Translation from Spanish
Seek Me, little one, says the Lord; seek Me in the secret place. Close the doors of your room. If necessary, turn off the light to find Me in the stillness, to understand what I want to tell you, to hear what I want to say to you in the silence of the night.
Turn off the outside voices that distract you, little one, says the Lord. Close the shutters of the world and concentrate on Me, because hard times are coming for the church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I am going to take you through a process, says the Lord. I am cleansing you, I am refining you as silver is refined, I am making you shine like the purest gold, but to do that I am shaking the world. I am removing everything that should not be there in order to bring in new things.
Many of you are asking in your hearts, “Where is the world headed?” You feel uncertain, you are afraid of what is coming, and you say, “If this pandemic shook us so much, what will happen when the next thing comes?”
Be calm, little ones, be calm, says the Lord. Learn to be at peace in the boat, because I am there with you, calming the storm. And when you feel everything shaking around you, you who are firm, standing on the rock, will know how to endure, because you will be holding My hand.
Noelia: The Holy Spirit shows me that there are many hearts that are weeping. There are many hearts that need their tears dried, tears running down their cheeks because they have suffered the loss of loved ones, hearts split in two because of betrayals and pain.
Here I am, says the Lord. I promised that I would be with you until the end of days, until the end of the world, and here I am, because I am faithful to My Word.
Noelia: How many need that healing from the Lord? How many need the Lord to dry their tears? How many need the Lord to touch their cheek gently? How many need the Lord to encourage them with a pat on the back, telling them to keep going and that He is with them? Then receive with faith and lift up your holy hands, praising the Lord.
I see women suffering and crying over their children, because they are in the world, because they are sick, because they are bound, because they are blind.
They are not your children, says the Lord. They are Mine. Surrender them from your heart. Surrender them to Me, because you can do nothing, but nothing is impossible for Me. I am there, dealing with them, and I am drying your tears.
Surrender your children to Me in your heart so that I can deal with them. Do not be afraid to surrender them to Me, because I am good, I am forgiving, I am the rescuer of lost souls. I care for your children better than you care for them. I am aware of what happens in their hearts more than you are.
My daughter, why are you afraid of what will happen to them? Every soul has to make its own decision, says the Lord. Put your focus on what is Mine, and I will take care of what is yours.
Noelia: The Lord shows me that there are men who are worried about work, about money, about providing for the household.
Why, says the Lord, are you afraid of not having anything to eat? Why are you afraid of not having anything to wear? Why are you afraid? Do I not sustain the birds that do not work, that do not sow? How much more will I sustain you?
Renounce that fear, says the Lord, because when you are afraid that you will not be able to provide for your households, it is because you are trusting in yourselves instead of trusting in Me and believing that I know what you lack and will supply your needs.
Man, says the Lord, ask for the bread you need in private, in your room, on your knees. But first I want your heart, says the Lord. Give Me your heart and I will feed your family. Put your focus on Me, on My things, on My Kingdom, on My righteousness, and I will take care of what is yours.
My children are unfocused, says the Lord; they are worried; they are afraid. They do not trust in Me, they do not trust in My provision, they do not trust in My power, they do not trust Me as Father, they do not trust that I am God. Rather, they trust in themselves, they trust in their strength, they trust in their intelligence, they trust in their effort, but not in Me. They do not understand that the only thing they need to do is trust in Me and set their eyes on heavenly things.
[Matthew 6:33] But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
You are working backward, says the Lord. You seek all the other things first instead of My Kingdom and My righteousness. You look back instead of putting your hands to the harvest, not understanding that I feed My workers, not understanding that I care for My soldiers, that I cover them, that I shelter them, that I clothe them, that I give them the armor they need.
Change your way of thinking, because you are worrying about what comes last instead of what comes first.
My children are distracted, says the Lord. There are various types of distractions. Some have their eyes on work. They are blinded by work and think about it all day. Others have their eyes on their children. Some are distracted and obsessed with looking for a spouse. Others are worried about daily tasks, like Martha.
There are young people worried and anxious about their studies, thinking about their future, without first focusing their eyes on the kingdom of God and without realizing that they will be unfocused by the time the next shaking comes.
Noelia: A few days ago the Lord spoke a short word to me that I titled “Dejen atrás las distracciones y dedíquense a la obra del Reino,” and after sharing it, the Holy Spirit kept speaking to me about distractions and about how His people are not prepared. More things are coming upon the world, and the Lord’s people are not focused. Our eyes are on the things of the world. Anything that passes before our eyes distracts us.
