Translation from Spanish
Blessings in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. While I was praying earlier today, the Holy Spirit brought this beautiful passage to my mind:
[1 Samuel 19:20] And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
The Lord calls you to study your field and be trained according to what He has called you to do. The Lord wants you to be aware of what you are doing to serve Him, and to receive instruction and learn about the paths He wants to lead you on.
This is a call for My people to study the area where they need to work, says God, because once I call My children to serve Me in some part of the field where the workers are, a time of preparation, education, and instruction begins, and each one should become an expert in that area.
Farmers know how to prepare the soil, how to plant the seed, how to reap, and how to harvest, says the Lord. They prepare themselves so that, when they do their work, they know what they are doing and why they are doing it.
I expect the same from My children, says the Lord. I want them to understand what they are doing. I want them to receive training so they can respond responsibly to the calling I have given them. In everything they do in the area where they are working or where they will work, I want them to know why they do it.
Today I speak this because many of you do not know what you are doing, says the Lord. Perhaps you have been called, but not instructed in the area of your calling. You feel a fire in your hearts, and it certainly is a fire of calling, but you have not studied in the Word about what you need to do. You have not received training in the area where you need to work, and you do not know what you are doing.
Noelia: I’m seeing someone who has sharp weapons in their hands, but they’re juggling them because they don’t know how to use them. This image means that the Lord has given many of you weapons and tools to work in the harvest, in God’s field, but you don’t know how to use them. Sometimes, wanting to do good, you do harm. Wanting to build, you destroy because of ignorance and lack of training.
You need to be responsible in your heavenly work, says the Lord. You need to take steps with conviction about the direction you need to take.
Little ones, says God, My people are sinning unintentionally. My own are making mistakes by doing things in ways I did not teach them. Many are not instructed in the field they need to work in. They are like a child who was given a task but never went to school to learn how to do it.
I see the intentions of the hearts, and I know that most of the time you are not doing it because you want to do it that way, says the Lord, but because you are eager to respond quickly to the calling, because you are afraid of doing nothing, or perhaps because someone is pushing you and you rushed ahead too soon.
There are various reasons why someone may make a mistake in the way they respond to the calling, says the Lord, and not all those reasons show that the person has bad intentions in their heart. But that does not protect you from error, because unintentional sins are still sins. You need to be aware that there are spiritual laws you may be transgressing if you do not know what you are doing.
Some of you are dealing with very sensitive things in the souls of the children of My people. You are touching very delicate areas in the people you minister to, and not everyone knows exactly why they are doing what they are doing or how they should treat those precious souls.
[Colossians 1:9-10] For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God.
Noelia: The Lord shows me that some of you rushed to respond to the calling, when it was not yet the time to walk in those shoes. We need to understand that between the moment God calls someone to serve Him and the moment that person is ready to practice that profession, there can sometimes be a long period of preparation.
The Lord tells me that there are various cases. Some people are called and sent immediately, but those cases are very few. In most cases, after God calls someone, there is a considerably long period of preparation, instruction, and training in that area, until they fully enter into the task they were called to carry out.
Some of you missed the timing. The Lord had called you to something specific, but you didn’t follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit, who had shown you in various ways that it was not yet time to walk in those shoes. You already had them, but you were not supposed to wear them yet.
The Lord shows me that receiving a calling is sometimes like being given a new pair of shoes, made for certain terrain: for certain tasks, for certain situations, or for certain moments. The Lord gives you those new shoes when He calls you to work for Him, but that doesn’t mean you have to put them on and use them right away.
It’s like being given a pair of ice skates when you still don’t know how to skate. You already have the skates, as a prophetic sign that someday you will skate, but you shouldn’t use them until you first learn how, especially to protect yourself from falls and even from getting injured so badly that you never skate again.
Sometimes, if you hurry and step too soon into the calling God gives you, you may never get to walk in it. The mistakes can be serious and permanent if you are not wise and do not let yourself be guided by the Holy Spirit of God, who is the One who will help you respond to that calling and tell you when to step into that activity.
