July 24, 2024 • 33 mins
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When God puts a call and agift in your life, you have no
choice but to fulfill it. Welcometo Pastor Ricardo Correa' s podcast,
pastor of the Montesina Church and inNorth Carolina, prepare your heart to receive
a word that will lead you toGod' s truth that we are going
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to Luke' s twenty- eight. You looked twenty- eight. The
word will read what is in thenew queen speaks sixty. Says the following.
The word is the father name ofHoly Plus Amen. I tell you
that among those born of women thereis no greater prophet than John the Baptist,
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but the smallest in the Kingdom ofGod is greater than he? You
guys have a good time. Itell you that among those born of women
there is no greater prophet than Johnthe Baptist, but the smallest among the
Kingdom of God is greater than thatof John the Baptist. The title has
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preached and is called your faithfulness inyour calling your faithfulness in what? On
your call? And within all thethings that happen in the Church, there
is something certain that happens and thatis that we are all called to serve.
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We are all called to serve.We all have a function to carry
out for the name of Jesus Christto be exalted and souls to come here,
come to the feet of Christ whenwe are called to listen well,
faithfulness is a vital expectation. Thatfidelity is a vital and expected expectation on
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your part. When you are called, serving is expected that you will already
be faithful to that call. However, many do not see it this way
and today we will understand why faithfulnessis so important in what God has called
you to do. Then fidelity isso vital. Brothers, we all want
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to be used by God, weall want God to use us in one
way or another. We really wantyou to feel that our purpose is carrying
you out. It is something wesay, Lord Use Me, one way
or another, and we feel alsowhen God uses us. We' re
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actually happy because wow, sir,you used me so this person can get
a word from you so you canfeel your love. You used me to
keep this person from feeling lonely orlonely. So we all want to be
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used by God, but if wedon' t have faithfulness, won'
t we be promoted? Promoted?We won' t be promoted? We
can have the ability, we canhave discernment, we can have the gift,
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but if we don' t havefidelity, we won' t be
promoted. They understand this faith isvital to making safe. If there is
no faith in your life, youwill not be saved. Understand that love
is vital to serving others. Loveeveryone and when for love you serve everything.
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But understand this which is fidelity isvital to be promoted. In the
Kingdom of God. Without fidelity you' re not going to be promoted.
Fidelity the things of God look whenthere is something to do and you say,
I love you, Lord I havefaith in you and I and I
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love souls, because you souls,you love them. Lord then God tells
you, ok show me your faithfulnessto see then how far I can use
you. And fidelity comes with allkinds of meaning and color and flavor.
Every time the Church has an activity, every time the doors are opened,
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God expects you to demonstrate your faithfulness. Faithfulness is something you don' t
really say, it' s donebecause you can say that I do something
and don' t do it ifI' m faithful, but you'
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re doing things that show us thatfidelity. As you grow in the things
of God, as you are promoted, as you are here every day,
as when God says there is somethingto be done in the house. If
the person is present. Every timethe doors open you Church, God sees
it as a What faithfulness is morewhen someone is missing. We know that
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probably because they' re dying inbed and he says he hears he missed
so much and that almost a sickperson has come something happened to him because
he always comes to the Church.He does not tell you that those who
practice faithfulness are the ones we miss, because we always see the face,
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we always see that they are willingto show their service to God. Then
fidelity. That' s why itmatters, because it' s not a
matter of having the ability to sayit' s not that I rig myself
whenever I want, because it's that I know that and I'
m vital. I do not professin someone faithful, someone who secretes,
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who knows them all, because Goddoes not seek what is arrogance of a
seeking pride. God seeks which faithfulpeople look at him saying," Matheus
twenty- three, twenty- five" so that they may see a new
living translation. The master said well, said my good faithful servant. He
' s been faithful in managing thatthis small amount, so now I'
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ll give you a lot more responsibilities. Come celebrate with me. Understand this
in the least you were faithful tome, I will put you in much.
There are people who want a lotof great things, but how small
it has been given has not beenthat faithful. How you want to shepherd
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if I' m a house ofpeace and you' re not running it
right. How you want to shepherdif I give you the young and you
' re crushing them all over oryou' re actually doing things. How
you want what it is to achievea level of leadership in the Church if
the small group I gave you havenot maintained it. What' s more,
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they haven' t even grown,they' ve declined. How you
can long to grow in the thingsof God that, when things are going
in Guatemala. Aug even worse.You can' t and then you get
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frustrated because they don' t considerme anymore, because that' s how
little we gave you. You weren' t faithful You didn' t stick
with that one, because there comesthe other one. Faithfulness is something that
you really listen to me well isnot demanded, it is expected. Get
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this. Faithfulness does not exist.Faithfulness is expected. No. This is
my house, this is my job, this is my company, this is
my family, this is my wife, these are my children. I am
going to make you faithful I wantto give you an instruction that I found
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very interesting and it is the followingcertain famous incredulous philanthropist orders his employees on
a Saturday morning to go to theport on Sunday morning to unload a ship
just now.“ A young writerarrived and replied calmly, Mr G.
