Bethlehem Is a Necessary Season Because There God Prepares You for the Dream to Be Born

We know that when God speaks it is fulfilled because God is a God of truth, we have the Word of God where we know the Will of God, we know the secrets of God written for each one of us, but we also receive the Word of God in different ways: through the prophetic Word, through visions, some kind of revelation or vision, you can be asleep, you can be awake, but the Lord speaks to us in different ways because the Kingdom of heaven has its own language, amen?

Luke chapter number 2 verses from 1 to 7, says:

1: “It happened in those days that an edict was promulgated by Augustus Caesar that the whole world was registered.

2: "This first census was made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria"

3: “and they all went to be registered, each one in his city.”

4: “And Joseph went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;”

5: "To be registered with Mary, his wife, betrothed to him who was pregnant"

6: "And it came to pass that while she was there the days of her delivery were fulfilled"

7: “And she gave birth to her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.”

And we go down in that same chapter in verse number 25 please, and the Word says:

25: “And behold, there was in Jerusalem a man named Simeon, and this man, just and pious, waited for the consolation of Israel; and the Holy Spirit was upon him.”

26: "And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he saw the Lord's anointed."

27: "And moved by the Spirit he came to the temple, and when the parents of Jesus brought him to the temple to do with him according to the rite of the law"

28: “he took him in his arms, and blessed him saying:”

29: "Now Lord, you send your servant away in peace, according to your word"

30: "For my eyes have seen your salvation"

31: "Which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples;"

32: "Light for the revelation of the Gentiles and glory for your people Israel"

Praise the Lord, let's just read up to here.

How many are alive here? everything that breathes, glory to the Lord, and here right? tells us about a man named Simeon, but before going into this we want to remember how when God spoke to Moses (actually to Abraham) the Lord told him that he would be the Father of multitudes, your offspring will be like the stars of heaven and like the sand of the sea, and there was a time of waiting for the manifestation of that Word that the Lord gave him, right?

The Lord then spoke to Joseph through dreams and revealed to him what his prophetic destiny was going to be and he shares it with his parents and siblings, but before seeing the manifestation of that Word that the Lord gave him through dreams there was a process that led to it, right? a period of time was also crossed to see the manifestation here on Earth of that Will of the Lord, but it is not so easy for us to wait, right?

The Word of the Lord says in Psalm 40: "I waited patiently for the Lord and he leaned down to me, and heard my cry, and he brought me out of the pit of despair, from the miry pit, he placed my feet on rock, he straightened my steps and then he put a new song in my mouth, praises to our God” glory to the Lord, those verses are precious, “and he made me draw out of the well” but it begins with the word patiently.

I was sharing with Dr. Wilda yesterday that I really like one of the meanings of patience that it means: waiting calmly for things that take time, I think that the key among so many definitions of patience is the word calm, waiting calmly . There is a saying that he who hopes despairs because what is expected despairs, but the Word of God tells us to wait.

When my husband and I got engaged, that is (...) (laughs) the girls here know what I'm referring to, so if the gentlemen here are hearing some giggling, it's because of certain secrets we shared yesterday at the activity. When he and I got married, he told me that I was his girlfriend and I believed it, okay? God spoke to us shortly after and he told me and him with a sister that the youth of the Church went to pray for her because she had had a fall and had broken her ankle, and the youth of the Church went to pray for her , and I was kind of new but I tried.

And I was with my husband beginning that strange courtship, and the very strange courtship, and at the moment the sister who has a fractured ankle, who is an older lady, got up on one foot, she had her foot raised on a small stool, and she She gets up with the other foot I don't know how, she gets up she takes my husband and me by the hand, and says: here I choose two nations for a great and powerful work, and we were starting an engagement, and I said, I who I was wondering if I was his girlfriend or not yet: the Lord was already talking to me about marriage (laughs), what is this? the Lord takes us here on the run, it looks like I'm going to have to until I marry him (laughs).

And the Lord speaks to us of a great work; next month we are one month away from our 46th wedding anniversary, let me tell you, right? because that is the preamble but he has been one of the most precious blessings of my life, glory to the Lord, what happens is that I did not understand it because I was brand new.

