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Friday, October 16, 2026

¿Cómo puedes hacer crecer tu plataforma y convertirte en alguien que instruye a muchos?

 

Dennis Edwards 

La Palabra de Dios nos dice que, en los últimos tiempos, habrá personas entre el pueblo que poseerán entendimiento y que instruirán a muchos.[1] ¿Cómo podemos nosotros —cristianos que hemos dedicado nuestra vida al servicio de Dios y de los demás, a menudo en campos misioneros difíciles y con gran sacrificio personal; nosotros que hemos estudiado y seguido fielmente la Palabra de Dios desde nuestra juventud—, cómo podemos prepararnos para cumplir la profecía de Daniel? ¿Cómo podemos capacitarnos para instruir a muchos? 

Hace algunos años, le preguntaron al famoso multimillonario estadounidense Warren Buffett qué consejo le daría a un estudiante universitario o a un joven para mejorar sus perspectivas de éxito y liderazgo en el mercado laboral. ¿Cómo podría un joven potenciar su perfil profesional? ¿Qué talento debería desarrollar para aumentar sus oportunidades en el mercado de trabajo, así como su éxito e influencia como líder?

Buffett señaló que la cualidad principal que aumenta el potencial de liderazgo y las recompensas económicas de una persona es hablar en público. Añadió que, si un joven desea realmente mejorar sus posibilidades de alcanzar un puesto de mayor liderazgo y un nivel salarial más elevado, debe desarrollar su capacidad para hablar en público. Hablar en público constituye el activo fundamental para ampliar las oportunidades profesionales y de liderazgo. 

El célebre escritor, orador y figura destacada, George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), relató en su ensayo autobiográfico «Cómo me convertí en orador» las dificultades personales que experimentaba al hablar en público. Para superar su timidez, Shaw se expuso deliberadamente a situaciones en las que debía hablar ante una audiencia. Se unió a varios clubes de debate y se obligó a enfrentar su miedo a hablar en público. Al principio, hizo el ridículo —algo que a todos nos puede suceder—, pero con el tiempo, sus nervios se aplacaron, su mente se serenó y terminó convirtiéndose en uno de los oradores más solicitados de su época.

La Universidad de Yale, al igual que muchas otras, ofrece a sus estudiantes un curso de oratoria. En su clase introductoria, el profesor de oratoria de Yale destaca que las dos formas más eficaces de ampliar nuestro alcance —y, por ende, nuestra influencia sobre los demás— consisten en mejorar nuestra capacidad para hablar en público o nuestra destreza en la escritura. Muchas personas que hoy se dedican a hablar en público comenzaron escribiendo un libro; el éxito de dicha obra les sirvió de trampolín para iniciar una trayectoria como conferenciantes. 

¿Tiene algo que decir la Palabra de Dios acerca de hablar en público? Sabemos que nuestra capacidad para expresarnos ante una audiencia —ya sea en persona, a través de plataformas como YouTube o incluso por teléfono— puede ampliar nuestro alcance e influencia. ¿Podría nuestra capacidad para llegar a más personas con el mensaje del Evangelio, gracias a la tecnología actual, constituir un cumplimiento de la predicción de Jesús de que sus seguidores harían «cosas mayores» que las que Él realizó? 

En el Nuevo Testamento, vemos al apóstol Pedro acobardado, llegando a negar a Cristo en tres ocasiones. Sin embargo, tras esperar y recibir la plenitud del Espíritu Santo, su capacidad para hablar, su valentía y su convicción se transformaron en algo poderoso. Aquellos judíos que lo perseguían reconocieron que él —un sencillo pescador— había estado con Jesús. Muchos de ellos aceptaron el mensaje de Pedro. A pesar de carecer de formación teológica y de ser considerado un hombre sin instrucción a los ojos del Sanedrín judío, su elocuencia al hablar en público llegó a estar, de repente, a la altura de la de los letrados escribas y fariseos. El tiempo que Pedro pasó junto a Jesús, sumado a la llenura del Espíritu Santo, fueron las claves de su capacidad para hablar en público.

Otros hombres de Dios también han padecido temor a hablar en público. Moisés, por ejemplo, tartamudeaba; tenía un impedimento en el habla. El Señor le dijo que no temiera, sino que tuviera fe, pues Él se encargaría de su tartamudez. En Éxodo 4:10-13 leemos: 

«Entonces dijo Moisés al Señor: “¡Ay, Señor! Yo no soy hombre elocuente; ni antes, ni desde que has hablado a tu siervo; porque soy tardo en el habla y torpe de lengua”. Y el Señor le respondió: “¿Quién dio la boca al hombre? ¿O quién hizo al mudo, al sordo, al que ve o al ciego? ¿No soy yo, el Señor? ¡Ve, pues! Yo estaré con tu boca y te enseñaré lo que has de decir”». 

