the gift of miracles

I want to invite you to go to the word of God in First Corinthians, Chapter 12.

For those who visit us and others perhaps, I want to remind you, or announce that we are taking a tour through of the gifts of the spirit. I don't know if you were raised in a charismatic Pentecostal environment, or maybe you don't have much experience in church things in general. But the gifts, what are called gifts in Spanish, are provisions of power from God for his people, so that his people can carry out the tasks that God has entrusted them to carry out, tasks of evangelism, for example, tasks of healing the sick, tasks of bringing fresh word from God to a person, a nation, a community, tasks such as supporting the claims of Jesus as the Son of God through works that show that through things are being done in his name that otherwise could not be done. And they are also signs of God's mercy and love in situations of need where there can be no natural provision but God can provide something supernatural to meet that need and therefore release his power so that this situation can be resolved. And those are the gifts, charismata is said in the original Greek, it is a gift, a gift from God, a divine provision so that someone can carry out the work of God here on earth, it is something supernatural.

The Apostle Paul ..... First Corinthians, Chapter 12 points out 9 gifts that I personally believe are not all the gifts there are. There are many other gifts, and in fact there are other lists of gifts in the Bible, for example in Romans, in Ephesians, there are other gifts as well that are not as spectacular as these that he mentions here, gifts of service, gifts of teaching, gifts to distribute, gifts to direct, and they are other types of gifts. But here are some gifts that are like clearly supernatural gifts and these are some of the ones that the Apostle Paul is pointing out, and we are discussing them with you for your instruction, so that we understand that these are things that are available to every child of God. and for every church that is open to its distribution and its course in the Christian life.

Many times these gifts do not operate in us because we do not believe that they are for us, we have been told that these gifts have already disappeared from the earth, it is thought that, well, that is for super spiritual Christians, that is for people who fast 3 days a week and it is absolutely perfect, and for people who have been in the Gospel for a long time and then all these things prevent... or simply we have not been told that the Christian life is a life of supernatural power, of moving on the supernatural level and that these things are there for every Christian, for everyone who believes, for everyone who can believe that God is still the same yesterday, today, forever and then since we don't have That mentality, well, the gifts remain dormant in us, they remain in mere potential, but we are not using them, we are not developing them.

And you will remember what the Apostle Paul said to Timothy, 'I advise you to fan into fire the gift of God that is in you.'

If I were a Pentecostal like Yiye Ávila, I would tell them right now, 'tell your brother, revive the gift of God that is in you.' Amen. But you can tell yourself. Look at yourself like this and 'stir up the fire of the gift of God that is in you' and use it, exercise it, ask the Lord to develop it, believe that this is for you.

So through these sermons I am trying to develop the knowledge of how each of these gifts operates and to develop in us that appetite and that sensitivity to the supernatural move of God in the life of each one of us. .

The Apostle Paul will remember that right here in First Corinthians 12, he begins by saying, 'I do not want you, brothers, to be ignorant of spiritual gifts....'

God does not want you to we are ignorant about how the gifts of the Holy Spirit work. So we have already pointed out several of these gifts, in verse 8 right there of First Corinthians 12, it says:

“,,, because to this one, -that is, to one in the church is given by the spirit..- he says, but each one is given the manifestation of the spirit for his benefit because the word of wisdom is given to him by the spirit..... - we have discussed that word of wisdom -.

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“... word of wisdom, to another word of knowledge or science..... – as it is translated into Spanish, but it is gnoseos, that the idea is knowledge -,..... according to the same spirit, to another faith by the same spirit and to another gifts of healings by the same spirit.....”

That was the last gift we discussed, the gift of healing and we said that that gift is in operation, that's why when we pray here and say, Father, heal your children, bless, and we declare healing and health, it is because we believe that this gift is still in operation and we believe that God is still in the business of healing the sick. Amen. And we have to use that gift and we have to exercise it so that it grows and develops in us.

So now, in verse 10, the Apostle Paul says, “...to another to do miracles, and he also says, and to another prophesying...”

