Being sensitive to God's touch

The author Gary Chapman in his book "The Five Love Languages" talks about the importance of physical touch in our lives. He explains very clearly how a hug, a pat on the back, a caress can communicate love, affection, acceptance and how necessary this is in our lives.

It also tells us that the touch of a word can be a useful affirmation for us to move forward and to overcome obstacles. And if this makes the touch of a person in our lives, and it is so necessary because there are studies that indicate that when this physical touch, this touch of the word is not in our lives, our emotional spine dries up. And we are people with a dysfunctional personality.

For the personality to function emotionally well we need this type of touch. How much more is the touch of God necessary in our lives to change and transform us. For what reason? Because God has created us and as he has created us he is the one who sustains us. He is the one who sustains us, he is the one who holds us, but he is also the one who transforms us.

The touch of God we can see in his word in nature. If you have your Bible, please turn to Psalm 144:5. Says so:

"...O Jehovah, incline your heavens and come down, touch the mountains and they smoke, fire lightning and dissipate them, send your arrows and turbalms, send your hand from on high, redeem me and draw me out of the many waters..."

Here we can clearly see how God's touch has changed nature. Also in the Bible there are many characters who were sensitive to God's touch, characters who not only received God's touch but also allowed it to penetrate their lives, appropriated that touch of God and responded obediently to that touch.

One of them is Jeremiah. I want you to follow me there in your Bible, please, to the book of Jeremiah and look for chapter 1 and then verse 4. It says like this:

“…So the word of Jehovah came to me saying, Before you were formed in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I sanctified you, I gave you as a prophet to the nations and I said, ah, Lord Jehovah, behold, I do not know how to speak because I am a child, and Jehovah told me, do not say I am a child because you will go to everything I send you and you will see everything I send you. Do not fear before them because I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord. And the Lord stretched out his hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me, behold, I have put my words in your mouth…”

Here we can clearly see the call that God makes to Jeremiah. It makes him see the purpose she has for him since before he was born. He encourages him to go with him wherever he sends him, but he also gives him training. He touches his lips and with this he puts a word in his mouth and trains him for what he has to do.

And God wants to do the same to you and me this morning. We all have to go talk about Christ. We don't need to have a big ministry, we can go talk about Christ to the neighbor. A while ago Pastor Omar said, take your neighbor a lunch. And of course, when we take something physical to the neighbor, we can also accompany it and we must accompany it with something spiritual.

And God is going to touch our mouths this morning so that we can talk about Christ to all those who are close to us, so that not a single day goes by without us talking about him.

Here we clearly see the touch of God enabling us. There is no one we can say, it is that I cannot speak about Christ, it is that I do not know much to speak to another. We see that here Jeremiah said, I am a child. God told him, do not say that you are a child, I train you, I put my word in your mouth.

And this touch of God we can also see in Isaiah. Please go with me to Isaiah, chapter 6, look there for verse 5. Here we have something very beautiful, here in Isaiah we are told that there was a king named Uziah. This king had ruled for 43 years, but in these 43 years pride had entered him. Then God comes and gives him leprosy and because of that this king dies. And in that same year Isaiah has a vision of the throne of God, he has a beautiful vision of the throne of God because he sees that there are seraphim on top of it. Those beautiful beings, those celestial beings that have so much energy, that they have 6 wings with which two cover their head, their face, two cover their feet and with the other two you fly.

The whole place was filled with smoke and then Isaiah came and before that beautiful vision he realized the holiness of God. But at the same time that he realizes the holiness of God, of that God who is three times holy, he comes and also realizes his impurity. He realizes the impurity of the lips. When you and I come into the presence of God that is where we realize the holiness of God, the revelation of his holiness comes, but along with the revelation of his holiness comes the revelation of our impurities. If we do not realize all the impurities that we have, because we have them, we are not perfect, it is because we do not go to the presence of God, because it is there in the presence of God where these revelations come.

And when Isaiah realizes this, look what happens, the angel comes and flies towards him and there at the altar he grabs with his hand, with some tongs, a burning coal and passes it through Isaiah's lips, and says Isaiah:

“…Behold, the flying angel came with a live coal and touched my lips and said to me, “I have touched your lips, I have taken away your guilt and I have taken away your sin.”

It is God cleansing the iniquity in Isaiah. It is God cleaning your lips with the divine touch that changes, transforms and cleanses. And why has he also cleansed his heart? He has cleaned his heart because when he cleanses our lips, when he cleanses what we speak, he is cleaning our hearts, because our lips are the result of what we have in our hearts.