Then the Lord spoke to us, that was in 1969, beginning in 1969. So when that Word that the Lord spoke to us came to manifest, we began in the middle of 1986, a period of time passed with various situations and processes that we all went through in life. life in one way or another, and you already know how the Lord teaches us to wait, and we have to wait to see the manifestation of the Lord, and we see that the time to register had arrived here, and Mary and Joseph were in Jerusalem, and they had to travel to Bethlehem. Mary was already close to giving birth, the Lord had brought Mary a powerful Word, she had been chosen among many to be the mother of the Son of God.

She received that Word for her and she knew that what she carried inside was something great and powerful, that she carried Emmanuel, the Savior, God with us, the promise of God for his people, it was inside her, there was a Word that she carried inside that had become flesh, that had become a reality; just as we also carry inside the Word that the Lord has spoken to us, Words that we have received from God we also keep inside, as all this that I am telling you was also quoted yesterday, and in addition the Word says that Mary kept many things in his heart, it is true, glory to the Lord.

Then notice that for a powerful and great manifestation the Lord does not need you to be in a big place, I am going to repeat it; I don't even have water but I don't have it here, I'm going to repeat it. For a big manifestation, God does not need you to be in a big place because the only thing that is needed is to have a big God, hallelujah. Even faith can be as small as a mustard seed, but if our God is great, he can manifest all the great things that He has spoken to you, even if it seems impossible, glory to the Lord, and what God had spoken to Mary was going to be fulfilled, and no one can stop the fulfillment of the Word of the Lord, glory to God, amen.

I carry inside so many things that the Lord has spoken to me. What thought do I have? I am waiting, I am waiting to see everything that the Lord has promised me and I am already beginning to see in a greater manifestation everything that the Lord has promised me. And you know that the Word of the Lord says here that Jerusalem is a big place, but where the fulfillment was going to be manifested in Bethlehem is a small place, God takes them out of a big place and takes them to a small place to manifest there His Glory and the Word that He had spoken through the angel.

Then the Word of the Lord says that Joseph came looking for a place where they could spend the night and they knocked on doors, and knocked on doors, and knocked on doors, and sometimes we have a Word of God inside, we have a promise from God, we have hope in what God has spoken to us, and we knock on doors, and we knock on doors, and we knock on doors, and no door opens, there is no room for our miracle, there is no room for our response. Sometimes we believe that because the door does not open or there is no space for our response that God forgot to answer us, but I want to tell you something this morning: you can leave here with your head held high and with the confidence that you will. that God spoke to you, you will see it sooner than later, no matter how much time has passed, praise the Lord, hallelujah.

The doors of help are closed, the doors of support are closed, the rich uncle does not move! (laughs) I know brothers and sisters who have had about 10 heart attacks and they don't die, you're already waiting for them to die because you're in that testament, blessed be God, but it turns out that this is not going to be the source of your blessing, the source of your blessing is seated on the Throne and will descend from there from the Throne of God, hallelujah, glory to God.

The doors are closed, the help is closed, you do not receive the inheritance that perhaps you have been waiting for so long, do you have the anointing? I ask, do you have the strength, do you have the courage, do you have the perseverance to get to Bethlehem, to a small place and wait to see what God is going to do there?

Since there was no room for them in the inn, where did they go? into a manger, and the time of delivery came. And the Word says that Mary gave birth there, and when we can see the Savior of the world being born in a manger where perhaps the smell around him was not the most pleasant, where perhaps he was surrounded by animals, perhaps cows, sheep , of donkeys, these things, of hay, of what the animals eat, how many are here? So you are waiting for your promise and your manifestation to be something so spectacular and so great, but I want to tell you that no one around her could see or discern that Maria carried within such a great man and a man who was marked to be the Savior of the world, the Son of God, no one could find out about it; what is inside maybe it can change history and nobody knows it.

