God's Challenges

Brothers, God has blessed us today with a precious message from our sister, Dr. Olga Martínez, she is with us today. Give a round of applause to Dr. Martínez who is here and I know that God has a word for us this afternoon.

Olguita -as we affectionately call her- is a dear friend of many years; He has come to León de Judá several times. Every time she comes she leaves a deposit, she leaves a deposit of God, a deposit of the Spirit and she has Blessed Lorens this weekend.

The Lord directed our sister Carolina León Barrutia who also works here as Executive Secretary of our Church to bless Lorens, open a gap there.

Lorens is a city that needs a lot, we are talking about Puerto Viejo, Ecuador. But Lorens is right here 30 minutes north of Boston and it needs a lot of God and Olguita was there and sister Carolina and her husband José were leading an effort to bless the city of Lorens and declare the Lordship of Christ there in sister Lorens Olga Martínez brought the Word of God.

Great Blessing this morning blessed us here and I know that God has a strong Word for us. Give a welcome applause to Sister Olguita and we are going to prepare our hearts, we are going to open our spirits, because God has something very special to give us this day.

Olguita blessed and welcome to the house of the Lord.

Dr. Olga Martínez: Good morning. It is a pleasure for me to be here, to see faces and hug people who I am very fond of, from the previous times we have been in this place. Bow your heads a moment, close your eyes, and let's pray:

“Father, we thank You this morning for allowing me to be here in this country again and to be in Your home. Thank you Father for each of the people that I can see again and for the new people that I am meeting.

Father, this morning we put this message before You so that You are the one who takes control, that You are the one who speaks to our hearts. We take authority over all mental strength that wants to prevent what You have for us this morning.

Thank you Father, Thank you Son and Thank you Holy Spirit. Amen".

We are in challenging times, governments have challenges. The banks, the institutions have challenges and the people of God have strong challenges.

If you look at the Word of God you will find that all of God's chosen have had challenges, if you and I are chosen of God we have challenges. A challenge from God has certain characteristics. One of them is that it starts from a need: the need to solve something to benefit others, to benefit many.

Another characteristic is that a challenge from God is much bigger than what people can do. In Luke 18:17 it says: 'What is impossible with man is possible with God'.

Another characteristic is that when God gives a challenge, he gives the exact specifications of what has to be done. When God gives Noah the challenge to build an Ark, He gives him specifically how to build it. In Genesis 6:14 it says: 'Make yourself an Ark of Gopher wood, and you shall make a room in the Ark and caulk it inside and out with pitch'. Then he continues giving him all the specifications of the material that he must use, the size, the number of compartments, the windows, the shapes of the windows, what he must do with the Ark, who must enter that Ark because in the challenges there are always several people involved.

And then in Genesis 6:22, we see that it says: 'And so Noah did according to all that God had commanded him.' According to ALL, not to a part, not to what he liked, not to what he wanted, not to what he thought, according to everything he had ordered.

When God gives Joshua a challenge, which we can see in Joshua 1:2, he tells him: 'My servant Moses has died now so get up, cross this Jordan you and all this people to the Land that I give to the sons of Israel. Israel'. And further on we see that he is telling him that what he has to do is make an effort and be brave, that is, do things well done, follow the instructions that God is giving him, and that if he does that, everything will work out for him, everything will go well. be prosperous For what reason? Because we have to understand that another of the characteristics of God's challenge is that it is from Him, it is not from man, it is from God.

He gives up the challenge, He is in it, and the victory is His.

By the time he gives the challenge, he already has the victory. When God gives Joshua the challenge to give him the city of Jericho, he first gives it to him, he says in Joshua 6:2: 'Behold, I have given Jericho and its King and its men of war into your hand. '. First, he gives it to you, then he gives you everything you have to do, you know: go around once, every day for six days, on the last day, go around seven times, seven men will play the trumpets and in the end, victory is there. Joshua 6:16, 'and when the priests blew the trumpets the seventh time Joshua said to the people: “Shout because the Lord has given you the city”', the victory is already there.