From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. And why did God cleanse this area in Isaiah? Why her lips? Because it was the area where he wanted to use it. After he wipes her lips he tells her,

“…Who will go for us? Isaiah is already ready to tell me, behold, send me…”

And when I, you and I, receive the call of God and we say, behold, send me, and by the call of God I say again, it is not a call to the nations. It is not a call to another place. Good if God gives it, but sometimes the call that God is making to us is to our own family, sometimes the call that God is making to us is to our own neighborhood. Sometimes the call that God is giving us is to the people with whom we work.

And God needs to clean up certain areas in our lives in order to use us. If we are not being used by God, let us ask him if what happens is that we are not letting him clean the areas that need to be cleaned. How are we going to know them? How are you going to reveal them to us? When we go to his presence, there comes his revelation, the revelation of what we have to change, the decision to change also comes there, the need to change, but another very beautiful part also comes, when God touches us he also comes the need to obey him.

When God tells him who to send, he says, here I am, send me. And God also gives us will for service. God wants you and me, when God calls us, to have the will to serve.

I want you to come with me to First Samuel, in the 10th chapter. Keep your eyes on verse 27. Samuel had received the command from God to anoint Saul as king and he comes and then he takes a vial of oil and places it on his head. Then God comes and changes, changes, transforms, the heart of Saul. And Saul, already anointed as king, and with a changed heart begins to prophesy. At that time the people of Israel had a theocratic government. God ruled them directly, God had taken care of protecting them, God had taken care of them, had taken charge of directing them, however, what the people wanted was to have a king of flesh and blood.

What they wanted was to have a king like the other nations. They said that a king like the one the other peoples had, the other nations was the king who was going to defend them when they were attacked. And then Samuel comes and gathers all the peoples and he is going to present Saul as king, Saul as the chosen one of God because of the request they were making. And Samuel makes all the people see that God is giving them that king because they are asking for it, because it was not God's will for Israel at that time.

But the permissive will of God also enters here, as they requested, since God gave it to them, it was the permissive will of God although it was not his sovereign will. And when Samuel starts looking for Saul, he doesn't find him. He was a young man and he had hidden somewhere among the baggage. Finally he appears and presents it and when he presents it many of the people begin to cheer him, long live the king! Long live the king!. And Samuel comes and then he reads all the laws that he had to present to the people, he also writes them down and then he sends everyone home, including Saul, to his house in Gaba and says here in the word of God, in verse 27 following:

“…Saul had been anointed king. God had moved his heart and the spirit of God had come upon him and he was prophesying. And then it says so, and Samuel sent all the people, each one to his house. Saul also went home to Gaba, and the men of war whose hearts God had touched went with him..."

It is God who touches our hearts so that we have the will to serve him. This morning I know that God is going to touch your heart so that you have the will to serve those children's ministries that need servers. The harvest is great we saw it here, and the workers few.

I think it should have been the other way around, that there were too many servers and too few families, but we saw that it is the other way around. This morning I cry out for God to touch the hearts of those who he wants to go to that service to help children, also special children, and that we be sensitive to God's touch and respond willingly.

And those whom God had touched his heart went after Saul to serve him. They did not see who was the leader, they did not see if they liked it, if they did not like it, simply God had touched their hearts and they had the will to do it. But those for whom God did not touch their heart or perhaps touched it but did not realize that God was touching their heart, look at what it says in First Samuel 10:27:

“…But some wicked people said, how can this one save us? And they held him in little, and they did not bring him presents more than dissimulation…”

Not bringing him presents meant that they did not recognize him as God had made him king. And when God calls us, we don't have to see if we like the place, if we like who runs it, what we have to see is that God is calling us to serve him.

Elijah was also another man sensitive to God's touch. Elijah was a mighty man in God. Elijah had been a tremendously used man by God and not only was he tremendously used by God, he was a courageous man in every sense of the word. He had dared to challenge all the Baals telling them to prove who the true God was. And they had all started to cry out to their gods to see which of them all made fire come down from heaven because that was the true God. And the only one who makes fire come down from heaven was our God, his God and my God, because that is the true God.

And I want you to give a round of applause to that true God who is the only one who makes fire come down from heaven. And Elias, after this, kills all those men who were about 40. And what do you think? After having killed 40 of the Baals, he runs away and flees from a woman named Jezebel. This woman had ordered him to be killed, and he is running away, he is tired, he is discouraged, he is dejected because on top of the fact that they are persecuting him and on top of all the achievements that he has had, which had been enough, he wanted more, he he wanted all the people of Israel to turn to God and that had not been fully achieved. He felt dejected, he said, and now they persecute me, I am the only one left of the prophets.

