Flow in the river of the Holy Spirit

I now have the privilege of introducing our sister, Dr. Awilda Tejera. Awilda is a woman we have known for many years, with her beloved husband, Raúl Tejera. They are now in Dallas, Texas. They went too far and were pastoring a congregation that we helped plant in the East Boston area that is now pastored by a young man who also left our congregation, Alan Juárez; and we are united by many years of relationship, of knowing each other, of working together in the ministry.

Awilda graduated and did her Ph.D. at BU, right? Boston University in theology and we've met her, that career, it's such an effort she's made to educate herself and she's a an anointed woman, filled with the Holy Spirit and she is going to speak to us precisely in tune with what we are preaching these days about baptism, anointing, filling, the life filled with the Holy Spirit.

And by the way, I forgot to tell you, and I'm sorry about this hiatus. We had an absolutely extraordinary service last night in the English ministry up there. An exquisite presence of God, so much so that we started at 6 in the afternoon and left at 11 at night so as not to exaggerate. Something very special, very, very, a presence of God that when the service ended it's just like nobody moved, and we had to continue. It was something very extraordinary.

But what I want to tell you is that God is doing things and this Wednesday, we always have our prayer time, I want to encourage you to come and we will have a time of praise and prayer. I'm going to see if my brother, Gonzalo, and some of the musicians can help us with this. We're going to keep pushing. With my faith I will reach you.

Let me tell you, I was listening to that cassette recently and the person who was singing it said, 'with my faith I will tire you out.' I said, wait, he's saying 'I'll tire you out or I'll catch up with you'. It was the way he was pronouncing it, he was saying 'I'll catch up with you'. Look, it is not bad to say, 'with my faith I will tire you out', because our faith, we have to keep pressing on the Lord, like Jacob wrestling with the angel. "I'm not going to let go until you bless me."

Sometimes we have to tire the Lord out with our faith, our prayer, until he says, 'OK, I'm going to bless you.' There is the history of the city and I am not going to take away the preaching, Sister Awilda, we will talk about that another day. Come Wednesday, put your heart there in your schedule, come Wednesday, we're going to push the Lord harder, we're going to wear the Lord out until he rains down high on our church.

Give a round of applause to welcome our sister Awilda Tejera. God bless you, Awilda. Take your time if you feel like ministering to the Lord whatever.

God bless you all, it's a pleasure to be with you. To those I already know, I'm glad to see you, last week I saw some of those we knew years ago. And to those I don't know, I greet you in the love of the Lord. Sister Milagro Gruñón from the Lawrence area is with me and I also want to mention that I am quite old, right? I also want to mention that my husband sends his regards. I was talking to him this week and we are there in Dallas. My husband is now Senior Pastor that we are, part Anglo, part Hispanic, and now he is in charge of everything and God is doing beautiful things.

I follow more in the line of theological education. This past weekend I was teaching in New York, and I have to be in South Hamilton, at Gordon Conwell and that's where I decided, instead of going back to Dallas, I'd stay in Boston for the little week and I came to visit them and that's where the whole thing about ministering came up. today.

But, then after all this idea of where our lives are going, like this in a general way, I want to invite you to locate ourselves in the book of the prophet Ezekiel, Chapter 47 and we are going to be observing, reading initially verses 1 to 5. And after we find it, we leave our passage located there and we are going to bow our heads and pray.

Father, we thank you because you are great, you are God, you are Lord of our lives, and you are Lord in the midst of your people. At this time we continue before your presence and we take captive every thought to the obedience of Christ Jesus, in such a way, Lord, that your word does in us what you send him, what is necessary in each of our lives. We have our hearts open, Lord, and we say to you, speak to us, oh, God, speak to us, Lord, in the name of Jesus we ask you, oh God, amen, amen.

Ezekiel 47, verses 1 to 5 say as follows: "... Then he made me return to the entrance of the house and, behold, water came out from under the threshold of the house to the east , because the facade of the house was to the east. And the waters came down from below to the right side of the house, to the south of the altar. And he brought me out by way of the north gate, and made me go round by the outer way out of the gate. To the path of the one that looks to the east and I saw that the waters came out from the right side. And the man went out toward the east, carrying a line in his hand, and measured a thousand cubits, and led me through the water up to my ankles. He measured another thousand and led me through knee-deep water. Then he measured another thousand and made me pass through the water up to my loins. He measured another thousand and it was already a river that I could not cross, because the waters had risen in such a way that the river could not be crossed except by swimming....”

