Omar Soto - The joy of the Lord, my strength is

How many believe that in half an hour I can bring a 6-page message? You have to have faith, so pray. Let me pray to bless us through the word of the Lord.

Father, we give you glory and honor, Lord, because we know that until now you have been with us, Jesus. We know that now that we have reached the moment where we share your word, Jesus, your word is a word that gives life, your word is a word that encourages, confronts, and challenges us, so Lord, I ask that now, in this moment, our ears, our hearts, our minds, our entire being is ready, available to receive your word, Jesus. We glorify you Lord. I ask you, Lord, to use my words, Jesus. You know the request that I have before you, Lord, so I trust that you will answer them. In the name of Jesus. Amen.

Well, brothers, I want first of all to say hello to the people who are watching us on the Internet, too. We have to get used to greeting each other. We know that we have people who are watching us from South America, so we send greetings to you from South America, a great blessing to you, to the brothers in Mexico as well and anywhere else where you are watching us through the Internet. We send you greetings from the León de Judá congregation.

Brethren, we all know that this year has begun with a very great call that has been placed on us as a church. God has given us a call as individuals, as men, as women, as young people, young people are not left out of this message either, not even children.

God has called us to be a church of anointing, to be a church of joy, a church that knows how to live in that new dimension to which He calls us. Now, but my brothers, there is something very interesting and it is that this anointing is not received in a passive way, the anointing is received in an active way. Because God is calling each one of us to have a militant mentality. Militant means a persistent mentality, a war mentality, a mentality that is always aware of the things around you, the environment around you, the people around you, the need for those people and even the need for yourself as a individual, as a man, as a woman. God calls us to have an alert and militant mentality.

Now, but brothers, it is important to understand that this call comes with a series of challenges and blessings for our lives as well. God's call has never been easy for any individual. Responding to God's call has always been a very difficult, very arduous task, but it always brings with it great, rich and abundant blessings. Throughout history I have focused a lot on the example of the disciples, brothers, I believe that since the year's farewell service the pastor shared with us that vision that God has planted in him, which I understand comes out genuinely from the heart of God.

I have been meditating a lot on the church of the Book of Acts, that first church that began to be founded with the disciples centuries ago. I imagine how interesting it was for each of these disciples to have responded to God's call. First of all, Jesus approaches ordinary men, men who had no academic degree, men who perhaps had no vision for the future, just fishing and doing what they were doing. More, however, it was those people that God calls. And there was something about Jesus, there is something about Him that when He reached out to them, they had no choice but to respond to that call. And they responded with everything and their doubts about who this man was, but at least something they knew was in the person of Jesus, and they had to respond, they had to obey.

Now, on that pilgrimage, my brothers and sisters, we all know that there were many ups and downs. We all know that the disciples were not perfect from the beginning. They had their experiences with Jesus, they walked with Jesus, they ate with Jesus, they saw the miracles that Jesus did, they also had the opportunity to do miracles, to share the message as well, that Jesus was bringing the message of the Kingdom of God, but not it was not until the holy spirit descended upon them that they were then equipped to fully carry out the mission to which they were entrusted.

My brothers know, the mission of preaching the Gospel in every language, to every nation, is something that no human being can do of their own will or by their own strength. None of us present here, none of us have the capacity to spread the Gospel message by their own strength, by their own will. You and I need a special ability from God to be able to do that. We need to be invested by the power of God, by the anointing of God so that we can then open our mouths and communicate a word that does not reach the other person hollowly, but rather reaches those who receive it with impact and conviction.

That message, my brothers, was a message that was going to cause a revolution. If you look at the person of Jesus, Jesus caused a revolution at the time He was walking on the earth. The message of Jesus was upsetting the status quo of society at that time, it was upsetting the political and religious system of the Jews, and on top of that it was also upsetting the political system of the Romans.

