March 20, 2024 • 44 mins
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When God puts a call and adonng your life, you have no choice
but to fulfill it. Welcome toPastor Ricardo Correa' s podcast, pastor
of the Montesina Church and in NorthCarolina, prepare your heart to receive a
word that will lead you to God' s truth. I want you to
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accompany me to Timothy' s Second, chapter four, verse from one to
eight? Second Timothy, chapter four, verses from one to eight and when
you have it, say glory toGod? We are very happy for what
God is doing in the house.There' s going to be something beautiful
and I know that God is goingto move glory to God. Second Timothy,
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chapter four, verse eight from oneto eight when they have, say,
or have glory from God. Theword is the father name of the
Holy Fool son amen I care foryou before God and the Lord Jesus Christ,
who will judge the living and thedead in his manifestation in his kingdom.
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Preach the word which you call uponin time and out of time,
reprove, rebuke, exhort with allpatience and doctrine, for it will come
in time when it will not suffersound doctrine, but, having itch to
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hear, they will be teachers accordingto their own lusts and will turn away
the ear from the truth and turnto fables. But be sober in everything
endure the afflictions do the work ofan evangelist. Do your ministry, because
I am already to be sacrificed andthe time of my departure is near I
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have fought the good battle and finishedthe race. I' ve kept the
faith. For the rest, justiceis kept to me, which will give
me that, Your Honor, righton that day and not only to me,
but also to all who love hiscoming, they can take their seats.
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How we know that we are whatis in preparation for forty days,
with a vision what we have calledoperation Philip. We see how Paul is
speaking here to Timothy. He issaying that in the end times, in
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the last times, there are goingto be people who are going to start
having an itch to hear, thereare going to be people who are going
to look for what is a lightgospel, a gospel that is convenient for
them. But Paul ends up lettingTimothy go by saying you keep doing the
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work you have to do. Goout and evangelize go out and preach the
word of truth. Times aren't easy. There are churches today that
seem to actually have everything about theGospel, but in reality they are more
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squawky than an eleven- digit socialsecurity. The thing is serious And when
we see in reality, what itis that we do, for Paul here
has just said it. Pablo saysI ran the race and finished it.
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Interestingly, Paul takes what ministerial lifeis like a career in this life.
We are running for our lives andthat is the title of today' s
preaching. Run for your life,because, somehow or another, we are
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striving our efforts to something during ourlife. Today I want to talk about
what it is that you are focusingyour life on, because in truth we
are always thinking for our well-being. We' re always looking for
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our convenience. But the reality ofthis is that roads is. Lord your
convenience took a seat back and comesthe convenience of the Good Kingdom, which
is the agenda of the Good Kingdom, what it is to serve and not
to be served. Then let's talk about what this whole running for
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your life thing is. There andwe start with what people are running to
get there people in life are runningto get there, to go somewhere,
there are people coming and what itis we all put and set a goal
for our life. I don't want what it' s like to
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get to that age. I wantto have this and this and this or
I want what it is to achievethis in my life. Or these are
the goals of my life. Soand I' m running to everyone I
can to reach that goal. Thereare people who actually you who are gringolas.
The gringolas are the ones that puta horse next to the ears of
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the eyes, so that the horsedoes not remain, does not get distracted
and focused running. True if whenthey go to a horse race, that
' s what they put on horses, they call gringolas, that is,
it makes the horse what it givesor And there goes the horse running straight,
because there is a goal that humanbeing trained him. That' s
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right. There are human beings whoimpose a goal and run for that goal.
They are focused on that goal Andthere are people who unfortunately don'
t care who gets caught up intheir legs, who they hurt, who
has been harmed by the mere factthat they reach their goal. You understand
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this. There are a lot ofpeople who don' t care about the
way their goal is, but theycare about reaching their goal. There are
others who do care about the wayto their goal. Because now the truth,
when you come to see if youor you have a position in your
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work, but you caused two orthree of your coworkers to be fired for
you to be able to achieve thatposition, what it is worth that you
orgorize of that disposition if two orthree of you lost or you hurt or
hurt. They understand that sin issomething that is not only done against God
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if it is not done against anotherthan another person, another brother, that
there are people who are focused ontheir goals and do not care who you
harm and there they go and runto get that I want to get there.
There are some who, when theyarrive, unfortunately end up realizing that
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it is not all I expected.They' re still empty in their lives.
Many times we stopped running because wehad no idea how much we had
to run. There are some thatare like that. Oh, Pastor,
I started, but it' sa lot. I started a company,
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but I didn' t know itwas going to take so much effort.
Or I started studying for this profession, but I didn' t know I
read so many books. Or Ididn' t know, pastor, that
at work I was paid so goodthat I had to do so much.
There are people who actually start runningto get there. But finally, now
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they start taking care of themselves leavingthat I didn' t know it was
so much, I didn' tknow it was so much of me.
So there are people who run nowfor a while and then you see that
they stop because I didn' tknow I was missing much, I didn
' t know that it was effortand I better find another goal to run,
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or that I' m going torun the time doesn' t also
size the goal to see seems oranother opportunity. There I am going to
run then they spend all their livesrunning to get there and never arrive because
they look like a bunny looking forthe carrot cone stick there, looking for
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where they go and they don't know where to go. They'
re wasting their energy and let metell you something. Not that I'
m getting old because I' myoung. Not yet, but youth is
leaving, brothers, youth is leaving. I get up from bed to see
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I say, sir I took fivepercent of my battery to get out of
bed. Shame on you, what' s going on. And I say,
my God, but so much strengthto discuss the cava. And I
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15 in the morning, 4 in the morning,
7 in the morning. We werestanding up and come on, because
now I don' t like it. Then we get older. And there
are many people who, unfortunately,spend energy running without knowing where to go.
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There are many that we run inlife because others are running. You
haven' t seen that. We' re going to run but why ay.
I don' t know, whyyou' ve been all over it,
too. There are people who,there are people who are followers,
there are people who go for thebully then they are only good at following
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others. Yeah, and like mymom said, uh- huh, if
there' s a lot of peopledown a ravine, you' re gonna
fuck, too, no, moms, no, then why are you following
the others? There' s alot of people who don' t really
have a north in their lives andthey' re looking for who. What
' s the next move, what' s the next fashion, how'
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s the latest fashion cry for themto get out and scream and run out
to say ah I did that tooand at the last minute they don'
t even come from here to thecorner. We' re wasting time.