Pero Moisés no creyó. Su temor a hablar en público lo dominó. Dios lo habría sanado si hubiera creído; sin embargo, Moisés se aferró a su miedo, y Dios se enojó con él. No obstante, en su compasión, Dios envió a Aarón, el hermano mayor de Moisés, para que hablara en su lugar y fuera su voz ante el faraón.

El libro de los Hechos registra los encuentros del apóstol Pablo —en los que hizo uso de la oratoria— ante autoridades romanas, judías y griegas. Sin embargo, en su segunda carta a los corintios, vemos a Pablo refutando una creencia que tenían algunos de ellos: que, si bien «sus cartas... son duras y fuertes», su «presencia corporal es débil, y su palabra menospreciable».[2] 

Los griegos tenían la tendencia —quizás como todos nosotros— de admirar a quien hablaba bien, especialmente si su apariencia física era agradable. El apóstol Pablo respondió: «lo que somos en palabra... eso mismo seremos también en hechos, estando presentes».[3] En otras palabras, su forma de hablar estaría a la altura de sus escritos, y ambos serían poderosos. 

En la segunda parte del capítulo 11 de Daniel —que la mayoría de los expertos en profecía bíblica consideran una descripción del periodo de la Gran Tribulación, o «tiempo de angustia para Jacob»—, encontramos estas palabras: 

 «Y los sabios del pueblo instruirán a muchos».[4] 

 Dios desea que su pueblo actúe como maestro e instruya al mundo, dado que muchos han sido engañados por el «dios de este siglo», quien ha cegado sus mentes. ¿Cómo podemos nosotros, como representantes de Dios, «instruir a muchos» si no logramos superar un temor común: el miedo a hablar en público? Jesús nos dijo que haríamos obras aún mayores que las que Él hizo. También nos indicó que, mediante el bautismo en el Espíritu Santo, de nuestro interior fluirían «ríos de agua viva» —aguas que rebosan vida—. Esas aguas son las palabras que pronunciamos: las palabras de Dios que compartimos con los demás. Como dijo Jesús: 

«Las palabras que yo os he hablado son espíritu y son vida».[5] 

El Señor nos ha mandado abrir bien la boca, prometiendo que Él la llenará.[6] Es posible que nos envíe un compañero —tal como envió a Aarón para acompañar a Moisés—, pero debemos esforzarnos por vencer nuestros temores y convertirnos en los hombres y mujeres de Dios poderosos que Él desea que seamos. Poderosos, precisamente, al mantenernos dependientes y obedientes a su «silbo apacible», que nos llama a ser testigos ante todos los seres humanos. 

En el libro de Proverbios leemos: 

 «Del fruto de su boca se saciará el vientre del hombre; se saciará del producto de sus labios»[7]. 

En otras palabras, nuestra felicidad y plenitud no provienen de una buena comida, sino de compartir la Palabra de Dios con los demás. Debemos buscar y encontrar más vías para compartir la Palabra de Dios con quienes la necesitan. De lo contrario, seremos desdichados, tal como escribió el apóstol Pablo:

«Pues si anuncio el evangelio, no tengo por qué gloriarme, porque me es impuesta necesidad; ¡y ay de mí si no anuncio el evangelio!»[8]. 

O como se lamentaba Jeremías: 

«Pero si digo: “No me acordaré más de él, ni hablaré más en su nombre”, entonces hay en mi corazón como un fuego ardiente, metido en mis huesos; estoy fatigado de sufrirlo, ¡y no puedo más!»[9]. 

Por tanto, esforcémonos al máximo por superar nuestros temores y desarrollar nuestros talentos, tanto para hablar en público como para escribir. Aprendamos a utilizar las nuevas tecnologías en favor de Dios y para difundir Su preciosa Palabra entre los perdidos y los necesitados. Creemos blogs, canales de YouTube, publicaciones en Facebook o recurramos a cualquiera de las muchas otras formas de alzar la voz y ser escuchados. Defendamos a Jesús y dejemos que nuestra luz brille de tal manera ante los hombres que, al ver nuestras buenas obras, glorifiquen a nuestro Padre que está en los cielos[10]. 

«La forma de desarrollar la confianza en uno mismo es hacer aquello que nos da miedo y acumular un historial de experiencias exitosas». ― William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), célebre orador y político estadounidense[11] 

[1] Daniel 11:33 

[2] 2 Corintios 10:10b 

[3] 2 Corintios 10:11 

[4] Daniel 11:33a 

[5] Juan 6:63 

[6] Salmo 81:10b 

[7] Proverbios 18:20 

[8] 1 Corintios 9:16 

[9] Jeremías 20:9 

[10] Mateo 5:16 [11] https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/310550.William_Jennings_Bryan Publicado originalmente el 6 de noviembre de 2020.

