How to respond to God's call?

I'm going to share a word of worship and then we'll dive right into the message.

Dear God, Lord I always tell you that words are not enough to express the intention that is in your heart for each one of us. And Lord, I am very clear of who I am, I am very clear that I am not even on your heels so to speak, and that is why I ask you now that you support me with your spirit, Lord to be able to share a word that is of edification to each one of my brothers and sisters. Lord, I firmly believe that you have a calling for each one of us, there is something, there is a specific way in which you want us to be able to live.

And many times we get confused, many times we live in a way that is ignorant of what that call is, so I ask you, Lord, that as I reflect on this word, Jesus, that you flow, my God, My wish is that your spirit can flow and that you reach the hearts of my brothers and sisters. Only you know how to reach his heart, not me, my God, the most I can do is put my mouth and my words at your service, Lord, and that you do with them as you want. Thank you, Lord, and may that word reach, may that seed fall on good ground so that it can bear fruit one hundredfold, Jesus, in your name Lord, amen. Amen.

Well my brothers, I would like first of all to share a little about my story. I usually don't share much of how my story was, that I came to the ministry, there are many people who know me and say, wow, but you are so young and you have that baby face and what do I know, and I am honest with them I feel a little uncomfortable when they say that to me, I tell myself, baby, it's my baby that I have now, not me, now, but if God has blessed me with a young face, well, I'm not going to complain either.

But the issue is this, my brothers, when I think about this idea of calling, this is an issue that is so personal to me, because I understand that in my life God has given a call that every day that I have been there something new is unfolding, it is like a gift when they do something wicked to you, they give you a very large gift box and you take it out and find another box, and inside that box there is another box and inside that box there is another box, and another box, and another box until a very small box is found. Something like that, well something like that is how I see it, it's as if that call has been unfolding throughout my entire life. I can tell you, I accepted the Lord Jesus when I was 15 years old, 13 years old, sorry. At 15 I was baptized. And at this time at 13 years of age, I was a young boy, I wasn't that naughty but I did my bad things and everything.

But I remember that in a farewell service for the year, I remember that the pastor made a call for those people who wanted to accept the Lord into their lives, who wanted to give their whole hearts to him and I remember that while the pastor was speaking I was hiding in a corner of the altar, because we were celebrating the sacrament and the tradition was that everyone came to the front and we were facing the altar, and the pastor distributed the dinner. So I remember that I was in a corner on this side, and while the pastor made that call, I don't know how but my hand, like a rubber band, went up and suddenly I heard the pastor say to me, Omar, come here. I want to pray for you, and I kind of didn't realize my hand was up. So, I go, I walk up to the altar and the pastor puts me next to him and makes me kneel next to him, and then he starts to pray for me. I remember his words, he said, Lord, separate him for your service, he is yours, do with him as you want. Those were the only words he said and I remember that I started crying, my brothers, I was there on my knees crying like a baby. And when I raised my face, I dried my eyes well, I saw that around me there were about 15, 20 other young people who had accepted the Lord at this very moment and that meant a lot to me.

Two years later, it was then that I made the decision to be baptized as we often do here. I was baptized and I was convinced of what I was doing, I understood it well, I knew that I was rising to a new life with Christ Jesus and I know that this was another event that marked my life. I think that is why I am so passionate every time baptisms come and I announce it because I know that this is an event that means something that marks something in our lives.

And then when I was 17 years old, and I was nearing the end of my high school studies, I remember that in my school, where I studied, it was a Christian school and the pastor was like who says, an advisor also for students. And one day the pastor calls me into his office and we were talking and he was telling me, Omar, what degree are you going to study, things like that. I don't know, I like art, I like exercise, maybe something along those lines. And suddenly the pastor asks me, Omar, by any chance have you ever thought about being a pastor? And me, me, pastor? Never visit the sick in a hospital. Hm hm. That was what I understood at the time, visiting the sick in a hospital, no thanks. Stand up in public and speak in front of people. Ah, ah, no way. That's not for me. And look what, I was saying that, and they were already things that I did. But for some reason I said no.

The thing was that that conversation with the pastor began to sink deep, deep into me, and one day the pastor of my church there in Puerto Rico was invited to another church in Puerto Rico to preach, and he took the youth worship group with him to minister in that church. I was part of that group too. The thing is that when we were there the pastor was preaching, the pastor decided to preach about this message that I have for you from Luke, Chapter 5, when Jesus calls his disciples to follow him.