[Proverbs 19:2] Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
Many of you can already feel a burning fire. You already know what the calling is. You even feel the need to experience that fullness of being useful to God, and you say to yourselves: “I feel that I need to be useful, but I don’t know how, I don’t know when, I don’t know in what way.” That fire is there; it does not diminish or go out, but you do not know how to respond to that calling you feel in your spirits.
The Lord tells me that it’s the Holy Spirit who keeps that fire burning while the person prepares to respond to the calling. But there is no rushing in the Lord’s timing. You must not run if the Holy Spirit is telling you to walk. You must not move forward if it’s time to wait.
Teachers are not trained overnight. After receiving God’s calling, in most cases there comes a period of schooling and preparation when the Holy Spirit guides and trains you. He must be your first Teacher. He will train you, but it is your task, your responsibility, to learn to hear His voice and understand how He speaks to you in a particular, personal way.
The Lord says that it is your duty to invest a lot of time in the secret place with Him to understand what comes next. It is your task to build yourself up while you are in that school of God, where He prepares you to understand what that calling is about, how it is fulfilled, what the dangers are, what your rights and obligations are, and what you will have to be very careful with while you are in the work.
There are many things that must be learned, says God, but My people do not prepare themselves. My people improvise and do not become masters in the area where they need to serve Me. My people do not take the ministry I give them seriously. My people think that an everyday profession is more important than a heavenly profession.
My people want to build careers in their worldly professions, working for the world, says the Lord, but they refuse to advance in the heavenly professions to serve the King of kings and Lord of lords. My people take courses, study, travel, gain experience, and earn honorable titles in their everyday jobs to make money in the world, but when it comes to My things, they do not know where they stand.
That is why many are disqualified, says God, because they do not take seriously the profession in the kingdom of heaven to which they are called, and they do not prepare themselves to work in that area. They are irresponsible. They are quick to invent, but not to search the Word for the foundations of what they need to do.
[Hebrews 5:12] For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
When you choose a career in the world and already know what you will devote yourselves to, says God, it is clear to you that at some point you have to enter a university or another institution to prepare and train you. And it is even clearer to you that, although you may begin with certain activities beforehand, you will not practice that profession until you have the degree in your hands. That degree not only represents the training you completed during those years, but it also validates what you are doing. It has legal weight in the physical world and also in the spiritual world.
However, when it comes to the work for Me, says the Lord, you have no desire to be trained and you refuse to learn. Many only think about the pulpits, where they want to be seen, and they do not consider or foresee that if they step up too soon, they will be like students who have not yet finished their training for what they are doing.
You will be like someone who practices medicine without being licensed, says the Lord. If you do not do that in the world, much less should you behave that way in the work for the kingdom of heaven, keeping in mind that the marks you can leave when working with spiritual things are usually much deeper than the ones you leave when working with material things.
You must understand that I am giving many of you dreams in which you see yourselves studying in a school, says the Lord, sometimes even as if you were children, because that is the stage you are in within your spiritual profession. You are not yet ready to practice the profession, much less to teach, but many of you behave like teachers when you have not finished your process as spiritual students in the field where you need to work.
I am calling you to stop and think and to return to the secret place to ask about My timing concerning that calling I have given you, says the Lord, because some are not ready. They are like unripe fruit that should not yet be taken from the tree, and those who eat it may get indigestion.
Many of you are like a tree that is not in its season to bear ripe fruit, says the Lord, and if you invite others to eat from your tree, eating those fruits that are not ready can certainly make them sick.
You need to understand that for a tree to bear good fruit, the tree itself must mature first, and then the fruit also needs time to ripen and be ready to eat.
You need to study the book of Ecclesiastes, says the Lord, where I have left you a teaching about timing, and you also need to deal with anxiety so you will not make mistakes about that timing.
Noelia: The Lord reveals to me that He is calling many of you to depend on someone in that learning, to submit yourselves to a leader who prepares you for that calling. The Holy Spirit has shown you that you should submit to someone who has already gone through that process of learning and spiritual preparation, but you have refused to submit because you think you can do everything by yourselves.