How Can You Grow Your Platform and Become One That Instructs Many?

 

Dennis Edwards

God’s word tells us that in the last days there shall be those among the people  who have understanding and they shall instruct many.[1] How can we, Christians who have lived a life of service for God and others, often on difficult mission fields with much personal sacrifice; how can we who have studied and followed God’s word faithfully since our youth; how can we prepare ourselves to fulfil Daniel’s prophecy?  How can we prepare ourselves to instruct many?

Some years ago the famous American billionaire Warren Buffet was asked what advice he would give to a young college student, or a young person in order to  enhance their prospect of success and leadership in the open market. How could a young person improve their CVC? What talent should they develop to increase their opportunities in the job market and their success and influence as a leader?

Buffet responded that the number one attribute that increases one’s leadership potential and financial rewards  is public speaking. He continued that if a young person seriously wanted to improve his or her potential to realize a greater position of leadership and a higher pay bracket then he or she would need to improve his or her’s ability in public speaking. Public speaking was the number one asset to increased job and leadership possibilities.

The famous financial wizard, public speaker, and writer George Barnard Shaw (1856 – 1950) in his autobiographic essay “How I became a public speaker,” wrote on his own personal difficulty with public speaking. In order to overcome his timidity, Shaw forced himself into situations where he had to speak publicly. He joined various debating clubs and pushed himself to face his fear of speaking in public. At first, he made a fool of himself, as we all will do. But over time, his nerves cooled, his mind calmed, and he became one of the most sought after public speaker of his day.

Yale University offers its students a course on public speaking as do many other universities. Yale’s professor on Public Speaking emphasizes in his beginning lecture  that the two most important ways to increase our platform and therefore our influence on others is through improving our ability to speak publicly and or improving our writing ability. Many people that today are public speakers started out by writing a book. When the book became successful, it helped to launch them into a speaking career.

Does God’s word have anything to say about public speaking? We know that our ability to speak publicly or even on YouTube or on the telephone can increase our platform and influence. Could our ability to reach more people with the Gospel message with today’s modern technology be a fulfilment of Jesus’ prediction that His followers would do “greater things” than He did?

In the New Testament we see Apostle Peter cowering and denying Christ thrice. However, after waiting and receiving the infilling of the Holy Spirit, Peter’s speaking ability, his boldness, his conviction become  powerful. The Jews that persecuted him took knowledge that he, a simple fisherman, had been with Jesus. Many of those Jews received Peter’s message. Though he had no theological training and was unlearned and ignorant in the eyes of the Jewish Sanhedrin,  yet suddenly his public speaking ability matched that of the learned Scribes and Pharisees. Peter’s time spent with Jesus and the infilling of the Holy Spirit were the keys to his public speaking.

Other men of God have been afflicted with fear of public speaking. Moses was one who had a stammer, a speech impediment. The Lord told him not to fear, but to have faith and He would take care of his stammering. In Exodus 4:10-13  we read,

And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. And the Lord said unto him, Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have not I the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.

But Moses didn’t believe. His fear of public speaking overtook him. God would have healed him had he believed. But Moses clung to his fear, and God was angry with him. Nevertheless, in compassion, God sent Aaron, Moses’ older brother,  to speak for him and be Moses’ voice to Pharoah.

The book of Acts records Apostle Paul’s successful public speaking encounters with Roman, Jewish, and Greek authorities. Nevertheless, in his 2nd letter to the Corinthians we see Paul refuting a belief held by some of the Corinthians that though “his letters … were weighty and powerful; …his bodily presence was weak, and his speech contemptible.”[2]

The Greeks had the tendency as maybe we all do to admire a man who spoke well especially if his physical appearance was becoming. Apostle Paul responded that “such as we are in word…such will we be also in deed when we are present.”[3] In other words, his speaking would be equal to his writing, and they were both powerful.

In the second part of Daniel chapter 11, which most Bible prophecy experts consider to be describing the period of the Great Tribulation or “Jacob’s Trouble,” we find the words,

And they that understand among the people shall instruct many.[4]

God wants His people to be teachers instructing the world as many are deceived by the god of this world who has blinded their minds. How can we as God’s representatives “instruct many,” if we are not overcoming the common fear that many face, the fear of public speaking? Jesus has told us we will do greater things than He did. He told us that the baptism of the Holy Spirit would cause to flow out of our hearts rivers of living waters or waters that are flowing with life. Those waters are the words we speak, the words of God we speak to others. As Jesus has said,

 The words I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life.[5]

The Lord has told us to open our mouth wide and that He would fill it.[6] He may send us a fellow companion like he sent Moses Aaron, but we should be overcoming our fears and becoming the powerful men and women of God He wants us to be. Powerful by being dependent and obedient to His still small voice that calls us to be a witness to all men.

