Do not take back your paralytic

Luke, chapter 5, verse 17. I'm going to be judicious in the name of the Lord eventually too, but at least plant a word a seed of faith there in your spirit, in your heart. Says the word, the Lord, Luke 5, 17, "it happened one day, that he, Jesus, was teaching and the Pharisees and doctors of the law were sitting, who had come from all the villages of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem And the power of the Lord was with him to heal," please note, Meches, thank you. And it happened that some men who were carrying a man who was paralyzed in a bed, tried to carry him before him, but could not find how to do it, ” here is the obstacle, “but not finding how to do it because of the crowd, they climbed on top of the house and through the roof," that is, through the roof, "they lowered him with the bed, placing him in the middle, in front of Jesus.

When He saw their faith, He said to them, man…” –in the other two passages it says son; in the parallel passages of Matthew and Mark, "man your sins are forgiven you." Then the Scribes and the Pharisees began to wonder, “that is, to ask themselves…to question in their minds, saying, who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but only God? Jesus then, knowing their thoughts, answered, said to them, that you ponder in your hearts, what is easier to say, your sins are forgiven you, or to say, get up and walk. Well, so that you may know that the son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, he said to the paralytic, I say to you, get up, take your bed and go home. Immediately, getting up in their presence and taking the bed on which he was lying, he went to his house, glorifying God. And everyone, overwhelmed with astonishment, glorified God and, full of fear, said, “Today we have seen wonders.” May the Lord bless his Holy Word.

Brothers, as you know, these weeks we are preaching on the theme of faith and our goal is that this entire year 2009, we fill ourselves with those principles of faith, we dig deep into the Word of God, we go deep, we mine, we do work of miners to extract from the depths of God's soil those truths that have to do with the subject of faith.

I feel that God wants to anoint and prepare our congregation. When God wants to do something, he always first prepares the instruments that he is going to use. When the Lord was going to begin to perform miracles in the midst of Israel, to enter them into the Promised Land, he called Joshua and told him, tomorrow I am going to begin to perform miracles among you, and then he said, command the men to be circumcised , that all the people be purified, that all the people be purified.

When God wants to do something, he first has to work on the instruments, he has to clean the vessels, he has to prepare the instruments that he is going to use, and he wants you to prepare, for me to prepare, for us to purify ourselves... to seek the anointing of God, that we allow God to transform the structures of our mind, our spiritual sensitivity, because when our structures are not prepared, they will not be able to contain the anointing of God.

The first thing that has to be prepared, and that is why I feel that this year is a year of preparation for teaching in the area of faith. God gave me that word on New Year's Eve about a year to speak, to meditate, to live principles of faith and everything begins precisely by preparing our mind, our concept, our understanding... I told the brothers this morning In the 9 o'clock service, the first time in many years that this has happened to me, I forgot to change the clock. As soon as he forgot this... aha... even at 12 he still didn't know, that means he was sleeping, and at 11:45. But, I forgot to change the clock, which was very much on my mind. And you know what's interesting, well... I came here with my tongue hanging out, I got here at 9:14, 9:15... Begging him not to see one of those Boston troopers. And you know what, I looked at my computer four or five times and saw the clock, because you know that computers have... and they update, that is, it's not like a watch on your wrist, that you have to change it, no. What is the cell phone and the computer clocks are immediately set to the new time, but I looked at it about four or five times, because I was working there on it, etc. And you know what, I looked at it but I didn't see the real time.

And at 7:57 I was very happy because I had a little while left to finish, and come to church, I didn't know it was 8:57. The great panic when I felt that I realized the terrible truth, but you know, what I want to tell you is the following, see, why didn't I see the time on the clock? Because I, in my mind, was in the old time. You understand? Say, hmm, it sounded good... I was in the old time, that is, my mind was stuck... I hadn't made the adjustment yet, the time had changed, reality had changed but my mind hadn't changed. So, when your mind doesn't change, you see what you want to see and what you think you have to see. It is so, that is the mind. You project what you believe, what you think, the paradigms, to use a big philosophical word. According to the paradigms that you have, this is how it will happen in your life. If your mind is not prepared, it has not been widened to fit the new wine of God in your life, you will not be able to receive what God wants to do because you will be seeing things... you will be looking at them, but you will not be seeing them. And this was what happened with those Pharisees, and incidentally these theological men who had a failed theology, was not prepared to understand all the magical and powerful truth that God had through the person of Jesus.