Although there is an irreplaceable Guide, a higher Teacher who teaches us all things, who is the Holy Spirit, the Lord sometimes sends another person to prepare you and help you mature in the area where you need instruction. The Lord sometimes appoints certain people to be teachers in your spiritual school until you are ready to practice your profession in the Lord.
But many want to be self-taught and independent, and they are left without that human guidance that God has appointed and sent to train them. This carries great potential for error and opens the door to many possibilities of causing harm, even to the point of abandoning the ministry prematurely because of the mistakes made in these cases.
The Lord says that you should pray and ask Him: “Lord, where should I receive instruction for what You are calling me to do? Lord, who can I learn from? Send me to someone who has the wisdom I don’t have.”
One thing is the calling, and another thing is to have the wisdom to respond to it, says the Lord. Be humble and let yourselves be taught by those leaders I have placed over you.
Noelia: The Lord shows me that some of you are confused, thinking that either the Holy Spirit prepares you or a person prepares you, and you don’t understand that sometimes it can be both. One doesn’t cancel out the other, and normally it’s the Holy Spirit Himself who sends the necessary help to prepare you, shows your human guide how to work with you, and confirms to you that what that guide does comes from God. It’s the same Holy Spirit who calls the student to enter the school and choose the teacher they will learn from, and who calls that teacher to instruct them.
The Lord says that one thing does not cancel out the other, and that many of you are confused and discard human guidance, even though we see many biblical examples: Jesus with His disciples, Elijah with Elisha, or Paul with Timothy.
It’s a spiritual principle of discipleship, but many of you refuse to be disciples; you refuse to be students. Some even believe they already know everything and don’t need any preparation, because the Lord has given them various spiritual gifts, a measure of wisdom, and a measure of knowledge.
But one thing is to have the tools one needs to carry out that profession, and another thing is to know how and when to use them. Being equipped with spiritual gifts is not enough to do things well. Walking in the power of God is not enough to avoid making mistakes. Instruction is needed all the more after receiving those spiritual gifts, after beginning to walk in that power.
[2 Timothy 3:10] But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
The Lord says that there are things a Christian needs to do without needing someone else’s guidance. But there are other things where preparation, education, and instruction are certainly needed, and where one must proceed very carefully, very aware of what they are doing, to avoid causing chaos and confusion.
It is the Lord who is calling many ministries to build schools of prophets, of pastors, of teachers, of evangelists, of apostles. It is God who is raising up these spiritual buildings in these last days so that His children can be instructed and prepared for the work of the ministry.
[Ephesians 4:11-12] And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
It is the Lord who is calling those who are already teachers to instruct others who are still students. Each one of you must ask God where you should go, who you should learn from, how you should be instructed, what the right way to prepare is, how much of what you have already received you should apply or practice, and whether you should stop if it is not yet the time or if you still do not know how to do it.
The Lord shows me that many of you have had dreams in which you see yourselves learning from a certain person, or you have dreamed that a certain minister comes to your homes and moves in with you, or that you go to the house of a certain minister and stay there.
Many see themselves studying in schools or universities, or they have dreams that have to do with being students, with being disciples, with stages of preparation, with seasons of learning. In some cases, this happens because the Lord is guiding you through those dreams.
If you know that you have a prophetic calling, you should already be studying the Bible deeply concerning everything prophetic, investing a lot of time in fasting and prayer to have clarity about the voice of God and the ways He speaks, and to understand and interpret what you receive when it is a symbolic revelation. You should write down and keep in your heart what you receive, if it is not yet time to share it, until God shows you directly, through the Holy Spirit or through a spiritual instructor, what you need to do with it.
The Lord shows me that many are like this lazy generation that doesn’t want to work, that doesn’t want to earn bread by the sweat of its brow. You want to receive everything on a platter and for God to send manna from Heaven to feed you daily, even in the area that you yourselves should begin to study.
