Author
Marta Ramirez
Summary: The speaker shares a dream she had about being upset with her daughter's divorce and feeling courageous but having a stain on her white clothes. God tells her to give Him the pain and anger and walk in peace. She then shares Jeremiah 33:1-9, where God speaks to Jeremiah while he is in prison, and promises to heal and restore the people of Judah and Israel. The speaker encourages those who feel imprisoned by injustice to hold onto their faith in God.
The speaker talks about Jeremiah, who was imprisoned for speaking God's word, but God spoke to him and told him to cry out to Him and He will answer with great and hidden things. Even though the city was being destroyed due to the wickedness of the people, God promised to bring healing and medicine, and to restore them to the beginning, forgiving all their sins. The speaker encourages listeners to trust in God and wait for Him, as He will bring great things and people will be amazed at what He does for them.
God has good plans for your life, and even if it takes longer than expected, trust in Him and His timing. Don't try to rush His processes. He will reveal the truth, heal the wounds, and bring unity and peace. Keep praying and believing in God's promises. Those who have sown with tears will reap with joy. Trust in the Lord and His good thoughts for you.
I want to share the word chosen by the Lord for this moment. I know that God always has a purpose for everything, and it's amazing because God woke me up this morning with a dream and made it all an adjustment and an application to my own life and I was saying to my husband this morning, God is going to help you. speak this afternoon, it is not only for the brothers of León de Judá, it is for you and me too, because the word of God is a sword with a sharp edge and it will always bless and cut and challenge the person who preaches it as much as to the public that receives it. Blessed and praise the name of the Lord.
And I am going to be talking about Jeremiah 33, from 1 to 9, which says so in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
“…The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still a prisoner in the prison yard, saying, Thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it, the Lord is his name, cry out to me and I I will answer you, and I will teach you great and hidden things that you do not know, for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been struck down with battering rams and axes. of all his wickedness. Behold, I will bring you healing and medicine and I will heal you, Hallelujah! And I will reveal to them an abundance of peace and truth, and I will bring back the captives of Judah and the captives of Israel and I will restore them as at the beginning, and I will cleanse them from all their wickedness with which they sinned against me and I will forgive all their sins that they sinned against me. and that they rebelled against me. And it will be to me a name of joy, praise and glory among all the nations of the earth who will have heard all the good that I do for them and will fear and tremble at all the good and all the peace that I will do for them... ”
The Lord blesses this word in our hearts. We can do it in front of ten words of yours, living word, Hallelujah! Your words are spirit and are life, Lord, penetrate to the most intimate of the bowels of our being, Lord, and record it there and allow it to bear fruit there, Lord, and that there it impacts and revolves our entire being and magnifies our faith, to We believe it and receive as it gives us, in the name of Jesus our Lord we pray with faith. Amen. Hallelujah!
Thank my Lord. This morning I woke up with the intention of sleeping a little more because we rarely have that opportunity, but when I woke up I was surprised by the strong courage I felt with the dream I had just had. I don't normally remember dreams, very few of them. God has spoken to me through dreams and visions, even though he has, but on this occasion I woke up and remembered the dream perfectly, but above all I was surprised by the strong emotion of courage that I felt, as if the dream were part of my real life.
And I understood that I had to get up earlier than I had planned and start praying. And I went to the bathroom of the hotel room and began to review in my mind the details of the dream in such a way that they would be recorded well, since it is common for me to forget them, and in the dream I saw myself dressed in white garments , of a white robe, but there was like a yellow stain here, smelly, and I looked at myself and I said, why did I wear these Elsie clothes? Elsie is my younger sister who somewhat symbolizes a lack of steadfastness in the ways of the Lord. And she said, why did I wear these Elsie clothes with this smelly stain on them?
And I tried to pick up the mess that all the children made, including my granddaughters and other children from the church, and I picked up and picked up, and the courage grew more and more because I couldn't completely pick up the mess that they constantly kept making. And in that I hear a voice and see straight ahead that some brothers from the church began as a dramatization. In my church musicals, plays and very beautiful things are done, God has given a lot of talent to many brothers there, who anyone would say are Hollywood professionals.