One of the problems precisely in faith is that, brothers, that our mind has to change and we have to be humble enough many times so that when God wants to do something that does not fit within the parameters that we have established, have the humility to say, you know what, I'm going to widen the walls a little so that God's truth fits into my life.

The mind has to change, and that is why I present these teachings as a way to broaden our parameters, to expand our vision, our ability to see, because these men, these Pharisees, as you see here, when the Lord was there at that time. The Son of God, the one sent by God, God himself in front of them, but they could not understand what God wanted to do and was doing at that moment, because their theological parameters did not include the idea that it was God himself who descended on the form of a man, and to do what Jesus had come to do. His theological teachings were different, his theological sack was too small to fit all that God had locked up in the person of Jesus, that is why when the Lord Jesus Christ says, your sins are forgiven, it was like cuckooing them, because He I knew... He wanted to see what they did when He said that, why? Because in his theology he said, only God can forgive sins. And the Lord said, take out, exactly.

And so He said your sins are forgiven, to see what they thought. And of course, at the moment the fuses blew, the self-righteous theology, because they couldn't... the computer began to smoke. What does he do with it? They pondered in their hearts, because they were not prepared, their minds were not prepared to receive the very presence of God made man. That was not in the... you look at Isaiah, it is there, but again, the glasses that you put on allow you to see or not see many things in life. I ask the Lord, Father, to widen my mental and spiritual concepts.

Brothers, look, this is not even where I was going to start, but if this is what God wants for you, amen. Be humble and let God…how would I put it this way? God wants to do something new, different, unexpected, and he needs flexible people and people who are willing to let themselves be shaped. We sing many times, "take my life and do it again, I want to be a new vessel by your power." No? That is, the soft clay that in the hands of the potter... when the clay dries and hardens, nothing can be done with it. And God needs people who are willing to go to another level, who are willing to... look, whatever God asks of you, give it to him, if God has something new for your life, something that you did not expect, something that is even scandalous, no but... look, give it to the Lord, it's worth it. If God is speaking to you at this time in your life, if God wants you to give him anything, a relationship, a profession, a dream, plans for the future, an understanding of what he wants for your life and what you you think he is going to do in five, ten years, put everything in the hands of the Lord. Tell him, Father, whatever you want from me, that's what I'm going to do.

If you want me to walk as a beggar on all the roads of the earth preaching your word, here I am, as Mary said, here is the servant of the Lord, do with me as you want. That is the word of the son of God... the daughter of God, always. Because unless you don't have that open, simple, soft, malleable vision, God won't be able to do what He wants to do with your life.

I ask the Lord, Father, make us truly like children, that we can believe whatever comes out of your mouth. Let us ask the Lord to create a congregation of spiritual children here, in the good sense of the word. Moldable people, teachable people, innocent in spirit people, people who are there with an open spirit to see what God wants, so that He can do the work that He wants to do… I feel like he wants to work in this church and do really great things. I see young people, young adults, I see mature people already, chronologically and also in the Lord, I see professionals, I see hard-working people, I see people who have not had much education and others who have many studies... look, God wants to convert each one of them. you into a powerful worker, an evangelist, a warrior, a prophet, a preacher, a teacher, but he needs us to be open to what he wants to do.

Let us be those new wineskins, capable of when the wine expands within us, we have the subtlety to expand, because if we are like that old leather from the wineskins, what happens? The old leather is already dry, it cannot expand, when the wine... with the effervescence of the wine and the chemical processes of the new wine begins to expand... it cannot. It does not find where to anchor, so many times God has revelations to our lives, God wants to show a powerful Jesus, a wonderfully new Jesus who is the same, however. And our schemes are so small, our schemes are within the religious schemes, come to church on Sunday, punch out the card and leave again to live like pagans the rest of the week. And God says, no, I want everything, I want the totality of life, I want you to live like a Levite, like a priestess in my house even though I'm in the street but in the spirit in my house, adoring me, serving me , changing your paradigms, changing your patterns so I can use you. Change your mind, change your attitude because if you don't, you won't be able to understand.