For those of you who don't know, Jesus, at the time of Jesus, the Jews ruled society politically but above the Jews was the rule of the Romans as well. Everything that happened at the level of Jewish society, in one way or another was also going to be affected at the level of the Roman system. And if the Romans found out about that, then the Jews were going to be in trouble, because the Romans were going to say: 'what's wrong, you can't control this man like that, ignorant, one, you can't control him. ? They have to do something because otherwise we are going to have to intervene.

So if you see the scale of what Jesus came here to this world, it was not just a message of love and peace, and how beautiful you look, how good, God loves you very much. It wasn't just that, but it was a very confrontational message. Jesus, if he had to say something to someone's face, he would tell them. He wasn't going to go with words right, well, if He used His proper words. But the thing was, if He had to confront someone, He would confront. And if He had to love somebody, He was going to love somebody. And the disciples then when the time comes for them to be able to take that call from God and they respond to that call, they were going to do the same. They were going to continue to upset that status quo in Jewish society and in Roman society as well. They knew what they were getting into. They knew that they were gambling with their own lives, but they were assured that their lives no longer belonged to them, but belonged to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. They knew that their lives were more than safe. They knew their lives were in danger, but they were convinced who had called them.

I want you to go with me to the Book of Acts, Chapter 4. I would like to explore a little more about what it means to live in the anointing and joy of God. In Ephesians 4, verse 13, Acts, Chapter 4, verse 13 (brothers are awake, I like that, very good!). you know what? I'm going to be very interactive brothers, the more that I have less time I'm going to be very interactive so 'Camera man, get ready, you will have to follow me 'cause I'm going to be moving around.'< P> Acts, Chapter 4, verse 13, says: "... Then seeing the boldness of Peter and John and knowing that they were men without letters and of the vulgar, they were amazed and recognized that they had been with Jesus, and seeing the man who had been healed who was standing with them (because he was a man who was paralyzed), they could not say anything against Peter and John. So they ordered them (this is talking about the Pharisees, the leaders there in the council of the Jews), then they ordered them to leave the council and they conferred with each other. And they said 'boys, we have a serious problem. What are we going to do with these men? We had a problem with Jesus and now we are seeing it multiplied with these men. Praise God for that. Thank goodness for that kind of problem, for some people. What are we going to do with these men because a certain manifest sign has been done by them, notorious to all those who live in Jerusalem and you know what?, we cannot deny it. However, we are going to put our malicious mind to machining. So that it does not spread among the people, we are going to threaten them so that from now on they will not speak to any man in that name of Jesus, and calling them they intimidated them not to speak or teach in the name of Jesus in any way. But Peter and John, knowing in whom they have believed and in whom they have trusted, answered them saying, 'men, judge for yourself whether it is fair before God to obey you before God, because we cannot help but say what we have seen, nor what we have heard. We cannot stop talking about what we have seen or what we have heard.”

I believe, my brothers, that when I start to reflect on what it means to live in the anointing of God, there are several things that come to my mind. I believe that everyone here wants to live in the anointing of God, right? If I ask you for a show of hands, how many of you would raise your hand that you want and want to live in the anointing and joy of God? Let see your hands. I guess everyone here, right? I believe that even those who do not know Jesus yet in their lives, can say in their hearts: 'yes, my gosh, I want to, why not?'

Now, but let me ask another question. How many of you are willing to pay the price to live in the anointing and joy of God? Not many hands went up. I heard amen, but not many hands went up. Let's see I'm going to ask the question again, with a show of hands and amens also it doesn't matter how many of you are willing to pay the price to live in the anointing and joy of God? Oh, oh, oh..... look at the following brothers, I want you to pay close attention.

Maybe I'm going to get a little emotional but I think we understand with our minds too. I believe that one of the most difficult steps to be able to live in the joy and anointing of God is deciding to do so. It is deciding to do it. The Apostle Paul, in the book of Philippians, Chapter 2, he says that it is God who puts in us both wanting and doing, of course. All of us can want to live in the anointing of God. I want to live in the anointing of God. My wife wants to live in the anointing of God. All.