The Holy Spirit has kept urging me all these days to speak about this and to exhort the Lord’s people about what is happening in the church of God.
The coronavirus pandemic took many by surprise. Even after reading the Word, where the Lord already told us that in these times pestilences, earthquakes, wars, calamities, and disasters would come, and even after listening to the prophets whom the Lord strategically raised up in various parts of the world to keep warning His people, many did not listen or prepare. Even after this pandemic, many do not react, and when the pressure eases a little, they set their eyes again on the distractions of the world.
Children, do not be distracted, says the Lord. More disasters are coming, more calamities are coming, more pestilences are coming, and they will be more severe than this pestilence that is upon the world now.
Noelia: This is just a small contraction of the labor pains that those of us who remain on the earth will suffer, and the Church still has its eyes closed. Even as its people see their relatives die, even as they see illnesses multiply and grow worse, the Church does not react and remains distracted by anything that catches its attention.
Again and again I hear the Holy Spirit saying, “Do not be distracted. Concentrate on Me. Do not put your focus on problems and do not concentrate on tragedies; concentrate on Me.”
Because the heavenly Father is good, merciful, kind, and cares for His children, He keeps warning us again and again that more things are coming.
Beloved people of the Lord Jesus Christ, respond. I am not saying that we should stop working. I am not saying that we should stop doing the things we need to do each day to live in this world. We do live in this world, but we are not of this world. We are in this world, but we do not belong to this world.
The Holy Spirit repeats to me again and again, “Do not be distracted. Do not be distracted. Concentrate. Concentrate. Hold on tightly to your seat, because I am going to shake the plane.”
But the children of God remain distracted by anything, anxious over the tasks of life, worried about their careers and their families, worried about their future more than about the souls of the Lord Jesus Christ, not understanding that perhaps the future will not be as we think, not understanding that we must surrender our future to the Lord Jesus, as He surrendered Himself for us on the cross.
If the Lord Jesus did not do what He wanted, but did what the Father commanded Him to do to save us, how much more should we renounce our dreams to fulfill His?
There are some of you who are focused on looking for a spouse, thinking all the time about how you can get married, where the person the Lord has prepared for you might be, while the Lord is first calling us to concentrate on His Kingdom and His righteousness, and He will add everything else in His perfect time.
The Holy Spirit of God calls us to focus. The Bible says:
[2 Timothy 2:4-6] No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
How many of you would rather please the One who enlisted you as soldiers than entangle yourselves in the affairs of this life? How many of you want to concentrate in order to finish this race?
A runner cannot run while looking every which way, because they lose focus on the final goal. In the same way, we cannot pursue our prize while being distracted by anything that appears along the way. We must keep our eyes forward.
Jesus said, “Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” But many of God’s children in this time are not about the Father’s business; they are about the devil’s business and the business of the world. They are not only distracted; they are about the enemy’s business.
The Holy Spirit is alerting us today to refocus on the Lord and on what He expects of us. How many of you know the purpose of your lives?
That is why the Lord said in the short word He gave me on February 2: “Do you know what you have to do? Are you willing to do it? I am calling many to serve Me, but not all have their eyes on Me; their eyes are on the pleasures of the world.”
But many of you still spend a large part of the day watching television and then say that you do not have time to pray, to speak with God, and to study His Word. Your swords are dull. You grow cold, you become careless, you lose guidance, and it becomes difficult for you to understand what the Holy Spirit wants to speak to you. But even so, you keep watching TV all day.
In this time, all those who do not concentrate on the kingdom of God and do not live by His righteousness will fall, because the world will be shaken more and more, and whoever is not firm, standing on the rock and keeping watch, will not be able to endure the contractions that will come upon the world.
I do not say this because it pleases me to say it, but because the Holy Spirit is alerting me to say it, so that everyone is warned and no one can say, “The Lord did not warn me. The Lord did not tell me this was going to happen. Why is this happening? Why can’t I endure? Why don’t I have strength? Why is my house collapsing?” It is because it is founded on sand.
Just as someone driving a car runs the risk of crashing and even losing their life if they are distracted, in the same way, all those who are steering their lives must keep their eyes fixed ahead, toward where they want to go, without looking either to the left or to the right.
You will have to sharpen your concentration. You will have to focus your eyes much more than before. You will have to reject every distraction the enemy wants to put in your lives. You will have to stand firm and say no to everything that takes your focus away from the things of the kingdom of God, because whoever is not firm and keeping watch will not be able to endure the shaking that is to come.