God wants a vision based on faith, because faith is the platform, as we have said, on which God can carry out his miraculous processes. Faith is what is here… man your sins are forgiven you. These men exemplify that element of faith that God wants to impart to our lives, that element of courage, of audacity, that characterizes. One of the characteristics of faith… one of the characteristics that you're going to see throughout all of the scripture, that marks out people as people of faith, is that they're bold, they're daring. They are incorrect, they are politically incorrect many times as well. And these men, like the woman with the issue of blood, exemplify that acrimony of impropriety. It is unorthodoxy in a sense, than is expected. They operate out of the box, as they say in English.

And this… a lot of faith is about overcoming obstacles. Many of the people that you see through the scriptures, who are people of faith, overcome obstacles, overcome difficulties, the mountains are many times a symbol of the obstacle, and that is why I believe that the Lord said, if you have faith like a grain mustard, what would happen? You would tell that mountain to move and throw yourself to the bottom of the sea, and it would obey. That was hyperbole that the Lord used, but hey, I believe that before the world passes away, someone will have to come to be able to fulfill that word of the Lord and they will have to move a mountain, I don't know how God will do it. going to do it or maybe God already did it and we don't even know. But, the Lord Jesus Christ said, if you have faith like a mustard seed, any obstacle, that mountain represents the obstacles, the difficulties. Faith specializes in removing obstacles. As these men removed the obstacle, a crowd prevents them from reaching Jesus, the house is full of people, they have this paralytic that they want to expose to the power of Christ and they don't know how to do it.

Faith always confronts and overcomes obstacles, a lot of faith has to do with overcoming deficiencies, overcoming deficiencies. If you look through the writing, that's one of the areas. That is why faith is often identified with weak people, too weak for the task at hand. Because faith has a lot to do with weaknesses that are overcome and overcome through the belief that God is powerful to replace what is missing. That's why whenever you see faith, you're probably going to see a deficiency that's that matched or counterbalanced by faith. The classic case, the classic graphic image is the image of David and Goliath. David, a young boy, inexperienced in war, tender, not so tender because he told Saul that when he was a shepherd and a bear came wanting to kill a sheep, he would grab it by the jaw, so he was not so tender either, but he was not an experienced warrior. Look, when Saul wants to put on his armor, who was a strong and big man of war, what happens? They dance the armor to poor David because he was not a very big man apparently. And David tells him, he knows what leaves that better still aside because I have other weapons that you don't know about. What does the word say? It says that our armor is not… it says that the weapons of our militia are not carnal but powerful in God, I mean, in God. For the destruction of fortresses.

But David in his littleness, and Goliath in his oversufficiency exemplify that, right? That God equalizes the difference. I remember I told you last Sunday about the woman with the issue of blood and Jairus. Jairo was the successful, influential, powerful man with influential social relationships. This anonymous, ceremonially impure woman with no resources because she had already spent everything, but when her faith kicks in she jumps into the line and stands at the head of the line, because faith equals deficiencies.

The giant is then reduced to its real size and the small is raised to a level much more than sufficient, Because faith is what evens the terms of the fight in the spirit world, so faith is overcoming deficiencies. Faith is daring the improbable. There are things that seem impossible in the eyes of man, but God says that everything is possible, all things are possible for those who believe. That's what the Lord told Marta. It seemed impossible that a man who had been dead four days, I think it was, already smelled in that middle eastern heat. Imagine stuck in a tomb, in a cave wrapped in whatever rags were around, poor Lazarus. Four days dead and the Lord tells him, your brother is going to rise again. And the only thing that Marta's faith gives is to tell her, yes Lord, I know that he will rise on the day of the resurrection of the dead. And the Lord says, no, no. He is going to resurrect now, even if it doesn't seem possible, even if it doesn't seem probable, now I'm going to resurrect him. What's more, sometimes the Lord allows things to reach the level of the improbable in order to then perform the miracle, because He needs it to seem impossible for it to be faith. If it were possible, then it would not be faith, it would be sight, it would be something else. The Lord allowed poor Lazarus to cook well there in the cave, to mature well, pardon the expression, I don't want to spoil his food... and then perform the miracle.