I can' t work on Sundays.“ You know the arrangement,”
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Mr G replied. So the ownerdoes, sir, I know you with
this young man, and even thoughI' m my old mom' s
bra, I can' t workon Sundays. Well, you know you
go up to the office and thecashier will give you your account. Tells
him the owner of the company forthree weeks walked the young man looking for
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a job. One day a bankerintroduced himself to the unbeliever, Mr G,
asking if he could recommend an honestand faithful person to an ATM from
a bank that was going to openup. The unbeliever mentioned the young man
who had fired by recommending him asa person on purpose, but the banker
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said, you fired him. Yes, sir replied, Mr G fired him
because he didn' t want towork on Sundays. But a man who
may lose his position for not violatinghis conscience serves well as a cashier,
a trust. Faithfulness is something everyoneexpects of one. Now we talk about
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John John the Baptist, because asthat was I started Luke seven twenty-
eight. I say that in born, among those born of women, there
is no greater prophet than John theBaptist, but the smallest in the Kingdom
of God is greater than he.So let us stop for a moment and
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look at this praise of Christ,choosing among the prophets born of woman,
the son of God, he affirmedthat John was the greatest of all times.
Let us remember that Zechariah’ sson was not being compared to other
small prophets. Israel had a richhistory of prophetic ministries, although many times
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they were not honored as such.The list of notables included detailed men such
as Moses, Isaiah Amos, andJeremiah, men who had a profound impact
on the life and history of thenation of Israel. Then think of the
path of John the Baptist. Letus think for a moment, because John
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the Baptist was set apart from hisconception for a unique work. For the
next thirty years, he spent themcompletely anonymously. For once again, the
thirty years of John the Baptist,he spent them in what, in complete
anonymity. No one knew who Johnthe Baptist was for thirty years. We
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only know of John the Baptist whenhe appeared on the banks of the Jordan
and came from the desert. Probablylisten well, it was formed and educated
by some of the communities that livedin that region during the time. The
truth is that it was completely unknownand from there. From there his trajectory
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was meteoric. Soon after he beganpreaching large crowds, he accompanied him.
Listen well, the religious figures themoment came from afar to investigate their life
and message. Even John the Baptisthad his own disciples. This was someone
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nobody knew. Today there are peoplewho are more famous, but in the
few of the dog they are still. There' s a term in Iglésia
called clouds. I don' tknow how it' s said in Spanish
pl cloud is. It' slike people following men because they' re
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on social media. Look There aremen who have no church and have more
followers than those who have years ofchurch ministry, because they make more noise
from social media than the men whoare working. My people, anyone,
when you don' t have aconversation of almost fifty people and you don
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' t have a family with threechildren, anyone is all the time,
they got online, on Facebook,doing Facebook live, but interviewing people,
going to jail, having your family, having copying, preparing, studying.
My people, the least I haveon Facebook, just give someone a like
and say something quick. But thereare people today who are virtual shepherds that
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no sheep God is going to askfor accounting for them. John the Baptist
spent thirty years in the desert andno one knew anything about him. But
when God brought him out of anonymitylisten well to me, God did something
powerful with him and even groups ofdisciples now had. They understand this of
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John the Baptist, because the culminationof John the Baptist, the culmination of
the ministry of John the Baptist,came the arrival of the Messiah when Christ
appears the ministry of John the Baptistbegins to wane. You understand this,
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he begins to baptize and who comesJesus Christ, who is also baptized.
We saw Jun Al Bautista and thecrowds began to be baptized. Then,
with the beginning of the Messiah's Public Ministry, John the Baptist'
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s task ended shortly after he wasarrested and then beheaded by order of heroes.
Listen to me, you know howlong the ministry of John the Baptist
lasted. The ministry of John theBaptist lasted six months. How then can
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one say that his ministry was greaterthan among the prophets. It lasted only
six months, because you understand thework of Isaiah and Jeremiah. Listen to
me well it spread over forty years. John the Baptist is insignificant in comparison
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with Jeremiah and Isaiah. Forty yearsof ministry and how much the Baptist has
is called and Christ praised him saysthat there is no other prophet greater than
I hear the Baptist. Come on, Te. I am bursting my head
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now because precisely in this argument wesee the concept that prevails between us.
You know what is the concept thatprevails between us, that for our evangelical
culture, the greatness of a Ministrylies in the size and its extension.
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But in the Kingdom, however,greatness is not measured in terms of numbers,
but measured in terms of faithfulness.Make it strong. If you'
re going to give it to him, we say, oh God, he
uses it greatly. Look how bigthe Ministry is. Look how far it
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' s gone? That' sour what our failure in evangelical culture when
actually not telling you Look at thisman? How faithful has he been?
