II Chronicles 29 (Part 2)

It says, Second Chronicle, 29 and we return to the passage that we started two weeks ago: “...Hezekiah began to reign when he was 25 years old and he reigned 29 years in Jerusalem.

His mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zacharias, and he did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah, there is the key, according to all the things that David, his father, had done . In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them, and he called the priests and the Levites and assembled them in the eastern plaza, and said to them: “Listen to me, Levites, sanctify yourselves now. and sanctify the house of Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and put away uncleanness from the sanctuary, because our fathers have rebelled and have done evil in the sight of Jehovah, our God.” Let's go to verse 10, it says: “...now therefore, I have determined to make a pact with Jehovah, the God of Israel, so that he may turn away from us the fierceness of his anger. My children, do not be deceived now, for Jehovah has chosen you to stand before him and serve him, and be his ministers, and burn incense for him." May the Lord bless his holy word.

Last Sunday, as I was saying, we began this series of studies on what are the laws, what are the secrets that lie beneath, as an underlying foundation of prosperity and blessing. Let me ask a question: how many of you would like to live a prosperous and blessed? Raise your hand. I hope everyone here, if not I know a good psychiatrist that I can recommend. We all want to be blessed in some way and that is part of human nature, the human being wants to preserve himself and have security and walk safely through life and with blessing, that is a natural instinct. And there are laws that govern prosperity in life, just as there are universal laws in the physical realm, which scientists have discovered and are still in the process of discovering, that govern our movement in the physical world, so there are spiritual laws that govern the lives of men and that determine whether they live prosperous lives or unsuccessful lives. There are mysteries that govern human life that we do not even begin to understand, and that if we had the eyes of God we could see many things that we cannot explain why certain circumstances occur in life.

One of the things that we have to do continually as God's people is try to discover, like miners trying to extract gold from the depths of the earth, what are those laws, what are those principles that determine that a person can live a prosperous life. And let me tell you something, as I continue in this series of meditations, when I talk about prosperity, I don't just mean a higher bank account. I'm not just referring to having two BMWs in the carport of your house. I'm not talking about having a house with 18 bedrooms and 4 dishwashers. I am not referring to those things only, although the material and financial blessing is part of the prosperity that God wants to give his children. I am referring rather to a state of fullness and blessing. When the Hebrews spoke of shalom, which is inadequately translated into Spanish, I believe, they were referring to the total well-being that God provides, physical well-being, emotional well-being, family well-being, economic, social, and spiritual well-being, and that is what I think God wants for his people. That is what I believe Christ meant when he said: "I have come that they may have life and have it to the full." It is that prosperity that God wants to give us.

How to live a successful life? How to live a full life? And as we understand and apply these principles, some of them are going to be very sublime and obviously spiritual, and some of them I think are going to be quite practical and quite down-to-earth and run-of-the-mill. But I want to share with you as God grants me these principles over the next few weeks. And you will remember that I told you when I began to meditate on this I wanted to illustrate some of these principles with characters from Scripture and right away one of the characters that came to mind was Hezekiah, King Hezekiah, a very interesting being, very complex. in writing. We see there that Hezekiah was a prosperous king, a blessed king. Firstly starting with the fact that he reigned in Israel for 29 years, almost 30 years he was king over Israel. I would think that 30 years is quite a long time to be the leader of a nation, right? And he was blessed everywhere. We saw that the word says that "wherever he went, God prospered him." Everything he did was blessed and crowned with success.

What were King Hezekiah's secrets? But before going into that, I want to say something that is very important because again, many times when we talk about God wanting to prosper us or that we want to live prosperous lives, there are people who resist that idea and do not see life Christian necessarily as that life that God has called us to live in that state of fullness. Many people enter the Gospel with erroneous models of what the Christian life is and believe many times that Christianity is simply to endure so that God gives us the strength to live poor and suffering and sick lives, and to the maximum that many people aspire to in the Gospel is simply to endure, to endure until Christ comes and takes them out of the misery they have on earth. And brothers, I want to tell you that this is totally false.