Because the Lord moves in the realm of the improbable, and knows what, that many things God allows matters in our life to reach that terrain and He is there maturing things, and we are there crying out, look Lord it is already coming to me to the neck, it's reaching my nose. Father, do something and the Lord waits sometimes, until the last second, to intervene, to show that it is he who is working. Do not let yourself be defeated by time or because you have cried or waited a lot. Sometimes God precisely wants things to appear ant-colored so that he can then do the work in your life. So, faith overcomes deficiencies, faith dares the improbable. This paralytic, imagine, a paralyzed man, he can't move, quadriplegic on a stretcher. Jesus does not know them, the house is full of people, it is full of dignitaries, it says here that priests, scribes, Levites, people of theological knowledge had come from all the surrounding cities to examine Jesus. They were there. These people were from the town, they had no theological education, they did not have a representation card that would take them to Jesus. The house is full of people, there is nowhere to enter.

If it had been me, I'd take my paralytic again, I tell him another day, we'll try, you saw that we tried, right? Well, let's see what happens. Maybe another campaign will come and then we can take you. It was unlikely that anything would happen. It was unlikely because they physically couldn't, but they overcame that and searched for a way out, searched for an answer, they found it on the roof of the house. Ahh, okay, we're going to remove a few tiles and see what happens.

Always, I told the brothers, there is always a way out in God. I am one of those who believe that there is always an option, there is always a solution. There is always an answer that God has, never give up. Winston Churchill, I think I said that a while back, didn't I? In the darkest time of England's life, that little island that is England, because people think it's a huge country – it's an island. And on that island, the entire Nazi war machine was set in sight with all its power, with all its power. It seemed impossible, all of Europe was covered by the Nazi army, they seemed invincible. And Winston Churchill said the famous words to the English in one of his speeches, he told them, never, never, never give up. And they stopped in their faith and in their belief, and that Nazi machine had to fall dead before the faith of the English people and the allies. Because, brothers, look, the enemy sometimes seems to come like water, like an impetuous, irresistible river. But at that moment, the only thing that can get a man or a woman out of a predicament is to stand firm on what God has declared, and to believe that even if it seems improbable, impossible, for God there is always a way out.

That is why I say brothers, this financial and economic time of this nation and of the entire world, seems like the walls of Jericho, closed, well closed. Who gets humanity out of this mess that man has gotten into at this time? Just a miracle from God. How are we going to get through these times? Look, grabbing the horns of the altar and crying out to God, and believing that God always has a solution, God always has a way out. Sometimes things seem impossible, everything closed, but that's why those examples are there in writing. There is no wall that God cannot tear down, cannot make fall, and with what did the walls of Jericho fall? With the praise, with the adoration, with the prophetic declaration, with the siege, with the siege... with the circulation of the people of God going around there, going around until they tied it up and made it fall to pieces.

God always has an answer, God has something he can do in your life. I tell him, Lord, help me to believe in you, because I realize that my faith is insufficient, brothers, for what God needs to do. We need a transformation, a surgical operation from God. May God himself stick his scalpel into our brains and do what he has to do. May he make some new connections, so that we can have enough faith to believe that He can do what He wants to do. The miracle is great, brothers, that God wants to do. The thing is big, there is something in the Bible that says so, that the thing is big. At some point I will think about it, but if the thing is great, what God has is great. And, you need to prepare. The baby weighs 14 pounds, brothers, and you have to ask the Lord to give the woman strength. The church has to give birth, the church has to give birth, the church is ready to give birth, but it lacks strength, it is like a woman who has to give birth but is exhausted, and there is no strength to bring forth the baby and if the baby is passed, it will kill her and the baby will die.

That will not happen, because God is more powerful than that. But, brothers, we need to ask the Lord to give us strength, broaden our structures, our mind, our spiritual structure so that we can give birth to the life of God, it is important that we live up to what God wants to do and that we believe that what seems impossible, what seems improbable, God can do and that we cry out to the Lord, we pay the price.