This passage of Scripture is found within a context where the prophet Ezekiel has at the beginning, at the beginning of the book of Ezekiel, he has a vision of the presence of God, of the manifestation of the glory of God. Then comes a call from God to serve him as a prophet, to be a mouthpiece in the midst of his people, then the prophet precisely begins to exercise his function as a prophet, to prophesy a word about Israel and other nations, a word of judgment in particular because of the condition that Israel was going through at that moment, of having abandoned themselves, of having moved away from their God.

And then, then after these passages of Scripture within the context of what happens in the book of Ezekiel, it begins already in Chapter 40 to describe the restoration of the temple, to describe the temple itself , in the eschatological sense, in the sense of the restoration that God is going to do in the last times.

And within that context of the description of the temple, of what it would be like, a series of details are given in that description and within the details that are given, we are told, in those Chapters before the In the passage under study, we are told that Jehovah entered from the east, through the gate of the east, the gate of the temple that is in the east in this. And when Jehovah enters through that door it turns out that no one else can enter through that door, and the door has to be closed because Jehovah in his holiness and in his majestic presence entered through that place.

And then the prophet is also told to be vigilant. He is told, pay attention to the entrances to the house and to all the exits from the sanctuary. He is told, be attentive to everything that is being shown to you. And within that context occurs the description that we just read in verses 1 to 5 of Chapter 47.

And by the way, I tell you, just as the prophet was told, God tells us today, he is Be attentive, be attentive to what the spirit of God wants to speak to you, wants to show you today. Pay attention to the movement of the Holy Spirit, pay attention to what God is doing, not only today through preaching, in worship, but throughout the entire trajectory of this last time, of God's work with this church. Pay attention to what God is showing you, not only as part of this church, not only as part of this congregation, but to your life. Pay attention and you will see the glory of God as the prophet Ezekiel saw it.

Within these passages that we read, we observed that a man, an angel, took him to show him all the details of the weather and on this occasion this same man who had previously shown him many details about the house of Jehovah, now presents him and says, 'look, and behold, he sees and what does he find? What distinguishes, what do you observe? He observes that under the threshold of the door they come out what? Waters come out There are streams of water coming out from under the door. But those streams of water are coming out of which door? From the eastern gate, from the eastern gate, from the gate through which Jehovah entered.

So that's why we have to watch for entrances and exits when we are in the presence of God. We have to be aware of God's move and within what is being narrated here, we are told that the waters came out of the east, from the right side of the house, but not only that is indicated to us, we are told about the expression and the phraseology that is used there, speaks to us of a flow. It speaks to us of abundant water, it speaks to us as when you see a river, as soon as we see a river and we see abundant water, and what we can see in our human nature falls short, although sometimes we are amazed at what we see, it falls short. with what is happening here because the glory of Jehovah is flowing like a river before his very presence, it is flowing from the altar of God and it flows towards the right side of the house.

And the man takes him out and leads him on a path, but he leads him on that path and the details are given here of where he is leading him, for what purpose? That I can see well the waters that are flowing from the presence of God.

Sometimes God leads us by paths, God leads us by teaching, like the ones they are having in these times on the theme of the Holy Spirit. God leads us through personal experiences, God leads us through different circumstances to teach us, to guide us, even to motivate us in our search for him, for what? So that we can contemplate the glory of Jehovah, so that we can drink from those abundant waters that represent the very presence of God in the midst of his people, the very presence of God dwelling in your person..

And certainly God continues to show him the waters that come out of the presence of Jehovah. And within that show of the Lord we continue to pay attention, the prophet Ezekiel continues to pay attention because the prophet Ezekiel, although he had experienced the presence of God as recorded in Chapter 1, at the beginning, he continues to search for more and remains attentive to what God has for him and what God has to communicate to his people.

So this lets us see that no matter how much teaching we have received, no matter how many years we have been in the Lord, we have to pay attention to the movement of God's spirit, we have to pay attention to attention to the entrance and exit of the throne of God, of what comes out of the presence of God.

And then we see that there is an invitation to enter the waters. He says, 'he made me go through the waters', God makes us go through to take us to what he wants for us. So to enter the waters we cannot stay where? On the shore. If you're going to take a dip in the river, you can't take a dip if you don't get in unless someone jumps from high up and water falls on you, but anyway, it's not a dip. You are not entering the waters, but to be able to experience the supernatural presence of God that he is willing to show in your life, and is willing to show and let you feel in the midst of his people as he has done on many occasions, in the midst of from you.