The story is that as I was struggling with that question, the call of God on my life, will I be a pastor or not? Those are my inventions or the pastor invented it, what is going on there? The thing is that when the pastor made the call to come forward for prayer, I said to myself, look, let me pass, I'm going to take the risk and come forward. The point is that when I am in front praying this woman approaches me, I would say that it was a woman like Fany, you have seen Fany, right? Sister Fany, a woman like that, short like her, very active, very full of the spirit and that woman begins to pray for me, and the thing is that she begins to pray in tongues.

The thing is that while I was praying in languages I didn't understand so much at that time, I said to myself, Lord, it's better that you give this sister the gift of interpretation and that she speak to me in Spanish because I don't understand what you are saying. The thing is that all I do is say that and the thing was put together. That woman who had started to speak told me, look Omar, he said it very firmly, Omar, you are fighting with a question and the Lord confirms that he has separated you to be a pastor.

Brothers, she didn't do more than say that and I collapsed on the floor. My knees couldn't take me, and look, I'm not one to fall or something like that, but at this moment I couldn't, I fell. And that woman began to minister for me there, me on the floor, crying and she said a few words to me that wow, that inspired me so much. And look at me now where I am.

You know, understanding, receiving and responding to God's call is not easy my brothers, I know that the pastor can tell you, Greg can tell you, many people can tell you, that Responding to God's call is not easy. There are many things that one suffers but at the same time there are many things in which one can see the hand of God working like never before.

And I would like to share with you, brothers, about this idea of what it is to respond to God's call. and I understand that there are several dimensions to this. I understand that there is a level of call that is very general for everyone, and I understand that this is the call to respond to God's voice to be with him. God has a very great desire in his heart that all of us can be in communion with the Lord, that we can be in contact, that we can be in relationship with God and the first call to which we have to respond is when someone says, Does anyone want to accept Christ Jesus in their heart and reconcile their life with the Lord and live in a relationship of harmony, of peace with God? I believe that it is the first call to which all of us have to respond, in one way or another. I believe that this is one of the greatest gifts that God gives us. The gift of being able to be in relationship with him and that is one of the first calls that all of us have; the call to be with him, write it down there, the call to be with God.

Now, there is a second dimension of what God's call is, and this is where I want to pause and delve a little deeper, and brothers, I have a very clear intention with this, and I want it for you. communicate because I think it is very important that we can all understand this. And I am speaking not only to you who are adults, I want to address in a very special way all of you young people, young university students who are listening to me, I believe that God has placed a burden on my heart for you who have their twenties, who have their thirty, do you know why?

I believe that God has a call on the Hispanic church, I believe so and I speak of the Hispanic church in general. The Hispanic people have a lot to give to this nation in which we live and even beyond. We have a lot to give to our countries of origin that need the hand of God in a powerful way in their midst, and we also have to give and contribute to this nation in which we are, which also needs God's intervention.

But guess what? My brothers, the Hispanic church right now was functioning under a leadership that sooner or later is going to come to an end. There is no pastor, there is no deacon who is immortal, who will last until eternity to keep moving the church. God's call moves from generation to generation. I think none of us have seen President Washington, presiding over the United States to this day, right? None of us has seen a mayor who has run a city for a period of more than 50 years or something, the most I have seen so far has been Mayor Menino and as far as I know, the time will come when it will not be mayor anymore. What's going on? New leaders have to emerge, new leaders have to emerge in order to keep moving those organizations, those institutions forward, into the future, and guess what? the church is not far behind. The church is one of the most important institutions in the society in which we live, although society does not perceive it that way, but it is. And I believe that this church, the León de Judá congregation, plays a key role in the midst of all this. I don't know about you, but I consider that this church is like a laboratory, it's like a learning ground. I understand that this church is like a school that prepares, equips and forms leaders to go and impact all areas of the society in which we are. And I understand that for that purpose to be carried out, everyone, generation number one, two and three, we have to understand that dynamic.

Do you know why? Because if we do not understand it that way, the time will come when this church and many others will need to seek and find new leaders, but if they have not understood that perspective, where will they be? In other words, it is as if the church is going to go then, instead of continuing to rise, it is going to fall because where are the leaders who are going to be able to continue moving that life of the church to another level. And I believe, my brothers, that each of us has a role to play in the midst of this. And I want to make the first focus regarding this specific call of God on each of you who listen to me, but in a very special way, for you young adults who are also listening to me, and young adolescents. There is a specific purpose of God for your life. And I believe that this first call from God is seen in how we lead a life of vocation, so to speak, a life of vocation.