But we are willing to do it, we are willing to make the decisions that have to be made in order to live fully and completely in the anointing and joy of God. Why do I say this, my brothers? One of the things that involves living in God's anointing takes sacrifice. And it's not just any kind of sacrifice because, look, I know people who sacrifice themselves, for example, to support their families. There are people who work 3, 4 jobs and that is a very big sacrifice to support their family, to be able to pay the rent, to be able to have food, to buy at least one pair of shoes a year. That's a kind of sacrifice, isn't it? Yeah.

There are people who have to sacrifice, travel perhaps one, an hour and a half to get to work or to get to a school to take their children to a better school, because maybe the The neighborhood school isn't very good, and that's a kind of sacrifice. You have to get up at 5 in the morning, to grab the car in cold weather, with a lot of snow and to be able to get where you need to go. That's a kind of sacrifice and a lot of people go through that.

There are people who maybe after this service have to go to work and that is a sacrifice. But the sacrifice that I am talking about, brothers, does not have so much to do with those physical things that we do in daily life. It has more to do with sacrifice of the soul, sacrifice of character, sacrifice of our mentality, of our way of thinking.

You know, these are things that are not very easy to leave behind, because there are times when the character when it becomes something that is already usual, if I take for example the character, because there are people who have a character God bless you. If we take character, for example, someone who recognizes 'wow, my character is not the best of all worlds and I know that my character sometimes prevents me from not only relating to others, but also prevents me from getting closer to God. And I want God to do things my way and God can't do things my way.' So therefore a person who recognizes that, who already knows that ingrained in his character there is such a half-malicious way of working with things around them, how much sacrifice is it going to take for that person to cast all that kind of character aside and allow God's new character to form in their life? Because this is not easy brothers.

I myself can identify my character and I can enumerate, ok, I have to change in this, I have to change in this, I have to change in this, but I am taking responsibility with someone else who tell me 'hey, Omar, let's see your list, what are you doing? I can say to myself 'ah, okay, I'll work on that some other day, but if I didn't have someone behind me who is giving me 'hey, how are you? what are you doing? It is very difficult, brothers, for another person to come and say to me, 'Omar, look, this mentality of yours that you have, that there are times when you have a great lack of faith and it is difficult for you to accept things. what are you doing with that? Don't see, come mention that, I'm not here to think about that right now. I don't want to know about my deficiencies. I want to see how I can improve. Hey, if you want improvements, you have to work with it, one way or another.

People who are perhaps tied to some kind of vice or some kind of addiction. Not long ago, I was watching on the Discovery Channel how people who have been tied to some kind of addiction, be it drugs, be it sex, be it alcohol. Brothers, it's very interesting how people literally tie themselves with steel ropes to that. Because in them is the good will to stop doing it. They know it's wrong. Somehow or another in their mind they know they can't keep doing that, that one or two is nothing. But somehow or another in their being they are saying 'but, I have to stop doing this, because I want something better'. This prevents God from flowing in my life in a fuller, more complete way in one way or another. But he can't, he says, brothers because it's difficult for them. They can start and spend a week and then come back again. If they don't have a group of people around them to support them, to mentor them, to encourage them, those people come back and another one falls on those paths, and when they fall, brothers, it's worse than the first. It is worse.

Do you know why? Because it is that I eat the meat of one that adapts to those things. For our humanity so fallen those things that become addiction, he likes one's meat, he likes it. There are people who cannot be at a party if it is not with a Crown and a little piece of lemon in their hand. There are people who if they don't smoke a pack of cigarettes within 5 hours, they are not happy. They have no joy. Because? Because there isn't that ingredient that supposedly satisfies that fallen humanity. But you know what, my brothers, that is part of living in a new dimension. Because I recognize that those weaknesses are in me and I have, I have, if the desire to live in the anointing and joy of God is in me, I have to make a conscious effort to sacrifice all those things that somehow or another satisfy me, but I know that this satisfaction does not come from God. A satisfaction that covers me like this momentarily and nothing more.

