No telescope is needed to see what is in front of you.

In honor to Mateo about to arrive into this world.

“What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31.

Some of you have reached out to me yesterday and I will share with you the verse of today from my smart phone App.

One comment about this verse:

"What about God being against us! Who would be for us?" No one.

Let me talk to you a little by sharing with you what this morning our Lord laid in my mind and heart for you my children and friends around the world. "To me The Kingdom of God is not an Army of countless angels in flying horses coming with great fury to do battle with an opposing Army of earthly creatures in Armageddon like encounter.

The Almighty God does not wage war as equal and with conventional weapons or even nuclear weapons as if there would be the possibility of any mutual assurance of destruction. Star wars has deformed our thinking that it is easy to imagine a tired Air force of God flying on vapor from traveling a long ways from the other side of an infinite Universe, tired from the long trip and being fired by Ground to Air missiles and the latest Antiaircraft Artillery army of terrestrial forces.

No my dear adult children and grandchildren and “Mateo” my first great-grandchildren about to arrived in September this year. No! We are no matches for God Almighty and we must modify our way of thinking.

The kingdom of God is among us nearer than we dare to think and therefore a prayer away if in the name of Jesus the Lord.

Three times in the New Testament God the Father made it evident His closeness. One at the Birth of Jesus as the heavens were open and a choir of angels sung praises to baby Jesus. The second time was in the baptism of Jesus when the heavens were open and the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus and the voice of the Father was heard introducing his Son to the world.

The third time was at the Mountain of Transfiguration at the graduation ceremony of Jesus at the end of his completed ministry with the approval of the jurors of his peers in Moses and Elijah representing the Law and the prophets with his best friends present the New Covenant in Peter, James and John.

Again the special speaker was the Father who spoke from an open heaven the immortal words of charge to the human race, "To listen to Jesus".

Today in utter loneliness among the humans of my generation I stand alone as if at the edge of this infinite Universe and from that advantage point I say to one and all of the members of the body of Jesus, "There is no parallel or alternate Universe out there but the one and only Reality that when it stops being visible to the eyes in the consummation of time and space will make room for the invisible to be PERFECTLY VISIBLE in its glorious appearance.”

Our is a Kingdom within a Kingdom as a child in a womb waiting to be born one last time to the perfect reality that our eyes are not equipped to see it at the present time.

There are two kinds of blindness, one is for lack of light and the other is cause by excess of light. At the coming of the Kingdom of God we shall see as God sees us in the light of his wonderful love and grace and the light of God in Jesus with not need the Sun or the Moon. There is no day or night and no need to sleep to recuperate from the fatigue of work. For to rest we have been called and we shall rest an eternal rest in the all-loving perfect presence of God our father whose name is Holy.

The Kingdom of God is nearer than you can possibly imagine. I hope and pray that you dare to take a peek inside the Holy of Holies behind the Broken Curtain by Jesus and take a glance into the Ark of the Covenant.

Jesus died that we might see the invisible and never to fall again for the lack of sight, power, authority and dominion.

Again my dear children, what I see from the edge of the Universe are not "The late great planet earth” but “The late Great lonely Universe.” This Universe is but a wrapping of the gift of God, the New Earth that in birth pains of lava in “contractions” is longing to be born such as in the Hawaiian Islands.

Just as insignificant is the Earth in the Universe, so is Israel insignificant in the World and Bethlehem is also insignificant in the Land of Israel. In the same way those born in Bethlehem are insignificant, but are giant killers like David the King who killed Goliath and Jesus the Son of Mary who killed Satan. God choses the small things to humble the great and his power are made perfect in our weakness. This should not only comfort us but also make us bold to dare great things for God, for if God in you the hope of glory and if God is with us, who can be against us?

Prepare your self by praying a single prayer that is according the will of God. "Your Kingdom come.” If you love God, then you must love his return. Beware to be distracted by trails and tribulations or pride and prejudice or any wishful thinking of pleasures from the World the Devil or the flesh.

Think holy thoughts revealed by the mind of Jesus and write for the common good of the body things inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Stop reading books but the book of God that is the God of all books.

Do not chew with other people's denture. Use the mind God has given you in Jesus. For God’s word says, "If God is with us, who can be against us". Remember Jesus who said. "Behold I am with you to the very end of the ages".

He is with us indeed if we just believe what we said to believe in a childlike manner. Let us be as a child once again for Jesus sake.

Gerry Gutierrez

Georgia May 24, 2018.