that in 1900 and in 1950 and in the year 2000. Let's say that your parents lived in 1912 or 1913 and that they had a nice ranch but they went into debt and they lost everything. And so you were destitute and poor but when 1950 came up according to the law it had to be given back to you everything. You see and if you bought something from somebody if you bought a field you would buy it based on the price. If you bought it in 1999, you would only pay very little because it would only be yours for a year. As soon as the year 2000 came or the year of Jubilee, it would revert back to you. If you bought it in 1951, then you would have 49 years of use. So, you paid a much higher price. But you need to to see that that belonged to them forever. But there had to be somebody to buy it back. This is why when Jesus stood up on the Sabbath morning when he opened the scroll of Isaiah, he says h the the the spirit of the Lord is upon is upon me because he has anointed me. And then he said the things that he was anointed to do. And then at the end he said to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord or the year of Jubilee or the year of God's favor saying I came in to close the books and to give back that which is rightfully yours. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. See we need to understand that when God created Adam and Eve, he gave them dominion. That means they were the highest. They were at the top of the ladder. Everything was under their feet. Yes. Including Satan and including everything else and then the enemy has come in and has displaced us. So we needed a kinsman redeemer. Now when he says my redeemer is alive or my redeemer lives, the word that I looked it up there, he talks about raw flesh. He says, "My redeemer is is is real flesh. It's is like raw flesh. My redeemer." See, in order for the redeemer to be able to redeem us, he had to be a kinsman. He had to be one of us. You remember when uh uh what's his name was here? Uh the guy uh what's his name? Jesse Duplantis. When Jesse Duplants was here, he says there is but one race, the human race. That is a very powerful statement because in reality all of us come from Adam and Eve. Every single one of us come from Adam and Eve. That's who we're kin to. That's the one that lost the the the the the dominion. So Jesus had to be one like Adam, one like us. This is why in in Corinthians it says that the first Adam was after the flesh. He was human like us. But the last Adam was a lifegiving spirit. What was he doing? A redemptive spirit. He was redeeming. He was putting the life back into the human race. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So when our redeemer is alive, hallelujah, we're made complete. Now, there's an obligation in in Genesis 14. And if you look at verse 12, you can see how far back this law of the redeemer goes. As you know, uh Abraham had taken Lot who was his nephew with him. And one day there they were so blessed their herds were just not big enough for the field. And Abraham took Lot to a hill and it says here's to the right and here's to the left you choose. You go one way and I'll go the other one. And of course, Sodom and Gomorrah at that time were the most beautiful plains that they weren't and the most fruitful. So Lot, not being too dumb, he chose, I mean, he was if you really think of it, but he chose to go that way. So Abraham went the other way. And then it tells us that there were five kings that attacked the place where where Lot was. And in uh Genesis 14:12, he says that they also carried off Abraham's nephew Lot and his possessions since he was living in Sodom. And if you go down to verse 16, it says that he recover Abraham recovered all the goods and brought back his relative L and his possessions together with the woman and the other people. When the news came to Abraham, the kings invaded the area where your nephew Lot lives, and they have taken him captive captive and took all of his possession. Abraham, who wasn't a man of war, but who knew his he his he his uh you know he his responsibility as a deliverer as a kingsman deliverer and he took some men of war 368 and he went and he defeated these five kings and he redeemed or he rescued his nephew. Now a a lot of us Christians need to get done in here. You know for me I was the very first person saved in my family and my wife was the ve very first person saved on her family. You know why God saves you? So that you could become that's right a redeemer for your family. Did you know that? Yes, God didn't save you because you were prettier or smarter or or anything else. And matter of fact, we're probably those of us that get saved first in the family line. Probably the dumbest one. We're willing to to believe what God said rather than what the devil says, you know. But when when you accept the Lord Jesus Christ, it is your responsibility as a born again believer to enter into a covenant with God. And that's going to be our last lesson in in in in the membership class. uh uh that's going to be that's going to be taught. Enter into a covenant with God. When you enter into a covenant relationship with God, God is obligated and Jim Miley was speaking about that God is obligated to go and to rescue and to redeem everything that belongs to you. Not a single one of us should ever give up in either mother or father or brother or sisters or sons or daughter or even distant relatives. It is our responsibility to become a type of a kisman redeemer and enter into a relationship with God where our redeemer is so alive that our redeemer knows every single need that we have and we need to be committed to that. And you know God is not a respector of person. If he gave Abraham everything, he'll give it to you. It says so in Romans 8. It pleases God to give you the kingdom. Do you know what the kingdom is? The kingdom is not the horses and not the camels and not the houses. Who Abraham I mean who Job had a burden for was his children. Yes. And when God restored everything, God did not have to restore his children or do it out. Why? Because he had taken care of the man. He may not know it, but God had them covered. And we need to become that covering for our family. In Revelation chapter 5 verse 9 is a beautiful uh uh uh picture. This happened I believe uh almost 2,000 years ago. It it relates to Psalm 22:23 and 24. And what happens is John 1:1 tells us that in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. The word of God has always been eternal, but the word of God always has been a spirit. Okay? One of the psalms and in Hebrews quoting that psalm says that the word of God says to the Lord, you have prepared a body for me. That body that God prepared for the word of God was Jesus in the womb of Mary when the Holy Spirit overshadowed her. So when the word of God left heaven to fulfill the promise of God enter into that boy that was born to Mary Jesus and then that very word became flesh as uh John 1:14 says and he was crucified for our sins. See he had to become like one of us in order to redeem us. He couldn't redeem us. The Holy Spirit could not redeem us. God could not redeem us. You have to be a kinsman redeemer. You have to have somebody that is related to you. So he had to be born of a woman so he would be like us in the way that Adam was created. But he never lost or changed his nature. He was still God. Hallelujah. The word of God. So when the word of God returns back to heaven, he has a different form now. It is not a spirit. He is in a body. So you see, and as he comes up to the to the throne of heaven, where all of this time since the fall of Adam, the deed to the earth, the dominion to the earth has been sitting at the right hand of God, waiting for a man who was worthy enough to reclaim the deed to the earth. And in Revelation 5 verse 9, he tell us that as Jesus gets back up there, the word of God comes into his physical body that Jesus is, he says that he walked up to the hallelujah to the altar of of God Almighty. He got a hold of the scroll that was these earth. And as he did, they sang a new song. That's what he says. And what they were singing was, you are worthy to take the scroll and you are worthy to open his seals because you were slain and with your blood you purchased men for go for God from every tribe, language, people and nation. You see, we have been redeemed by the blood of the lamb. God, the word of God became flesh. God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son. And when Jesus Christ cried out in that cross, it is finished. As he rose up from the dead and is seated now at the right hand of the father forever making intercession, he is our living our alive redeemer. He is our alive redeemer. He is our connection. Yes. You know, you have like like you have an extension cord and you can have a bunch of plugs on that side, but there's just one plug on this side. Okay? You are if you're saved, you're that plug. And God wants life to flow through you to give life to everybody else that's connected to you in your life. Hallelujah. But you see, you had to be connected to that redeemer. You have to have that flowing of the blood of Jesus Christ through you. That's the true life. And that comes by faith. That comes by a belief. See what happens when we listen to the lies of the devil, our plugged in gets rusted. And even though you may be plugged in, there's nothing flowing through. Just like a battery cable that's kind of loose. Every time you try to turn the the lights come on and the car and you say, "Oh, the battery is good." But every time you try to turn try to turn the starter, it goes dead because there's not a good hole. There's not a good connection. And this is what Job had in the midst of the worst of the worst of the worst. He could say, "I know my redeemer is I got power that is flowing to me." Hallelujah. I don't care what it looks like over here. I'm plugged in. Hallelujah. See, you you can stick your hand in a socket that is all broken. There's no light going. But if there is power going from there, you get shocked. Some of your family members may not have no light shining. May not have none other stuff. But when you're plugged to God, every time Satan tries to mess with him, he gets burned. Hallelujah. Why? Because we have a redeemer that's sitting at the right hand of God who is pregnant to us. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. In Romans chapter 8 verse 16 and 17 speaks about that connection. Hallelujah. He says, "For the spirit," that's the Holy Spirit of God, "the spirit himself testifies with our spirits that we are God's children." Amen. We need to settle that, my friend. That's the greatest enemy of Christianity today. Whose children are we? Some of us walk like if we were um you know, bastards uh for the lack of a better word that I can think like we didn't really have a father or a mother. We Satan somehow makes us feel like you know like we don't have no rights because of our past because of the things we done or maybe because of the circumstance we're now you know well I'm all dried up you know even grapes that come prun sometimes are raisins You know, they're still good. Even if you're dried up, you're good to God. Hallelujah. I like raisins. They're good. They may be dried up great, but they're still good. Hallelujah. He says, "No." And this is the reasoning. He says that we that not us. I'm not say, "Oh, I'm the child of God." No, the spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, the spirit of the Holy One says that I am a children of the living God. Amen. And then he says, "If I am a children of the living God, now if we are childrens, then we are hes. We're hes of God and coairs with Christ." And here's the key that we miss. Indeed, if we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. Now, this is the part that most Christians have a hard time dealing with, the suffering part, especially here in America. You know, America, America is the land of the non-suffering. You know, we don't like to suffer here in America. You know, I love McDonald's. I tell you, I must be American truly true in in my blood. I like things fast. You know, I don't like to wait for things. You know, that's what I love about McDonald's. you go about there and by the time you you pay them and you come to the window, they already got your stuff there. You know, that's you know, I hate it when I'm, you know, I'm old enough to where I remember when the banks used to have different lines. You know, all of the banks now have just like one single line, but back then they had like four or five tellers and I always get in the shortest line and then that'll be the longest. all of the other ones go. Then I moved and as soon as I moved the other one go down and I just suffer, you know, but that's not the suffering that God is talking about. Thank God for ATMs. I never ever had to go into a bank anymore. I love ATMs. Just go there. And you know, even then, my wife was with me last time I went to deposit a check and I'm, you know, having to write because I carry a bunch of envelopes with me so I don't even have to mess. I want to get to the machine and get it done. There's three machines and they're all empty over there in the bank in in in Sepov over there, Bank of America. And so I start writing the check and I tell my wife, you watch it because it happens all the time. By the time I'm ready to get out of the car, they're all taken. And sure enough, you know, I rush I got out of five people came in. There's three and there's two in line waiting. You know, I tell you is you suffer, you know, but that is kind of like the mentality that we as Christians have that if we pray for our unsaved husband or if we pray for our unsaved wife or if we pray for our unsaved children or if we pray uh for a new job, you know, we just don't seem to want to have the stamina to stick it out. says he said we're hes if we endure and suffer. Now why is it that we have to suffer? I you know for years wanted to have an audience with God and please enlighten me on this. Tell me and the reason why suffering is what make us moldable. Yes. You see Job had everything. He was blessed of God. He had integrity. He had everything. But he had a mindset that had to be broken. Yes. See, he lived in fear of his children. He lived in fear every single time his children got together and had a big feast. Oh, probably my children sin. God knows what they did back there when the door was closed and he would rush and offer sacrifices to God. God had to break him from that fear. God had to break him through the fear. And so those things that were most precious. What was Abraham's fear? I don't have a descendant to leave all these blessings that you have given me. God says, I'll give you a son. Once he had the son, what was the fear? The fear was still there. So he had to take him up to a mountain. And he had to raise up a knife. And he had to be willing to kill that which he fear most. You see, most of us have been damaged by Satan. We have been damaged by people that Satan has used. Our souls bear the scars of the past. And before God can create in us a new heart, God has to break that heart and remove the scars that it is there. And usually God has to get up in there and remove the things that we hold on to. Yes. That is why he says if we share in his suffering, we will become hes. We have to come to the position with God to where we're not afraid of doing what Proverbs 20:27 says. It says that the the spirit of a man is a candle of the Lord. We have to come in a position where we're not afraid to saying, "Lord, let your Holy Spirit plug into my spirit right now and search deep within me if there's anything in there that will hinder the work that you want to do in my life. Lord, I want you to rip it out." Yes. Because you see, in our souls is where we build those walls to protect us because we have been hurt before. That's the wall that Peter had to break. He had a wall of protection. And when Jesus rejected the will that he was willing to die for him after that, he did not want to get close to Jesus anymore. You see, and that's why the suffering part. We may have to endure a while, my friend. You know, we may have to endure some losses. We may have to endure some pain. We may have to endure some sacrifice. But I tell you, the only thing that's going to get you through everything is if you have that burning hope deep within you that cries out, I know that my redeemer is alive. Amen. I know that I'm plugged to him. And I know that whatever tunnel I am going through, I will stand. Hallelujah. And I will not fall in the day of temptation and trouble. Hallelujah. I'm not afraid to allow God to get into the deep scars of my soul and rip him out if he has to, if he hinders the work that he wants to do in my life so that I can receive the rewards of an heir. In the book of Ruth, chapter 1 verse 16 and 17, we hear about this kinsman redeemer law in the book of Ruth and it's so beautiful. If if you read the entire book, it's only a few chapters. But Ruth was a Moabitete woman. That means that uh as a matter of fact you can read in some of the law where God forbids Moabai people forever even coming into his temple. So this woman had strike just right off the bat against her. She didn't even have a right to be to be there. She marries uh Naomi had two sons and there was a famine in the land and so she went to uh the Moabiti country and both of her sons married uh women from that land and then both of her son died without giving her any children and see she needed children because in order for her to to claim the land that she had back in Israel she had to have a son and she didn't. So Ruth uh who was a Moabitete never knew anything about God. Just what she had heard. You know Naomi was so bitter. She her name Naomi means pleasant. And she changed her name to Mara which means bitter. This is how bitter this woman was. So this woman was the only testimony of God that Ruth had. And yet when it was time for Naomi to go back to the land, Ruth uh Naomi was saying, "Stay back over here. Uh my people don't like women. They don't like women from Moabitete. You will always be a foreigner. You will always be a loser. You don't want to come with me. Stay here. Stay here. Stay here." But there was something inside of Ruth that she understood that the Jews had a real God. Amen. You see, she understood that. And she said in in in Ruth 1 16 and 17, but Ruth replied, he said, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Wherever you go, I will go. And where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people even if they reject me. And your God will be my God. Where you die, I will die. And there I will be buried." And then she says, "May the Lord deal with me. Be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates me from you. I want you to see that confession of faith that this woman made. She's going to a foreign land where she's always going to be a foreigner where she will always be rejected. As a matter of fact, if you read on as you read on, you see that boys as he comes in and it so happened that she because you know the poor people in those days uh what they had to do is when the harvest time came in and and these guys were going through the fields collecting everything there was a law that they couldn't go back to collect anything that they might have missed. So this is like was their welfare system. So the people who were poor would get behind and as these people were harvesting the field whatever was left they will take. And these guys were professional pickers so they wasn't living very much back. What she just happened when they get to the land and they have to eat they don't have no inheritance. They don't have no money. So Ruth goes up in there and she just happens to land in the lot that belongs to Joah to Jo uh Boaz to Boaz who happens to be one of our kinsman redeemer. And as she's there, boys takes notice of her and he says, "Make sure you stay on my field over here because you might be harmed." This is what a foreigner didn't have no right. Anybody could have just jumped and raped her. And boy, as Ghost talks to the guys that are working for him, he says, "Don't you dare lay a hand on this woman." Said, "Don't you dare mess with her." And then he tells the guys that were picking behind her, he says, "I want you to take some of the stuff you got on the bushes and drop it." So when she goes back after picking out day, boy, she's full. And Naomi immediately realizes this is somebody had to do this because this is impossible to do. Okay? She had found favor. She had found favor. Look at uh Ruth chapter 2. Ruth and verse 11 and 12. This is why Boas was being nice to her. He says, "Bois replied, I have been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband. How you left your father, how you left your mother, and how you left your homeland, and you came to live with a people that you did not know before." I want you to see, my friend, Bo is a type of Christ, and Ruth is a type of us. Remember what Jesus said. He says if anybody does not deny his mother and his father before me he can have no part of me. That's that's where the statement comes from. This is what Jesus was quoting. You have to be willing. See this this is how we connect oursel to our kinsman redeemer. This is how we become one with him. Everything else has to die. Everything else has to die. Now, because uh Boaz saw that she was willing to live it all up, he prays a blessing over her. He says, "May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel." And listen to this. Under whose wing wings you have come to take refuge. My friend, we need to ask ourselves a question. Under whose wings are we taking refuge as Christians? You know there are many Christians that take refuge in the wrong things. They trust their wealth. Maybe they trust their CDs. Maybe they're tr you know their bank accounts. Maybe they trust their jobs. Maybe they trust all of these other thing. But you know a good job, a big bank account cannot save you, cannot save your children, cannot save your wife, cannot save those things that you love. Only