Ask for grace in grace time
David Marrero
(Audio: Spanish)
SUMMARY: Pastor Miranda introduces Pastor David Marrero as a friend and a passionate lover of God who has planted many churches in Central America and Puerto Rico. Marrero shares his experience of meeting an old man who introduced him to Jesus as his older brother, which changed his life. He sings and talks about the importance of creating an atmosphere and environment in a church and how God chose the Lion of Judah congregation to move to their current building. He also introduces his own pastor, David Hernandez, and recommends him as a great preacher. The First Lady and Maritza Gomez are also acknowledged.
In this speech, the speaker talks about the importance of congregating and working together as a church. He uses the analogy of a classic car that needs all its parts to function properly, just like the church needs all its members to work together. He then talks about the addictive nature of grace and how it can change even the angriest of people. He shares a personal anecdote about being convinced by his wife to buy things during a sale, and how it relates to asking for grace in times of grace. The speaker ends by emphasizing the importance of being in love with God and the power of redemption.
The speaker talks about the power of grace and how it can change situations in our lives. He shares personal stories of experiencing grace in his life, such as receiving free meals and upgrades on rental cars. He encourages the audience to ask for grace in their lives and not to fight with those who can help them. The message is centered around the idea that God has a special grace for each individual and we should trust in it.
The Prophet speaks of God's fury towards the Assyrians and how he will come with all his might. But there will be joy in his town and the maiden who plays the tambourine will bring it. If she waves her hand or hits with it, God will destroy the Assyrians. Applause for the Lord is like fighting for him.
In this speech, the speaker talks about the importance of congregating and working together as a church. He uses the analogy of a classic car that needs all its parts to function properly, just like the church needs all its members to work together. He then talks about the addictive nature of grace and how it can change even the angriest of people. He shares a personal anecdote about being convinced by his wife to buy things during a sale, and how it relates to asking for grace in times of grace. The speaker ends by emphasizing the importance of being in love with God and the power of redemption.
The speaker talks about the power of grace and how it can change situations in our lives. He shares personal stories of experiencing grace in his life, such as receiving free meals and upgrades on rental cars. He encourages the audience to ask for grace in their lives and not to fight with those who can help them. The message is centered around the idea that God has a special grace for each individual and we should trust in it.
The Prophet speaks of God's fury towards the Assyrians and how he will come with all his might. But there will be joy in his town and the maiden who plays the tambourine will bring it. If she waves her hand or hits with it, God will destroy the Assyrians. Applause for the Lord is like fighting for him.
Pastor Miranda: I am happy to see Pastor David Marrero here again, his wife and I assume children and grandchildren who are here. Now you will clarify this beautiful family that is here with you David. Pastor David Marrero is a personal friend, a friend of our Congregation; we had him this morning, he actually blessed us with that passionate Word out of the Book of Songs; although it was not there where he read but in reality that Word of Passion for God and of desire and need of God. So today it is a joy for us to have him, he has been traveling in Latin America and he is here.
David Marrero for those who don't know him and I think there are visitors, because I believe that in the Spanish-Christian town of Boston he is already well known, but for those who don't know David, he has been Pastor for many years of the Church "Defenders of the Faith". A very blessed Church here in the city of Boston. Your life has been a positive leaven here in the city in so many ways. David has planted many Churches and has left a seedbed of Pastors in many parts of Central America, Puerto Rico; very prosperous and fruitful people in the things of God. So, he is a very special man, a lover of God.
Some time ago a book came out called - I think it's like "God Chasers" or "God Chasers" - David is a hunter of God, he chases him everywhere. He is a man who loves the Lord very much. So please give a round of applause to our friend David Marrero... nice to have him here this morning.
Pastor David: I don't know how many brothers and sisters there are here who know me. How many know me? OK. To those who do not know me, I want to congratulate you, because you have the privilege of knowing me. No, I want to tell you that if you did not know me, you have not lost much, but if you do not know the Lord, you have lost THE great thing. Better to know Him. Medra is here with me, León de Judá stole it from me, Felipe is with me -León de Judá stole it from me-, Maritza Gómez is here -León de Judá stole it from me-, El Chamo is -León de Judá stole it from me. Judah and then something occurred to me: "Those Pastors stole, and I stole the Pastor" and now all of you have lost because I stole the Pastor, and I have become addicted to the love and admiration I have for this man. To all those who think - and I say that they have robbed me, not that they never robbed me, but that's the Puerto Rican something when a soul leaves the Church, usually one says they left because they were crooked. Well, the ones that came here weren't bad guys, they were very good. So I congratulate you for being here but I stole the Pastor. What's more, I want to tell you that I eat with him and drink coffee with him much more with him than all of you. "Hello!" oh! and he invited me to preach and they have to listen to me. Thank you so much. I can't shut up, this Omar, grab an instrument over there. Turn on the piano or the guitar, whatever... whatever you want here.
I cannot continue without first saying what I have been saying for many years. You are a huge, huge family, twenty-three siblings and the youngest is Medra. Stand up Medra, this is the youngest, stand up. Other of the little ones, Felipe, stand up, twenty-three.
But one day I was in New York City and a funny thing happened to me... I went off the rails so, so terribly. Imagine, eighteen years old, me living alone in New York City. With no one to stop me, and I thought that the world was mine, I thought that Broadway was mine, that 42, the lights, that the casino, that so many things that are not worth mentioning were mine and then I found myself a old man and that old man began to talk to me. I had a jug of water in my hand and I offered it to this old man and then the old man said to me: "Ah! If you knew the gift of God. Wow! If you knew the gift of God and would you ask Him for water? He would give you springing water for eternal life." I knew the text, what I didn't know was what came after the text and the old man told me: "I'm going to introduce you to a brother who has been looking for you for a long time." I was surprised because I know all my brothers, all of them, but I had one in New York that I didn't know. He told me: "I am going to introduce you... but first let me tell you that you are alive not because you are handsome, nor because you are smart, nor because you are agile; you are alive because you have a mother who prays for you in Puerto Rico."
The first time in my life that I looked at this Lord, the first time that he looked at me and then my tears had already dried up, I no longer knew how to cry, I no longer knew... I think that is why I cry now so much, almost all the Cults. My desire for people, to be social, had dried up and I neglected myself in life. At the moment this man refreshed me in my life and told me: "You are alive because you have a mother who prays for you. You have many brothers." It surprised me more and more until he told me: "I'm going to introduce you to your older brother", and who is he? He told me: "His name is Jesus. He is thirty-three years old. Two thousand years ago he was thirty-three years old, he lives in Heaven and he is thirty-three years old and he is your older brother." For him the best applause of this year.
There is a microphone that they can get me. Sovereign, brothers, we are going to give another round of applause to the Lord... and another one... another one. Amen.
David Marrero sings:
"Oh how I love you God...ohhh yeah! Hm! Oh!yeah!...
Come to me. If you are tired and exhausted I will make you rest
I will make you rest. Come to me.
My load is light, my yoke is easy, I will give you rest.
I only ask that you come to me.
Come to me… oh! come to me, come to me
If you are exhausted and tired, I will make you rest,
I will make you rest. Come to me.
My burden is light, my yoke is easy,
I will make you rest. I only ask that you come to me
Come to me... oh, come to me, come to me.
I come to you Lord tired and distressed. I come to you
I am sure that your hand can bring me help, it will help me.
I come to You, I come to You Lord just as I am
I come to you
The source of my joy and my strength is You.
I come to you, I come to you
Let go of the wheel, let me guide you,
I want to drive your life through the streets of justice
Walk you in victory, take you from Glory to Glory,
I want to drive your life through the streets of justice
Let go of the wheel, let me guide you,
I want to drive your life through the streets of justice
Walk you in victory, take you from Glory to Glory,
I want to drive your life through the streets of justice
I know, Lord, that you are a pilot and a driver,
of my life you are the savior
But let me tell you that I also want to guide,
I also want to guide
Together with you I want to guide your people
To Eternity.
Lord let me guide since your eye captivated me,
Since your light stopped me Lord, let me guide, with you
Let me walk even if you are the boss
I want to cooperate, sir
I also know how to guide, I also know how to guide... oh!...