This Church, which is great, began small; the Pavilion of Victory, which is great, began small. The Pastor and the Pastor, my husband and I had a dream inside, we had a call, we had a prophetic Word and we knew that God had something great but we have had to go through years of process, years of struggle. As the Pastor was saying, the years of struggle on many occasions, constructions like this one or like the one we have in the town of Hormiguero, the least they have cost is money: they have cost tears, they have cost sleeplessness, they have cost fights, they have cost battles They have cost your emotional system to be absorbed by perhaps so many battles and so many fights, because these things happen, right? and perhaps those who are close do not realize it, but when we carry within us something so great, brothers, we know the struggles, the sleeplessness and the tears that are shed.

Today, many see this as the Pastor said: how precious everything is, how beautiful this Church is, but as the saying goes, many see the glory but do not know the history, right? and you have to know the history. And there were then Mary and Joseph, and the baby, but I want to remind you of something and that beats very strong inside my heart: God doesn't start something until he finishes it. When God spoke to you and the work was done, what happens is that God does not have problems with time, my present is not God's present. God's present is my future because the Lord sees the work completed, hallelujah, and the Lord does not leave anything half done, and if He spoke to us it is because He knows that He is going to give us the capacity, He is going to give us the strength .

What did Mary, a humble girl of anonymity, think that she was going to be chosen to be the mother of the Savior on this Earth, at least to carry him in her womb? amen? are we brothers?

And what do I want to tell you? that many times what we have close to us all the help are closed to us, all the doors are closed to us, all the keys are closed to us, despite the fact that what we carry inside can change the world, can change the city, that can change thousands and thousands of lives like this place surely does, our Church does, many places where the Word of the Lord is preached where many people are free, because there is no money to pay for the work that the Lord does, there is no social work to pay for it brothers, because the work that God gives and does is transformative and it is a transformation from the inside out, what God has done in my life and has done in your life is something great and powerful, how many are alive and are here ? Hallelujah.

So so that you can be sure that it is He who supplies you, on many occasions we see how external support is zero, so that we know that it is He and only He who is going to work for us, who is going to replace us and who is going to supply us. he is going to give everything we need, glory to God, external support is taken away from us, and then he brings you to Bethlehem where there is no room for you, hallelujah. From a big place, as I said, Ahurita takes you to a small place, the doors are closed, the support is closed, but you are anointed, but you speak languages, but you have gifts, but you have the courage, but you do not have the help that you have been waiting and I ask you: will we have the strength to endure the season of Bethlehem?

Because we see that Bethlehem was only for a season, Mary did not stay in Bethlehem, Joseph did not stay in Bethlehem, they returned to Jerusalem, how many of us are here? but what about the season of Bethlehem, but the time that Joseph was in the process, but the time that Abraham had to wait for the promise, hallelujah, how many are here?

Will we have the anointing, the power, the patience that we can calmly wait for the manifestation of the Lord? Will I have enough spiritual strength to endure the season of Bethlehem? What God promised you was not promised by man and what God promised you is fulfilled by God, therefore He does not depend on the external to fulfill you, God does not depend on human resources to fulfill you because He is the one who promised you, hallelujah , hallelujah, hallelujah, and at the moment the child is born in Bethlehem, a star is born in the east. In Bethlehem Jesus is born and a star is born in the east, and some wise men from the east when they saw that star saw that it was not just another star, and they understood that this star was a guide that was going to get them to an important place, and they knew that they couldn't arrive empty-handed, and they stocked up before arriving, before leaving, he should have said.

So they took gold, frankincense and myrrh and loaded the camels. While the manger was in Bethlehem, the cows, the sheep, the hay, the donkeys, the camels were loaded with gold, frankincense and myrrh directed towards that place because the Lord will not leave you helpless, hallelujah. And perhaps what the people around you did not see and did not recognize around you, other people from afar will come and recognize, and will know, and will be guided to supply and to bless, and to make what God has spoken to you come true, hallelujah, because sometimes we expect help is close but help is not close, help comes from afar.

Sometimes we expect help from the family, but the family is the one you least expect, because sometimes we wait for the Lord through the door and He enters through the window, because He does what He wants, brothers, He works as He wants. If it doesn't come in, you're here waiting and He tells you: what are you doing here waiting? You had to enter through the door, Lord, and He says: oooohh, it's not that way, He entered through the window and oh! It took you by surprise because you didn't expect it through the window, hallelujah, how many are with me?