In order to experience all this, we have to what? We have to get in, we can't stay on the shore, and to get in we have to keep our faith. To enter we have to take an action, to enter we have to leave the shore aside. For you the shore can be sometimes when we are thinking about the past, sometimes staying on the shore can be carelessness, sometimes it happens to us. Sometimes staying or staying on the shore can be a certain degree of indifference to God moving, God doing beautiful things in the lives of those who are close to me, in the midst of the life of the church, and one remains a little indifferent to everything. what's happening. God expects us to enter. If we want the blessing, if we want the presence of God, we must be attentive and we must enter. We can't stay on the river bank.

And then he goes on to say, that he orders him to enter and says 'he made me go through the waters up to my ankles...' First there is a measure, and when he enters the waters, how far does he go? Up to the ankles, and many times we have experienced that we are indeed close to God, that we are indeed experiencing the sublime, beautiful presence of our God in our intimate relationship with him, but sometimes we are staying, how far? Up to the ankles.

We decide to enter, we make the determination to leave behind what we have to leave behind and we walk in faith, but after walking in faith, after leaving laziness or after leaving questions behind, we only got how far? ? Up to the ankles.

And what else happens? He keeps telling him to go in and he made him go through the waters, how far? Up to the knee. The prophet is already advancing. We are knee-deep and keep moving forward in the Lord. Perhaps reaching your knees represents for you, I experienced the filling of the Holy Spirit when they prayed for me. Perhaps reaching the knees for you represents, the Lord touched me, he healed me. Perhaps knee-deep to you means, the Lord is answering my prayers because I am closer to him.

But God tells us, it's not ankle-deep. God tells us, it is not knee-deep. And what else is happening? He made him pass through the waters up to his loins. And the loins represent where the what is? The strength in our bodies and that means that when we immerse ourselves in the Lord, when we enter the river of God we do not depend on our own strength, it is not ankle-deep, it is not knee-deep that we have to enter, it is not even to the loins where our forces are the ones that sustain us. We have to abandon ourselves before the presence of the almighty God who has entered his house through the eastern gate that represents the glorious presence of our God.

And he goes on to say that then the river, or the waters, came when they covered him and he couldn't swim across. The time has come that after you go from the ankles to the knees, from the knees you go to the loins, but you keep going in and coming in, the time comes when you cannot cross that river, if not what? Swimming, if not what? Immersing ourselves in the presence of Almighty God.

And we see the prophet being brought up in stages. And sometimes God takes us in stages because he sometimes gives us certain questions or fears of entering up to the loins, or of going in to swim in the river. And God understands those questions. And sometimes God takes us in stages and we grow, walking in the Lord but God has other levels for us, we cannot stay in what God told us years ago and keep trying what? To keep us in the river up to our ankles, or stay in the river up to our knees, because God has another level of advancement for your life. God wants you to achieve what he has declared about you.

Church of the Lord, God has new advances. Congregation of God, he has new advances. They have seen victories, they have seen great things but God has even more and that can only be achieved by immersing ourselves in the presence of Jehovah, immersing ourselves and understanding that the presence of Jehovah is that we are going to achieve everything he has for us as individuals and as a people of God. The waters covered him. The waters covered him.

You have to swim, you have to cover yourself with God's blessing to reach what he has for us. The prophet certainly recognizes that he cannot cross that river except by swimming, and is asked, 'Have you seen?' And sometimes God asks us and asks us today, 'Have you seen, congregation? Have you seen, my daughter? Have you seen, my son? Have you seen what I have for you? Have you managed to visualize the anointing and grace that I want to pour out in your life and that I want to pour out in this place? Have you seen what I have arranged for you? All this teaching process that for many can be refreshing past teachings, all this process of themes that God has been bringing in these times, God is saying to you, 'Have you seen people what I want to do with you?

God is saying, 'Affirm what you know because I bring more for you.' God is declaring of this people, I am going to do a great work, just as I have done up to now I will continue doing.

And what else do we observe? God can ask us, how far have you seen because I want to show you more? Do not limit the power of God in your life. Don't limit what God wants to show you, what God wants to do with you. There is blessing at every stage but God wants to take you under. Do not stay on the shore, you have to swim and you have to swim in faith, believing that God is with us in every step we take.

