Agarre Cada Momento para ser Testigo - Armondo Garcia

[♪acoustic guitar music♪ God bless each and every one of you, brothers and sisters. My name is Armando Garcia. I'm here with Freedom in Jesus. We bring you the message. It's an opportunity, it's a privilege to bring you the word, what God has done in our lives. But on this day, I want to thank the Lord first. I know you are listening to me, but at this moment, I want a short prayer before the word arrives, because we have to put God first. Father, I thank you, Lord, for this message, for the word that you have put in my heart. Father, let us unite, you who are listening to me, I ask you, Lord, to bless him, so that your word reaches his heart, in his mind, so that he renews that mind with your word, Lord, so that he brings that new word of life, Lord, and so that you bless this word at this moment, Lord.

We thank you for what you are going to do, Lord, and what you are going to speak, and speak to his heart, in the name of Christ Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. Amen, amen. Thank you. It's a privilege, brother, to be here. It's a joy, too, to speak of what God has done, and we know that we all have a testimony, we all have a testimony, each of you also has a testimony, but in reality, many times we want to give a testimony of the past, how we lived, where we were, but now it's different, because we still serve God, and it's the word that we want God to put in my heart, to know that, speaking of Paul, that Paul was like his life, like our lives, too, but my topic, I want to speak, we have to take every opportunity that God gives us,

to minister, to carry the gospel, to carry the word of God, to pray for the people, let me tell you that that's why we go to the prisons, we go to the prisons, and we go to the streets, and we are there with you, because the love of us is to carry the word of God, what God has done in our lives, and it's something that can change, and bring hope, it can bring hope, because there are many prisoners right now that are in that condition, that have lost hope, they don't look at their lives, they don't recognize the love that God has for you, but this morning, I want to speak about that opportunity, look, the apostle Paul was speaking in the book of Acts, if you have your Bible,

look in the book of Acts, in chapter 26, verse 1, Paul was speaking in that offense, defending his life, because the Jews wanted to condemn him, they wanted to kill him, just because of the change of his life, but Paul, we look at his life, we see that Paul was a person that came against the Christians, the children of God, he came against the church, we see that Paul had a heart, a tremendous heart, a heart that when he preached, he had that anger, he had that courage, as the Mexican says, he had a courage against the Christians, because they were upset, they spoke of God, that Christ had risen, and he didn't want to hear

the word, that word, Jesus. Many times, the word Jesus is not spoken much in school, at work, because they are ashamed, but this morning, I want to take this opportunity to speak with you, that here Paul says in the first verse, verse 26, he says, Agrippa said to Paul, you are allowed to speak for yourself, and so Many times, brother, God allows us to talk about what God has done in our lives. I like to testify when there are opportunities in the streets, in the stores. When there is that opportunity, when I'm on the line to pay for food, I see that there are many people there and I start to tell them, what a good day that God has given us. And then the door opens and I start to testify how good God is and what God has done in our lives. Only that Pablo took that opportunity to talk about the change of his life. And here we are talking about how God, Pablo, was not only a man who killed people, he was bad and had anger, but he was also Roman, he was a Jew, but he also came and disturbed the Christians because of his conduct, with his way, how he lived, and people knew him very well. And many times we look at our lives, how it was inside, how we lived before,

and how we did the bad things, right? We come from this bad world. And also the world brings them and catches them, like a little fish, right? It brings them and we start to do evil. And then we started to testify, and when I was in prison, I started to talk about how I was before and how they treated me, and no one would talk to me. Only that I started to testify after I accepted Christ Jesus. So my life started to change. So God, God starts to shape our lives. When one is transformed, something has to change. Like 2 Corinthians 5.17 says, we are a new creature. We are no longer the same as before. We are no longer that person we were before. Only that, just because you are in prison, you are there, don't think that the past is your life. When you accept Christ, it changes. You already have the image of Christ, the conduct, the fruit. Only that we have to present it. People are looking for it. They are looking for Christians, sons of God, who are true. When I was in prison, I ministered, I prayed for the gangs, I hit the head, if I could win the head, I could win the body. Because that's what the scripture says, that many times we have to hit the head, the evil. Let me tell you that when I started to minister, God gave me that opportunity, and I won that opportunity. Although we do know that in those moments, you can go through sadness, because the people who are not saved, they are in the world, in sin, they can be turned around.