Now, make no mistake, by vocation I don't mean a career, a job, I don't mean that. We often hear the term vocational school or something like that to prepare me to be a carpenter, electrician or something like that. No, no, no, I mean vocation in the sense of calling, that specific purpose that God places on you in which you, through what you do, can respond to God's love in the midst of your life and do it. as a response of his love to God. Did you understand that?

Look at this example, on Friday night I was talking to a young man here in church, and he is a young man that I have learned to appreciate very much, a young man studying at MIT, well prepared, very intelligent and he's studying with one of the best advisors right now in the engineering area and suddenly he tells me, like I still don't know what I'm going to do, I don't know. He's thinking about a master's degree or a doctorate and he has this nebula in his mind that he doesn't know what he's going to do and I was talking to him and I told him, look, I want you to understand something because what the boy tells me is, I want to do God's will, I want to see how I can honor God through what I can do. I tell him, and it may sound a bit simplistic, but it's not, for the record, it will sound a bit simplistic but it's not.

I told him, look, God's will has a sovereign perspective, there is something about God's will that none of us will understand, none of us will know, there are some who say Little bits here and there that we can see and know about the idea that in that sovereignty of God we know that the Lord sent his Son Jesus to die for us on the cross, he rose from the dead, and what are we waiting for? As a church now, what are we waiting for? For him to come back again for us. That is in the sovereign plan of God and these are little parts that we know, but there are other parts within that will of God that we do not... things that have not even risen to the heart of man we know. Only that is a phrase like who says, like when one tells him, that's for me to know and for you to find out. Well, that's more or less how God tells us. Hey, that's for me to know and for you to wait for it to happen. This is how he tells us.

So there is that sovereign dimension and in that sovereignty of God there is that dynamic of love, of God wanting us to be in contact with him, of God wanting us to be in relationship with him because he does not want to that no one is lost but what? May we all have eternal life through his Son Jesus.

So, within that dynamic I asked him this question, how can you show God the love you have for him? How can you show God that you are willing to serve him, that you are willing to answer the call? And he comes out and tells me, but Pastor Omar, I understand that God's call is only to be a pastor or to be an evangelist, or like Julie to be a missionary or something like that. Ah, ah, there you were wrong. Because yes, God can give a call for a ministerial function in the church, but there is also the dynamic of the call that God gives you through what you do, how you can reflect the love of God to others, and to at the same time tell God, God, I love you, and through what I do, I want you to know that I love you and that I want you to be honored through what I do.

Let me give you an example: how many nurses do I have here, or male nurses? There are nurses and nurses, back there we have one, ok, ok, or therapist, anyone who works giving hands to someone, or if it is a teacher who has to give a hand to a student. Look at this, there are times when you wonder how I know that I can do the will of God, how I can walk in the will of God. You know that through the work of your hands, you can do God's will in such an incredible way.

It's funny to me because I was talking to Elías, the guy who plays the drums, and I told him, you as a therapist that there are times when you have to massage people and everything, you know that when you are putting hands there on the back, on the shoulders, on the legs of the people, you can say there in your mind, Lord, that just as I am loosening these muscles that you loosen the spirit of that person so that they can receive a touch of you If you are a banker or work as a teller in a bank or something like that, you know that while you are counting all that money, cashing checks, making deposits, making drafts, closing accounts or sending bad credit notices to people, you can through that function say, Lord, be you providing for this person's need, be you giving the person the wisdom they need to be able to manage their finances, be you supplying each of those particular needs that only you know what have that person, you can do God's will like that.

If you are a chef, oh, even more, even more. If the person does not pray for the food when he sits down, well look, pray for the food and ask the Lord that through that food that you prepare that person, not only will his stomach be full and satisfied, but that that person in some way or another I may receive a touch from God through that meal.

Look, if you're a teacher and I say, hm, why? I come from a tradition where sometimes the profession of a teacher was like something very little, and that is the biggest lie that a person can tell. You as a teacher, you are forming the future character of the leaders who are going to be influencing this society and who better than you to be able to infuse the life of these boys with the character of God. I'm not saying that you literally have to say, boy, receive Christ, no, no, I'm not saying that. if given the opportunity amen, do it, but in each of the things you say, two plus two equals 4, Lord, that he learns this and that he is an intelligent young man and that he can use his intelligence for you, that if the chemistry of the atom, of the nucleolus and of all these other things that as long as you are teaching that, look, that God is imparting wisdom on those boys, that if you find yourself with a child who is average, stubborn, look, oh, with even more intentionality you there in your spirit break any ties of the enemy, anything that is bothering the family of those children. Look, it gives you authority so that you can bless the lives of those boys.