In this first shaking that the pandemic represents, many have already fallen. Many thought they were doing well spiritually and were firm, but the situation brought to light their true spiritual state and that of their households.
Some took advantage of this situation as an opportunity. They were shrewd and got right with the Lord. They realized that however well they had thought they were doing before, it was not enough, and they began to strengthen their spirits, to defend themselves, to keep watch, and to live a Christian life on fire, neither lukewarm nor cold toward God.
But others fell, blaming Me for their spiritual lukewarmness, says the Lord, and they failed to take advantage of the opportunity I gave them to see the state they were in before this pestilence came with all its consequences in people’s daily lives.
Likewise, now, little ones, do you know why I am calling you to concentrate twice as much as you did before? Because what is coming will be worse, and many will be left speechless because they do not expect it.
The magnitude of the things coming upon the earth is much greater than people imagine; it is greater than even My children imagine, says the Lord. That is why I speak to you today: to alert you, to warn you to prepare, to warn you that many say they are in Me, but they are not as they should be. You need to understand that there is still a little time left for you to become more on fire for Me.
Turn up the fire under the pot, because the enemy will try to cool you down at all costs with a cold that freezes, with a cold that petrifies even the tenderest heart, says the Lord. The enemy is unleashing a particular kind of cold over the whole world, and his main target is the Church.
And when these things come, many who call themselves Christians will want to react, but it will already be too late, because they will not have prepared. They will be disoriented, like someone who is sleeping and suddenly wakes up startled by something that happened and does not know how to react, does not know where to run, and does not even understand what is happening.
That is what someone is like when they are suddenly awakened from a deep sleep.
Sadly, that is what will happen with many of those who say they are Mine but are on the surface of the waters and not in the depths of My Spirit, says the Lord. I am calling many to pray in the early morning, and they do not get up, because they prefer to sleep rather than answer My call. They prefer to dream about what they would like to have instead of making sacrifices for Me.
I am warning you again and again, says the Lord. I have to repeat it until My children hear what I am saying: concentrate on Me. Remove every distraction from your lives and put Me first. First build that altar for the King.
Noelia: There are many among the Lord’s people who are distracted by friendships, by family gatherings, by outings. There are women who like to go shopping and spend hours walking around and looking at what is out there. There are men who spend hours chatting with others about worldly and empty subjects. There are unfocused mothers and fathers who do not pay attention to what is happening with their children at home, who do not keep watch over their own. There are mothers who do not intercede for their family, worried and busy with everything except the things of God.
The prince of this world is putting all kinds of distractions before My own, says the Lord, and they do not realize that they follow them like a dog that someone leads wherever they want it to go by showing it a piece of meat.
That is how the enemy is leading you, says God, showing you what each one of you wants, and that is how he leads you where he wants you to go, not where I want you to go. And you do not realize that you are being tempted and that, step by step, you are going deeper and deeper into distractions, wasting time on things that bear no fruit, without preparing yourselves, without building yourselves up, without having your sword sharpened.
There is no connection with the Holy Spirit. There is no praise for God. There are men who are wasting hours looking at car models to see what features they have and what they do not have, hours they could devote to the kingdom of God.
Little ones, understand Me, says the Lord. Understand that many will be awakened like someone who has been woken suddenly and does not know how to react because they are still asleep, like someone resting peacefully in bed when an earthquake suddenly strikes: that person jumps out of bed startled, but remains dazed, not knowing how to react, where to go, or what to do.
Many will be awakened this way by the things that will come upon the world, says the Lord, because they will be sleeping instead of keeping watch in Me. They will not have their lamps full of oil. They will be empty and will have nothing with which to light the fire. And before they know it, they will no longer have time to prepare. They will be caught by surprise. Understand and receive this word I speak to you.
Noelia: God also tells me that He is calling many to work for Him, but they are so distracted that they do not even understand what God is calling them to, what their purpose is, what task He wants them to carry out.
[Matthew 9:37] Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
In this time, a large part of the Lord’s people do not even know what they have to do for the kingdom of God.
Many have fellowship with brothers and sisters or attend a church somewhere, but they do not share the gospel with anyone. They do not share the Lord’s grace with anyone. They do not scatter the seed. They devote themselves only to their personal affairs or to the things of their congregation, without seeing that the fields need to be sown and without understanding that this time of shaking is one of the best opportunities to sow the seed of the kingdom of God, to spread the Word, to speak to the needy, the captive, the broken, the lonely, the one who thirsts for the eternal waters.