This man hasn' t moved fromthe skirts until God has said to move.
But there' s his fidelity,he' s showing it. And
I prefer a faithful person to aperson who seeks numbers and attention, because
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when he already loses interest in you, he throws you aside, he is
not faithful and with you. Andthey tend this. Faithfulness consists in doing
only what one was called to do. I repeat, fidelity consists in doing
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only what one was called to do. No one understood this better than John
the Baptist, who explained to hisdisciples that it is necessary for him to
grow and I what. And Idiminish to me what John says three thirty
as I say he must have moreand more importance and I still less so.
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John was faithful to his call,knowing that his call had an expiration
date. There are many of uswho do not want to have an aspiration
date and we are not being faithfulto what God called us, because we
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want to do things, as itsuits us who has this, because this
is very important preparation. It doesn' t go beyond fidelity. I prefer
it to someone who doesn' tknow how to write, but he'
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s more faithful than one who hasa graduate. I prefer someone to really
say pastor this class. I don' t understand, but your word feeds
me and I know that God iswith you and that you stayed with me.
Preparation does not exceed fidelity. Lookwhat you say Luke, Luke,
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sixteen, ten, if you arefaithful in small things you will be faithful
in great things, but if youare dishonest, small things will not act
honestly in the responsibilities that are greater. God expects that small things you will
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be faithful If you' re stuck, if you' re stuck, it
' s because you' re notpracticing fidelity. It' s not me,
it' s not God, it' s you because God has called
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them to serve, but you're the one who decides where you'
re going to take your ministry,because the green light has been given to
you, but you' re sittingin the yellow light waiting for it to
change the green light and nothing happens. You' re stuck and sir,
why don' t you use me, because you' re not being faithful
to me. I give an example. Is there a choice between going to
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church and serving or going to seelegendary honduras against Manchester, though will never
be that game? Don' tyou ever forgive me? Wouldn' t
that game happen anyway? We're telling you the truth, but people
are coming, not pastor, forgiveme that Sunday. I' m not
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going to be able to go listento me well inside is failing my fidelity.
You' re failing the one you' re crying at because things don
' t work out for you.He does the strong if you' re
going to give it to him.It' s not me, sir,
why don' t I move likeI know I can do bigger things.
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Where your fidelity is, father.Why haven' t you answered me with
the petitions if your word says thatyour son doesn' t beg where your
faithfulness is, Father. But whynot get to the papers, because you
still haven' t given your bloodto the Ministry that I told you spills
is that you' re here onTuesdays, on Wednesdays, after home of
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peace and sometimes on Saturdays you wantto do something and then on Sunday.
No, Pastor, there' sno time for me. That' s
not your loyalty Look. There aresome who want God to walk with them
twenty- four seven and only theywalk with Jesus on Mondays to Fridays from
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eight to eight at night, becauseat nine o' clock comes what is
the house of the famous and theystart to see there is Telemundo giving him
rallying to vote number five. It' s you, fidelity is something you
don' t have. Do notbelieve that because you are good at speaking,
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do not believe because you are goodat your presence, that it will
supply your faithfulness, because your callneeds faithfulness to be faithful to what God
has given you. God gave mewhen I looked, when I began,
when I reconciled, in the twothousand and five, I reconsidered on the
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two thousand and five of November,by the middle of the two thousand and
six. I don' t knowwhy, but the shepherd where he gave
was letting me have a house ofpeace. I got released by a growing
group. He didn' t talkto me, he only spoke to the
chief leader, the leader of thedir of my house of peace. And
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we' re on a Saturday andI' m sitting down taking note.
This is my first reconciled love,truth that keeps taking notes and I,
oh, Michaeones, what a richword. And this is a note.
So and suddenly, when the groupends and says tonight I want to make
a prayer. We are going topray for Ricardo' s hands, because
next week will begin the cación.My mouth fell out. It' s
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like a horse how I get upSee, we' re going And I
started crying, not for joy.I started crying because I said I don
' t want to leave the houseof peace. If I' m getting
now, I don' t haveto give, but you know what I
did. I said if God calledme, it' s because he sees
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something I don' t see andI' m going to be sure of
that peace house. Arto I'm going to go about the pas house
I had. He had a manto God bless him. Thank you that
there are the things of God.A boy, but look young he had.
I was married. We had Nayomiand we had Dafne and this lot
was single with energy. It wastwo in the morning and all in my
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house asking Bible questions. I waslooking for the Bible and falling asleep.
I lionel how you expect, whatelse you want to talk about. I
said the question that, because pleasedon' t say anything more, I
want to go to sleep and saidPastor Teco, said Baron, I have
you asked and I, God,my Holy Father, every Friday we started
at 7 (24:38):
30 and they ended at 3
That' s what I was saying. This kid' s hungry and you
got it. Thank you for gettingmarried, thank you for doing very well.