If you are a carpenter, if you are a mason, if you are a contractor, when you are painting a house, when you are driving a nail into an edge of wood, look, pray for protection For that family that you are working for, pray for that office building that you are working in. If you clean carpets, clean floors, whatever it is, don't think it's something small, think it's an opportunity that God is giving you to fulfill your call to be a blessing to others who are around you. Are we understanding, brothers?

The idea behind all of this is that if God has made an impact with his love in your life, then you have a calling to impact the lives of others with the love of Christ through everything you do as well. you do.

And brothers, it is so important that we can be clear about this in our lives. Because if we manage to think this way, you know what? We are going to be living with the mind of Christ at all times. And do you know what the mind of Christ is? There is a passage in Mark, Chapter 6, where it says that when Jesus saw the crowds approaching him, he says that he had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And you, my brother and my sister, young man who listens to me, you can be that minister of God that wherever you are you can, if you move with that mentality of Christ, with that mind of compassion, you can direct those sheep to clear waters and green pastures. God prepares you to do it.

Now, what is one of the biggest obstacles that you can find in this dynamic. I believe that the biggest obstacle is the lack of faith. The lack of faith in believing that you are little and that no, that's okay, God can't do something with me. Tell yourself, I, such a sinner, I, who go to Vincent Night club at night, I, who go to Roxy's or what it's called, you better not tell me what it's called, because if I don't I'll screw you here right now. ha! I have my pack of cigarettes here hidden in my jacket, how God is going to want something with me. Well, look, take out the pack of cigarettes, throw it away and receive what God has for you.

Oh, I walk with a depressed spirit, well don't get depressed anymore and it's more get up, shine your light has come and the glory of Jehovah has risen upon you. Oh, pastor, but I have a problem with my sensuality, I like sensuality so much. Well, look, master your sensuality in the name of Jesus. Behold, God has not given us a spirit of cowardice but of power, love and self-control. So, instead of cuddling with your partner there, well look, let go, he's free and let him breathe. If you are married, don't worry, enjoy it if you are already married.

The pastor is going to see this, I'm clear on this. Brothers, the idea of all this is that we can understand that basic dynamic in our Christian life. the mere fact that God wants to do something with you and I can't overcome that thought that oh I can't, I'm not who, or I'm not willing. You know what? Look, the passage that I wanted to talk about with you was Luke Chapter 5, please if we have the passage from Luke Chapter 5.

Reading, this is where Jesus meets the disciples and he is there and I understand pastor Samuel that you were looking at that passage, so there is definitely a connection here in the spirit. I didn't know he used it in the morning but here we are. Look, when Jesus says to Simon:

“...Simon, launch out into the deep and cast your nets to fish and Simon says, wow, but Master all night we have been working and we have caught nothing , but at your word I will cast the net, and having locked up a large number of fish and the net broke. Then they signaled to their companions who were in the other boat to come help them and they came and filled both boats so that they were sinking. And seeing this, Simon Peter, look what he said, he fell on his knees before Jesus saying what? depart from me for I am a sinful man...”

Here we have a person who did not have a correct perspective of who was calling him. And many times, my brothers, that is something that clouds us, we do not realize that the person who calls us is not Pastor Omar, it is not Pastor Greg or Pastor Samuel or Pastor Roberto, the one who flame is God. and there is something that I want you to understand here, there is something very interesting about the idea of a disciple in the early Jewish context, so to speak.

Did you know that for a person to become a disciple of a rabbi they had to go through different stages? Obviously one of those first stages was the midrush, not that it had a midrush, but the midrush, that's what it's called... which is a stage where the person had to learn the entire Torah from cover to cover , from cover to cover, they had to learn it and recite it and then they went to another where they learned not only the Torah but all the prophets, they had to learn them by heart. Imagine you, from Genesis to Malachi, learning all that by heart. That was part of the tradition.