the redeemer who is God himself is able to do that. This is what we need to understand as Christians that there is a a severing there is a cutting off that has to take place between us and the world. We cannot remain connected to the world by any little bridge or any little thing just in case. You know that doesn't work with the redeemer. That's what being connected to the redeemer is living giving it all up. giving it all up for the Lord. Now, this is how Satan tries to get the connection and take it out from us with God. There are three things I believe he brings. Guilt, shame, and condemnation. Yes. If Satan can get you feeling guilty, you sever the connection, then your redeemer is not alive. Your redeemer is not living. Because you see, once you you accepted Jesus Christ, I think it was Joel that read tonight, he says we're not our own. See, once we accepted Jesus Christ as our savior, God went in, took the old thing out, disconnected it, and only the new is in. There's no guilt in the new. That's right. There is no shame. See, the guilt was placed on the cross where Jesus was nailed. The shame was placed on the cross. He hung there naked. And the condemnation was placed there on the cross when the sun refused to shine. And when darkness covered the earth and God turned his back on him and he said, "Father, father, why have you forsaken me, that's where the guilt and the shame and the condemnation went?" That's right. Amen. But you see, if Satan can get any of us to feel any of those thing, guilt, shame, or condemnation, immediately our redeemer is not alive in us anymore. That's right. And this is why we fail so many times. We fail to see that. See, when Job, the reason why God uses Job as an example, when Job was going through this, my friend, he had sores from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet. The man was sick. He said he was that his temperature was so high that he was burning. He said, "I'm like an oven burning." He couldn't even sleep. it would be nightmares terrorizing him and everything. And then here he's having to to to bear the guilt that all of his children were dead, that all of his possessions were gone. He has three friends now that Satan is using to torment him. And in the midst of all of this, he is able to say, "My redeemer is alive." You see, he's able to say, "I know where my connection is at. I don't understanding. I don't know what' Previous Next Home

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THE GOD WHO FORMED YOU The purpose of this teaching is to reveal the truth that God is the One who has personally formed, sanctified, and ordained each of us from the very beginning—even before birth. Drawing from Jeremiah 1:4–10, Psalm 139, and other supporting scriptures, the lesson emphasizes God’s intimate knowledge of us, His divine calling on our lives, and His continuing presence and authority through His Word. The teaching aims to encourage believers to embrace their identity in Christ, walk boldly in their calling, and trust the God who created and prepared them with love and purpose. THE GOD WHO FORMED YOU Minister Lisa Kane June 22, 2025 Objective: The purpose of this teaching is to reveal the truth that God is the One who has personally formed, sanctified, and ordained each of us from the very beginning—even before birth. Drawing from Jeremiah 1:4–10, Psalm 139, and other supporting scriptures, the lesson emphasizes God’s intimate knowledge of us, His divine calling on our lives, and His continuing presence and authority through His Word. The teaching aims to encourage believers to embrace their identity in Christ, walk boldly in their calling, and trust the God who created and prepared them with love and purpose. Synopsis: This message, “The God Who Formed You,” begins with Jeremiah’s calling, where God tells the prophet, “Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee.” From this passage, the teaching highlights how God is not only the Creator of life but the One who molds, sanctifies, and ordains individuals for His purposes before they are even born. The lesson underscores that every believer has a divine calling, and God equips them with His Word and Spirit to fulfill it. Lisa explains how Jeremiah’s experience demonstrates God’s authority to appoint, prepare, and protect those He calls, even in the face of fear and opposition. She connects this truth to the life of every believer—affirming that God has written our names, our design, and our destinies in His book from the moment of conception. Psalm 139 reinforces that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made” and continuously in God’s thoughts. The teaching also stresses the power of God’s Word placed in our mouths—just as He touched Jeremiah’s lips—enabling us to speak life, truth, healing, and authority over nations, circumstances, and personal struggles. Testimonies and reflections illustrate God’s personal involvement and protection in everyday life, reminding listeners that He is always near. Ultimately, the lesson calls believers to recognize their identity in the God who formed them, seek His kingdom first, and boldly proclaim His Word to others. By knowing that God has overcome the world, we can live with peace, confidence, and purpose, trusting in the One who knew us before we were born and continues to walk with us daily. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this teaching on Sunday, June 22nd, 2025. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word that it does not return void. I ask and pray over the listeners of this teaching that their eyes and ears and heart and mind are prepared and that they receive this teaching. they determine its validity with you, that um it is imprinted in their hearts and that your Holy Spirit works with them and bring it to remembrance so they do not forget it and that they remember who you are and what you're about and what you do to each and every one of us as our lives begin and in our and as our lives end. Thank you, Father God, for your precious word. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. and I'm glad you can join me today. Thank you for being here. This teaching is called the God who formed you. So, let's start off here in Jeremiah 1:4-10. Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, So, I'm going to stop here. This is Jeremiah. He is uh about to start the book of Jeremiah, and you can go read the whole thing on your own time. I'm going to just talk about these uh up to verse 10. The way I teach is I present to you the the word in the King James version. And if you see a bolded word in there with italicized words after it, the bolded word is the original word that the translators used in the King James version. And the italicized words are other words that the the translators could have used. And I get those other words from the Strong's Hebrew Greek dictionary. So, and I all I do is I add those extra words in that parenthesis is just to show you where the original author was going with this because we are talking through uh translation. So, I just want to clarify that. Okay. So, says then the word of the Lord came unto me saying, so now God is talking to Jeremiah and Jeremiah is recording this. We're in verse 5. Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee. And before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Okay, so we're going to stop really quick here. One of the things is I'm going to be talking about the God who formed me, the God who formed you. We are formed by God. The word formed, as you can see here, means to mold, squeeze, or determined. So he has determined us. He has molded us. He has prepared. He gave us a calling right at the outset here. There is just no uh holding back here. He's saying this is what I've called you. Now, he's telling this to Jeremiah. Now, I'm going to show you other scriptures here in a bit that's going to show you where the scriptures tell us that God is doing that to us, too. It's not just to be a prophet. But I wanted to show this to you because Jeremiah is a very interesting person. And he went through, for lack of a better phrase, hell on earth in speaking the words of God to the nation of Israel and then getting it written down and getting it preserved and his life ending. Jeremiah was called as a youth. And this is very, very interesting. He's saying straight up. This is God telling him before I formed you, before I even made the determination of you in the belly, he says, I knew, I recognized you. So, it's as if God had been sitting there waiting. I'm waiting for a prophet. Where is he? Oh, there he is. So, at the moment of conception, it was like, there he is. I knew you. This is the God that we serve. God is so powerful that even at the moment of conception, he writes a book about us. I'm going to get into that a little bit here. It's something I've taught on before, but I wanted to show and elaborate to you who this God is. He's the one who has formed us. He has prepared us. And here he's saying uh in the belly, I knew you. I recognized you. And then before you even came out of the womb, he says, I sanctified you. I made you clean. Now, I want to pause here and think about that for a moment. Why would a newborn need to be clean or a baby that hasn't even been born? Because a baby is conceived in sin. You see, Adam and Eve fell in the beginning and Jesus came back to redeem us and he's the one who had to clean us and sanctify us. So God is saying, "Listen, while you were in the womb and I knew you, I I mold before I even molded you. Before I even I determined you. I deter that's a word there in recognized. He determined. He formed. He recognized." Then he says, "I sanctified. I cleaned you." He did that to Jeremiah in order for Jeremiah to be the prophet. And look what else he says. And I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. I've placed you. I've called you to be I've given you to be a prophet over the nations. That's your calling. That's what I put on you. Question I have is what's the calling he put in your life? And and you know what? It's okay. God loves you so much that even if you didn't do what he called you to do or be, he knew. And he's just been waiting for you to come see him and talk to him. He knew it already while you were in the belly of your mother. He knew that already. He's just waiting for you to come to him. humble yourself and ask him to forgive you. By the way, he will he will always forgive you. And don't get tripped up about, oh well, there's the uh the son of predition that won't or not the son of predition that there's a sin that is not forgivable. Trust me, that's because that's on the son of predition. That's not on you. You are not the son of predition. You're not Satan. You are not part of that world. And even if you were like dedicated or committed or a curse was placed on your life, God already knew you. He looked at you in the beginning and he saw you already and he knew you. you know, to share a little testimony. My dad and and my husband and I were out to lunch after church this