Less of me, more of You

John 14: Jesus Comforts His Disciples

14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. ² My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. ⁴ You know the way to the place where I am going.”

Jesus the Way to the Father

⁵ Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

⁶ Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ⁷ If you really know me, you will know^[b]my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

⁸ Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

⁹ Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. ¹¹ Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. ¹² Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. ¹³ And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ “If you love me, keep my commands. ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be^[c] in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. ¹⁹ Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. ²⁰ On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. ²¹ Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

²² Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”

²³ Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.²⁴ Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

²⁵ “All this I have spoken while still with you. ²⁶ But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. ²⁷ Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

²⁸ “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. ²⁹ I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. ³⁰ I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me, ³¹ but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.

“Come now; let us leave.

Matthew 23: A Warning Against Hypocrisy

23 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: ² “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. ³ So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. ⁴ They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

⁵ “Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries^[a] wide and the tassels on their garments long; ⁶ they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; ⁷ they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by others.

⁸ “But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. ⁹ And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. ¹⁰ Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. ¹¹ The greatest among you will be your servant. ¹² For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

¹³ “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. ^[14] [b]

¹⁵ “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.

¹⁶ “Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.’ ¹⁷ You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred? ¹⁸ You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.’ ¹⁹ You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? ²⁰ Therefore, anyone who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. ²¹ And anyone who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. ²² And anyone who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the one who sits on it.

²³ “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness.You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.²⁴ You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

²⁵ “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.

²⁷ “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. ²⁸ In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

²⁹ “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.³⁰ And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ ³¹ So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. ³² Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!

³³ “You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? ³⁴ Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. ³⁵ And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.

³⁷ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. ³⁸ Look, your house is left to you desolate. ³⁹ For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’

Revelations 21: 8 “But cowards, unbelievers, the corrupt, murderers, the immoral, those who practice witchcraft, idol worshipers, and all liars—their fate is in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

Galatians 5: 19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

Romans 10: ⁸ In fact, it says, “The message is very close at hand;
it is on your lips and in your heart.” And that message is the very message about faith that we preach: ⁹ If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved. ¹¹ As the Scriptures tell us, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be disgraced.”^[e] 12 Jew and Gentile^[f] are the same in this respect. They have the same Lord, who gives generously to all who call on him. ¹³ For “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

June 18, 2026. This blog post has been so hard to write, as I have started to write it and each time I get so sleepy or cry, as it happens when a powerful move of the Holy Spirit is going to happen. More and more the Holy Spirit after coming back from Europe, the Middle East and Africa recently; the Holy Spirit has been giving me more time to rest, meaning a couple or three days a week. The discernment after Africa went up a more, as in Africa the gift of fully being able to translate a language such a Swahili to know what the people there were planing and doing happened, the sensitivity of the Holy Spirit in me has also hyphened and as we are more and more connected overtime with the Holy Spirit thru the daily surrender and in my case it has almost been 17 years walking and obeying the Holy Spirit there is a personal connection with HIM. Here in this area where the Holy Spirit has me in Santo Domingo as in many places where the people need to come to Jesus and that is why the Lord places us there to be the light and where there is a lot of sin there is a lot of Grace, like in Sodom and Gomorrah, there is a lot of human trafficking, drugs, alcohol, witchcraft, voodoo, false religions, sects, teachers of the law, hopelessness and everything that comes with not having a relationship with the Holy Spirit thru Jesus, but the Lord has had me for more than a month here and disciples are rising, people are reaching Jesus thru HIS tools such as food, hugs, prayers, this page, and all the examples we see in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, all for the souls in the Great Commission. Plus the place the Holy Spirit has me in is part of an online app to rent rooms, hotels, motels, apartments, and or houses and in this specific one many foreigners come to bring the people they pay to have sexual relationships, do what they can not do in their countries, but they meet Jesus, as the message is given to each one in the ways the Holy Spirit leads, in a very personable way, plus the Lord does not have us see, we do hear and feel what is happening, but not to point fingers or let them know, as the Lord cares more about the souls and what will happen when the person receives Jesus.

