See failure as the matrix of success

(Audio: Spanish)

SUMMARY: The speaker reflects on the different stories and dramas of people's lives, acknowledging that some are starting the new year with a sense of optimism, while others face difficult times. He believes that failure is a necessary part of the Christian life, as it allows one to grow and move to another level. He cites examples from the Bible, including Abraham, Moses, David, and Peter, who all experienced failures but ultimately fulfilled God's purpose in their lives. He also tells the story of Samson, whose strength was in his hair, and how he fell into failure after revealing his secret to Delilah. Despite his torture and imprisonment, Samson's hair began to grow back, giving him hope for the future.

The sermon is about how failures can become opportunities for growth and success in our lives, using the example of Samson from the Bible. Despite Samson's many failures, including losing his strength and being captured by his enemies, he ultimately found strength in God and was able to use his final act of destroying a building to defeat his enemies and fulfill God's purpose for his life. The speaker encourages listeners to have a positive outlook on failure and to trust in God's plan for their lives, even when things seem difficult. The sermon ends with a prayer for God's blessings on the listeners and for the church's Wednesday night services to be a source of renewal and connection with God.

First Wednesday of the year 2012, wow, that's great for me, I don't know about you but it's great for me. This morning my sister Raquel asked me the same question and said, so, what is the plan for this new year with the services on Wednesdays? And I, follow one Wednesday after another to see what God is doing behind us, exact, backwards or to gain momentum, as they say. But if there is something that I can say, my brothers, in response to that question, my brothers, it is that to see the hand of God working in the midst of our lives, that is the most I want to see.

And I have been meditating and reflecting not only on my personal things but also on you when I look at the church from up here, when I see you, and I see the different stories that are immersed there, the different dramas that are in the process of unfolding, different chapters that have remained incomplete, chapters that have been closed and new chapters that have begun, I know that there is all that there between the seats, I know that there is all that there in your house where you are seeing us, there are lives that have finished a year well and are starting the year well, as there are also stories of people who ended the year 2011 with a bitter story and the year 2012 is also starting like this, half bitter, there are people who are starting this new season in their lives, with a sense of expectation that something good is going to happen, that something good is going to unfold, there are people who perhaps from this point present when they look have In the future they can't see very clearly what's happening what's going to happen, but somehow or another they're like, ok, let's see what happens.