He' s serving in the Church. But let me tell you something.
My faith fidelity was strongly tested becauseI had ah listen to me well,
when I began to show him faithfulness, God you know God made you.
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I' m going to put someonein there to keep you there as
a reason for me to be faithful, because someone' s looking at you
as an example, and if anyone' s curious, you' re going
to make the way for this personto get closer to me. You don
' t know how God will useyou faithfully, but God will enjoy you.
God enjoys you and that is whyit is important that whatever opportunity you
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are given is not given because weare bored. It' s given to
you because there' s a callto serve and that' s why you
ride. Without it fidelity is tested. When people start the Academy, we
have people who come from retirement.Master Fia, I' m in the
fire and Dovere, can I dothis my d tell you my doubt,
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Master Fire Lor, how can Iserve. You have to pass. The
Ok Academy is fine for a weekend, not nine months. How nine months
for me to be able to serveyou want to love you want to serve
the house. Show me your faithfulness. The Academy is a colera of who,
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who talk a lot about, whodo a lot of things. Okay,
fine. That is why all thosewho serve in this house serve with
pride, although there are some whofall asleep, but I give you another
part of the preaching part. Butthere are people who say I want to
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serve what it is to do toserve and they prepare to understand this.
What for us the preparation of Johnthe Baptist, This was a terrible waste
of resources. You know what it' s like to prepare a man for
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thirty years for only a six-month ministry. You know how much more
comfortable we feel, with a modelthat prepares a six- month worker for
a 30- year- old ministry. Now, what an important choice the
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son of Zacharias leaves to us,those of us who are about to serve,
those who are serving at this time, those who are going to serve.
What a lesson John the Baptist givesus that a man prepared by God
to administer at the exact moment canaccomplish more in six months than a well
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- intentioned minister can accomplish in sixtyyears of career. So by your faithfulness
we' re going to say this, let' s say that I,
I have Dafrica, it' smine, but I say dafne I'
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m going to put you in chargeof this responsibility. And Daffre doesn'
t do it because she' smy daughter, but because she' s
faithful to what she' s beengiven and in six months what she'
s been given she turned it intoa plus being tell me. If I
am not going to take her outof there to put in another place clear
that yes, she was more effectivein six months than one who has been
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three years I leave imposed and hasnot been able to multiply in anything,
because it is not preparation, itis fidelity. How faithful you are to
what God has given you Monte withoutthere Look carefully, Luis, how many
are here today, how many.Last week was one hundred and four,
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today there are one hundred and sixteen. This Church, with twelve years of
attendance, should not be one hundredthat we should be already reaching the two
hundred. But here fidelity has calledI am not being taken seriously and it
is piles to the monkey because Christis coming soon and this one is going
to say something. When someone isgiven a responsibility for what it' s
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like to bring a call to me, they' re not going to tell
me who they' re going togive it to. Bye. Goodbye listen
well Ephesians two ten and with theterm we have to us before ten.
A man prepared by God to administerat the exact moment can achieve more in
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six months than a well- intentionedminister can achieve in sixty years of career.
Let us therefore seek to work inthe works which he has prepared beforehand,
that we may walk in them.Let us try to walk in what
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God has told us, what hehas given. There are people who say
grass, but what do I havethe ability to do calculations, trigonometry,
to do accounting and are you givingme simple math? Simple arithmetic? Yeah,
' cause I really want to seehow you behave with simple math.
Even if it' s your ability. And if you' re good at
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this, then you yourself are goingto bear fruit. And the fruits will
be that promoting, promoting, promoting, because he has been faithful to God
where he has put you Ephesians twoten. He says that we are God
’ s masterpiece. He created usagain in Christ Jesus, so that we
might do the good things that stoppedfor us long ago. I know that
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' s what that means. DidGod know the call I was going to
give you? Did God already knowthe position he was going to give you?
God already knew the ladder you weregoing to be climbing, the steps
you were going to be climbing.It' s only your question of receiving
what God stopped for you long agobecause you' re counting on your faithfulness.
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There are people who only in thefirst step longing to have promoted the
second, but in the first stepthey are not having the faithfulness that God
expects of them. Where is thefaithfulness in your call? Where is faithfulness
in what God has said? Areyou worthy to teach, are you worthy
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to be a leader of a peacegroup, are you worthy to be a
thytheist, are you worthy to bewith children, are you worthy to do
this and the other? Where isyour faithfulness in what God has set you
to serve, For if anything certain, we can see that God' s
faithfulness is great. There' san advance that says your great fidelity.
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We ask for fidelity to God.You don' t think our whole Community
is asking us to be faithful.Time for this word to be transformative.