And when I hear the voice of one of the brothers and I start to watch the performance, at one point, I don't know why, my husband and I jumped on a little roof that had the scenery and the scenery fell. So, I saw my daughter indifferent and producing a mess and I picking up and more and more upset and more and more upset and more and more upset, until at the moment I see myself walking with her ex-husband and her children and girls and he with joy and naturally. And that's when I woke up.
But I felt so strong the anger, the annoyance and I understood that God was speaking to me, because yesterday morning I told the sisters in flash, only that my husband and I had been going through a very difficult test in the last two years. , and although I did not give details, that test led to my daughter's divorce in July of this year. Can you imagine, after almost 10 years of marriage, she is our only eldest daughter, we then have two boys, she is 31 years old, our other two children are 29 and 25, the 29-year-old is also married, has a baby boy and one that is on the way. And the 25-year-old hasn't married.
But she has two girls, one 9 years old and the other 4 who are the light of our eyes. And a beautiful girl, a beautiful daughter, very talented, literally raised in our lap, very loved by us and very loved by our husband. Our husband is good as a man, as a professional, as a Christian, as a husband, as a father, he is an abundance of love, attention, and in fact, I always scold him and tell him, you always exceed yourself, you have to let things go. they win them and that they are by measure. But that is already what is born to him naturally.
And we have suffered a lot these last two years seeing the way in which this dynamic of deterioration of the marriage has occurred, although she met him at church, he was a recent arrival and although he claimed to be a mature Christian, he was not and although he had some biblical knowledge and some upbringing in the Lord, it was soon noticed by the fruit that is as the word says, by the fruit you will know it, that it was not a person really with a Christian root or rather with a clearly Christian lifestyle.
She married him very quickly, barely knowing him, due to a love disappointment from which she had emerged and seemed like a great person, from a great family, but as I told you, her instability soon became apparent, her lack of character, of commitment and also his little fear of God. Even though she kept quiet about many things, already in the last year she began to let us know more about the details of what was happening, and in July, after a year of separation, her divorce came out.
The last thing that awaits you as a pastor, as a Christian, coming from a stable home, my mother who has been married to my father for about 60 years, and who against all odds has maintained that marriage, despite the fact that in the beginning there was mistreatment , then they convert and mommy maintained, against all attacks, against all crises, that marriage. He raised 5 of us, I am the fourth of 5 children, 4 are women, and my husband and I have given ourselves completely to the Lord, we raise our children with all the love of God and Christian example possible, and the last What you expect is that seeing your home of formation, and then having a home that is so united, stable, well-founded in the Lord, is that your only daughter, your princess, your eldest daughter, the mother of your first granddaughters, fail in your marriage relationship.
And believe me we cry a lot. Now, I can hold back the pain and the tears but if I said, I'm going to forget that I have these people in front of me and I'm going to start crying my pain, I could literally start crying. One has accompanied so many people in the midst of the crises that they are experiencing, so many people have received personal, family and financial blows, in their health, in all aspects of their lives, but never after 29 years as a pastor. , I could understand even living it what a blow of this type means for a family.
No one can imagine the pain of another until they live a similar experience. And it has really been a very strong pain for us. The thing is that when I woke up from this dream with such strong courage, the only thing I could do was recognize the great anger that I have repressed due to our daughter's behavior in the last year where due to the crisis, the failure, the disappointment, disappointment and not being able to understand the outcome of this whole relationship in which she invested so much, she has become, as often happens to people who go through different stages of negotiation, denial, frustration in their crises , rebellion and then acceptance, because she has not been the exception.
And in the midst of all those stages, his relationship with God has cooled off a bit. I imagine that because of what I represent, although the whole family is very close, well, in some way he has had a lot of animosity against me, that I am the one that I have always represented... without any way of negotiating that, that firmness, that fidelity , that word of faith, that declaration of God's faithfulness, and somehow all of that has clashed with the experience she has had.