And certainly this eschatological message of the restoration of Israel and the vision of the temple, the vision of those waters that come out of the presence of God, remind us of a passage of Scripture that we find in the New Will, you don't have to look it up. In the Gospel according to Saint John we are told of a similar idea and we are told of rivers of living water.

The Scriptures tell us that he believes me, says Jesus, from his interior will flow rivers of living water. And this he said of the spirit that those who believed were to receive. In other words, the word that Jesus has said from within is declared, Jesus said, rivers of living water will flow. And then the writer John adds a clarification, this was saying about the Holy Spirit that those who now believe in the new covenant would receive, the Holy Spirit dwells within us and the Holy Spirit is the presence of dwelling in the midst of his people and living in each one of us. We are now the temple of the Holy Spirit, so we have received those waters, those currents of living water that flow from within us.

And note precisely what it says, common people, note that they say what? Water, living water, rivers of water. That speaks to me of action. The Holy Spirit is active in our lives, it is active in the church, it was active in creation, it is active when it regenerates a life, only the Holy Spirit can make a transformation like that. He was active in the midst of the first century church when he filled the disciples so they could be witnesses, when he gave them boldness to preach the word. The Holy Spirit is active and guides us, and teaches and guides us into all truth, says the Gospel of John. The Holy Spirit is active and gives gifts to his children, he gives gifts in the midst of God's people, for what? For edification, own edification and edification of other lives. The Holy Spirit is active and intercedes for us.

The Scriptures say in Romans 8 that he intercedes with unspeakable groans in our weakness because many times we don't know how to ask as it should. And there is the Holy Spirit, active, interceding before Dad on our behalf. The Holy Spirit is available and is active within our hearts so that we get closer to God and have that intimacy, that we get into the river of God and we can say, 'Aba, Father', we can say, 'Daddy', have intimacy, closeness to our God. The Holy Spirit is active, those currents of living water are in us and those currents of living water also lead us to experience the supernatural presence of God for internal strength.

Sometimes we think of the move of the Holy Spirit with extraordinary works, wonders and signs and of course yes, that is the move of the Holy Spirit, but sometimes we focus on wonders and signs and we we forget that the first thing the Holy Spirit wants to do in us is to strengthen us internally.

The Apostle Paul in Ephesians prays for the Ephesians and when he prays, he prays that they be strengthened with power in the inner man by the spirit of God. Getting into this river, getting into the presence of God, seeking closeness, seeking magnificence, God's anointing, the first purpose it has is, internally in each one of us, to strengthen ourselves to live lives of victories. And together with that strengthening us, together with that individual and personal treatment of the Holy Spirit dwelling in us, the Holy Spirit also gives us grace, the Holy Spirit also calls us to the ministry, God gives us gifts to bless others, but everything is that? A much broader picture than simply the outward manifestation or outward manifestations that we can see of God's move.

We have to be attentive to what God wants to do. We have to be attentive to the entrances and exits where God goes. We have to get into the river because the Holy Spirit is a gentleman and he is not going to force anyone. Sometimes we see the move of God, we experience the move of God in a congregation and you observe that most of the people are walking according to that move, but it always happens that someone is left a little behind. Do you know why? Because the Holy Spirit does not force anyone, he is a gentleman, but God wants us all to enter the river of God, that we all enjoy the blessing of those waters that are flowing.

And when we see that these waters flow and then we pass by, or the scene continues speaking to us if we peek our eyes, in verse 6 this scene continues speaking to us and describing the river bank, after it speaks to us about entering into the river. Let's see now what happens when those waters fill what? the whole place that the prophet is seeing. Let's see what happens to our lives when we get into the river of God fills our lives and we reach what? to others and we achieve what God wants us to do in him.

Verse 6 says “.... and he said to me, 'Have you seen the son of man? Then he took me and made me return along the riverbank....”

Now the little walk comes from another side, no longer inside the river, and says:

“. .. and when I returned I saw that on the banks of the river there were many trees on both sides...”

What did we find when we entered the water? what do we find when we are in the waters? What do we find when we engage with God in a close and intimate relationship? We found blessing, the prophet now sees that the entire bank of the river is full of what?, trees. And what else does he keep saying?

“... and he said to me, 'these waters come out to the eastern region and will descend to the Arabah and enter the sea, and when they enter the sea the waters will receive healing...”