Every step you take, I am with you
In the dark hour I am your Peace,
I am the Light and the Truth
May he light the way, a faithful friend until the end
No, don't be afraid, don't be dismayed
For Jehovah your God is with you.
He will keep you from the enemy
With his right hand he will hold you
every step you take
I'm with you
In the dark hour, I am your Peace,
I am the Light and the Truth
May he light the way, a faithful friend, until the end.
If you take me to the city,
If you take me, let it be to the city
Heavenly City, Heavenly City
With streets of gold, and crystal sea, and crystal sea
I want to go there, I want to go there,
I want to go there
To that big city...
Heavenly City, oh, Heavenly City
Help me improvise... My father is ready, the car has arrived
With streets of gold, and crystal sea
Oh how I long to go there!
Apostles twelve, the gates too,
Brothers of León de Judá,
Iran too with Christ will reign
In that city
Oh how I long to go there!
Heavenly City, Heavenly City
My Father is ready waiting for me there
With streets of gold, and crystal sea
Oh how I long to go there!...
Not even half has been said yet
Not even half has been said yet
From that beautiful city
Not even half has been said yet.
Thank you Omar, thank you.
You can sit down, very kind. Very kind.
My preaching, I'm just going to tell you something. There is a city in the United States, in New York, called Buffalo; there is another city called Rochester. They are approximately fifty, sixty miles apart from each other. You go to the city of Buffalo and you see slums everywhere. You go to the city of Rochester and you see enormous beauty and cleanliness. In Buffalo they rejected the great preachers, they had no entry. In Rochester it was very Mareen Spellan and all those people who have blessed history. So an environment remains, as the Pastor said, an environment that you did not put, you did not plant but that at some time someone made a park and it remained there remains.
oh! and I believe that you can create an environment somewhere, create an atmosphere, create a climate, create culture. León de Judá preach, they behave almost all the same, they talk to the Pastor, they feel what the Pastor feels, they have the same vision. It becomes ambient, it becomes temperature, an atmosphere can be created in places where there is none.
This place was to be mine. I came here to buy this place, in fact, if we had been a little closer, I would have bought it for a little less than you bought it, because the offer I made was accepted. But this Temple was mine, I brought my son here. And my son, who was studying architecture, says: "Dad, tremendous, it breaks here, you put an elevation here, it becomes... tremendous." And they gave us at that time... cheap. I have two lions in the basement of my house and I noticed that there was a lion drawn here in front. So I thought: 'The rich built many years ago for the Lion of Judah, not for the defenders of the Faith.' Then God put a point, a sign where a culture would be created, an atmosphere, a meeting that would bring about a Congregation that would be called the Lion of Judah.
So fifty, sixty, eighty, one hundred years old is this building. Perhaps eighty or more years old that this building is, God said: "I am going to put a little seal there and I am going to leave it there, because when time comes, as I do not live in time or space, today the Lion of Judah is going to move to this place." . And what you are seeing is not a mere whim, it is not a mere idea, it is not a mere labyrinth, but it is the place that God chose for you from before the foundation of the world.
That fascinates me, it fascinates me when the people can come together with a sense, with a thought, with a spirit and as a single person. When the people can do that, we have the great blessing of being able to function better.
-Go back son, it's not the message I'm going to preach- Ah!
But I have something to tell you that is going to look a little funny; Before this I want to introduce you to my Pastor David Hernández, my Pastor Mananaíta, has he left? Is he around? Pastor, is he over there? They are my Pastors and I am not saying it, they are not dolls in the Church, they are my Pastors. They are not children, they are not figures, it was not someone that I put for puppets, no, they are my Pastors.
You know what? I didn't have to change their names. There are people out there who, trying to judaize a little, change people's names. I met a brother who changed his name to Ephraim, to another Judah, to another that I know of. But I wanted to put someone named David and I didn't have to change his name, his name is David too.
Today he has been in the Church since he was a little boy, a little boy, he has been with us since he could not walk and now he is the Pastor.
David, stand up, and let me tell you Mananaíta and the family, let me tell you that I recommend you also as a tremendous Preacher. I recommend it to you, because I love how you preach and I had to preach at Defensores today. He had announced me while I was in Latin America, but already, León de Judá, he had anticipated it a long time ago.
Thanks for coming. Thank you Omar family. The First Lady is with me, my Sister Ida. You're with your granddaughter there, stand up sister Ida, it doesn't matter. What is beautiful must be exhibited. And Martiza and the family stand up, stand up people want to see you.
Omar is a Minister who was under training and I take him with me and between David and I we are training him, he is a great composer, he is an improviser, he plays the guitar, he plays the piano. He is studying Theology, he is a good teacher, but above all a good disciple, a good disciple; and how good it is to know that there are people who are good disciples.
I don't know about you, but I imagine that you are needed in the Church, because each member, as God distributed as He wanted, has a function: there are no useless members in the Congregation, there are none. In the body suddenly yes and they take it out and it is no longer needed, but the rest of the body is needed.
I always dreamed of owning a '57 Chevrolet convertible. The classic in good, good condition, the cheapest is seventy-five thousand. There are forty and fifty thousand out there but they are battered but seventy-five, one hundred thousand, one hundred and fifty thousand is worth a fifty-seven Impala convertible car, white leather seats.
They gave me one, I dreamed of it and they gave it to me and what fault do I have of finding Grace? How many would like to be given a car so...? How many would like it? The rest I would say: "Don't be a hypocrite", you would like to have a car that they give you for seventy-five, eighty thousand, one hundred thousand dollars. Right?
Well, look, I am a missionary with a car and a few friends got together and gave me this car. I had it there in the garage and later I took it upstairs to the house and on the box it said "For children from five to seven years".
But why are they laughing? A Chevrolet... I have it... Omar, did you see it? I have it on video, I have it.... Hello! Convertible... it said... but look what it said: "You have to ride it." As they say in Spanish? Assemble it, right? Assembling it is necessary. Battery is not included".
But why are they laughing if it's true? So this the León de Judá Church is a classic car that is made in pieces and because of you not meeting in Assembly, it is missing a door, a tire is missing, a radio is missing, a bonnet is missing, a bonnet is missing, the fender is missing , the barrel is missing, something is missing. Because every time a member is absent from the Church and every time a member goes down, it's a piece of the wagon that can't be put together and the only person who has the ability to deal with that department is you. For this reason, let us not stop congregating as many have out of habit, knowing that the Coming of the Lord is drawing near. The one who wrote the book of Hebrews uses the words: "Do not stop coming together as an Assembly" because this car needs each one of you. So when you want to see my car I can present it to you on the Internet, I think it appears in a Preaching that I gave. The people applauded loudly and asked "please drive my car for me." We were in a stadium and I drove my car and people started clapping and they put the car in a box. Well, brothers, don't stop congregating, don't stop working, don't stop doing your job no matter how insignificant it may be. That's a little advice, okay?
Well this morning we were talking about a topic and I don't have the grace that the Pastors here have of being able to preach the same topic four or five times a day. They have a unique grace, so those who didn't come in the morning forgive me... in the morning, because we're talking about an addictive love, a love that infects you. But today we are going to talk about a grace that is also addictive, that infects you. I'm going to read you some Scriptures, be patient with me, I'm not going to read more than ten, maybe eleven, because otherwise Villafañe tells me: "Hey! You're not learning what we taught you. A good Preacher doesn't read more than ten verses, more of nine verses".
Is Villafañe there? oh! it's not there. Well, then I apologize. But I'm not going, I'm not going.
In the Book of Exodus Chapter twelve - I am fascinated by the Book of Exodus, because it is after Matthew and before John - good brother if you are a Hebrew that starts from right to left. Okay.
It reads like this: Chapter Eleven, Verse Three: "And Jehovah gave favor to the people in the eyes of the Egyptians. Moses was also considered a great man in the land of Egypt and in the eyes of Pharaoh's servants, and in the eyes of the people." . It seems that it is contradicted because because of Moses, God ended that nation and Grace is still working in such a way that people held them in great esteem.
