Before there is a us, there is a me (part 2)

Part of the prayer song that we sang is one of the words that the Lord has always given me, no matter where I go, what I do, the Lord always speaks that same word into my life: “Those who hope in the Lord will be renewed, they will rise on eagles' wings, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not faint,” and while we wait to become ourselves, while we build the self, we wait on the Lord, and he will give us new strength.

The eagle is a very beautiful creature and has attributes that no other creature has. If you look at the eagle's wings and it has so much potential that as soon as the eagle opens its wings and begins to fly, it continues until it reaches its destination, and that is what the Lord tells his people: "Those who hope in me will be able to raise the wings, and they will be able to fly and they will not stop until they reach their destination.”

We're not going to give up while we're halfway there, or quarterway there, or 99%, we're going to keep going until we're 100 percent where the Lord wants us to be.

And another characteristic of the eagle's wings can rise higher and higher the stronger the storm. The stronger the tribulation you are going through, the more difficult the test you are going through, the bigger the problem you have, the more difficult your children get, the more difficult your husband gets, the higher you will rise because each storm will give you the push to go higher and fly over your problems.

We are going to fly on the problem but we are going to fly on the problem because we are going to be renewed. And there is something else about the eagle's wings. At the tip of the wing the eagle has five feathers, so when there is not enough wind to help it fly, the eagle begins to move the five feathers.

Five represents grace and by grace we begin to praise God and God gives us the strength to rise above the circumstances to keep us flying until we reach the other side. Sometimes there is no worship leader who is anointed or there is a crew who is anointed or musicians who are anointed, so you have to create your own praise and worship.

Sometimes when you are alone, when you are crying tears, when your heart is broken, you have to create yourself a worship service and God will give you strength right there in your house, in your circumstance, and you will fly to the other side.

There is another interesting thing about the eagle. Its claws are created to choke the enemy to death. Jesus said that the devil is a liar, and the father of lies and he likes to tell us lies to make us weak. But the Lord will give us the strength to raise our hands, to open our mouths to take our place in Christ Jesus, to know that you are a whole person and drown out the lies of the enemy so that you can be what God has called you to be.

And another thing about the eagle is that it has two eyelids, when an enemy is chasing the eagle, the eagle looks for the sun and what it does is fly directly towards the sun and when it gets so close to the sun that the rays are burning it, it close one pair of eyelids and leave the other open to see where you are going. But the enemy is blinded and he has to stop chasing him. And that is what the Lord wants us to do.

When life gets difficult, when the enemy tries to destroy you, when circumstances want to drown you to death, you have to look at the sun of God and keep looking towards him, keep your eyes on Jesus, author and finisher of your faith and the enemy will have to leave you because he will not be able to resist the glory of the Lord. We must find Jesus and wherever he is, that's as far as we're going.

'Cause we'll rise like eagle's wings and we'll fly until we reach our destination and the devil has to let go. Out! It has to go, it has to go, because those who hope in the Lord will be renewed. Whether you are young or old, single or married, rich or poor, white or black, tall or short, whoever you are, smart or not, married, divorced, with children, without children, when you wait on the Lord, he will renew your strength and you will take flight with the wings of the eagle. Amen, because you are complete in Christ Jesus and we will arrive at the destination, because that is where God wants us to arrive.

This morning we talked about building the self, me, and it's not that we want to be selfish but one wants to be complete. Remember, being complete means patching up and no more leaks. I don't want to leak anymore. That's the good thing about getting past menopause, no more leaks. No more tampons. I can wear a white skirt whenever I want. There are no more leaks.

Spiritually and emotionally, without more leaks. God does not want his people dripping, God has made us complete in him. We have to build the self so that when we become us, that we can complement us, it will bring us balance and we learn to share, to give, how to be a family, a couple, we have to be complete and built on the self.

Let's go back to Corinthians, because the Corinthians church had many problems with marriage, with fornication, with sexuality. First Corinthians, Chapter 7, beginning with verse 1 through verse 9, and say Praise God, I am complete, I am a complete woman. I am going to fly like the eagle, I am going to raise my wings and reach the destination and God will give me the strength to do it.