Faith always risks things, brothers. In all scripture you always see that the person who is going to do something, a feat of faith, has to risk something. You remember what I said in one of the previous sermons, all those people who risked something. You always have to risk something, faith is the sister of risk. If there is no risk I would say there is no faith one way or the other. There is the story of Esther again, for example. Esther had to risk something to be used by God. When the moment of truth arrived, no one had given her the right to enter the King's bedroom, she did not have an appointment, even though she was the main concubine, the King's wife. And the law said, whoever enters that place without being invited, the death penalty. But, there was a need, God wanted to do something and Ester's uncle told him, look, who knows if they have put you for this moment, and you are going to have to decide, if you don't do it, someone else will. do probably. But you're going to miss out on the glory of being you.

So take a look and see what it does. And she dared, she says, she made her friends pray for three days and fast. Three days. She fasted and her friends, her companions, fasted. Three days. Brothers, there are times when the things that God wants to do require sustained fasting, sustained prayer. That we say stop, to the world to reality, to the efforts, to the commitments and to the things of life, that we open space. For me, fasting is a symbol of opening spaces, yes or no? Because fasting is when you open spaces in time because you know how much time one sometimes spends eating, it's incredible how much time you spend sitting at the table, talking and this and that, three times a day. Sometimes much more than that, much more up to date than we should. The first thing that happens when you make time to fast is that you make time for the Lord and second, you make time inside, too. I think it opens up, that is, it opens up space. That space that was going to be full of food is now empty.

And God can sometimes speak in those gaps that we open to the Lord. And, certainly, there is also something that has been proven. Medically, experientially, when there is fasting there is mental lucidity, there is an opening of the mind. There is hunger, many times, but the mind is clear. I can tell you from my own experience. Many years ago, 20 years ago, the Lord put me on a fast that I did not look for it, I did not ask for it, I did not want it, it was contrary to my nature and for almost a year I was fasting from all kinds of meat, except seafood. from time to time, and I… a more carnivorous person in the world, not carnal, but carnivorous –it's a difference. And God put me, stopped me from eating meat and it was because I had to do my doctoral thesis and I was pastoring, working and I didn't have time to stop any of those things. And I needed a meal like Elías, to be able to continue working and also to write a doctoral thesis without a thesis advisor, or anything, I'm the only one there. God and me only.

And God put me on a fast, and as a result of starting that fast that came out of nowhere, then the mental vitality that I needed to write, write, write began. Meches is there, she knows, we were already married. In six months, God allowed me to write a 500-page thesis and submit it to an implacable jury, and God allowed me to come out on top. And also complete other requirements, too, in less than a year to the glory of the Lord because He, and the lucidity and clarity that I had at that time, and the incredible mental clarity. Because fasting does that, fasting opens spaces for God to work, cleanses the landscape. That is why fasting has so much power, it is something mysterious. But sometimes we have, brothers, if we want... according to what we want God to do, sometimes we have to pay a price, salvation is free but everything else... not even that is free, because the Lord had to pay a great price . God paid a great price for salvation, there is always something to pay.

Now if you want to enter a higher level of anointing, pay the price, pray, fast, seek the face of God. Esther had to cry out to God, and she had to tell her friends... join me, let's pray, let's cry. What's more, and he said, tell all the Jews in the area to pray and fast too because the thing was big, what had to be done was big. The miracle that was required was to change a decree of the king, which was in the Medo-Persian system of that time, that was impossible. Once the king gave his word, and he had decreed that on such a day the Jews had to be exterminated. He knows that the war against the Jews is not only from Nazism in the 20th century, that it has been through all the centuries because the devil hates God's people. And also, because the people of God have not done their part, they have always been stubborn. I'm finishing, but the fact is that she said, make everyone pray and fast and I'm going after that time, I'm going to enter the king's court. And when she did that, God did what he had to do. And she risked something.

We have to risk something, brothers. Depending on the miracle that you want to happen, you have to risk something. If it doesn't cost you anything, it's not suitable. You have to risk something many times so that God can do the work that God wants to do in your life. Sometimes, brothers, faith is reckless. Faith is mixed with recklessness many times. It is interesting that many times there is an impoliteness affiliated with faith, or there is a lack, sometimes, of wisdom as men estimate wisdom. Sometimes people of faith are uncourteous people. They are daring, they are impulsive, they are entrepreneurs, they are warriors and they do things that are not. Look at these men here. They had to bring their paralytic before the Lord, there was no entrance, they broke the roof, they exposed themselves to being sued for property damage. They imposed themselves on the preaching of Jesus, they were rude to all the people who had come to hear a sermon from the Lord. But they said, we have a need. We have come and we are not leaving here without seeing that man carrying his stretcher.