So the third part was when one of these disciples approached a rabbi and said, I want to be your disciple. Look at this, the disciple would approach the rabbi and say, I want to be your disciple, the rabbi then asked himself the question, hm, will this boy really have the caliber, will he have the material to be a disciple of mine? Will he have what is truly necessary to learn from me and to follow my teaching, to give a future to the teaching that I am imparting on him? Can you really do it? And do you know what that rabbi did? That rabbi ate that boy alive, cooked him, roasted him, fished him, fried him, whatever it was, he ate him. He began to ask him questions about the Torah, he began to ask him questions about the prophets, he began to ask him questions about the psalms, and if that boy failed in any of those answers, do you know what he would say? I'm sorry, but you can't. You are not the best of the best. That was what he ended up saying.

So those guys who told the rabbi they wanted to be one of his disciples if they didn't give the degree, do you know what they ended up doing? They ended up working in their father's trades, whatever it was, it could be in the sale of fabrics, in the sale of booths, or in fishing work, and what that meant was that it was not the best of the best for to be the disciple of a rabbi.

So I want you to think about this, when Jesus meets Simon, with John, who meets them in the boat, do you know what that meant? They weren't the best. They were not the best of the best. They did not go to Jesus to tell him, Jesus, we want to be your disciples. No, look at this other contradiction: Jesus went to them and told them, follow me, be my disciples.

So look at how Jesus was breaking tradition here. When a disciple is supposed to come to the rabbi to tell him, I want to follow you; here the rabbi was approaching the disciple and was saying, you follow me. When a rabbi had told a disciple, no, you are not good; Jesus was telling him, yes, you are good and I love you. Where others saw no hope, Jesus did see hope. Where others did not see potential, Jesus saw potential.

And you know what, my brothers? It causes me so much joy knowing that Jesus saw something in me that he wanted to use and believe me that I was not the best of the best. I was not and still am not. I am sure that I am here in front of a lot of people who are not going to say that oh, I am the best of the best, and if you see it, a prayer of humiliation would not hurt.

But the mere fact that Jesus approaches us and says, I love you, you know what? That is one of the most beautiful words a human being can hear. You tell someone, I love you, and it's not like oh, yes, I love you. No, it is to tell him, I love you, there is something that you have that complements me and I need that. is to say, I need you.

Look, if a husband says that to a wife, believe me, he's going to have a tremendous dinner that day. Hopefully, that's the hope. Or it takes you to the place you want to eat the best. Or if a wife tells her husband, uuu, I see candles that are going to be lit that night or something. But you know what? My brother, the fact that a person feels needed brings such a great feeling of satisfaction because you are giving him a sense of usefulness, like you are a thing, let me use you. No, no, no, but you are giving that person a sense that I am worth something, I can do something, there is something I can do to contribute to this society.

And that's what Jesus does with each one of us, my brothers and sisters, he sees you where you are, whether you're stuck in the rotten bottom hole down there, that is that you are more for less in your life, the Lord sees you and says, I love you, I need you. There is something in you that I want to use. And that call, my brothers and sisters, is seen day after day in the midst of our lives. And don't think about it, but God, I can't be a pastor. Oh, oh, oh, you know what? I'm going to that, I'm holding that part for later.

If you work at whatever it is, fill in the blank, you can even be a housewife, whatever it is, you can be a public bus driver here in Boston, you can be an electrician , you can be an accountant, you can be an artist, you can be whatever you are doing now, but through that you can fulfill the call of God in the midst of your life, you can fulfill that sense of vocation. Do you know why? Because if you do it with the genuine and intentional desire to glorify God and that others can receive that impact of God in the midst of their lives, you will be working under the will of God.

Now, if you are only choosing a career because ah, I'm going to become an accountant because that makes me a guy, or I'm going to become an architect because that's what it is, there I have my I retire safely, or I'm going to become a stock broker because I know that there I will definitely be able to have the red Ferrari that I want.

If you are looking for a career solely for the material benefits you can get, you are going to be the most unhappy person. I was going to say another, do you know why? Because your happiness is going to be based on the material things that you have obtained and sooner or later those material things are going to collapse.

Now, but if your sense of happiness, if your sense of raison d'etre, that's where I want to go, if your sense of raison d'être is firmly based on a genuine desire to honor God through through everything you do and may God work through you in the lives around you. So, there is not going to be anything material that can be compared to what God is going to be doing in the midst of your life.