And when he is lying on the ground dejected, so dejected that he is asleep, what happens? He begins to cry out to God before going to sleep, he sits under a juniper tree and tells him, God take my life because I am no better than my parents. And that very wise God that we have does not always respond to the requests of our hearts, thank you for your wisdom, because imagine what this man was asking of him, he was asking him to kill him and he was running away from a woman who wanted to kill him.

And sometimes the prayers we make to God are a little incongruous, but God, who is wise, knows what we need. And he responds many times more to what we need than to what we ask for. And he knew that what Elías needed at that moment was to get stronger, what he needed was to eat. And he sends her a loaf of bread and sends her water. Elijah obeys because the angel comes, touches him and tells him, get up and eat. Elijah obeys sensitive to God's touch, gets up and eats the cake. He doesn't start to find out who made the cake, what they made it from.

Sometimes when God wants to touch us through someone, oh, but I don't want that person to pray for me, I want that person to pray for me. I like it. No, Elías obeyed the touch, got up and ate but went back to sleep. I was very tired, very down. And God came and sent the angel again and the angel came, touched him a second time and said, get up and eat because a long road awaits you. He restores him, lifts him up, strengthens him, but also gives him an order to keep going and not get stuck. And now that Elias has been strengthened by the angel's touch, and Elias has been strengthened by what he has eaten, he is capable of walking 40 km. I think that Elijah walks in 3 or 4 days and 4 nights to do what God commands him to do.

God strengthens him and many times in walking in the Lord we will be like Elijah, exhausted, tired, discouraged that we can't take it anymore. And we can get to the point of saying to God, take my life. And we can get to the point of saying to God, take my life, do you know why? Because we don't have God's purpose clear, God's purpose in our lives gives us strength, God's purpose in our lives gives us encouragement, God's purpose in our lives will give us joy, it will give us joy, He will give us praise, but when God's purpose is lost, sadness comes, depression comes. For what reason? There is no purpose, another day the same. But when we have God's purpose in our lives, of course, every day is a beautiful day, because we know that the new mercies of God are on our lives every day and we know that those mercies of God that I receive every day of my life as high as from heaven to earth, as immense as eternity will serve me for something, so that I can be merciful to others as God is merciful to me.

And I believe that many of us, I have needed it at times in my life, I have needed the touch of God waking me up. And do you know what God's touch had to wake me up from? Of comfort. There is something very nice called comfort. We all want to be comfortable in all areas of our lives, even when we come to church to sit down. And it's good. I have introduced you to my church, I have presented to you the seats that my church has, they are delicious, very comfortable, but there is a limit to comfort that is no longer good. And that limit when I am so comfortable that I no longer look at the needs of another and God needs to wake us up from that comfort.

I would like an amen. Sometimes my beloved brother we are so comfortable that we don't even want to. Elijah was shaken from that comfort, as we know that today God is going to shake some of us. We have seen examples in the Old Testament, we are going to see an example in the New Testament of God's touch.

We can see God's touch in the New Testament healing, we can see it healing people. You know when Jesus comes and touches the leper, he touches him and what happens? The touch of God removes his leprosy and that man who was a leper suddenly stops being a leper by the touch of God. That man who had been rejected by everyone, that man who was marginalized, who when he entered a place everyone ran away and left him a space because they did not want anything near him. That man is transformed, he is changed, he passes from the state of illness to the state of health by the touch of God.

And many times we are healed of different types of leprosy. Leprosy from abuse, leprosy from wounds, leprosy from emotional pain, leprosy from any disease, and it is up to us to decide whether we receive that touch from God and start walking in a different way. Perhaps if we come walking like lepers and we have to start walking like healthy people, but sometimes God touches us, God heals areas of our lives and we continue walking as if he had not healed us. And it is then the person that God can heal you, God today touches you and heals you, oh yes, and if he doesn't heal me? And if here and 20, 30, 40 arguments to determine that God cannot heal us. And perhaps God has healed us of all those leprosy and we insist on continuing walking as we were before being healed because we didn't know anything else.