If God gives you and me a challenge, we have to know that God is in control of that challenge and that if we do what He tells us and do it well done and work hard, victory is already given. What does it take to receive a challenge? To receive a challenge, the first thing we need is to be close to God.

When Moses receives the challenge from God, he receives it when he approaches the bush, he does not receive it when it is far away, he receives it when it is near. It says in Exodus 3:4: “Seeing Jehovah that he was going to see, God called him out of the midst of the bush and said: ‘Moses, Moses,’ and he answered: ‘Here I am. He heard the voice of God, he was close to God, his heart was willing.

The second thing we have to do to receive a challenge is to believe God. Sometimes the challenges that God gives us are so big, much bigger than what we can do, that it is hard to believe him. And in Exodus 3:10 it says: "Come therefore now and I will send you to Pharaoh so that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt." The challenge was great, the challenge was powerful, the challenge was important.

Another thing that is needed to receive a challenge is to be a person of commitment. God gives challenges to people of commitment. If God is giving you challenges it is because he knows that you are a person of commitment. God gives the challenge to a leader so that committed people follow him.

And how to face a challenge?

The first thing we have to do when we receive a challenge to face it is what Nehemiah did. Nehemiah when he received the challenge that he had to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, the first thing he did was pray. We cannot face a challenge if we do not have prayer. In Nehemiah 1:4 it says like this: "When I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for some days and fasted and prayed before the God of Heaven."

Then, the second thing to face the challenge we have to see what we have, what resources we have, what I have in my power, what God has already given me to be able to face that challenge.

In Exodus 4:12 we see the following: “Then Moses answered saying: ‘Behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you. And Jehovah said, “What is that in your hand?” and he answered, “A rod.”’

Do you know, do you know? The rod represents authority and when God gives you and me a challenge along with the challenge he gives us authority, because he does not command us alone, he commands us with victory and he commands us with His authority. If you have a challenge You already have the victory, you already have God's authority to meet the challenge, what you have to do is do it well, make an effort and meet God's specifications.

What makes a challenge? A challenge does things in our life.

The first thing a challenge does is it changes the way you think. It makes us go from "I can't" to "if I can". It makes us go from "I don't know how to do it" to "I do know how to do it"; It makes us go from "I don't have" to "I do have". Because when God gives a challenge, he gives the instructions, we know how to do it and also gives the means to achieve it.

Look at what it says in Exodus 4:10: “Please, Lord,” says Moses, “I have never been an eloquent man, neither yesterday nor in the past, nor even after you have spoken to your servant. Because I am slow to speak and dull of tongue" and God says to him: "Now go and I will be in your mouth and I will teach you what you must speak". He did not send him alone, he did not say: 'Oh! Let's see how it goes, let's see what you do. No, he gave her everything she had to do; He gave him the means, he gave him the form, he provided him with what he had to say, what he had to do.

A challenge, change our destiny.

David faced many challenges from God and his destiny was totally changed. He went from being a shepherd, he went on to be a King. And, did you know that if we accept God's challenges, our destiny changes? It takes us to places we have never imagined, it takes us to levels we never suspected we would reach. It puts us with people we've never met.

God's challenge changes our destiny for the better because He always leads us from Glory to Glory, from victory to victory.

Do you know that a challenge takes us out of comfort? Do you like comfort? Do you like sitting on the bench, comfortable there? get ready.

God with the challenge is going to get him off the bench because comfort makes us stagnant. I always do the same, I always do what is comfortable, what I already know how to do, where I don't make an effort. I come to church and I sit in the same chair and no one is going to take it from me because it is mine. And there I sit.

And you know how God's challenges take us out of comfort? They take us from the known to the unknown, they send us to levels where we don't know what the next step is, to levels where we have to trust God so we don't know what's coming next.

It makes the potential that we have there is brought out. That potential that we have saved for who knows how many years!

But when the challenge comes we discover what we are capable of doing in the power of God. The challenge brings new revelation of who God is; we know God up close, we know the magnificence of God, the power of God, what God can do in our lives; things that God had never revealed to us before began to reveal us when we entered the challenge.