What did we find? We find that when the waters enter the sea and the Sea of Arabah, it refers to the Dead Sea, it is a sea that has no life, that does not have fish, that is full of salt, but when the waters that leave the presence of God, they arrive at this place they pass through the whole desert area, and they arrive at the Dead Sea, what happens to this sea? There is life.

And on the banks of the river, what do you see? Trees of different fruits. On the bank of the river you can see the blessing of Jehovah because those waters, when they enter the Dead Sea, heal the waters of the Dead Sea and there is life where there was no life.

When you and I came to the Lord we had no life, but when we entered his presence, when we entered the ways of the Lord, we found what? We find life in the Lord, the waters enter the sea and the sea receives healing. What area of your life is dying? What area of your life needs to be revived? And I'm talking about your spiritual life and your life in every way. What areas of our lives do we need to work on and do we need to get very close with the Lord, get into the river, get into these waters that give us life in order to be victorious, in that area that many times we are fighting and fighting, and fighting, and they pray for us and we are not able to win, what area do we need God to touch us to have life? We have to immerse ourselves, we have to go through God's process, but we have to immerse ourselves because God is willing to give us the solution and the life in the particular area that you are thinking about right now. You have to enter.

Naaman, the leper, in the Old Testament, tells the story of a general who was a leper and in order to be healed, he was given instructions through a prophet and had to immerse himself in the Jordan River , so that? To receive healing. You have to dive in to receive healing.

We have to dive in if we want that particular area of our life to receive healing. You received wounds when you were little, when you were little, that even when you have walked in the Lord, even when you have experienced his sublime presence, still those wounds seem to come from the past, God wants you to immerse yourself to be healed, to be healed.

What else did we find on that river bank? We find blessings and abundance, we find that life that is now seen in the river and everyone who seeks to be filled will receive the fullness. God simply waits for his people to come, for his people to seek him, for his children to yearn and seek to come in and be filled and he will certainly give that filling. There is abundance, there is blessing.

What else did we find? Verse 7 told us that there were many trees, verse 8 told us about how the waters healed and verse 9 tells us:

“.... and every living soul that swims wherever these two rivers enter, it will live and there will be many fish because these waters entered there......"

The sea that had no fish because it was a Dead Sea, now what does it have? A lot of fishes. If you find that your life, even though you are attending church, is in a certain sense, or in some dead areas, the Lord wants to tell you that in your life there can be much fruit, that in your life there can be many fish, and the fish speak to me of abundance. Not just lots of fish but variety of fish, variety of fish. The fish also remind us of the biblical image in the New Testament of fishing where fishing represents evangelization, winning lives for Christ.

When we are filled with the Holy Spirit, when we are filled with the presence of God, when we allow the rivers of God to flow in our lives, and in the church we find not only that we are strengthened, we find not only that we are full, but we are also full for what? To bring lives to Christ, to proclaim the Gospel, to testify.

The first century church was filled for what? “.........Stay in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be me, what? witnesses....” They were not told, stay in Jerusalem, receive the Holy Spirit and continue rejoicing, make a bower. They were told to be witnesses, let us enter the river of God that God wants to give many fish, because in his presence there is life, in his presence there is abundance, many trees, many fish, a description of abundance.

What else does he keep saying? "....and with him will be the fishermen and from Engadi to Enegláin he will be a clothesline for nets and by their species the fish will be as numerous as the fish of the great sea...."

The The Dead Sea was known as having no fish and now it is compared that what God is going to do after the river of God overflows, it is going to be such a great work that this Dead Sea will have fish like the fish of the great sea that Yes, it is customary for there to be fish and a variety of fish. The miraculous catch, God has it for you, people. God has miraculous fishing, but that miracle of that fishing can only be achieved in the presence of God, it can only be achieved in the presence of God.

And the Scriptures say in these passages that indeed God blessed this place, that indeed God filled this place with all this description of the riverbank that is given to us, we certainly see the blessing and life of God in the middle of this place. And certainly God wants each of us and as a church to continue to see the life of God in our midst.

Verse 12 tells us: "... and by the river on the banks, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of fruit trees...."

It is repeats the same idea again and in Hebrew thought repetition is God's emphasis.

“....its leaves will never fall nor will its fruit fail. In due time it will mature because its waters come out of the sanctuary and its fruit will be for eating and its leaves for medicine..."

God has a fresh blessing for you and God's blessing will not be lacking. The fruit of God in your life, if we stay close to the presence of God, will not be lacking. We will not experience the fruit of God or the blessing and experiencing his presence simply because the theme of this month, or for 2 months, is the Holy Spirit, we will continue to experience it because we will continue to be submerged in the waters of the river of God.

