So we were speaking about the situation with
my daughter and my husband. And there goes Belen.
No. No. I'm not going to do that. Because I don't
feel like that's from God. Very proud about this.
I don't perceive this is from God. With the spiritual
vocabulary and everything. Very holy. But in
reality, what was there is something that I didn't
want to let go. But you know in the family that
you argue with the family. I don't know if that
happens to you. I don't know if that happens
in Alaska. It does happen in my house. Sometimes
we have some arguments. Sometimes we have things
when we can see each other face to face. So I
was there saying, I don't feel this is from God.
And my husband, very wise. Okay, let's go and
pray. So we continue talking. We continue talking
about this. So we said, let's go and pray. We
pray a very simple prayer. Very simple. And on
the next day, when I woke up, I was able to see
the point of view of the other people that were
involved. And then I said, okay, Lord, I think
I wasn't able to talk to them that day. But then
later when I was able to talk to them, I told
him, I changed my point of view. I said to him,
okay, I'm gonna do it. I already captured what
you're trying to say. But the moment you allow
God to come into the picture. Look, God is in
me personally, removing all traces of religion.
You know that religion may destroy homes. And
this topic, I'm very passionate about this topic.
And it's about family. I don't know why I'm going
that way. But what I perceive right now, that
there are marriages here where they haven't been
able to be in agreement. where there has been
disagreements. But unfortunately, the old way
of living, the way they used to live before,
doesn't allow us to come and see the point of
view of the other person. And that can involve
so many things. And this makes me so passionate
with children. With the youth. You know that
I'm about having to correct. And that's why we're
parents. And that's why we're here to educate.
That's why we're here to form the character.
But sometimes religion, it has blinded or seared
our mind and our understanding. And we're very
harsh with our own children. We don't even give
them room for them to open to us and allow them
to hear them. And see the verse that is coming
to my mind. I don't have the exact verse. But
it says not to bring our children to rest. Then
you ask yourself, Why do I have a child that
is in rebellion? Why is my child closing up?
Why is it that my husband is not opening up himself
to me anymore? Why my wife is not opening herself
to me? Sometimes it's because we're so seared
and we're so blinded. And that happened before
Christ. That is the nature before Christ. I can
assure you that if you go to the presence of
God, the first thing God is gonna do with you,
he's gonna incline his ears, and he's gonna hear
whatever you have to say. It says draw closer
to me and you know the verses that we have. The
verse that says bring your burden before me.
So many verses. And now I can't remember any.
Where he says to carry his yoke that is light
and easy. And when you go and you take your own
yoke that is heavy, He's open to receive that
burden. And many times our children, our spouses,
or our wives, they have so many burdens. But
our mentality, oh no, It shouldn't be this way
in our house. You're closing the door. Please
don't close the door to your children. Out there,
there are many open doors. Many open doors. And
I'm not speaking about. Just only young adults.
This starts when you are a child. You want to
restore family? Let's change the way we think.
So it requires obedience. It requires dying to
self. And let's go to Matthew 16, 24. Listen
to your children. Listen to your wife. Your wife
has so many things to tell you. It's not that
she wants to be a pain reader and she's, you
know, she's being an egg and she doesn't allow
you to watch the game. It's not this old lady
that doesn't allow me to watch Facebook. Turn
off Facebook. And allow Jesus to renew your mind.
And tell her, yes love, what do you want to tell
me? I listen to you. Because that is Jesus renewing
your mind. How many of us have heard about the
family altar? And it's funny, because I don't
know if this happened to you before, but this
has happened to me in my house. And suddenly
we're going to go and pray. If you want your
child to pray with you, listen to him or her
first. Don't punish them just because that's
the way you think it should be. Listen before.
This is part of the renewal of the mind. This
is part of the understanding. Understand what
my child is trying to tell me. Imagine if you
open yourself as Jesus listens to you. And your
child has to come to you. And that your child
can trust you so much as a parent. He knows that
you're not gonna come and judge. That he can
feel such freedom. That he can tell you, mom,
dad, I'm battling with pornography. What do you
do in that case? If your child comes with something
like this, I can assure you the first thing we
do is because of that phone. It's because of
your friends. And we blame everyone else. And
what about us? Where was I that I didn't take
care of you? Because we were raised with this
mentality. Things are done this way and this
is the way we're gonna do them. And if you're
battling... with lost. I'm going to punish you.
We won't allow that here. We won't allow sin.
Of course we don't allow sin. for you not to
allow sin. First, you have to deal with that.
How does Jesus deal with your sins? How many
times have you gone to the presence of the Lord?
Lord, remove jealousy. Lord, remove envy from
my heart. And men of God, I saw another woman.
I saw some skirts and it caught my attention.
How does the Messiah act with you? Elder was
reading. How does he act? As Isaiah 53. He was
despised amongst men. He was a man of sorrow.
was over his body. That's how Jesus deals with
your sin. The Messiah is not there to stone you.