We have to change our mental program because God wants to prosper us, God wants to bless us, and every prosperous life begins with an expectation of being prosperous. We cannot enter into the laws of prosperity and blessing unless we previously understand that the normal trajectory of the son, of the daughter of God is towards blessing and prosperity, towards provision, towards the fullness of life. One of my favorite verses, the theme verse, is the one that says: “for the path of the righteous is like the light of the dawn that increases until the day is perfect.” Hallelujah!

Think of your life as that light that begins in the wee hours of the morning, dim, battling the prevailing darkness of night and momentarily begins to shine and drive the darkness away until the fullness of noon comes, dazzling in all its manifestation. This is what God wants the trajectory of your life to be. Perhaps your life began like those dark dawns, perhaps you had a terrible and difficult past. Perhaps your parents never gave you the emotional affirmation that you needed. Perhaps your father abused you, including physically. Perhaps there was a word rather of diffidence and condemnation and guilt and accusation in your life. Maybe you had a love failure. Perhaps you lived in poverty as a child. But you know what? The Lord wants all that to be replaced and replaced with his blessing, with his light, with his prosperity. Don't stay in the patterns of the past, please. Do not stay in the circumstances of your childhood or your past, because in Christ Jesus now all things are made new.

There is blessing for you. That's what the word says, isn't it? That if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature, old things have passed away, behold, all are made new, and unfortunately there are many believers who do not understand the absoluteness of that statement. It is not only on the spiritual level that all things are made new, but I believe that when you receive the Lord in your heart, you go from a spiritual dimension where the devil and evil and negativity rule your life, to a dimension where God's blessing is upon you. Your physical address may not change, but your spiritual address does. The word of the Lord says that "the Lord has transferred us from the kingdom of darkness to his admirable light." The word says that we are placed at the right hand of the Father, we are seated together with Christ in heavenly places. Amen. That means, brothers, that our spiritual destiny has changed, if we are in Christ Jesus.

Unfortunately many of us get into the Gospel but don't change the cassette. We are still playing the same gloomy, sad, pessimistic tune from when we were outside the Gospel. And even many of us have sometimes grown in the Gospel but we have not received the good news that God wants to bless us and prosper us and that is why we are often afraid to undertake new things. We settle for the minimum in life, we don't dare to take an English course, or open a business, or buy a house, or start a relationship, because we are afraid of failing. And many times we have the idea that, and sometimes it's not even an idea, it's something that has penetrated so deeply into us that it's part of the very pores of our being and we're not even aware of the inferiority complex that we have, and That is why when we arrive at a place it is like a curtain descends on us that hides us from those around us and nobody even realizes that we are in that room, because we have secretly turned off the light around us and wherever we are, people don't notice us, they often don't pay attention to us. Projects and proposals of this and that come and the positions are given to others, because secretly there is in us a mental program that absorbs, like a black hole in space, all signs of our presence in the world. And people do not realize that we exist and we have subconsciously turned off all impulse to improve, to fight in life, to undertake challenges, to conquer things and we are satisfied with the minimum of life. And in the name of Jesus we have to say that this is not for me, God wants to bless me. God wants to take me out of anonymity.

God tells me: “I am going to live with the family for the sterile one”, says the Lord. The word says: "to the one who has not given children, how many" e. Calling the one in the dunghill says that God raises him up to live among princes, but it all starts with a change in our mental space. The expectation that God wants to bless us.

We can never ascend to the heights of a Hezekiah, for example, unless we do not understand, that when we are in the Kingdom of God there are now secret nutrients that are filling and nourishing our life, that the things that we undertake now are we undertake with the breath of God behind us. That when we move a little, we feel like someone pushed us further, because the grace of God is behind us. Unlike when you are alone in the world, what happens is that you are fighting with the force of gravity and each step you take is difficult and laborious, because you have a difficulty that you do not understand what is is. When we are in Christ Jesus, the blessing is upon us, and we have to ask the Lord: Father, change my program, change my way of thinking and help me now to see things differently.