Chapter Twelve and Verse Thirty-six of Exodus -Exodus after Genesis- "And the Lord gave grace to the people before the Egyptians and they gave them whatever they asked for so they plundered the Egyptians." It seems like there is a magic in the word Grace, because the word Grace is mentioned and people kind of melt.
And it's funny because they're laughing, but on account of Grace I can go to the Bank and change the Celestial check, on account of Grace I can take credit in the name of God. Because here it says `Ask the Egyptians what you want, I will give you Grace in such a way that they give you what you want.'
Very good, now, the Book of Proverbs - Proverbs that you know where they are. The book of Proverbs is easy to find, it's after Genesis and before Revelation, and I think you won't miss it if you look for it little by little, carefully – the book of Proverbs. Look at this text: Proverbs, Chapter Sixteen and Verse Fifteen: "In the joy of the King's face is life and his benevolence" -which in English is favor or Grace- "his Grace is like a cloud of latter rain". Very good. Record it well. In what? In the joy of the King's face there is Grace and his benevolence is like what? Like… aha!
Chapter Nineteen and Verse Twelve, the same Proverb: "As the roar of a lion's cub is the wrath of the King"
What a paradox! The King is angry, he is like a lion cub, he is furious, and his favor is "like dew on the grass." Then the face of the Lord changes its tonality, as if there is something that gives him a 'switch' that changes it, he is angry, he is angry. God rises with a powerful voice and makes the mountains tremble and breaks the stones and comes like lightning, but then there is something that changes the King's anger and makes it like dew in the morning and dew is the most subtle form, sexiest -I call it- of the rain, it is the most delicate form of water.
But then how is it possible that from a "grrrrr" a lion at the moment there is something called Gracia that makes it "haa" and it is like dew and it is that the dew makes little bubbles on top of the leaves, on top of the roses or on top of her hair and looks. It's not like a torrent, it's not like a heap of water, it's like something changes him, something like transforms him, something like it tickles him and changes his anger into a smile.
There is a Prophet who is also in your Bible who says: "Ask for rain in rainy weather and God will make lightning, He will make thunder and He will send rain to the field of each one of you." I also find it paradoxical in Zechariah 10:1 that he asks for something when there is one. 'Pastor like me, I didn't go to much school, I just don't understand, how come you order to pray for rain when it's raining? I do not understand'.
And then he says that He will make lightning, so if there is no lightning there are no clouds, there is no thunder, there is no sign of rain, but he says that it is raining and to ask for rain when it is raining.
Allow me to be a bit humorous but very serious because it was Brother Medra who reminded me along the way of this story that I am going to tell you and that I have the first lady with me who is going to support me: my wife.
It was Tuesday, a Tuesday possibly March 13, it was one of those terrible Tuesdays where the headache of Monday continues and David Marrero is not there, he is not so happy. I'm not a person to be angry in the morning but that day I didn't want to celebrate my birthday either so my wife says to me: "Look, David, how good it is that Masseys sent a Masseys special on Wednesdays; and David, do you remember that you Do you need a new suitcase? Because you travel so much and I have a good suitcase". And the women's suitcases are pink or turquoise blue, something that one cannot use and then she tells me: "But look, how special! 60% discount on luggage. It's good to go shopping tomorrow!"
Brother, I didn't care about suitcases, or Masseys, or going out, I wasn't in the right mood to go shopping. But "David, but look David, it's 60% and if you use the Masseys card, oh! I have one, they give you 15 plus David. I don't think it should be wasted"; and David like a lamb to the slaughterhouse, his rage has already disappeared, his courage has already disappeared, and as if his face began to change and as if the fury of the lion began like a ton of dew.... good because I I was going to buy my suitcase that cost me cheap and I went with my dear wife.
How good that a wife who does not think of themselves, who think of their husbands!
When we go to the suitcases I notice that she saw a piece, I don't know if it was a skirt -I imagine- Corinth color, fuchsia, like lilac... then she says: "Look David, wow! 60% and 15 more and what I know…75 and 15. David looks and you remember that next month our son is getting married and what colors will the people go? If that color, David, look at this, David". And then David, of course the special, because it's raining and ask for rain in times of rain and ask for a special in times of special and when the husband stopped having the courage and is happy, ask for what you want because it has changed and that's how it happened. Our heavenly husband who was very angry with sin, but something happened to him that he looked at you and you flirted a little bit and fell in love and said: "I even give you my Kingdom, I leave everything I have to go after you 'Cause you grabbed the Grace special. Masseys opened up."
Because "he's a good guy", he is a great good, good husband. The Church must smile from time to time to the Lord. Well we bought the jacket. We continue towards the suitcases, because we are going towards the suitcases. I already feel like a hero. For ten dollars I had bought something that was worth a hundred or ninety dollars and I felt like a hero with my wife. These people do it as if they were evil, putting their suitcases last over there and the entire perfume department first, then women, and their suitcases over there last next to the matresses. Well for the moment I see that she stands in front of another room and I say: "Ida, do you like it?" "I do like it, but it's not special, David." "Do you like Ida?" "Yes, David, but that's too much for you. We came to buy suitcases". "Ida, do you like it?!" It's that the King is laughing, it's that his face is already like the morning dew. Ask for rain in times of rain, when God is sending Grace upon the Church will be hungry for Grace Ask for Grace in time of Grace because Grace upon Grace came the Lord to give and from that we take everything.
Grace upon Grace, special upon special, that is why I am fascinated by serving Him, I am fascinated by being as I am because He is a God of Grace, He is a God that if you take Him by the weak side and His weak side is called Grace and Love, I don't want to know your back and even those heal me. But his Face is shining like the morning dew.
Well, let's go to the suitcase: "David..." "You don't mind, Ida, you don't mind, it's Grace's Day, you convinced me, you seduced me and I was seduced." I came as a lamb to the slaughter but as a lamb that wants to die. Well we left, oh! My God brothers, I am giving the introduction. We left, we went to pack our bags... and for the moment she looked at some little shoes... the color yes, the same color you just thought of, uh-huh, "Ida, do you like them?" "Well, David, yes, but this is really expensive, David. There's no special, neither for ninety, nor for fifty, nor for thirty..." "Ida, do you like it?" "Look David, the suitcase", "Ida, do you like it?!"
It is that he asked for rain in times of rain, he asked for Grace in times of Grace... he asked me for a smile in times of smiles, he asked me for love in times of love and this is the great problem that God has sought. I am in love with him, I kind of flirt with him and he likes it!
If it is a Throne in splendor and Glory. If the angels want to poke their nose into this Salvation thing and they can't, if the angels can sing but they can never improvise a song of Redemption. The angels can't sing thanks to the lamb that died for me and I can.
An angel can all the greatness, all the splendor, keep the Glory... but the wife is the one who is going to sing a song that nobody knows and when the wife begins to sing the song that nobody knows all of Heaven will gather in silence waiting for the end of a song that the angels long to know because it was that Grace conquered him and now he gave us the secrets of the Kingdom the wealth of the Kingdom, of his power, of his personality of the entire Throne. Furthermore, he says: "He who wins, I will give him to sit with me on my Throne." As I overcame and sat with my Father on the Throne. Hallelujah!
He knows the new Jerusalem has twelve precious stones. God spends the luxury of preparing the bride's dress, the bride's house and what the Devil had were nine precious stones. You read it in Isaiah and Ezekiel, only nine precious stones. When the Devil sees a Throne there and sees three precious stones that he doesn't have, that they haven't given him, the Devil says: "I'll sit down, I'll go up, I'll be the same" and a little voice of a lamb tells him: "It's too big for you and puffed out. It's too big for you because that's for a dear maiden who has flirted with me. It's called my Church." This is the big Masseys special is for her. Well, we bought one thing, we bought the other, we bought the other and now I have a jacket here, a shopping bag here, another shopping bag here. Brothers, I couldn't go to the suitcases! I was like Santa Claus and it was not Santa Claus time. There it was, oh! "David, let's take the car to come buy the suitcase" and I kind of try to take the car.
The thing is, I had spent too much on card and I still liked it, still laughed at it, still loved it! He was still saying inside: If he asked for more, if he asked for more, if he asked for more, if he asked for more, I would give him everything because he has changed the wrath of the King into dewy laughter!