Because just like Christ, when Christ entered the temples, they wanted to kill him, they wanted to hit him, they mistreated him, because he carried the gospel and the truth. And only that many times when we carry that gospel, people will come against us. But we have to raise that cross, and carry that cross, no matter what comes in our lives. We have to carry that gospel, because Christ said that there will be struggles and trials in our lives. Don't think that just because we accept Christ, everything will be fine. No, we will go through times when the devil will use people to come against us. People will close their doors. And I remember that when I go to the street, and the door starts to ring, and I say, can you give me about five minutes? Just everything I need, five minutes. And when, sometimes, they give me the opportunity, it's when I give them the message that Christ died on the cross, that Christ loves them, and I give them that hope, I give them the word of God. But there are many times that I have gone to places, places that close their doors. the door and the fear comes in, and you start to say, no, no, no, they're not going to accept me anymore. And we start to turn back and we close our doors ourselves. But God, you have given us the power. We have to teach and carry that message with faith, in knowing that God, the word of God, I know that the word of God, when that seed arrives

in the life, in the heart of the person, says not to return in vain, because the word of God is like a seed, it will reach that heart. Look, there's a lot of people right now, there's a lot of people, I've ministered a lot, yesterday I went to the street because we have a campaign going on right now, but we got there and I started to pass and talk to the people that we were going to have a campaign, but the people had that laughter and that joy, but inside they were destroyed, there was sadness, brother. And I started, and when you start to talk about the love of God, and you start to tell them that God died on the cross, and you start to hug them, they start to cry, those tears start to run. Why, brother? Because they are people who are broken, there are a lot of people who are broken, who don't know that there is a God who loves them. But when we go and take that word, we take that opportunity that God gives us. God goes and we don't know the purpose, many times we don't know what condition that person is in, only when the word of God arrives, and when you start to present the love of God, then you are going to recognize that that person is broken, their spirit is broken, but you have to take that word, you have to take the scripture, you have to take the gospel all over the world, right? But the world, many times we want to go to Mexico,

we want to go to Africa, we want to go there, to other states, but brother, the same people, your neighbor is dying, they need the scripture, they need the gospel, but first, you have to take the gospel to your own family. Families are the first, and then the neighbors, and then God opens doors to take the gospel to other places. God has given me that opportunity. I have seen my children who have lost, I have a son who is in prison, and only God is changing him. God is moving, because the word of God says that when you start to train your children, they are not going to withdraw from that love of God. They always, because God sends that conviction, God loves them, because God says that when you are in the hand of God, no one is going to be lost, no one, no one, God is not going to allow the devil, the world, or anyone to take it away from their hands. Only God loves us, brothers, that we go forward believing, because there are many who believe by sight, but many times people want to see the example of each one of us. Only when I minister the word of God at work, in my home, my family, when I minister, because it says that your life speaks better than your word,

because they want to see how you live the life of Christ, because as we are new creatures, God puts that word, God changes them, we are no longer the same as before, because we were in darkness, we lived like evil, like the world, but when God looks at the difference, that we speak differently, we speak words of life, we speak like before, we walk like God guides us, because God has a purpose for you and for me. And I just ask you, there in the yard, when there is an opportunity, many times when God gives us that opportunity, we turn it around, like there is a fear, because the spirit of the devil starts talking and saying, no, don't say anything to him, because he's going to get mad, he's going to get mad at you, but then he turns around and loses his mind. because we never know what God is going to do, because God knows the heart, God knows the mind, God knows the soul. It's just that we don't know, but God, the spirit, when the spirit comes and the word reaches his heart, in his mind, God is going to touch, God is going to open his eyes. Because many times people have that vision, they look, but they don't look, says the scripture, they don't look at the spiritual, they just look at what is natural. It's just that it's important, brother, the word of God, here in verse 26, we look at 16 to 18, the word, of course, says, but first let's go to 9, 26 to 9 to 11. Paul, he was a persecutor, he says, I certainly had believed my duty to do many things against the man of Jesus of Nazareth. He had that desire to destroy them, his mind was like that, which I also did in Jerusalem. I imprisoned many of the saints, having received the powers of the main priests, and when they were killed, I gave my vote. And many times, he said, punishing them in all the synagogues, I forced them to blaspheme against them. I chased them to the foreign cities. I said, Paul chased them, Paul had that mind to destroy people, but there was a change in his life.

Just like us, when God, I remember when before in my life, I was like Paul, I followed, I was a drunkard. When I was drunk, I didn't care if people laughed at me, I went against them. Only God changed my life, only now that Paul had that, he chased people, because it was the desire of the flesh. He knew that he was led by the devil, the devil, the spirit of the devil led him to destroy people. But God changed his heart, and the word of God says, there are three points, that the message that Paul carried after the transformation, that God changed his mind, his heart, his life, three points, it says, the first, I carried the gospel to open the eyes of those who did not believe. Only when one carries the gospel and tells them that Christ died on the cross of Calvary, that there is hope in God, people begin to look, when they begin to read the scripture, the scripture opens their minds, their eyes, then they will look spiritually. And that was what Paul carried. And he also said that he carried the message to turn them from darkness to light, from Satan to God. And that is what God wants us to do too, that we carry that word to take them out of that darkness, from that darkness, because even if we are in prison, there are many who are in prison in their minds. Many are in prison, and God says, there are moments, there is time, there are opportunities, but many do not take that opportunity. Only that, also the third says, to carry, to testify that there is forgiveness in our lives. Only that God wants to tell you that there is forgiveness. You failed, you fell, maybe you do not believe in God, maybe it is something that God, because God does not answer your prayer, or God has not opened your door, or the parrot has not let you go. Only that we get angry, there is that anger, we come against God, but the word of God says here that God comes to forgive. All we have to do is say, Lord, forgive me. I was thinking like that, but forgive me, Lord. God says in 1 John 1, verse 9, says that God forgives our sins. Only that God wants to change, God wants to put a different purpose in your life, so that you carry that gospel, that Christ died on the cross of Calvary. And this day, brothers, let me tell you, that moment, there is an opportunity, so that you can be saved.

