“Hay un tiempo de marchar y luchar y hay un tiempo para acampar. Es durante el acampamiento que a las tropas afilan sus espadas, se reestructuran y aprender nuevas estrategias para la próxima temporada. En el pasado muchas personas han perdido la oportunidad de prepararse ellos mismos durante esta temporada. La calidad de la marcha es igual a la calidad del acampamiento.” – Rick Joyner – The Call
“RESPIRA con expectación, VIVE con confianza y MUÉVETE con valentía”
by DP
Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them. Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” – Matthew 13:3-8
It was very early in the morning. This was the moment he had dreaded the entire week. He was pacing around the room, rehearsing, thinking, doubting, hoping, expecting. A myriad of emotions rushing in his head and in his heart. How will he approach the subject? Will it be well accepted? Was he convinced of what he was about to say?
And then he remembered the parable, where the seed had fallen in different types of soil, and had different results at the end. And the thought came to his mind, what if the soil wasn’t the only variable here? Nor the seed? What if the sower had a crucial part in the story. And his heart rested, the seed, the message that he was going to deliver was solid. He had to be sure that the messenger, the sower, not the seed, was iron clad too.
There are many occasions where we fail to understand the importance of the message or task we are about to deliver, that we don’t take good care of it. In the parable, it was a qualified person. The story says he was a sower. He knew what he was doing, he had experience, he had done this task before. He also knew where would the seed have the best results. So why did he threw it alongside the road, over stony places or under thorns? Was he being careless?
Without undermining or neglecting the many teachings Jesus conveyed with this parable, we should all consider this and understand that we need to communicate well. We need to know the setting that we are in and be assertive with our words. It is an important message, but it might be the wrong soil, the wrong place or the wrong time.
Back to our friend in the beginning of this post. With the understanding of this principle, he went into the meeting and he scouted the field. When he spotted good soil, he delivered the all important message. The message that would transform his life.
It doesn’t matter where you carry out your calling, be prepared and be mindful of the field you have been given. It might not be the seed, nor the soil, but it could be the one who sows.
“BREATHE expectantly, LIVE confidently and MOVE Boldly”
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Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
por DP
Y les habló muchas cosas por parábolas, diciendo: He aquí, el sembrador salió a sembrar. Y mientras sembraba, parte de la semilla cayó junto al camino; y vinieron las aves y la comieron. Parte cayó en pedregales, donde no había mucha tierra; y brotó pronto, porque no tenía profundidad de tierra; pero salido el sol, se quemó; y porque no tenía raíz, se secó. Y parte cayó entre espinos; y los espinos crecieron, y la ahogaron. Pero parte cayó en buena tierra, y dio fruto, cuál a ciento, cuál a sesenta, y cuál a treinta por uno. – Mateo 13:3-8
Era muy temprano en la mañana. Este era el momento que había esperado durante toda la semana. Se paseaba por la habitación, ensayando, pensando, dudando, esperanzado, con expectación. Un sinfín de emociones corriendo en su cabeza y en su corazón. ¿Cómo va a abordar el tema? ¿Será bien aceptado? Estaba convencido de lo que iba a decir?
Y entonces se acordó de el parábola, donde el semilla había caído en diferentes tipos de suelo y obtuvo resultados diferentes al final. Y le vino a su mente el pensamiento, ¿qué si el suelo no era la única variable aquí? ¿ni tampoco el semilla? ¿Y si el sembrador tenía un papel crucial en el historia? Y su corazón descansó. La semilla, el mensaje de que iba a entregar era sólido. Tenía que estar seguro de que el mensajero, el sembrador, no la semilla, estaba revestida de hierro también.
Existen muchas ocasiones en que no somos capaces de comprender la importancia del mensaje o la tarea que vamos a ofrecer, que no tomamos buen cuidado de él. En la parábola, se trataba de una persona cualificada. La historia dice que era un sembrador. Él sabía lo que hacía, tenía experiencia, había hecho esta tarea antes. También sabía donde la semilla tendría el mejor de los resultados. Así que, ¿por qué la lanzó junto al camino, sobre los lugares pedregosos o entre las espinas? ¿Estaba siendo descuidado?