Yes, you also guessed. Walter Mercado is not here but guess what: I arrived without suitcases! 'Special from 9 to 11 or from 8 to 11'. It was 2pm and I was at Masseys. The time for specials had passed and I had not realized it because the queen was with me and had said "I want rain in rainy seasons, I want Grace in Grace time".
He tells me: "David, I see you as pale, your face is as pale." "Ida, I'm not fine." "No your face is pale." "Go away, I'm fine." "No, David, I know you, you're hungry." My wife never asks me for anything, that's why she has everything. My wife suggests and one suggestion, an "I'd like" from her is a fist to the liver.
"I will give you Grace in front of the Egyptians so that when you ask, they will give you everything you need" we have just read. Sister "Fulana" a slave with a slave father, with a slave grandfather, the brother who knew how to make bricks, now God tells her: "Go to the Egyptians and ask them to see what happens. I will give them Grace. I will put Grace. I will change the face of the lions, of the snakes of Egypt for Grace".
And at the moment a Sister left, she was going to leave, and the Bible says so. On the night that she was going to leave, they went to the neighbors, the men to the neighbors, the sisters to the neighbors, and they told her: "Look, sister, I'm going tonight and don't you have a little perfumed nail?" And he says: "Well, look, I have a little perfumed nail." Then she goes to the other: "Don't go, my husband came from Arabia yesterday and brought me a perfume and I felt like giving it to you" and the other said: "Don't go because I have a perfume from India" and Another said: "Don't go because I have a perfume that is taken from the algae from under the ocean, which were the species that I was going to use in the tabernacle." She was in hiding, she had found thousands and thousands of dollars, thousands of miles and now she was there because Grace sued her and when Grace sues no matter what it costs, she shows up because she shows up because the lion is laughing.
We leave Gracia 400 years and he tells us: "No, no no, 400 years of slavery? Payday, they are going to collect in one day, they lost it in 400 years"
Church, Lion of Judah, I know that you are generous, be more generous, much more generous than Pharaoh. Look like God who gave everything because God has wealth to give to the Church so that she does not live like a beggar, but rather lives like a true princess. And this is without preaching the super economy or the super Faith or the super abundance, not the cheap one, the good one. 400 years without paying and God says 'payday'.
We are going to build a temple that we have not built for 20 years, we are going to do it in one year. How many believe it? If you believe it, say Amen, if you don't, say oh! but say something Well, my wife, I don't forget.
I am sixty-six years old and I have been preaching for forty-two years and I do not forget them. If I forget she pulls me. Brothers, I tell him "Ida, here it is: fast food. Fast food food. So we go there and eat" and then he tells me: "David, you don't eat hamburgers, you don't eat fries. David, what you eat are good things. I know the food you like and here is a place called "Legacy Sea Food" and I know you like to eat."
Brothers, the paleness that I had was not, it was her invention, I was not pale. She wanted to eat a lobster casserole and she knew that by saying that my face didn't look so good, she was going to convince me and she did! I finished, I took the packages there, I didn't buy the suitcase and I was like a big fool, but a fool who likes it, an addict who likes it.
What do you want? A little lobster in the casserole and then the little dessert and for the ice cream and "David, I know, eat the little fish that you always like" What it costs is twelve dollars. And so I ended up buying. Already in the afternoon without strength, but full of enthusiasm and love because someone knew how to change the machinery of my spirit. Touch God, move God.
God said, 'I wanted to do great good to you, but you turned me back', but on the other hand He says: 'I wanted to do great harm to thousands but they turned me to do good to you'.
You can change God's clock, God is sovereign but within his sovereignty He has left a possibility for you to change it, without ceasing to be sovereign.
Because Sovereign is a God who does what he wants, he can still be weak in his Sovereignty so that you apparently weaken him and it is that in his Sovereignty he was weakened so that you would say: "I want to marry you even though I am Poor, although I am a Moabite, I want to marry you because I have wanted to" That Grace will be enough to sleep with you King!
Brothers, on that weekend we had Pastor Raymond and Pastor Elizabeth Colón from Orlando, they were visiting our Church. It was already Sunday. On Sunday I tell her: "Ida, you have to take the brothers to dinner" and she says: "You know that Brother Raymond always talks about the Boston lobster. You know that, David." "Okay. And where are we going?" "Where we went on Wednesday, is that they are fresh, you know. Let's take them there"
Brother, like lamb to the slaughter, I took Pastor and Pastora, and my wife and I went to Legacy SeaFood again, and then the excitement was so great that my wife says, "Well, what do you like? Order what you like." want. The biggest there is."
Legacy SeaFood has a reputation for having their own hatcheries and they had six pound lobsters that day. Hello? Yes, the plate was two hundred and fifty dollars each that day because we are not in season but since they have their own hatchery they counted. So much so, suppose it's unethical, the girl who served us said, "Do you know how much the lobster you ordered is? Two hundred and fifty dollars each." One Sister Elizabeth, another Brother Raymond, my wife who was humble and asked for another and David Marrero, how do you like the twelve dollar fish... brother... -but let me tell you Pastor, really, with these Pastors I I spend not that, I spend my life, because that's how I love them and that's how they are with us. You know Raymond and Liz, you know them, they are... and then Raymond when he said: "I don't want to, I'm not going to abuse, I don't want to. We're only going to ask for five." Well we made the order, ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes, forty minutes and the order did not come; fifty minutes and no order came, sixty minutes and no order came. Finally I told her: "Miss, we made a big order, these are my guests" but how God had already told me that Grace makes the faces of lions change, instead of starting to fight against the one who could help me in Grace, I told him: "I know it's not your fault, but you have the power to help us." She couldn't find what to do, it was because the order was lost on the computer. She brought the Manager and the Manager excused himself. Sister Ida, am I speaking right? Right sister Ida? If they give me an offering, I'll give you half.
She asks me for a tithe every time I go out, she is my Priest. My priestess.
Well, he comes and excuses himself. They left. Ten minutes... brothers, a lobster that crossed the plate and almost crossed the table and Pastora's another lobster just like it and my wife another lobster just like it and I for bobo the little fish from... Boston's crown. The issue is that when we ask for the order, the girl arrives to serve us, I say: "How much? Give me the order" and she says: "Not if the boss said it was free" "But... why?" "Ah! Because he liked you. One hour and you didn't yell or get shocked, one hour and you were nice." Then the boss comes and says: "That's for the house." He gave me a card and says: "As long as I'm a Manager and you're a customer, it's free. It's for the house"
Ask for rain in times of rain, go to Masseys when they are special and when a Divine Healing Service is being announced do not stay there because it is a special time of Divine Healing or Prosperity. Hello? or Liberation or Baptism of the Holy Spirit or Salvation, please, do not stay there, because time, the special can end and you continue there without having enjoyed the material that the special offered you.
Well, now you could order the tiramisu and then the Pastora says: "I want a tiramisu" and the Pastor too and Sister Ida. Brothers, and when it comes, it comes with Noah's Ark. A special thing, but special, special and I said: "The bill?". "No, if the Manager himself did it and says it's Free."
Say with me: Free. Say with me: Free, say with me: Free. Funny. Never fight with the person who can help, never fight with the person in front of the counter who is the only one, is not to blame and is the only one who can help you.
We go to the airport and fight with those who are there in front who are not to blame for anything. We went to the hotels and they threw out the reservation, we fought with the lady: they are not to blame. Grace works miracles.
I am telling you that, coincidentally with Brother Colón and Sister Elisa, we won a banker for the Lord in Florida, completely new but full of joy. Her name is Aguilda, possibly you know her. I was going to rent a car that cost about fourteen dollars a day, she went with me Pastor, "I'm going to look for the car with you" so when we went to look for the car, she doesn't know anything and says to the attendant: "Get me a Mustang convertible to the Pastor because he has Grace on his face". Because since I identified that and she's new, she thought she was going to rent me a convertible and it was so new and I said: "Aguilda, that doesn't work like that." The guy who attends me says: "I can't because it's a I eat eighty dollars a day and I can't, not be in my power". "Ah! But the Pastor said that if Grace smiled and had Grace, they would give what they asked for." "Well, I'm sorry, I can't, they didn't make the contract." We went to look for the car in Parking Land, number three, when we were... a yellow Mustang convertible and when I came out with the Mustang it makes me the boy.