Just as you are eager in your professional preparation in the world, says the Lord, be eager with heavenly things too. Do not play at being something you are not yet, because the price you could pay is very high. The damage you can cause is often very deep and very difficult to repair, and sometimes even impossible, because there is no going back.
Be careful and do not make yourselves teachers when you are not yet teachers, says the Lord. There are many children of My people who are teaching things they have not learned from Me, that they have not consulted Me about, and that they have not searched out in the Scriptures: invented doctrines, assumptions without foundation.
[James 3:1] My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Noelia: I’m seeing a child standing on the seashore. The child has a stone in his hand and throws it into the sea, creating ripples in the water. This means that your actions have an impact on the world around you, and that many of you are behaving like a child who throws stones into the water to see how far those ripples spread.
The Lord says that you should realize that you are dealing with souls, souls you can traumatize, wound, break, and even cause to turn away from the Lord. If you are working in ignorance, without having been instructed, or even without having been sent by the Lord yet, the Lord is telling some of you right now that you need to stop what you are doing.
Pause what you are doing and seek the Lord in the secret place. Ask Him if you truly are where you are supposed to be, if you are walking in His timing or your own, if God sent you or you sent yourselves, or if you rushed ahead into what He did command you to do, even though the time for it had not yet come. Also examine whether you are moving forward by relying on your own understanding or building something God did not build.
The Lord shows me that some of you are like someone who puts up a building that could collapse at any moment, because God was not the One who built it; it is a building made by men. This can happen even when God has called someone to do something, but it is not yet the time for them to step into that calling.
The builders labor in vain if it is not God who calls them to build those spiritual buildings.
[Psalms 127:1] Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: Except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
There are apostles who say they are apostles, but they are not apostles yet, even though they have an apostolic calling on their life. There are prophets who already call themselves prophets, but they have not yet received a diploma in the Lord’s school and are still prophets in training.
The same thing happens with pastors. Some are like fruit that is not yet ripe, but they feed others something that is not yet ready or good to eat. One thing is to be an apprentice, and another thing is to already have that heavenly diploma, that title the Lord grants you when your preparation is complete.
Usually, one doesn’t step into ministry overnight. We can see the example of David in the Bible. He was anointed when he was very young, but many years passed before he became king, and in the meantime the Lord prepared him for that role. He had been anointed, and he had a calling, but it was still not the time for him to step into the shoes of a king. The royal mantle, the crown, the scepter, and the throne were prepared for him, but it was still not the time to reign.
You need to understand the times, says God. You need to understand where you stand and where you are going. That is your work. I call, I prepare, I send, I establish, and I appoint, says the Lord, but there is a part My own need to do: respond to the calling, receive instruction in it, and understand what season they are in within that spiritual process.
You should desire to be the best in your field, says the Lord. You should become experts in what you are called to do.
Noelia: The Lord reveals to me that the preparation time before you can practice the profession often depends on you: on how much you prepare yourselves, on how much you obey, on how much time you invest in studying the field, on whether you complete the practical training before entering the profession, and on whether you have established an intimate and real connection with the Holy Spirit of God, the One who guides us in all things.
At this time, out of 30 students who enter a math class, says the Lord, very few become experts and end up teaching that subject to others. Those are the ones who go home and study the formulas they were taught in school. Those are the ones who do their homework, who research, who follow the example of other mathematicians who are already experts in their subject, who put their heart into it.
Many are called, but few are chosen, says the Lord, and the chosen from among all the called are usually the most dedicated: those who invest the most time, those who take the matter most seriously, those who prepare themselves the most, those who consecrate themselves the most, those who are willing to carry their cross to follow Me, says Jesus.
[Matthew 22:14] For many are called, but few are chosen.
Many begin the class, but very few finish school, says the Lord. And there are still others who, after finishing their studies, do not go on to practice what they studied. In the same class, some progress in their learning faster than others. Others do not even study what they need to study, and that is why they have to repeat the year or grade.
Noelia: That’s why many of you are dreaming that you go back to school to repeat the year you already completed. It’s because you didn’t learn what God wanted to teach you. You have to review the same material again because you didn’t pass the exam that would have allowed you to advance.