Look at what Exodus 13:14 says: "Moses said to God, 'behold, I come to the children of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you.' If they ask me “What is your name? What shall I answer them?" And God answered Moses: "I am who I am," and he said thus: "You shall say to the children of Israel, 'I am, he sent me to you.'"

Did you know? We then in the challenge know the power of God and we can tell the people I go in the name of God because He is who He is and I know the revelation of God and the magnificence of God and the power and sovereignty of God greater than ever before. God above all things.

And a challenge has another very beautiful thing: it makes us aware of the need that exists around us. Do you know how easy it is to not realize the need that is around us? We become comfortable, we have a certain security, a certain tranquility and we forget that around us, very close even very close in our own family there is a lot of need.

In Guatemala, my country, God has given great challenges in recent years. The challenges that God has given to Guatemala are to build temples. For what reason? Because we had a problem. There was a need and the problem we had there in Guatemala is that we are too many and we did not fit in the Temples.

I like these kinds of problems. I wish all problems were like this! What do not fit in a Temple!

And there in Guatemala, look, we had fulfilled to the letter the mandate of Genesis 1:22 that says: "Grow and multiply." We had grown and multiplied and God is a God of growth, God is not a God of stagnation, God is a God of projects.

A project is something that is in the mind; it can be on paper, it is an idea that is going to be carried out; it is something that has to be done. The antithesis of a project is stagnation: there are no ideas, there are no projects, there is nothing to be done. But look at what Hebrews 3:4 says: "For everything is made by someone, but the one who made all things is God."

And look at Hebrews 11:10 it says: "Because I was waiting for the city that has a foundation", but the architect and builder is God and since God is God of projects he gave the Church where I am "Fraternidad Cristiana de Guatemala", he gave a challenge. The challenge was given to the Pastor, Doctor Jorge. H. Lopez.

We are a Congregation that has a Temple for six thousand people, there is a school next to it and well, the Temple has all the services that we already know in a church. And we had four services and suddenly God gives him the challenge. He tells her the words of Isaiah 54:2: “Enlarge the site of your tent and let your rooms be extended, do not be scanty, lengthen your ropes and strengthen your stakes.”

And the Pastor comes and presents the challenge to the Congregation. The challenge consisted of a Temple for twelve thousand people. It had to have space for three thousand vehicles, a Sunday school for three thousand children, plus all other services. The challenge had a cost of 30 million dollars. For a country with a developing economy that is not a challenge. For a country like Guatemala, it is not that we are going to enter the crisis, it is not that we have entered the crisis, in Guatemala we live in crisis all the time. It's reality!

And there it occurs to God to make the challenge. When we heard that, immediately - our currency is the quetzal - and it is equivalent to 8 times 1. We immediately multiplied: 30 million times 8. It is that amount that you already multiplied, it is the same. In millions of quetzales, which is our currency and what we earn.

When we heard that challenge, the responses of the Congregation were mixed.

You know that there are different tastes, different opinions. There were those who were offended and left the Congregation; there were those who thought very comfortably: "But if what they want is more space for more people, why don't they do another service?". You know that there are always people who want someone else to do things, but do nothing.

And there were those who said: "And how can they spend on a Temple when they can build schools, they can build a hospital, they can do so many things?" But the challenge was from God, the order was from God, and most of us did understand that the challenge was from God. Most of us did understand that it was a PRIVILEGE that God was giving us: choosing a Congregation to build a large Temple that was going to demonstrate the greatness of God. It was to be the reflection of the magnificence of God.

Most of us did understand that it was a privilege that God was giving us; to be able to enter into a challenge from Him. And look at what it says here in Luke 14:28-30: “For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the expenses to see if he has what he needs to finish it? ? Lest after he has laid the foundation and cannot finish it, all who see him begin to make fun of him saying, 'this man began to build and could not finish.'"

Because the important thing is to start, continue but also finish the challenges of God.