Believe me I have not shared this in this way anywhere. And we have had to suffer on top of his experience, well, also the strange treatment towards me. when I wake up and feel such great courage here, it was like God telling me, you have repressed all that pain and that courage and you have tried to show off and you have achieved it, before her, like a mother who cares, who accompanies, who does not loses faith, who tolerates unusual things, but who knows from life experience, from faith, and from studies that they are things typical of experiences that we have to ask the Lord to help us look at everything in a picture .
And you have repressed all that courage, but brothers, I woke up with courage that whatever I took in front of me took it, and I said, Lord, but is my courage so strong, is my pain so great? And I knew it, but God told me in the dream, your clothes. Because I was like, what does this mean? Because I never remember dreams and I could remember them in detail. God told me, your clothes are white but there is a smelly stain deteriorating it. You have to throw out that courage, you have given me everything, and you are trusting me but you have to give me that courage, that pain that stains your clothes, that upsets you, that does not let you order everything that has been produced as a product of all this that has happened in the family, and that leads you and your husband to break with scenarios of dramas and theaters that they want to represent but that do not correspond to the truth.
And I was like, my God, but what is this? And once that is achieved, you will walk with all of them in peace. And I couldn't think how I was walking with her ex-husband by my side and the girls and everything was so harmonious and so positive. I was like, wow, what a tremendous Lord, and then God gave me this word and God told me, that's the word for them.
And notice that when Jeremiah speaks here he says, "And the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still a prisoner in the prison yard..."
I don't know how many times God has spoken to you. I do not know if you are a servant, a servant of God, someone who is faithful to the Lord, who has believed him, who has placed the word of God and obedience to God above all things and has stood against all suffering holding up your faith, your testimony, how many of you feel imprisoned this morning. They feel imprisoned as an act of injustice from everything that is happening around them.
Jeremiah did not have to be in prison. Jeremiah was in prison because he had spoken the word of Jehovah, because he had believed the Lord, because he had spoken to the king, to his princes, to the priests of the people, what God gave him regarding what had to be done, but he was speaking words that the people did not want to hear.
People sometimes do not want to hear, people sometimes do not want you to remain firm, to remain in faith, to remain in your position, to keep looking, raising your face as if looking at the invisible. People sometimes resent that. People want you to yell, yell, curse, get out of control, throw everything away, and they can't. When the enemy sneaks in they can't tolerate, they can't stand your stillness, they can't stand your control and your faith remains.
My dad told me about this and other things that he is suffering with other granddaughters, Marta, I don't see light at the end of the tunnel. I told him, daddy, we walk by faith and not by sight. You do not have to see the light, the light is in your heart, Christ has given you a word, you have to believe him, you have to continue. It's not about what circumstances say, it's not about what your emotions say, it's not about what your fragile faith says, it's about what God has said. Hallelujah! And his word remains forever.
Brothers, I have had to shepherd all this time as a pastor, but even more so in recent years, not only my children, my husband, my parents, my brothers, my nephews, my grandchildren. And it is like not being able to get out of your pastoral role at any time, and you feel that on all fronts you have work, you have a challenge, you have a challenge, you have a demand and you do not find a space to rest and to say, here I am nobody, now I am anyone, I am one more, and I can abandon myself and alienate myself from all the things that hold me responsible, that demand me.
But even if you feel this afternoon because of your fidelity to God, for having spoken what you had to speak, for having remained faithful, even if you are imprisoned this afternoon, and God has spoken to you the first time, and you still remain imprisoned, God has a new word for you. Hallelujah!.
Glory to the name of the Lord. And still in prison, still limited in his food, in his freedom and in many circumstances, Jeremiah received the word of Jehovah for the second time. Hallelujah!
Even if your circumstances do not change, God is there and what he has said will come to pass. Hallelujah! Even if you are still in prison, even if you are still captive as I was saying to the women yesterday, even in the midst of captivity there in Babylon, next to the river that flows Ezekiel raised his eyes and saw the heavens open and he had visions of God. Hallelujah!
John himself in the midst of his jail, in the midst of his exile, on Patmos saw the Son of man, Hallelujah! On the day of the Lord, he was present next to him and heard his voice like a trumpet, in the worst scenario of his life, where also because of his faithfulness and as an act of injustice he was relegated to that place.