You carry that message that God has changed your life. That Christ died on the cross of Calvary so that you have eternal life. Because only you know us. You know the friends, you know those who are in the yard, you know those who are lost. And God has put you in that purpose of putting you in that opportunity to carry the Gospel. And the most important thing about the Gospel is that when you start ministering, then God says that the ministry that we have is to reconcile people to Christ. Because people have retired. But when you and I carry the word of God, then we can reconcile people to Christ. But in Jeremiah 20, 29, it says, I said, I will not remember him, nor will I speak of his name. Nevertheless, he was in my heart. But here, says Jeremiah, he had a hard heart. He was angry with God. He didn't want to speak of God anymore. He didn't want to preach anymore. He didn't want to do it. But the word says, it says, there was a burning fire in my heart, a fire in my bones. Hallelujah. Look, when you accept Christ, this fire comes. You can't contain yourself. You have to carry it. You have to speak the things of God, brother.

Why? Because Christ has changed. You know there is a fire inside that we need to recognize, brother, that God, God, I mean, I can't speak more than Christ. That's all I have. I can't miss this opportunity. It gives me joy when there are opportunities to speak of the things of God. But God is a great God. There in Psalms 39.3, if you have your Bible, it says, my heart was burned inside me. In my meditation, fire was lit. So I preached with my tongue. Only here, in the book of Psalms, it says that there was a fire inside. The spirit was there. And he had that fire that he couldn't say, I have to speak of God. I have to speak of Christ. I have to speak of what I have done in my life. Only that on this day, brother, let me tell you, that if there are opportunities, take them. Take this opportunity to minister. Because there is in your room, in the yard, there are opportunities for you to take that Gospel and take it and tell your neighbor there, your friends. You know those who are so sad. You know the new ones who have arrived. They arrive with fear. They arrive there with fear. They don't know what's going to happen,

or what they're going to find there. You just have to grab those people and dispel them. Take them to the word of God. Maybe just a short prayer. A short prayer. Pray for them, for their family. And giving them that hope that there is someone that they can trust. Only that you have to take that opportunity and give them confidence. Only that at this moment, I want to tell you that if you haven't taken that opportunity, take it. Take that opportunity. Because God wants to finish. God wants to do something great with you. God wants to reach those souls. Because God has given you that responsibility. If you are a Christian, that is your responsibility, to take that Gospel to those who are lost. Only that you don't miss that opportunity. Only that it is for the honor and for the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Only that I leave you with that, brother. And I hope you have enjoyed that word. And grab it in your heart, your life. Put it in your practice so that it lives. ¿Qué conviene, hermano? Porque la palabra dice que todo es permitido. Pero no todo es beneficio.

Solo que tú tienes oportunidad de hacer lo que tú quieras. Pero acuérdate, medita. Es beneficio para tu alma. Si es y si no es, no lo agarres. Pero si es, para llevar ese evangelio, agárrelo. Solo que le doy gracias al Señor, hermano, que me escucharon y que han visto su mente y su corazón. Gloria a Dios, quiero orar por ti en este momento. Padre, te pido, Señor, por esa persona que me está escuchando. Padre, que ponga la práctica de tu palabra, que no nomás oiga tu palabra, pero que lo ponga en práctica. Padre, gracias, Señor, que tu palabra ha llegado a su corazón. Y padre, que tú lo uses grandemente. Padre, porque estamos en los últimos días. Padre, hay que agarrar cada oportunidad de llevar ese evangelio. Que Cristo murió en la cruz, que Cristo nos da esa vida, para que nuestro nombre esté en la vida, en el libro de vida. Y padre, te pido, Señor, por eso. Mi hermano, Señor, que me está escuchando. Padre, que tú lo levantes. Padre, que ese fuego, ese fuego que está en los huesos, en su alma, en su corazón. Padre, que él se levante, Señor. Padre, que él predique la palabra, Señor. Que él lleve esa palabra, Señor, a los que están presos, Señor. Para que les dé esperanza.

Padre, todo gracias, Señor, por lo que tú vas a hacer. Levántalo, Señor. Levántalo, Señor. Y búzalo, grandemente, en el nombre de Cristo Jesús. Amen y amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.