The Pastor presented the situation to us, the land we had was already paid for, it had already been paid in cash, it was not owed, nor had a loan been made. The terrain was The amount of money that was counted on was 30 percent of the total. In other words, we had 30 percent and the remaining 70 percent had to come by faith.

Hebrews 11:3 says "By Faith we understand that the universe was constituted by the Word of God, so that what is seen was made of what was not seen." Hebrews 11:6 says: "Without Faith it is impossible to please God," and in Verse 7 it says: "By Faith, Noah when he was warned by God about things not yet seen with fear prepared the Ark so that Your family will be saved."

And the group that understood that the challenge was from God and we saw it as a privilege, we entered to walk in it. The challenge involved many things; It meant that we would get out of the comfort of our chair and become much more involved in the Church. In all the Ministries of the Church. People had to be prepared to serve in a Temple of 12,000 people, people to be in the six parking levels; people serving 3,000 children in Sunday school, new cell leaders who could cover all the new converts, and many of the people comfortably seated in a pew came out of comfort, faced the challenge, and began to prepare.

And the whole Church as a team entered into the economic part. Because you know that the Church is a team, we are a body. Look at what Genesis 1:26 says: "Then God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness." God said 'Let us do' He did not say 'I do'. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

In Genesis 2:18 it says: "It is not good for man to be alone, I will make him an help meet for him", form a team. Romans 12:5 says "So we being many are one body in Christ and all members one of another," a great team. And in Matthew 18:19-20 he says: "Again I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father who is in Heaven. For where two or three in my name there I am in the midst of them".

Agreement, team, unity to work together. And in Nehemiah 2:17 we see that He said, "Come and let us build the wall. Let us not be reproached any more." He did not say 'I am going to build it'. He gathered everyone together and told them "Come and let us all build together." And in Ecclesias 3:4-9 it says: "Two are better than one because they have a better payment of their salary."

Those of us who understood that we were God's team to work on him. I am going to tell you something: those of us who understood that we were not the Pastor's team, we were God's team, because the challenge was from God through a man who was the leader who was going to guide us, the one that God had chosen. But the challenge was from God.

And the work of ant began, why do I call it work of ant? Because for the construction a bank loan was never made, money was never lent to anyone, a penny was never owed. The materials were always purchased in cash, we never received a donation from a foreign country, and no private, public or state institution ever gave us a penny. The contributions for the 30 million dollars in a country in crisis were solely and exclusively the offerings and the promises of Faith of the Congregation.

The Temple was contemplated for a construction of four years, however it took us six because we were going at the rate that we were offering and giving our promises. If that lightened up everything went fast; if that stopped a little, well the work also stopped a little.

As the construction of the Temple began to be seen, the same thing happened to us that happened to Nehemiah, when it began to be seen that he was rebuilding the wall, the angry Ambalaths appeared, reproaching Nehemiah. That's how it happened to us. They just started to see the size of the Temple and the comments appeared.

The comments came from the Church itself, from other Churches and from any Institution. The comments at the beginning were related to the origin of the money. "Who knows where the Church got the money from?" You can imagine where they said the Church got the money from.

Later the comments were in relation to the fact that the Church was sinking, the ground was splitting in two because they had not done a soil study. And they said it with a firmness, what can't you imagine! To make you laugh a little: The architect who was building the building got together one day with some people and they said to him, 'did you know that the ground is sinking in the construction of the MegaFrater?', 'Ah! Yeah?' he said to them 'Really? And how do you know?' 'And we've been there and we see that it's sinking'... 'Ah! Told them. "Well, how strange because I am the architect who builds it, I go every day and I don't see that it is sinking."

Then the problem they said was that the ceiling was falling. And you know what helped us survive all those comments? Two things: the first, we knew that the challenge was from God; the second thing we knew were our contributions, our offerings that God was providing us for the Temple, and the third thing was that they had always kept us informed of the construction process.