There are many who are looking forwhat is actually pregnant butterflies and do not
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stop to find them. They livein a fantasy world. Look. It
' s nothing, it' snothing, it' s nothing to dream
about. But there are dreams thatGod says I' m not going to
give you because you' re goingto cut me loose, because he knows
your heart. So there are peoplethat when they run, they run to
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just get to a place and whenthey get there it' s not the
big deal, it' s notwhat I expected, that is, they
look. I saw this well-known footballer this other day, this footballer
who is definitely in what is theHall of Fame football and the whole man
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is fifty- five years old.Single is not married and he said they
asked the studies and what' sin your life. He says well,
I focused so much on my careerthat I didn' t have time for
relationships and forgiveness for a family,because I did have relationships, but I
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didn' t end up having thefamily. And even though the guy now
has a ticket for ugly and he' s a dark- haired man of
which he' s ugly, butsince he' s got money, it
looks good to know that. Yes, there are people who are ugly hands,
who God makes them ugly, butthey put on good clothes and look
good. All right, and helooks good. That' s right,
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that one looks good. But he' s alone. You' re,
you' re alone, you've got all that money, you'
ve got the fame, you've got the fame of football, you
' ve got podcast, you've got the sports channels, but when
he goes home, he says heruns all this. To end up with
just who I' m going toshare all this wealth with. He said
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there are people running for a goaland he doesn' t end up doing
that. There are others who runfor escape. There are others who run
for escape. There are ones thathappen because they can' t face the
problem. There are some who areexperts in avoiding problems. Look, there
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' s nothing wrong with dealing withproblems. We should face the problems,
because by facing the programs one learns. I' m not saying you'
re gonna go get trouble. Listencarefully. I' m saying you deal
with the problems. That' swhere people actually end up drowning in a
glass of water, because they don' t know how to deal with problems.
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They were never in what is trainednor taught you to face good Come
on, sir, sit here?Let' s talk. You don'
t have to get to the physical. Let' s talk your part,
I speak mine and that' swhere we come to the understanding. You
know what three is about talking tosomeone today, which because you had a
disagreement, stops talking to you.After years of friendship. Oh, what
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a pity that is, how unfortunateit is to have someone who' s
going well, but when there's a difficulty, they can' t
get over that and run away fromthe relationship. There are many who do
that. There are many who donot mature in that, who are running
in their lives running away from theproblem. They' re experts in running
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away from their problems. Look.The first one left you because you were
irresponsible, the second one left youbecause you already had experience in being irresponsible
and the third one didn' tthrow him out. Her fault. You
' re the problem. I mean, there are people who change, there
are people who change situations, buttheir insides are still what he himself.
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So they say ah I' mnot going to challenge that person because it
' s the problem. Not you, you' re the problem. And
as long as you don' t, face yourself or the problem and listen
to someone' s truth the wordsays cats four and six, it never
comes. This would perhaps be yourenemy for telling you the truth. I
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can' t do your enemy bytelling you the truth, the truth.
It doesn' t hurt you,it' s not about telling the truth.
I' m telling you with alot of love and affection, but
stop running, stop running your problemif you really look at the word.
Do you speak well beautiful about friendships? You say iron and iron make friends.
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The word says in John fifteen thirty- three says there is no love
greater than this, which is thatof a friend to give his life for
another words speaks of the concept offriendship and a friend does not flee when
to such difficult things. If you' re tending to what it' s
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like to run all the time,because there' s trouble, you'
re not gonna get anywhere. AChristian should not be afraid to face problems.
Comment on a mistake, hold onto pressure, apologize, and move
on. But don' t offendme because you' re making a mistake
and now they' re claiming thatI' m not going with that person,
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because I don' t like thatperson, because he told you that
you eat your mistake. It can' t be that way. There are
others who run because they are weak. Ufff are weak. Look at the
word. God says say the weakstrong. I' m my weakness.
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This is the strength of God,God in my support, it is my
soonest if the tribulation should not berunning when there is a moment of weakness,
when you feel weaker. If thereis a place where you must go
to the Pi of Christ, thereis, but there are people who don
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' t really dare to face somethingbecause they are weak. No better,
no better, no better, let' s not talk about it. No,
no, no, I don't want the best, but why
not. I don' t havethe strength, I don' t even
feel like arguing with Caray Mira.My people are not for nothing, but
many of us are living a lifefrom which, unfortunately, we are fleeing
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processes that God is running us overand over and over again for us to
pass the test. I look thisway at who' s good math.
Raise your hand are plotting that aregood math. Okay, for this word,
for tas ut then exactly that happensin the fourth or fifth grade.
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If you had failed a math test, you know I would have done the
teacher. You would' ve givenit to yourself again for what, so
you could study it and come backto what? And if you hang up
again, take the teacher out,she' s gonna give it to you
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again so you can study and getready and pass it. The teacher says
how you' ve hung up threetimes, she doesn' t see you
anymore. It doesn' t keepgiving you the same test so that you,
who study, prepare and pass itExactly the same God does in your
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life when there is something you're not surpassing, God is going to
give you the same test so thatyou learn to overcome it and don'
t run away, because you can' t with that cross. There are
people who say no. I don' t see the Church anymore. It
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just takes a lot, it's a lot for here, a lot
for there. It' s justthat it' s style. Another one
looks at my people. Let metell you something. If it' s
not in the Church, it's going to be in Hell. But
one of the claws is gonna beworking. You in one two will bring.
It' s just that at thetime the truth is serious. Really
think about where you' re goingto work. Look I' ve met
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people who have left a job becauseI' m sorry they don' t
pay you well. He' sa little comfortable It' s work.
They' ll pay him more andwhen they go they give him the double
job, they don' t givehim this one and they end up complaining
about the job, even if theypay him more. A lot of people
help because they' re weak,because they can' t take pressure.
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We need to know that our supportcomes from God Christ. It' s
our example of not running the problem. Let' s not run because we
' re weak. Let' ssay you know what the weak strong says.