I hope that I can quickly take these two gifts and develop them a little more. Let's look first at the gift of miracles. What is the gift of miracles? First let me tell you that in Spanish they say the word miracles, but in the original Greek, when the Apostle Paul wrote in the original Greek, in his own pen, let's say, or through a person to whom he was dictating these things; he did not write the word miracles, that is a word that has been translated like this, but the expression when Paul wrote it 'energemata dunameon'. Energemata, what word is there? Energy, and it means 'works or investments of energy', and 'dunameon', from the word comes dynamite, a dynamic person is an energetic, strong, powerful person. So 'energemata dunameon' means 'works or actions of power'.

Works of power in general, works of power. That is what a miracle is. It is a mighty work on God's part. A miracle is a sovereign intervention on the part of God on the laws of nature. It's like God for a moment freezes the laws that he himself has declared about the universe, physical laws, biological laws, electronic and chemical laws, and says to one side.

For a moment now, I'm going to make an executive decision here, and for a moment I'm going to stop the law of nature and impose my power for a work of mercy. Then God violates natural law and imposes his supernatural power. That's the best way I can put it.

In other words, a miracle is a powerful work of God through a human instrument, or not only human, it can be sovereign, sovereignly God to do a work himself directly. But generally it is, here in this context, it is a sovereign and powerful work of God, a supernatural intervention on the part of God through a human instrument that violates the laws of nature and generally for a merciful purpose, a purpose of love. That is the best definition I could give of a miracle.

And brothers, I can say that these mighty works of God are still at work in the 21st century. How many believe that? Amen. We believe in a mighty God, or we wouldn't be here this morning. Many of us are manifestations of God's power. God has broken chains in our lives. Amen.

Just last night at the service in English, by the way, I say, visit that service in English, sponsor it, a young Polish man spoke, his name is Woytek, I can't remember his last name right now. He has been with us 3 years Woytek came to the Spanish church service and always sat back there on Wednesdays three years ago. And I said to myself, what is this blessed Pole doing here who doesn't speak even a word of Spanish, in a prayer service? Sitting there without speaking a bit of Spanish, but Woytek would come there depressed and alcoholic there to cry sometimes with his head down, broken. Later I found out that Woytek – I say all these things because he has given his testimony several times and last night he gave a more complete testimony.

Woytek came from a Catholic tradition, from a more religious tradition, he was not a practicing Catholic. He tells me that he occasionally visited a Catholic church, but that had not filled his life for whatever reason. But the fact is that later I found out that Woytek had been diagnosed a couple of years ago, 3 years ago, so he has had Parkinson's disease for 5 years, a terrible degenerative disease, which in the end is death and premature death and he contracted that disease at a very young stage in his life. Wytek is only in his late thirties, maybe as late as 40 now, that is, but he contracted it very early in his life. It is an incurable, degenerative and totally destructive disease.

Well, Woytek knew the Lord, Woytek was growing in the Lord. I have seen how God has been breaking his alcoholism, completely destroying it in his life. That is a miracle, it is a work of power. How many think so? Amen. Because he didn't make it through any other way, except his life being strengthened.

God also dealt with his depression, eminently depressed. He was a man who had a very good job, he couldn't keep working. He had to take pills continuously in his life, and Woytek if he went a few hours without taking his pill, he totally turned into a vegetable practically. And Woytek was growing in faith and from time to time he stopped here in front to give thanks to the Lord. We prayed for him several times and declared life over Woytek.

The thing is, last night he was testifying. Woytek looks much, much better, but it's a radical change in his life. I never would have thought that Woytek was going to be there talking in passing too much last night at the...but testifying to the abundance of his heart and what God had done in his life. I am surprised when I see the work.

But guess what? God made an intervention... something is interesting here, because many times God works and his miracle, and I believe that, you know what I have told you that... I believe that sometimes we do not see these miracles absolutely clearly , crystal clear that we see in Scripture because God's move in this time is complicated by a number of things; lack of faith on the part of the people of God, sinfulness, lack of consecration on the part of the people of God, many things that have grieved the heart of the Lord.

But I think God wants to restore his miracles in clear and powerful ways, but God still works miraculously sometimes in nuanced ways, not as strong, not as clear, but still truly miraculous ways.

And I believe that sometimes God today allows, for example, gradual healings. He knows that a miracle does not have to be instantaneous, a miracle can be seen gradually, a healing.

