Cornerstone Church

Sorry for not posting our blogs in few weeks, many things happened to us especially to me and to my wife.
Did you experience God asking you about something? I mean about surrendering or giving up everything to God even your own dream.
I want to tell you a story what happened to me the day (Nov. 1994) I surrender my life to God until now. That day the Lord asked me to preach His Word, that is very hard for me because I am only a few weeks old Christian but one thing I know like Paul I saw a very clear vision and I responded and followed Him whole heartedly.
I got married in October 16, 1999 a couple of months after my wedding I encountered the Lord in a way that I could not imagine. In the living room of my brother in law, I met the Lord, where His presence is very strong, I was trembling, and afterward I heard the voice of the Lord saying to me, “I called you to be a Pastor.” It is a hard decision again for me because I was newly married; however, we have obeyed the Lord.
In year 2000, the Lord ask me to Pastor in a Church that closed, when I saw the Church building it is like a haunted house and a lot of stone. Nevertheless, I sensed the Lord was saying to me that those stone would be a living stone. Moreover, the Lord is very faithful to us and the Lord restored the Church.
In year 2004, the Lord spoke to us again and said to us that we need to move. It was not easy for us to leave the church because we love the people, for weeks we have bargained with the Lord just to let us stay and eventually the Lord’s will prevailed, we moved out and worked with Pastor Mark and other pastors to start a church in the centre of the city.
In March 2005, the Lord gave me a vision, and said to me that I will be the pastor of Cornerstone Church Santiago and after two years the Lord fulfil His Word.
I tell you the truth; I really love Cornerstone Santiago. We invested our life to the people and we became like a family. However, one day, the Lord spoke to us and saying to us, “are you willing to surrender all to me?” and we said, “Yes Lord.” But, the last question was a very hard to say, “Yes Lord!” the Lord asked us “Are you willing to give up everything even the church that you love so much?” What do you think we felt when the Lord asked that to us? We felt it was like giving your son to be sacrifice. We have owned our people us our sons and daughters even though some of them are older than we are. We have cried and laughed together and together we won battles after battles.
Even though this was hard for us, we obeyed the Lord. We made a resignation letter to Pst. Mark. The day came when our resignation letter need to be given, the Lord intervened. At 7:30am Pst. Mark went to our house and talk to me. I really sensed the Lord was saying to us, “Enough, now I know that you’ll obey me wholeheartedly and you passed the test. From now on, I will bless you, your children, and your children’s children. You will be a blessing to a city and nation.” You know I felt the warm embrace of God.
My question is, are you ready to surrender all to God? Even your own dream? Selah