I' m here I' mhere, sir Whatever you need I
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' m here I stand on therock. Whatever comes here, my house
and I are going to stay here. We' re not running. Here
we stand others who run, becauseit is the first reaction of lack of
empowerment. There are people who don' t have the empowerment to say I
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' m going to face this.Come what comes and say oh no cuckoo,
the chamuco will already grab my legunder the bed. What does it
matter to me to see that ifI am muco goes into my house so
that you see that I open thedoor and take it out look. We
need to be serious about this.There are people who are comfortable sleeping with
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the devil in their house and Godwants to empower them. And his house
is polluted, his life is not, it is not empowered. God wants
to empower you and you are livinga mediocre life, you are living a
double life. Then you' rerunning from what your first reaction is,
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because you' re not empowered.They' re afraid of all things out
there. When the word says thatGod has not given us a spirit of
cowardice, then we must have whatis an attitude of running forward. I
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' m not empowered. Angels andarchangels surround me. The hand of God
is upon me that cometh what cometh. I know with whom. I count
the one who' s afraid running. I' m not running. They
were all like this. Oh,what are we gonna do? King Saul,
that giant doesn' t want tomove and he talks about us.
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And there until you hit everyone.You your god put it in my pocket.
You guys ain' t worth nothing. And David comes and fills a
meal for his brothers and says prayto him and what happens to what giant,
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that champion, that champion to thatchampion. He' s standing there
and making fun of us. AndDavid says you' re gonna let this
uncircumcised man mock the god of us. No, I got this one,
I got this one? Me?Don' t you? Don' t
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you? Don' t you?Don' t you?“ No,
” Saul said,“ if youare going to do that, tap my
armor” What armor. Yeah,I' m going with the whole word.
If David grabbed five smooth stones,I grabbed one, the spear and
queche came the spear that David hadis not him, it is not the
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ondita, yours is a wave thatsounds and goes and that causes to strike
who this kid is, who isthis little chaperone. And David went and
looked there, he threw the stoneat you and ran and ran to him.
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And you know what he did.God made the stone beat him to
the forehead of that guido alcoria andwith a stone fell. If you run
into your problems, I guarantee younot with a stone, with a word,
that giant will fall. I'll tell you. That' s
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the God we serve. Look atyou, look at what David was like,
he was a little chaperone, buthe' s hot, and David
pulls out the gunning sword and saysthis guy who said they were putting our
pocket in. Now that he's dead. Now I' m gonna
put him on the run. Andmaybe what he did grabbed the sword and
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cut off his head to kick.He cut it off, I imagine for
Israel and this what God is doing, what a barbarous, and I imagine
all the Philistines, oh mccones,what a brave guy, seven feet and
gouts, five feet and beak andhe ate it alive and he grabbed David
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' s head and he put itin a bag and he threw it over
it and wherever he wanted here hewent to David, he went to the
head to hit what you' rewearing there And medal, what medal,
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the medal of the race that Isaid you gave, the race n giant,
the race that I didn' trun away from my enemy' s
head in earnest Look, for youto see that is the head of a
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hit. Pay attention to this.This is not part of the preaching,
but what do you hear. Youknow how many brothers Golias had to hit
had four more brothers. There werefive in total, and you can believe
those other four were Israel' strial. They went after David, chasing
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David, because they knew who Davidwas and you know what. That'
s what happened. The most interestingthing happened that none of the other four
giants David faced. You know whoconfronted them. The company of David who
was with David killed the other fourgiants one by one until the last.
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“ Look, King,” hesaid,“ you are old. Do
not go into the fight, forif you die the light of Israel dies.
I' m going to fight forhim. Look at this so you
understand. Today I run my war. I run my career today and kill
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my giant and your witness to seeme run to my giant and kill him.
When you' re going to facethe other you go. So,
if the shepherd could have killed hisgiant, so could I. Me too,
because the God whom he serves isthe God whom I serve. That
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' s why it' s importantto walk with people who don' t
run, but who run does theirproblem. Don' t walk with chickens
and walk with eagles, walk withgiants' degoya and not with those who
run away from the problem. Godwants you to get up now what is
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the essence of running, because theessence of running is important. There are
people watching. When I was little, I ran because, since I couldn
' t do much, a lotof strength for my chest and I said,
well, we' re going torun. And I started running and
I said no. The mail's not for me, I didn'
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t run. But in my villagethere were guys who were in an athletic
league with the police department, andyou saw them coming out at three o
' clock in the afternoon, comingout of the ball park and running all
the way back to town. Itwas like five or six, and it
was about five or six miles.It was a bit of an exaggeration and
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other times running. Well, Iwanted to do that, I said good,
so let' s run. Letme be the house close to running.
Running is not running for running.For you to run, you have
to have a tactic, you haveto make a knowledge, because if you
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run for running, you' regoing to burst like a car without oil.
Women know that' s how I' m not making fun of running
without having the following things. You' re not gonna get anywhere. First,
everyone who runs has to be focused, there has to be an approach
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in your life so that you canrun according to everything. You have to
keep up the right pace. Ifyou run too fast, you' re
going to burn yourself for your run. You have to know how to breathe.
Breathe through your mouth and exhale throughyour nose. If you don'
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t do that, you' regonna get tired, you have to keep
up, you have to go focused, you have to breathe well. In
our spiritual realm there are things fromwhich it is essential for us to be
able to run. Fast prayer anddevotional. The one who does not pray
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does not breathe prayer is the lungof every Christian. Prayer is what actually
makes you last the long race.Fasting, fasting subdues your flesh. Fasting
subdues your flesh. You don't live in the chops, you don
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' t live in the meat.Soak the meat because let me say I
make the meat for you. Sheloves having her gorges, she loves having
her party. If you don't submit look, I' m going
to tell you something when we door is that you fast twenty- one
days. The next fast is goingto be the first week of August,
which day of April is going tobe the next five- day fast.
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Brothers, I look at people whenit is time to fast, I say
nothing, I stay watching and Iknow who will fast and who will not
fast and you know what I staywatching how they behave all year. Those
who do not fast, Look,I tell you honestly are the ones who
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are most discouraged throughout the year becausethey are fighting their flesh. Don'
t subjugate the meat. There aresome sisters here who love to eat,
she loves to eat, but look, look, there' s a sister
here that worries me because they eatwhile they' re still full. They
already have a reputation for not eatingtoo much being gluttons. Do not German
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give it two double portions because anda spiritual portion, a portion of rice
and meat, because it likes toeat. So, when it' s
fasting time, you know he's brother Look. I had a brother
who said Pastor, he says what' s wrong with you, man,
tastore this one. I' mnot killing myself and because I' m
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leaving the coffee grass I can't live without coffee and I say wow
like how the body has you stuckhere on the penny finger. We have
to live a spiritual life, onlythat it is fasting, prayer and devotional.
