A call to fidelity

God put it in my heart to speak for a moment about fidelity, to be faithful to the Lord, to be faithful in our lives, to be faithful. And that goes with that idea that even if you have little left in life, your call is to be faithful.

There are many times that you will not have strength, honestly in life situations you will not have a little smoke, not a chinchín, you ran out of gasoline and the only thing you can smell is that there was gasoline in the tank but that's it. You're going to be like an athlete, a marathoner who's running a marathon and he hits mile 25.5 and has half a mile left to run and he's gone. And what does it do? He bites the bullet, he doesn't give up and even if he crawls he reaches the finish line because he has a commitment to honor and draws strength from where he doesn't have it and completes the race.

There are moments in life when we cannot even depend, brothers, let me tell you this, on the awareness of the presence of God, even though God is there, but there are situations in life when you are going to feel so tired at times, so loaded, so overwhelmed by the pressure of the moment you are going through in your life, that you are still going to acclaim and you are not going to feel the presence of God.

But you know what? In those moments it is like you have to simply say, I believe that my Redeemer lives, and take that step, because you have been called to be faithful. And God will give you the strength at that moment to complete what you have started, because we cannot depend on emotions.

The son or daughter of God does not depend on emotions, it depends on principles. Because the devil will often come and whisper to you, jump in, jump in, do this, do that, and the sensation will be so strong that you will feel that if you give in to the pressure of emotion or appetite, or whatever, you're lost. But the children of God learn to live from every word that comes from the mouth of God, from the principles of the Gospel.

And I believe that Christian maturity is measured not by the chills you get, although there are times for chills in the life of the child of God, but simply because God said it and I have to do it and that's it. And you go to the goal because you are a man, a faithful woman.

Fidelity is for me the insurance that the son of God has. It is that card, that last card that you play on your Christian journey. When all else fails you and you don't have access to something, that letter, I have been called to be faithful, I am a faithful man. You are a man, a woman of honor in the spirit, you are a prince of the army of God and a prince, a princess of the army of God does not get dirty because his position demands height.

And then this call to fidelity in every situation of life, in your work, your marriage, your finances, your commitments, when you give your word, when all else fails, you have to be sure in your heart that you are going to be faithful, you can not depend on the circumstances. I love faithful people.

This morning what confirmed to me… because I was debating, I talk about it or stay on the sermon program which I think was pretty good, I hope to share it with you at some point, but as I say, sometimes you have to learn that sometimes God tells you "No, save that, let it earn interest, you will preach it later but now I want this in particular."

So I want to share with you this idea of fidelity, of God's call to his people to fidelity. This is not a sermon that may give much glory to God, Hallelujah! But it is rice with beans and a well-seasoned piece of meat, which will give you strength for your life.

Because I believe that pastoral preaching is very different from evangelistic preaching, another type of preaching. You are like a mother who has to make three meals a day for her children and her husband, sometimes, and then you have to be consistent. And then you sometimes give him some spaghetti with smoked meat and that's it, and that's fine, because what you want is nutritious food for your children.

So I want to talk to you about fidelity and being faithful, and I am going to move forward because it is a topic that although it has not been prepared, but it has so many ramifications. It occurred to me, what text could I use as a starting point for this call to fidelity? And Ruth immediately occurred to me. Ruth was a faithful woman, of all the examples of faithfulness in the Bible Ruth stands out to me.

You remember the story of Ruth. We focus on it in Scripture at the moment when Ruth, her mother-in-law Naomi and her sister-in-law, Orpah, are, I imagine them as at a crossroads, there is no one around and there is a path that leads here, another leads there and another comes from there. And the three of them are there in the very center of that crossroads and they are talking.

Noemí, the mother-in-law of these two young women, has lost her husband and is a widow. And these two, Orpah and Ruth, have each lost their husbands, the sons of Naomi. Three widowed women, without much of a future, devoid of possibilities, with some big decisions they have to make.

Naomi was a noblewoman and instead of sticking to her daughters-in-law and feeding on them, she said to her daughters-in-law, “You know what, girls? You are still young, I already my time is fulfilled. She thought that God had abandoned her, by the way. “So make your own destiny, go away and leave me, I'll take care of you however I can,” says the Dominican version of the Bible.