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When God puts a call and agift in your life, you have no
choice but to fulfill it. Welcometo Pastor Ricardo Correa' s podcast,
pastor of the Montesina Church and inNorth Carolina, prepare your heart to receive
a word that will lead you toGod' s truth that we are going
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to Luke' s twenty- eight. You looked twenty- eight. The
word will read what is in thenew queen speaks sixty. Says the following.
The word is the father name ofHoly Plus Amen. I tell you
that among those born of women thereis no greater prophet than John the Baptist,
(00:49):
but the smallest in the Kingdom ofGod is greater than he? You
guys have a good time. Itell you that among those born of women
there is no greater prophet than Johnthe Baptist, but the smallest among the
Kingdom of God is greater than thatof John the Baptist. The title has
(01:12):
preached and is called your faithfulness inyour calling your faithfulness in what? On
your call? And within all thethings that happen in the Church, there
is something certain that happens and thatis that we are all called to serve.
(01:36):
We are all called to serve.We all have a function to carry
out for the name of Jesus Christto be exalted and souls to come here,
come to the feet of Christ whenwe are called to listen well,
faithfulness is a vital expectation. Thatfidelity is a vital and expected expectation on
(02:02):
your part. When you are called, serving is expected that you will already
be faithful to that call. However, many do not see it this way
and today we will understand why faithfulnessis so important in what God has called
you to do. Then fidelity isso vital. Brothers, we all want
(02:31):
to be used by God, weall want God to use us in one
way or another. We really wantyou to feel that our purpose is carrying
you out. It is something wesay, Lord Use Me, one way
or another, and we feel alsowhen God uses us. We' re
(02:53):
actually happy because wow, sir,you used me so this person can get
a word from you so you canfeel your love. You used me to
keep this person from feeling lonely orlonely. So we all want to be
(03:14):
used by God, but if wedon' t have faithfulness, won'
t we be promoted? Promoted?We won' t be promoted? We
can have the ability, we canhave discernment, we can have the gift,
(03:35):
but if we don' t havefidelity, we won' t be
promoted. They understand this faith isvital to making safe. If there is
no faith in your life, youwill not be saved. Understand that love
is vital to serving others. Loveeveryone and when for love you serve everything.
(04:00):
But understand this which is fidelity isvital to be promoted. In the
Kingdom of God. Without fidelity you' re not going to be promoted.
Fidelity the things of God look whenthere is something to do and you say,
I love you, Lord I havefaith in you and I and I
(04:23):
love souls, because you souls,you love them. Lord then God tells
you, ok show me your faithfulnessto see then how far I can use
you. And fidelity comes with allkinds of meaning and color and flavor.
Every time the Church has an activity, every time the doors are opened,
(04:45):
God expects you to demonstrate your faithfulness. Faithfulness is something you don' t
really say, it' s donebecause you can say that I do something
and don' t do it ifI' m faithful, but you'
(05:06):
re doing things that show us thatfidelity. As you grow in the things
of God, as you are promoted, as you are here every day,
as when God says there is somethingto be done in the house. If
the person is present. Every timethe doors open you Church, God sees
it as a What faithfulness is morewhen someone is missing. We know that
(05:31):
probably because they' re dying inbed and he says he hears he missed
so much and that almost a sickperson has come something happened to him because
he always comes to the Church.He does not tell you that those who
practice faithfulness are the ones we miss, because we always see the face,
(05:51):
we always see that they are willingto show their service to God. Then
fidelity. That' s why itmatters, because it' s not a
matter of having the ability to sayit' s not that I rig myself
whenever I want, because it's that I know that and I'
m vital. I do not professin someone faithful, someone who secretes,
(06:13):
who knows them all, because Goddoes not seek what is arrogance of a
seeking pride. God seeks which faithfulpeople look at him saying," Matheus
twenty- three, twenty- five" so that they may see a new
living translation. The master said well, said my good faithful servant. He
' s been faithful in managing thatthis small amount, so now I'
(06:38):
ll give you a lot more responsibilities. Come celebrate with me. Understand this
in the least you were faithful tome, I will put you in much.
There are people who want a lotof great things, but how small
it has been given has not beenthat faithful. How you want to shepherd
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if I' m a house ofpeace and you' re not running it
right. How you want to shepherdif I give you the young and you
' re crushing them all over oryou' re actually doing things. How
you want what it is to achievea level of leadership in the Church if
the small group I gave you havenot maintained it. What' s more,
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they haven' t even grown,they' ve declined. How you
can long to grow in the thingsof God that, when things are going
in Guatemala. Aug even worse.You can' t and then you get
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frustrated because they don' t considerme anymore, because that' s how
little we gave you. You weren' t faithful You didn' t stick
with that one, because there comesthe other one. Faithfulness is something that
you really listen to me well isnot demanded, it is expected. Get
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this. Faithfulness does not exist.Faithfulness is expected. No. This is
my house, this is my job, this is my company, this is
my family, this is my wife, these are my children. I am
going to make you faithful I wantto give you an instruction that I found
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very interesting and it is the followingcertain famous incredulous philanthropist orders his employees on
a Saturday morning to go to theport on Sunday morning to unload a ship
just now.“ A young writerarrived and replied calmly, Mr G.