Look at my people. I'm gonna be honest with you.
There are people who only read theword on Wednesdays and Sundays and care when
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they come to church, and carefulthey fall asleep or, they get to
see a phone, they don't read the word I' m quoting,
but they' re reading another word. There are some that you give
to read words that I am notquoting in the sermon, because devotional do
not during the week. Imagine thething is that it' s true those
who don' t read during theweek now that they' re sitting there
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with this light. Now I'm going to read genesis three and I
' m going to read Lucas andI' m going to oh genesis four.
Look, God is good Hear what' s wrong with you. It
' s not time for you tobe doing an hourly devotion. It'
s time for you to be listeningto God' s word, not why
you' re making your devotional rightnow is for you to look for the
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time to make your devotional. Thatis running the same thing so that we
can run and has the essence ofrunning ourselves in the spiritual realm. We
have to pray, we have tofast, we have to have what is
then devotional, because look how interestingPaul says. Paul says the following,
Paul says you know that I haverun, I have finished the race and
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look what I have later kept thefaith. You run to keep your faith.
The one who doesn' t runruns out of faith And running out
of faith is a dead person,It' s a person who doesn'
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t have to get up, whylook for things. Then we have to
understand that there are moments from whichwe need to run again. I love
one of the most beautiful Bible passagesI can talk about what is the life
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of each of us. When wesee what our relationship with the Lord is
and, in reality, when wesee what running is, it is something
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that strikes us. Look. I' m done with this. Come with
me to the Book of Luke,chapter fifteen. Let' s go to
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what it is. There he speaksof what is vesicle from eleven to thirty
- two. He speaks of whatthe parable of the prodigal son is.
We know that the prodigal son askedfor the early inheritance. The father gave
it to him, he spent it, he made unclean lusts, he got
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drunk, he didn' t doit. He ended up losing everything and
eating it that it was legumes withthe pigs as low as possible and I
would say wow to my father's house, the day laborers, that
is, that the servants even eatbetter than me. I have sinned against
my father against heaven. I'm going home. So all dirty,
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all stinky, got up again andlooked at the importance of running Let us
in what is Luke fifteen twenty saysand rising up came to his father and
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when he was still far away,his father saw him and he was moved
to mercy and ran and kissed himand kissed him who ran There the son
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or father look at the importance ofus running that even in the parable of
the prodigal son, the pericopus wehave it wrong, because in reality,
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instead of being the parable of theprodigal son, it must be the parable
of the loving father, the fatherwho gave him the inheritance and the son
despised it. The father who whenhe sees the son looks at what he
says, who raises the son wherehe goes to his father and shuts up
There' s a what, there' s a point, there' s
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a point there, so that's where he describes what the son did
and where he' s going.Now, when the second prayer begins and
when it was still far away,his father saw it and was moved to
mercy. Who was moved mercy thefather, the father was every day waiting
for the arrival of his son andwhen he saw the son run the father
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and the son began to run toeach other. I want you to know
that Christ is willing to run foryou, as you must be willing to
run for him. And the wordsays that he was put on his neck
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and kissed him They saw him hereapart from please. Yeah, well,
look, look, so you cansee this, because I want to illustrate
it. Okay, if I gorunning, he is, he is the
father and he comes, he comeswhat is towards me, sorry, he
is the son. I' mthe father. Right, I' m
running I could come to be likethis. That' s the typical hug,
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isn' t it, but that' s not what the word says.
The word is he came running andgrabbed him by the neck. You
saw how intimate it is to grabsomeone by the neck. Not really.
When you grab your neck it's like your girl I want you close
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to me you understand I want youso close I hug you so I know
there' s a closeness with you. The father grabbed him by the neck.
When' s the last time you' ve felt the father' s
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hug gripping your neck. Look atme people tell me that a lot of
you hug. Oh, I don' t care. I love hugging.
There' s a power. Whenyou hug someone look free. It'
s something that' s actually healing. The other days I saw a friend
of mine more than twenty years agohomework that I saw him, and he
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came and sat in the corner backthere. I haven' t seen him
in over 20 years, and whenI saw him I stopped what I was
doing and went to hug him andhug him like for a good five minutes.
I did what he told me.Wow, God knows I needed this.
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There are men out there who don' t let themselves be hugged by
other men because their parents never taughthim to embrace them. There are men
who hug like that. There's a man who gives you hih fif
I don' t want to hugyou, not to be behind Alfaifa.
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I embrace what I embrace, becauseI have genuinely experienced what my father'
s embrace is and I can't tell you anything else that there'
s nothing better than running into Dad' s arms. If there' s
anything you can run in your life, it' s the bona fide embrace
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of the heavenly father. If thereis nothing more beautiful in your life,
it is to go into the armsof someone who prays who cares, who
cares about you, who calls you, who seeks you, who listens to
you, who defends you, whosays here I am with you in the
good and the bad, because ifGod brought you here it is for me
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to give you unconditional love. OrI want you to know the importance of
running in your life, the importanceof running through your life into the master
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' s arms to something that looksat you. Look when I reconciled,
when I reconciled, the first threeor four months, I didn' t
go out of the pulpit ask herand there was a service on Sunday and
they talked about what was finance andI was going through tears. They were
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talking about what it was and thatI know something that doesn' t have
to do with my life, butI didn' t go and I would
go by and eat my pulpit.I imagine people were saying oh what a
sinful man this is because for everySunday, I didn' t give a
damn. I spent every Sunday,I shed tears there because it was fifteen
years that I read my father's back, my Heavenly father, for
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fifteen years, I hurt myself.I myself ran out of sandals, ran
on stones and cut off my feet. I made myself sick, I ended
up eating what was garbage myself.I ended up spending nights myself in what
was in the hemisphere, there,completely under the moon and the stars.
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I myself finished what it was liketo go hungry, when my Heavenly father
was waiting for me exactly where Ileft him. Oh, and I ran,
I never went back. Eighteen yearswithout more than the times I walk
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away I run hard towards him,because yes, we have to admit it.
There are times when we neglect andhave a distance that we get hurt.