morning, uh, this afternoon, and we were talking about, um, how God has protected our family and kept us, and I remember one time, this is when we were living in Lake Elsenor, California. I remember sitting there, it's 3:00 in the morning, actually. I was laying there and it was 3:00 in the morning and I in California you always keep your windows open pretty much but I had a slider door there for the deck and I'm on the second floor. It is open but I remember laying there and aware that God was there. He was like right outside the window a little ways away but it was like and and I'm not talking just God. I'm saying God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. I was aware and in my mind to this day it still affects me in a way that he came to me at that point. Didn't have to say anything. I just knew he was there and that how that has impacted my life because I I sit here going, man, I must have got his attention somewhere in the future. Who am I that he came to visit me? But let me tell you something. He already knew. And he wanted me to know that he knew and that he was preparing me for whatever is to come. He's done the same for you. He knows you. He's written a book. Now look at Jeremiah's response. It's it's valid in and it's point on. He says, "Then said I, ah, Lord God, behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child." You know, it's funny. Jesus, he said, "Bring the little ones. Let them be here. If you do not bring the little ones in, then you know, you're not part of God." See, God loves children. God is a family man. Isn't that just incredible? Now your impression of family might not be beautiful because you know depending how you were raised and and whether you were orphaned or whatever has happened to you but God is a family man and then he provides you a family you know when you become a believer you become adopted into God's family which is his chosen nation of Israel and it's the church the body of Christ that is your family and sometimes it's really good and sometimes it's challenging But when you have a relationship with God, the God who formed you, he's the one that has prepared you and you you're at peace about everything. No matter someone, a loved one dies, because you know your father, you know who formed you. You know he has them. As it says in Hebrews 9:27, all are appointed to die once. Well, we're all eventually going to die. We're all going to end up on that other side right here though, right now, knowing that he formed us. What's the most important part? Share his word. Share our testimony. Share our lives. Let the people see that we have a peace upon us simply because we know he formed us. We know he has called us. That is the most important part of this. Now look at uh what God says to Jeremiah after he says that. Verse 7. But the Lord said unto me, "Say not, I am a child, for thou shalt to go to all that I shall send appoint thee, and whatsoever I command thee, thou shalt speak." And then be not afraid of those of their faces, for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. He says, I don't want you to be afraid. And don't say that just because you're a youth. He he says very clearly, I'm going to send you. You're going to be a voice and you're going to speak my words. And then I love how he says, "Don't even be afraid or revere their faces." See, when you're afraid of a bully or you're afraid of what people are going to say, you're giving them more power and authority than they actually have. They don't have that power and authority. So, what it is, you're revering them. You're like, "Oh, look at how much power. Oh, I got to be afraid of them." No, no, no. You need to be afraid of the God who can send them straight to hell for an eternity versus sending you straight to heaven with him as an etern eternity. This is where we have to finally humble ourselves before the Lord and realize I'd rather rever God and be afraid of him than be afraid of anything else in the world. And he's telling Jeremiah this because see Jeremiah is going to go through some hardships. You can go read the book of Jeremiah. You can go find out all the things he had to do and some of it was bad. You that's your homework. You go read that. Take you about I don't know a month maybe to read. The book of Jeremiah is a long book in the Bible. And uh just know that God is with him and God is very clearly saying I am with thee. I'm near thee and I'm going to snatch you away from them. I'm going to deliver you out of them. I want to snatch you away. So Jeremiah still lived to be a lengthy time, but it was a hard life. But God knew this and he had formed him and that's where he was going with him. So he's telling him, "Don't be afraid." Then he continues on in verse 9. Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth. You see, here is a God who has created everything. He created the universe we're in. He created the the air, our bodies, how to adapt and adjust and live in this world. We're in such a way that if you had so much faith that you can never be sick, you will never be sick. You can live like that. If you believe everything, you know, then you might believe who is telling you you're going to be sick or this or culture tells you, oh, if you go from hot to cold or cold to hot, you're going to get sick. No, you don't have to live like this. See, God gave you the ability to live in healing, to live in peace, no matter what circumstance has taken place. I I do know some people that I sit there and I get mad for them for what they had to go through and they're just like, well, you know, and they they don't even they hardly talk about it or it's uh just a as a casual bygone. That is how God has transformed their lives and he gave them that ability. So here he is doing the same for Jeremiah. He put his he touched his word into his mouth. See Jesus is the author of the word of God. Jesus is the word of God. He's the embodiment of it. So here he says, "Okay, let me touch your lips." He touches Jeremiah's lips. And when he touched his lips, he put his word. He put Jesus into the lips of Jeremiah. So every time Jeremiah spoke the word of God, he was speaking what Jesus was speaking to the nation of Israel and warning them and warning them and warning them because that's what Jeremiah is all about is all the warnings. Don't stray away from God. And they wouldn't believe. And they were stubborn, so stiff necked. But that was how the Israelites were at that time. And God was working with them. He they Jesus spoke his word through Jeremiah. Continuing on, it says, "The Lord said unto me, behold, I have put my words, my cause in your mouth." See now the cause, Jesus cause of salvation, healing, mercy, redemption. He put all that into the mouth of Jeremiah. Says, "I want you to tell these words to the nation of Israel." See, Jesus loves. Jesus is forgiving. He is the merciful, graceful God that there is. And he's telling the nation of Israel through Jeremiah, I want you to repent. Come back to me. Stop following false idols. And this is where Jeremiah became that word and had to go speak that because God called him to do that because he knew him. God formed Jeremiah. God formed Lisa. I'm gonna make her a teacher of the word of God. and I'm going to make her an intercessory prayer warrior. She's going to pray into the situations the name of Jesus. And then you begin to see how God moves. But it's because he formed me. He knew me. And he is doing the same. He has done the same for you. Amen. Continuing on, see this verse 10. God is still talking. See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms. So he Jeremiah is overseeing the kingdoms and the dominions and the powers because he's got the word of Jesus in his mouth and the word of Jesus has always had the kingdoms and dominions. You know Satan lied to him in the 40 days of wilderness when Jesus was fasting. You know the the devil tempted him says listen you bow down to me I will give you all these kingdoms they'll worship you. No, they the devil never has the kingdoms because the saints, Jeremiah being one of them, and if you go read Isaiah 49, we 149, we have the ability to pray over our kings and dominions and cause effective change. One of the reasons why Trump is president now is because of prayer from the church. The church said, "You know what? We see the difference between Kamla and Trump and Lord we are putting this at your throne and we speak the word of God and we pray the word of God over it and what happens Trump got voted in. That's because God already knew the situation. He had already formed Trump. He prepared Trump for this time. He prepared Kamla at for her time at this season. But she has gone a different route. Who knows? She could have been all powerful and could have been the first black American president if she had been a believer in God and God had taken her down that route. But her actions clearly say that she does not support Israel. She So I, you know, don't know if she's an actual believer, but she didn't have that blessing on her. Trump did. But remember, God makes people for and then he makes other things. He made the devil. He formed the light, but he created darkness. That's Isaiah 45:7. You can go read how he did that. So God can do anything and prepare anyone at any time for any of this. Uh to root out. Now listen, this is the authority Jeremiah's given. So he says, "See, I've set this day. I've I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms to root out." That's to tear away, to pull down, to tear down, and to destroy, lose or perish, to throw down, break in pieces, to build, repair, and to plant or fasten. Jeremiah was given that authority. So when he would speak a word, the word of God, Jesus, it would be to tear down, to tear apart, to break into pieces, or to repair, and to plant. You see, that was God's plan for Jeremiah. And this is where we have to realize that he has given us authority as the body of Christ to do the same. Amen. Let's go to Psalm 139. I want you to see something here in u the Psalms. Verse 13. For thou hast possessed my reigns, purchased me is what that means. Thou has covered or fenced in me in my mother's womb. I love that word purchased me. I love that extra translation that could be in there because Jesus is our redeemer and he paid the price for our sins. He has set us apart from the world. And he did it where? In our mother's womb. He covered us. He fenced us in. He put us in there. He's already got us covered. Even though we were conceived in sin, this is what redemption and mercy is about. God who formed us, you know, he could have ended everything and stopped back then and restarted and who knows could have hoped that Adam and Eve wouldn't do it a second time, whatever. But instead, he decided to continue on with it and send his only begotten son to redeem the people and decided to do that because he loves us so much. He wanted to get to know us. He formed us in the womb. Even before we lived our life, even before we made the decision to call on his name, he knew us. This is the God