When people said, "it's sinking, they didn't do a soil study", we had seen the graphs because they are presented to us on the screen, all the phases: the phase that ended and the phase that began, the problems that were being found in the construction. We knew, we had seen that a soil study had been done. We had seen who were the people who had come to take charge of that soil study. We knew that the roof was slowing down a bit in the acceleration to finish it because it was too high and they had to go very slow for the safety of the people who were doing it.

We also knew that a hurricane had stopped the materials from arriving on time. We knew what the truth of our situation was.

After six years, it was time for the finished project. And that's how one day we were able to see God's challenge fulfilled. And when God gives us the challenge of building a Temple, we have to take several things into account. The first thing we have to take into account is that this Temple is for the Glory of God. That He is the challenge, He was the one who built it and it is for His Glory!

If you're going to clap it, clap it good!

Look, we have to know that it is not for the Glory of a group, or of a Church, or of a name, or of a country... it is for the Glory of God. We also have to understand that it is for us to enjoy it, for us and other people to enjoy it.

It's not for us to say: 'Ouch! Having to give the offerings and the Faith Promises!' No! It is to know that we are going to have a place that we and other people are going to enjoy and enjoy.

Today the four services that we had before in the previous Temple are still valid. They have the same amount of people that attended before; and I would dare to tell you that the 12 o'clock Service still has more than before. We also have the Megafrater Service, that is, the Great Temple at 9 in the morning, which is 80 percent full every Sunday. When there are extraordinary services, it is full, there is no room for people, there are people who have had to stay outside because they can no longer enter.

For Holy Week we had a play that was presented three times, there in the MegaFrater, we had more than six hundred new converts.

Because? Because that's why God gave us the Temple... to reach much more souls.

On the day of the inauguration we were able to say as Ephesians 3:21 says: "To Him be the Glory in the Church in Christ Jesus for all ages, for all centuries of centuries, amen."

And we could also say as Luke 18:27 says: "What is impossible with men is possible with God," and we could also say as Nehemiah said: "God's beneficent hand was upon us."

I want that at this moment we can see some shots of the Church on the day of the inauguration. I want you to please when you see it think of a challenge from God, in a country called "Third World Country" where you always live in crisis...

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Those are the things that God does. What is impossible for man is possible for God. To Him be all the Glory and to Him be all the honor.

As you can see, if you arrive in Guatemala and want to visit us and do not want to arrive by car, you can arrive by helicopter. There is room for you to land.

Stand up and let's pray, because when God gives a challenge, if we obey him, if we take it as a privilege that God gives us to choose ourselves for that challenge, because when God chooses a group for a challenge, it is because You know that the people you are giving the challenge to are people of commitment.

Do you remember what we saw that is one of the characteristics of the challenge? Understand that it is bigger than what we can do. Understand that when he gives it, victory is already there, it is only a matter of following what He orders to be done. Understand that He is with us all the time of the challenge; understand that our destiny and the destiny of many more people are changing.

It is changing our way of thinking and it is taking us out of comfort, and if we make an effort and are brave and believe God and enter as a team to work on the challenge, the result is the Glory and Victory of God.

The result is that the world can see, through a Temple, the greatness and magnificence of God. The result is that we can have many more people who know Christ and that we can say, how good and how beautiful it is to live as brothers together in harmony! Because there God sends a blessing.

I know that you have the challenge of building a Temple. I am going to ask you to close your eyes and we are going to pray and we are going to cry out to God, so that all of us as a Congregation together can understand the privilege that God has given this Congregation, to call them for a challenge. The privilege that God has given them as a Congregation to take them into account and tell them: “this is my team”.

Because it is not the challenge of one person, it is God's challenge and you are God's team that He has chosen and that God tells you this morning: "Look, I am commanding you, that I am trying, that you be brave." What God wants this morning is for you to believe God in this challenge that it is not by chance or a whim that he has chosen you as a Congregation.

What God wants is for us to understand that if He wants a larger Temple, God is sovereign, God is wise, He knows why He wants it and that it is not something that I like or dislike. I think it should be or it shouldn't be. God is sovereign and if I have surrendered my life to God I have to surrender my will to God's and if that is God's will I have to enter into God's will.