A star shone in the east, a star guided the wise men from the east, hallelujah, as I tell you, from those you most expect nothing at all, but from those far away gold, frankincense and myrrh, hallelujah.

Nothing to God represents a problem, nothing at all, hallelujah. We have just been in Hormigueros this past month of June, thirty years after having started with only four small children and my husband who played the guitar, I played the tambourine and sang, and our children were the Congregation, they were the entire Congregation that we had, and we traveled to the west area to Hector to preach to me and the four children only in obedience as God commanded us, the Church that we raised was not that we got upset with the Pastor and divided it, right? we do not divide the Church because that is not from God; The Lord told us to set up a work with unconverted people, the Lord took us there to preach and we said: well, they lent us a marquee, they gave us the first ten chairs, and the four children and I occupied five, we had five chairs available for unsaved people but we did not go knocking on the doors of people we knew in the west: look, we are building a project, if you want to come with us; I am not telling you to leave your Church, no, but you know when we are here for any little thing, and so the Lord, brothers, was bringing people.

How did the Church grow? we began to pray and the people, oh thank you Pastor, oh look this Pastor is tremendous (laughs) Hector to anoint this Pastor, pray, what I want to tell you is that sometimes I am drenched in sweat and you know? but the Lord is going to touch it (laughs), ha! I know, I know, how many are with me here today?

How did the Church grow? Pastor, that man who is there began to pray and when he told us to raise our hands he did not allow us to raise just one hand, we had to raise both hands, when he prayed he said: Lord, look at this crowd, there were ten hands (applause) we were in a small place but we were not going to stay in a small place, God was going to take us to a big place, we have to go through the season of Bethlehem, we have to process the difficult moment, we have to learn to wait on the Lord from where you are the Lord is going to take you, the Lord is going to take you to where he has prepared you, let's not despair, let's learn to hope that if God spoke to us.

The Lord spoke to us in 1969 thinking that the work was great and we only had five members, and we were all from the same family. We will not continue to be because we will be here until Christ comes, brother, and the Lord was glorified in this way, she continued adding and my husband made calls, he made calls and those of us who were there were all converted, as I saw that the children did not convert every time When he made the call I converted (laughs), another call came back I raised my hand, came back and converted, we went once a week, he prayed for me, we went once a week, he made a call, he He prayed for me, now when he gets angry with me for something I tell him: calm down love, you know that I am converted many times, I am more than saved, I converted, I converted, I converted, that is, I have Salvation prayers that my brother has, look, in reserve, how many are here? (laughs).

We had to go through the lean season but God did not speak to us of a great work, but the dream was not great, but the dream that God spoke to us was not something powerful, but how are we going to make a marquee with ourselves? we have absolutely nothing, who will know about us? It was a life, my husband prayed, he was freed, it was another life, my husband prayed, he was healed, the one that was healed went on for days, the other one that was freed took her husband and just as God was doing miracles, people kept coming and the Lord adding those who were going to be saved adding the resources that we had in hand which was the power, the anointing and the support of God in the call that God had given us because if you are faithful in a little, in a lot God puts you, do not expect to have to give, give so that you have.

What are you going to give? what you have, you don't have gold or silver, what I have I give you, how many are here? but what God was going to accomplish, God has used my husband in a powerful way, and I was upset with him because he converted people. Every time a visitor came, he would go there and tell them: the Lord is calling you; Since we were so few, brother, the visits were known, later we were in my marquee, the visits were known. My husband looks where the: the Lord is calling you, no, no, not me, when I feel it I will receive it, the Lord said to him: give me your hand, do you believe that Jesus Christ is Lord? well yes, do you believe that the Lord raised him from the dead on the third day? well I think so, that he raised it, oh yes? Ah, well, if that's what you think, all you have to do is confess it with your mouth.

Repeat after me: I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, I believe that, I believed that feeling, I don't know, as an anointing to pass and my husband passed them by, converted them, prayed to them, they fell to the ground, they were healed, they were freed , the demons came out in my canopy, the screams making howls brothers, we screaming and the neighbors did not know what was happening, we had to spend the season of Bethlehem, there we were.