First Corinthians, 7:1, had been written to Paul and received a letter that there was trouble in the Corinthian church. They came out of a background where they worshiped the Greek gods in the temples, you had to have sexual acts in the temple. The women shaved their heads and had sex with whoever entered. That is why Paul says, "Now that they are Christian women, let their hair grow out and put on a veil so they can be sure that I am not a bald prostitute."

And this is the background that the Corinthian people had, very similar to the background that we have today, because the world says do what you want, with whom you want, and when you want. That's where we come from too.

Paul begins in verse 1, he says, “As for the things you wrote to me, it would be good for a man not to touch a woman. But to avoid fornication let each have his own wife and each woman her own husband. Comply with the woman at the marital level and likewise the woman with the husband. The wife does not have power over her own body but the husband does, nor does the husband have power over his own body but the wife. Do not deny each other except for some time by mutual consent to quietly occupy ourselves in prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your incontinence."

Unfortunately, between couples, sex becomes a toy, sometimes women don't give it to them because they don't feel like it. Some, those who are already married, use sex as if it were a weapon. You don't want to buy me the suit, you're not good to me, well tonight, ne pas, nothing. And husbands do the same with wives. I have a headache, don't touch me.

And Paul says, this is when the devil takes advantage of couples sometimes, because they use sex against each other. The only time they should do so with consent is because they are going to spend time in worship and fasting, to build up their spiritual lives. But then they need to get together again, lest the devil come in and destroy your relationship.

Verse 6, “But I say this by way of concession not by commandment, I would rather that all men were like me. But each one has his own gift from God, one indeed in one way, and another in another. So, I say to singles and widows that it would be better for them to stay like me, but if you don't have the gift of continence, get married because it's better to get married than to be burning."

He says, some have the gift of celibacy, some practice abstinence and remain single, and that's okay. Acceptable, one option. You don't have to get married if you don't want to later in life if you want to then, but if you want to get married, get married is fine. and you better do it before you burn yourself because if you burn too long and don't deal with it, you might be in trouble. Pastor Mitchel was saying entering into sexual relationships is unhealthy and as she shared, when you enter into a sexual relationship you become one with that person. That's what some theologians call soul ties, because you become one with that person and everything they bring. You have to be careful who you become one with because you take that person and everything represents them. In fact, we know that the blood of Jesus has the power to erase everything but that is why we have to proceed with caution so as not to end up in a mess.

My question is who is single? Years ago, when you said a single person, everyone understood what you meant. Nowadays when we are in a different society and culture, when one says single you are talking about many different people. In fact there are six categories of single people.

Category one: someone who has never been married and has no children, and of course that person would like to have a perfect spouse. You are looking for the perfect marriage, children, husbands, idealistic, lala land. It is the first group.

The second group: singles who were never married but had the experience of cohabiting, living with someone. That kind of bachelor has already had a taste of what a married life would be like. They deal a little more with reality. Sometimes they come with a bit of baggage with bad experiences and hurt feelings. That's another kind of bachelor.

Category number 3: single people now but have been divorced. The question is, were they divorced once, twice, nowadays people have multiple divorces, and people in that category actually come with negative experiences from past marriages. And as I told you, in church and out of church, statistics say that 60% of marriages end in divorce. This is a large group of people. And many of them are looking to remarry and if they are not careful, imagine what happens. They marry the same type of person again. Some people get into patterns and make the same mistake over and over again.

Fourth: singles who are separated from their spouses, are not divorced but are legally separated. They too have problems. Is this separation for a short time or a long time? Are they going to get divorced eventually? Are they going to reconcile? There are a lot of insecurities in this group. They're not sure what's going to happen in the future and they shouldn't even be looking at another person, because legally they're still married. Sometimes they act like they don't, they think they don't, but they are legally married.

Category 5: Another group of church singles: widows or widowers. The question is, have they been like this for a short time or a long time? Is the previous spouse still hurting you? Are there feelings you still have that you haven't dealt with for that person who has passed away? And sometimes they are tied to the past and to the spouse who passed away.