You have to make a concrete decision and surround yourself with people who are going to help you overcome all these things. That sacrifice is difficult to do, but once you take it convinced that this is what you want, and convinced not only of that, but of God's promises that if God says 'I am the one who puts in you I am going to support you, both wanting and doing, so that you can reach that goal that you have.” It is the Lord who supports us to be able to fulfill those things that we long for and desire so much.

Now, living in God's anointing does not mean that everything is going to be difficult, contradictory, or conflicting, because there are also positive things, brothers. How many say love for that? One of these things, look how interesting, one of these things is knowing that God sees something in us and that He wants to use it. The sense of being needed or needed. All of you, I look at all of you now, and all of you have a great desire to be needed. Y'all, if someone walks up to you and says 'look, I need you for something', I mean not in an abusive way, but if they say 'I need you for something', something in your mind is like it's going to register 'wow, I'm important. They need me. I can do something'. If a husband says to his wife 'hey, I love you, I love you, I need you in my life', that wife, I say, if it is in a healthy and healthy relationship, because maybe there are some marital relationships that are not very good and if suddenly the husband says 'I love you, I want you, I need you', the wife is going to pretend that 'yeah, right', like your character doesn't match what you're telling me. Hey, and vice versa, girl, don't laugh, don't laugh. It's something that goes vice versa too. The men are there too. But let's say it's a healthy and healthy relationship, if a man says to his wife 'hey love, I love you, I want you, I need you, you're part of me', that wife is going to melt like butter. Similarly, if the wife tells the husband "hey love, pimp, I love you, I want you, I need you," that husband will completely shudder. But it all comes from that desire to be needed.

Let me talk to singles too so they don't get left behind. Singles, look at you, because I believe that people who are single, whether their time comes or not, I believe that God blesses you also where you are now. And I think that a single person right now believes in healthy friendships. Being single, being able to have a healthy friendship relationship that does not have bad intentions, but that there is a healthy friendship relationship, if you say to your friend 'hey, look, I thank you for your friendship. Your friendship means so much and is worth so much to me', that person is going to feel like 'wow, wow, thank you, thank you, I didn't know I meant so much to you', and vice versa. It's something that goes both ways. But it is the sense of being needed, my brothers, of being loved. And you know what? When God looks at you, when God sows his eyes on you, God tells you 'I love you, I want you, I need you'. And they know that if God says that to me, I melt like butter, I evaporate like water. I do everything. Just by knowing that God loves me, he needs me.

Do you know why my brothers? Because there are times that we sow ourselves in a sense of guilt, we sow ourselves in a sense like 'wow, three hours before coming here, I committed such and such a sin. God is not going to love me. But you know what? Devil's hoax Devil's lies God loves you even if you sinned half an hour ago. God loves you, wants you and needs you as he wants, whatever it is. I mean, I hope no one did it half an hour ago, because the atmosphere here was pretty good.

But brothers, it is that desire to be needed that calls us to live a life of anointing before God. And you know what? Living in the anointing of God also does not mean that all the people here are going to have a greater manifestation of the gifts of the spirit. It does not mean that all of you, when you go to pray for someone, that person is going to fall, and they are going to fall trembling on the floor. Does not mean that.

Some of you do, some of you God is going to give you that manifestation. The word also says it, that each one of us is given a manifestation of the spirit. The spirit can manifest to someone up there in a different way than it can manifest to a person back there. Because the spirit of God knows what He wants and has for you, and according to your measure He will reveal Himself in your life. Some of you will speak new tongues in this new year, and I am praying that it will be so. Some of you will speak a prophetic word, and I am praying that it will be so. Some of you are going to lay hands on a sick person, and that sick man or woman is going to be healed in the name of Jesus. Some of you are going to dare to preach to the head of the company, which you didn't even do before, and in the name of Jesus that person is going to be touched and transformed by the power of God. Because? Because you are living in a new dimension. That anointing of God, my brothers, covers you with a new authority. That authority to lead their lives with a new fluidity. It is a new authority, brothers, that there is no one who can stand up to you, speaking in spiritual terms. As one of the choirs said, "they will fight against you but they will not defeat you." They will fight against you but they will not defeat you. Because? Because he is with you, look who is, Zephaniah.