I can' t work on Sundays.“ You know the arrangement,”
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Mr G replied. So the ownerdoes, sir, I know you with
this young man, and even thoughI' m my old mom' s
bra, I can' t workon Sundays. Well, you know you
go up to the office and thecashier will give you your account. Tells
him the owner of the company forthree weeks walked the young man looking for
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a job. One day a bankerintroduced himself to the unbeliever, Mr G,
asking if he could recommend an honestand faithful person to an ATM from
a bank that was going to openup. The unbeliever mentioned the young man
who had fired by recommending him asa person on purpose, but the banker
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said, you fired him. Yes, sir replied, Mr G fired him
because he didn' t want towork on Sundays. But a man who
may lose his position for not violatinghis conscience serves well as a cashier,
a trust. Faithfulness is something everyoneexpects of one. Now we talk about
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John John the Baptist, because asthat was I started Luke seven twenty-
eight. I say that in born, among those born of women, there
is no greater prophet than John theBaptist, but the smallest in the Kingdom
of God is greater than he.So let us stop for a moment and
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look at this praise of Christ,choosing among the prophets born of woman,
the son of God, he affirmedthat John was the greatest of all times.
Let us remember that Zechariah’ sson was not being compared to other
small prophets. Israel had a richhistory of prophetic ministries, although many times
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they were not honored as such.The list of notables included detailed men such
as Moses, Isaiah Amos, andJeremiah, men who had a profound impact
on the life and history of thenation of Israel. Then think of the
path of John the Baptist. Letus think for a moment, because John
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the Baptist was set apart from hisconception for a unique work. For the
next thirty years, he spent themcompletely anonymously. For once again, the
thirty years of John the Baptist,he spent them in what, in complete
anonymity. No one knew who Johnthe Baptist was for thirty years. We
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only know of John the Baptist whenhe appeared on the banks of the Jordan
and came from the desert. Probablylisten well, it was formed and educated
by some of the communities that livedin that region during the time. The
truth is that it was completely unknownand from there. From there his trajectory
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was meteoric. Soon after he beganpreaching large crowds, he accompanied him.
Listen well, the religious figures themoment came from afar to investigate their life
and message. Even John the Baptisthad his own disciples. This was someone
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nobody knew. Today there are peoplewho are more famous, but in the
few of the dog they are still. There' s a term in Iglésia
called clouds. I don' tknow how it' s said in Spanish
pl cloud is. It' slike people following men because they' re
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on social media. Look There aremen who have no church and have more
followers than those who have years ofchurch ministry, because they make more noise
from social media than the men whoare working. My people, anyone,
when you don' t have aconversation of almost fifty people and you don
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' t have a family with threechildren, anyone is all the time,
they got online, on Facebook,doing Facebook live, but interviewing people,
going to jail, having your family, having copying, preparing, studying.
My people, the least I haveon Facebook, just give someone a like
and say something quick. But thereare people today who are virtual shepherds that
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no sheep God is going to askfor accounting for them. John the Baptist
spent thirty years in the desert andno one knew anything about him. But
when God brought him out of anonymitylisten well to me, God did something
powerful with him and even groups ofdisciples now had. They understand this of
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John the Baptist, because the culminationof John the Baptist, the culmination of
the ministry of John the Baptist,came the arrival of the Messiah when Christ
appears the ministry of John the Baptistbegins to wane. You understand this,
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he begins to baptize and who comesJesus Christ, who is also baptized.
We saw Jun Al Bautista and thecrowds began to be baptized. Then,
with the beginning of the Messiah's Public Ministry, John the Baptist'
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s task ended shortly after he wasarrested and then beheaded by order of heroes.
Listen to me, you know howlong the ministry of John the Baptist
lasted. The ministry of John theBaptist lasted six months. How then can
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one say that his ministry was greaterthan among the prophets. It lasted only
six months, because you understand thework of Isaiah and Jeremiah. Listen to
me well it spread over forty years. John the Baptist is insignificant in comparison
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with Jeremiah and Isaiah. Forty yearsof ministry and how much the Baptist has
is called and Christ praised him saysthat there is no other prophet greater than
I hear the Baptist. Come on, Te. I am bursting my head
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now because precisely in this argument wesee the concept that prevails between us.
You know what is the concept thatprevails between us, that for our evangelical
culture, the greatness of a Ministrylies in the size and its extension.
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But in the Kingdom, however,greatness is not measured in terms of numbers,
but measured in terms of faithfulness.Make it strong. If you'
re going to give it to him, we say, oh God, he
uses it greatly. Look how bigthe Ministry is. Look how far it
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' s gone? That' sour what our failure in evangelical culture when
actually not telling you Look at thisman? How faithful has he been?