And brothers, I want to go to this other part that I have been enduring for a long time. You know what? Many times we don't talk about these specific calls, but they are calls that are necessary as well. We talked about yes, look, you are a carpenter and that is your calling, that is your vocation, see that God uses you through that. You're a therapist, see that God uses you through that, but you know what? I believe that God also has a call to raise up pastors, God also has a call to raise up teachers of his word, God has a call to choose people like Julie and send them to Patagonia and be missionaries there and believe me, the Patagonia would be a beautiful place to be a missionary. I have heard that Patagonia is very beautiful.

But the mere fact that I see that if you ask someone, hey, do you want to be a pastor? Me, how did I do my brothers. What's wrong with that? Am I going to starve? Hey, if you are serving the Lord, the Lord will see to it that all your needs are met from a to z. And I believe, my brothers, I firmly believe, this is something that I don't say much because I am very careful, because I know that even aspiring to the pastorate it is better that they aspire to be something else. I also believe so, and I am very cautious with that, but I firmly believe that here in this place, as well as in many other churches, the Lord is dealing with people, with men, with women, who is truly raising up a new leadership for the pastoral ministry of the church in general, which will continue to move the church into the future, my brothers. This is necessary. We cannot rest as they say in the current leadership, because sooner or later that current leadership is going to come to an end and new leaders have to emerge, new leaders have to emerge who dare to stand here and declare a word of life, declare a word of truth, without shame to what others may say.

There are people that God is firmly disturbing to send them to other places in the world, but they say, oh, I don't dare. More, however, the Lord is there pressing his buttons, pushing your buttons, so to speak in those areas of his life. And brothers, I want these words to awaken in you a genuine desire to investigate, to investigate, and to discover that specific call that God has on your life. and if it is a ministerial call that you can respond to it affirmatively and not with cowardice. Because if you respond to God's call, believe me, you will lack nothing.

In the days that I am living today, I have not seen the Lord lacking in anything and likewise are the examples of many other people that I have seen who have dedicated their lives to serving the Lord, that they have never lacked for anything, they will have had their moments like hello, where is it? But the Lord always comes and lifts him up and puts him in the place that he has to be. Think about right now, my brother and sister, think about how you are responding to God's call on your life. Think about how you are responding to God's call on your life through everything you do, are you doing it to honor God, so that God is glorified through each of the transactions in life that you do? Or are you doing what you are doing more for your own personal benefit and God is left behind? I'm doing it because I need money in my bank, I'm doing it because I need to have this family with me, or I'm doing it because I need to impress him or her, or I'm doing it because I'm trying to live someone else's dream and I'm unhappy because I don't want to live it. that I really want to live, or what I understand I have to live. How do we respond to God's call?

I want you to stand up, my brothers, and I want us to say a prayer now. There is a very beautiful song that marked my life from the first time I heard it, it is a song that talks about serving the Lord without reservations and without conditions, something that we usually do a lot, we make reservations, we make conditions and we try to box God into what we understand to be acceptable. But brothers, God goes above all those things, God goes above any reservation or condition that we can put on him. And look, and if you don't want to respond to that call from God, you know what? The Lord will say, ok, fine, whatever, have it your way. And maybe some of you will say, fine, I'll have it my way, but you're going to continue to lead a life of constant sense of dissatisfaction because there are going to be these totally empty spaces in you, because you haven't really aligned with what God has intention for your life.

And if your desire really is to please God, then I ask you to consider these words, if you continue to lead your life in the way you want, you are going to keep encountering your lows from time to time and from time to time, but if you decide to align your life to that purpose of God to respond to a call, to be in communion with him, respond to the call to love him and to respond to the love that he gives you, and the result of that that then through all the things that you do, that you can say, Lord, I get up on this day I face my boss, I face my colleague, I face my I study, I face my teacher, I face the classmate that I meet in the bus, I face the person who is and I want that whatever I do can bring an impact to that life of who you are and what you mean In Myself.

I want to respond to that call, Lord Jesus, that my life be determined by that type of mentality, by that type of thought, that if I am in line at the grocery store and I see that the cashier has a bad face , hey, give him a smile. You don't know what your smile can do to that cashier's face. Either he rejects it and looks to the side and continues with his trunk up, or he looks at you and starts laughing again. That, my brothers, that gesture that can do so much.

And there is also, my brothers, the call to the ministry that God can have on many of you, the Lord needs you, the Lord wants you, he wants you for himself, he wants you to continue moving his work, his kingdom forward and you know what? he tells you, you have something that I want, you have something that I want, there is something that I have put in you that I want to use. If you give me that, then you will see how I am going to work through you.