Brothers, these are the worst moments in life, I don't know why the ones that God chooses, so that you know him, so that you hear his voice like never before, so that you see his glory, so that you can declare with Job, heard I had heard you more now my eyes see you. I spoke things that I did not understand, things that were too sublime for me, but I retracted and repented in incense and ashes because you are God. Good God, just God and he says the word, that when Job submitted to what God established for him and had prayed for his friends, God gave him back double all the things he had asked for. Hallelujah!.
And even when he died at the age of 140, he died old, full of life, even in his death it was abundant. Hallelujah! And Jeremiah was in prison but even that prison does not deprive you of the presence of God. God is like never by your side, like a powerful giant. God is there drying your tears. God is there imparting his strength to you. God is there telling you, I will not leave you or forsake you. God is by your side pronouncing with a prophetic voice, do not fear because I am with you. Do not lose heart because I am your God who forces you, I will always help you, I will always support you with the right hand of my justice and when God brings word to Jeremiah for the second time, even while he is a prisoner in the prison yard, God first affirmed his name, God said to him, I am Jehovah, God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who formed the earth to establish it, Jehovah is my name and said to him, cry out to me. Hallelujah! Because there are moments in life when no one wants to hear you, no one wants or can shake your hand, no one can offer you what is only in the heart of God and God knows it.
And God tells you to cry out to me and I will answer you as if you were the only person who inhabits the earth, as if there was no one else. I loved you with eternal love and for this I extended my mercy to you. Call on me and I will answer you and I will show you great and hidden things that you do not know.
Brothers, God has to alter our environment many times so that we stop listening to other voices and we can be alone with him and we can learn things that we would not learn otherwise. God brings us revelation. God teaches us the most glorious chairs. God gives us Hallelujah! The most precious revelations when we are in crisis and in the midst of that crisis God tells Jeremiah, cry out to me, cry out to me and you will not waste time, you have cried a lot, I have given you promises, you have not seen them comply, you are still in prison, but cry out to me and I will answer you. Hallelujah!
The time has come for me to answer you, for me to teach you other things and I will show you great things. Brothers, you think you have seen great things, God has even greater things for you. Hallelujah! More glorious, higher, deeper, broader and I will show you great and hidden things, things that until then you had not seen, as God told Siro, I will give you two hidden treasures and very guarded secrets so that you know that I I am Jehovah, who gave you a name, that there is no other besides me. Hallelujah!
I will show you and I will teach you great and hidden things that you do not know. Hallelujah! And God has been showing me and teaching me things, brethren, that I didn't know. And God has been trying to explain to me the things that have been, the things that are and the things that will come. Not only in my personal and family character but also in the character of our church, our country and of history in general. Because, brothers, we have to recognize the times. Hallelujah! We have to realize the direction this whole human story is heading and how it is coming to an end.
And God says to Jeremiah, look, don't be surprised, for this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses in this city and about the houses of the kings of Israel, thrown down with battering rams and axes, because of all his wickedness.
Because the first time that God spoke to Jeremiah, he told him, buy your cousin, Anamael, the house, the property that he comes to sell you because it comes from me. And the city was besieged, they were seeing the destruction, seeing the mobilization towards captivity, but later his cousin arrived and offered him the purchase of the house and told him that he was the one who had the right, and he says that Jeremiah understood that it was the word of God and he bought the property and put witnesses and sealed the letter and kept it because God told him, houses will still be bought in this city and in this place.
And that was the first word that God gave to Jeremiah. And when he speaks to him the second time, he affirms what he had said the first time and adds, and it is when he tells him, these houses of this city that you see demolished because of the wickedness of your own people, you are going to see the change , you are going to see the transformation because although what is being lived is the product of sin and evil, brothers, because unfortunately many of what we suffer is not the fault of God or the devil, they are the consequences of our own decisions and choices .
Guilt is an orphan, nobody wants it, but many times we have to take responsibility for what is happening in our lives and in our family. And God is saying to Jeremiah, although because of the wickedness of the people you see all this destruction and all these houses have been torn down, behold, brothers, that is what distinguishes God from all other people, behold, I will bring them health and medicine. Hallelujah! And I will heal them and reveal to them an abundance of peace and truth. Hallelujah!