Here we take the story, look at what happens between these two women, it says that 1:14, Ruth:

“…They raised their voices again and wept and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law…”

He said, “Okay, dear God bless you, see you soon, bye. And she went looking for her next husband somewhere out there. She had the right to do it, she did nothing wrong. She had the right to live and she had been invited by her mother-in-law to make her own destiny. So he left. She took the conventional path of life. But look at what he said to her, she notices that for the moment Ruth stands there. They see Orpah's figure disappear on the horizon and Ruth stays glued to her mother-in-law. And Naomi said:

"...Behold, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and her gods, return after her..." Seek your destiny too, Ruth, don't worry, do what you have to do. And Ruth responded with some immortal and very poetic words:

“…Ruth answered, “Do not beg me to leave you and separate myself from you, for wherever you go I will go, and wherever you live I will live. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. So do Jehovah to me and even add me only death will separate us two..."

Wow! It's a good word in this case. Naomi's jaw dropped. She saw her daughter-in-law's determination and seeing Naomi that she was so determined to go with her, she said no more. She saw that Ruth stuck to her like a barnacle and wasn't going to let go and said, “Well, if I rip it off, she's going to take a piece of meat with her, so I better leave her alone.” She said, "Okay, daughter, let's go ahead, you and I are going to fight together."

And God blessed them greatly, these two women made a mutual support society and went into Naomi's ancient town and God blessed Ruth so much that Ruth became the wife of a very prosperous man and also became like a great great grandmother to King David.

David is of the lineage of this woman, in fact, who was not even a Jew, she was a pagan, she was from a pagan nation. He came to be inclusive, ancestor of the Savior humanity, Christ Jesus. Wow! Wouldn't you like to have that in your lineage? Ancestor of Christ Jesus, Savior of humanity. Because? Because faithful people usually win and are blessed at the end of the processes they go through, they get away with it. Because sometimes life has zigzags, life is not linear from 0 to a thousand, a straight line, life has moments of difficulty, you lose, you win, you move forward, sometimes you have to go back a little, but if you you maintain, you reach the goal and you are blessed, and you are blessed.

That is what many young people do not understand sometimes, many people in the world do not understand and when some problems come in life they immediately give up and throw in the towel, and then for many people life is a series of failures and when They grow old and have not built anything, because every time adversity comes into their lives, they give up, throw everything away and then they have to go back to building again when they say, "Okay, well, I've lost my mind, now I will come back again." But what happened? You wasted time, you missed opportunities, you didn't cultivate relationships, you didn't learn things, and that's the way it sometimes is with a career.

A lot of people, well, start a career and it didn't go as well as I thought for the first 6 months and they go from wanting to be a nurse to being a vet or an investor or whatever. They are not maintained. There are people who go in life from one thing to another, from one friendship to another. They are like locusts in the Middle East, which devastate a land, leave it deserted, and then go somewhere green to eat more. And so for people.

There are people in life who are like that with friendships, they spend 6 months, 8 months, 10 months with a friend, a friend, and they call her, and they call her, and they see each other, and eat together, and go to the park, and sleep even in the same bed, I hope behaving well, and when the friendship has become boring, they leave it and go to another fresh meat to continue another friendship. And their life is a series of... there is no perseverance, there is no continuity because when the friendship has become boring and there is little to talk about because they already know all its secrets, then another friend comes along, more interesting and more promising and they go after from that friend and they don't learn to be a good friend. And when they reach old age they don't have three or four good friends who can say, I have spent my life with these people and I have lived it and we have cried together and we have fought and we have reconciled and we are friends and brothers for life. Because? Because every process in life has its ups and downs.

Life is difficult by nature, friendships, relationships are like trees that bloom in the spring and then autumn comes and lose their leaves and in winter they are dry and bare but spring returns and the flowers return again, and we are like this, and the fruits and there is time for celebration and that's life. Life has its winter times and it has its spring and summer times too.

You have to know how many summers have you spent in your life, how many autumns, how many winters have you spent? What puts me up in winter is knowing that one of these days I am going to see the first leaves on the trees and when there is that snow that reaches my knees and I have to come to church on Sunday night tomorrow to preach, and it's raining and that biting cold, you say, hey, but I know that April is around, even if it's in two months. And I'm going to hold on there, I'm going to wait.