The church of the Lord is not only distracted, but also selfish, and God is calling His children to serve Him and put their hands to the harvest.
I am seeing by revelation that this word is finally entering the minds of some of you. Some are realizing that they were indeed distracted by meaningless things, wasting time.
The Word of the Lord says, “Redeeming the time, because the days are evil,” but many stay at ease or fall asleep, because they say, “When is the Lord going to come? The Lord is not coming. The Lord says He is coming, but He does not come,” and they grow complacent, not understanding that first the Church will go through a process of refinement. First we will be shaken and awakened, and we will be cleansed. The Lord will stir up our inward parts so that we realize the filth inside us, the filth that must no longer be there.
I hear the word “comfort.” Many are comfort-loving. They do not want to go through the process of being refined. They do not want the finger of the Lord to touch their heart and bring to light what should not be there. They do not want to work for God. They prefer to remain complacent, busy with their personal affairs.
Repent! Return to the Lord.
The world will be shaken. Things will no longer be the same. The world will change, and those who refuse to pursue the kingdom of God one hundred percent will be left behind. It is sad, but it is real, and we saw it during this pandemic.
As things intensify, this reality will become more and more evident, and everyone who refuses to train for the race will be left behind. Everyone who refuses to understand that they need to keep watch will allow the thief to enter their life to steal, destroy, and kill. We have to decide to concentrate on the goal and not abandon this race.
Do not let the enemy steal your crowns, says the Lord. Be watchful, because the thief is going after the crowns.
Noelia: The Lord reveals to me that many have had spiritual bondages, but right now those bondages are being cut in the name of Jesus. Some of you are anxious over things that have been done to you, over offenses other people have committed against you.
Surrender that person to Me, says the Lord, because I will take care of that, and concentrate on My Kingdom. Do not think I am unaware of the iniquity the wicked are committing. Do not think I am unaware or that I cannot see the arrows that the enemy is sending you. But leave it to Me, because I will take care of it, and take care of what is Mine, says the Lord.
Noelia: In those cases, the enemy clings to those things that are in our hearts to distract us so that we worry more about what that person did to us and think about that situation all day instead of concentrating on what we have to do for God. This is another of the enemy’s tactics in this time to distract the children of God.
So all of you who are in that situation, letting yourselves be distracted, repent of having let yourselves be distracted by that issue or by any other, and turn your gaze back to the Lord, to His things and to His righteousness, and He will take care of everything. The Lord knows what is in our hearts and cares about it.
The Holy Spirit reveals to me that there are mothers who have little babies and are worried about them because of what is coming upon the world, and they think, “What am I going to do with my baby when all these very serious things come upon the world? What will happen to my baby? I will not be able to care for my baby. I will not be able to protect my baby.”
Surrender that baby to Me, says God. All souls are Mine, they belong to Me, and I know what I have to do with them. Simply fulfill your duties as a mother as best you can, not according to what seems right to you, but according to the Scriptures, and I will take care of your children.
Noelia: There is already a design established by God. Your children are part of that design, and He knows very well what He has to do with them. He knows perfectly the purpose of each living being that walks on the earth, and your child is no exception.
Beloved brothers and sisters, I invite you to examine your lives starting now. Begin to set aside those things that are distracting you and pulling your focus away from the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and begin to serve the Lord in the way He expects of you.
Each one should ask the Holy Spirit what things they need to begin discarding from their lives, what things they need to begin doing so that the fire that is about to go out can be rekindled, what things they need to do to remain watchful, what things will help them focus more on Jesus Christ.
Some of you are distracted by people around you, and you know that those people are a distraction in your lives, but you do nothing about it. This is a word calling you to respond and make decisions.
There are sacrifices we have to make to please God, to concentrate on Him, and to prepare ourselves for what is to come. We will have to make firm decisions, decisions that transform the course of our lives, in order to focus one hundred percent on the kingdom of God and be able to endure everything that is coming.
Do you think everything will return to normal after the pandemic? Then you need to read the Word of God again. You need to read Matthew 24, Luke 21, Mark 13, and Revelation again to understand that the beginning of sorrows has only just begun.
Prepare yourselves. Do not be foolish, do not pretend not to hear, do not be lukewarm, and understand that this is only a brief respite before what comes afterward. This is a time when God allows us to prepare for what is coming, because when what is to come arrives, it will be much more difficult to prepare than now, when we have the opportunity and the resources to prepare not only the spiritual side, but also the material side.
Let us be wise and hardworking like bees. Let us not waste time, and let us keep our eyes fixed on Him.