There are some brothers here that I was talking to yesterday. I'm going to take the liberty because we had a nice conversation, precious young people in the Lord that God is doing beautiful things in their lives and I know that God has a precious destiny for them. And one of the young men was talking to me about how he grew up in a home where there was a lot of negativity, a lot of pessimism and negative things that were in the family patterns and all of this how it affected his life and the lives of his siblings and how today there are still these negative influences in his life, his parents themselves reflect all that negativity of years and years and how difficult it has been to break that pattern, even when the family is now in the ways of the Lord, there is still that wall of negativity with which they are always struggling, that cold and damp cloth that is on the psyche of all family members. And this person asked me why if one of my parents, for example, knows the Lord and recently entered, 5 years ago he has been in the Gospel, why does he continue with the same negative patterns, to the point that I am already afraid? to talk to my mother on the phone, because what she does is simply throw negativity at me and contaminates me more with it. I was trying to tell him, there are many reasons why people come to the ways of the Lord, they are in church but they continue with those negative patterns. They have not changed their mental space. And one of the things is, I believe, sometimes a lack of instruction from the pulpit, that a new day has dawned when one is in Christ Jesus, that the Gospel is good news, that God is no longer angry with we, that we already have a direct line to the Father, we don't have to get in line to wait for our number to come, no, now we can go directly to Heavenly Father and we can receive help for every situation because Christ has come to break the curse .

When I said that, the event of the paralytic at the pool of Bethesda came to my mind like a flash. And the Bible says there that that paralytic had been there for years, next to the pond because it was said and seems to be true, that from time to time an angel came invisibly and stirred up the waters of the pond. And when the people, the sick who were around the pond, saw that the waters began to move, they knew that it was an angel that was moving them, and there was the belief that the first one to jump into the water would be healed. Do you remember the story? And there was a paralyzed man there, the poor man could not move, the deaf and dumb threw themselves there and were healed, but the poor man was there every day, at the edge of the pond, as a symbol of human misery, close to healing and salvation but without access to it, paradoxically due to the interior limitations of the person.

And the word says that the Lord Jesus Christ came, He approached taking the initiative, as God does. Look how great is the grace of God. Many times in us there is not enough strength even to ask the Lord to heal us and save us and God in his mercy approaches us, breaks the inertia and He himself offers himself and tells us: do you want to be healed? So great is God's mercy, so good are God's intentions for us. And Christ approached the paralytic and said: what's wrong with you, do you want to be healed? And the paralyzed man said: yes Lord, I want to be healthy, but there is a problem and that is that every time the water is stirred up, someone jumps in before me and I cannot be healthy, I cannot heal myself. And the Lord, says the word, who with a word of healing told the man: "get up, take up your bed and walk", and instantly the man was healed and went out glorifying God. And I have always seen that this sign that he took his bed is part, on several occasions that the Lord healed paralytics He told them: take your bed and the paralytics came out carrying the symbol of their fall, their destruction and their defeat, saying I'm above all that stuff.

When Christ does a work in your life, he makes it complete, he puts you above circumstances, he puts you above ailments, he puts you above limitations. But the most important thing, brothers, of that Biblical incident is the fact that there is a way, God manifested himself before men through sacrifices, through efforts, through a laborious system full of work and dependent, often on information that people had and human skills, such as the system of law and sacrifices and all these things that prevented access to many to receive the grace of the Lord. That is the Bethesda system. One had to be agile and fast. Seeing the opportunity and having the speed... it was a competition, you had to jump in and grab the blessing before someone else grabbed it. There was a competition. The blessing was limited. But you know what? In Christ Jesus it is different because the grace of God in Christ Jesus has no limits, it is for everyone. Hallelujah! And it is by faith. And the weaker, the more destroyed, the more problems we have, the more negative our past, the more God wants to manifest his redeeming grace on our lives, the more God wants to bless you and lift you up, and for this reason this paralytic was able to receive the blessing of a generous Christ, merciful, full of grace who said: I want to bless you. You don't have to make sacrifices, you don't have to look for someone to throw you into the water. I am the water of life. I bless you, take your bed and walk and walk to life above the circumstances, not under the circumstances. You understand?