If God says come to me,run, run, run, I
want to give you something our wholeCommunity. Time for this word to be
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transformative. For you, you wantmore information about the Ministry. Find us
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website montesina I de ur Ort todayand press the donation option. We thank
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When God puts a call and adonng your life, you have no choice
but to fulfill it. Welcome toPastor Ricardo Correa' s podcast, pastor
of the Montesina Church and in NorthCarolina, prepare your heart to receive a
word that will lead you to God' s truth. I want you to
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accompany me to Timothy' s Second, chapter four, verse from one to
eight? Second Timothy, chapter four, verses from one to eight and when
you have it, say glory toGod? We are very happy for what
God is doing in the house.There' s going to be something beautiful
and I know that God is goingto move glory to God. Second Timothy,
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chapter four, verse eight from oneto eight when they have, say,
or have glory from God. Theword is the father name of the
Holy Fool son amen I care foryou before God and the Lord Jesus Christ,
who will judge the living and thedead in his manifestation in his kingdom.
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Preach the word which you call uponin time and out of time,
reprove, rebuke, exhort with allpatience and doctrine, for it will come
in time when it will not suffersound doctrine, but, having itch to
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hear, they will be teachers accordingto their own lusts and will turn away
the ear from the truth and turnto fables. But be sober in everything
endure the afflictions do the work ofan evangelist. Do your ministry, because
I am already to be sacrificed andthe time of my departure is near I
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have fought the good battle and finishedthe race. I' ve kept the
faith. For the rest, justiceis kept to me, which will give
me that, Your Honor, righton that day and not only to me,
but also to all who love hiscoming, they can take their seats.
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How we know that we are whatis in preparation for forty days,
with a vision what we have calledoperation Philip. We see how Paul is
speaking here to Timothy. He issaying that in the end times, in
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the last times, there are goingto be people who are going to start
having an itch to hear, thereare going to be people who are going
to look for what is a lightgospel, a gospel that is convenient for
them. But Paul ends up lettingTimothy go by saying you keep doing the
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work you have to do. Goout and evangelize go out and preach the
word of truth. Times aren't easy. There are churches today that
seem to actually have everything about theGospel, but in reality they are more
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squawky than an eleven- digit socialsecurity. The thing is serious And when
we see in reality, what itis that we do, for Paul here
has just said it. Pablo saysI ran the race and finished it.
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Interestingly, Paul takes what ministerial lifeis like a career in this life.
We are running for our lives andthat is the title of today' s
preaching. Run for your life,because, somehow or another, we are
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striving our efforts to something during ourlife. Today I want to talk about
what it is that you are focusingyour life on, because in truth we
are always thinking for our well-being. We' re always looking for
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our convenience. But the reality ofthis is that roads is. Lord your
convenience took a seat back and comesthe convenience of the Good Kingdom, which
is the agenda of the Good Kingdom, what it is to serve and not
to be served. Then let's talk about what this whole running for
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your life thing is. There andwe start with what people are running to
get there people in life are runningto get there, to go somewhere,
there are people coming and what itis we all put and set a goal
for our life. I don't want what it' s like to
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get to that age. I wantto have this and this and this or
I want what it is to achievethis in my life. Or these are
the goals of my life. Soand I' m running to everyone I
can to reach that goal. Thereare people who actually you who are gringolas.
The gringolas are the ones that puta horse next to the ears of
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the eyes, so that the horsedoes not remain, does not get distracted
and focused running. True if whenthey go to a horse race, that
' s what they put on horses, they call gringolas, that is,
it makes the horse what it givesor And there goes the horse running straight,
because there is a goal that humanbeing trained him. That' s
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right. There are human beings whoimpose a goal and run for that goal.
They are focused on that goal Andthere are people who unfortunately don'
t care who gets caught up intheir legs, who they hurt, who
has been harmed by the mere factthat they reach their goal. You understand
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this. There are a lot ofpeople who don' t care about the
way their goal is, but theycare about reaching their goal. There are
others who do care about the wayto their goal. Because now the truth,
when you come to see if youor you have a position in your
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work, but you caused two orthree of your coworkers to be fired for
you to be able to achieve thatposition, what it is worth that you
orgorize of that disposition if two orthree of you lost or you hurt or
hurt. They understand that sin issomething that is not only done against God
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if it is not done against anotherthan another person, another brother, that
there are people who are focused ontheir goals and do not care who you
harm and there they go and runto get that I want to get there.
There are some who, when theyarrive, unfortunately end up realizing that
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it is not all I expected.They' re still empty in their lives.
Many times we stopped running because wehad no idea how much we had
to run. There are some thatare like that. Oh, Pastor,
I started, but it' sa lot. I started a company,
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but I didn' t know itwas going to take so much effort.
Or I started studying for this profession, but I didn' t know I
read so many books. Or Ididn' t know, pastor, that
at work I was paid so goodthat I had to do so much.
There are people who actually start runningto get there. But finally, now
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they start taking care of themselves leavingthat I didn' t know it was
so much, I didn' tknow it was so much of me.
So there are people who run nowfor a while and then you see that
they stop because I didn' tknow I was missing much, I didn
' t know that it was effortand I better find another goal to run,
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or that I' m going torun the time doesn' t also
size the goal to see seems oranother opportunity. There I am going to
run then they spend all their livesrunning to get there and never arrive because
they look like a bunny looking forthe carrot cone stick there, looking for
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where they go and they don't know where to go. They'
re wasting their energy and let metell you something. Not that I'
m getting old because I' myoung. Not yet, but youth is
leaving, brothers, youth is leaving. I get up from bed to see
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I say, sir I took fivepercent of my battery to get out of
bed. Shame on you, what' s going on. And I say,
my God, but so much strengthto discuss the cava. And I
used to sleep at 2 (09:56):
15 in the morning, 4 in the morning,
7 in the morning. We werestanding up and come on, because
now I don' t like it. Then we get older. And there
are many people who, unfortunately,spend energy running without knowing where to go.
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There are many that we run inlife because others are running. You
haven' t seen that. We' re going to run but why ay.
I don' t know, whyyou' ve been all over it,
too. There are people who,there are people who are followers,
there are people who go for thebully then they are only good at following
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others. Yeah, and like mymom said, uh- huh, if
there' s a lot of peopledown a ravine, you' re gonna
fuck, too, no, moms, no, then why are you following
the others? There' s alot of people who don' t really
have a north in their lives andthey' re looking for who. What
' s the next move, what' s the next fashion, how'
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s the latest fashion cry for themto get out and scream and run out
to say ah I did that tooand at the last minute they don'
t even come from here to thecorner. We' re wasting time.