But we also have to be clear, sometimes we hear a message and get motivated, we are emotional and God doesn't understand. And we think that because today God filled us with his Holy Spirit and spoke to us about what he wants to do with us and tells us that he is going to give us gifts, that he is going to call us to the ministry, we think today they prayed for me, I received the fullness, I received the anointing, tomorrow I enter the ministry. There are processes in God but to get to what God has told you and to get to that time of what God has prophesied, we have to walk in the fullness of the Holy Spirit, we have to walk in closeness with God.

There are people that God has communicated a word of ministry, of gifts, of thanks and the years go by, and the years go by, and you don't see anything. Why can't you see anything? Because we are not close to the presence of God, because we are not getting into the river of God every day. God has a fresh blessing for you, the blessing that God has today is not the same as you had yesterday, God has new things for you day by day, because he is an original God, he is a God who takes care of feeding his town day by day

There are so many things that God wants to give, there are so many things that the spirit of God wants to do in the midst of his people, not only here, but in the different places where the people of God congregate, there is so much available that comes out of the presence of God, there are so many blessings that come out of the river of God that only God expects us to fully immerse ourselves in his presence. And when we get fully into the river of God, the abundant fruit comes out, the abundant fruit is given, we reach lives, we reach to minister to others the blessing and abundance of God and the movement of the Holy Spirit abounds in our midst, beyond what we can imagine or think. God wants to give us things far beyond and much more abundant blessings than we think and understand, why? Through the power of the Holy Spirit.

In Romans 8 we are told that the same spirit that raised up Jesus Christ is the one that dwells within us. Will God have the power if we are immersed in his river of living water, will God have the power to do extraordinary things in our lives and through us? Of course.

I always say, not always, sometimes I mention that when we talk about issues that have to do with gifts of the spirit, with graces, with the flow of God, I say, 'I swim in those waters', because you know what? Before preaching or teaching the first graces or gifts that God began to use me, it was in the gifts, certain specific gifts. And God trained me, but he trained me because I was able to be and I got close, I stayed in the waters and staying in the waters implies listening to teaching, staying in the waters implies being faithful to God's instructions.

And then if God wants to give you a gift, or you have a gift but you don't care how to minister that gift, then how are we going to reach those that God wants, how are we going to reach what God wants to do with each one of us. God wants to distribute gifts, God wants to distribute even greater grace than what already exists in the midst of this people, but we have to get into the river of God, we have to be in the presence of God.

On a certain occasion, in Costa Rica, I remember that I was preaching and at the moment in the middle of preaching, the Lord reminds me, a word that God gave me for a person and I am simply recounting that experience experience where God warned a person who had suicidal attempts, I did not know, and God warns him, God shows me, God warns that person, and that person is reconciled with the Lord and begins a new life, God fills him etc etc etc

In Costa Rica I am recounting that experience and when I am recounting that experience in the middle of preaching, pacabúm, in the background, there, a noise was heard... I didn't know what it was... But it happened that a person, I later found out, a person who was listening to that testimony, what did he do? She was touched by the spirit of God because she was a woman who had attempted suicide.

In other words, when you open your mouth to tell a testimony, to tell the things that God has done, certainly the Holy Spirit of God moves. So certainly God wants to bless his people, if we enter his river, what for? For the manifestation of his glory, because we also understand that there are many who, if they do not believe because of the word, are going to believe, why? By the works of God.

We are not going to seek the presence of God by works, we seek God for who he is, because we love him, because we want to please him, because we want to serve him, but that must be the genuine intention of our hearts and together with that intention we get into the river of God and God overflows, overflows with fruit trees in our lives, overflows with fish in abundance, winning lives for the Lord, overflows in our lives because we first seek him and together with that search he pours out his blessing.

On a certain occasion, also recently, we were precisely in a women's activity and a young woman passed in front when I made the call, all the women passed. But a young woman in particular passes by who knelt down, the only one who knelt down and that doesn't make me curious because there are times when one goes forward and kneels down. Simple.

I begin to minister and God begins to touch lives and touch lives. I am a person who if God touches someone and does what he wants to do, God is the one who does it because I don't push anyone, worth clarifying, and everyone doesn't have to fall, that's not a rule. That if I fall, that if I don't fall, the other fell then I have to fall. No, no, no,..... God does what he wants.