They were reckless. They were not courteous. Many times you have to be like this to receive something from the Lord. Many of the people who received from God, they were rude, they were reckless. Including that woman with the issue of blood, including Bartimaeus who yelled and yelled and yelled, and everyone was saying shut up you're bothering the neighbors, and he said, no, Lord, son of David, have mercy on me. The Lord stopped and attended to him, that man came out of there healed, because he was insistent. Think of the neighbor who comes to your neighbor at midnight. People came to his house, they didn't send him an e-mail telling him we're going to arrive at 11:45 at night or 12. They show up, as they have shown up in our countries, right? How many times have people not come to your house when you least expect it? Because they are used to it. How many times do people come and say, look, I'm going to visit you this summer, but they don't tell them when and they show up there with all the motets to stay at the house for two weeks. Has that ever happened to anyone in your country? Confess it, of course.

And in those times of Israel, it was like that. People had no way of communicating when they arrived so they could show up, if their horse broke a horseshoe, they would arrive at the time they arrived. People appear unexpectedly at midnight, he doesn't have sugar, he doesn't have coffee to give them at that moment and he doesn't want to be ashamed of not having anything to offer them and he says, hang on next door, Agapito, of course. Let me go see, he has coffee, I know because I smelled the coffee this afternoon when I was brewing it. He goes there, knocks on the door, Agapito is exhausted, snoring freely and doesn't want to open it. He already listens to him but he realizes that he does not hear him. But this man's haste is so great, the pressure on him is so great not to feel ashamed that he keeps touching him, touching him, touching him until finally Agapito says, he knows what not to grab him by the bows and give him a good slap I'm going to give him that blessed coffee. He opens the door, gives him what he wants and the man goes off laughing to attend to his guests, and the Lord says that's how we have to be to receive from God.

We have to be persistent, we have to be insistent. Sometimes we have to be importunate, we have to be reckless. There are times, brothers, sisters, that God is going to ask something of you, expect something from you, and you are going to have to say, look, even if the neighbors think what you think, even if my family says I'm crazy, I'm going to do it. because that is what the Lord has put in my heart. And many times you get away with it, or with God, it depends how you look at it. Because you dared to be reckless in the Lord. The madness of God is wiser than the wisdom of men, says the word of the Lord. God needs people, look sometimes our problem is that we are too prudent. There are people that I tell them, look, you definitely need to create prudence in yourself. There are others that I tell them, you have to be reckless. Some of us are so courteous, so appropriate, so correct, so wise in our ways, so conservative, so planning, that God can't move through us, because we are – and I was going to say constipated… we are restricted… and we need God to help us. make more fluid.

Therefore, this afternoon, brothers, what we did here, from time to time you know. We take time and say, you know what, the program, that choir... we throw it away, the other one here, the plan we had... and we say, Lord, do what you want. Because that is, it not only glorifies the Lord, it not only allows God to be glorified as He wants, but I also think that it is an exercise for this Congregation, mentally and spiritually, to say to ourselves: we are a people that flows according to the God's spirit. And when the Holy Spirit says, I want you to adore me and take time to be with me... the children are here, brothers.

The children arrived. Come on, how is it that they say over there… who is here… The thing is, brothers, look, thank God that they are up there most of the time. What happens is that we exceeded ourselves, but glory to God.

What I'm saying brothers, look, sometimes we need to break the mold. We need to get out of the right. OK. It's half past two, we're supposed to be outside at two, but from time to time you have to give the Lord a little more. Amen. Yes or no?