There are many who are looking forwhat is actually pregnant butterflies and do not
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stop to find them. They livein a fantasy world. Look. It
' s nothing, it' snothing, it' s nothing to dream
about. But there are dreams thatGod says I' m not going to
give you because you' re goingto cut me loose, because he knows
your heart. So there are peoplethat when they run, they run to
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just get to a place and whenthey get there it' s not the
big deal, it' s notwhat I expected, that is, they
look. I saw this well-known footballer this other day, this footballer
who is definitely in what is theHall of Fame football and the whole man
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is fifty- five years old.Single is not married and he said they
asked the studies and what' sin your life. He says well,
I focused so much on my careerthat I didn' t have time for
relationships and forgiveness for a family,because I did have relationships, but I
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didn' t end up having thefamily. And even though the guy now
has a ticket for ugly and he' s a dark- haired man of
which he' s ugly, butsince he' s got money, it
looks good to know that. Yes, there are people who are ugly hands,
who God makes them ugly, butthey put on good clothes and look
good. All right, and helooks good. That' s right,
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that one looks good. But he' s alone. You' re,
you' re alone, you've got all that money, you'
ve got the fame, you've got the fame of football, you
' ve got podcast, you've got the sports channels, but when
he goes home, he says heruns all this. To end up with
just who I' m going toshare all this wealth with. He said
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there are people running for a goaland he doesn' t end up doing
that. There are others who runfor escape. There are others who run
for escape. There are ones thathappen because they can' t face the
problem. There are some who areexperts in avoiding problems. Look, there
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' s nothing wrong with dealing withproblems. We should face the problems,
because by facing the programs one learns. I' m not saying you'
re gonna go get trouble. Listencarefully. I' m saying you deal
with the problems. That' swhere people actually end up drowning in a
glass of water, because they don' t know how to deal with problems.
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They were never in what is trainednor taught you to face good Come
on, sir, sit here?Let' s talk. You don'
t have to get to the physical. Let' s talk your part,
I speak mine and that' swhere we come to the understanding. You
know what three is about talking tosomeone today, which because you had a
disagreement, stops talking to you.After years of friendship. Oh, what
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a pity that is, how unfortunateit is to have someone who' s
going well, but when there's a difficulty, they can' t
get over that and run away fromthe relationship. There are many who do
that. There are many who donot mature in that, who are running
in their lives running away from theproblem. They' re experts in running
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away from their problems. Look.The first one left you because you were
irresponsible, the second one left youbecause you already had experience in being irresponsible
and the third one didn' tthrow him out. Her fault. You
' re the problem. I mean, there are people who change, there
are people who change situations, buttheir insides are still what he himself.
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So they say ah I' mnot going to challenge that person because it
' s the problem. Not you, you' re the problem. And
as long as you don' t, face yourself or the problem and listen
to someone' s truth the wordsays cats four and six, it never
comes. This would perhaps be yourenemy for telling you the truth. I
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can' t do your enemy bytelling you the truth, the truth.
It doesn' t hurt you,it' s not about telling the truth.
I' m telling you with alot of love and affection, but
stop running, stop running your problemif you really look at the word.
Do you speak well beautiful about friendships? You say iron and iron make friends.
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The word says in John fifteen thirty- three says there is no love
greater than this, which is thatof a friend to give his life for
another words speaks of the concept offriendship and a friend does not flee when
to such difficult things. If you' re tending to what it' s
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like to run all the time,because there' s trouble, you'
re not gonna get anywhere. AChristian should not be afraid to face problems.
Comment on a mistake, hold onto pressure, apologize, and move
on. But don' t offendme because you' re making a mistake
and now they' re claiming thatI' m not going with that person,
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because I don' t like thatperson, because he told you that
you eat your mistake. It can' t be that way. There are
others who run because they are weak. Ufff are weak. Look at the
word. God says say the weakstrong. I' m my weakness.
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This is the strength of God,God in my support, it is my
soonest if the tribulation should not berunning when there is a moment of weakness,
when you feel weaker. If thereis a place where you must go
to the Pi of Christ, thereis, but there are people who don
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' t really dare to face somethingbecause they are weak. No better,
no better, no better, let' s not talk about it. No,
no, no, I don't want the best, but why
not. I don' t havethe strength, I don' t even
feel like arguing with Caray Mira.My people are not for nothing, but
many of us are living a lifefrom which, unfortunately, we are fleeing
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processes that God is running us overand over and over again for us to
pass the test. I look thisway at who' s good math.
Raise your hand are plotting that aregood math. Okay, for this word,
for tas ut then exactly that happensin the fourth or fifth grade.
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If you had failed a math test, you know I would have done the
teacher. You would' ve givenit to yourself again for what, so
you could study it and come backto what? And if you hang up
again, take the teacher out,she' s gonna give it to you
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again so you can study and getready and pass it. The teacher says
how you' ve hung up threetimes, she doesn' t see you
anymore. It doesn' t keepgiving you the same test so that you,
who study, prepare and pass itExactly the same God does in your
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life when there is something you're not surpassing, God is going to
give you the same test so thatyou learn to overcome it and don'
t run away, because you can' t with that cross. There are
people who say no. I don' t see the Church anymore. It
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just takes a lot, it's a lot for here, a lot
for there. It' s justthat it' s style. Another one
looks at my people. Let metell you something. If it' s
not in the Church, it's going to be in Hell. But
one of the claws is gonna beworking. You in one two will bring.
It' s just that at thetime the truth is serious. Really
think about where you' re goingto work. Look I' ve met
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people who have left a job becauseI' m sorry they don' t
pay you well. He' sa little comfortable It' s work.
They' ll pay him more andwhen they go they give him the double
job, they don' t givehim this one and they end up complaining
about the job, even if theypay him more. A lot of people
help because they' re weak,because they can' t take pressure.
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We need to know that our supportcomes from God Christ. It' s
our example of not running the problem. Let' s not run because we
' re weak. Let' ssay you know what the weak strong says.