Later we were in the community centers or under a post, Saturday night the brothers would call me: Pastora, where do we meet tomorrow? And where did you get this? oh sister in the community center, oh look at the community center of Ramírez de Arellano, oh look but that's where we're going; brothers the other Sunday we did not know where we were going to meet, we got to meet under a light pole because we had nowhere to spend the season of Bethlehem but the Word was great, the Lord said that the work was great, that it was something powerful , that we could not even imagine what God had, hallelujah but we were gathered under a pole.

And then my husband got rented land behind a mall and we had a tent there and inside that tent he did what he could because it was used, the only thing I know is that it rained inside and it rained outside (laughs), right? but that was the manger that we had, and there were how many there, about three hundred? That was tremendous, we were there in Bethlehem, then, brothers, God gave us three plots of land on highway number two, everything was fast, there we had a tent that every time there was a whirlwind, the tent would go up in the air like a kite .

Once we were all in the office, which was made of wood next door and the tent was flying, and a lady said: but my God, what is that? the tent went like a kite or kite directly to number two for above the cars (laughter), a sister said: in the Name of Jesus! brothers and when she got to the ride, she prayed, and when the tent came it fell on the ride.

I'm not going to tell you the story but the old man was even jailed for two days (laughs) why are you laughing? look at this, he was in Guayama but I'm not going to tell you the story, my husband was imprisoned for driving because Alpe ordered us to get out of there and ordered us to remove something that my husband had done, but these little ones, these little ones my brother when you see them don't underestimate them you know? Don't underestimate them (laughs). Imagine I told him no, I've been with him for 46 years, are we here? my brother in the season of Bethlehem my husband was imprisoned for two days, a man born in the holy Gospel of God.

In the season of Bethlehem the tent broke, in the season of Bethlehem we were outdoors, in the season of Bethlehem we had 500 people and we were alone under the sun, in the season of Bethlehem we had to find a huge amount of money but you know? when all the doors on Earth were closed God opens the windows of heaven as His Word says and pours out blessing on us until it overflows, and today for the glory of God there is an octagonal coliseum that accommodates five thousand people than its original price was what was it, twelve or thirteen? Okay, it was twelve and the bank changed it to thirteen, the bank increased it by a million more, thirteen million dollars in Hormiguero, that is a testimony that I won't have time to tell now, but it goes parallel with what I'm talking about. , with the season of Bethlehem that can be long or short, so I ask you, are you ready to endure the season of Bethlehem?

But if God spoke to you about something great, wait in Bethlehem and if you have to go to Jerusalem, return with what you have, but the Lord will answer you and you will see everything that the Lord has spoken to you, hallelujah, hallelujah. So don't fall in love with the manger because the manger is only a season, hallelujah.

Bethlehem is a necessary season because there it prepares you for something great just for the dream to be born, hallelujah, and not only can you not fall in love with Bethlehem, you cannot stay with the mentality of Bethlehem because for there to be a change outside there has to be a change inside and we have to change the chip, amen? we cannot continue with the mentality of Bethlehem.

When Mary left Bethlehem, the Word does not record that she returned to Bethlehem because God takes you out of a circumstance, not so that you return to it, He takes you out so that you can dance and declare victory in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth and that You will not go back in the Name of Jesus because He takes you out of that place to take you to something greater, He is taking you from something greater to something greater so that the fulfillment becomes a reality because that is what the Lord has for His people, time of promotion because God is not a God of stagnation, amen?

And I want to finish because I have here but I want to finish now, I'm just going to tell you this: they came then to the reading we had, they came to the temple because the time of circumcision has come, how many are here? and the Lord had spoken to Simeon that his eyes would not see death until he saw the Savior of the world.

For many it was the time of circumcision and what was the time of circumcision for many for Simeon was the time of fulfillment because what God has for you may not be the same for others.

When Mary and Joseph then arrive with the child at the temple, the Word says that Simeon had been led by the Spirit to the temple, he was not a preacher, he was not famous, he did not have a radio program, he did not have a large Church, he did not have a television program, he had a great promise that God had made him, hallelujah, because in order to enjoy something great you do not have to be famous or have spectacular gifts that the whole world finds out about, you need to remain faithful , you need to keep believing, because the Lord had recognized Simeon and told him: your eyes will see the Savior, and then it is fortunate that when Mary arrives at the temple and Simeon takes the child in his hands, he was able to immediately recognize that it was not one more child, who was God with us, who was the promise that God had made that God had fulfilled to that old man, and I always say that when the Word of God tells you that when someone is old or old, look, it is good old.