Dedicate yourselves, study, and love what you need to prepare yourselves for, says the Lord. Ask Me for revelation if you lack it, but ask Me even more for heavenly wisdom, because many of you are like students who began to study a profession for two or three years and then abandoned the career.
There is a beginning and an end for all things that are not eternal. There is a first day of class and a last day, says the Lord. There is an alpha and an omega, a beginning and an end. And there is a time when the door of opportunity is open, but later it closes.
Do not waste the opportunities I give you to study your spiritual field. Take advantage of the doors that I open, says the Lord. Do not squander time or effort on something you do not need to devote yourselves to or that you do not need to study.
Some of you are in the wrong class. Because you did not seek Me so I could show you what you need to study or what you need to prepare yourselves for, you got into what seemed right to you or what you liked, but you are wasting time and effort on something I did not call you to do.
You must meditate, search your hearts, and truly seek Me, says the Lord, so that I can direct you again and you can redeem the time, prepare yourselves well, and become good at the task you need to do.
Little ones, says the Lord, My people do not know what they are doing. My people sin and put their hands where they should not put them. And just as Saul got involved in a ministry that did not belong to him, and that brought serious and irrevocable consequences for his life, many of you could end up the same.
[1 Samuel 13:8-9] And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him. And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
[1 Samuel 13:13-14] And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever. But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
Do not call yourselves something you are not. Do not walk in something you are not yet ready for. Do not invent new doctrines that are not based on the Scriptures, and do not create new methods that I have not revealed to you. In some cases, it is the enemy who is teaching you false things because you are outside your calling, because you are doing what you want to do and not what I tell you to do. Correct your course, says the Lord.
My people need to be wise and know what they are doing, why they are doing it, and who sent them to do it, says God. But many are mistaken: they are in a work they should not be in, or at the wrong time, and they become false teachers, false prophets, false apostles, false pastors, or false evangelists.
You need to know who you are, what your identity is in Jesus Christ, what season you are in, and where you are going. Seek direction and ask Me to reveal to you what you lack, and I will send you help, says the Lord.
Noelia: I’m now seeing a doctor dressed in his scrubs, with his work bag in hand. The doctor goes confidently to work at the hospital because he knows that his years of study back him up, because he knows that his name is written in a registry of licensed physicians. The doctor knows that when he writes a prescription and puts his stamp and signature on it, he is not doing just anything, because he prepared for years for that.
The doctor has a clear conscience and is at peace, because he has a diploma to do what he is doing, says the Lord. But many of you are being hounded by your conscience. You are not at ease and you have no peace, because even your consciences are warning you that you are where you should not be, that you are carrying out a role I did not tell you to carry out, or one you are not yet ready to carry out.
So you are like fraudulent doctors, like scammers who sell their patients the idea that they are already doctors when they are not yet. You are committing an offense because you are not ready, prepared, or endorsed by My Spirit to do the work you are doing for Me, says the Lord.
You are like employees who invite themselves into a company, but that job was never given to them and they do not belong there. You are like people who put on a police uniform but do not know the laws. You are like children who play at being firefighters or astronauts, but who are not even aware of what those professions involve.
Come down to earth, says the Lord. Put your feet on the ground. Be serious in what you do, carry yourselves with weight, and stop treating the work of My house lightly.
Noelia: I now see a church where people are dressed in various ways, representing various professions in that place. But many are false, pretending to be something they are not. Some call themselves pastors, but they are not called to pastoral ministry, and others have a genuine calling, but they are not pastors yet; they are students in a school that prepares people to be pastors.
Many are not aware of these things, because they can be very subtle and not so easy to recognize, and they don’t understand the consequences that can come from doing something God didn’t call us to do or from rushing to step into it. That’s why God is speaking now out of mercy for His children, so they don’t bring more afflictions into their lives than following Christ already entails. The Lord doesn’t want you to suffer more than necessary or to make others suffer. Nor does He want you, because of your rebellion, to be cut down in the area He once called you to.