God wants us to understand that we are a team, that we have to move to a new level of work, to a new level of service, to a new level of credibility, to a new level of unity and support for each other and what when we follow God's specifications the result is already achieved. Because great wonders has done Jehovah!

Beloved Father, we place this Congregation before You. First we thank you, Father, thank you for the privilege that you give them of having chosen them to do something greater, something that can show the world your magnificence.

Thank you, Father, we give you this Congregation that you have chosen because you know that they are people of commitment. That is why You have chosen them because You know that they are people of commitment who are with their ears close to You and that when You call them as you are calling them now as you called Moses they tell you: 'here I am, here I am, Lord , for whatever You want me' Thank you Father, Thank you Father.

Thank you, Father, for this Congregation, Father, which is entering as a team; Your team at your service. Thank you, Father, because their talents, their potential will be developed like never before for Your work. Thank you Father for the involvement of the entire Church in Your service and Thank You, Father, because You will provide all the necessary means so that everything, the entire amount of what is needed, beloved Father, I dare to declare it to be like You you did it with us: with Guatemala -a country without resources.

To make it without a loan; to make it debt free; so that the people can see what your finances are. So that people know that the Heavens are open for us the children of God. Thanks, Dad.

Thank you, Father, because soon we will be able to see the wonders that You are going to do. If we are obedient to Your mandate, obedient to Your specifications, we unite all of what You give us, because we know that the more we give, the more You give us. And all of what You give us we will contribute our Faith Promises and our offerings so that Your Temple, Your House may be built.

Thank you Father, Thank you Son, Thank you Holy Spirit. Glory to God!

Pastor Dr. Roberto Miranda: Glory Lord.

Brethren, what more can one say! I just want to clarify one thing so that you understand the context of this Word well. It's just that I hadn't spoken to Olguita since she arrived from Guatemala.

I could have easily told her: “Olguita, we are under construction. Bring your message of encouragement for the Church and etc.”. But no, I hadn't been able to talk to her and it's been years since I spoke directly with Olguita. So I think that this gives a little more weight and validity to the challenge that God is issuing to us or reinforcing this afternoon.

This morning I shared with the brothers what God put in my heart when I heard that.

Paul's words came to me immediately, quoting a Verse from the Old Testament in Romans 10:19 where Paul quoted this Verse and said that God said to the Jews, "I am going to provoke you to jealousy with a people that is not a people." .” Meaning the Jews had received the revelation of God, the call of God, the gifts of God, the land of God and they had wasted the gift of God and had even despised it and then God said: "I gave you that gift I gave them that call, I gave them My resource, I gave them My land. I took it from others and gave it to you, you despised it. It's okay, I'm going to call another town”.

And then he called the Gentiles –us- and told them: “I am going to give them the gift that I had originally given you.” And that is why Paul speaks of that verse where, "I am going to provoke them to jealousy with a people that is not a people."

This nation received the call of God. 400 years ago a nation was founded here on Biblical, Christian foundations. This nation was light and inspiration and a source of evangelization in Guatemala, Asia, Africa. Many of the first missionaries to that nation came from here.

This nation impacted nations with the Gospel. Today this nation has renounced, it has rebelled against God. President Obama, when asked recently if America is a Christian nation, was quick to say that "America is not a Christian nation."

Well, that is a spiritual declaration and that is why this nation and the church of this nation… because we must confess something, brother, Christians in the United States, we have become impoverished, we have lacked vision, we have accommodated ourselves, we have become comfortable and we measure every penny, every effort, every initiative. We are very conservative, we are not conservative for other things, but we are very conservative when it comes to giving to God and striving for God. That's the truth.

And when a people lose their vision, when a people lose the ability to sacrifice and give to the Lord, when a people lose their passion for God, when a people become timid and conservative and measure everything with a measuring spoon, the Spirit of God withdraws, stagnates, constricts and stops moving. This nation should be building Temples like that everywhere today. Hundreds of Temples like that and bigger ones because the resources of this nation are practically unlimited.

That is why I say that God is making a people jealous.