The Holy Spirit when I wake up tells me which scripture in the Bible to read, we talk, then HE tells me whether to go out or stay in. After returning from Africa the Holy Spirit has had me focusing on this area where there are many sects that have tried to evangelize such as the Mormons with their book, they go from home to home sitting down with people and leaving them homework, one of the neighbors told me yesterday as we spoke about Jesus that they tell them what to drink such as to stop drinking coffee and a lot of the laws they have. It’s amazing that because of the lack of discernment people are fooled and tangled in these kinds of belief. That is why the Holy Spirit sends us so that who ever is meant to understand will understand and will not fall into the hands of all of the false religions and sects. There are also Catholics, Adventist, the Pentecostal of the sanctified doctrine, evil, Muslims, Witchdoctors, teachers of the law and so much more, that there are days where I just cry and cry feeling what the Holy Spirit feels for these souls. But there is no stopping the Lord and disciples are rising and even those who start yelling in the grocery store that I am a Mormon and they know it, as in each place there is a distraction from the enemy, such as a town that I was sent to that the enemy started putting in people’s minds that I was coming to steal the children and then the children were crazy about the Holy Spirit and would follow me everywhere, where the teachers of the law were very predominant, which are those the Holy Spirit wrote a whole chapter shared at the beginning here in Matthew 23. These groups are so deeply entangled in the communities here, it is very sad how they look so miserable, are so angry, are very judgmental, send people to hell, call people in labels, because they do not have the Holy Spirit therefore there can not be love or any of the fruits of the Holy Spirit or gifts. They talk about the Holy Spirit but only as an experience in that moment, but those who are meant to understand will understand, as we read in Revelations 2:29 that tell us that those who are have ears to hear will hear what the the Holy Spirit is telling HIS church, there are another scripture in the Bible that tells us that those who are of God will hear the things of God, and there is another scripture that says that when rejection come as we are the Lord’s ambassadors is not us they are rejecting is HIM, as when the people were asking for a king in the Bible.

Revelations 2: ²⁹ “Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches.

Recently I was sent on a quest to get the Lord’s supper kit, but it was to do the Great Commission in each of the areas the Holy Spirit sent me to where people came to Jesus, were anointed with the Holy Spirit and teachers of the law who are very challenged by the Holy Spirit had an encounter after saying very mean and judgmental things not just to me but there was one where we sat down to eat and I was led by the Holy Spirit to invite a young man that was selling candy in the street to join us to eat at the table, as I heard in the Holy Spirit that he was yearning for a moment like that, where there were three of us; the teacher of the law, another man who had started to have a relationship with the Holy Spirit and when the teacher of the law who said he had grown up in church saw that the young man was sitting started saying that he could not eat with us that the table was sacred and for believers, that what kind of Christian was I that had him sit at the table in a public restaurant that what were people going to think, that we have to honor the earthly rules, that the young man was a drug addict and had been kicked out of his home, that Jesus never sat with people like that only with HIS disciples, which is not true as we read this all over the Gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, where in Luke 14 we see that HE sat with the everyone, specially those who needed a savior. The Holy Spirit felt very sad for the young man and the reaction of the teacher of the law, but had me explain to the young man that the things of the Holy Spirit are understood in the Holy Spirit and that the man was not a representation of Christianity yet. I was led to share the Good News of Jesus with the young man which he repeated, the other man served him food, as the teacher of the law who the Holy Spirit told me was going to have an encounter with HIM of the way to his home, as Paul did in Acts 8 and 9 kept yelling, pointing fingers and condemning the young man. The young man ended up leaving in shame and the Holy Spirit told me that the good works HE started in the young man HE will finish. Then the teacher of the law in his corrected flesh started telling me about the table, how we need to pack food for those people and not sit with them, that I was too deep into doing the Lord’s work, that I needed to take care of myself more, retaliation, retaliation, retaliation, to which the Holy Spirit told me not to receive anything and to put on the full armor. The other man tried to explain to him thru the Bible but he would not listen. At the end the teacher of the law asked what should he do and I heard to tell him to surrender everything to the Holy Spirit, read HIS word and he mentioned that that is what other pastors have told him to keep him from doing the will of the Lord, but the Holy Spirit told me he was going to have an encounter with the Holy Spirit on his way home. I heard to stay and evangelize and pray with some of the staff, specifically with a woman waitress and to share the Good News of Jesus out loud in the restaurant. My heart was burning, as it feels also in the building the Holy Spirit has me and my head hurts because of the witchcraft in the area, as many people mix what they think is God with those principalities because of the lack of Jesus, that is why we need to share the Good News of Jesus in John 14:6 and Romans 10:9-13 where ever the Holy Spirit places us, so that people’s eyes and ears could be open and not perish, but have eternal life and as Jesus comes they too can be ambassadors for the Great Commission as we read in Matthew 28. The next day the Holy Spirit lead me to rest, reading Luke 14 that confirmed HIM sitting with people and being attacked by the teachers of the law, who many did have an encounter with the Lord. The Lord also place other ambassadors to give me words of encouragement, as well as having me encourage and disciple another young Apostle the next day. There is nothing impossible for the Holy Spirit and even if people enter into false beliefs those who are meant to understand will, we just have to do be obedient and do the part that the Holy Spirit tells us to do with HIM, as it is predestined as we read in the Bible who will understand, but we are the matches that set up the fire in the name of Jesus, like Ananias with Saul, who after being anointed with the Holy Spirit became Paul. We get to feel so that we can do something, our bodies are senses for the spiritual realm.