Sin menoscabar o dejar de lado las muchas enseñanzas que Jesús transmitió a través de esta parábola, todos debemos considerar y entender que tenemos que comunicarnos bien. Tenemos que conocer el entorno en que nos encontramos y ser asertivos con nuestras palabras. Es un mensaje importante, pero podría ser el suelo equivocado, el lugar equivocado o el momento equivocado.
De vuelta a nuestro amigo en el comienzo de este escrito. Con el entendimiento de este principio, entró en la reunión y exploró el campo. Cuando vio buena tierra, le entregó el mensaje de suma importancia. El mensaje que transformaría su vida.
No importa donde te desempeñes, debes estar preparado y ser consciente del terreno que te ha sido dado. Puede que no sea el semilla, ni la tierra, pero podría ser aquel que siembra.
“RESPIRA con expectación, VIVE con confianza y MUÉVETE con valentía”
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It was the harvest season, and the Jordan was overflowing its banks. But as soon as the feet of the priests who were carrying the Ark touched the water at the river’s edge, the water above that point began backing up a great distance away at a town called Adam, which is near Zarethan. And the water below that point flowed on to the Dead Sea until the riverbed was dry. Then all the people crossed over near the town of Jericho. Joshua 3:15-16
This story tells about the amazing miracle God performed for the people of Israel. Joshua had received instructions to cross the river and conquer Jericho. This undertaking was no small one. This generation was not the same one that had gone out of Egypt and seen the Red Sea divide. This moment in time, even to Joshua, was new territory. Clear instructions were given. The people of Israel should move when the Ark of the Covenant was moved. The story goes on to tell that the moment the feet of the priests got wet, the Jordan river piled up a great distance away from them allowing them to pass to the other side over dry land.
There is much to learn about this story, and about the context, but one thing stands out. As soon as the feet of the priests touched the water, the river flow stopped. What seemed impossible, was made possible, what would have never crossed the mind of the people of Israel, happened before their eyes; as soon as the feet of the priests touched the water.
You may be confronted today with an impossible task in front of you, uncharted territory. You might not see any dry, safe place to go through and your heart may be dismayed to what your eyes are seeing. Sometimes we just sit around and give up to the first sign of opposition or trouble that arises. It might seem and be difficult what you are confronting today. Or you might not even know what will be waiting for you on the other side. But in order to know, you have to move.
Your miracle won’t happen without your involvement. You have to move, you have to get your feet wet. And when God sees this bold move, this faith move, the waters, the problem, the opposition, will back up, not right close to you, but far away. So today, stop complaining, stop fearing and move boldly on the promise of God for you. You need to get your feet wet in order to see the water stop. You will see the problem, the situation, back up before your eyes and the path in front of you will be dry, safe and promising.
Teddy Roosevelt once said, “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
The instruction is clear; move on and get your feet wet.
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Era la temporada de la cosecha, y el Jordán desbordaba su cauce. Pero en cuanto los pies de los sacerdotes que llevaban el arca tocaron el agua a la orilla del río, el agua que venía de río arriba dejó de fluir y comenzó a amontonarse a una gran distancia de allí, a la altura de una ciudad llamada Adán, que está cerca de Saretán. Y el agua que estaba río abajo desembocó en el mar Muerto hasta que el lecho del río quedó seco. Después, todo el pueblo cruzó cerca de la ciudad de Jericó. Josué 3:15-16
Esta historia habla sobre el milagro increíble Dios hizo para el pueblo de Israel. Josué había recibido instrucciones para cruzar el río y conquistar Jericó. Este compromiso no era pequeño. Esta generación no era el misma que había salido de Egipto, y visto el dividir del Mar Rojo. Este momento en el tiempo, incluso para Josué, era territorio nuevo. Instrucciones claras le fueron dadas. El pueblo de Israel debía moverse cuando el Arca del Pacto se moviera. La historia continúa diciendo que en el momento en que los pies de los sacerdotes se mojaron, el río Jordán se amontonó a una gran distancia de ellos permitiéndoles pasar al otro lado sobre tierra seca.