I' m here I' mhere, sir Whatever you need I
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' m here I stand on therock. Whatever comes here, my house
and I are going to stay here. We' re not running. Here
we stand others who run, becauseit is the first reaction of lack of
empowerment. There are people who don' t have the empowerment to say I
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' m going to face this.Come what comes and say oh no cuckoo,
the chamuco will already grab my legunder the bed. What does it
matter to me to see that ifI am muco goes into my house so
that you see that I open thedoor and take it out look. We
need to be serious about this.There are people who are comfortable sleeping with
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the devil in their house and Godwants to empower them. And his house
is polluted, his life is not, it is not empowered. God wants
to empower you and you are livinga mediocre life, you are living a
double life. Then you' rerunning from what your first reaction is,
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because you' re not empowered.They' re afraid of all things out
there. When the word says thatGod has not given us a spirit of
cowardice, then we must have whatis an attitude of running forward. I
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' m not empowered. Angels andarchangels surround me. The hand of God
is upon me that cometh what cometh. I know with whom. I count
the one who' s afraid running. I' m not running. They
were all like this. Oh,what are we gonna do? King Saul,
that giant doesn' t want tomove and he talks about us.
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And there until you hit everyone.You your god put it in my pocket.
You guys ain' t worth nothing. And David comes and fills a
meal for his brothers and says prayto him and what happens to what giant,
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that champion, that champion to thatchampion. He' s standing there
and making fun of us. AndDavid says you' re gonna let this
uncircumcised man mock the god of us. No, I got this one,
I got this one? Me?Don' t you? Don' t
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you? Don' t you?Don' t you?“ No,
” Saul said,“ if youare going to do that, tap my
armor” What armor. Yeah,I' m going with the whole word.
If David grabbed five smooth stones,I grabbed one, the spear and
queche came the spear that David hadis not him, it is not the
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ondita, yours is a wave thatsounds and goes and that causes to strike
who this kid is, who isthis little chaperone. And David went and
looked there, he threw the stoneat you and ran and ran to him.
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And you know what he did.God made the stone beat him to
the forehead of that guido alcoria andwith a stone fell. If you run
into your problems, I guarantee younot with a stone, with a word,
that giant will fall. I'll tell you. That' s
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the God we serve. Look atyou, look at what David was like,
he was a little chaperone, buthe' s hot, and David
pulls out the gunning sword and saysthis guy who said they were putting our
pocket in. Now that he's dead. Now I' m gonna
put him on the run. Andmaybe what he did grabbed the sword and
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cut off his head to kick.He cut it off, I imagine for
Israel and this what God is doing, what a barbarous, and I imagine
all the Philistines, oh mccones,what a brave guy, seven feet and
gouts, five feet and beak andhe ate it alive and he grabbed David
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' s head and he put itin a bag and he threw it over
it and wherever he wanted here hewent to David, he went to the
head to hit what you' rewearing there And medal, what medal,
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the medal of the race that Isaid you gave, the race n giant,
the race that I didn' trun away from my enemy' s
head in earnest Look, for youto see that is the head of a
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hit. Pay attention to this.This is not part of the preaching,
but what do you hear. Youknow how many brothers Golias had to hit
had four more brothers. There werefive in total, and you can believe
those other four were Israel' strial. They went after David, chasing
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David, because they knew who Davidwas and you know what. That'
s what happened. The most interestingthing happened that none of the other four
giants David faced. You know whoconfronted them. The company of David who
was with David killed the other fourgiants one by one until the last.
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“ Look, King,” hesaid,“ you are old. Do
not go into the fight, forif you die the light of Israel dies.
I' m going to fight forhim. Look at this so you
understand. Today I run my war. I run my career today and kill
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my giant and your witness to seeme run to my giant and kill him.
When you' re going to facethe other you go. So,
if the shepherd could have killed hisgiant, so could I. Me too,
because the God whom he serves isthe God whom I serve. That
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' s why it' s importantto walk with people who don' t
run, but who run does theirproblem. Don' t walk with chickens
and walk with eagles, walk withgiants' degoya and not with those who
run away from the problem. Godwants you to get up now what is
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the essence of running, because theessence of running is important. There are
people watching. When I was little, I ran because, since I couldn
' t do much, a lotof strength for my chest and I said,
well, we' re going torun. And I started running and
I said no. The mail's not for me, I didn'
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t run. But in my villagethere were guys who were in an athletic
league with the police department, andyou saw them coming out at three o
' clock in the afternoon, comingout of the ball park and running all
the way back to town. Itwas like five or six, and it
was about five or six miles.It was a bit of an exaggeration and
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other times running. Well, Iwanted to do that, I said good,
so let' s run. Letme be the house close to running.
Running is not running for running.For you to run, you have
to have a tactic, you haveto make a knowledge, because if you
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run for running, you' regoing to burst like a car without oil.
Women know that' s how I' m not making fun of running
without having the following things. You' re not gonna get anywhere. First,
everyone who runs has to be focused, there has to be an approach
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in your life so that you canrun according to everything. You have to
keep up the right pace. Ifyou run too fast, you' re
going to burn yourself for your run. You have to know how to breathe.
Breathe through your mouth and exhale throughyour nose. If you don'
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t do that, you' regonna get tired, you have to keep
up, you have to go focused, you have to breathe well. In
our spiritual realm there are things fromwhich it is essential for us to be
able to run. Fast prayer anddevotional. The one who does not pray
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does not breathe prayer is the lungof every Christian. Prayer is what actually
makes you last the long race.Fasting, fasting subdues your flesh. Fasting
subdues your flesh. You don't live in the chops, you don
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' t live in the meat.Soak the meat because let me say I
make the meat for you. Sheloves having her gorges, she loves having
her party. If you don't submit look, I' m going
to tell you something when we door is that you fast twenty- one
days. The next fast is goingto be the first week of August,
which day of April is going tobe the next five- day fast.
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Brothers, I look at people whenit is time to fast, I say
nothing, I stay watching and Iknow who will fast and who will not
fast and you know what I staywatching how they behave all year. Those
who do not fast, Look,I tell you honestly are the ones who
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are most discouraged throughout the year becausethey are fighting their flesh. Don'
t subjugate the meat. There aresome sisters here who love to eat,
she loves to eat, but look, look, there' s a sister
here that worries me because they eatwhile they' re still full. They
already have a reputation for not eatingtoo much being gluttons. Do not German
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give it two double portions because anda spiritual portion, a portion of rice
and meat, because it likes toeat. So, when it' s
fasting time, you know he's brother Look. I had a brother
who said Pastor, he says what' s wrong with you, man,
tastore this one. I' mnot killing myself and because I' m
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leaving the coffee grass I can't live without coffee and I say wow
like how the body has you stuckhere on the penny finger. We have
to live a spiritual life, onlythat it is fasting, prayer and devotional.
Look at my people. I'm gonna be honest with you.