And God spoke to me and told me, do not fear for what you are seeing, do not fear for that emotional captivity in which you feel, do not fear because the word that I spoke to you the first time has not been fulfilled, do not fear because you see everything demolished and Because you see everything devastated and destroyed, I will bring you healing and medicine. Hallelujah! And I will heal them and reveal to them an abundance of peace and truth.
Brethren, that is the God we serve. That is the God whose mercy is new every morning. That is the God who sees you, who knows you, who has mercy on you, who says, do not be afraid, I will help you. Hallelujah! I, Jehovah, and outside of me who saves. Hallelujah! And God makes such a tremendous promise about his brother, his fellow townsman, and associates sin with illness of the spirit and when he says healing and medicine, I don't know why in some way it makes me think that God is going to pray some things by supernatural means, but will work others with natural means. Hallelujah!
And that is why it says healing and medicine, but it will heal us and our children, and it will heal ours and reveal an abundance of peace and truth to them. Brothers, because what our children need and what so many of us suffer for need is not more information or more church, and all this is necessary, but rather a personal experience with Jesus Christ, they need the glory of God to enter their hearts, that he satisfies them, that he reveals the truth and peace that is only in him and many of us have raised our children in the church, in the Lord, we have given them good testimony, we have covered them with prayer, we have sown in them We have invested and we do not see the fruit, but don't be late brother and sister, the Lord is going to heal you, the Lord is going to give you the experience you need, the Lord is going to reveal himself to you, Hallelujah! The Lord is going to make the truth known to them and the truth is going to set them free. Hallelujah!
Blessed and praised be the name of the Lord. He says that word, so as not to dwell too long, and I will restore them to the beginning. Hallelujah! What you are seeing is not the end, what you are seeing is just [inaudible] in the divine process. Hallelujah! He will restore them, or restore you to the beginning. Do not worry. Hallelujah! Put yourself in the Lord's hands, keep trusting in him, hold on tightly to his hands, tell him to help you continue. Hallelujah! He gives achieved effort and multiplies strength to the one who has none. the boys get tired and tired, the young weaken and fall, but those who wait for the Lord will have new strength. Hallelujah!
They will raise wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not get tired. I, says the Lord, will restore them as at the beginning and I will cleanse them from all their wickedness with which they sinned against me and I will forgive all their sins that they sinned against me. Brethren, if God is anything, it is a forgiving God. If God is anything, it is a God who, if we confess our sins, is faithful and just to forgive our sins and cleanse us from all evil. Hallelujah!
And it will be to me a name of joy, praise and glory among all the nations of the earth who will have heard all the good that I do for them. And they will fear and tremble at all the good and all the peace that I will give them. Give the Lord a round of applause.
People are going to be speechless when they see what God does for you and yours. Hallelujah! When Jehovah returns the captivity of Zion we will be like those who dream. Our mouth will be filled with laughter and our tongue with praise, and they will say among the nations, Great things the Lord has done with these. Great things Jehovah has done with us. We will be happy to see our captivity, we must continue praying like the streams of the Negev. It says, those who sowed with tears will reap with joy. He who carries the precious seed will go walking and crying, but he will return singing bringing his cabilla. Hallelujah!
Tune that voice that you are going to have to praise the Lord and raise a song of victory, Hallelujah! Because God has to keep his word. But do not despair even if it will take time if he will also give you. Be still and wait, know that he is God, he has his times, he has his things, do not get carried away by voices from here and there because there are times when people bring us a word out of compassion or empathy that is not the word of God, and God said to this people, look, do not listen to your prophets or your wise men or your soothsayers, for I did not send them because the Lord said so, when the 70 years are completed in Babylon, I will visit you.
Look, I don't know if you have 7 days, 7 weeks, 7 months, 7 years, everything is in God's plan and purpose, but when your term is over, Hallelujah! When God understands that your process has concluded, God will visit you and awaken his good word upon you. Hallelujah! To make you return to your place, Hallelujah!