That is a way to keep this church in its Pentecostal, charismatic, spiritual paradigms. Because many times, you know, over time, the churches and the pastors get used to the program, to the elegance, to the middle-class, bourgeois mentality. Not hamburgers, but bourgeois. You know, and then what happens? That the program becomes a straitjacket that blocks the flow of the Holy Spirit, so everything is the program, the minute, finishing at the time we said we were going to finish, and singing the chorus that we said a week and a half ago we were going to sing And, brothers, the people of God is a warrior people, it is a Bedouin people, it is a pilgrim people, it is a people that, like the Hebrews, when the cloud rises the people moves, when the cloud settles the people stays. That is a paradigm that God established so that you remember, the people of God always flow when a Spirit flows, not according to what you want or me.

And sometimes we have, from time to time, I myself have to take a Pentecostal pill to remember... Why? Because when you get used to it... we like it, people like me and like others, we like to be up to date, plan, do the things we set out to do, follow the plan, be strategic and you know what? Sometimes that becomes pride. There is an arrogance, there, spiritual. There is a spirit of control, that takes control, and so God sometimes wants us to remember, I am in control and offer the Lord that appetite for control. Let's say, Father, today I want to acknowledge, I want to give this holocaust to you, let the devil wag his tail all he wants, but we are going to gild you and we are going to give you glory and honor. And that's nice brothers.

There are times when you have to widen the paradigms, you have to be reckless, you have to be a little disorganized, look, there is no organization more beautiful than that of the Holy Spirit. There is no more beautiful and harmonious adoration than when the spirit cooks it, when the spirit puts that seasoning that no one else knows. That glorifies, that is beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. So, sometimes you have to be reckless, these men were reckless, they imposed themselves on the agenda and on the property of others.

The last thing, these people, many times faith requires desperate actions. Sometimes faith requires desperate action and that we put everything, everything on the table. And let's say, look, if I lose everything I perish, but that... God doesn't ask that many times, but there will be times in your life when you are going to have to make a desperate decision and may God help you and have mercy on you , for your power to enter into what God has for your life. Sometimes you are going to have to sacrifice what you love the most, and you are going to have to be radical and you are going to have to risk everything. All for the all. Play it all for everything, so that God can do what he wants to do in your life. God loves desperate people who have nothing to lose. The problem is that many of us have a lot to lose. And because of that, sometimes God can't work with us and do what He wants to do in our lives.

We are like the rich young man, who when he comes before Jesus desperate because he has a depression that is killing him despite being a very religious man. And he says, Lord, what do I have to do to be saved? And the Lord already knows which foot he's limping on, and tells him well, nothing, keep the commandments... Ah, but I've already done that, I'm an expert in keeping commandments. He says oh well, then look, you only need one little thing. Take all your goods, all your wealth, sell them, give the money to the poor, get rid of everything you have and then come and follow me. Like who doesn't say anything.

And the Bible says that this man became depressed, he became sad. Because? Because he had many possessions, and the Lord said, oh how difficult it is for rich people to enter the kingdom of heaven. And you know what, you don't have to be a millionaire to sometimes be rich. Sometimes we are rich in other things, we are rich in human relationships, we are rich in sleep, we are rich in a sense of humor that does not please the Lord, we are rich in habits that impoverish the flow of God in our lives, we are rich in grudges , we are rich in a mouth that should not say the things we say…. We are rich in many things, and God says, give me that and you will see how I work in your life. Give me that and you will see how I move with power in your life. And you know what, many times secretly, we do like the rich young man and we slip away and say, another day we will speak again Lord. Maybe one of these days you'll lower the price and maybe you and I can make the deal.

There are many things… wealth is what you love. Wealth is that to which you are attached. Wealth is what you think if you don't have it you can't live without it. That is wealth, it is not just money. And the Lord many times requires that you strip yourself of everything and that you do a mental exercise of losing everything so that then God can give you everything. Sometimes we have to do a mental exercise, I say that it is one of the most fruitful exercises of all, you are going to realize that you lost everything, and if you lost everything, what is left is a blessing, cream on the cake . We have to live like we lost everything, everything belongs to the Lord, and when you are like this and you have nothing, God can use you.