This man hasn' t moved fromthe skirts until God has said to move.
But there' s his fidelity,he' s showing it. And
I prefer a faithful person to aperson who seeks numbers and attention, because
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when he already loses interest in you, he throws you aside, he is
not faithful and with you. Andthey tend this. Faithfulness consists in doing
only what one was called to do. I repeat, fidelity consists in doing
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only what one was called to do. No one understood this better than John
the Baptist, who explained to hisdisciples that it is necessary for him to
grow and I what. And Idiminish to me what John says three thirty
as I say he must have moreand more importance and I still less so.
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John was faithful to his call,knowing that his call had an expiration
date. There are many of uswho do not want to have an aspiration
date and we are not being faithfulto what God called us, because we
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want to do things, as itsuits us who has this, because this
is very important preparation. It doesn' t go beyond fidelity. I prefer
it to someone who doesn' tknow how to write, but he'
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s more faithful than one who hasa graduate. I prefer someone to really
say pastor this class. I don' t understand, but your word feeds
me and I know that God iswith you and that you stayed with me.
Preparation does not exceed fidelity. Lookwhat you say Luke, Luke,
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sixteen, ten, if you arefaithful in small things you will be faithful
in great things, but if youare dishonest, small things will not act
honestly in the responsibilities that are greater. God expects that small things you will
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be faithful If you' re stuck, if you' re stuck, it
' s because you' re notpracticing fidelity. It' s not me,
it' s not God, it' s you because God has called
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them to serve, but you're the one who decides where you'
re going to take your ministry,because the green light has been given to
you, but you' re sittingin the yellow light waiting for it to
change the green light and nothing happens. You' re stuck and sir,
why don' t you use me, because you' re not being faithful
to me. I give an example. Is there a choice between going to
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church and serving or going to seelegendary honduras against Manchester, though will never
be that game? Don' tyou ever forgive me? Wouldn' t
that game happen anyway? We're telling you the truth, but people
are coming, not pastor, forgiveme that Sunday. I' m not
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going to be able to go listento me well inside is failing my fidelity.
You' re failing the one you' re crying at because things don
' t work out for you.He does the strong if you' re
going to give it to him.It' s not me, sir,
why don' t I move likeI know I can do bigger things.
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Where your fidelity is, father.Why haven' t you answered me with
the petitions if your word says thatyour son doesn' t beg where your
faithfulness is, Father. But whynot get to the papers, because you
still haven' t given your bloodto the Ministry that I told you spills
is that you' re here onTuesdays, on Wednesdays, after home of
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peace and sometimes on Saturdays you wantto do something and then on Sunday.
No, Pastor, there' sno time for me. That' s
not your loyalty Look. There aresome who want God to walk with them
twenty- four seven and only theywalk with Jesus on Mondays to Fridays from
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eight to eight at night, becauseat nine o' clock comes what is
the house of the famous and theystart to see there is Telemundo giving him
rallying to vote number five. It' s you, fidelity is something you
don' t have. Do notbelieve that because you are good at speaking,
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do not believe because you are goodat your presence, that it will
supply your faithfulness, because your callneeds faithfulness to be faithful to what God
has given you. God gave mewhen I looked, when I began,
when I reconciled, in the twothousand and five, I reconsidered on the
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two thousand and five of November,by the middle of the two thousand and
six. I don' t knowwhy, but the shepherd where he gave
was letting me have a house ofpeace. I got released by a growing
group. He didn' t talkto me, he only spoke to the
chief leader, the leader of thedir of my house of peace. And
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we' re on a Saturday andI' m sitting down taking note.
This is my first reconciled love,truth that keeps taking notes and I,
oh, Michaeones, what a richword. And this is a note.
So and suddenly, when the groupends and says tonight I want to make
a prayer. We are going topray for Ricardo' s hands, because
next week will begin the cación.My mouth fell out. It' s
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like a horse how I get upSee, we' re going And I
started crying, not for joy.I started crying because I said I don
' t want to leave the houseof peace. If I' m getting
now, I don' t haveto give, but you know what I
did. I said if God calledme, it' s because he sees
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something I don' t see andI' m going to be sure of
that peace house. Arto I'm going to go about the pas house
I had. He had a manto God bless him. Thank you that
there are the things of God.A boy, but look young he had.
I was married. We had Nayomiand we had Dafne and this lot
was single with energy. It wastwo in the morning and all in my
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house asking Bible questions. I waslooking for the Bible and falling asleep.
I lionel how you expect, whatelse you want to talk about. I
said the question that, because pleasedon' t say anything more, I
want to go to sleep and saidPastor Teco, said Baron, I have
you asked and I, God,my Holy Father, every Friday we started
at 7 (24:38):
30 and they ended at 3
That' s what I was saying. This kid' s hungry and you
got it. Thank you for gettingmarried, thank you for doing very well.