The Messiah, he confronted the Pharisees that
they did have the mind to go and judge. That
they had the finger to accuse. That was the nature
of the first Adam. So when you encounter a situation
with your children, that your spouse, you, your
wife, or your husband, they have the ability
to come and say, I saw this woman. I saw this
man, and he called my attention what he told
me. What's going to be your reaction? The first
Adam? The first one that's going to stone, or
the second atom, that is going to cast the stone
the other way, that's going to be in the middle,
and it's going to say, you know what? I'm here
to listen to you. Let's pray about this together.
The devil is not going to come. Love your heart.
That is the sacrifice of the cross. That is the
mind of the cross. The cross speaks love. Once
and forever. The cross is as much for you, for
your husband as well, for your wife, for your
children. The cross is present. Let me tell you,
if you incline your ear, you lend your ear to
your children, practice the renewed mind. And
don't think this is going to happen overnight.
Because sometimes we have broken relationships.
And part of being in the vine and us being the
branches is bearing fruit. And it's fruit of
repentance. And it's fruit that remains. It's
how you maintain. That's why we have to work
for this. No trabajar porque en sí el Mesías
ya hizo el trabajo. We don't really have to work
because the Messiah already did the work. We
just have to obey. We have to take on the new
man. It sounds very beautiful the way I say it
from here. So let's see what happens tomorrow
when I get up. But I am under the blood of the
second Adam. And so are you. You have access
to the blood of the second Adam. You have access
to the mind of the second Adam, to the mind of
love, to the mind that suffers all, that can
do all, that can bear everything, to the mind
of 1 Corinthians 13. And one of the verses says
that the prophecies shall pass away. But the
only thing that will remain will be faith, hope,
and love. You are love. You don't believe that
lie. You're not under the first Adam. You are
now under the second Adam. The second Adam loves,
confronts, forgives, restores. Now I understand
why the Lord is taking us to the transformation
of the mind. Because in this time we're speaking
about a revival. And revival can start without
repentance. And repentance sometimes we're going
to feel pain. Sometimes you're gonna feel like
crying, but it doesn't remain just there. It
is practiced. But this is what I believe the
Lord wants to speak to us about. For the revival,
remember this is not gonna be. with singers.
It will not be with preachers. It will not be
with pastors. The Lord has already spoken that
this is going to be with people that are not
known and known people. But these are people
that are willing to allow the mind of Christ
to be formed in us and revival so at home. Revival
starts in my house. It starts in your house.
You know the Lord ministered to me one thing
some time ago. It's so easy sometimes to express
love to others or compassion to others. where
it matters most. But sometimes we don't express
compassion where it's more important, most important.
And it says, you shall be witnesses in Jerusalem
first. Jerusalem is your house. Jerusalem is
your husband. Jerusalem is your wife. Jerusalem
is your child, your daughter. You're praying
for him to come. Come to Jesus. You already prayed
for your children to come back to Jesus. Now
love them. Love on them. You already prayed and
said to your husband or wife whatever you needed
to say. Now love on them. This is the mind of
Christ. This is the mind of Jesus. It's just
putting off the former man. You know, when I
was reading all this, when Adam was subject to
the kingdom of darkness, And I was reading Romans
12 too. And it says, do not be conformed to this
world. But I was able to see this in a different
way. I saw it this way, when I don't renew my
mind, I'm still subject to the world. I'm still
subject to the... a kingdom of darkness. But
when I saw Romans 12 -2 again, I saw it from
a different perspective. I saw it as Jesus saying,
do not be conformed. Do not be conformed to that.
You don't belong there. Your mind does not belong
to that world. Your mind wants translated somewhere
else. I changed it because the desire of Jesus
is that we experience the fullness of the mind
of the Messiah, the fullness of the mind of the
Father. This week I was battling with this thought.
I would say, Lord, I renounce this thought. And
I accept what you're saying. I'm from my spirit.
phrase came out and I said Lord my mind is beautiful.
My mind is beautiful. Your mind is beautiful
because it's no longer your mind. It's the mind
of Christ in you. It's the mind of love in you.
And like I was telling you, the mind carries
an atmosphere. What atmosphere carries the mind
of Christ? It carries the fragrance. It carries
purity. It carries simplicity. It carries hearing
others. It doesn't just cast a stone, but it
embraces. I want to ask you there where you're
at. Close your eyes. Close your eyes. And I know
that the Lord is asking you for changes in your
mind. What are those thoughts? The patterns?
The attitudes? Don't criticize anymore. Don't
criticize anymore. Just love him. Just love her.
Allow Jesus to minister. Sometimes we come with
so many burdens to the house of the Lord. We're
so burdened. So much oppression. And it's because
of the mind. Everything is in the mind. Everything
is there. But today is the day where Jesus is
introducing us to the grace To be able to put
off the former man. And to put on the new man.
So there where you're at.