And brothers, only faithful people can get to enjoy the fruits of life. Faithful people, but as I told you, when it is winter and you sometimes look at the trees, you say, it is impossible for that tree to bear fruit again. However, it bears fruit again. And so it happens, there are times in your life that there will be situations that you are going to say, "I won't get up from this", but as the song said, if you give your praise to the Lord at that time, that praise will make the leaves sprout again. And you have to stay there.

And the Bible says over and over again, it is important, it says, that God's servants be faithful. First Corinthians, Chapter 4, the Apostle Paul says:

"... Therefore, consider us men as servants of Christ and administrators of the mysteries of God..."

Paul says, see that the men who know us, the people who know us know that we occupy a very exalted position in a world. We are ambassadors of Christ Jesus, we are servants of Jesus Christ, and we administer the mysteries of God. that is wonderful.

You know that you are an administrator of the mysteries of the universe. As? When you praise, how mysterious is praise, how mysterious. If you start to analyze praise, spiritual warfare, prayer, salvation by faith, Christ's death on the cross, his resurrection, his coming in the clouds. Those are mysteries. The fact that God has prepared Jesus from eternity to die for us on the cross of Calvary, so that we may be saved. That's a mystery, and we manage those things. The church is the one that handles those truths, proclaims them, interprets them as I am doing right now up here. We are administrators.

That is, you occupy an extremely exalted position by virtue of being a follower of Christ Jesus and a knower and an announcer of the word of God. but look at what it says here then, and this is the important thing, it says:

“…Now then, in other words, fine, but you know what? It is required of stewards that each one be found faithful…”

Because? Because an administrator has to be faithful. If you trust someone to manage something, your money, your house, your profession, whatever, it will be better for that person to be faithful, trustworthy in other words, that you can hand over your finances and you know that that person is not you will mismanage them.

So God has given you something very powerful, you occupy a very high place in the Kingdom of God and in the world and God expects you to be constant, that you are reliable, that you are faithful. And a faithful person, as I tell you, is not a person who operates on emotions. A faithful person is a person of principles, he is a person who, even if the world is offered to him, if his principles do not go with that offer, he says, even if it shines as it shines and even if my eyes go after it, that does not belong to me , that is not mine and I am not going to touch it.

And that fidelity, because as I tell you, brothers, in the charismatic, Pentecostal world, with which I identify myself, and with which this church identifies, many times there is a dependence on the brightness of things, on emotion. I believe in emotions, in manifestation, and I have spoken here of the manifestation of the active presence of God, but you know what? many times in the course of thousands of preaching and service sessions, from time to time a service is not going to have the same glow that we did this afternoon, for example.

I have been with this church for 28 years, 26, 27 of them as pastor, and in that time so many things have happened. There are Sundays when you can almost touch the glory of God, there are other Sundays when look, we hit a double or a single. And that is why you are going to go home thinking, oh, the presence of God was not there, we failed in our purpose. Oh how terrifying! What is going to happen? Is the church going to fall apart? No. You simply praise God, that was what God wanted. We worship the Lord. We declare your word, we tithe and offer, we tithe and offer and you go home. Glory to God. You administered the mysteries of the Lord, next Sunday things will be better and you spend your life serving the Lord. And there is thunder and lightning, glory to God.

But if the experience of that day was not as glorious as last Sunday, you are a soldier, you continue to report to the house of God, you continue to worship the Lord, you continue to glorify his name. Many times God glorifies himself more in that town that praises him like this, sometimes simply, but out of obedience and perseverance, the town that depends on the pastor making them feel chills and getting down on their knees and upside down, and doing maneuvers so that the people feel the presence of the Lord even if he is not there, they are going to pull it whatever it takes. But not. I believe that the people of God are a people of constancy.

And I talked to the brothers, I spent a lot of time on marriage because one of the places where one has to be faithful is in marriage. And that of being faithful means that when you marry a person, that is why a ceremony has been elaborated, and you tell that person there, and you make a confession that says, in sickness and in health, in wealth and in poverty, in all that life gives and in all that it takes away, you will be faithful to each other, until death do you part.

And of course, when you are getting married you are 20 or 24 years old, you are fresh and full of illusion and it is very easy to say, until death do you part. But you don't know everything that awaits you at that time. I have said that sometimes I would like people instead of dressing in elegant and expensive clothes on the wedding day, I would like them to dress in overalls, with mechanic pants and a belt with a hammer and ribbon. measure and a pair of pliers because marriage is work, it is a blessing, glory to God, it is the glory of God on earth, because everything God does is good, but it also requires effort, work.