There are people who only read theword on Wednesdays and Sundays and care when
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they come to church, and carefulthey fall asleep or, they get to
see a phone, they don't read the word I' m quoting,
but they' re reading another word. There are some that you give
to read words that I am notquoting in the sermon, because devotional do
not during the week. Imagine thething is that it' s true those
who don' t read during theweek now that they' re sitting there
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with this light. Now I'm going to read genesis three and I
' m going to read Lucas andI' m going to oh genesis four.
Look, God is good Hear what' s wrong with you. It
' s not time for you tobe doing an hourly devotion. It'
s time for you to be listeningto God' s word, not why
you' re making your devotional rightnow is for you to look for the
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time to make your devotional. Thatis running the same thing so that we
can run and has the essence ofrunning ourselves in the spiritual realm. We
have to pray, we have tofast, we have to have what is
then devotional, because look how interestingPaul says. Paul says the following,
Paul says you know that I haverun, I have finished the race and
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look what I have later kept thefaith. You run to keep your faith.
The one who doesn' t runruns out of faith And running out
of faith is a dead person,It' s a person who doesn'
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t have to get up, whylook for things. Then we have to
understand that there are moments from whichwe need to run again. I love
one of the most beautiful Bible passagesI can talk about what is the life
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of each of us. When wesee what our relationship with the Lord is
and, in reality, when wesee what running is, it is something
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that strikes us. Look. I' m done with this. Come with
me to the Book of Luke,chapter fifteen. Let' s go to
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what it is. There he speaksof what is vesicle from eleven to thirty
- two. He speaks of whatthe parable of the prodigal son is.
We know that the prodigal son askedfor the early inheritance. The father gave
it to him, he spent it, he made unclean lusts, he got
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drunk, he didn' t doit. He ended up losing everything and
eating it that it was legumes withthe pigs as low as possible and I
would say wow to my father's house, the day laborers, that
is, that the servants even eatbetter than me. I have sinned against
my father against heaven. I'm going home. So all dirty,
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all stinky, got up again andlooked at the importance of running Let us
in what is Luke fifteen twenty saysand rising up came to his father and
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when he was still far away,his father saw him and he was moved
to mercy and ran and kissed himand kissed him who ran There the son
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or father look at the importance ofus running that even in the parable of
the prodigal son, the pericopus wehave it wrong, because in reality,
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instead of being the parable of theprodigal son, it must be the parable
of the loving father, the fatherwho gave him the inheritance and the son
despised it. The father who whenhe sees the son looks at what he
says, who raises the son wherehe goes to his father and shuts up
There' s a what, there' s a point, there' s
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a point there, so that's where he describes what the son did
and where he' s going.Now, when the second prayer begins and
when it was still far away,his father saw it and was moved to
mercy. Who was moved mercy thefather, the father was every day waiting
for the arrival of his son andwhen he saw the son run the father
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and the son began to run toeach other. I want you to know
that Christ is willing to run foryou, as you must be willing to
run for him. And the wordsays that he was put on his neck
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and kissed him They saw him hereapart from please. Yeah, well,
look, look, so you cansee this, because I want to illustrate
it. Okay, if I gorunning, he is, he is the
father and he comes, he comeswhat is towards me, sorry, he
is the son. I' mthe father. Right, I' m
running I could come to be likethis. That' s the typical hug,
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isn' t it, but that' s not what the word says.
The word is he came running andgrabbed him by the neck. You
saw how intimate it is to grabsomeone by the neck. Not really.
When you grab your neck it's like your girl I want you close
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to me you understand I want youso close I hug you so I know
there' s a closeness with you. The father grabbed him by the neck.
When' s the last time you' ve felt the father' s
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hug gripping your neck. Look atme people tell me that a lot of
you hug. Oh, I don' t care. I love hugging.
There' s a power. Whenyou hug someone look free. It'
s something that' s actually healing. The other days I saw a friend
of mine more than twenty years agohomework that I saw him, and he
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came and sat in the corner backthere. I haven' t seen him
in over 20 years, and whenI saw him I stopped what I was
doing and went to hug him andhug him like for a good five minutes.
I did what he told me.Wow, God knows I needed this.
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There are men out there who don' t let themselves be hugged by
other men because their parents never taughthim to embrace them. There are men
who hug like that. There's a man who gives you hih fif
I don' t want to hugyou, not to be behind Alfaifa.
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I embrace what I embrace, becauseI have genuinely experienced what my father'
s embrace is and I can't tell you anything else that there'
s nothing better than running into Dad' s arms. If there' s
anything you can run in your life, it' s the bona fide embrace
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of the heavenly father. If thereis nothing more beautiful in your life,
it is to go into the armsof someone who prays who cares, who
cares about you, who calls you, who seeks you, who listens to
you, who defends you, whosays here I am with you in the
good and the bad, because ifGod brought you here it is for me
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to give you unconditional love. OrI want you to know the importance of
running in your life, the importanceof running through your life into the master
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' s arms to something that looksat you. Look when I reconciled,
when I reconciled, the first threeor four months, I didn' t
go out of the pulpit ask herand there was a service on Sunday and
they talked about what was finance andI was going through tears. They were
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talking about what it was and thatI know something that doesn' t have
to do with my life, butI didn' t go and I would
go by and eat my pulpit.I imagine people were saying oh what a
sinful man this is because for everySunday, I didn' t give a
damn. I spent every Sunday,I shed tears there because it was fifteen
years that I read my father's back, my Heavenly father, for
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fifteen years, I hurt myself.I myself ran out of sandals, ran
on stones and cut off my feet. I made myself sick, I ended
up eating what was garbage myself.I ended up spending nights myself in what
was in the hemisphere, there,completely under the moon and the stars.
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I myself finished what it was liketo go hungry, when my Heavenly father
was waiting for me exactly where Ileft him. Oh, and I ran,
I never went back. Eighteen yearswithout more than the times I walk
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away I run hard towards him,because yes, we have to admit it.
There are times when we neglect andhave a distance that we get hurt.
If God says come to me,run, run, run, I
want to give you something our wholeCommunity. Time for this word to be
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transformative. For you, you wantmore information about the Ministry. Find us
on Facebook as Pastor Ricardo Correa.Pastor Correa wishes to receive your witness or
prayer request. Write an email toInfo Arroba Mount Sinai dur Or. If
you wish to support our Ministry witha donation and offering, please access our
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website montesina I de ur Ort todayand press the donation option. We thank
God for your kindness and generosity.See you soon?
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