Ask for rain in times of rain, ask for Grace in times of Grace that if there is no Grace, God will make lightning, create a cloud... and what I like most about that prophecy: "and I will send rain for the planting of each one", means that it is a private Grace. It is for you private, God has a special private for you. I think I should shut up. I didn't finish this morning and today I don't owe two more either.
Raise your hands with me to Heaven. lift them up. The people of Israel were being used by the Assyrians, says the Prophet: "God is furious, he will give his voice, his mighty voice, God will come with all his fury." Then he says: "The maiden who goes out with a tambourine to play because there will be joy in my town." The other verse says: "And God will destroy the Assyrians if the maiden waves her hand once, twice, three times", if she hits with her hand if you do that, you applaud me in other words and when you applaud me I look like I'm fighting for you. A round of applause for the Lord. God bless you.
Amen.
Pastor Miranda: Glory to God. That is the power of Parables, isn't it? that teaches us those deep truths of God: "Ask for rain in rainy weather". The Lord has rain and Grace for his People. This is the time of the people of God. The Lord says: "Because I know the thoughts that I have about you" Thoughts of good and not of evil to give you the end that you desire and expect. We are going to stand up, we are going to ask the Lord.
David Marrero for those who don't know him and I think there are visitors, because I believe that in the Spanish-Christian town of Boston he is already well known, but for those who don't know David, he has been Pastor for many years of the Church "Defenders of the Faith". A very blessed Church here in the city of Boston. Your life has been a positive leaven here in the city in so many ways. David has planted many Churches and has left a seedbed of Pastors in many parts of Central America, Puerto Rico; very prosperous and fruitful people in the things of God. So, he is a very special man, a lover of God.
Some time ago a book came out called - I think it's like "God Chasers" or "God Chasers" - David is a hunter of God, he chases him everywhere. He is a man who loves the Lord very much. So please give a round of applause to our friend David Marrero... nice to have him here this morning.
Pastor David: I don't know how many brothers and sisters there are here who know me. How many know me? OK. To those who do not know me, I want to congratulate you, because you have the privilege of knowing me. No, I want to tell you that if you did not know me, you have not lost much, but if you do not know the Lord, you have lost THE great thing. Better to know Him. Medra is here with me, León de Judá stole it from me, Felipe is with me -León de Judá stole it from me-, Maritza Gómez is here -León de Judá stole it from me-, El Chamo is -León de Judá stole it from me. Judah and then something occurred to me: "Those Pastors stole, and I stole the Pastor" and now all of you have lost because I stole the Pastor, and I have become addicted to the love and admiration I have for this man. To all those who think - and I say that they have robbed me, not that they never robbed me, but that's the Puerto Rican something when a soul leaves the Church, usually one says they left because they were crooked. Well, the ones that came here weren't bad guys, they were very good. So I congratulate you for being here but I stole the Pastor. What's more, I want to tell you that I eat with him and drink coffee with him much more with him than all of you. "Hello!" oh! and he invited me to preach and they have to listen to me. Thank you so much. I can't shut up, this Omar, grab an instrument over there. Turn on the piano or the guitar, whatever... whatever you want here.
I cannot continue without first saying what I have been saying for many years. You are a huge, huge family, twenty-three siblings and the youngest is Medra. Stand up Medra, this is the youngest, stand up. Other of the little ones, Felipe, stand up, twenty-three.
But one day I was in New York City and a funny thing happened to me... I went off the rails so, so terribly. Imagine, eighteen years old, me living alone in New York City. With no one to stop me, and I thought that the world was mine, I thought that Broadway was mine, that 42, the lights, that the casino, that so many things that are not worth mentioning were mine and then I found myself a old man and that old man began to talk to me. I had a jug of water in my hand and I offered it to this old man and then the old man said to me: "Ah! If you knew the gift of God. Wow! If you knew the gift of God and would you ask Him for water? He would give you springing water for eternal life." I knew the text, what I didn't know was what came after the text and the old man told me: "I'm going to introduce you to a brother who has been looking for you for a long time." I was surprised because I know all my brothers, all of them, but I had one in New York that I didn't know. He told me: "I am going to introduce you... but first let me tell you that you are alive not because you are handsome, nor because you are smart, nor because you are agile; you are alive because you have a mother who prays for you in Puerto Rico."
The first time in my life that I looked at this Lord, the first time that he looked at me and then my tears had already dried up, I no longer knew how to cry, I no longer knew... I think that is why I cry now so much, almost all the Cults. My desire for people, to be social, had dried up and I neglected myself in life. At the moment this man refreshed me in my life and told me: "You are alive because you have a mother who prays for you. You have many brothers." It surprised me more and more until he told me: "I'm going to introduce you to your older brother", and who is he? He told me: "His name is Jesus. He is thirty-three years old. Two thousand years ago he was thirty-three years old, he lives in Heaven and he is thirty-three years old and he is your older brother." For him the best applause of this year.
There is a microphone that they can get me. Sovereign, brothers, we are going to give another round of applause to the Lord... and another one... another one. Amen.
David Marrero sings:
"Oh how I love you God...ohhh yeah! Hm! Oh!yeah!...
Come to me. If you are tired and exhausted I will make you rest
I will make you rest. Come to me.
My load is light, my yoke is easy, I will give you rest.
I only ask that you come to me.
Come to me… oh! come to me, come to me
If you are exhausted and tired, I will make you rest,
I will make you rest. Come to me.
My burden is light, my yoke is easy,
I will make you rest. I only ask that you come to me
Come to me... oh, come to me, come to me.
I come to you Lord tired and distressed. I come to you
I am sure that your hand can bring me help, it will help me.
I come to You, I come to You Lord just as I am
I come to you
The source of my joy and my strength is You.
I come to you, I come to you
Let go of the wheel, let me guide you,
I want to drive your life through the streets of justice
Walk you in victory, take you from Glory to Glory,
I want to drive your life through the streets of justice
Let go of the wheel, let me guide you,
I want to drive your life through the streets of justice
Walk you in victory, take you from Glory to Glory,
I want to drive your life through the streets of justice
I know, Lord, that you are a pilot and a driver,
of my life you are the savior
But let me tell you that I also want to guide,
I also want to guide
Together with you I want to guide your people
To Eternity.
Lord let me guide since your eye captivated me,
Since your light stopped me Lord, let me guide, with you
Let me walk even if you are the boss
I want to cooperate, sir
I also know how to guide, I also know how to guide... oh!...
Every step you take, I am with you
In the dark hour I am your Peace,
I am the Light and the Truth
May he light the way, a faithful friend until the end
No, don't be afraid, don't be dismayed
For Jehovah your God is with you.
He will keep you from the enemy
With his right hand he will hold you
every step you take
I'm with you
In the dark hour, I am your Peace,
I am the Light and the Truth
May he light the way, a faithful friend, until the end.
If you take me to the city,
If you take me, let it be to the city
Heavenly City, Heavenly City
With streets of gold, and crystal sea, and crystal sea
I want to go there, I want to go there,
I want to go there
To that big city...
Heavenly City, oh, Heavenly City
Help me improvise... My father is ready, the car has arrived
With streets of gold, and crystal sea
Oh how I long to go there!
Apostles twelve, the gates too,
Brothers of León de Judá,
Iran too with Christ will reign
In that city
Oh how I long to go there!
Heavenly City, Heavenly City
My Father is ready waiting for me there
With streets of gold, and crystal sea
Oh how I long to go there!...
Not even half has been said yet
Not even half has been said yet
From that beautiful city
Not even half has been said yet.
Thank you Omar, thank you.
You can sit down, very kind. Very kind.