Hay mucho que aprender de esta historia, y sobre su contexto, pero una cosa se destaca. Tan pronto como los pies de los sacerdotes tocaron el agua, el flujo del río se detuvo. Lo que parecía imposible, fue posible, lo que nunca hubiera pasado por la mente del pueblo de Israel, pasó ante sus ojos, tan pronto como los pies de los sacerdotes tocaron el agua.
Es posible que te enfrentas hoy con una tarea imposible delante de ti, un territorio desconocido. No ves ningún lugar seco y seguro por el cual ir y tu corazón se consterna a lo que tus ojos están viendo. A veces, acabamos sentándonos a la primera señal de oposición o problema que se presenta. Puede parecer difícil lo que enfrentas hoy en día. O puede que ni siquiera sabes lo que te estará esperando en el otro lado. Pero para conocerlo, tienes que moverte.
Tu milagro no ha de ocurrir sin tu participación. Tienes que moverte, hay que mojarse los pies. Y cuando Dios ve este paso audaz, este paso de fe, las aguas, el problema, la oposición, se retirarán, no cerca de ti, pero muy lejos. Así que hoy, deja de quejarte, deja de temer y muévete con valentía en la promesa de Dios para ti. Tienes que mojarte los pies para ver el agua detenerse. Verás el problema, la situación, retirarse antes de tus ojos y el camino delante de ti será seco, seguro y prometedor.
Teddy Roosevelt una vez dijo, “Es mucho mejor atreverse a cosas poderosas, a ganar triunfos gloriosos, aunque accidentado por el fracaso, que estar con los espíritus pobres que ni disfrutan ni sufren mucho porque viven en la penumbra gris que no conoce ni la victoria ni la derrota.”
La instrucción es clara; sigue adelante y moja tus pies .
“RESPIRA con expectación, VIVE con confianza y MUÉVETE con valentía”
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“Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” – Helen Keller
“BREATHE expectantly, LIVE confidently and MOVE Boldly”
“La esperanza ve lo invisible, siente lo intangible y logra lo imposible.” – Helen Keller
“RESPIRA con expectación, VIVE con confianza y MUÉVETE con valentía”
It was quite a different feeling altogether. I had walked the entire day before, searching for the clothes he would wear. We got the tie, the shirt, the pants, the shoes, (He actually wanted to use sneakers!) and the usual haircut. A day of shopping around, a great day of hanging out with my son. (Ah, and less money in my pocket!)
The day came and we headed out to the graduation ceremony. It was a great moment, and also a moment of deep thoughts and emotions. Emotions got to high level when a slideshow was presented with the students pictures. My son had selected a picture to be displayed from his early school days and then his current photo was shown. I just can’t quite put in words what I felt that moment. Joy, hope, a myriad of feelings that day (and an occasional tear bothering my eyes!). One thing was certain, I hoped for greater things for my son and felt very proud of him.
This day was the culmination and the beginning of two seasons. The culmination of years of studying and learning and the beginning of a season of new experiences, challenges, and victories, and yes, more studying and learning. The graduation was the recognition of the work that was done years before. While sitting there, it also made me reflect about life, about my wife, my son, my daughter, and myself. And I realized that we all will stand before our God one day, we will be called by our name and receive the reward of what we have done in this life. That day is not the day to get prepared. On that day there is nothing that can be done to get a medal or recognition. That day is graduation, reward day.
As I felt that day, I was and I am, proud of my son, will God feel the same about you on that day? If you’re not sure, it is not too late to you turn your heart to Him and amend your ways. He has promised to hear you and receive you. He has made all that needs to be made in order for you and I to be reconciled with Him. We all have sinned and we all have a past, and we all have a future if we want to. – “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future” Craig Groeschel
You and I will receive the reward according to our work, for what we did with our lives. Make it a rewarding one. The day will come and it will be, graduation day.
“BREATHE expectantly, LIVE confidently and MOVE Boldly”
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