In marriage there is everything, it is a trajectory that will have many different things and if you do not arm yourself with that awareness that this is for faithful people, this is not for cowards. If you quit, as the Mexicans say, from the first crisis, problem, fight, disappointment, disgust, discouragement, whatever in marriage, you will be going like a monkey, from stick to stick all your life and you will not to raise character, fidelity, reliability. I believe that in marriage a man, a woman says to her spouse, to her husband, to her wife, I am going to be your friend and I make a pact, I make a pact with you today. And even if old age and sickness come, and we fight and make mistakes and make mistakes and step on each other's calluses and say things to each other that we shouldn't have told each other, and there are wounds, I'm going to love you, I'm going to forgive you, you're leaving me. to forgive and we are going to arrive even if it is limping, but we are going to enter the Kingdom of God together.

That's why there are many people who don't get married, because they begin to think, oh, what if tomorrow I don't feel enthusiastic about my wife, what if there is another woman that I like over there, or another man, then I don't want any more… Brothers, In marriage there will be everything, there will be temptations, there will be mistakes, there will be offenses, there will be diseases, but in all this trajectory the Bible says that you have to be faithful, you have to hold on to the hand of your husband or your wife, and be a good husband, a good friend and go through the processes of life together. There will be moments when in bed there will be glory and cannons will sound and little angels will sing, and sparklers will illuminate the bedroom, and there will be other days when it was good, you give each other a little kiss, lie down to sleep, express love to each other on one to the other and another day the flares will come and the cannon shots and glory to God. But that's how it is. And one has to understand that this is married life, in 25, 30, 40 years of married life if God gives a couple, there is everything.

And you know one of the things that threatens the most, marriage, as well as any other adventure in life, is not so much when the devil arrives with all his demonic army and jumps on you, and you know that the fire of the hell is blowing over your life, and in those moments the adrenaline rises and you cry out to the Lord, and you become a giant, a Deborah and defeat the hosts of hell, because you know that you are at war. But that is not the most dangerous moment of marriage or service to the Lord. The most dangerous moments are when boredom and everyday life come, it is the matter of day to day.

I sometimes see brothers and sisters who come to church and are so happy and enthusiastic about the church. They say, Pastor, this is the best church in the world and sometimes I'm not so enthusiastic to tell him, amen, sister, nobody gets me out of here, they say. And while I greet them and see them on Sunday and encourage them, glory to God, and the people are happy that they are new to the church, to the ministry, they celebrate it but when 6 months, 8 months arrived and they are already part of the Congregation, and there are other brothers who must be greeted and encouraged and received, and it is simply expected that they get their hands on the life of being a member of a church, that they serve and that they come and that they are there because they made a pact with a Congregation, do you know what happens? That the mood is beginning to decline, it no longer gives them chills.

So you have to come on Sunday, get dressed, prepare the clothes on Saturday night, prepare the boys, get to church, and next Sunday they will have to do the same thing again, and they will have to serve in the children's ministry, and sometimes there are going to be problems and the leaders of the ministry are going to pull their bows, and the glory of God is not going to be as evident as it was last Sunday. But no, he made a vow and he has to be faithful and he comes and next Sunday he comes.

People bless me, and this is not calculated to indirectly insult anyone, I tell people, there are churches with which one has to leave to escape for his life, there are churches that have bad doctrine, bad administration, Emotional and spiritual abuse, exploitation of people, many terrible things happen and I believe that in that case, yes, you should, as I say, flee for your life, find a place where you can...

But, if you have a good Congregation where there is good word, there is a good program, integrity in the ministry, there are brothers who love God, there are opportunities to serve and learn and for your children to grow, why are you going to look for a fresher, plumper, more promising little woman, and leave the woman of your youth to go elsewhere.

That happens in marriage. The years come, the years go by and we are no longer as muscular and defined as we were at 20. Many things go south or fill out a little more or whatever, and if you start to look with bad eyes at the that it is cooler and more promising and you look at the other with contempt, you will not last and you will miss out on a great blessing. Because in the life of the children of God it is necessary to give them an opportunity so that the blessing that God has stored sometimes in very humble wrappings can manifest itself. And sometimes we have to change our physical appetites for the last wine that is better than the first in God.