My preaching, I'm just going to tell you something. There is a city in the United States, in New York, called Buffalo; there is another city called Rochester. They are approximately fifty, sixty miles apart from each other. You go to the city of Buffalo and you see slums everywhere. You go to the city of Rochester and you see enormous beauty and cleanliness. In Buffalo they rejected the great preachers, they had no entry. In Rochester it was very Mareen Spellan and all those people who have blessed history. So an environment remains, as the Pastor said, an environment that you did not put, you did not plant but that at some time someone made a park and it remained there remains.
oh! and I believe that you can create an environment somewhere, create an atmosphere, create a climate, create culture. León de Judá preach, they behave almost all the same, they talk to the Pastor, they feel what the Pastor feels, they have the same vision. It becomes ambient, it becomes temperature, an atmosphere can be created in places where there is none.
This place was to be mine. I came here to buy this place, in fact, if we had been a little closer, I would have bought it for a little less than you bought it, because the offer I made was accepted. But this Temple was mine, I brought my son here. And my son, who was studying architecture, says: "Dad, tremendous, it breaks here, you put an elevation here, it becomes... tremendous." And they gave us at that time... cheap. I have two lions in the basement of my house and I noticed that there was a lion drawn here in front. So I thought: 'The rich built many years ago for the Lion of Judah, not for the defenders of the Faith.' Then God put a point, a sign where a culture would be created, an atmosphere, a meeting that would bring about a Congregation that would be called the Lion of Judah.
So fifty, sixty, eighty, one hundred years old is this building. Perhaps eighty or more years old that this building is, God said: "I am going to put a little seal there and I am going to leave it there, because when time comes, as I do not live in time or space, today the Lion of Judah is going to move to this place." . And what you are seeing is not a mere whim, it is not a mere idea, it is not a mere labyrinth, but it is the place that God chose for you from before the foundation of the world.
That fascinates me, it fascinates me when the people can come together with a sense, with a thought, with a spirit and as a single person. When the people can do that, we have the great blessing of being able to function better.
-Go back son, it's not the message I'm going to preach- Ah!
But I have something to tell you that is going to look a little funny; Before this I want to introduce you to my Pastor David Hernández, my Pastor Mananaíta, has he left? Is he around? Pastor, is he over there? They are my Pastors and I am not saying it, they are not dolls in the Church, they are my Pastors. They are not children, they are not figures, it was not someone that I put for puppets, no, they are my Pastors.
You know what? I didn't have to change their names. There are people out there who, trying to judaize a little, change people's names. I met a brother who changed his name to Ephraim, to another Judah, to another that I know of. But I wanted to put someone named David and I didn't have to change his name, his name is David too.
Today he has been in the Church since he was a little boy, a little boy, he has been with us since he could not walk and now he is the Pastor.
David, stand up, and let me tell you Mananaíta and the family, let me tell you that I recommend you also as a tremendous Preacher. I recommend it to you, because I love how you preach and I had to preach at Defensores today. He had announced me while I was in Latin America, but already, León de Judá, he had anticipated it a long time ago.
Thanks for coming. Thank you Omar family. The First Lady is with me, my Sister Ida. You're with your granddaughter there, stand up sister Ida, it doesn't matter. What is beautiful must be exhibited. And Martiza and the family stand up, stand up people want to see you.
Omar is a Minister who was under training and I take him with me and between David and I we are training him, he is a great composer, he is an improviser, he plays the guitar, he plays the piano. He is studying Theology, he is a good teacher, but above all a good disciple, a good disciple; and how good it is to know that there are people who are good disciples.
I don't know about you, but I imagine that you are needed in the Church, because each member, as God distributed as He wanted, has a function: there are no useless members in the Congregation, there are none. In the body suddenly yes and they take it out and it is no longer needed, but the rest of the body is needed.
I always dreamed of owning a '57 Chevrolet convertible. The classic in good, good condition, the cheapest is seventy-five thousand. There are forty and fifty thousand out there but they are battered but seventy-five, one hundred thousand, one hundred and fifty thousand is worth a fifty-seven Impala convertible car, white leather seats.
They gave me one, I dreamed of it and they gave it to me and what fault do I have of finding Grace? How many would like to be given a car so...? How many would like it? The rest I would say: "Don't be a hypocrite", you would like to have a car that they give you for seventy-five, eighty thousand, one hundred thousand dollars. Right?
Well, look, I am a missionary with a car and a few friends got together and gave me this car. I had it there in the garage and later I took it upstairs to the house and on the box it said "For children from five to seven years".
But why are they laughing? A Chevrolet... I have it... Omar, did you see it? I have it on video, I have it.... Hello! Convertible... it said... but look what it said: "You have to ride it." As they say in Spanish? Assemble it, right? Assembling it is necessary. Battery is not included".
But why are they laughing if it's true? So this the León de Judá Church is a classic car that is made in pieces and because of you not meeting in Assembly, it is missing a door, a tire is missing, a radio is missing, a bonnet is missing, a bonnet is missing, the fender is missing , the barrel is missing, something is missing. Because every time a member is absent from the Church and every time a member goes down, it's a piece of the wagon that can't be put together and the only person who has the ability to deal with that department is you. For this reason, let us not stop congregating as many have out of habit, knowing that the Coming of the Lord is drawing near. The one who wrote the book of Hebrews uses the words: "Do not stop coming together as an Assembly" because this car needs each one of you. So when you want to see my car I can present it to you on the Internet, I think it appears in a Preaching that I gave. The people applauded loudly and asked "please drive my car for me." We were in a stadium and I drove my car and people started clapping and they put the car in a box. Well, brothers, don't stop congregating, don't stop working, don't stop doing your job no matter how insignificant it may be. That's a little advice, okay?
Well this morning we were talking about a topic and I don't have the grace that the Pastors here have of being able to preach the same topic four or five times a day. They have a unique grace, so those who didn't come in the morning forgive me... in the morning, because we're talking about an addictive love, a love that infects you. But today we are going to talk about a grace that is also addictive, that infects you. I'm going to read you some Scriptures, be patient with me, I'm not going to read more than ten, maybe eleven, because otherwise Villafañe tells me: "Hey! You're not learning what we taught you. A good Preacher doesn't read more than ten verses, more of nine verses".
Is Villafañe there? oh! it's not there. Well, then I apologize. But I'm not going, I'm not going.
In the Book of Exodus Chapter twelve - I am fascinated by the Book of Exodus, because it is after Matthew and before John - good brother if you are a Hebrew that starts from right to left. Okay.
It reads like this: Chapter Eleven, Verse Three: "And Jehovah gave favor to the people in the eyes of the Egyptians. Moses was also considered a great man in the land of Egypt and in the eyes of Pharaoh's servants, and in the eyes of the people." . It seems that it is contradicted because because of Moses, God ended that nation and Grace is still working in such a way that people held them in great esteem.
Chapter Twelve and Verse Thirty-six of Exodus -Exodus after Genesis- "And the Lord gave grace to the people before the Egyptians and they gave them whatever they asked for so they plundered the Egyptians." It seems like there is a magic in the word Grace, because the word Grace is mentioned and people kind of melt.
And it's funny because they're laughing, but on account of Grace I can go to the Bank and change the Celestial check, on account of Grace I can take credit in the name of God. Because here it says `Ask the Egyptians what you want, I will give you Grace in such a way that they give you what you want.'
Very good, now, the Book of Proverbs - Proverbs that you know where they are. The book of Proverbs is easy to find, it's after Genesis and before Revelation, and I think you won't miss it if you look for it little by little, carefully – the book of Proverbs. Look at this text: Proverbs, Chapter Sixteen and Verse Fifteen: "In the joy of the King's face is life and his benevolence" -which in English is favor or Grace- "his Grace is like a cloud of latter rain". Very good. Record it well. In what? In the joy of the King's face there is Grace and his benevolence is like what? Like… aha!
Chapter Nineteen and Verse Twelve, the same Proverb: "As the roar of a lion's cub is the wrath of the King"
What a paradox! The King is angry, he is like a lion cub, he is furious, and his favor is "like dew on the grass." Then the face of the Lord changes its tonality, as if there is something that gives him a 'switch' that changes it, he is angry, he is angry. God rises with a powerful voice and makes the mountains tremble and breaks the stones and comes like lightning, but then there is something that changes the King's anger and makes it like dew in the morning and dew is the most subtle form, sexiest -I call it- of the rain, it is the most delicate form of water.