Category 6: This is the largest group of singles in the church and in the world, and if I ask you I'm sure you know what it is. This is the single parent group. This is the fastest growing group in the world because of all the divorces that are going on, and also single parents have issues that they also have to deal with. Do they have full custody of their children? Or is it joint custody with the couple? Or do they only have visitation rights? Or do they have no contact with the children? Sometimes they have problems that involve anger, resentments, hurt feelings. But many of them are still looking to get married again.

This is the thing when you start a relationship in any of these categories, if you meet someone, you don't have kids, and that person doesn't have kids, you're starting a new family, but if you meet someone and you have kids, or the other If one person has children or both have children, then you have what the world calls a growing group of families, a blended family, meaning your children, his children have to blend together. And you know what happens when your children and the children the couple has had have to mix, there's a lot of dynamics that take place. You have to deal with jealousy, with sibling rivalries, competitions, there are many issues to deal with.

When you say I'm looking to become a we, there's a lot to consider. It is not as easy as it seems, on the contrary, and in the days we live in today, it is even more difficult than in the past.

I look at my parents, my mom was raised in the church, was part of the youth ministry, and still married my dad, who had been divorced twice and had a son from his second marriage, so he had a lot of problems with his parents. , many difficulties with people in the church, but still married my dad.

It was not easy. First, dealing with two ex-wives. That's another thing, when you marry someone who was married before, you not only take a man, not only his children, but also his ex-wife. And you know what I'm talking about, with attitudes, problems, calling home, emergencies, and all kinds of problems.

My mom was a single woman, she had never been married, she had to deal with my dad's son and ex-wives. The good thing about my dad, although he did not serve the Lord, never got in the way of my mom. He respected my mom, he gave her all the freedom she wanted. She could go to church seven nights a week, she could invite people from the church to the house. My dad would buy him whatever it was for them to eat at home to feed him [inaudible].

He was part of our Christian community, but he never went to church with her. But my mom is a woman of prayer and God is a God of grace, God took her mistake and turned it around. It took 32 years, but my dad came to the Lord and then they started serving the Lord together. And that was a beautiful time together, but that took 32 years of praying and fasting and waiting on the Lord.

My sister and I would joke around and say, "If you had to do it over again, would you do it?" and she doesn't want to hurt our feelings because she knows we love our dad, but she doesn't give us a quick answer. She says, "Well, maybe I would think about it." But it was difficult to have a half brother from another marriage, there were dynamics there that my mother had to deal with, my father had to send her child support. My dad would visit him or bring him home.

There are many matters, my sisters. For those who are looking to be a we, remember that it is going to be difficult. It's going to take a lot of work. It will not be easy. If you see that you are fine now that you are single, you will pray more like a married woman. As Pablo said, there is more to deal with, that's why Pablo said, I wish they were all like me, single, they wouldn't have to worry about anything.

You get up in the morning, get ready, and go praise the Lord. But if you are married and there are children in the house, you have to take care of breakfast, school, laundry, ironing and all the things that come with it. It's nice but it takes work. Remember, the honeymoon is very short and life can be very long. Enjoy the honeymoon.

Pablo does say, it's better that he get married than burn out. Remember what I told you this morning, if you find yourself burning, take a cold shower or sit in a cold bath. Put ice on it, freeze it, wait it out, exercise abstinence and self control, and be a complete woman of God.

Some ask, does God choose the partner or do you choose the partner? And if you go to Scripture there are times that God chose the couple. Remember when Abraham wanted a wife for his son Isaac, he sent the servant, the servant asked the Lord for a sign, received the sign, and God chose Rebekah.

They remember Jacob. Jacob went to Laban's house and looked at Rachel and said, "She is mine." That was the one he chose but he had to fight for it, because his father-in-law threw the other one at him, cross-eyed. That's what the Scripture says. He says that Leah had weak eyes and that she was cross-eyed. The culture was like that, he had to take her too. Jacob chose but it cost him a lot.

But God gives you free will, mind, intelligence, prayer, the power of the spirit. There is a biblical criterion for choosing a partner. Second Corinthians 6 says don't be unequally yoked.