who formed us. Verse 14, I will praise thee, or throw my hands up to thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well. You see his word, he put his word in Jeremiah and Jeremiah spoke his word, but he put his word, the name of Jesus. He put Jesus into us in the womb for right to for us to recognize and know right from wrong. We know the difference. This is why we were able to come in and pray and see Trump become the victor over Kamla. We were able to see that because we know right from wrong by the fruit of their actions. I love it how Trump, you know, they just bombed the nuclear plants in Iran. I love it how Trump came out and says, "God, I love you. Thank you." You see, he's putting God first in his life. You can't ask for anything more than that. Now, whatever God ends up doing with Trump and how he uses him, maybe he sets him up for his return, whatever ends up happening there, one thing I know is based on right and wrong, based on what was placed in my heart while I was in my mother's womb, I know that we're in the right right now because of the fruit of what I can see and what the Lord has caused me to know in my heart. Amen. My substance or power was not hid from thee when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. You see, when you have intimate relations with someone and you get someone pregnant, that's usually in darkness or it's, you know, a very intimate time. It's a very private time. It's enclosed. This is what how it happens normally. But you see, God knew us there. We were still known by God even in that moment. He knew. He knew us because he formed us. He prepared us. He called us. Verse 16. Thine eyes did see my substance. Yet being imperfect, listen, we weren't we were in conceived in sin, we were already imperfect in the womb. And he saw us. And in Jeremiah's case, he called Jeremiah. Oh, look at this. So then he says, "Yet being imperfect, and in thy book all my members were written, described, which in continuence were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them." He didn't even have his members yet. you know, he was conceived and at the point of conception, you're just a little mass, a little, you know, it's an egg and a sperm and it starts to form inside there, but there are no legs, there's no head, there's no brain, there's no eyes, there's nothing yet. You're just a little seed in there. And he says, "And in thy book, all my members were written, described." At the moment of conception, God writes a book about you. It's entitled with your name. He knows your name. He knows whether you're male or female. He knows what your members are going to look like. He's already written your description in there. He knows at this moment when it hasn't even happened. This is the God of whom we serve. This is our God. This is how powerful he is. This is why the grave couldn't hold back Jesus. Oh, hallelujah. And uh which in continuence were fashion when as yet there was none of them. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, oh God. How great is the sum of them. He thinks about us all the time. We are mindful. He is mindful of us. He thinks of us all the time. They are continuous thoughts that he has and they're good. They're precious. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee. God doesn't leave us. He's still there. We go to sleep. We go off into dreamland. We go into wherever place we go. Our body needs that rest, but our mind still goes somewhere else. God is with us when we wake up. And his thoughts are good over us. He's got plans and thoughts for us. And all it is is just stopping and saying, "Thank you, Lord." And asking him to lead us. He will take us there. He will open doors. He will close doors. He will protect us. He will because he's the God who formed us. Oh, hallelujah. This is awesome. Then it says here in Matthew 28, look at what Jesus says. Because again, Jesus is the word of God that was placed in Jeremiah. And then Jesus right and wrong is what's placed in our heart. Look at what Jesus says here in Matthew 28. And Jesus came and spake unto them saying, "All power is given unto me in heaven and earth." Jesus has all the power and authority. He's the one who said, "Let there be light." And there was light and it was good. This he's he's the all powerful. He's the power. He's the one who did it. He's the one who made it happen. And it was by spoken word. Says, "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost." You see, now it's a little different here. He told Jeremiah, "I'm going to put my word in you. what you speak, you're going to tear down, pull around, pull up, uh, break into pieces, repair and build up and plant. That now he says, I want you to go to everyone, teach them, baptize them, teach them to observe all things whatsoever I've commanded you, and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Still, he is with us every day, and he has overcome the world. That is so amazing. In fact, let's read that last scripture there. Verse 33 or John 16:33. These things I have spoken unto you that in me might have peace in the world. You have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I've overcome the world. See, God created this world. Jesus created it all. So, he has placed it his word in our hearts. And he tells you, I want you to do these things and I want you to go do what you need to do. This is what I'm calling you to do. I formed you to do this. And he says, "And don't be afraid of them. I overcame I overcame the world." I love that. That is so awesome. This is the God who formed us. He's the one who has established us. So if you want to know what your will in God is, first seek first the kingdom of God. Matthew uh 6:33, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. How do you seek the king seek seek the kingdom of God? You seek him by putting him first in your lives. Have a relationship with him in the morning, in the evening. Read the word. Pray. Ask him questions and look. He will answer you. Then he tells you to go into all the world. That is also letting people know the relationship you have with Jesus because they can have it too because he formed them in the womb just like he formed me and Jeremiah in the womb. Like you, he formed you. He prepared you. And he's telling you to go into all the world and preach the good news. Telling you that I am the good news. I came and redeemed you. I paid the price for your sins. I'm the one who knew you. You know me because you know the right I have placed in you in the womb. This is who I am. This is who you are. Let us partner up together and go show the world the testimony of what I have done for you. This is Jesus calling us into that anointing, into that walk, into that relationship with him so that we can say, "Hey, look what I have. I've got Jesus. Do you want to have peace in your life, too? Let me introduce you to Jesus." He knew you when you were conceived. What? Before you even had a body, he knew what you would look like. And he knows he has good thoughts of you. He thinks wonderful things about you. He is mindful of you. He wants to know everything about your life. What's going on? Where are you going? What are you doing? This is the God who formed you and he placed right in your heart and you can speak his words just like Jeremiah did by taking the scripture, reading it, saying it out lou out out loud and applying it to whatever situation you're in. No weapon formed against us shall prosper. By his stripes I was healed. Let no man take apart what you have brought together. These are just some of the verses that we have that take us to making an effective change with our prayers. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. Your word is powerful. Your presence is powerful and we know in our heart what is right and what is wrong. Thank you, Father God, for placing your word in our mouths and helping us to know you because you know us so much more than we know you. And I pray that we begin to have that relationship with you where we know what is right and we can stay away and pray against that wrong that is out there. Father God, thank you for your paying the price and redeeming us and saving us. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

DEEP AND SECRET THINGS To demonstrate that God alone reveals the deep and secret things hidden from human understanding, and that His wisdom not only discloses mysteries like Nebuchadnezzar’s dream but also reveals His sovereignty over times, seasons, rulers, and the unfolding of history. The goal is to encourage believers to seek divine wisdom and discernment through God’s Word and prayer, recognizing that understanding the present age requires grasping God’s eternal cycles and purposes. DEEP AND SECRET THINGS Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To demonstrate that God alone reveals the deep and secret things hidden from human understanding, and that His wisdom not only discloses mysteries like Nebuchadnezzar’s dream but also reveals His sovereignty over times, seasons, rulers, and the unfolding of history. The goal is to encourage believers to seek divine wisdom and discernment through God’s Word and prayer, recognizing that understanding the present age requires grasping God’s eternal cycles and purposes. Synopsis: In Deep and Secret Things, the account of Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar’s dream is used as a foundation to highlight how God reveals what lies hidden in darkness and grants understanding to His people. When the king demanded the impossible—both the content and interpretation of his dream—Daniel sought the mercies of God, who responded by revealing the secret in a vision. Daniel’s immediate response was to bless the name of the Lord, acknowledging that wisdom and might belong to Him. The narrative emphasizes that the revelation was not only about the king’s dream but about God’s sovereignty over human history: He changes times and seasons, raises up and removes kings, and governs world events in accordance with His divine plan. Daniel’s vision connects directly to God’s authority and the unfolding of prophetic cycles, revealing that history is neither random nor accidental but driven by God’s purposes. The teaching then draws a parallel to modern times, suggesting that we live in an age where rebellion against God’s Word has opened doors for demonic influence, reminiscent of the days of Noah. Just as Daniel’s prophecy spoke of iron and clay not mixing—symbolizing spiritual corruption mingling with humanity—so too today’s world is marked by compromise and infiltration of evil. Ultimately, the revelation of deep and secret things is a call for believers to seek God’s wisdom and prepare for the end of the age. Those who walk in God’s understanding will shine with eternal brilliance, turning many to righteousness, as Daniel promised. Would you like me to also condense this into a shorter, two-sentence synopsis you could use at the beginning of a teaching chapter, or keep it at the fuller explanatory level? Inspired Teaching: Daniel 2:22 “He reveals deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness (that which is hidden), and light (understanding) dwells (originates) with Him.” Daniel, along with the many wise men of Babylon were being rounded up by the king’s soldiers in order to be put to death. Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had a very disturbing dream, so he called on his wise men to tell him the interpretation of his dream. But for some reason the king doubted the reliability of his wise men, so he added a caveat to his request: If you can tell me what I dreamed, then I’ll know that your interpretation can be trusted. Daniel 2:5-6 “The king answered and said to the Chaldeans (his inner circle of wise men), ‘My decision is firm: if you do not make known the dream to me, and its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made an ash heap. However, if you tell the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts, rewards, and great honor. Therefore tell me the dream and its interpretation.’” You can hear the desperation in their voices as they tell the king that what he is requesting of them is impossible for any man to produce. Daniel 2:10-11 “The Chaldeans answered the king and said, ‘There is not a man on earth who can tell the king’s matter; therefore no king, lord, or ruler has ever asked such things of any magician, astrologer, or Chaldean. It is a difficult thing that the king requests, and there is no other who can tell it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.’” The king would not take no for an answer, so he began to round up his so-called wise men and the executions began. Daniel 2:13 “So the decree went out, and they began killing the wise men; and they sought Daniel and his companions, to kill them.” There was a certain criteria, that if met, would qualify a person to be designated as a wise men. They had to be of a good lineage, educated, wise, trainable, healthy, gifted, and good-looking. Daniel 1:3-4 “Then the king instructed Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, to bring some of the children of Israel and some of the king’s descendants and some of the nobles, young men in whom there was no blemish, but good-looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge and quick to understand, who had ability to serve in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the language and literature of the Chaldeans.” When Israel was conquered and the Israelites were taken into captivity as slaves, some of the young captives were set apart under this category, which included Daniel and his companions. So when the decree was given to kill all the wise men, they started with the least of them, those on the bottom of the list of those they qualified as wise men, in the hope that those on the top of the list of wise men, the Chaldeans, would get the message that the king was serious. Now Daniel was not privy to what had taken place in the king’s court, so when they came to kill him, he wisely asked the reason why they were going to kill him and why it was so urgent a matter. Daniel 2:14-15 “Then with counsel and wisdom Daniel answered Arioch, the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon; he answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, ‘Why is the decree from the king so urgent?’ Then Arioch made the decision known to Daniel” Once Daniel became informed, he went before the king, asked for time, and told his companions to pray and to ask for God’s mercies, so that they would not have to perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. Daniel 2:19 “Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. So Daniel blessed the God of heaven.” As we read this story, our natural tendency is to place our focus on the secret that was revealed to Daniel, in regards to the revelation of what the king had dreamed. But if we take a closer look, the secret that was revealed to Daniel involved a lot more than what the king’s dream was. How do I know? Daniel’s blessing of the God of heaven reveals that. Daniel 2:20 “Daniel answered and said: ‘Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His.’” In our present-day way of thinking, we do not put much stock to the meaning or value of a name. But throughout much of history, everything about a person hinged on the reputation attached to his or her name. Perhaps the closer that we can come today in regards to the value of a name, is if we see it as a password that allows us access to great and unknown mysteries. So it is no wonder that the first thing that Daniel blesses and gives thanks for is the name of God, which is what allowed him access to God to begin with. John 16:24 “Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.” The most important thing that Jesus has given to us is His name. For it is the name of Jesus that grants us access to the heavenly court. Since the name of God reveals His nature, the first two qualities of the name of God revealed to Daniel is that God is all knowing and that He is all powerful: Wisdom and might are His. Since God knows everything, He knew what the king’s dream was, since it was God who gave him the dream to begin with; and He had no problem revealing to Daniel. But Daniel’s blessing of the name of God goes much farther than just knowing about the dream of a king who had trouble sleeping. Daniel learned a lot more in his night vision that meets the eye. Daniel 2:21 “And He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.” The second part of the revelation to Daniel was that, the God who knows everything is willing to give wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. And in order for us to receive the wisdom and the knowledge that comes from God, it requires that we have a basic understanding of how He changes the times and seasons, and how God is in complete control of their outcome. It is through our understanding of the times and seasons that He reveals the deep and secret things to us, as in our opening text, for He knows what is in the darkness and light dwells with Him. Everything that is going on in the world right now is a direct result of the times and seasons that our Lord has set in motion from the foundation of the world. Nothing that is happening is happening out of chance, be it personal, corporal, or natural. If we want to understand the times that we are living in, we need to understand the timing of God’s seasons and cycles. According to Daniel, one of the ways that we can observe the changing of the cycles is through the process of the raising and the removing of kings and their kingdoms. The dream itself revealed as much, to where we can follow Daniel’s interpretation of the dream to our very present day. Daniel 2:43 “As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they (demonic entities) will mingle with the seed of men (the human race); but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.” We are living in the midst of the greatest demonic infusion into our earthly realm since the days of Noah, when the Lord had to destroy every thing that had the breath of life in it. The sin of rebellion—which is as the sin of witchcraft—opens the doors to these abominable creatures to enter into our physical realm. The nations of the world have already decided that which is sin, according to the Bible, is acceptable and normal behavior to them. This world-wide rebellion against the precepts of the Word of God is what allows they, these demonic entities, to mingle with the seed of men. 2 Peter 2:4-6, 9-10 “For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly...then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority…” We have presently come full cycle to the past judgments and it is our turn now. These deep and secret things have been revealed to those of us who seek for the wisdom and understanding that comes from God and His Word. It is time for us to put our houses in order, for the days of the end are much nearer than we think, let us be wise in the wisdom of God. Daniel 12:3 “Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.” Previous Next Home

SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTERS The objective of Spiritual Encounters is to help believers understand the two primary ways in which God engages with humanity: first, through His sovereign initiative, when He reveals Himself for purposes such as protection, correction, or calling; and second, through deeply personal encounters that come as a result of an intentional pursuit of His presence. Pastor Marcos teaches that both types of encounters are life-changing, but the latter requires preparation of the heart, spiritual discipline, and genuine longing for intimacy with the Lord. < Back SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTERS Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of Spiritual Encounters is to help believers understand the two primary ways in which God engages with humanity: first, through His sovereign initiative, when He reveals Himself for purposes such as protection, correction, or calling; and second, through deeply personal encounters that come as a result of an intentional pursuit of His presence. Pastor Marcos teaches that both types of encounters are life-changing, but the latter requires preparation of the heart, spiritual discipline, and genuine longing for intimacy with the Lord. Synopsis: In Spiritual Encounters, Pastor Marcos Marrero explores two distinct ways God reveals Himself to people. The first type occurs when God sovereignly intervenes, often when an individual is not actively seeking Him. This intervention, as illustrated through the biblical account of Saul of Tarsus and Pastor Marcos’ own testimony of being rescued at sea in 1965, demonstrates God’s protective hand in preserving lives for His divine purposes. These encounters are functional in nature, ensuring that God’s plans for a person’s destiny are not thwarted by the schemes of the enemy. The second type of encounter is personal and intimate, where God responds to the heart of a believer who diligently seeks Him. Using the imagery of the Shulamite woman from the Song of Solomon, Pastor Marcos illustrates the posture of longing, perseverance, and devotion necessary for believers to enter into such a relationship. These encounters require spiritual preparation—being born again, covered in fellowship with Christ’s body, and adorned with the fruit of the Spirit. Pastor Marcos emphasizes that true intimacy with the Lord involves crossing into the spiritual realm, widening our understanding, and refusing to be hindered by temporary setbacks. Ultimately, Spiritual Encounters teaches that God’s sovereign interventions preserve our destinies, while our intentional pursuit of Him brings about profound personal transformation. The desired outcome of such encounters is not only deeper intimacy with Christ but also greater fruitfulness in both the spiritual and physical aspects of life. Written teaching: Song of Solomon 3:1-2 “By night on my bed I sought the one I love; I sought him, but I did not find him. I will rise now, I said, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek the one I love. I sought him but I did not find him.” There are two kinds of spiritual encounters between man and God, as far as our relationship with God’s plan for our lives is concerned. First is the kind where God reveals Himself to us, by way of an angel, personally, or in some supernatural manner, when we are not actively seeking Him. Such was the case with Saul of Tarsus, an encounter with God was the last thing on his mind as he traveled on the road to Damascus. The second form of an encounter with God is when we are actively seeking Him and some way or another He let’s us find Him. I believe the book of Song of Solomon has a wealth of information into the how to, of seeking a personal encounter with God. Let us look at the two different types of encounters and see if we can learn from this present lesson how to find favor with the Lord, and encounter His presence in a way that brings a life changing experience to us that results in our betterment. In the first type of encounter, God reveals Himself to a person for a specific purpose or reason. In Paul’s case it was for his conversion and called to future ministry, in other cases it could be for the protection of an individual, maybe to keep them from crossing a line from which there is no return. My first encounter with the physical manifestation of the presence of God was to keep me from making such a mistake. I was in a small boat fleeing the communist regime in Cuba in the Florida straights in August 1965, I brought two friends with me who were hiding under the small bow of the boat. We were hit by a strong tempest (chuvasco) and swamped by towering waves to the point that I thought the end of my life was at hand, as we were verily making it through that frontal line of menacing clouds in the middle of the night, we were almost struck by a cargo ship that was sailing in the middle of the storm. After seeing our SOS the cargo ship stopped to recue us, thinking they had hit us, we’ve maneuvered to the side of the cargo ship, by the hanged net they laid on the side of the ship in order for us to climb aboard the ship and out of the tempestuous sea. As my hand took hold of the net, an invisible man that was standing next to me told me to ask where they were going, I looked up to those who were waiting for us at the top of the net and asked them where were they going, something that you normally would not do when being rescued, it was a natural reaction to a supernatural prompting, the immediate answer came with an oriental accent; we are going to Havana! As if the net was charged with thousands of volts of electricity, my hand let go of it, and we sailed away as fast and as far as we could from that Chinese cargo ship that was headed to Havana, where we would have certainly been delivered into one of Castro’s many prisons. By next afternoon we encountered an island named Cay Sal and were spotted by a US navy plane that pointed us to that island, as soon as we knew that we were going to make it, the invisible man, an angel from the Lord, left, and in that instance all three of us looked at each other and wondered out loud, how is it that we were behaving as if there were four of us, when there is only three? All three of us knew he was there, we all felt his presence, I heard his voice, and we knew immediately when he left, yet we never saw him, neither did we comprehend his presence until after he departed. That evening a British warship picked us up from the island and took us to Port Everglades Florida, where we were welcome as refugees. I often pondered why did God do that miracle when none of us were even saved, and the only conclusion that I can come up with is that, had it not been for His sovereign intervention that night we would not have been able to fulfill God’s plan and destiny for our lives. I am sure that all of us will one day find out the countless times when the Lord intervened on our behalf, for the battles that God’s angels fight for us is a constant one. In the first type of encounter God is making sure that His plans for the individual’s life is not altered, so that the nature of the encounter is more functional in nature than personal, not so in the second type of encounter, for this encounter is very personal in nature, where God responds to those who seek to have a deeper, more personal relationship with Him. By night on my bed, I sought the one I love. It is not easy to position ourselves properly in order to have the opportunity of having the experience of a personal encounter with the Lord, such experiences are just as precious as they are rare, but our desire of them speaks volumes of how real and deep our love for Him is. What is it that is on our minds when we suddenly awake in the middle of the night, before the cares of this life come rushing in? The Shulamite, a type for the church in this story, wakes up longing for a personal encounter with the love of her life and then she decides to do something about it; she says, I will rise now and go about the city, obviously she is looking for Him. This is a sign for those of us who personally desire to have a life changing encounter with the Lord deep within our hearts, if suddenly we wake up in the middle of the night longing for Him, in response to that longing, we should get up and seek Him fervently in prayer. In the streets and in the squares, I will seek the one I love. The word for streets in the Hebrew has the idea of as run over something, almost like a bridge, from its root word that means to run after or over to something. The idea behind the word for streets is that of, we have to cross over, in our case it would imply that we have to cross over into the spiritual realm as we seek an encounter with our Lord, by putting all our physical limitations and suppositions behind us. The word translated squares literally means broad way or broad place, from its root word that means to broaden or to make wide. To seek the encounter with the One we love we must be willing to cross over into the spiritual realm, and in order to do this we have to widen or broaden our perspective of how the spiritual realm operates. We have to be willing to negate the perceived limitations that hinder us from entering into His presence and not be dissuaded from apparent failures. As the Shulamite says twice in our opening verses, I sought him, but I did not find him. Song of Solomon 3:3 “The watchman who go about the city found me; I said, ‘Have you seen the one I love?’” If the city is symbolic of the spiritual realm where she went searching for the one she loves, then the watchman is symbolic of the angels that police the spiritual realm, notice how she handled her encounter with them: Have you seen the one I love? She was not hesitant at all, she was determined in her commitment to find the one she loved. Song of Solomon 3:4 “Scarcely had I passed by them, when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let him go, until I had brought him to the house of my mother, and into the chamber (room) of her who conceived me.” This is an interesting insight into what drove her desire for an encounter with the one she loved. In the natural she was saying I want you to meet my mother, if you are in the dating stage of your life I do not have to tell you what that means, for you know that she means business once she asks you to meet her mother, what that means is that she is definitely serious about your relationship with her. But from the spiritual aspect, I looked at the words here that state, the chamber of her who conceived me. I think that this is a reference to the inner rooms of the heart, meaning that her goal all along was for this spiritual encounter to bring her Savior into the inner chambers of her heart, where spiritual conception takes place, she wanted to experience her loved one in a way that she had never experienced him before. Proverbs 20:27 “The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the inner depths (literally: inner rooms of the belly) of his heart.” The difference then, between our first and second types of spiritual encounter is, that in the first type angels or watchers intervene on behalf of those whose destiny is threaten by the mischievousness of the devil against them. In the second type of encounter there is nothing that the angels can do, for in this type of encounter the human heart is the issue, and only God is qualified to deal with the issues of the heart, and He will never intrude into the human heart unless He is first, personally invited, and second, we make special preparations within us that will make Him feel welcome. Step number one: Song of Solomon 4:1 “Behold, you are fair, my love! Behold you are fair! You have dove’s eyes behind your veil (the curtain that covers the door that leads into our hearts). Your hair (covering) is like a flock of goats, going down from Mount Gilead.” The dove is the symbol for the Holy Spirit, and the veil represents the door to the inner rooms of our hearts, typified by the curtain that covers the entrance to the Holy of Holies in God’s Tabernacle. That means that we have to be born again, born of the Spirit of God if we want to experience this type of encounter with Jesus deep within our hearts, because that is where the Holy Spirit resides after we are born again, deep within our hearts. Step number two: Our covering, symbolized by the hair, has to be in place by being a part of the flock, the church, which is the body of Christ. Some believers are not properly covered because their pastors are in direct disobedience to the Word of God, hence they are not properly covered by their fellowship, which makes it a lot more difficult for them to have an experience of true intimacy with the Lord, especially when their leaders are proclaiming a different gospel that portrays another Jesus and a different spirit which they have not received. 2 Corinthians 11:4 “For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it (but the Lord will not).” In these matters we have to be very careful, for no church is perfect, but if you cannot tell the difference between your church and the world, then all your striving for a spiritual encounter with the real Jesus may be for naught. But remember this, never leave a fellowship to which you were called unless the Lord Himself calls you out of it first, and make sure that He confirms it before you act, that way you will not lose your true covering no matter where He leads you, for He will be your covering and your protection wherever you go. Step number three: Song of Solomon 4:2 “Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep which have come up from the washing, every one of which bears twins, and none is barren (bereaved) among them.” Our teeth represent the condition of the human soul, which is designed to reflect the Fruit of the Spirit of love who lives within us, which are: Love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, kindness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control, for against these there is no law. We need to make sure that none of these qualities are lacking within us, for they adorn our inner man and make us to be more attractive to the Lord. Since we love and desire intimacy with Him we should desire to be more presentable: Which have come up from the washing. After all no body likes bad breath. 1 Peter 1:9 “Receiving the end (goal) of your faith—the salvation of your souls.” We can find many allegories in the book of Song of Solomon to help prepare us for a life changing experience with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. But let us make sure that our desire for intimacy always flows out of a grateful heart that knows the hell from which He has delivered us, having a sincere desire for true intimacy with Him should trump everything else. The results of such a spiritual encounter should be that of us becoming more fruitful in every aspect of both our spiritual and physical walk with Him. Amen! Previous Home Next