But God can heal anything in our body. God can heal anything in our hearts. We can see the touch of God when God heals the blind. They were blind, receive the touch of God in their eyes and regain their sight. And one of the most significant touches in the word of God is the touch that he gives to Peter's mother-in-law. Pedro's mother-in-law was prostrate. Being prostrate is an unpleasant state, it is a state that prevents us from doing things, I was annihilated, I had a fever. But Jesus comes, touches his hand and what happens? The fever leaves her. And she gets up and serves it.

There is a question. What has annihilated in our life the service to God? What has stopped in our life the service to God? What has prostrated us not to move on? Sometimes even in all the walk of the Lord, we begin to feel stagnant, we feel like we are stagnant and we have to go before God and ask him, what is stagnating me? What is stopping me? What has stopped me from all that potential that God gave me? What has stopped me from all that potential that God gave me to use? What has stopped me that all that potential that God gave me can be put into practice so that I can do great things through you?

And when the potential that God has given us is stopped, annihilated for some reason, life begins to become monotonous, the Christian life begins to become routine. I enter the church, I leave the church, I enter, I leave, but everything remains the same. I don't see the signs that his word says that they should accompany me. They will lay hands on the sick and they will be healed, they will cast out demons, all these signs must accompany us. What is killing that power of God to accompany us as Christians?

We ask God, God reveals it and God comes, touches that area of our life and what happens? It heals us. If we go back a little bit to the Old Testament we are going to see in Genesis, we are going to see the story of Jacob. You will find that in Genesis in chapter 32, there you will find that Jacob goes to meet his brother Esau, and leaves his wife, leaves his children, leaves his servants and goes by himself, and when he he is alone, the angel of Jehovah appears to him and they begin to fight, that fight begins between the two of them and in that fight the angel of Jehovah comes and touches the socket of his thigh here and it gives him a limp. And then this man Jacob comes along and he's lame for life.

And what that limp in Jacob means is that what God was doing was laying down a part of his life called pride. He was eliminating, he was nullifying Jacob's personal will so that he could do only God's will.

And if we all have something, what is it? Our will comes out every little while. It is very easy to start losing what God's will is for my life, to start doing my own will, even in service. Sometimes we start very well, doing the will of God, but soon this pride that we have here begins to raise strong images and I begin to want to do my will even in service to the Lord. And then God has to come who has different methods and uses me to become lame in some areas of my life.

And they know that this limp is what makes us remember all the time that he is in control and not us. That limp reminds us all the time who our God is and who we are.

God's touch is necessary for our life to be surrendered to him. God's touch will come in those areas that we have not wanted to give up. The touch of God is going to come in those areas that we have not surrendered the will to.

God, I give you my life, all of it, all of it, but my bag… I manage that. And God comes and gives us a limp in the stock market. We better give it to him. If we hand it over to her, she's going to abound, if I stay with her... she's going to limp. It is better to give the areas that we love the most to him because when we give them to him, he makes them prosper, but if we stay with it, God has to bring them down.

And a very beautiful touch here in the word of God is the touch that he gives to Daniel. You can find it in the book of Daniel, I think it's chapter 10. Daniel was a man who searched for God a lot. Daniel fasts for three weeks and after those three weeks of fasting he comes and is on the bank of a river. And then a sublime being appears to him, dressed in linen here on his shoulders full of gold, and he begins to speak to Daniel. But the voice and the whole figure was so wonderful and it was so big that Daniel couldn't resist it and he fell on two feet and two hands with his face prostrate on the floor.

And then this beautiful figure comes and touches him. And then that makes Daniel get up, he says, get up. And Daniel gets up and that figure starts talking to him, but it has such a wonderful voice of thunder that Daniel is so shocked that he is speechless. That beautiful figure comes again and touches him again and then Daniel recovers his speech.

And that beautiful figure begins to tell Daniel everything he is going to do in his town, everything that is going to happen in the last days. And Daniel says to him, “but how am I going to be able to continue talking to you and answering you if you are so beautiful, so wonderful that I lose all my strength, I lose all my vigor, I am completely without any strength, without any vigor and I even am I dumb?" And that beautiful figure that is God comes and tells him, "I give you strength." And he touches it again for the third time. Now he gets up and can talk.

God will touch us as many times as we need it. And if we want, like Daniel, to have those revelations from God, those revelations from God that are going to tell me what he is going to do with my life, those revelations from God that are going to tell me what is going to be with my family, those revelations from God that tell me what he is going to do with my church, those revelations from God that tell me what he is going to do with my country. If I want to have those revelations, I have to do something, I have to seek God. I cannot have those revelations and have those marvelous touches from God that are going to show me that sublime and marvelous presence of him, if I do not enter his presence.