And the Lord tells them there, because I know the thoughts that I have about you. Thoughts of good and not of evil to give you the end you expect. Hallelujah! God has good thoughts about you, God is planning glorious things for your life. Do not hang yourself in the test, do not give up, do not give up, do not faint, do not abandon your faith, do not abandon the Lord, wait, trust, what God has pronounced from the beginning that will be, Hallelujah!
As I told you yesterday, that the word of God is alive and effective. Hallelujah! And just as the rain and snow come down from heaven and do not return there, but water the earth and make it germinate and produce and give seeds to the sower and bread to the eater, says the Lord, so shall my word go forth from my mouth, it will not return to me empty but will do what I want and will prosper in that for which I sent it.
Hallelujah! And even if God is late, brothers, when the process is completed at God's right moment, it will be the delivery. We women know that when we are pregnant, oh my God, look, I screwed up in the third pregnancy, that I was already a pastor, the first two pregnancies I was not a pastor, but in the third I was. And at 8 and a half weeks, now and now, I was going to the hospital, and no, and still, and give it a go, it's late. And a sister from the church, Anita, told me one day, pastor, don't bother more than when the right time is when the right time is fulfilled, it's because the baby is going to be born. So it was. On September 18 the pain came and in a few hours we had already given birth.
But, brothers, sometimes we abort boys because we want to take them out of the womb early and we want to compress and reduce the time of God's processes and it is not possible. God knows what he does and when he does it and many times God pretends to withdraw so that those who are indifferent, rebellious and hardened, react.
As he told the prophet Hosea, I will walk, and with this I finish, and I will return to my place until they recognize their sin and seek my face in their anguish they will seek me, says the Lord. Hallelujah!
Come, invite us, and let us return to Jehovah, for he has taken away and will heal us, wounded and bandage us, will give us ears after two days, and on the third day he will raise us up and we will live before him. Hallelujah!
Stand up. Raise your hands. Worship God, thank God for his word. Believe him that he wants your clothes to be white at all times, there is always ointment on your head. Those stains that your testimony has covered, those clothes that may be denying the work of God in you, you have to change them, you have to remove them, you have to leave the drama, the theater, the dishonest representations and be transparent of God and of the people and believe that God's moment arrives for everything and that God frees and heals your heart from the pain of those wounds, the pain of those experiences and those losses and that God transforms the scenarios, that heals, reveals the truth and It allows you to walk as I saw myself in the dream, together with those who had separated from you, together with those who were not with you. God makes peace. God reconciles. God resurrects us on the third day and we will live before him.
We are going to pray at this moment for all those who have heard the word of God but feel imprisoned and needed a second word and God has given it to them at this moment and they receive with joy and faith God's challenge to cry out to him and believe that he will respond, that he will reveal what is missing, that he will heal the wounded, that he will bring back ours, that he will bring unity and harmony and that even in the midst of anguish he is glorifying himself, moving the floor, calling them and helping them to arrive again so that together we may live before him.
No matter how things are, houses will still be bought in this place, walls will still be built in this city even though everything is torn down and desolate, because the Lord, the Lord, has said so. Heavenly Father, you are God above all things, there is no one like you, nor works that match your works, no matter how we are at this time, you are God above all things, Jehovah is your name. You invite us to continue asking you to ask with confidence, to understand that when the time is up you will visit us. Hallelujah!
And you will fulfill the thoughts of good and not evil that you have about us. Give us your peace that surpasses all understanding, that we be anxious for nothing, but that our requests are known before you, in all prayer and petition with thanksgiving, and that peace of yours will guard our thoughts and our hearts in Christ Jesus.
Lord, we tie our life to you. Lord, we bind our soul to yours. Lord, we receive your word and we believe it. Lord, we put your word above our circumstances and we thank you for your processes of growth and blessing. We thank you for your promises, Hallelujah! And those of us who have sown with tears will be there, reaping with joy, with song and with joy in the name that is above all names, the name of Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord and savior, we pray with faith and with celebration and action of thank you. Amen. Hallelujah! God bless you, brothers.