He' s serving in the Church. But let me tell you something.
My faith fidelity was strongly tested becauseI had ah listen to me well,
when I began to show him faithfulness, God you know God made you.
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I' m going to put someonein there to keep you there as
a reason for me to be faithful, because someone' s looking at you
as an example, and if anyone' s curious, you' re going
to make the way for this personto get closer to me. You don
' t know how God will useyou faithfully, but God will enjoy you.
God enjoys you and that is whyit is important that whatever opportunity you
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are given is not given because weare bored. It' s given to
you because there' s a callto serve and that' s why you
ride. Without it fidelity is tested. When people start the Academy, we
have people who come from retirement.Master Fia, I' m in the
fire and Dovere, can I dothis my d tell you my doubt,
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Master Fire Lor, how can Iserve. You have to pass. The
Ok Academy is fine for a weekend, not nine months. How nine months
for me to be able to serveyou want to love you want to serve
the house. Show me your faithfulness. The Academy is a colera of who,
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who talk a lot about, whodo a lot of things. Okay,
fine. That is why all thosewho serve in this house serve with
pride, although there are some whofall asleep, but I give you another
part of the preaching part. Butthere are people who say I want to
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serve what it is to do toserve and they prepare to understand this.
What for us the preparation of Johnthe Baptist, This was a terrible waste
of resources. You know what it' s like to prepare a man for
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thirty years for only a six-month ministry. You know how much more
comfortable we feel, with a modelthat prepares a six- month worker for
a 30- year- old ministry. Now, what an important choice the
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son of Zacharias leaves to us,those of us who are about to serve,
those who are serving at this time, those who are going to serve.
What a lesson John the Baptist givesus that a man prepared by God
to administer at the exact moment canaccomplish more in six months than a well
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- intentioned minister can accomplish in sixtyyears of career. So by your faithfulness
we' re going to say this, let' s say that I,
I have Dafrica, it' smine, but I say dafne I'
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m going to put you in chargeof this responsibility. And Daffre doesn'
t do it because she' smy daughter, but because she' s
faithful to what she' s beengiven and in six months what she'
s been given she turned it intoa plus being tell me. If I
am not going to take her outof there to put in another place clear
that yes, she was more effectivein six months than one who has been
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three years I leave imposed and hasnot been able to multiply in anything,
because it is not preparation, itis fidelity. How faithful you are to
what God has given you Monte withoutthere Look carefully, Luis, how many
are here today, how many.Last week was one hundred and four,
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today there are one hundred and sixteen. This Church, with twelve years of
attendance, should not be one hundredthat we should be already reaching the two
hundred. But here fidelity has calledI am not being taken seriously and it
is piles to the monkey because Christis coming soon and this one is going
to say something. When someone isgiven a responsibility for what it' s
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like to bring a call to me, they' re not going to tell
me who they' re going togive it to. Bye. Goodbye listen
well Ephesians two ten and with theterm we have to us before ten.
A man prepared by God to administerat the exact moment can achieve more in
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six months than a well- intentionedminister can achieve in sixty years of career.
Let us therefore seek to work inthe works which he has prepared beforehand,
that we may walk in them.Let us try to walk in what
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God has told us, what hehas given. There are people who say
grass, but what do I havethe ability to do calculations, trigonometry,
to do accounting and are you givingme simple math? Simple arithmetic? Yeah,
' cause I really want to seehow you behave with simple math.
Even if it' s your ability. And if you' re good at
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this, then you yourself are goingto bear fruit. And the fruits will
be that promoting, promoting, promoting, because he has been faithful to God
where he has put you Ephesians twoten. He says that we are God
’ s masterpiece. He created usagain in Christ Jesus, so that we
might do the good things that stoppedfor us long ago. I know that
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' s what that means. DidGod know the call I was going to
give you? Did God already knowthe position he was going to give you?
God already knew the ladder you weregoing to be climbing, the steps
you were going to be climbing.It' s only your question of receiving
what God stopped for you long agobecause you' re counting on your faithfulness.
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There are people who only in thefirst step longing to have promoted the
second, but in the first stepthey are not having the faithfulness that God
expects of them. Where is thefaithfulness in your call? Where is faithfulness
in what God has said? Areyou worthy to teach, are you worthy
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to be a leader of a peacegroup, are you worthy to be a
thytheist, are you worthy to bewith children, are you worthy to do
this and the other? Where isyour faithfulness in what God has set you
to serve, For if anything certain, we can see that God' s
faithfulness is great. There' san advance that says your great fidelity.
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We ask for fidelity to God.You don' t think our whole Community
is asking us to be faithful.Time for this word to be transformative.
For you, you want more informationabout the Ministry. Find us on Facebook
as Pastor Ricardo Correa. Pastor Correawishes to receive your witness or prayer request.
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