Or many times God can, I think, sometimes perform a miracle by drawing an answer from where there seemed to be none for a person to be healed, and because he doesn't do it directly, I didn't ask my .

The point is that Woytek discovered through the Internet a new experimental medical procedure, which had not been tried anywhere in the world. And in a miraculous way I believe, God allowed him to be the first to be allowed to go through that experimental operation.

And guess what? The doctors are, because there are other people who are taking the same procedure and he has vastly outperformed any of the other people who are taking this new experiment and Woytek has made a change that the doctors say is absolutely miraculous. They cannot explain how Woytek has so quickly healed from a disease that is practically incurable and is a death sentence.

And I believe that there we see, I wish I could say, no, God just touched him and sovereignly healed him, but I believe that God used human and circumstantial means to carry out a miraculous work in life of this man, and God has done miracles by restoring his depression, restoring his alcoholism, restoring his death sentence and many other wonderful things, by touching him with his spirit. And also to promote healing in his life and miracles in his life.

And as I speak of this, brothers, look at something very important about miracles. Notice how I am relating this. I am relating it with nuances, I am not here saying, and God healed Woytek and Woytek is now miraculously recovered from his illness. I am saying that God also used doctors for his use.

Do you know something that bothers me sometimes about us Pentecostals and charismatics? Sometimes we exaggerate a bit. How many say love to that? Yes or no? Those are evangelistic exaggerations, that's what they're called. I believe that, brothers, God does not need us to help him.

Look, if God did a miracle and it wasn't a very big size, well, say, look, it was this size, but don't put it this size wanting to help God, because many times, do you know that? we discredit the miracles of God, because sometimes we jump ahead and say things that God has not done or endorsed and we do not speak with the right nuances and you know what? instead of helping, it hurts, because it generates disbelief in people. And then later when they see the opposite of what you said or that it wasn't as big as you said, they say, no, these people were lying, and that's how they are all liars, so there are no miracles.

I prefer to say things as they are and then leave things to the Lord. Can you say amen to that? Let's be honest, let's be clear. Look, if God healed you of a cold, don't say that he healed you of cancer, say that he healed you of a cold. If you had a tiny headache, don't say, oh, it cured him of a migraine that his brain was exploding and his brains were coming out of his ears and..... no, tell it like it is. And let's be sober in speaking, brothers, let's be sober in what we claim and be careful many times.

That does not mean that we lack faith, quite the contrary, we take the Lord so seriously, and we take the things of God so seriously that we do not dare to do things that could harm the processes of God and bring bad witness to others.

And that's one of the things about miracles and supernatural moving. God wants a people who are sober and who understand that we cannot idolize miracles. Other things about which I complain about us Pentecostals is that many times we allow ourselves to be dazzled by miracles and we give more importance to miracles and languages and prophecies and we already turn them into almost a substitute for God and of the word and if a miracle does not happen, we manufacture them. And if the bow did not fall in the service, well, there was no blessing. And then all the time it has to be a relaxation and a party because otherwise the spirit did not move, that is an exaggeration, brothers, God moves, God works miracles in many ways in the life of the son of God.

Sometimes God's miracles are subtle, but they are powerful nonetheless. Sometimes God does things in a congregation on a particular day, it doesn't seem like there was any miracle, but God healed someone.

.... speak things with nuances. When you write a thesis, for example, or do scholarly work, you are always supposed to add nuances, to provide the opposite version, to let it be known that what you are writing is simply an opinion, to contradict yourself yourself so that others know that you are not entirely sure what you are saying, that there are other possible ideas, that if you have any personal interest in it, you say so so that people know how to take your statements. All these things, these nuances, that the secular world demands of people when they're stating some truth, and you know what? We evangelicals, who should be much more demanding than the secular world, do not have the same integrity in this sense and many times we exaggerate things, we say things that did not happen, we invent things and all this brings discredit to the Lord, instead of... if we spoke clearly, with nuances, with certainty and told things as they are, who knows if God would even do more? And more people would believe for the integrity of the people of God, let us be a people of integrity. Let's not try to do God's work. God doesn't need my help or yours, brother, and don't be afraid to tell it like it is.