But then how is it possible that from a "grrrrr" a lion at the moment there is something called Gracia that makes it "haa" and it is like dew and it is that the dew makes little bubbles on top of the leaves, on top of the roses or on top of her hair and looks. It's not like a torrent, it's not like a heap of water, it's like something changes him, something like transforms him, something like it tickles him and changes his anger into a smile.
There is a Prophet who is also in your Bible who says: "Ask for rain in rainy weather and God will make lightning, He will make thunder and He will send rain to the field of each one of you." I also find it paradoxical in Zechariah 10:1 that he asks for something when there is one. 'Pastor like me, I didn't go to much school, I just don't understand, how come you order to pray for rain when it's raining? I do not understand'.
And then he says that He will make lightning, so if there is no lightning there are no clouds, there is no thunder, there is no sign of rain, but he says that it is raining and to ask for rain when it is raining.
Allow me to be a bit humorous but very serious because it was Brother Medra who reminded me along the way of this story that I am going to tell you and that I have the first lady with me who is going to support me: my wife.
It was Tuesday, a Tuesday possibly March 13, it was one of those terrible Tuesdays where the headache of Monday continues and David Marrero is not there, he is not so happy. I'm not a person to be angry in the morning but that day I didn't want to celebrate my birthday either so my wife says to me: "Look, David, how good it is that Masseys sent a Masseys special on Wednesdays; and David, do you remember that you Do you need a new suitcase? Because you travel so much and I have a good suitcase". And the women's suitcases are pink or turquoise blue, something that one cannot use and then she tells me: "But look, how special! 60% discount on luggage. It's good to go shopping tomorrow!"
Brother, I didn't care about suitcases, or Masseys, or going out, I wasn't in the right mood to go shopping. But "David, but look David, it's 60% and if you use the Masseys card, oh! I have one, they give you 15 plus David. I don't think it should be wasted"; and David like a lamb to the slaughterhouse, his rage has already disappeared, his courage has already disappeared, and as if his face began to change and as if the fury of the lion began like a ton of dew.... good because I I was going to buy my suitcase that cost me cheap and I went with my dear wife.
How good that a wife who does not think of themselves, who think of their husbands!
When we go to the suitcases I notice that she saw a piece, I don't know if it was a skirt -I imagine- Corinth color, fuchsia, like lilac... then she says: "Look David, wow! 60% and 15 more and what I know…75 and 15. David looks and you remember that next month our son is getting married and what colors will the people go? If that color, David, look at this, David". And then David, of course the special, because it's raining and ask for rain in times of rain and ask for a special in times of special and when the husband stopped having the courage and is happy, ask for what you want because it has changed and that's how it happened. Our heavenly husband who was very angry with sin, but something happened to him that he looked at you and you flirted a little bit and fell in love and said: "I even give you my Kingdom, I leave everything I have to go after you 'Cause you grabbed the Grace special. Masseys opened up."
Because "he's a good guy", he is a great good, good husband. The Church must smile from time to time to the Lord. Well we bought the jacket. We continue towards the suitcases, because we are going towards the suitcases. I already feel like a hero. For ten dollars I had bought something that was worth a hundred or ninety dollars and I felt like a hero with my wife. These people do it as if they were evil, putting their suitcases last over there and the entire perfume department first, then women, and their suitcases over there last next to the matresses. Well for the moment I see that she stands in front of another room and I say: "Ida, do you like it?" "I do like it, but it's not special, David." "Do you like Ida?" "Yes, David, but that's too much for you. We came to buy suitcases". "Ida, do you like it?!" It's that the King is laughing, it's that his face is already like the morning dew. Ask for rain in times of rain, when God is sending Grace upon the Church will be hungry for Grace Ask for Grace in time of Grace because Grace upon Grace came the Lord to give and from that we take everything.
Grace upon Grace, special upon special, that is why I am fascinated by serving Him, I am fascinated by being as I am because He is a God of Grace, He is a God that if you take Him by the weak side and His weak side is called Grace and Love, I don't want to know your back and even those heal me. But his Face is shining like the morning dew.
Well, let's go to the suitcase: "David..." "You don't mind, Ida, you don't mind, it's Grace's Day, you convinced me, you seduced me and I was seduced." I came as a lamb to the slaughter but as a lamb that wants to die. Well we left, oh! My God brothers, I am giving the introduction. We left, we went to pack our bags... and for the moment she looked at some little shoes... the color yes, the same color you just thought of, uh-huh, "Ida, do you like them?" "Well, David, yes, but this is really expensive, David. There's no special, neither for ninety, nor for fifty, nor for thirty..." "Ida, do you like it?" "Look David, the suitcase", "Ida, do you like it?!"
It is that he asked for rain in times of rain, he asked for Grace in times of Grace... he asked me for a smile in times of smiles, he asked me for love in times of love and this is the great problem that God has sought. I am in love with him, I kind of flirt with him and he likes it!
If it is a Throne in splendor and Glory. If the angels want to poke their nose into this Salvation thing and they can't, if the angels can sing but they can never improvise a song of Redemption. The angels can't sing thanks to the lamb that died for me and I can.
An angel can all the greatness, all the splendor, keep the Glory... but the wife is the one who is going to sing a song that nobody knows and when the wife begins to sing the song that nobody knows all of Heaven will gather in silence waiting for the end of a song that the angels long to know because it was that Grace conquered him and now he gave us the secrets of the Kingdom the wealth of the Kingdom, of his power, of his personality of the entire Throne. Furthermore, he says: "He who wins, I will give him to sit with me on my Throne." As I overcame and sat with my Father on the Throne. Hallelujah!
He knows the new Jerusalem has twelve precious stones. God spends the luxury of preparing the bride's dress, the bride's house and what the Devil had were nine precious stones. You read it in Isaiah and Ezekiel, only nine precious stones. When the Devil sees a Throne there and sees three precious stones that he doesn't have, that they haven't given him, the Devil says: "I'll sit down, I'll go up, I'll be the same" and a little voice of a lamb tells him: "It's too big for you and puffed out. It's too big for you because that's for a dear maiden who has flirted with me. It's called my Church." This is the big Masseys special is for her. Well, we bought one thing, we bought the other, we bought the other and now I have a jacket here, a shopping bag here, another shopping bag here. Brothers, I couldn't go to the suitcases! I was like Santa Claus and it was not Santa Claus time. There it was, oh! "David, let's take the car to come buy the suitcase" and I kind of try to take the car.
The thing is, I had spent too much on card and I still liked it, still laughed at it, still loved it! He was still saying inside: If he asked for more, if he asked for more, if he asked for more, if he asked for more, I would give him everything because he has changed the wrath of the King into dewy laughter!
Yes, you also guessed. Walter Mercado is not here but guess what: I arrived without suitcases! 'Special from 9 to 11 or from 8 to 11'. It was 2pm and I was at Masseys. The time for specials had passed and I had not realized it because the queen was with me and had said "I want rain in rainy seasons, I want Grace in Grace time".
He tells me: "David, I see you as pale, your face is as pale." "Ida, I'm not fine." "No your face is pale." "Go away, I'm fine." "No, David, I know you, you're hungry." My wife never asks me for anything, that's why she has everything. My wife suggests and one suggestion, an "I'd like" from her is a fist to the liver.
"I will give you Grace in front of the Egyptians so that when you ask, they will give you everything you need" we have just read. Sister "Fulana" a slave with a slave father, with a slave grandfather, the brother who knew how to make bricks, now God tells her: "Go to the Egyptians and ask them to see what happens. I will give them Grace. I will put Grace. I will change the face of the lions, of the snakes of Egypt for Grace".
And at the moment a Sister left, she was going to leave, and the Bible says so. On the night that she was going to leave, they went to the neighbors, the men to the neighbors, the sisters to the neighbors, and they told her: "Look, sister, I'm going tonight and don't you have a little perfumed nail?" And he says: "Well, look, I have a little perfumed nail." Then she goes to the other: "Don't go, my husband came from Arabia yesterday and brought me a perfume and I felt like giving it to you" and the other said: "Don't go because I have a perfume from India" and Another said: "Don't go because I have a perfume that is taken from the algae from under the ocean, which were the species that I was going to use in the tabernacle." She was in hiding, she had found thousands and thousands of dollars, thousands of miles and now she was there because Grace sued her and when Grace sues no matter what it costs, she shows up because she shows up because the lion is laughing.