There is a passage from Zephaniah that captivates me every time I read it. Zephaniah, Chapter 3, verse 17, perhaps many of us know this passage. What's more, I think we can even say it by heart, it says "Jehovah is in your midst, mighty, He will save, He will rejoice over you with joy, He will be silent with love, He will rejoice over you with songs."

Brethren, stand up. I'm going to make them do this. Yes, stand up with the Bible in your hand. And you are going to say that verse directed to yourselves. In the name of Jesus all together we will say "Jehovah is in my midst, powerful, He will save, he will rejoice over me with joy, he will be silent with love, he will rejoice over me with songs". Oh, oh, oh.......

Do you think so? You want it? Sit down. I'm finishing.

I want to break that verse, brothers. Because that verse has so much to give. When I hear 'Jehovah is in my midst', do you know what that means? That means that God's coverage is in the middle of my life. God's coverage is in my life. there is nothing that can change that reality, not even I can change that reality. Once God stops over me, things in my life begin to change. I can make those things take time, I can be so stubborn that I don't receive that coverage from God and then I want to do the things that I want to do, but the coverage of the saint is in my midst.

The presence of God is in our midst and you know what, my brothers? There is something so interesting about the presence of God. And in this aspect I want to speak directly to the young people who are here; still young and young in age. In Acts, Chapter 5 there is an account of Ananias and Sapphira, not Sapphira, Sapphira, husband and wife. They were here in the first century church, they were, part of their dynamic, part of the move of God's spirit in them, was that they were dividing up their possessions among each other so that everyone would live equally. And these two people, Ananias and Sapphira, were selling one of their lands and when they sold it they made the personal decision not to bring all the goods before the Apostles but kept part of them.

Look at what it says in verse 3: “... And Peter said, Ananias, why did Satan fill your heart so that you lied to the holy spirit and subtracted from the price of the inheritance, retaining it, not knowing it? it was left to you and sold, was it not in your power? Why did you put this in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God. Upon hearing these words, Ananias fell like a soursop on the floor and expired. And great fear came upon all who heard it, (and look at this, young people, listen well) and the young men got up and wrapped it up and taking it out they buried it.” First part. Close the curtain. Open the curtain.

"After a period of time of about 3 hours it happened that his wife, Sapphira, entered and not knowing anything about what had happened, Peter said to her 'Tell me, did you sell the inheritance for so much?, and she said "yes, meanwhile", and Peter said to her "because you agreed to tempt the spirit of the Lord, behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband (that is, the young) are at the door, and they will carry you out and Immediately she fell - like another fruit that falls from the tree - like a mango from the tree, (fell dead) and they took her out and buried her next to her husband.”

To those young people, do you know what I tell them? I tell them 'the body bag removers' in other words 'he takes them dead'. I was wondering, the presence of the Lord at that moment was so ...... on a clean fire the presence of God was there, that when these two people came and lied, not against anyone, they lied directly against God and his spirit. Hey, God says 'daddy, mommy, maybe they had good intentions in bringing me even half of your money, but that's not the deal. You left juste.'

The presence of God was so strong in that place that only people who lived according to God's will could resist being in the presence of God. And it's so interesting to me because the young people, as the Bible says there, the young people were the ones who removed those bodies. So the young people at that moment were covered with the presence of God in the midst of their lives because the presence of God did not consume them either, but they were covered by his presence too, in order to remove everything that was vile and bad.

Are you guys listening to me? Are you sure that you're listening to me? I was asking myself who will be able to be in the presence of God and who will enter the holy place? As Psalm 24 says "he who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to vain things nor sworn deceitfully, he will receive blessing from the Lord and justice from the God of salvation." Young people, God calls you to be a generation of clean hands, of a pure heart, that you have not elevated your soul to vain things, nor that your mouth has spoken perjury. God is looking for a youth completely purified by Him. God is looking for a clean and pure generation of youth before Him.