There are many things that I don't say or do because I have so much respect for God's miracles, it's not because I lack faith but because I've already seen so many things that we say that later we don't They realize that I prefer to respect the Lord, and it is not that I lack faith, understand me well. Because I understand that sometimes one has to declare things by faith. I understand that part, I believe that sometimes one has to say things by faith and believe that God is doing them and that is also true, but one must be careful, one must have a balance, many times we say, God helped me. He healed and after 6 days you see that the person is there limping with the same cane that he threw in front in the bathroom, now he picked it up again and no one is noticing but there it is again. So people see that, wow, but if God heals, or did he heal him or did he not heal him or is it that he has another disease and now we have to heal him again?

So I think we have to be careful, brothers, do you understand? Because we have a great cloud of witnesses around us and we have to give an account to other people, we have to build each other up. In other words, you have to have a balance in life, that's all I'm asking for and everything I believe God asks for, sobriety. Say sobriety, you have to be sober in the things of the Lord. Sometimes we want to help God and God doesn't need help.

I say, look, if God is very responsible and very powerful for him to strengthen and support his own power if he wants. If he doesn't, that's his problem, not mine. I don't have to take on the affairs of God and the mysteries of God, what for? I am a mere, a little ant before that... not an ant, I am not even an atom compared to the infinity of God. So let's be humble, let's be sober, let's be careful how we speak, let's think about others around us, let's think about the future, let's also think about the present and all these things, let's think about the context and be sober. Let's handle matters of the spirit in a proper way.

So, miracles, specifically these works of power spoken of here, again is a sovereign intervention of God superimposing the laws of nature for a definite purpose.

Look for example at some miracles, specifically works of power in the Scriptures: Jesus walking on the sea, that's a miracle. You have to differentiate, by the way, between a work of healing and a miracle because Paul here kind of differentiates, although many times it is so difficult. Sometimes the word miracle can be used, and the Bible sometimes uses it in a general, generic way, to refer to any type of miraculous work of God, including healings. I could show you texts but we don't have time right now to get into that.

But sometimes miracles are spoken of as a general work of God, healing, provision, deliverance from a demon, all of this. But here it specifically says, ".... works of power by the same spirit...." and it is easy to identify that type of powerful work of God in Scripture, which is not healing, it is not speaking in tongues, it is not it is freeing from a demon, it is not prophecy, it is simply an imposition of God on nature.

Jesus walking on the sea, the laws of physics say that one cannot walk on the sea because the solidity of the atoms and water molecules do not allow this type of impenetrability that they have, for example, the molecules of a piece of wood. So when Jesus walked on the sea he was imposing a divine law on a physical law and he could walk on the sea, not only did he do it but he extended his power to Peter so that he too could walk on the sea. Interestingly, note that miracles are also closely linked to what other gift, the gift of faith. What happened to Peter when he doubted? He says that when he began to see the sea and the waves and the wind and the roar of the storm, he said in his mind, listen to me, but a human being is not supposed to do this, what is happening, and he began to doubt and began To go down. Because? Because there it was operating too... there was a portion of faith. The gift of miracles is linked, like the gift of healing to faith, and many times these gifts operate... we cannot divide them so sharply because many times there are gifts that operate together. There are times when in a miracle there can be healing, faith, prophecy, a number of different gifts operating together. I can show you that too.

But so pure miracles, for example, Jesus walking on the sea, Jesus stilling the storm. Logic tells us that a storm is not a being, it is not a conscious entity that can negotiate with a human being, that one says to it, look, why don't you calm down because you are making a lot of noise; and says, oh, certainly. Forgive me, uuuuy, and shut up. No, a storm doesn't work that way. A storm has no conscience, it is a blind force. However, Jesus with his miraculous power tells the storm, 'Be quiet, be still', huuuu, immediately the sea softens, the wind ceases, the lightning subsides and everything becomes calm. What happened there? An imposition of power, the authority of Christ prevailed over the law of nature and performed a miracle.