And many times those mature times when we have shared sadness together, we have cried together, we have grown old together, we have lost hair together, we have lost muscles together, we have seen each other in the hospital in a bed with an ugly and unattractive dressing gown, we have woken up and we have seen the scab here in the mouth of your beloved prince charming.

But you have maintained yourself and the years have passed and that has given your love true texture, depth and richness instead of that cheap and superficial sweetheart of the boys when they are 14 years old who think they are going to live for all eternity. . Love that has gone through trials and brokenness and tragedies and loss and stands tall, that love brings glory to God and beautifies the men and women who engage in it, like Ruth and Naomi. Yes, they had their times, how will they have celebrated the wedding of Ruth and Orfa? With great enthusiasm and illusion of what awaited them ahead. A couple wants to have children, and they have children and things happen.

This morning he told me, there was a couple here who accompanied them to their baby's funeral, she was stillborn at 6 months, almost 7 months, and we were there at the baby's funeral, we officiated and that mother had a broken heart, but they were here this Sunday the two of them there, like two lovebirds holding hands, adoring the Lord in the morning service. They could be at home swearing at God and saying, oh, you abandoned me, this and that. No. They were here like soldiers, faithful, reporting to their God who decided to give them something that they did not expect, but if they remain, who knows if God will give them the desires of their hearts better than the first.

Because when you kiss God's hand even though it slaps you, God says, "That's my son, I'm going to bless him because he was faithful to me." When God took David's fruit from him and Bathsheba, even though David bled and fell on the ground and didn't bathe and fasted and asked God not to take his son, God told him, “No. , I will take it." And do you know what David did?

When they told her that her son... she realized, they didn't even dare to tell her, she realized from the whispers of the servants that her son had died, she did so, got up, went to the bathroom, turned on the shower, didn't I don't know if there was a shower at the time, but he poured water, soaped himself, made himself pretty, shaved, hadn't shaved in days, and ordered a cheeseburger with bacon on top, and lettuce and a french fries, he he ate it with all the appetite of three days of not eating and his servants would look at him and say, “Hey, we can't understand this man. When his son was dying, he was lying on the floor."

And they asked him how is it that you can do that, David? When your son was still alive you were depressed and crying out to God and now that he has died, you bathe and get dressed and say, let's get on with life. How is that? David said, “Look, you know why? Because when my son was alive there was still hope that God would leave him to me, but since he is dead, I know that one day I will go to him, he does not come to me but I go to him. So now you have to live, you have to move on.

And that happens, brothers, we have sometimes advised brothers, they have lost their home, they have sometimes even lost their marriage, they have lost a loved one, they have lost their health, they have lost their dreams for one reason or another, life has something taken away, God has allowed it to happen to them. What are they going to do? The street is cold out there without God. No one can live without God. We have to say, “Father, where will I go if only you have the word of eternal life? So I'm going to stay here until you give me an answer, heal me, restore me and give me an explanation that I can understand. I'm going to keep going in the meantime, and if you don't give me the answer, I'm still going to serve you and love you."

Job said, even if he kills me I will serve him, I will adore him. Those are the people that God blesses in life, faithful people, faithful people in their marriage, faithful people in their church, faithful people in friendship, faithful people in their work. Look, if you quit your job because the boss gave you a bad look or was in a bad mood and said something to you and then you go to find another job, you are never going to be successful at any job. If you leave your job because it got difficult, in a streak of time with a lot of work and they are exploiting you, and you don't like it or because work got boring, and you go from job to job, you will never get to work. nothing. In life one has to make a vow, a pact and stay because sometimes times pass and spring comes and better things come and those times are over.

We have to be long-term people. I was telling the brothers this morning about the little 45 rpm records, the little ones, they tell me there were those things, I haven't seen them, but they tell me they're out there. I saw them in a museum here at the Boston Museum of Science. And there are many Christians who are like 45 rpm records, small, short duration. They last a minute or two at the most. And if things get tight, they step foot in whatever, marriage, friendship, work, finances, whatever. No, God wants us to be like the 33 revolutions per minute ones that, they also tell me existed, I haven't seen them, but they are there, some of you have seen them, I see that they are agreeing, the long play, LPs. They have like six pieces of music inside of them.