The clean hands, do you know why the clean hands? Your hands, do you know what it means? Action. Your hands mean in action, with your hands you do everything you want to do. You go here, you go there and do and undo. The pure of heart, whether or not your heart is clean in a genuine gesture before God and that you have not elevated your soul to vain things so fleeting that they go away with the wind. Nowadays youth know... ahhh... know... ahhh... it's like a sigh, really, it's like... ahhhh... we feel a breath and now it's like... .uhhh. No, God doesn't want that, guys. God wants consecrated youth, dedicated to Him. A militant people is what He is looking for. A people that is not ashamed of Him.

What does Luke say, Chapter 9? Luke 9:26 says (this is Jesus speaking) "For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of this shall the son of man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and that of the father and of the holy angels."

God does not want young people and people. God doesn't want wishy washy people, do you understand what that is right? Wishy washy is like 'hey, do you want to do something? Ah...... I dare not, no.... that's wishy washy. And God, that's not what God is looking for. God is looking for people who dare to stand in the gap. That is what God is looking for.

For example, I know my brother Chavo, many of us know that he was in the army. When it was time to start enlisting people. They don't treat you like 'oh, how are you? Welcome, welcome to the army. They don't treat you like that. Of course, it's the first thing they do to you, they start yelling in your face.......... twenty,..... oh, no..... fifty.....and there it goes. They treat you like this. They treat you hard, they treat you firm. Because? How does this saying go? Desperate times calls for desperate measures. Desperate times call desperate decisions. There in the line of battle you have to keep your head focused on something and that nothing and no one can get you out of there.

And that is what God is looking for with each one of us: men, women, young people, children. That's what He's looking for. He is not looking for 'no, Lord, I want to do this, that.' 'Oh, you want to do this, that and the other? Well, go away, I don't need you then, go away. you are useless

Truly, brothers, the time is coming for God to start confronting us like this. I believe so. I think so that time is getting closer, that this thing about coming to God with soft excuses, that time is already running out. If you look at the Gospel and where I see stories of Jesus where he says that he is going to put the goats on one side and the sheep on the other, at that moment there will be no time like 'ah, Lord,...' No , you are a goat, go there. You are a sheep, come with me now. He is like that. I read it at his word. The time will come where the crown of God will reach its peak and whoever is, is and whoever is not, is not.

Brethren, it is a time of decision. Youth is a time of decision. It is no longer time to walk around birding as one wants. It is time to put where the belt goes and begin to seek to live in the anointing and joy of God.

I'm done with this, brothers. That passage from Zephaniah says again, it says that “the Lord will rejoice over you with joy, he will be silent with love, he will rejoice over you with songs.”

It is very interesting because in the New Year's message the pastor was saying that the joy of the Lord was going to be one of the weapons that He was going to give us to minister to others, to confront the powers of the enemy . Do you know why, my brothers? Because when you were sure and sure that God's anointing is in you and on you, that manifests itself in joy. Joy is one of the ways that it manifests itself to the people around us.

Neemiah says in Chapter 8. he says at one point “the joy of the Lord is my strength”. But you know what? We have to understand, it means the joy of the Lord over you. In other words, the Lord rejoices over you. He sees you and a smile comes out to God. He looks at your face and a smile comes out on his face, in his heart. Because? Because you are his son, you are his daughter. And He needs you, He wants you. He wants you to be part of that army. He wants us all to be a militant community before the world and before Him.

And you know what, my brothers? Joy is key. We can't go into this life like.... oh..... take that song right there, come on..... We can't go in like this, with an 'ok, here I come' mentality. We can not. ok already. Now put on some trumpet, victory.

We need to go in with a braver victory mentality, brethren. This is how we have to come before Him. This is how we have to come before Him. Oh, but Pastor Omar, I don't understand everything, I don't understand everything. Now that.... It doesn't matter, throw yourself in faith and as you walk the Lord will show himself to your life and will teach you all the things that He wants to do in you and through you. You don't have to have the whole puzzle in place from the start. You know that the puzzle is going to be put together as God gives you each of the pieces to put them in their place.