THE SPIRIT OF FAITH The objective of The Spirit of Faith is to teach believers the dual nature of faith as both a fruit of the Spirit and a gift of the Spirit, showing how they work together to strengthen the believer’s walk with God. It emphasizes that faith is the key to pleasing God, unlocking His power, and experiencing His promises, while also calling believers to nurture their measure of faith and connect it to the supernatural gift of faith for endurance, deliverance, healing, and transformation. THE SPIRIT OF FAITH Pastor Marcos Marrero June 18, 2021 Objective: The objective of The Spirit of Faith is to teach believers the dual nature of faith as both a fruit of the Spirit and a gift of the Spirit, showing how they work together to strengthen the believer’s walk with God. It emphasizes that faith is the key to pleasing God, unlocking His power, and experiencing His promises, while also calling believers to nurture their measure of faith and connect it to the supernatural gift of faith for endurance, deliverance, healing, and transformation. Synopsis: In The Spirit of Faith, Pastor Marcos explores the foundational truth that without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6). Faith is described as the most powerful force in the universe, the very means by which the worlds were framed and the unseen becomes reality. From Scripture, Pastor Marcos distinguishes between faith as the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22), which grows internally as we nurture the measure of faith God has given us (Romans 12:3), and faith as the gift of the Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:9), an external empowerment from God that provides an added dimension of strength in times of weakness. He illustrates this through the story of the father in Mark 9 who declared, “I believe; help my unbelief!” showing that when our personal faith struggles, Jesus provides the extra boost through the gift of faith. Faith is compared to a car battery—sufficient on its own but sometimes requiring a “jump start” from an external power source. This external source is the Spirit of Faith that partners with our internal faith to overcome unbelief, endure trials, and prevail against spiritual strongholds. Pastor Marcos further highlights that discerning when “the power of the Lord is present to heal” (Luke 5:17) is vital, as demonstrated by the friends who brought the paralyzed man to Jesus in faith. Unlike the Pharisees, they recognized the Spirit of Faith and acted on it, revealing that unbelief blinds us while faith perceives God’s presence and power. The message concludes by pointing to the altar as the place where the fruit of faith connects with the gift of faith. Salvation itself is received by faith, but for God’s glory to dwell in our lives, we must continually unite our internal faith with God’s external empowerment. When truth within us meets mercy from above (Psalm 85:10–11), faith becomes an unstoppable force. Ultimately, The Spirit of Faith encourages believers to cultivate endurance, discern the move of God, and live in the overflow of faith that brings salvation, healing, and transformation through Jesus Christ. Inspired Teaching: Hebrews 11:6 “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is the rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” Faith is the most powerful force in the entire universe: Hebrews 11:3 “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.” Without faith it is impossible to understand the invisible things that make up the vast majority of the universe. Faith is also the substance of what we believe to be true or real, and the evidence of those things which are invisible, but still we know that they exist. Faith is awesome! From the biblical perspective faith is revealed as a product or fruit and also as a gift; if we may ask, what is the difference between the two? Galatians 5:22 “But the FRUIT of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, FAITH.” KJV 1 Corinthians 12:9 “To another FAITH by the same Spirit, to another GIFTS of healing by the same Spirit.” All of us have been giving a measure of faith and it is up to us to nurture and to grow—as you would fruit in a plant or a tree—the measure of faith that has been given to us as in seed form. Romans 12:3 “…As God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.” The gift of faith is more like an external force, unlike the fruit of faith which is more like an internal force. Do the two of them combine and if they do how do they work together? Think of faith as a car battery which stores the power needed to run the car. When the battery runs down—for whatever reason—it struggles to start the engine, in which case you connect it to another energy source with jumping cables. The external energy aids the internal one when they combine. The gift of faith provides the extra boost needed when the fruit of our faith fails us. Mark 9:24 “Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, ‘Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!’” This troubled father brought to the disciples of Jesus, his son who was in desperate need for deliverance from demonic torment; the disciples were unable to help the tormented boy. When the father of the boy saw Jesus and told Him about his situation, Jesus replied to him that all he needed was faith: Mark 9:23 “Jesus said to him, ‘If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.’” So the father had faith for he said to Jesus: I believe! But his faith was struggling and needed help, and Jesus did not hesitate to give it to him. Jesus helped him to overcome his unbelief. Jesus used this opportunity to teach His disciples about their need for more prayer and fasting to increase their faith when dealing with demonic strongholds. But our point is made that when our faith needs help, if we, with a sincere heart come to Jesus, with tears as if it were in desperate need, He will not fail to help us in our time of need, for He is faithful and He will not deny Himself. 2 Timothy 2:11-13 “This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him. If we endure, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He will also deny us. If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.” Notice that it said: If we endure, we shall also reign with Him or have power from Him. The mark of true faithfulness is endurance; we never give up regardless of the outcome. Another way of connecting with this external force called ‘The gift of faith’ is through spiritual discernment. There is a time and place for everything the Bible tells us. Luke 5:17 “Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And THE POWER OF THE LORD WAS PRESENT TO HEAL THEM.” Italics mine. What does it mean by: The power of the Lord was present to heal them? I believe that this is what it means: THE SPIRIT OF THE GIFT OF FAITH was present! There was an atmosphere conducive to merge the internal force of the fruit of faith with the external power of the gift of faith. Luke 5:18 “Then behold, men brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed, whom they sought to bring in and lay before Him.” Notice that the Pharisees and the teachers of the law did not perceive that the power of the Lord was present to heal them. Men whose names are not mentioned recognized that the power to heal was present, to such a degree, that when their way to Jesus was blocked by the crowds they climbed to the roof and lowered the paralyzed man down from the roof in front of Jesus. Wouldn’t you like to be friends with men of such faith like theirs? They saw the need of their friend and perceived that the power was present, so they persevered. What was it that blocked or hindered the Pharisees and the teachers of the law from perceiving that the Spirit of Faith was present? They did not believe that Jesus was their Promised Anointed One! Luke 5:21 “And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, ‘Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?’” What is salvation? To be forgiven by God from all our sins! Salvation is God’s personal Gift to all mankind. Salvation came as a human man. He came to His own and His own received Him not. But to those who believed in Him, to them gave He power, the promised of the Father; to be filled with the Holy Spirit of God. If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior you have been given the Gift of eternal life and abundant life. That internal faith that brought salvation to your soul is looking to connect with that external gift of faith that brings power to transform your life to be a glorious testimony for Jesus, the Savior of your soul. Matthew 23:19 “Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or THE ALTAR THAT SANCTIFIES THE GIFT?” It is when we bring the measure of faith that God gave to us to God’s altar that our faith is sanctified, and we are saved. In the same way it is, when we bring the fruit of internal faith to God’s altar that we get connected to the Gift of Faith that brings the power to heal and restore. Psalm 85:9 “Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that glory may dwell in our land.” We receive our salvation through the measure of faith given to all of us since birth. As we receive Jesus as our Savior this measure of faith is sanctified on God’s altar. His salvation is near to those who fear Him. But for His glory to dwell in the land, or to be manifested through us, we need to connect to the gift of faith that comes from above. James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.” Psalm 85:10-11 “Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed. Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from heaven.” As we declare that Jesus is our Savior and our Lord the Spirit of truth springs out of us and meets with the God of mercy, God’s righteousness that looks down from heaven and our faith becomes one powerful force that cannot be stopped. Truth from within us meets mercy from above us. John 14:17 “The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be with you.” Psalm 86:11 “Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; UNITE MY HEART TO FEAR YOUR NAME.” Italics mine. Previous Next Home