Another miracle, Jesus changes water into wine. The laws of nature say that it's not possible like that so easily, you could do it another way, maybe pick some bruised grapes or something and you could make a weird blend of wine that I don't think would taste as good afterward. of everything, but I don't know, since I've never tried that, so I couldn't tell you. But then again, Jesus changed the water into wine. Bring me water and declared transformative power and changed the atoms, changed the water molecules into wine, and not just any wine, it wasn't 35 cents a gallon Maniyevish, no. This was chatonnais du pap 1826. This was not a first class wine, so much so that when the wedding wine taster tasted it, he said, listen to me, but you do bring them, eh. It usually gives the good wine at the beginning when people still know what they are drinking, but you did it at the end. How interesting, said the taster. No, it's that Jesus had..... and Jesus doesn't do crap, Jesus doesn't do rubbish, when he does something he does it well. So Jesus changed the water into wine.

And so many others, one of the miracles that I like the most in Scripture is the miracle that Elisha performed in First Kings, Chapter 6. It is such a beautiful miracle and so simple and elegant in its a sense that I really like that miracle because you remember that the sons of the prophets were there. It was like a school of prophets, interesting, a school of prophets, we can talk about that a little bit later, but they are building a seminary, a house for the sons of the prophets, for these prophets in training and they are building the house and that house is near a river, and what happens? That one of the builders, one of those who is working as a volunteer, drops his ax into the river. And you know what? Imagine in these times, a piece of metal, an ax, you go there to Home Depot and buy it or a hammer you buy it for 3.50. Maybe they drop with the first nail that hits but 3.50 can cost you. But metal is available nowadays and it's cheap, it doesn't cost that much, but at that time, we're talking in the iron age at the most maybe, historically speaking, an ax was extremely expensive because the metal wasn't as widely available, no it was so easy, which is to say it was a tremendous loss for this man to drop that ax in the water.

And he goes to the prophet, and how good it is to go to God when you need a miracle. How good it is to go where the anointing of God is. Thank God that he did not go to cry to the person, because the ax was borrowed inclusively, thank God that he did not go to a psychiatrist to be consoled now for such a great trauma that he had that he had lost the ax . No, he went to the prophet of God and told him... 'prophet, I dropped the ax and that ax was borrowed, my God, what am I going to do now? And he tells him, 'don't worry, Eliseo says and he says, 'look, take a stick'. Elisha cuts a stick and throws it into the water. What an interesting thing. He threw it into the water and what happened? The ax floated and then he said, 'ok, take it', ffff, he put his revolver in and continued.... 'and return it to its owner'.

How interesting, no. Sometimes God works, these things are interesting, miracles and prophecies and things work through symbolic instruments. I believe that one of the very interesting things that we have to remember, brothers, as a prophetic people, a supernatural people, a people who believe in miraculous works on the part of God, is that we also have to learn to use symbols.

That's why it's so nice when you raise your hands, kneel, dance, laugh in the spirit, come forward. One says, well, what does it matter, I can stay there in my chair and I am as close to the throne of God as if I were here, because I don't know if the throne of God is above, below, to the east, to the west, so I'm going to just sit there and less problem.

But guess what? The act of you getting out of your chair, directing your mind towards the Lord, taking a step of conscience and will, becoming uncomfortable, making your action public, that denotes commitment, denotes faith, denotes belief in God. That kind of activates, in a sense, the power of the supernatural. Symbols help a lot to develop faith. That is why I very much respect those Catholic, Greek Orthodox traditions, which deal much more with symbols than we evangelicals do, because there is power in that.

Now, what happens is that many times the symbols can become simply a vain question, we no longer see the symbol and what it represents or we idolize it or whatever, but the symbols are very good.

Then the prophet Elisha threw that piece of wood into the water so that the ax would float. The Lord used that, for example, on one occasion to heal a blind man, he made saliva with mud, imagine, if Benny Hinn did it, they would brand him an occultist and a witch. But the Lord took saliva and dirt and anointed the blind man's eyes with his fingers and the blind man could see. Why did the Lord do that if many times he had simply said... with Bartimaeus he simply said "be well"? And Bartimaeus saw. You don't know why, because many times the Holy Spirit leads people to do different weird things.