Like those four lepers who, when there was such a terrible famine in Israel, had nothing to lose. And they said, you know what, let's go to the eastern camp of the Syrians, if they kill us we are old lepers who are useless. And we are going to starve anyway, because there is famine throughout the land and so if we stay inside we will die, and if we go to the Syrians, maybe they will have mercy on us and give us something to eat, and then cut us down head but we die with a full stomach. He had nothing to lose and you know what, when they got there, what happened? They found the camp completely empty. The enemy army had fled, because God had put them to flee the night before. They had left everything. The rest of the town was inside the walls there, and God had already solved the problem. But these desperate people were the ones who were able to discover what God had done.

Because people like that are needed, reckless people, desperate people, people who have nothing to lose, like these men. They said, well what, if they put us in jail it doesn't matter. We are going to do what we have to do. Brethren, that is what the Lord wants. Let's stand up. Samuel stops by for a moment. Faith is overcoming deficiencies, faith is daring the improbable. Faith is risking things for God. Faith is sometimes being reckless. Faith is being desperate and having nothing to lose, because you have already lost everything, you already gave everything to the Lord. That is the platform that God wants to use to perform his miracles.

The Lord wants to raise up such a people, beginning with the one who speaks to them. Father, we give you everything, we put everything at your feet, Lord. Everything I have, everything I am I give you on this day. Father, I preach this and I don't know what I'm talking about, but you can enlighten us, give us understanding, create for yourself a people, Lord, a people, a people, a people that you like, a people worthy of the treasure that you have entrusted to our hands. Sir, we are tired of normality, we are tired of respectability. We are tired of the predictable, we are tired of religion, we are tired of the routine, we are tired of the predictable... and we want, Lord, that the wind of the Holy Spirit breaks in with power and upsets the whole house, Lord.

Spirit of God, we give you all our riches, all the things we love, including our mental patterns, the way of thinking that we are trapped in, we give it to you… our habits, Lord. The autistic attitudes that stop the free flow of your spirit, we reject them, we renounce them, we renounce what we think is essential for us, we give it to you, Lord. We deliver it to you. Create a different Father people. Lord, if you have to take us out and put another people, but let your will be done, Lord. Your will be done, your kingdom come Lord, your kingdom come Father.

Your kingdom is more important than any of us but, Father, we offer you the beams of this building, we offer you its foundation, we offer you its halls, Lord. We offer you its roof, we offer you any resource that this church has, we offer you the souls, Lord, that belong to this community. We offer you the talents that you have created and that you have tested, Lord, in this family. We put everything at your feet. All wealth, all crown, all talent, all possession, Lord, at your feet. All the treasure at your feet and do not let us fall from your glory, Lord, do not let us fall from where you have put us, Lord, on this day. Tie us to your truth, tie us to your principles, Lord, tie us to your glory and your presence Lord, please, do not let us stray from your glory, Father. We glorify your name, we bless this town, Lord, every depth, every depth, Lord, in our lives.

We give you, Lord, everything we have. I beg you that if you have not received Jesus, as your Lord and your Savior until today, do it today, there where you are, there where you are right now, tell Jesus, Lord Jesus, I give you my life. Surrender your life to the Lord, right now. Give what you love most to the Lord, say, Father, I give my life to Jesus Christ right now. Say it like that with authority, conviction, with faith, tell the Lord, come into my life, Jesus, right now. Come into my life and fill me up. Because the Lord says that if you open your heart He will come in and have dinner with you and you will converse with Him. So in the name of Jesus, right now, surrender your life to the Lord, and confess Him as Lord and Savior. Get out of here renewed, get out of here transformed, get out of here confronted, whoever it is that needs to make their pact with Christ, do it right now to the Lord your life, He will listen, He will know what you are doing there in your heart right now. And then you will do it publicly, but for now I challenge you to give your life to the Lord, and I assure you that if you do, you will not do the same, or the same, from now on.

The Lord is here, the Lord is speaking with authority, clearly, give your life to the Lord. Tell him, Lord Jesus, come into my heart, come into my life and establish your throne within me. Whether you are young, whether you are a woman, a man, whatever, surrender to the Lord, surrender to the Lord right now your life. Thank you, thank you, thank you Lord, we adore you. I give you my life, I give you this church, ministry, everything is yours, Lord. Thank you, thank you Jesus, bless this church, and may these words have an effect in our lives, we adore you Lord, we bless you. Praise your name, Lord, thank you.