When we live in that anointing and in the joy of the Lord, brothers, you know what? All things are different. All things are different. Do you know how much a smile can do? You have seen yourself in the mirror and have thrown a smile to see how you look. You can laugh at yourself by looking in the mirror and laughing, whether it looks ugly or looks weird, but you're going to laugh no matter what.

Guess what? A laugh is one of those displays about the joy of God, but the joy of God goes further. The joy of the Lord is something that is there in your being. It is something that is there. It is something that your face will show. You're not going to be there all molested all the time, but your face will show it. Because you know that the joy of the Lord is there upon you. He rejoices in you. He rejoices in everything you do. What's more, I dare to say this, the Lord still rejoices in your faults, because He glorifies Himself even more, to raise you up and form you into the type of person, into the type of man, into the type of woman, into the kind of young man He wants you to be today.

The call of the Lord is there in the midst of our lives. What is our answer? What is our response, brothers and sisters? What will your answer be, young man who listens to me? What will your answer be, young university student who is listening to me, who is looking for how to define your professional career, who you are looking for perhaps, who to marry and have a family? What will your answer be, head of the family who is looking for different ways so that your family always has the best? And when God starts asking you, how are you going to answer that call? How are you going to answer that call, woman, mother, wife, that there are times that life, time doesn't even give you, and I would like there to be one more day in the week and maybe 4 additional hours in the day to be able to maybe do the things you want to do? But when God starts from you, what will your response be? What is my response going to be as a pastor when God begins to demand more of us as pastors, as church leaders?

God calls a church that lives in anointing and joy. Not a complaining church. Not a church that keeps asking why this and what for that and how it is, and where it was and who said it. No, what God wants is a church that says 'Lord, here I am. I am willing. I'm willing. With you I know that we are going to do it. With you I know I'm going to make it. No matter the difficult situations around me, I know that You are going to take care of each and every one of them, because I know that as I give my life before You, You, who are powerful to do much more than What I can ask you, you are going to take care of answering.

Let's rise, church. Hallelujah! Brothers I, so in this spirit of adoration, brothers, I feel in my heart to ask a question. I want to invite you, if you have heard this message and you still do not know the Lord Jesus as your personal savior, as your Lord, as your friend, as the one who calls you to live a different life from the one you are living now. If you have not met the Lord. If you haven't said 'Lord, take me. Change my life. I need you, just as you need me, I need you. If you want to make that decision on this day, I invite you to use this moment for that. If you want to raise your hand where you are, or if you want to come forward as an act of faith, as a militant act, as a person who dares, it is not a timid person, but in a person who dares to this principle 'Lord, here I am. Take my life. transform me completely. If you want to be that person today, I invite you to do so. You can raise your hand, that you can come up here and say 'Lord, my life is yours.' Amen. God bless you my brothers. If you're on the balcony and if you want to raise your hand, and if you want to come down here, come down, it doesn't matter. The Lord Jesus is the answer for each of your needs.

The Lord Jesus is the answer for your life. Do not miss this opportunity to let Him enter you, that He take you, transform you and renew you. And in the same way I extend this call to the entire León de Judá congregation church that is here listening today. I extend the call to those who are listening and watching us on the Internet.

If you want this year to be a year in which you can live in anointing and in the joy of God and you want to make that decision 'Lord, I want you to fill my life with your anointing, with your joy I want to be that person. I want to be that instrument of yours. I want that water of yours to run in me and through me to be a blessing to others. I want to be that person who is not afraid to speak, who is not afraid to be ashamed to talk about you. I want to be that person. I want to be that person who directs my bosses and coworkers to you. I want to be that person who catches up with my peers in college. I want to be that person who catches up with my peers in elementary, middle, high school. I want to be that person. I want to be that person that when I walk down Washington Street in Jamaica I plan for others to feel your presence in me. I want to be that person. I want to be that person, Jesus.

If that is your feeling and if you want to do so, not just feel it, but do so, I also invite you to come forward here and let's pray. We are going to ask that the Lord cover us with his anointing. And once you take that step, brother and sister, stick with it. Do not give up until you get that coverage of God that you long for so much in your life.