When one is moving in the world of the spiritual and the miraculous, very strange and very interesting things can happen many times, and one must sometimes have that discernment of God to do things that are strange and different, that is why the person who believes that God can only move elegantly, with white gloves, very elegant, many times will not see God move. That is why in many churches the power of the Holy Spirit will never move because those people want God to always move in a predictable, controllable and elegant way. And many times God chooses to do things that pride and idolatry, the reason to people, and to humiliate them he does completely strange things and contrary to reason and elegance so that they know that he is sovereign that he does what he wants. he pleases him.

Remember the miracle of Naaman, the Syrian, which I spoke about earlier. Naaman came to Israel wanting to be healed and the prophet told him, 'well, go, throw yourself there in the Jordan 7 times and that's it...' And Naaman was offended because in his country there were much better rivers than the Jordan and why better He sent an angel to touch me with a magic wand as befitted my dignity as a military general. And God wanted to humble him. God wanted to show him that he is nobody. God wanted to show him that he cannot force God to do anything and God wanted him to become like a child and believe what God had told him.

And many times God's miracles do not occur in our lives because we have intellectual pride, we have personal pride as well. There are people who don't raise their hands, and you don't even have to look for a crane to raise them because they don't want anyone to see them. They don't shed a tear or that you inject them, I don't know, salt water in their eyes, because no, that, if they see me cry they'll see that I'm weak, they don't sing, they don't open their mouths because they don't want to humiliate their pride in a service and God wants that hardness to be broken before he can do the miracle he wants to do in your life.

You have to humble yourself, that's why I believe that God often does not do transforming, miraculous works in our lives, it is because we are still hard, we are stiff, we are proud. We want God to do things our way and there's secret pride in us, you know? There are entire congregations that are full of spiritual pride and that is why God cannot work because God... says that he looks at the haughty from afar, but at the humble, he says, he lifts him up and exalts him. The main condition for the miracle of God to operate in your life is humility, it is to believe God, not to put preconditions to God, to be open to everything that God wants to do.

If God tells you to stand upside down, stand upside down. If God tells you to jump, tell him how high and how long I stay in the air before coming down. But don't be putting preconditions on God. And be like a child.

The Lord Jesus Christ said, unless you become like children you will not see the kingdom of heaven. And the problem with modern man is that he is too sophisticated, too lucid, too critical, too sure of his rational, intellectual, philosophical, scientific schemes. We are sick with lucidity and we need God to put a syringe in us and bleed us and take out a lot of intellectualism and self-confidence so that we can then receive and see the miracles of God in our lives.

Sometimes God won't work miracles until he's ground us to dust, you know? Sometimes God is not going to do the great and powerful things that he wants to do in our lives until he has slapped us 7 times and made us cry that snot is coming out of our noses. Knows? Yes, Lord, forgive the graphic of the word. Sometimes God has to empty us before he can do the works of power that he has in us. Sometimes he has to take a ladle and scrape everything that is inside of us and when he already has us like a jelly, that we don't know if we are from the left or from the right, then he says, 'Now I'm going to deal with you, now I'm going to do my work of power in your life'.

Many of us are still fighting with God, wrestling with God. There are things inside that have not been broken, brothers, and I am referring to right now, now I am prophesying to many here, now I am speaking prophecy in the name of Jesus. And there are many of us who cannot receive because we are not like children, we are not broken. We are too aware of our social image, we are very aware of what we are, what we are worth, what we know and what we have. We are very aware of our social appearance, we are very aware of what we have been in the past and that now it is too late to change and what will my wife say if she sees me crying, she will lose respect for me, my children... etc or if they see me singing or raising my hand, they're going to say, 'this one went crazy, or whatever.' And then God is saying, 'until that crooked arm that is there hard is broken, I am not going to bless you and I am going to do the work of power that I want to do in your life.'

We have to be humble. The Lord is telling God's people, 'Be humble, break down, lower your neck, bend your neck and let yourself be formed by me.' Break down, do things you don't want to do. Say things you don't mean. Allow thoughts to come to your mind that you don't want to think. Make transactions that are unpleasant to you, and when you make them and you break then I am going to make my power run through you.