Acts 9: ¹⁰ Now there was a believer in Damascus named Ananias. The Lord spoke to him in a vision, calling, “Ananias!”

“Yes, Lord!” he replied.

¹¹ The Lord said, “Go over to Straight Street, to the house of Judas. When you get there, ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul. He is praying to me right now. ¹² I have shown him a vision of a man named Ananias coming in and laying hands on him so he can see again.”

¹³ “But Lord,” exclaimed Ananias, “I’ve heard many people talk about the terrible things this man has done to the believers^[b] in Jerusalem! ¹⁴ And he is authorized by the leading priests to arrest everyone who calls upon your name.”

¹⁵ But the Lord said, “Go, for Saul is my chosen instrument to take my message to the Gentiles and to kings, as well as to the people of Israel.¹⁶ And I will show him how much he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

¹⁷ So Ananias went and found Saul. He laid his hands on him and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road, has sent me so that you might regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”¹⁸ Instantly something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized. ¹⁹ Afterward he ate some food and regained his strength.

Matthew 28: The Great Commission

¹⁶ Then the eleven disciples left for Galilee, going to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. ¹⁷ When they saw him, they worshiped him—but some of them doubted!

¹⁸ Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. ¹⁹ Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations,^[b] baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. ²⁰ Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Luke 14: ¹² Then he turned to his host. “When you put on a luncheon or a banquet,”he said, “don’t invite your friends, brothers, relatives, and rich neighbors. For they will invite you back, and that will be your only reward. ¹³ Instead, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. ¹⁴ Then at the resurrection of the righteous, God will reward you for inviting those who could not repay you.”

Luke 4: ¹⁸ “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
    for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released,
    that the blind will see,
that the oppressed will be set free,

The Holy Spirit sent me to other places in the area to change the music that had the same beat to Holy Spirit filled music similar beat, but with Holy Spirit filled words, sitting with people sharing meals, to getting the bread, grape juice and small cups to make a teaching video with the leading of the Holy Spirit on how to share the Lord’s supper with Matthew 26 and 1 Corinthians 11: 23-26. A lot is felt and done when in the Great Commission, but the Lord understands as HE came to be fully human as Jesus and went thru it all, and gave HIS life for us, that is what needs to move us to surrender everything to HIM and obey HIM. There is no greater love than HIS, and that love is what needs to move us so other’s can experience that love and become the Lord’s ambassadors till HE comes, which is near and HE is coming. In the meantime people need forgiveness, healing, restoration, purpose, gifts, fruits of the Holy Spirit thru repentance, proclaiming Jesus, getting baptized by submersion in water and surrendering every day.

Who is a disciple of Christ? is the person who repents, proclaims Jesus as Lord and Savior as it says in John 14:6, Romans 10 (read it), is baptized in immersion in water, as it says in John 3 and Matthew 3 (Read it). Then the person receives the Holy Spirit as we read in Acts 2 (Read it) and 1 Corinthians 14 (read it) and becomes a student of the Holy Spirit / Disciple to surrender everything every day and overtime with the surrendering to the Holy Spirit every day, receive fruits and gifts as we read in Galatians 5(read it) and Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12,13 and 14, to answer the Great Commission which we read and understood in Matthew 28.

Maturity, resources, fruits, gifts, and everything necessary for the Great Commission that we read in Matthew 28:16-20 are obtained through the time we dedicate daily to the Holy Spirit and the Bible, surrendering everything to the Lord each day. In Jesus’ name. We were born to be loved by God, the Holy Spirit, to love Him, and therefore, to obey Him. We love because the Lord first loved us by dying on the cross for us.

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