We use that for marriage, you don't pick someone who isn't a believer. But that term, unequally yoked, was used for all kinds of relationships, whether it was a business relationship, or an educational one, or a political one, the saying at that time was, don't be unequally yoked. In other words, don't get tied up with someone who isn't on your level because if you don't have some things in common and there are big differences between you, you're going to have problems.

We know that the main criteria is that the couple be Christian, but there is more to a man than just being a Christian. What are your likes or dislikes? What are your strengths and your weaknesses? What is your background? And that's one of the things we tell you, do your homework. Even if the person is a Christian, what is his background?

I'm going to tell you the truth about me. Years ago someone showed up at my church, not with horns, not with a tail, and not with a fork, but with a three-piece suit and a really nice mustache and a really thick voice that I liked. And he knew how to say praise the Lord, and he knew how to sing and worship and he was so spiritual. So here Reverend Gutiérrez lost her vision for a moment and I was shocked by what I saw outside. I started a relationship with this person, but my elderly pastor called me into the office one day and said, "I have to talk to you, he said, do your homework."

That surprised me, because I was impressed with what I saw on the outside. He was telling me, "There's something behind that." At first I resisted a bit, I put him like the jealous spiritual father that he was and maybe I thought, he didn't want me to have a boyfriend. But in prayer, the Lord allowed me to see certain things and so I started doing my homework and asking questions and I found out that the brother had 3 or 4, 5 or 6 children from these women, he had never paid a penny of spiritual support that he was

Wake up! Wake up! And I thank God that I woke up on time. But I almost made a serious mistake, which would have cost me not only my personal life but also my ministry and this is the most important thing for me. I don't want to leave this for anyone, no one deserves as much as the Lord.

This gift of God does not compare to anyone in any way. We have to be careful. And one of the main things that we have to be cautious about is this matter of love. And if I ask you, what is love? We get carried away by what the world says. In the 60s, 70s there were a lot of love songs. All these romantic songs. The Beatles said, "All you need is love."

I grew up with this culture. Love was a lot of romance songs and movies and Cinderella met the prince and put on the sandal, the princess kissed the frog and became a prince. I kissed so many frogs and none became a prince.

And there were sayings at that time, love is a feeling that one feels, and when you feel it, you feel that it is a feeling that you have never felt before. That's what the world thinks love is. But that is not love, that is an interpretation that one has, and frequently that is to desire and covet. That's why I said that we must protect our eyes and ears from everything we hear and see, because it feeds that greed, romance. It's not true love, sisters.

Because true love takes a lot of work and has a lot to do with this up here, not just this that changes day by day. Paul also had to deal with the matter of love and in First Corinthians, Chapter 13, what theologians call the hymn of love and if you look at Chapter 13, from verses 4 to 7, Paul tells us what truly is love and talks about the love of God, true love, agape. It's not eros. Erotic is a different kind of love. It is not a filial love. Filia is the love of friendship, of family. But Paul speaks of a true agape love, the love that will last 63 years. This is the love my parents felt between them. This is what helped keep them together for 63 years. And this is what Paul says:

"Love is long-suffering, love is patient," say other versions. Love is benign. Love does not envy. Love is not boastful, it is not puffed up, it does not do anything improper, it does not seek its own, it does not get irritated, it does not hold a grudge, it does not enjoy injustice but enjoys the truth. love suffers everything, believes everything, hopes everything, and supports everything.

When there is true love, agape love, you can overlook the difference in your spouse. You can be patient with their weaknesses, you can forgive them when they do something you don't like, you can stay when there is a crisis, you can support them when they need support. True love takes work, sisters. True love is not a feeling that you feel that you have not felt before. True love will last and it takes work. And you have to think, and you have to observe, and you have to analyze them, you have to try to work with it. You do not allow your emotions to take you on a journey. True love is what the word shares and teaches in First Corinthians 13.

The other issue too, not just love, is the area of communication. Many of us have problems with communication, because communication involves sharing who and what one is, and sometimes it's hard to communicate certain things. We keep our communication very basic and that's fine at the beginning of the relationship, but the more you get involved with a person and develop a we, the communication has to grow.