The Lord Jesus Christ has said 'unless the grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies it bears much fruit.' Until the grain is broken it cannot bear fruit, you know ? If a grain of beans or beans remains whole, the energy and life that is inside its rind will never produce fruit, a clump of beans will never come out with more than one bean. The beans will be there very happy, because look at what a beautiful bean I am, red, hard, shiny, but Christ says, 'Beans, if you want to have many more beans, you have to go into the ground, rot, break your crust, become nothing. , mix yourself with the earth so that a plant can grow that bears much fruit, many beans, so that many may eat from you.'

We have to ask the Lord, 'Lord, what areas of my life..' I'm going to ask the musicians to come through, '...what areas of my life haven't been broken yet? What areas of my system still need the infusion of your grace, what crusts are still intact?

Oh my brethren, let me tell you the way to emotional health and spiritual healing is through breaking and bleeding. The Lord makes me tell you that and many of us too who perhaps feel emotionally weak, we are sad, we are broken, we are anxious, but the Lord tells you, 'Son, daughter, I need you to break yourself in front of me, that you cry in front of me, that you give me that treasure that you don't want to give me because it says, 'that's mine and I'm not going to share it with you.'

And God says, 'I need that and until you don't break, until you don't humble yourself, until you give me what you love so much, until you give me that part of your personality that you protect so much and how clinging you are to it , I can't bless you because if you don't break my power can't run through you.'

There are men too much men and women too women here right now and there are people who have too much red blood, and needs to be bled so that the grace of God can flow because the power of God is perfected, where? In weakness, it is when the Lord tells you, 'My grace is enough for you, if you are a tadpole anyway, recognize it. Humble yourself, crawl and reach my throne of grace and know that you are a useless servant worth nothing except what I put into you.'

And when you break, brothers, there are areas everywhere we who need to be broken and so that the power of God, the miraculous power of God and God can flow in our lives, we have to turn those things over to the Lord. we have to humble ourselves, we have to give him the things we love, we have to let go of what we love the most, we have to say 'Father, my mental, emotional, personal, temperamental configuration, I give it all to you, my relationship with my wife, with my children, my rights, my priorities, my privileges, my expectations, what I have earned through life, what people are supposed to give me and what they owe me, I place everything at your feet. Everything is yours, I have nothing, I deserve nothing. Now, do with me what you want.

There begins the power of God to run in your life. There the healings begin, there the restorations begin, there the rebuilding begins, there the power of God begins to run through you, there the miracles begin in the life of the believer. That is why God will never bless a man or a woman, he will never use a man or a woman until he has broken, humiliated and taught that he is worthless before God.

And the quicker we recognize that great fact, the easier God will move within us, the more powerfully God will use us, the more we will see God's power work in our lives. break down

That is the motto, the theme of this sermon: break yourself so that the power of God can run in your life. Let's stand up for a moment.

Glory to the Lord. And I want to invite anyone who is here this morning, has heard this message and feels God, if you have not yet known Jesus as your Lord and savior, if you have not yet known Christ as your Lord and savior, the Lord wants you to humble yourself before him and say, 'Lord, I need you and I want to receive you this morning.' And that you invite Jesus and you tell him, 'Lord, I cannot live without you, I need you to dwell within me. I need your holy spirit doing works in my life.

And I want to invite you this morning to receive the Lord Jesus and give your life to him and make a pact of a new relationship with him. If you want to raise your hand where you are, tell the Lord Jesus, 'I receive you'.

Those who have not received Jesus, just a moment, so that if you have not done so before, if you want to receive Christ as your savior this morning, I invite you to come forward here. If you have raised your hand, come here, come for a moment and we want to pray for you, and if someone wants to accompany you, come with you too, someone who brought you, a friend, or someone who is next to you.

Come over here and we are going to pray for you this morning and we are going to place you in the hands of the Lord and we are going to give your life to Christ. No one is too strong and too proud to receive Jesus and ask the Ruler of the universe for help. I have had to do it and I would do it right now to put myself where you are and ask the Lord Jesus Christ to touch my life and fill me, heal me, transform me, break me, if he is already breaking me, he has broken me in the past and I understand that, that for God to be able to use me more and more, from time to time he has to break me, break me, open holes in my spirit, dig deep, get things out of me that I can't get out of myself.