That is the system in which you now move in Christ Jesus, the system of the world, the system of the law, the system that you had to do something for God to love you, for God to approve it. He had to walk on his knees and show the Lord his bleeding knees and spend ten hours kneeling and all kinds of things for the Lord to bless him. That already happened. Now we have a flow of blessing that follows us wherever we go. Now we can say with the psalmist with a convinced heart certainly "good and mercy will pursue me all the days of my life and in the house of the Lord I will dwell for long days". Hallelujah! That is the normal state of a child of God. God wants to bless you. But you need to change the program, you need to alert yourself to this truth that now in Christ Jesus there are good purposes for your life, do not fear. There are many brothers full of anxiety and fear. And I know that life sometimes has not given us good things, but I want to radicalize your mind and tell you now that by being in Christ Jesus you have a God who speaks the word, that "Christ has opened a wide and easy path for reach the Father”, and you can present your needs to God and you can undertake great things in the name of the Lord.

Isaiah says in Chapter 54, “enlarge the site of your tent”, and that is enlarge here, before you put a bigger tent in your life, you have to enlarge the site of that tent first, that is to say the mental space, the conceptual space, and you have to understand that there is a blessing that God wants to give you but that you need to be alert to it first in order to then have access to it. “

Rejoice, oh barren, the one who did not give birth, raise a song and shout for joy, the one who was never in labor, because the children of the forsaken are more than those of the married, Jehovah has said. Enlarge the site of your tent and the curtains of your rooms are extended, do not be scarce, lengthen your ropes, strengthen your stakes, because you will stretch out to the right hand and to the left hand and your descendants will inherit nations and inhabit the devastated cities ". That is God's destiny for your life, my brother, my sister. Fill yourself with that conviction.

My advice to this young man yesterday was that. Don't worry about all those years of spiritual and emotional starvation you went through. Now that you are in Christ, God has good things for you. Start reading the word and isolating all those promises of blessing that are in the Bible. One of the things that I suggest for my brothers who have lived a life of defeat and who live prisoners of depression and anxiety and sadness. Look, you need a diet rich in spiritual vitamins. You need a lot of spiritual protein. Your red blood cells have to increase the count and so I encourage you to look for those passages of Scripture that have promise and to memorize many of them and .................. that space of possibilities in your life, it will become a magnet that will attract blessings into your life.

Confess with your mouth, the mouth of the son of God is radioactive, it is creative. God creates with his mouth and also the children of God create with their mouth. Confess positive things. If you are waiting to feel positive before confessing positive, forget it, that moment will never come especially if you come from a negative background. But when you confess with your mouth, the prosperity of God, the blessing of God, the good intentions of God, that will change your brain and it will reprogram you so that one day you will begin to feel those things. At first you will feel like a big hypocrite by speaking positively but little by little your brain will be reprogrammed. Psychologists know more and more after all the explorations that are being done with the human brain and there are so many ways to trace the formation of brain programs and how the human mind works, they have confirmed time and time again, the brain is the most flexible thing in the world. The brain recalibrates itself and establishes new grooves through which brain communications run, and that often depends on what we visualize. There is a very interesting book, it is called Mozart and the brain of the fighter pilot. It's a book about how the brain works and it's very interesting to see the things that this well-known neuropsychologist says. Much research has discovered that if one visualizes certain things, there are literally areas of the brain that begin to function as if one were currently living them, and the brain begins to fire neurons and neurological connections that make it seem as if one were living those things, as if it were an experience. true. In other words, visualization has tremendous power to restore even the physical structures of the brain.