It is not that Guatemala is not a people, it is more the people of God we know than the United States. But that underdeveloped town gives us examples like that.

I believe that behind it were not only the dignitaries who were there, there were guests and poor people who had given their money for the Temple to be built. Because many times at grand openings, well, beautiful people come, but behind that there are also little people who gave sacrificially. Those are the ones that truly God… I think, wow!

Brothers, what I want to tell you is that for a people who have vision and a people who give to the Lord with Faith and daring, there is no limit to what God can do and God makes me jealous sitting there, makes me jealous. I say, “Hey, Lord, what are we doing compared? But it is a holy jealousy. I know that this is what God wants for now and that is what the rest is to come.

I have always said: "That temple is not simply, it is not even so that we can put more people there." For me it is a symbol, it is a prophetic declaration, it is an opening of the womb, it is forcing the womb to break it to make room for more.

It is a throw to the devil that Christianity is dying in America and it is something that I want us to do to inspire, motivate, awaken so many North American evangelical Christians in this area of New England that there are no Temples. Temples are dying, Christianity is declining and we complain that people do not want to believe that the world is hard.

Look, the one who is hard is the Church. The Church is the one that is sleeping. The day the Church wakes up, the day the Church takes vision, the devil has to send himself to flee, the devil occupies the ground that the Church allows him to occupy. The devil is an entity that does not exist in itself, except when we give it space. He has no power in himself, he has no life, he has no capacity for anything. Only what he occupies: the negative space that we open up for him, we allow him. That's how it is. We have the authority, we have the power.

May the Lord use this to underpin the purpose in us to be faithful to the Lord! Give a declaration of Faith. Christian, Christian, I motivate you in the name of the Lord, seal your promise before God, do not allow the devil to steal the privilege of giving to the Lord in this company of Faith.

And some of you, I…maybe you still haven't made your promise. I don't say it accusatively, but I say it so that you don't miss out on the privilege of being part of something that is in the heart of God.

Don't stop doing it out of cowardice or rationalism or whatever. Do it by Faith and give it to the Lord. One of the slogans of our campaign has been: 'Everyone give, every one give, so that no one is left without giving'.

I take advantage of this holy opportunity to tell you, look, conceive a big dream, a big mission in God, dare in the name of the Lord.

These are prophetic acts that open the womb, these are prophetic acts that give the lie to the devil who says that Christianity is declining in the United States and that it is dead, already.

Let's believe God. If these underdeveloped Guatemalans can do it, why can't we? and I say it with respect because we talk about the third world and all these things. All these people are more developed than us. We have to learn from them.

So, brothers, we are going to believe God, we are going to renew the fire of God. I believe that there is a holy jealousy that says, "how is it possible? We have to catch up", that is what God causes us to do, God is causing us to become jealous, we are going to believe God.

Remember this Word that is a prophetic Word of God. I did not request it, I did not ask for it, but God brings it from there with God's authority. Believe the Lord.

Raise your hand, tell him, "Father, I pledge to Your Spirit, I pledge to the vision, I pledge to Your calling to give You, to defeat the devil; to give Goliath that center stone and strike him down once and for all and open space for a conquest. For the reconquest of Earth."

We are the people of God, we declare, we are the Children of God, we are the owners of the Earth. You have given us the Earth, Father. No matter what giants show up, we are authority and we declare that authority and we will move in Faith, Lord. We will conquer, we will reach the goal and we will exceed it, Father, for the exclusive Glory of the name of Jesus. Hallelujah! Thank you Lord, Amen, Amen. Glory to God.

Let's declare something: 'he who started the good work will be faithful to complete it'. The one who started this work, the one who declared it was not Roberto Miranda, it was not the Diaconate of León de Judá, it was the Holy Spirit and we have to fill ourselves with that authority.

We are going to be a ferocious people, a concentrated people, a dangerous people for the hosts of hell.

We are going to say: 'Lord, You started this work, You are going to finish it.'

Sermon by Olga Martinez recorded May 31, 2009 at Congregación León de Judá

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