He has to operate on me so that his power can grow. There is nothing like when a man, a woman, walks humbly before their God and before their neighbor. Listen to me when you walk humbly before God the devil doesn't know what to do with you. The more we humble ourselves, the higher we get.

The word says, 'humble yourself under the mighty hand of God and he will exalt you in due time' says the word. God is happy to see this people here ahead. I encourage you, brothers, walk humbly before God. How nice when a young man, a young woman humbles herself before the Lord, like these young people who are here. Walk your life humbly before the Lord. Ask God to help you, to enlighten you. Obey his word and explore, look for his treasures as you would look for a material treasure and the Lord will always honor you, he will always bless you, he will always support you, he will always cover you, he will always get you out of your predicament, always it will straighten you out when you make a mistake, it will always defend you and it will never leave you. Even if you're wrong, he'll pick you up again and tell you, 'don't worry, we're going to keep working' because you're humble.

He says that the contrite and humiliated heart God never despises, never rejects. Hopefully everyone here, everyone, can say, 'Lord, I humble myself, humble me more'.

If you believe that, raise your hand and say, 'Lord, humble me more.' and say it with fear and trembling because that costs, but if God has to break him more, amen, he is an expert surgeon. He breaks bones that are malformed and puts them back exactly the way they were meant to be. He reconfigures and recalibrates our personality in a way that no psychiatrist, no sociologist, no anthropologist can do it and he puts the parts of our being in perfect harmony so that they work as he has wanted them to work.

And so I ask you in the name of Jesus always remember that. The more you humble yourself before your God, the more you surrender to God, the more you sacrifice for your God, the more you will be blessed.

I clearly feel the power of God speaking into your life.

I just want to say that in English, that you know, the more you humble yourself before the Lord, the more powerfully God can do in your life, the more you lower yourself before the Lord, the greater your exaltation shall be, the higher the Lord will move you. And many times God in his severe mercy will allow us to be humbled because he wants to bless us and because he wants to take us to a higher level.

And so, if we submit ourselves to him and allow him to do his precious, humbling, breaking work in our lives, he will bring us to a higher level of power, of communion with him, of knowledge of his word and of use. So we will be more useful for his kingdom and the power of God, the miraculous interventions of God will become so much more real, more evident, more abundant in our lives as we give ourselves to him and we humble ourselves and we let him break us and lead us to higher levels of understanding and relationship with him.

So we praise you God.

We adore you Lord this morning, we humble ourselves before you, Lord, and thank you that you tell us clearly if you want my power to move through your lives and in your lives, humble yourselves before my, break before me, look for me as the miner looks for the diamond in the bowels of the earth. Call on me morning and night, look for me at dawn. Be bothered by me and I will respond and come to you and bless you and give you far more than you ever dared to think I could give.

We humble ourselves, Father, as a congregation and we humble ourselves as individuals. I, as the main pastor of this church, humble myself before you, Lord, and I ask you to continue doing your work in my life and in the life of each one of my brothers so that this church, Lord, pleases your heart and that we can give you everything you ask of us, Lord.

Right now we give you a carte blanche, a blank page, Father, and our signature is at the bottom, write whatever you want, Father. Write what you want in that letter, Lord, on that page. Do with us what you want, Father, because we know that what you do is always good and for our blessing.

I bless these men, women and young people who are here before you and I ask that you fill their hearts with your peace and that they may walk with you, Father. We break all evil over their lives, all failure, Lord, all false claims of the enemy over their lives and we declare blessing and prosperity and we declare the presence of your spirit within them and to you we give all the glory and all the honor.

Thank you Father because your miracles move in the dimension of humility, of mental childhood, Lord, of believing in you with innocence. Make us like children, Lord and manifest your power, and manifest your life in us. We adore you and we bless you, Lord. we thank you. I bless this town, I bless all this town, Father, there on the balconies too, wherever they are, in the most remote place of this place, I bless them and declare your grace over them, Father, on this day.

Thank you for speaking to us, thank you for ministering to us, Lord, we want to be docile before you, we want to be humble before you, we want to be docile, Lord, before you, we want to be docile before you, Father. We love you, we love you, Lord. Thank you, Hallelujah! I bless you, my brothers, with the grace and peace of the Lord. Be blessed in the name of Jesus.