We leave Gracia 400 years and he tells us: "No, no no, 400 years of slavery? Payday, they are going to collect in one day, they lost it in 400 years"
Church, Lion of Judah, I know that you are generous, be more generous, much more generous than Pharaoh. Look like God who gave everything because God has wealth to give to the Church so that she does not live like a beggar, but rather lives like a true princess. And this is without preaching the super economy or the super Faith or the super abundance, not the cheap one, the good one. 400 years without paying and God says 'payday'.
We are going to build a temple that we have not built for 20 years, we are going to do it in one year. How many believe it? If you believe it, say Amen, if you don't, say oh! but say something Well, my wife, I don't forget.
I am sixty-six years old and I have been preaching for forty-two years and I do not forget them. If I forget she pulls me. Brothers, I tell him "Ida, here it is: fast food. Fast food food. So we go there and eat" and then he tells me: "David, you don't eat hamburgers, you don't eat fries. David, what you eat are good things. I know the food you like and here is a place called "Legacy Sea Food" and I know you like to eat."
Brothers, the paleness that I had was not, it was her invention, I was not pale. She wanted to eat a lobster casserole and she knew that by saying that my face didn't look so good, she was going to convince me and she did! I finished, I took the packages there, I didn't buy the suitcase and I was like a big fool, but a fool who likes it, an addict who likes it.
What do you want? A little lobster in the casserole and then the little dessert and for the ice cream and "David, I know, eat the little fish that you always like" What it costs is twelve dollars. And so I ended up buying. Already in the afternoon without strength, but full of enthusiasm and love because someone knew how to change the machinery of my spirit. Touch God, move God.
God said, 'I wanted to do great good to you, but you turned me back', but on the other hand He says: 'I wanted to do great harm to thousands but they turned me to do good to you'.
You can change God's clock, God is sovereign but within his sovereignty He has left a possibility for you to change it, without ceasing to be sovereign.
Because Sovereign is a God who does what he wants, he can still be weak in his Sovereignty so that you apparently weaken him and it is that in his Sovereignty he was weakened so that you would say: "I want to marry you even though I am Poor, although I am a Moabite, I want to marry you because I have wanted to" That Grace will be enough to sleep with you King!
Brothers, on that weekend we had Pastor Raymond and Pastor Elizabeth Colón from Orlando, they were visiting our Church. It was already Sunday. On Sunday I tell her: "Ida, you have to take the brothers to dinner" and she says: "You know that Brother Raymond always talks about the Boston lobster. You know that, David." "Okay. And where are we going?" "Where we went on Wednesday, is that they are fresh, you know. Let's take them there"
Brother, like lamb to the slaughter, I took Pastor and Pastora, and my wife and I went to Legacy SeaFood again, and then the excitement was so great that my wife says, "Well, what do you like? Order what you like." want. The biggest there is."
Legacy SeaFood has a reputation for having their own hatcheries and they had six pound lobsters that day. Hello? Yes, the plate was two hundred and fifty dollars each that day because we are not in season but since they have their own hatchery they counted. So much so, suppose it's unethical, the girl who served us said, "Do you know how much the lobster you ordered is? Two hundred and fifty dollars each." One Sister Elizabeth, another Brother Raymond, my wife who was humble and asked for another and David Marrero, how do you like the twelve dollar fish... brother... -but let me tell you Pastor, really, with these Pastors I I spend not that, I spend my life, because that's how I love them and that's how they are with us. You know Raymond and Liz, you know them, they are... and then Raymond when he said: "I don't want to, I'm not going to abuse, I don't want to. We're only going to ask for five." Well we made the order, ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes, forty minutes and the order did not come; fifty minutes and no order came, sixty minutes and no order came. Finally I told her: "Miss, we made a big order, these are my guests" but how God had already told me that Grace makes the faces of lions change, instead of starting to fight against the one who could help me in Grace, I told him: "I know it's not your fault, but you have the power to help us." She couldn't find what to do, it was because the order was lost on the computer. She brought the Manager and the Manager excused himself. Sister Ida, am I speaking right? Right sister Ida? If they give me an offering, I'll give you half.
She asks me for a tithe every time I go out, she is my Priest. My priestess.
Well, he comes and excuses himself. They left. Ten minutes... brothers, a lobster that crossed the plate and almost crossed the table and Pastora's another lobster just like it and my wife another lobster just like it and I for bobo the little fish from... Boston's crown. The issue is that when we ask for the order, the girl arrives to serve us, I say: "How much? Give me the order" and she says: "Not if the boss said it was free" "But... why?" "Ah! Because he liked you. One hour and you didn't yell or get shocked, one hour and you were nice." Then the boss comes and says: "That's for the house." He gave me a card and says: "As long as I'm a Manager and you're a customer, it's free. It's for the house"
Ask for rain in times of rain, go to Masseys when they are special and when a Divine Healing Service is being announced do not stay there because it is a special time of Divine Healing or Prosperity. Hello? or Liberation or Baptism of the Holy Spirit or Salvation, please, do not stay there, because time, the special can end and you continue there without having enjoyed the material that the special offered you.
Well, now you could order the tiramisu and then the Pastora says: "I want a tiramisu" and the Pastor too and Sister Ida. Brothers, and when it comes, it comes with Noah's Ark. A special thing, but special, special and I said: "The bill?". "No, if the Manager himself did it and says it's Free."
Say with me: Free. Say with me: Free, say with me: Free. Funny. Never fight with the person who can help, never fight with the person in front of the counter who is the only one, is not to blame and is the only one who can help you.
We go to the airport and fight with those who are there in front who are not to blame for anything. We went to the hotels and they threw out the reservation, we fought with the lady: they are not to blame. Grace works miracles.
I am telling you that, coincidentally with Brother Colón and Sister Elisa, we won a banker for the Lord in Florida, completely new but full of joy. Her name is Aguilda, possibly you know her. I was going to rent a car that cost about fourteen dollars a day, she went with me Pastor, "I'm going to look for the car with you" so when we went to look for the car, she doesn't know anything and says to the attendant: "Get me a Mustang convertible to the Pastor because he has Grace on his face". Because since I identified that and she's new, she thought she was going to rent me a convertible and it was so new and I said: "Aguilda, that doesn't work like that." The guy who attends me says: "I can't because it's a I eat eighty dollars a day and I can't, not be in my power". "Ah! But the Pastor said that if Grace smiled and had Grace, they would give what they asked for." "Well, I'm sorry, I can't, they didn't make the contract." We went to look for the car in Parking Land, number three, when we were... a yellow Mustang convertible and when I came out with the Mustang it makes me the boy.
Ask for rain in times of rain, ask for Grace in times of Grace that if there is no Grace, God will make lightning, create a cloud... and what I like most about that prophecy: "and I will send rain for the planting of each one", means that it is a private Grace. It is for you private, God has a special private for you. I think I should shut up. I didn't finish this morning and today I don't owe two more either.
Raise your hands with me to Heaven. lift them up. The people of Israel were being used by the Assyrians, says the Prophet: "God is furious, he will give his voice, his mighty voice, God will come with all his fury." Then he says: "The maiden who goes out with a tambourine to play because there will be joy in my town." The other verse says: "And God will destroy the Assyrians if the maiden waves her hand once, twice, three times", if she hits with her hand if you do that, you applaud me in other words and when you applaud me I look like I'm fighting for you. A round of applause for the Lord. God bless you.
Amen.
Pastor Miranda: Glory to God. That is the power of Parables, isn't it? that teaches us those deep truths of God: "Ask for rain in rainy weather". The Lord has rain and Grace for his People. This is the time of the people of God. The Lord says: "Because I know the thoughts that I have about you" Thoughts of good and not of evil to give you the end that you desire and expect. We are going to stand up, we are going to ask the Lord.