So when you visualize positive things in the Lord, I am not talking about positive thinking according to men, I am speaking in Christ Jesus, visualize positive things, confess positive things, undertake positive things even if you are trembling with fear, launch yourself in the name of the Lord, do something new and different that scares you and makes you wonder how I got into it. God is going to get you out. God is powerful. Try and if you fall off the horse, get on again until you hold steady. Hallelujah!.

Don't wait until you feel like a lion to roar like a lion. Roar like a lion and perhaps you will be surprised that two or three will run away from you, and little by little you will feel in your heart the heart of a lion. But you have to believe first. Brothers, it is what God has said, not what you say. Your calling is simply confess the word of the Lord. The responsibility is His. Pray for others, some think; Well, I don't have the gift of healing. Look, the Lord has given his anointing to every believer. We said, as Gregory said, we are all ministers even if you don't feel the anointing, pray. Pray for someone, intercede for someone. And that will make your faith increase, that will make your trust in the Lord and who knows, you will be surprised one day, God will heal someone and your faith will increase. Do positive things. Believe in God's blessing. Believe that God has good things for you, then walk in faith. Walk in faith and you will see that faith will begin to be part of your mental, spiritual program. Believe that God wants to bless you. Prosperity starts there. Before Hezekiah can be a king, you have to be an ordinary believer who believes that God's blessing is upon your life.

The Lord says, "because I know the thoughts that I have about you, thoughts of good and not of evil to give you the end you expect." God has brought you into his kingdom so that you may be blessed, so that you may prosper. If you are in the ministry, if you want to work in the ministry, look, God has called you for success. Enter the ministry to reign over the spiritual realm. Don't go in for small things. Believe that God called you and that God has great things for you and stand firm there and serve the Lord, and give him all you can and undertake great things in the name of the Lord and God will prosper you and bless you. "I will be all the days of your life", says the Lord. “Everything that steps on the soles of your feet will be yours. Look, I command you to make an effort and be brave”, says the Lord that I am with you. That is the word for you my brother this afternoon. Receive it in the name of the Lord, change your program. God wants to prosper you. God wants to prosper you.

Let's stand up. Hallelujah! Glory to the Lord. Let's change our program. Let's change our program. Hallelujah! I would like to have ten lives for each life to live successfully in the Lord and prove this principle. Wherever you go, God will go with you. If you go to China there God will bless you. Open a Mexican restaurant and you will see that God prospers it, but God wants to bless you. God wants to prosper you. Don't worry. There are brothers who live in fear. What if the migra caught me and took me back to my country. What if this.... God is the Lord of the moon, of the earth, of Jupiter and of all the planets and galaxies. It is the same wherever it is. He can bless you here, he can bless you at the ends of the earth. God can make water flow from the rock. God can open the sea so that you pass dry. God can make manna fall in the desert to feed you. God can make it so that your shoes do not get old, that your clothes do not get old on your body, that there is light in the midst of darkness, that there is a column of fire to illuminate your walk at night and a column of smoke to cover you in the day and give you a sign of where God wants you. God wants to bless you. He has called you to be prosperous, so that your children grow and be blessed, so that your house does not lack anything necessary. Good and mercy will follow me all the days of my life. Hallelujah! And when all is finished in the house of the Lord I will dwell for long days, says the Lord. God's blessing for your life.

Father, we adore you, we bless you, Lord. Thank you for your Father's heart so big, so big. Thank you because your love is incomprehensible, Lord. Thank you because we would not be scared if we saw the beat of your heart towards us, Lord. How good you are and that's why we love you, that's why we bless you, Lord, that's why we enjoy being in your house. I ask that the minds of my brothers be renewed, Lord, from the youngest to the oldest on this day. Change our mind, Father, change our program. Help us to live aggressive lives in Christ Jesus. The great expectation that you have things for us. Give us conviction, Father. Give us conviction of your blessing. We love you. We rejoice in you and bless your name, Father. We adore you. Thank you Lord Jesus. Amen. Amen.