How do we respond to that call, my brothers? How do we respond to that call? I invite you that if you want to take a time of prayer thinking clearly about this, I invite you here in front and while we sing this song that you can truly focus on the Lord, and say, Lord, look yes, I want to answer to your call without reservation, without conditions, here I am Jesus, I want to respond to that call that you have on my life in the way that it manifests itself, I want to respond to that call.

Close your eyes and meditate on those words, please.

Here I am Lord, send me if I can serve you here I am

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I will, I will obey you

Without reservations or conditions I will follow you

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I will serve you without reservations or conditions

If my life serves you, I give it to you

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There is no point in living without it is not for you

I will do it, I will obey you

Without reservations or conditions , I will follow you

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Without reservations or conditions, I will follow you

I will, I will obey you

I will follow you without reservations or conditions

I will, I will obey you

I will follow you without reservations or conditions

Now I want you to pray like this. repeat this prayer if you feel like doing so:

Lord Jesus, you have a calling in my life, maybe I know it, maybe in part, but my desire is to serve you, my desire is to be useful to you , here is my life, what I have, Lord, my highs, my lows, I give them to your altar, so that you do as you want, with what I do Lord, with what I have, with my words, with my actions , with what I write, with what I think, I want to respond to your call to reflect your love to others around me, use me as you want, so that I do not become intimidated, but have the courage to trust you, to trust in your promise, that if you are with me I will lack nothing, Lord. Use me at work, use me at home, with my family, with my children, with my husband or my wife, with my brother or sister, with my boyfriend or my girlfriend, whoever I am Lord, right now I declare that your children and daughters, my God, may they open their eyes to the reality that you see something in them that you want to use, that there is something, Lord, there is a potential in their lives that you want to exploit, my God for what people, my God , around them they can receive it and they can get closer to you, Lord, right now on each one of them and them, my God, I declare your blessing, Jesus, I declare that they open their eyes to a new reality in you, my God, that none of them see themselves as little, but that they see themselves as your great instrument to bless and impact the lives of others around them, to impact the life of the system, of the society in which we live, Lord Jesus. Here you call, you call people to take place, take possession in different places, in different spheres, my God, in which we move.

You are calling artists who can project images, my God, to communicate to you. You call poets, you call writers, you call teachers, my God, you call masons, you call contractors, you call nurses, or therapists, you call administrators, my God, you call pharmacists, you call doctors, you call lawyers and you also call those who can enter the ministry, Lord Jesus, also who can move the church forward into the future, Jesus, over each one of them right now I declare, Lord, that they that they can respond without reservations that they can respond without conditions and that they can obey the call that you have on their lives, Jesus, fill them with you, Jesus and that you be above all things, taking all the glory and all the honor, Jesus , it is you who takes all the glory and all the honor in the midst of our lives, our desire, Lord Jesus, is that you be exalted above all things, Jesus, oh we adore you, Lord, we adore you Jesus We adore you Jesus. I will, I will, I will, yes Lord, I will obey you, without reservation or condition, I will follow you

I will, I will obey you

Without reservation or condition , I will follow you

I will, I will obey you

Without reservations or conditions, I will serve you

I will, I will obey you

Without reservations or conditions, I will follow you

Oh yes Lord, you call us Jesus and at least those of us who commit ourselves to you say we will, Jesus, we will obey your voice and trust in your promise, Lord that you will be there for everyone. We thank you, Lord, thank you, Jesus.

Brothers, take some time today to thank God. Brothers, we have to thank him for the mere fact that he wants to do something with you. Thank you, thank you. and if you don't know how, ask the Lord to show you, thank you Jesus, thank you, Jesus, thank you Lord. Thank you, you have purposes with your church, thank you Jesus. You have purposes with your sons and daughters, my God, right now Lord remove all confusion, my God, remove all clouds of questioning, Lord and that there is a genuine sensitivity to be able to obey your call, Jesus. I bless your people, Lord, I bless them in your name Jesus, what they do from now on they can do with that mentality and that conviction that they do it for you, Jesus, they do it for you, Lord, so that you may be you glorified and exalted in the midst of all things. Thanks God. In your name Jesus, amen and amen. Thank my Lord. Thank you Jesus.

Brothers, may the Lord bless you, may the Lord keep you, may the Lord make his face shine upon you and give you peace. Go out in the name of Jesus, impact the lives of others in the name of Jesus. Blessings, brothers, forward in the Lord.