God wants long-term Christians. I love those couples who have gone through storms and difficulties and are there holding hands, sometimes holding hands too tightly, but holding hands anyway, because that's life, brothers. Life is not for cowards. If they haven't made a song they should do it with that title, “Life is not for cowards”.

I tell people, the pastorate is not for cowards, the ministry is not for cowards. No, Christ said in the world you will find affliction, he says, but trust that I have overcome the world. As I told you, sometimes the only thing, I ask the musicians, come here please, the only thing that will save you when you do not hear the voices of the little angels, when in your heart there are no reserves to not even love God or believe him to God or believe in the promises of God, when in you there is no desire to even go to the word of God, because sometimes there are people who are so depressed that when they open the word of God it tastes like sand, when all the platform below you collapse, the only thing that will keep you is that promise that you have made to reach the end, because you know that God is faithful and that God is good and that even if you do not see it in your life, spring will come, blessing will come.

We have to be like the writer of Habakkuk, even though the fig tree does not flourish, nor is there fruit on the vines, even though the olive tree produce is lacking, and the fields do not provide maintenance, and the sheep are removed from the fold, and there are no cows in the area. the corrals, that is to say, even though the whole world is falling apart, and what I need is nowhere to be seen, and it seems that everything has been a lie, and that all my illusions have been a fiction, he says, with all I will rejoice in the Lord, with all I will rejoice in the Lord and rejoice in the God of my salvation.

You know the times that await humanity ahead, there are warnings of financial crisis. I know that difficult things are coming for humanity, drought, possibly it will come, possibly not, but it is very possible. These are difficult times that will come. I have promised myself that even if the fig tree does not bloom, I will still rejoice in the Lord. Even if it's the bones, but I'm going to get to Canaan, worshiping my God.

I ask the Lord to renew me and strengthen me because I want to be faithful to you, I want to be a man of my word and I want to be a trustworthy man. And I want our church to be a church that stands out for being a church of long-term people, for people to say, there are people of character, there are trustworthy people, there the word of God embodies hard-working, honest, good people. friends, good teachers and good husbands and wives, trustworthy parents. We are the best workers in the City of Boston that people want to take from us for their jobs because they are people who give 8 hours of work for 8 hours of pay.

Trustworthy people with their word, that you can turn your back on and you know that they don't worry because they are faithful people, they are honest people. That is what interests me the most. Paul says that one day tongues will cease, there will be no more prophecies because they will not be necessary, everything will already be fulfilled, there will be no need for gifts of healing because there will be no sickness. And the only thing that will remain is love, it is the character of the children of God.

I tell you, I love the prophecies, I love the tongues, I love the manifestations of the power of God, I love the healing, I love the revelry of exalted worship, I love the carousing of the spirit, but when that is not there, I still know that my God is on his throne. And I am going to serve him rain, shine or shine and I want to be like that in my marriage, in my fatherhood, as a friend, as a pastor, in all dimensions of my life. I don't want to leave a lot of bitten pieces of meat to catch another piece. No, I'm going to eat that piece until I'm going to crush the bones. And then I eat another piece.

A person who exhausts things, works on them and thus one always steps on solid ground and one is an admirable, respectable person who well represents the Kingdom of God, and the character of Jesus Christ. I believe that Jesus was like that. God certainly is. He has not tired. He gave his word. He committed himself to a town and that town has betrayed him twenty thousand times but he remains faithful. He says, even if everyone betrays me, I remain faithful, I do not forget my pacts because God is… the character of God and it is the character of God that you serve and you have to represent your God well. so you have to make a commitment, I'm going to be faithful, rather than anointed, I'm going to be faithful. Understands?

Before anything else, I want men to have me as a man, a woman, faithful, a faithful young man, my teachers know they can depend on me. When I give a word I keep it. If I have a commitment I pay what I owe. And these people are admirable, respectable, and they win the hearts of others and are credits for the Gospel. When they speak, people pay attention to them and take what they say seriously because they know that their currency is backed by gold that is there. behind and it is worth what it says it is worth, faithful people.

Wouldn't you like to be considered faithful? By God and by men. We are going to make a commitment this afternoon. Let's stand up right now and in any area of your life where the enemy is whispering to you, step out, run away, find yourself something better, another more promising garden. No, say no, I am going to work this garden and my credit is to turn this, which is a little dry, into a flowery garden again, I am going to work it instead of going to look for another garden.