And do you know why sometimes we don't enter his presence, to have those revelations? They are not just for Daniel, they are not just for the Old Testament, those revelations are for you and they are for me. Do you know why we don't have them? Because there is something that sometimes ends in our lives, it is the hunger for God. There are stages in life when the hunger for God ends. There are stages in our life when we are hungry for everything except God. There are stages in our life when we are satisfied with many things, my beloved brothers, except God.

There can be no revelations, there can be no such personal encounters with him if we don't look for him. The hunger for God is necessary. The hunger for God every time has to be bigger. Do you know why? Because the hunger of God is the one that satisfies. There is nothing else, there is no other bread that will satisfy you more than him, the other bread gets moldy, it is temporary, but the bread that God gives us is eternal and imperishable.

Now, why does God's hunger end? Why do we stop looking for God? The psalmist said, at dawn I will look for you, my soul longs for you, my flesh longs for you, my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in arid places. I was in a difficult situation. I was in a desert, there was no water, there was no vegetation, there was nothing. And there the psalmist longed for God. For what reason? Because he knew that if he looked for him at dawn, when we seek God at dawn, God will reveal all his characteristics to us, he will reveal everything we need to be able to meditate on him at night in our bed.

He is going to give us everything that you and I need so that in those vigils at night we can be close to him. And you know, the psalmist knew that if he sought God at dawn, if his soul yearned for him, his soul would be filled with fatness and grain and he would be able to say, my soul is attached to you. His soul and my soul must be attached to him.

But for that you need a hunger for God. Do you know what sometimes makes us lose our hunger for God? There are two basic and fundamental things. I am going to paint them as a triangle. There is one here and another here, and when we have those two, there is a third here in the triangle that is the hunger for God. When these two of the corners are missing, the third is missing. And do you know what they are? Reverent fear of God, is one. We have lost the reverent fear of God. There is no fear of the things of God.

When we fear God, that reverent fear, there is something very important, there is respect. Respect is part of the fear of God. And when there is respect, my brothers, that respect, respect for your word, respect for your presence, do you know what this respect does? That respect means that I am not in the conversations that I should not be. That respect makes me not go to places where I should not go. That respect for God means that I don't look at what I shouldn't see. It is necessary, my beloved, that respect as part of the fear of God return to our lives.

And do you know what else we have lost that also makes the hunger for God go away? We have forgotten the sacrifice of the cross. The sacrifice of the cross represents the greatest love that God has had for you and me, but it is a love only for you and me, it is a love for those who are outside, for those who do not know him and we forget that great immense love. We have to return again and again and again to the cross, to remember the immense love of God for that sacrifice of his Son for you and for me, and for others.

And when we constantly have those two things, automatically the hunger for God comes. If you remember God's love for you, the sacrifice on the cross, if you have respect for God, there is a hunger for God. And when there is a hunger for God, when we are satisfied at dawn to have something to meditate with at noon and in the vigils of the night, you know what? You and I are going to be so full of God's love and when we are so full of God's love, we can't stop giving it to another. And it is then where there is no one who is in front of whom we do not speak of God, because we have him abundantly, because we are so satisfied with him that the only thing we can do is give and give of what we have.

That's what God wants this morning for you and me. God wants to touch us today, God wants to touch us today. God wants to give us different touches today to eliminate everything that is preventing us from serving him and he wants to give us a very special touch, the touch that will make us hunger for God.

Stand up. I thank you, Father. Father, close your eyes, it's between you and God. God is going to touch you today in the area that you need, remember one thing, you decide if you are sensitive or not sensitive to God's touch. It's up to you if you appropriate that touch of God. You decide if you appropriate it, if you receive it, if you let it change you and if you obey that touch of God.

Close your eyes so that you have that fellowship with God. Don't be distracted by anything and let God's touch come upon your life. Father, touch us, touch us in the area where we need. You know each one by name, Father, touch today those who are dejected, touch today those who are asleep due to some circumstances, touch today those who are asleep to the needs of others. Put your hand touching them today, God. Today, Father, touch those who are discouraged, those who are in comfortable situations, who have stagnated, who no longer feel that they can move on. Touch them today, God, touch them.

It touches today everyone who feels that they have remained stagnant, that they have not reached the limit of potentiality, that they have not been able to develop their potential, that you have given them. It touches the one who feels that their life day by day, by day, is routine, it is the same, it is stagnant.