And God had not forgotten that old man, that old man, regardless of the years that had passed, the Lord had him in his memory, and his arms took the Savior, and when he takes him, he lifts him up, and says: I can leave now at peace because my eyes have seen the Savior of the world, hallelujah. My promise was fulfilled, my promise was manifested in that temple that day, the day of circumcision for many, the time of circumcision for many, for Simeon the time of fulfillment.

So keep waiting, you have to learn to endure the season of Bethlehem but don't fall in love with the manger or stay with the Bethlehem mentality, keep expecting Simeon waiting for the promise to be fulfilled because what God gave you promised will be fulfilled, stand up, hallelujah, hallelujah.

I want to make a prayer. Where you are, first of all, is there any life that has not confessed Jesus as Savior and wants me to pray for it? Is there a life that this afternoon perhaps this Word has spoken to you and you have never confessed Christ but you tell me: Pastor, I want to deliver? Look brother, do you know where I became? at a funeral. At that time, many people had vigils at home and at that time my sister and I went to that funeral that my husband invited me because we young people didn't have so many moments to go out, and when there was a funeral, well, there was a party, brother, we didn't go. to the cinema Pastor or anything because everything was bad, a sin, no, well when there was a funeral we would eat a chocolate, a little cake, forgive me for saying so because that's the truth, these girls are so tremendous.

And my husband was already in love with me at that time and look, he invited me there to share, and when the Pastor Mr. Rafael Tórrez Ortega saw us, when he saw me the box of the dead man occupied almost the entire room, poor little dead man there He didn't say anything, they knelt us in front of the box of the dead and there I made my confession, what happened there that year, the year was beginning in January 1969, and I fell in love with the Lord, nothing interests me, nothing Other than Christ, nothing from the outside has ever caught my attention, I became a young woman, I married my only boyfriend, I have lived for God, for my husband, for my four children and my six grandchildren, and to fulfill the assignment that God It has given me, I learned, do you know how? scraping my knees because I never had a mentor to guide me, and I learned by scraping my knees but glory to God that I learned because in this path one never knows everything.

And I ask: if I became a funeral, won't there be someone who wants to convert? Is everyone here saved? if the trumpet sounds what will happen? you go? Come on, we're here. There is a life, a hand, right? Pastor me raising my hand with my husband, there is a hand, raise your hand are we all saved? Are we all, are we all saved? Pastor, are they all saved here? Is everyone up there, is everyone alright? well, well, up, okay, let's pray, let's pray.

Father: in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth, look at each one of the people who are in this place and see, my Lord, if there is still someone who does not know you, perhaps they do not dare, my Father, they feel shy, I ask you that You reveal yourself supernaturally as you have done with us Lord. You are not religion, You are much more than that, You are a life experience, a real, extraordinary, wonderful God who lives and reigns in our hearts.

Father: thank you for having met you, I ask that each person who is in this place have the experience of salvation for the glory of Your Name, we cancel all the opposite, all those who want to retain lives so as not to release them in the Name of Jesus we speak liberation , blessing, victory, revelation Eternal Father of You Eternal Father, of Jesus Christ who gave His life for each one of us, in the Name of Jesus bless this Congregation, bless its Pastors My Father in a supernatural way, the entrustment that you have Lord is great in front of you. I ask you to continue giving them the revelation, science, intelligence, direction, health, my Father, the strength to continue shepherding, beloved Lord, together with this leadership and this extraordinary Church, my Father, in a supernatural way so that all this city of Boston, Lord Beloved, let it be known, Father, that Jesus Christ is Lord here and of all the States of the United States, Father, that You reign Father of glory, and we know Father that we will see, Father, the time of the manifestation that You have spoken of and that Your people for the honor of Your Lord, in the Name of Jesus amen, amen, amen, God bless you.