I am going to be a man, a woman faithful to the Lord in all dimensions of my life. If my marriage is shaky a bit today I make a vow to renew my marriage, if my faith has been I'm leaving, I'm not leaving, I'm staying in the Gospel, I'm not staying, I say, no, in the name of Jesus today I gain new strength, I am going to keep going, God is with me, his word is faithful.

If there is any area of your life in which you have been wavering right now, I invite you, say in your heart, Father, I repent and I make a vow of fidelity. If your character has not been the most trustworthy, repent right now, there are second and third chances. Say, no, Lord, I am going to reform my character. I can't live here with 6 months clean and 4 months on the street. No, I am a man, a woman of God, so today I commit myself to maintain this cleanliness until I die. And although sometimes the devil offers me all the glass balls telling me that they are jewels, I am not going to buy them, because I know what they are worth in the Kingdom of God.

I invite you to make a vow of fidelity in your heart right now, in your spirit, and if you have not received Jesus as your Lord and savior yet, and God has brought you this afternoon, I also want to give you an opportunity to enter In this journey that we are all involved in, and invite Christ into your heart and then commit yourself to the Holy Spirit and with his help reach the goal committed to God. and God will give you the strength even to be faithful to him.

I invite you to make your pact right now with Christ Jesus, to receive him in your heart, to embrace him there and say, Lord Jesus, I commit myself to the values of your kingdom, I receive your person as my savior and my Lord, I I want to enter this path, this path is worth it.

So I receive Jesus as Lord and savior. Why don't you do it right now in your heart? If you want to raise your hand, raise it, I'm going to pray for you too. God bless you, sister. Amen. Will there be someone else who wants to invite that Christ who is upright and faithful to enter his life and his heart? If there is anyone else, please raise your hand, we want to pray for you.

It's opportunity, it's not emotion, this is going to the bank with solid money. If someone else wants to give their life to the Lord. And if you want to make a vow of fidelity, raise your hand also this afternoon. If you want to tell your wife, your husband, your family, your work, I am going to be a man, a faithful woman, raise your hand. Ask the Lord to strengthen you in fidelity, men and women of fidelity. I want to be a faithful man before God and here I raise my hand.

I want to honor the name of my God. Help us Lord to be faithful to you, we want to be a faithful church, that this be the platform on which all other things are given, a promise that we will reach the end and you will help us. And when you have finished everything, be firm in our position. Give us a church, Father, that honors you, a church of character, a church of integrity, not a foam church, but a serious, solid church, built on the rock, we will build on the rock even if it takes us longer, but we will build On the rock.

I bless your servants, Lord, I bless those who have raised their hands and I declare God's grace over her life, that she can walk on the rock all the days of her life, Lord, and that she understands that you are with her, You are with him even if he does not see you, even if he does not feel you, you will accompany him until the end of his days. I bless your life, Lord. Any other person, Lord, who has raised their hand, weld this promise in their hearts and help us to be an honorable people for your glory, Lord.

We love that whole Christ and we want to imitate him. We declare a blessing on your people this afternoon, Lord. Listen to our prayer for this word that we have declared to enter the anointing of fidelity into the hearts of your people.

Thank you, Hallelujah! People of God, God tells you, I am with you. I ask you to be faithful, but do not worry, it does not depend only on you, believe that I will be with you until the end of the world and do your part and I will do mine. I will not leave you nor forsake you, I will be with you wherever you go. I will be your advisor, your strengthener, your support when you feel weak, mysteriously, even if you do not feel it in your flesh, I will be strengthening you, I will give you victory so that you reach the goal, because I have committed myself to you. You will reach the goal, says the Lord, but make your purpose in your life and help me to help you, says the Lord. Hallelujah!

Father, new strength for our lives this afternoon, Lord, we receive them. Bless your sons and your daughters, Father, pour out your grace on us. Bless Pastor Harry Maldonado, thanks for bringing him. Take him, Lord, to his destination with a blessing, a fresh anointing, Father, and strengthen his ministry there. Give your word and give your children that we are here, Lord, bread for tomorrow, for this whole week, for our whole lives.

We love you and celebrate your presence in our lives. In the mighty name of Jesus and the people of God say, amen. God bless you, my brothers, my sisters. Glory to God. Amen. Amen.