You can't have conversations just "How are you, how are you?" Or just report things, “Oh look what happened in this state and California or Missouri.” You have to open up and start sharing who you truly are. And we have to do it carefully, progressively.

Like I said this morning, you can't meet someone and open up and share everything with one person. We have to go slow and share, and as we share the person is going to react to who you are. They are going to react orally or not orally. When you meet someone and spend time getting to know them and start sharing thoughts or ideas, their body language is going to tell you if they've been rejected or accepted.

When you share your true feelings and the person feels that way, it tells you, "I'm really not interested." And if you ask them to repeat back what you just said, they don't have a clue. They are not even listening to you because there is no good communication established. Sometimes you meet someone and you're sharing things and you say, “oh, we get along great, we have so much in common, God brought us together, we have so many things alike, we like the same things,” when in truth, they are on different pages.

Because communication can be something very tricky and it is something that we have to develop progressively and cautiously. And the more we stay with a person and the more we get to know them, the more intimate and personal things are being shared. And I'm going to tell them, unless they're 100% sure, that this person is going to be your husband, that you're going to be a we, be careful what you share, because once you've shared something you can't undo it. And if that relationship ends, and if it ends in a negative way, you are at risk of many problems.

And it has happened to many young women in our church who got involved very early. They shared too much and when it didn't work, they were embarrassed that [inaudible] other siblings heard certain things. We have to proceed carefully and communication has to grow and develop.

Another thing that we have to work on, after love and communication, and this is also difficult for us, is trust. It's hard to trust people nowadays. In fact the word says, Psalm 118 “It is better to trust in the Lord than to trust in any man.

And trust means that one is depending and putting faith in another person. And like communication, trust has to be developed progressively and carefully. And one of the questions that I know we had before us, how do I know that this person is for me? When you're growing and working with trust, there are certain things you have to observe and experience, and in a small group and in a large group, and it's one thing to be able to be sure or depend on a person. Can I depend on that person? Does that person keep his word? He says he's going to be there at six and shows up at 8:30? And then he says, "Oh, I didn't know it was late."

You have to watch that, because if he's late once or twice he's going to keep being late. If you're willing to deal with someone like that, but if it's a problem for you, you have to take note of that.

Another thing to look for in a person is integrity. Integrity of the whole person, as we shared today, being a whole me. Is that person a complete man? Is it complete in itself? Or is he looking for a mom? Are you looking for a sister? Or is he looking for a lover? What are you searching for?

You have to observe their integrity. How is your character? How do you deal with people one on one? How do you treat people in a group? Is he a friendly or dry or serious person? Is he part of the group or does he stay in the background of a group? How is your personality? Because sometimes we get married thinking that we are going to change someone. I'm here to tell you something, you can't change anyone. On the contrary, the more time passes, the worse people get in their ways. We conform more and more to who we are.

You are not going to change the person. If you're willing to accept him as he is, my mom accepted my dad as he was, he doesn't like to go out, she accepted him. My mom was friendly and liked to go out, and my dad accepted that. That worked for them. He let her be herself, she let him be himself and it wasn't a problem for them.

Could you tolerate that? You have to consider those things. Because when love is gone, you are dealing with someone who is going to get on your nerves. It's going to make you very nervous. You have to look at these things.

Another area, making decisions. Can that person make decisions? There are people if you ask them what do you think? I don't know. Can you make up your mind? I don't know. What do you think about this? I don't know. There are people who cannot make decisions. I personally have problems with people like that, because I like to make decisions. I don't have much patience with people who can't make decisions. But maybe it won't bother you. If you know someone like that and it doesn't bother you, well, amen. It is better to marry than to burn.

But look at this person, how he makes decisions. Are they impulsive? They are very slow? Do they have to think about it a lot? Or maybe they don't think, they respond quickly.

One last area of trust is confidentiality. Can you trust this person with a secret? Can you trust this person to open up and tell them who you really are? Can you trust this person, that even if the relationship ends, they will not divulge who you are or your secrets in the church, or in the group? And you're going to find that out as long as you remain cautious.