And what happened? I am ministering when I kneel down to pray for the young woman I begin to pray and as soon as I put my hand on her, that kneeling young woman left on the ground. I am calm because we have seen things like that and they do not surprise us because God is great and does what he wants. But later in the week, the pastor of this young woman takes a class with me, and she tells me, teacher, I have to tell you something. I took a young woman to the women's activity, and that young woman whenever she passes in front of our church, she kneels when called. Do you know why? Because she doesn't believe in falling, she doesn't believe that the spirit of God can make someone fall, and she kneels down to avoid falling. Do you understand now?

The Holy Spirit is still a gentleman. When it fell, it fell softly with great elegance, but God still worked on what we have questions about and don't know, and don't understand, he does as he pleases.

We have to get into the river of God. We have to get into his presence, we have to get in because then God will do things in our lives and through us.

On a certain occasion in Costa Rica, also in Costa Rica, I make a call, a young woman passes by and when she passes in front, God shows me something. God shows me and tells me to tell her to forgive herself, that God has already forgiven you, forgive yourself. That was the expression that God gives me. I tell her and that woman starts crying and she starts crying and she tells me, you know what? I went to the front, I tell it because it was in a far place and you do not know. I came forward because since I was little I was abused by my father and to this day, even though I have been a Christian for years, I cannot forgive myself. And God was telling her 'forgive yourself because I have already forgiven you'.

When we get into the river of God we can be instruments for the need of a life, a life that does not know the Lord, or a life that is already walking in the Lord but God wants to use you to give the special touch of particular need.

When we get into the river of God it is for our own blessing and it is for the blessing to run and flow as it ran along the banks of the river. When we get into the presence of God, certainly God does extraordinary and supernatural things because he is a supernatural God.

God wants to invest us with power, God wants to fill us with his anointing, God wants to fill us with his presence for the blessing of many, for the reach of many. The filling of the Holy Spirit is nothing other than the favor of God in our life, which is the blessing of the presence of God in our life to bear fruit and abundant fruit, to live in victory, to live strengthened, to be able to communicate to others what God expects us to communicate.

And verse 12 spoke or speaks of all that blessing and abundance that is on the river bank and the final part of that verse says, “....in due time it will mature because its waters come out of the river. sanctuary...”

The reason for bearing all this fruit, the reason for being able to communicate a word to someone I don't know is that the waters come out of the sanctuary. The reason to minister what you don't know but God knows and can give light or hope to a life, is that we have taken from the waters that come out of the sanctuary.

Jehovah, our God expects us to become aware on this day, it is not that we are not aware, it is that God wants to make us more aware that we need to enter his presence day by day, that we need to seek much more than spiritual euphoria because spiritual euphoria without purpose is wasted time. We enjoy it but the fruits afterwards, where are they? We have to look for much more than that, we have to look for fulfillment, closeness with God and all the other blessings and signs and wonders and miracles will follow us in the name of the Lord.

Fill yourself with the power of God. Immerse yourself in the waters of God. God wants you to come in. God wants you to swim, God wants you not to stay on the shore. God wants you to be filled with his presence. Enter the waters of the Lord, enter the fullness of the Holy Spirit. Allow your life to be a river of living water that flows for the blessing of others, be a river of living water that flows for the healing of others, power to testify, power to live in victory, power to minister to others. Enter into the anointing of God, enter into the presence of God every day, every moment, every minute of your life because the waters come out of the sanctuary, from the presence of God.

No one can minister in any area if it is not given to them by the Lord. No one can minister in any area or gift, or grace of God within the manifold wisdom and gifts and graces that God has, and ministry if it is not given to him from heaven, and for it to be given from heaven we have to keep ourselves in his presence, in its fullness and drinking from these waters.

God wants to trust you with his anointing. God wishes to entrust his anointing to you, no matter what God does, all the glory will be solely and exclusively for God, because only in his presence do we find those waters, those currents that fill us. Only in his presence, if the musicians can pass, while we pray. We adore You Lord, we adore You, oh God, if this word has touched your heart, if this word has touched your heart and you want to come forward we are going to minister as quickly as possible because there is a service that follows, if this word has touched your heart, if you need the infilling of God's spirit even more, come immediately to the front. We are going to pray for you, we are going to declare a word of blessing on your life and God certainly wants to bless you.

We adore you, Lord, we adore you, God. Blessed are you, Lord. Blessed are you, O Jehovah. Thank my Lord.