God shows me now that when someone wants to step into a calling too soon simply because they feel like doing it, and they do not wait for God’s timing, that is a form of rebellion against the Lord, because the Lord is indicating that it is not the time yet, that they need to wait, and that more preparation is needed to respond to that calling.
[Acts 24:16] And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
The example of Samuel that I shared at the beginning comes back to my mind, in which Samuel presided over all those prophets in that company of prophets who prophesied. In a company like that, there are some who are already called to lead, who are already ready, who have gone through many things and already have experience to share. But there are others who have not gone through that process, who are still raw, and food cannot be taken out of the oven before its time.
There is a time for everything, says the Lord.
Noelia: Thank You for this word, Lord. Thank You for the schools of ministerial preparation that You are raising up in this time, Father.
I ask You to guide Your people, in the name of Jesus, and to keep speaking to them through dreams, visions, prophetic word, or through their conscience. I ask You to impress deeply upon their spirits what they need to do or refrain from doing, and to remove all doubt from those who are in a hurry and are jumping instead of taking the steps they need to take. I ask You to show them a clear stop sign so they do not hurt themselves or suffer a blow, Lord, and so the devil does not take advantage of that rebellion, of that lack of synchronization with Your Spirit.
Father, thank You for these schools that I’m seeing. Thank You for the dreams You give Your children. Give peace to everyone who truly is where they need to be, who truly has prepared, who has studied, who knows their identity in Christ and knows what season of the calling they are in. Lord, confirm the questions Your children are asking You right now. Send answers to those questions.
Thank You, Lord, because You don’t leave Your children in the darkness, but light their way so they know where they need to go. I ask You that only the light of Your guidance remain in their lives and that everything else become dark, so they realize when they have stepped out of that beam of the Holy Spirit’s guidance and return to the right paths for their lives.
My God, I ask You to help those who are anxious to break away from that anxiety, to be free from that hurry, and to understand that there is a time for everything. Help those You are only now calling to respond eagerly to that calling and to receive instruction from Your Spirit, and perhaps also from a human guide.
Heavenly Father, bless Your children who now show their hands to You and say: “I want to serve You, but I don’t have a calling.” Oh, heavenly Father, help us to finish the preparation, to be wise, and not to step into something too early and fall into error.
The Lord reveals to me that some of you need to help others first, just as Elisha served Elijah. In this time, God is calling some of you to serve someone, and that’s the school you need to go through, because while you serve those people, you see the example of what you will need to do.
Know where you stand, pray, pay attention, and do not waste the resources I have given you, says the Lord.
Noelia: The Lord Jesus shows me His great love for us. He cares about us, and that’s why He gives this message of correction for many today. The Lord embraces you and comforts you right now. If you made mistakes in the heavenly profession you thought you had, but you repent and ask the Lord for forgiveness, He will forgive you, restore you, and help you with the problems you created.
If your brokenness and your repentance are genuine, there is still time, says God.
Noelia: The Lord shows me an example from daily life. A young man enters a university to study a certain profession, but after two or three years he realizes that this is not his vocation; then he leaves the university and enrolls in something else. The same thing happens spiritually.
It’s not too late to correct your ways concerning your spiritual profession. It’s not too late to leave a dry life where you won’t see God’s endorsement, where He won’t go with you to do what you are about to do, where you will be like a tree that bears no fruit because it’s in a place where it shouldn’t be, like a puzzle piece placed somewhere it doesn’t fit.
It is still not too late to correct yourself and let go of what you know deep in your heart is not for you, or what you know is not yet time to do the way you are doing it, says the Lord.
Noelia: The Lord will help you, the Holy Spirit will guide you, and you will feel fulfilled where you are. You will have peace, and you will have conviction in your spirit that this is what you are supposed to do.
The Lord will back up the study you do spiritually, and you will see His signs. He will speak to you through dreams, through visions, through the Bible, or through other people, again and again, with every step you take. God will take care to show you His outstretched hand, and you will have peace and bear good fruit.
Thank You, Lord, for this word of edification to the church. Amen and amen.