Wisdom will tell you, share a little and you will see if it will spread it or not. sometimes you share something with someone and you say, keep this to yourself, don't tell anyone. And before you know it, someone comes along and says, "Look, they told me you said this and that."

You already know then that you can't trust that person and I'm here to tell you that if you can't trust him in the small you can't trust the big. If you can't trust him with superficial details, you can't trust him with intimate reality. Proceed with caution.

And as Christian women, there must be stages in your development. First we must have a friendship with that person because in friendship you are going to see certain things in that person's personality. And getting to dating, let me give you some advice, sisters, keep the date in a group context. Stay away from dating you and him alone.

You don't need to go to his apartment to watch his new TV. If he wants you to listen to the latest CD put it in the car, and still in the car you don't have to park in a dark place. As I told you this morning, a little playing here and a little playing there and before you know it you're playing everywhere. We have to be careful.

And the same with kisses. I sometimes have to deal with older women, women in their 40s, 50s who have been married and divorced who ask me, "Is it okay if we kiss?" Danger danger. And I tell you, it all starts with a little kiss. Usually one goes to bed on day number 1, it begins with a kiss, and hugs, and touching and before you know it well...

That is the danger, and that is why as Christian women, friendship has to be slow, progressive, in a group. You don't do certain things very often when others are around. It is a safety measure. Invite another couple or another single, have another person there.

The last stage of being courtship. The thing is more serious, you think that this person can be, you open up a little more, you take more risks, you share a little more, and always proceeding carefully.

And the last stage as a Christian woman should be commitment. It is a public declaration that the me is going to be us. And even with the commitment, take care of yourself. The man may say, “Well, we're already engaged, we can have a kookie kookie. We are getting married in two months.” No, no, until we get married nothing. Nothing nothing.

And let me tell you these, until you walk down the aisle of the church and say, "I do" you still have time to get out of there. Don't wake up like my friend, on the morning of her honeymoon and look at the couple and say, "What a mistake!"

There are many who do that, they are committed, the invitations have already gone out and they think that it is already too late, it is never too late until you say, "I accept." And even if they have said “I do” it is still not official until the minister signs on the line. I tell couples, until I sign on you can still get out of this, you can get out of this. Because maybe at the last moment you can see something that will be a problem for the future. It's better that you get out now than end up in divorce court.

I know that the world has a completely different mentality. I told them about my friend that I tell her, 'suitcase and go'. My friend has that attitude 'If it doesn't work for me, pack and go'. That is his attitude. That is not the attitude of a Christian woman. The attitude of a Christian person is, 'I have to think about this, I have to pray about this, I have to ask the Lord for wisdom, I have to be very careful and go slow, because after I say, 'Yes, I accept' my 'Yes , I accept' has to be for eternity.

Just as God calls us to himself and never lets us go. That is why the Scripture says that God hates divorce, because the man and the woman uniting represent the marriage between Jesus and his church and when that is broken it represents a breach between God and his people. That is why God hates divorce.

There are cases in which one should get a divorce, there are cases in which God himself would say, 'Give him the papers right now' but God truly hates divorce. Because the breakdown of a unit is a sad thing, especially when children are involved.

One of my cousins divorced his wife after 35 years of marriage. He left with another woman. Their two sons were already married, they sat in my house, two men already married, one already had two daughters, and when they talked about the separation of their parents they cried like two children. They were so hurt that their parents had separated, and those are the victims in a divorce, they are the children.

And you know what that says to a child? Just as your parents separated, God can also leave you. Sometimes that also translates into problems in your relationship with God. That is what Jesus said to the Samaritan woman, "I am not like the men you had, I am not like the man you have now, I am not going to use or abuse you, I am not going to leave you, I am going to give you what you need. And indeed, when you come to me, I am going to give you water that will quench your thirst and you will never have to fetch water from the well again. Because the world will leave you thirsty, your husband will leave you thirsty, your children will leave you thirsty, your family and friends will also leave you thirsty, but Jesus can satisfy your thirst.