Play it today, God, play it today, wake it up. Wake up, break at the root of what has led us to be routine, those that have led us to be comfortable, what has led us to not be sensitive to the need for another. Touch it, God.

God, touch us to shake us out of comfort. Thank you for the comfort that you give us, but touch us so that this comfort does not go to the limit where that comfort is no longer useful, Father.

If you need God to shake you this morning, ask him. God, we all need your touch, there is no one who does not need your touch. If you have been discouraged in your life, discouraged in the work of God, if you feel that you have not reached where God wants you to, in the potential of your life, ask God for a touch this morning. Look, Elijah was on the point of death, on the verge of death, as dejected as perhaps you and I have never reached dejection, and yet there came the touch of God, the two touches of God that you need one or two, three touches of God, because your despondency is so great, ask him but do not leave without the touch of God.

That touch of God that lifts you up and will give you vision and purpose for your life. That touch of God that will take you out of comfort, that touch of God that will wake you up and open your spiritual eyes. Father, this morning touch our spiritual eyes so that we may see the need of another. Touch our spiritual eyes so that we see what you have for us in your kingdom, what we have to do for you, Father. Perhaps we have done a lot, a little, but Father, open our eyes to see how much more, how much more needs to be done.

Father, come today and touch us, touch us, Father. It touches the areas that have annihilated us, it touches the areas that, like Pedro's mother-in-law, have made us incompetent. Touch the areas that have had us prostrate. Ask God to reveal to you what area of what has held you back, annihilated. What is the area that has not let you take off in this service to God?

Ask him for a touch in that area. Also ask him to touch the area in which he is going to use it, so that you surrender to that area and there is a total cleaning of that area. If you God reveals to you that you need your mouth to be touched because your mouth is being opened for things other than the word of God, ask him to touch your mouth. Ask him to touch your hands so that they may be fruitful hands in God's work, hands full so that you can return home at night with your hands full of the harvest of what you have done for God and not return with hands empty.

Surrender your hands to God. Surrender your hands to God. Surrender your feet to God so that you can go to the places where you have to go, that there is no impotence, weakness in your knees, weakness in your feet to seek what touches your feet today, I make them as a servant so that you can go where you send it.

Father, give us the touch that enables you, be permeable to the touch of God that will enable you. There is no one who cannot do the things that God asks them to do. Let God touch you today by enabling you. Ask for God's empowering touch. The touch of God that will enable you to do what God tells you.

Ask him for the touch of God that enables him, the strength he needs, the strength he gave Elijah, to no longer go in his own strength, to go in the strength of God. Tell him, I want to go in your strength to do your work, in the strength of God so that you can see great things that you have not yet seen, great things that you have not yet seen. You know, walking in the Lord is more than coming to church, going in and out, walking in the Lord is doing great things through him as he did, greater things you will do, he says. Do you want to see great things in your life? Walking in the Lord has great things for you. Walking in the Lord has great revelations for your life.

But you know, those revelations are found when we are filled with his presence. If you need God's touch to be hungry for God, ask him at this moment, Father, I cry out your touch of your hunger for this congregation. Father, you know, touch those who have to be touched today to hunger for you. That hunger that when we are satisfied we want more of you, Father, touches this congregation so that they hunger for you, hunger to be satisfied with you, with your presence, so that it may be a congregation that seeks you at dawn, that can meditate on you in the watches of the night; Father, let it be a congregation so that I can say, my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you. I will look for you at dawn.

Father, I cry out to you that it be a congregation that can say that you have satisfied it, that you have satisfied it with your fatness, with your core and that is why they say, my soul is attached to you. Father, we cry out to you for a congregation with souls attached to you, for a congregation sated by your presence, so sated, so full that the only thing it can do is give, and give, and give to those outside, because it has so much of you, is so satisfied, so surplus that it can give and give, and give to others, to those who are near and to those who are far away.

Beloved Father, I declare this congregation is a congregation where respect for you prevails. I declare that it is a congregation where respect for your word prevails, where your word is heard with reverence, where your word is implanted in the hearts of people.

Father, I declare that it is a congregation that lives your word, I declare that it is a congregation that goes to the cross all the time and every day to remember your great love in that sacrifice so that we can give it to others, Father. I declare this morning a congregation full, full, full, satiated with you, a congregation in which the hunger for your presence will never, ever, ever be lacking in the name of Jesus.

Give this God a round of applause and believe, believe, believe, believe, believe, believe that God wants you to be able to say, my soul is attached to you. The Lord bless you greatly and abundantly.