Last Wednesday the pastor talked about blind Bartimaeus, how he did not get carried away by people who shouted at him 'Leave the Master alone, don't bother him.' The more they told him, the louder he screamed 'Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me'. He didn't give up, he persisted until he got what he found, brothers. And the same goes for us. Of not giving up until we find and reach that coverage, that anointing, that joy, that love, that value of God to carry out our lives. Hallelujah!

Father, we give you glory and honor, Jesus. This is a sacred moment before you Lord. This is a moment where we are responding to your word, Lord. As we said a few minutes ago 'your word that confronts us, your word that encourages us, your word that calls us to lead different lives for your honor and your glory'. Jesus here are your sons and daughters, Lord. There are men, there are women, there are young people who are saying 'Lord, here I am. Fill my life with your anointing. Fill my life with your joy. Fill my life with your love. Fill my life with your power, with your authority.' Lord, there are people listening on the Internet who are saying to you, 'Lord, here I am, how can I be a blessing to my family? How can I be a blessing to my friends, to my communities, Lord? I need your anointing. And Father, here we are. Give us your cover, Lord. Give us your cover, Jesus. Pour out on us, Lord, that river of living water, my God, that it fill us and that it impels us, my God, to make a difference in the world where we live, Lord.

Father, I intercede for young people. I know that a word has come to the youth of this church, and Father I lift them up before you, right now, Lord Jesus and I pray that in each one of their hearts, that your Holy Spirit may bring conviction of the things that You want to do in and through their lives, Lord God. That their life is not going to be mediocre, even at their young age, Father, You are calling them to be part of your army. You're calling them to be bold people that speak your truth and that live according to your standards, Father. So I pray for each one of them right now, wherever they are, in the balcony, in their chairs or even here at the altar. Father I pray that you may begin and You work in them and they may be able to live in your anointing, to live in your joy, Father.

And for families too, Lord. I pray for marriages represented here now, Jesus. Father, may your anointing and your joy cover marriages that are present here right now, Lord. That this anointing and that joy restore relationships that have been broken, that restore communication between that couple, Lord, that you restore intimacy in their lives, and that they can enjoy, Lord, that love that you have for each one of them . With sons and daughters Lord, may it be you also ministering to each one of them.

Father, there are people here who have workplaces that are less hostile, Lord, and I pray that your anointing and joy reflect your light, Lord. May your anointing and your joy reflect your light to co-workers, Jesus, in those places, in those offices, in those cubicles, Lord, where hours are spent in front of the computer working, Lord. I ask that you radiate, radiate your love, Lord, to those who are secretaries, to those who are teachers who teach in public schools, in universities, in seminaries. I ask that your anointing cover them, my God so that the teaching they impart, Lord be a teaching, my God that forms men and women worthy of bearing your name in the midst of their lives, Jesus.

Father, and as an army we stand firmly and say: 'Satan this far you have come. No more, no more, no more. No more no more. You no longer have a place with your people. You have no place because Jehovah is in your midst, powerful, He will save, He will save, He will take care of making situations work in your favor, and the enemy is going to step on his head with all the authority and power that He gives you. gives.

Father, we stick to you, Jesus. And we say, Lord, we are not going to let you go. We are not going to let you go. Let's pray. We are going to look for you. Let's meditate on your word. We are going to congregate. Let's sing. Let's reflect. We are going to meditate, to do everything that is necessary, Lord until we are completely invested with your anointing, with your joy in the midst of our lives. Oh thank you Jesus. Thank my Lord. Father bless your people. Bless your people, Lord, that when they go out those doors, Jesus, your cover be with them even more, your fire be with them even more. May you consume them, Lord. May this word keep bouncing around their minds, Lord, and encourage them to get even closer to you. We thank you Jesus. To you be the glory, honor and honor, forever Lord. Amen. Amen. Thank you Jesus.

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Sermon by Omar Soto recorded January 8, 2006 in Congregación León de Judá (56 min.)

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