That's why I like the song we sing, I want more of you, because the more I have of you, the more satisfied I'll feel because the only one who can satisfy my thirst, single or married, with children or without children, young or old, the only who can satisfy my thirst is the Lord Jesus Christ.

In John 7 he talks about the feasts of the tabernacle. At the Feast of the Tabernacle, on the last day of the festival, the priest would stand in the temple and pour out a jug of water representing God visiting his people. And the Scripture says that on the seventh day of the feast of the tabernacle Jesus stood in the temple and took the jug of water and poured it out and said, "Whoever is thirsty come and drink, because the water that I give you will give eternal life."

In other words, the only one that can satisfy your thirst is my mere presence. And God is here right now. Whatever you need, whatever thirst you are, come to me and drink because I have what you need. It is not in the person, it is not in a home, it is not in a job, it is not in education, it is only in me. Taste and see that the Lord is good. Taste, drink, that the Lord is good. And the water that he gives will sprout rivers of living water. There is a river of living water that springs up, that satisfies your thirst, it is only found in Jesus Christ.

If one day you become a we, good for you. As the Jews say, “mussletuf” “Fare thee well.” but if you never get to the stage of us, in Christ Jesus you are a complete me. You are a worthy woman and your satisfaction is in Christ Jesus. What you need, he has it. And he says, 'Come and use it because I'm here to give it to you.'

Rivers of living water that will flow in you and satisfy your thirst, husband or not, with children or not, there is a river of living water that flows in me, brings joy to my soul, makes me complete and gives me strength to continue.

Remember that we began by saying, “Those who wait on the Lord will be renewed. They will take flight with the wings of the eagle, they will run and they will not get tired, they will walk and they will not get tired, because the Lord will give us the strength and the Lord wants us to raise the wings of the eagle, not a chicken. The chicken does so, they beat. You know what I like about the eagle? The eagle soars.

What the eagle says, a strong storm is coming but I'm going to fly over the storm, but somehow, I'm going to get to the other side. My children take drugs, but one day I will see them in the house of the Lord.

The doctor told me that I have three months to live but I know the best doctor in the world. My finances are not as they should be, the economy is a disaster, but I serve the God who says, "The gold and silver are mine" so I will soar like eagles. I will be renewed, I will reach my destination because I am a complete woman in Christ Jesus. I am a worthy woman, God patched me up, he closed all the leaks I had, and there is nothing leaking. Amen.

And what God deposits I will keep and I will not let go. Because if I never get to be us I am a me. I'm going to say it like I'm in the Bronx, I'm a me, I'm a whole me because God has put me together and whether we're a we or not, I'm a me. You are a me, married or not, amen. And we will raise the wings of the eagle and we will fly up and we will reach the other side. And remember, the stronger the storm, the higher it flies.

And if there is no wind to give him strength, he creates his own forces and his own wind, you have to worship him alone. If there is no worship leader, worship him yourself.

One of my best moments, believe it or not, has been in the shower. Somehow or another in the shower I start singing and I get so happy. The first time I felt so embarrassed because I was naked but then I realized, he created this body, so he can look at it. Some of my best moments of worship are when I'm in the shower, start singing, and see God tell me to move.

I feel the presence of God when I create my own worship and praise. I can soar like an eagle, I'll get to the other side, because I'm a complete woman in Christ.

God asked the prophet, "Is there anything impossible for me?" When God asks a question, he has the answer. And when God asked him "Is there something impossible for me?" God was telling him, “Jeremiah, nothing is impossible for me. There's nothing I can't do. There is no child that he cannot save. There is no husband who cannot change. There is no marriage that cannot heal. There is no mind that cannot be restored. There is no heart that I cannot restore. There is no home that I cannot visit.

We will soar like eagles. Repeat after me, can we sing it again? Close your eyes and imagine yourself with a spirit soaring like the eagle. Raise your wings like eagles and you will soar and you will not stop until you reach the destination. And you won't stop until you become the woman God wants you to be. You will soar like the eagle. No matter what is going on, God will give you strength.

Raise your wings like the eagle and you will fly to your destination because you are a complete woman in Christ Jesus. cover me. Close your eyes where you are.