In the Proverbs we read,

A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth and; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.[7]

In other words, our happiness and fulfilment doesn’t come from a good meal, but from sharing God’s word with others. We should be seeking and finding more avenues to share God’s word with those in need. Otherwise, we will be miserable, like Apostle Paul wrote.

For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.[8]

Or like Jeremiah bemoaned,

But if I say, “I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name,” his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.[9]

Let us, therefore,  do our best to overcome our fears and develop both our talent of speaking publicly and writing. Let us learn to use the new  technology for God’s advantage and to the spreading of His precious words to the lost and needy. Let us make blogs, YouTube channels, Facebook posts, or any of the many other ways to speak up and be heard.  Let us stand up for Jesus and let our light so shine before men that they may see our good works and glorify our Father which is in heaven.[10]

“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you.” ― William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) famous American orator and politician[11]


[1] Daniel 11:33

[2] 2 Corinthians 10:10b

[3] 2 Corinthians 10:11

[4] Daniel 11:33a

[5] John 6:63

[6] Psalm 81:10b

[7] Proverbs 18:20

[8] 1 Corinthians 9:16

[9] Jeremiah 20:9 NIV

[10] Matthew 5:16

[11] https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/310550.William_Jennings_Bryan

Published originally November 6, 2020.

Psalm 13 - How Long Will You Forget Me, O Lord?

 

“A Prayer of the Church, or of a Believer, for deliverance from the Atheistic Faction” Bishop Horsley – (1733-1806) A Psalm of David.

13:1 How long will You forget me, O Lord? for ever? How long will You hide Your face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Dennis Edwards: In the first two verses, the psalmist cries out four times, “How long?” That is often the question we ask God in our complaint, when we are going through some arduous trial or tribulation or persecution. How long will it last, Lord? When will you bring me through to the other side? Jesus even felt the abandonment of God on the cross and shouted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” 

Many a martyr has felt abandoned by God. They had obeyed God and had stayed strong in their convictions, but ended up in the fire or on a cross, or facing some other cruel death. They were tempted to feel and think God had abandoned them

It looked as if God had abandoned Jesus, because Elijah didn’t come and save Him. Yet, three days later He rose from the dead and proved His Messiahship and victory over Satan and death. Apostle John wrote, “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil,” 1 John 3:8b. 

Jesus was slain from the foundation of the world, Revelation 13:8b. God knew beforehand that He would need to redeem His creation, you and me, by coming into the world and dying for us. “Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren,” 1 John 3:16.

Psalm 13:3 Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; 4 Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

The psalmist prays and asks God to enlighten him, to bring light back into his eyes from the discouragement he is feeling under the attacks of his enemies. His anguish of soul is so great, he feels like dying. He pleads with God to hear his prayer and let His presence bring release, surcease from anxiety and suffering.

Psalm 13:5 But I have trusted in Your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in Your salvation. 6 I will sing unto the Lord, because He has dealt bountifully with me.

By faith the psalmist proclaims victory and begins to praise the Lord before the answer has come. He reminds himself that God has always dealt positively with him in the past, and assures himself that God will do so once again. He is reminding both himself and God of God’s promise to rescue and save the righteous. He is reminding God of His faithfulness. 

The psalmist is offering the sacrifice of praise, even before the victory has come. His praise is manifesting the victory before he sees and feels it. He will soon have victory because He knows that God dwells in the praises of His people, Psalm 22:3.

It is good to give thanks and praise unto God. We enter into His presence with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise, Psalm 100:4. Praise the Lord all you saints. “In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you,” 1 Thessalonians 5:18. 

“Rejoice, evermore. And again, I say rejoice!” Philippines 4:6. “It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto Your name, O most High: to show forth Your lovingkindness in the morning, and Your faithfulness every night,” Psalm 92:1-2.

Let us be people of thanksgiving and praise. If you are going through a testing period and the clouds of discouragement have dimmed your view, look up! Your redemption is drawing nigh. Draw nigh to God and He promises to draw nigh to you. Lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees and make straight paths for your feet, Hebrews 12:12-13. 

Don’t let discouragement cause you to fall out of the way. Resist the devil and he will flee from you, James 4:7. God wants to bring healing and victory. Hold onto His word. It is surer than everything else that exists. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but God’s word shall never pass away, Matthew 24:35. “For ever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven,” Psalm 119:89.

Lord, I believe, deliver me from my unbelief and lack of faith. Bring healing and victory! In Jesus’ name, I pray.

Originally published January 13, 2025.

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